Had to look up wetiko. Nice definition. Agree with it. I am not very well read. Always impressed by people that have read many different books on esoteric subjects.
You may have noticed my mind operates in a different dimension. I realized this when i was 4 years old. Stunned i was.
In fact I have noticed David. You would be an example of a more innate knowing - what we open when we drop everything we think we know from all those books we've read. A more direct connection that doesn't rely on but uses the mind to assimilate, rather than gather knowledge.
You're an example of what I was trying to get at once when we admit ignorance - we open to something more true directly.
So, it's perfect and synchronistic that you're the first person to weigh in on the topic. :-)
One more comment. I was surprised you used the word bardo. I did read the some what cryptic Buddhist discourse on bardo and hungry ghosts. Interesting.
I used it just as that place we go in between life times. I think the whole reincarnation thing is part of the slave system set up we've been living in. I don't think free cosmic beings are supposed to necessarily come back over and over - it should be a choice.
Yes, agree. And I'm looking forward to hearing more about 'your' time as it approaches, David. And thank you sincerely for the paid sub! I'm very appreciative of the support. Very best to you.
Oh thanks for reminding me of the chapter title I wanted to put in my book draft: Goddess is in the Details. Devil comes from Devi, which is the Indian name for Goddess. Darkness is also feminine, the womb. It's not the enemy--as Kathleen and I have contended against neighbors with security lights! As I tell them, if you're afraid of the dark, sleep with the lights on in your own bedroom, but you can't shine your lights into my bedrooms so that you feel 'safe.'
What a beautiful post, Kathleen. May I share this in my newsletter, with links to you?
"But we’ll notice too, that not knowing and even letting a construct of the whole world fall into the space of question - while uncomfortable - we’re still okay. Who we are in essence doesn’t actually require all those explanations.
In the space uncertainty opens up, more of who we really are, floods in. It can, it has more room."
And this is what I'll share in my newsletter in response:
"This has been my experience lately.
A lot of not-knowing, with a lot of discomfort, and incredible magnificence at the same time.
Fierce and wonderful boundaries take shape that redraw my daily life.
Immense grief of lifetimes, of present, of past, of intergalatic levels ravages me at times.
Incredible brilliant energy floods me at times. Sometimes while I'm grieving, sometimes just living daily life, sometimes in meditation.
Energy work is speeding up. I am meeting with peers and it seems we can share our gifts. I've asked to download what they show me is possible, and what's appropriate for me. In response, my energy healing sessions are speeding up, and we cover so much more territory. Intergalatic in fact."
Well, yes, to all of this., Kathleen. But mostly, I love butter, too! I eat a ridiculously large amount of it, especially since I found a cultured raw source from an Amish farm. But, I digress. So much seems to be in a hazy mystery state right now. Writing has been slow for me, as well. The days are evaporating. Anything is possible is sort of how I'm feeling at the moment. I feel loaded with creativity but unable to express it. Nothing new about that. The astrology is freaking wild. And so much is being revealed...sort of. It's so bizarre to be our age and see the rapidity of change.
"I feel loaded with creativity but unable to express it. Nothing new about that. The astrology is freaking wild. And so much is being revealed...sort of. It's so bizarre to be our age and see the rapidity of change."
All of this in the mix, yes Barbara. I posted this as a truncated version of a larger post - that kept growing - and I figured it was better to publish something rather than keep writing.
Part of that larger post included quantum implications and fractals. I came across an article from Feb 2025, where scientists discovered the pattern of quantum-fractals, something that had been predicted but never seen. And its shape is that of a butterfly! (Also predicted.)
Which I take to mean that transformation and transmutaiton are found at the deepest levels of reality.
It's also fascinating that the caterpillar - as I'm sure you know - in its cocoon completely dissolves its prior form - turning into goo essentially - as part of its transformation to butterfly. (And there's 'butter' again.)
Given the velocity we're now living in, the speeding up of everything, I'm feeling like we are undergoing this process, over and over. So really what I was trying to get at is the 'goo' phase; we aren't who we were and not yet who we're becoming. And how it a pile of goo supposed to write anything? 😂
That's my working thesis - though it could be a convoluted rationalization for not writing - but I don't think so.
