I don't know about you, but I'm off social media entirely. I still have a twitter account but I never use it. I read a pretty wide cross-section here on Substack, especially long-form essays, with varying viewpoints. And I haven't watched TV news in years. Does that make me weird? Some kind of throwback anomaly? I don't know. But I feel a lot saner than I used to. I've stopped caring who said what. The human connection, the soul connection, the natural life of walks in the woods with a dog feels more real than anything. And I do feel that profound shift we are undertaking as a species, some may say a choice, if choice is to be had, between the machine and the mystery. Blessings.
Yeah, something is up with time. More fluid and feels less 'real'. (I think - can't explain it - somehow part of the control system that's dismantling.)
I'm reminded of the 13 moons of the natural cycle, as opposed to the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar created to fit into an orthodox narrative. All the artifice is becoming visible and beginning to shift.
You had me with the title and the accompanying artwork. And you're so right... what else can one do when confronted with a wobbly reality, but seek solid ground? Of course the irony blazes through here: the unseeable, unprovable Divine proves to be the most solid option. Gotta love a Universal Power with a sense of humor...
Just past midnight, I found myself grinning at Kathleen's funny, and then profound take on reality ... and before closing down, read Joshua Stylman's grimly detailed take on a lot of the same things.
Just wanted to give you a heads up about Joshua, a new find for me, but one that I see Kathleen follows.
It's a small, small world.
Maybe we are all clones of each other?
Hmm ... a new metaphor for 'echo chamber' or 'bubble'? 🙃
Just finished a longish comment to an exchange with Kathleen. Stylman is one sharp dude, and though I've been 'following' him for a few months, it was one of his interviews with Naomi Wolf that burned him into my consciousness.
I'm a pack-rat at saving Substack posts, and so when I went back to read some of his earlier posts ... I was pleasantly surprised to see he runs in good company, including a couple of favorites — Catherine Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb.
Though the rabbit hole can be scary dark, the art and humor you and Kathleen are bringing to the table make it more than bearable.
Laughing at the devil ... huddling with friends for a more human-friendly kind of warmth. 🥰
Kathleen, Yikes! This is extremely interesting, and there's so much to follow up on. How did you ever compile all this?? I'm not done yet, and most likely neither is anyone else who's reading it.
I'm saving it for future reference.
Yes, it sure is "the Wobbly" all right. Some of this stuff makes me sick. Sometimes I wish it would just fall over and let that be the end of it, but I know there probably won't ever be an end to it. It's all so insidious and diabolical. I'm keeping an eye out for that Divinity waiting for us "everywhere" with open arms. Thanks for all your work on this.
Danka Ronnie - yeah interesting times for sure. I know, there is some deeply disturbing doings goin on. And yet... I'm optimistic. I see that Divinity in you btw. :-)
Oh my, Kathleen! Thanks for catching me up (or thank your son.) I'll have something to share with the fairies and the trees and the rocks. :) It's so liberating to read stuff like this and be neutral.
Babies Donald and Elon...I'm DYING! You have to give that content creator credit. I was hoping Elon would open his jacket so I could read the t-shirt he was wearing. Does anyone know what it says? Not that it matters. I'm so very happily out of the loop.
I deleted the Substack app from my phone today because Notes was making me crazy. UGH. I wish they had never started that.
I love your posts, Kathleen. Keep them coming! 🧚🧚🌲🌲🌲🪨 XOXO
I am with you K....off Unsocial Media, except a few Substacks and some Truth Socials. That one was hilarious on Saturday night. The comments are great too, along with all the photos of The Biden over the years. It is all so ridiculous.
If it wasn't for God and His creation and the miracles that are around me everyday, I would think I was going nuts. It is the connection to nature that keeps me sane and grounded. I am who I am because of what is internally mine to begin with. The media, the noise, the discord from the outside just pushes me to be stronger in who I am. I laugh at the manipulation and look forward to the day when all will be made clear and the wicked get what is coming to them. As promised.
First, love the fire hydrant--is that what it is?--in the wobbly picture. Smoking a cigar, playing a harmonica? Not sure, but love it.
In an interesting synchronicity (at least to me), the President of Germany who put Schicklgruber/ Hitler in as kanzler/ councillor was said by some to be senile. He didn't recognize people he'd worked with. Like Biden, he was a corrupt warmonger and may have been in on the plot to lose WWI, since he was furious when the Kaiser and his diplomatic kanzler extended peace without annexation when Germany had effectively won. So he was likely in Rothschild's pocket. https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/gottfried-feder.
Can the same be said for Biden, Trump and Musk? I'd bet on it.
Loved the ending video! The furrowed brow is AI genius, if that's not a contradiction in terms.
And most of all, love your insights, Kathleen. I'm feeling very hopeful in the midst of this jello. And your good company, with others, is a huge factor in that.
Thanks, T and appreciate you adding the link. I did a read through - you are so very thorough at rewriting history. I typically shake my head, impressed.
And yeah, anyone playing the role of leader didn't get there without that level of support.
Same here - evidence among many wonderful folks - things will work out. xox
Music, yard work/play, dishes and now comedy for a week or two, keeps me busy. Jimmy O. Yang is funny. Sadly, most folk will only see what they want to see, and be misinformed by material that while true in parts, is designed in its presentation to support existing bias and emotional commitments thereby continuing to isolate sub-groups from each other. That plan will work, -on us, until and unless we make a better plan.