Thank you for the comment and for reading, Barbar. Much love to you. XOX
I don't think it's rationalization at all. Sometimes we just need to BE during these times. There is deep transformation going on, whether we're aware of it or not. And yes, it sure does seem gooey at times. Glad to know you during these times! XO
Outstanding! Kathleen. What a great job of synthesizing some of the puzzling things that have been happening, and making some sense of them. I knew you had your finger on it, even if there's still so much yet to decipher. It is exciting though, in a scary kind of way. I like Paul Levy's work on the mind-virus, Wetiko. I also lean toward the source of it being non-human. David Huber suggests that with his comment about principalities, the rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places. And that's nothing to sneeze at!
Thanks for getting this conversation started, especially because it seems that the more we expose this "stuff," the more we can rob it of its power over us. Now I want to go back and check out the links you included. xox
Thank you Ronnie! I always appreciate your encouraging words.
Exciting and scary indeed. So agree - getting it in the open moves its inevitable release along, and good riddance. Much more to come. I hope we have more fun with it. :-)
Just wanted to say that your niece, Amanda, really does know what's going on. Very impressive. She blew me out of the water. I could hardly keep up with her, she spoke pretty fast. I had never heard of limerance, so I learned something new. I can see she has much to offer. You should definitely be proud.
But Nature IS affected, of course. This you know, I think, if you can get on my wavelength with the idea that Nature knows everything... It's all the vibes, man, lol. But literally! FREQUENCY is key... It explains soooo much, and we're being dosed with 5G, and 6G on the way, and NATURE is using her favorite son, our Sun... to change the frequency of our planet, to help us...
Now let anyone tell me that magic is not real...
There are the Black Nobility, and they ARE the messengers of the EVIL that is choking us right now, and the reason SOME, even MANY of us are feeling a huge surge of LOVE is because we're being bathed in a HUGE SURGE OF LOVE.
This is my theory, as it comes through my fingers while typing, and I'm stickin to it.
xo xo xo xo xo
TRUST in LOVE, it's the best thing EVER-- fuck coca cola. ;)
Thank you!! And back atcha! And I agree with you, too. (Sometimes I say things in case OTHER people reading are perhaps wondering…) I love your page, Lovely You.
I agree K. There is a lot that I do not know, things that are mysteries, and I am fine with this. Maybe I will find out the answers when I die - I am also ok with this.
I am attracted to beauty and repulsed by ugliness. I am realising now that either my idea of beauty is not other peoples' ideas of beauty or people no longer prefer beauty. These are the things I am currently thinking about.
Some people are afraid of nature and bristle at plein air paintings.
These are the things I am pondering as I try to move in the third spaces in a brutalist-modernist urban lansdcape, which seem so hostile to someone like me in 2025.
Hey Excess - I have no idea how I missed this comment. Thanks for reading/commenting.
"Maybe I will find out the answers when I die..."
I'm sure we'll find out lots more. Which reminds I listened to Kim Iverson's interview with Darius Wright. I was surprised she had him on since he teaches people how to leave their bodies, realize they don't 'die' when the body is dropped and that they are infinite spirits. The whole point is that once people know this they lose any fear.
"Some people are afraid of nature and bristle at plein air paintings."
I think many have been taught to disconnect from themselves so thoroughly - they got hijacked - that they don't know how to check in with themselves. The look outside for how to proceed, think, act.
Being afraid of Nature (I know them too) is like being afraid of breathing. (Of course they are working on that too.)
We can trust we're not here by mistake. The world needs us. Thank you for being you.
I’m in the “more butter the better” club. Trust those instincts! Turns out one of the components of butter is ***Butyrate***, a form of butyric acid that reduces inflammation in the digestive system.( It is used as a treatment for Crohn’s disease.)
Ha! The gut knew that before the brain.
I had a good chuckle and a wave of comfort @ bardo- light! I know that landscape pretty well now. Lovely pictures. ❤️
Yes indeed. There are such foundational groundswells in progress it's disorienting. What with the massive coronal rupture and the 1,000,000 mph solar wind, the shifting of the earth's magnetic field and the magnetic poles, the changes in the ocean currents, the floods, the warming of the sea at abyss depths, birds losing navigational abilities, and oh, I'd better stop before I... wait... um... what? Epstein who? Crap. I lost the plot. It's a mystery.
I laughed SO long and hard about the 'butter on everything.' Then it occurred to me that I could put butter on a chocolate croissant. So I did!
And I saved your pretty pictures to my desktop so I could use them as my background. Thank you! The hidden door even has the right aspect ratio to show up. The others will become all new pretty pictures when they focus in. Thank you!
I'm also slowing down and taking more time. I love your concept of the liminal space where everything's moving through different lives simultaneously. And Goddess is rewarding this--more than once something I put off until tomorrow, even though it was ready to send today, turns out that everything changed in the meantime. It's almost like I already did it, got the response, and was able to build on it. Curiouser and curiouser.
As you know, I've started writing another book on OMGdess. My new routine is that I leave my Scrivener app on composition mode before I go to sleep. Before I get out of bed, I'm thinking about my project for the morning. I open my computer and nothing shows but my writing. I'm training myself to ignore the Pavlov's bell of the "you have mail" ding until I reach my (intentionally) low-bar goal. It keeps my head in the game throughout the day, although I don't let myself write again until the morning. So far, I'm liking it.
And loving this long-form dialogue with you, Kathleen. Thanks for keeping my posts in your liminal space, looking back and forward, up and down. I learn so much from you, along with the pretty pictures, butter on chocolate, and belly laughs!
I had a feeling you would appreciate the butter comment, Tereza! :-)
"And Goddess is rewarding this--more than once something I put off until tomorrow, even though it was ready to send today, turns out that everything changed in the meantime. It's almost like I already did it, got the response, and was able to build on it. Curiouser and curiouser."
Yes, I know exactly what you mean - and I think that's yet more evidence of this background change that's happened.
OMGodess is a great title - I book I would buy! Can't wait to read it.
What a good idea to avoid the ongoing pull of distraction. Has it ever been so robust? Early morning writing tends to be most productive for me and yeah, not getting sucked in to the show is key.
Thanks, T. And you know I'm gonna try butter on croissants. Of course. XOX
Just started listening to Amanda--you must be so proud! Very grounded, heartfelt, smart.
Funny that the word 'bardo' was new to me when I read your post and now I just caught up with something Good Citizen posted that talked about bardo as the NDE stages of accellerated life. I was going to go back and check but it's now paywalled--guess that glimpse was all I needed from it!
I feel like my writing trick is a kludge to get around the lack of self-discipline, like my daughter putting the treats in a sealed container on the top shelf. It doesn't stop me, which would engage my inner contrarian, it just forces me to make a conscious decision rather than peek. The things I have to do to fool my dopamine addiction!
Interesting that you talk about that liminal space being one of both anticipation and loss. I've been leaning into that Universal Folk Tarot deck I used in Goddess Crossed. One that I picked was the Eight of Cups, the Trailblazer. It has teacups stacked up on the deserted table where the woman is looking back with a last pang of nostalgia as she sets off with the dragonfly on her cloak and the crow pin on her cap, signifying comfort with change.
On Substack, I'm feeling like the party's over in some significant way. Not that I'm ready to leave but that my focus is elsewhere. It's served its purpose. There's another dimension opening up, a deeper layer of connection. On the surface, it may look the same but something's shifted. I know you know what I mean.
I think it's another identity to be held lightly. But I do feel those pangs of ... not regret ... wistfulness and, like you, a total impatience for what's coming. Foolhardy (let's look at that word!) though it may be.
BTW loved David Icke's interview with Doc Malik! I forget if it was paywalled. It seems a contradiction of terms to have 'Escape the Matrix' on Gaia. Matrix and Gaia are both mother. And the hidden door was such a pleasure to see on my screen when I came back. Both hidden and familiar, and a portal!
Oh, thanks for listening - and yes, I am. Agree with everything you said. :-)
Such an insightful comment. Yes, significant shift on substack - and probably everywhere. Deep transformational current that we are all riding. So much that I would listen to - like yesterday - feels irrelevant at best, more often belonging to a world already over. Why don't they see that I wonder? :-) The Aries fire thing.
I was noting to Barbara in the comments this post was taken out of a longer one not complete, that includes fractals and the quantum and the remarkable discovery of what a quantum fractal looks like - a butterfly!
I just absolutely loved that. It hit me that while quantum mechanics has been on the planet 100 years now - we have not yet caught up with it and continue to teach people a fully out-grown version of physics. Obviously, not shocking given the ongoing attempts at curtailing and distorting human understanding across the board. If you're curious:
I'll see if I can find Icke's interview with Malick. Someone may have reposted even if paywalled.
That's so funny Tereza - and I never would have noticed the Matrix and Gaia contradiction! I guess it speaks to the very contradictory way women have been viewed. Reverberations of the madonna/whore dichotomy.
I'm really glad you're writing about it. We need big ripples.
Thank you for this concise summary and bright vision this morning. You put into words what I was struggling to write yesterday regarding the never ending stream of past and present events that always seem to end in the same (wrong) place. To the point you just shrug and wonder why you wasted any time or energy just observing it.
I so resonate with all your posts! It's as if you are channeling my experience some times. So happy to have found you 😊. I went on a hike and took some time midway to sit on a rock jutting out into a stream. I was thinking I should keep my eyes open for frogs so was looking all around me. Then I looked down in the water right in front of me and there sat a frog! Back legs splayed out against a rock, front legs settled on the rock in front of him. His head was poking out of the water and we stared at each other for awhile. There was a spider web right above him so I don't think he swam to see me... but what a fun encounter! It made me think of your piece about the deer. Thank you 🙏
And that experience - we're so knitted in with Nature - though only experience that when we slow down and spend the time The fact that they delight us, tells us everything we need to know.
Thank you for the post. Started following David Icke 30+ years ago -- and his insights (now with several others) have helped me keep a level head through all the madness. My father & grandfather fought in WW2 & 1 respectively, "to keep tyranny at bay". I hope their courage, and that of their siblings/cousins (not all of who came back) will prove not to have been in vain.
David definitely ran ahead of the curve and helped some of us out. (My mother did too and she introduced me to Icke's work in the late 90's)
It's been a fabricated world, with real humans most of which believed it was as presented and did their best. Most continue to do their best in such a distorted terrain.
Souls/spirits don't die. I don't think they lived those lives in vain. And we take qualities of character - like courage - with us.
I recently watched Darius Wright on Kim Iverson's show. If you aren't familiar with him you might enjoy the perspective.
“A misidentification of identity is at the heart of Wetiko, so breaking free amounts to re-identifying who we really are. And if we give that process some room, it just happens.” — I’ve been on that journey, Kathleen and hold it in reverence! Transformation is wonderful to begin with, but the revelations that come with it, especially the shedding of identity that doesn’t serve and the recognition of its consequence… *chef’s kiss!*
Amanda and her podcast remind me of the old saying “the kids are alright” — wisdom doesn’t skip generations. It lays dormant until it’s needed to lead the way. I’m proud of her too.
Thanks for buttering me up with this post. Feeling it in my bones.
The devil is in the details, literally. We wage war not against men but the prince and principality of darkness.
Yes, whatever name we land on - demons or counterfeiting spirits or wetiko or archonic energies.
Thanks. Hope you're doing great, David.
Had to look up wetiko. Nice definition. Agree with it. I am not very well read. Always impressed by people that have read many different books on esoteric subjects.
You may have noticed my mind operates in a different dimension. I realized this when i was 4 years old. Stunned i was.
In fact I have noticed David. You would be an example of a more innate knowing - what we open when we drop everything we think we know from all those books we've read. A more direct connection that doesn't rely on but uses the mind to assimilate, rather than gather knowledge.
You're an example of what I was trying to get at once when we admit ignorance - we open to something more true directly.
So, it's perfect and synchronistic that you're the first person to weigh in on the topic. :-)
(You knew you didn't need the books.)
One more comment. I was surprised you used the word bardo. I did read the some what cryptic Buddhist discourse on bardo and hungry ghosts. Interesting.
I used it just as that place we go in between life times. I think the whole reincarnation thing is part of the slave system set up we've been living in. I don't think free cosmic beings are supposed to necessarily come back over and over - it should be a choice.
It is a choice. You decide between lives. You have free will.
My choice for coming back this life was to know all and be fully aware. It was conditional for my return. However it was set in motion 2900 years ago.
I made the choice 3000 years ago.
I shall dwell in the house of YHWH forever.
I have noticed more people are approaching that acme of awareness. A few are there.
My time approaches. 3 years 3 months. That is when my time starts.
Yes, agree. And I'm looking forward to hearing more about 'your' time as it approaches, David. And thank you sincerely for the paid sub! I'm very appreciative of the support. Very best to you.
Just saw that the next step is being taken. Go to Gulf News. Search for "Pakistan to Uzbekistan via Afghanistan: travel by railway soon"
Precusor for invasion by China. Then suppression, then all out war double 10 2028.
My time starts then.
I do not search for these things. They are presented to me.
Oh thanks for reminding me of the chapter title I wanted to put in my book draft: Goddess is in the Details. Devil comes from Devi, which is the Indian name for Goddess. Darkness is also feminine, the womb. It's not the enemy--as Kathleen and I have contended against neighbors with security lights! As I tell them, if you're afraid of the dark, sleep with the lights on in your own bedroom, but you can't shine your lights into my bedrooms so that you feel 'safe.'
What a beautiful post, Kathleen. May I share this in my newsletter, with links to you?
"But we’ll notice too, that not knowing and even letting a construct of the whole world fall into the space of question - while uncomfortable - we’re still okay. Who we are in essence doesn’t actually require all those explanations.
In the space uncertainty opens up, more of who we really are, floods in. It can, it has more room."
And this is what I'll share in my newsletter in response:
"This has been my experience lately.
A lot of not-knowing, with a lot of discomfort, and incredible magnificence at the same time.
Fierce and wonderful boundaries take shape that redraw my daily life.
Immense grief of lifetimes, of present, of past, of intergalatic levels ravages me at times.
Incredible brilliant energy floods me at times. Sometimes while I'm grieving, sometimes just living daily life, sometimes in meditation.
Energy work is speeding up. I am meeting with peers and it seems we can share our gifts. I've asked to download what they show me is possible, and what's appropriate for me. In response, my energy healing sessions are speeding up, and we cover so much more territory. Intergalatic in fact."
Thank you, Marta. And yes, please do link to your newsletter - I'm so glad to hear this resonated for you.
Love this comment on the emotional rollercoaster we're all experiencing.
Oh my, the speeding up! That must be gratifying to see this in your work. Much more expansive times in front of us.
Very best to you. 💕
Happy that you are doing energy healing with peers. Groups have more influence/effect.
Group energy healing is my fave! So powerful and amplified!
That's so beautiful, marta! I love getting your videos in my YT subs.
Thank you Tereza! I love being connected with you!
Well, yes, to all of this., Kathleen. But mostly, I love butter, too! I eat a ridiculously large amount of it, especially since I found a cultured raw source from an Amish farm. But, I digress. So much seems to be in a hazy mystery state right now. Writing has been slow for me, as well. The days are evaporating. Anything is possible is sort of how I'm feeling at the moment. I feel loaded with creativity but unable to express it. Nothing new about that. The astrology is freaking wild. And so much is being revealed...sort of. It's so bizarre to be our age and see the rapidity of change.
Love your new background and the images.
Much love to you, dear friend. XOXO
Oh lucky you on the butter!
"I feel loaded with creativity but unable to express it. Nothing new about that. The astrology is freaking wild. And so much is being revealed...sort of. It's so bizarre to be our age and see the rapidity of change."
All of this in the mix, yes Barbara. I posted this as a truncated version of a larger post - that kept growing - and I figured it was better to publish something rather than keep writing.
Part of that larger post included quantum implications and fractals. I came across an article from Feb 2025, where scientists discovered the pattern of quantum-fractals, something that had been predicted but never seen. And its shape is that of a butterfly! (Also predicted.)
Which I take to mean that transformation and transmutaiton are found at the deepest levels of reality.
It's also fascinating that the caterpillar - as I'm sure you know - in its cocoon completely dissolves its prior form - turning into goo essentially - as part of its transformation to butterfly. (And there's 'butter' again.)
Given the velocity we're now living in, the speeding up of everything, I'm feeling like we are undergoing this process, over and over. So really what I was trying to get at is the 'goo' phase; we aren't who we were and not yet who we're becoming. And how it a pile of goo supposed to write anything? 😂
That's my working thesis - though it could be a convoluted rationalization for not writing - but I don't think so.
Thank you for the comment and for reading, Barbar. Much love to you. XOX
I don't think it's rationalization at all. Sometimes we just need to BE during these times. There is deep transformation going on, whether we're aware of it or not. And yes, it sure does seem gooey at times. Glad to know you during these times! XO
Also, will listen to Amanda's podcast! I have many amazing conscious young friends as well. Gives me hope... XO
😘
It was really good! Amanda is very wise. Thx for sharing, Kathleen! XO
Outstanding! Kathleen. What a great job of synthesizing some of the puzzling things that have been happening, and making some sense of them. I knew you had your finger on it, even if there's still so much yet to decipher. It is exciting though, in a scary kind of way. I like Paul Levy's work on the mind-virus, Wetiko. I also lean toward the source of it being non-human. David Huber suggests that with his comment about principalities, the rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places. And that's nothing to sneeze at!
Thanks for getting this conversation started, especially because it seems that the more we expose this "stuff," the more we can rob it of its power over us. Now I want to go back and check out the links you included. xox
Thank you Ronnie! I always appreciate your encouraging words.
Exciting and scary indeed. So agree - getting it in the open moves its inevitable release along, and good riddance. Much more to come. I hope we have more fun with it. :-)
XOXO
Just wanted to say that your niece, Amanda, really does know what's going on. Very impressive. She blew me out of the water. I could hardly keep up with her, she spoke pretty fast. I had never heard of limerance, so I learned something new. I can see she has much to offer. You should definitely be proud.
Same for me Ronnie - I wasn't familiar with 'limerance' either.
She is impressive. :-) Thanks for listening and commenting.
Thoughtful, honest, and therefore a nourishment.
But Nature IS affected, of course. This you know, I think, if you can get on my wavelength with the idea that Nature knows everything... It's all the vibes, man, lol. But literally! FREQUENCY is key... It explains soooo much, and we're being dosed with 5G, and 6G on the way, and NATURE is using her favorite son, our Sun... to change the frequency of our planet, to help us...
Now let anyone tell me that magic is not real...
There are the Black Nobility, and they ARE the messengers of the EVIL that is choking us right now, and the reason SOME, even MANY of us are feeling a huge surge of LOVE is because we're being bathed in a HUGE SURGE OF LOVE.
This is my theory, as it comes through my fingers while typing, and I'm stickin to it.
xo xo xo xo xo
TRUST in LOVE, it's the best thing EVER-- fuck coca cola. ;)
Thanks Jaan!
I meant Nature hasn't been hijacked and propagandized the way humans have.
Yes, it's all about frequency. Love is THE frequency. Sending love vibes your way. 💞
XOX
Thank you!! And back atcha! And I agree with you, too. (Sometimes I say things in case OTHER people reading are perhaps wondering…) I love your page, Lovely You.
I agree K. There is a lot that I do not know, things that are mysteries, and I am fine with this. Maybe I will find out the answers when I die - I am also ok with this.
I am attracted to beauty and repulsed by ugliness. I am realising now that either my idea of beauty is not other peoples' ideas of beauty or people no longer prefer beauty. These are the things I am currently thinking about.
Some people are afraid of nature and bristle at plein air paintings.
These are the things I am pondering as I try to move in the third spaces in a brutalist-modernist urban lansdcape, which seem so hostile to someone like me in 2025.
Hey Excess - I have no idea how I missed this comment. Thanks for reading/commenting.
"Maybe I will find out the answers when I die..."
I'm sure we'll find out lots more. Which reminds I listened to Kim Iverson's interview with Darius Wright. I was surprised she had him on since he teaches people how to leave their bodies, realize they don't 'die' when the body is dropped and that they are infinite spirits. The whole point is that once people know this they lose any fear.
"Some people are afraid of nature and bristle at plein air paintings."
I think many have been taught to disconnect from themselves so thoroughly - they got hijacked - that they don't know how to check in with themselves. The look outside for how to proceed, think, act.
Being afraid of Nature (I know them too) is like being afraid of breathing. (Of course they are working on that too.)
We can trust we're not here by mistake. The world needs us. Thank you for being you.
I’m in the “more butter the better” club. Trust those instincts! Turns out one of the components of butter is ***Butyrate***, a form of butyric acid that reduces inflammation in the digestive system.( It is used as a treatment for Crohn’s disease.)
Ha! The gut knew that before the brain.
I had a good chuckle and a wave of comfort @ bardo- light! I know that landscape pretty well now. Lovely pictures. ❤️
Of course it would be good for us!! How could it not be? The better the butter, the better.
The gut and heart are always ahead of the brain. Thanks for the kind comment, Grail Arts. Best to you.
Yes indeed. There are such foundational groundswells in progress it's disorienting. What with the massive coronal rupture and the 1,000,000 mph solar wind, the shifting of the earth's magnetic field and the magnetic poles, the changes in the ocean currents, the floods, the warming of the sea at abyss depths, birds losing navigational abilities, and oh, I'd better stop before I... wait... um... what? Epstein who? Crap. I lost the plot. It's a mystery.
Yes, things are heating up - and not just on earth.
Embrace the mystery, right?
Thanks, Navyo. Hope you're well. Best.
I laughed SO long and hard about the 'butter on everything.' Then it occurred to me that I could put butter on a chocolate croissant. So I did!
And I saved your pretty pictures to my desktop so I could use them as my background. Thank you! The hidden door even has the right aspect ratio to show up. The others will become all new pretty pictures when they focus in. Thank you!
I'm also slowing down and taking more time. I love your concept of the liminal space where everything's moving through different lives simultaneously. And Goddess is rewarding this--more than once something I put off until tomorrow, even though it was ready to send today, turns out that everything changed in the meantime. It's almost like I already did it, got the response, and was able to build on it. Curiouser and curiouser.
As you know, I've started writing another book on OMGdess. My new routine is that I leave my Scrivener app on composition mode before I go to sleep. Before I get out of bed, I'm thinking about my project for the morning. I open my computer and nothing shows but my writing. I'm training myself to ignore the Pavlov's bell of the "you have mail" ding until I reach my (intentionally) low-bar goal. It keeps my head in the game throughout the day, although I don't let myself write again until the morning. So far, I'm liking it.
And loving this long-form dialogue with you, Kathleen. Thanks for keeping my posts in your liminal space, looking back and forward, up and down. I learn so much from you, along with the pretty pictures, butter on chocolate, and belly laughs!
I had a feeling you would appreciate the butter comment, Tereza! :-)
"And Goddess is rewarding this--more than once something I put off until tomorrow, even though it was ready to send today, turns out that everything changed in the meantime. It's almost like I already did it, got the response, and was able to build on it. Curiouser and curiouser."
Yes, I know exactly what you mean - and I think that's yet more evidence of this background change that's happened.
OMGodess is a great title - I book I would buy! Can't wait to read it.
What a good idea to avoid the ongoing pull of distraction. Has it ever been so robust? Early morning writing tends to be most productive for me and yeah, not getting sucked in to the show is key.
Thanks, T. And you know I'm gonna try butter on croissants. Of course. XOX
Just started listening to Amanda--you must be so proud! Very grounded, heartfelt, smart.
Funny that the word 'bardo' was new to me when I read your post and now I just caught up with something Good Citizen posted that talked about bardo as the NDE stages of accellerated life. I was going to go back and check but it's now paywalled--guess that glimpse was all I needed from it!
I feel like my writing trick is a kludge to get around the lack of self-discipline, like my daughter putting the treats in a sealed container on the top shelf. It doesn't stop me, which would engage my inner contrarian, it just forces me to make a conscious decision rather than peek. The things I have to do to fool my dopamine addiction!
Interesting that you talk about that liminal space being one of both anticipation and loss. I've been leaning into that Universal Folk Tarot deck I used in Goddess Crossed. One that I picked was the Eight of Cups, the Trailblazer. It has teacups stacked up on the deserted table where the woman is looking back with a last pang of nostalgia as she sets off with the dragonfly on her cloak and the crow pin on her cap, signifying comfort with change.
On Substack, I'm feeling like the party's over in some significant way. Not that I'm ready to leave but that my focus is elsewhere. It's served its purpose. There's another dimension opening up, a deeper layer of connection. On the surface, it may look the same but something's shifted. I know you know what I mean.
I think it's another identity to be held lightly. But I do feel those pangs of ... not regret ... wistfulness and, like you, a total impatience for what's coming. Foolhardy (let's look at that word!) though it may be.
BTW loved David Icke's interview with Doc Malik! I forget if it was paywalled. It seems a contradiction of terms to have 'Escape the Matrix' on Gaia. Matrix and Gaia are both mother. And the hidden door was such a pleasure to see on my screen when I came back. Both hidden and familiar, and a portal!
Oh, thanks for listening - and yes, I am. Agree with everything you said. :-)
Such an insightful comment. Yes, significant shift on substack - and probably everywhere. Deep transformational current that we are all riding. So much that I would listen to - like yesterday - feels irrelevant at best, more often belonging to a world already over. Why don't they see that I wonder? :-) The Aries fire thing.
I was noting to Barbara in the comments this post was taken out of a longer one not complete, that includes fractals and the quantum and the remarkable discovery of what a quantum fractal looks like - a butterfly!
I just absolutely loved that. It hit me that while quantum mechanics has been on the planet 100 years now - we have not yet caught up with it and continue to teach people a fully out-grown version of physics. Obviously, not shocking given the ongoing attempts at curtailing and distorting human understanding across the board. If you're curious:
https://phy.princeton.edu/news/quantum-fractal-patterns-visualized
I'll see if I can find Icke's interview with Malick. Someone may have reposted even if paywalled.
That's so funny Tereza - and I never would have noticed the Matrix and Gaia contradiction! I guess it speaks to the very contradictory way women have been viewed. Reverberations of the madonna/whore dichotomy.
I'm really glad you're writing about it. We need big ripples.
Thank you for this concise summary and bright vision this morning. You put into words what I was struggling to write yesterday regarding the never ending stream of past and present events that always seem to end in the same (wrong) place. To the point you just shrug and wonder why you wasted any time or energy just observing it.
So glad you enjoyed, Mike. Thanks for the comment. It's quite a ride we're all on.
I hope we're soon noticing we're headed in a much better place. Best to you.
Right now the forest is giving me more useful information. Enjoy your weekend. I’m sure the trees enjoy you conversations too.
I get it! Hope you have a good weekend too.
Well, they never argue with me. :-)
I so resonate with all your posts! It's as if you are channeling my experience some times. So happy to have found you 😊. I went on a hike and took some time midway to sit on a rock jutting out into a stream. I was thinking I should keep my eyes open for frogs so was looking all around me. Then I looked down in the water right in front of me and there sat a frog! Back legs splayed out against a rock, front legs settled on the rock in front of him. His head was poking out of the water and we stared at each other for awhile. There was a spider web right above him so I don't think he swam to see me... but what a fun encounter! It made me think of your piece about the deer. Thank you 🙏
I love this comment, Kat Bro!
And that experience - we're so knitted in with Nature - though only experience that when we slow down and spend the time The fact that they delight us, tells us everything we need to know.
Thanks for the kind words.
Very Best. 💕
Thank you for the post. Started following David Icke 30+ years ago -- and his insights (now with several others) have helped me keep a level head through all the madness. My father & grandfather fought in WW2 & 1 respectively, "to keep tyranny at bay". I hope their courage, and that of their siblings/cousins (not all of who came back) will prove not to have been in vain.
Thanks for the comment, Joshua.
David definitely ran ahead of the curve and helped some of us out. (My mother did too and she introduced me to Icke's work in the late 90's)
It's been a fabricated world, with real humans most of which believed it was as presented and did their best. Most continue to do their best in such a distorted terrain.
Souls/spirits don't die. I don't think they lived those lives in vain. And we take qualities of character - like courage - with us.
I recently watched Darius Wright on Kim Iverson's show. If you aren't familiar with him you might enjoy the perspective.
Best to you.
Thank you. Not heard of Darius Wright or Kim Iverson. I'll check them out now. Best regards, Josh.
“A misidentification of identity is at the heart of Wetiko, so breaking free amounts to re-identifying who we really are. And if we give that process some room, it just happens.” — I’ve been on that journey, Kathleen and hold it in reverence! Transformation is wonderful to begin with, but the revelations that come with it, especially the shedding of identity that doesn’t serve and the recognition of its consequence… *chef’s kiss!*
Amanda and her podcast remind me of the old saying “the kids are alright” — wisdom doesn’t skip generations. It lays dormant until it’s needed to lead the way. I’m proud of her too.
Thanks for buttering me up with this post. Feeling it in my bones.