Yes, agree Sounder. I suspect planning is underway in groups with more to come. But I'm surrounded by sub-groups and reality-takes that are fully head-shaking too. 🤷♀️ We'll see how it all unfolds.
Swimming in the cold English sea at dawn with my adult son is my greatest reality, walking in the woods where Thomas Hardy lived is another, climbing the hills around the Jurassic Coast and watching storms, cycling my bike along the old railway line so I have no part of the traffic. The rest of the world seems like a cartoon version of itself! Thank you for another great post Kathleen.
Every day it's getting more clear to me that we are living in a simulation. Not sure how it will end but happy to have the awareness I do. Guess we picked the short straws?
Agree there is definitely something to the simulation concept - as difficult as it is to wrap my head around. Maybe that's what's breaking up - what was artificially imposed? And what's real stays?
I don't know. But I have this odd memory of life on this planet before it was hijacked - and it was really really great. It's like an internal marker I carry around. This mess we're living in is the result of a synthetic take-over. Once shed, we'll again know who we are. Humans don't require governmental bodies and all their rules. Natural Law, cosmic order and Nature provide all that, and we're designed to live in alignment.
"Guess we picked the short straws?" lol! Depends on how you look at it I guess. Can certainly feel that way.
Ok, I see why Steve Martin recommended you. I suspect exactly what you have described….a hijacking occurred and we do not require governmental bodies. It is most obvious to me. I am so relieved to read that from someone else. I was not “trained” for the woo part but I sense what you have put forth in every fiber of my being so I should probably stop fighting it with my propensity towards logic. Thank you, more than you can ever possibly know, for putting your idea forth.
I have a feeling we'll all be getting a crash-course in Woo over the coming months and years.
I was gifted with an incredibly open-minded mother who operated without any guardrails - her mind went where it went. (I did a report on 'Life After Life' in the 6th or 7th grade for instance, because the assignment was read a book from home.) My teacher's response to the subject matter left a life-long impression on me.
Lately, that background feels like a huge advantage..
After many years taking university classes I started to see how siloed information was and how that created biases, and how identities got in the way of new information once they became attached to those biases.
Eventually that pushed me out of the education system and into the woo which requires larger contexts to make connections. All of which turned out to be incredibly helpful during these recent dystopian chapters we've been living through.
The world most definitely is not what we thought it was. I think we're all here for an amazing time.
So appreciate your reading/commenting, Elizabeth. Best to you.
No, the world is most definitely not what we thought it was. Memo received on that loud and clear. I’ll look to you for the woo part. Thank you and my best to you as well.
When so much shit is theatre, I mean on any new thing being kayfabe. But the shadows in Plato’s Cave are certainly wobbling. Like enough currents have made the flames flicker a bit out of control. Expecting more of this, for sure.
I'm expecting more of this too. What does the world look like when the collective is questioning what's real? Including, inevitably, themselves? Identity crises at a level we can barely imagine.
Fortunately they'll be plenty of people - like you, Tonika - who will play with that creatively.
It occurred to me this morning, and even more emphatically after your column, that the whole of our government could now be created by AI video and audio, and we would be none the wiser.
Just images of people and places, and audio that more or less sync up to the pictures.
A "Wizard of Oz" illusion of governance, while policy is dictated by a very few. And the "check printing computers" whir along - sending our tax money to whichever insiders across the world are on the team.
Oh, wait - that's what's been happening for some time now. All that's left to do is dispense with humans in D.C. altogether. We would never know the difference.
I think many of us are getting a glimpse now with revelations on the Biden autopen and the rest of that hot mess. The whole contract between we-the-people and government has been long gone, but the marketing kept us paying taxes (fear-fueled mainly) and playing out our part as 'good' citizens.
We really don't know who's who, can't trust 'see it to believe it' anymore. Where does that leave us in relation to government/authority/each other and finally ourselves?
It's all up - and while the dispensing of pesky humans is their plan - what will we do?
They fear us. And they should. Universe is on our side.
I feel like we really do have at least 2 clear timelines playing out now. One is destined to live a life aligned with nature, and Natural law and the other... I don't know.
But some of us could see - to varying degrees - what's been going on. We saw the versions of Biden on display; we saw the marketing campaign around the jab and tried to warn others... So these tricks didn't work on everyone.
We know real and can see through the lies, I think, because we are present to ourselves in a deeper way.
The biggest shock through Covid was how quickly smart people gave themselves away to the whole psyops. They went right past common sense and alarming contractions and distortions. It was like watching actors get a new script and even though it was completely at odds with the old script and their usual character, they were eager to play their new part. As if waiting for instructions.
Thankfully some of us maintained awareness of own instructions. The more we were pushed towards compliance , the stronger those instructions became.
I'm hoping by now many more have realized what happened and are coming into themselves. However it all shakes out, the human signal in its purity will survive and thrive.
After a number of years of estrangement, I recently re-engaged an older family member who was sick.
We were both aware of, and made an agreement to set aside the past, and re-establish our relationship from the here and now.
Months of phone calls and texts, even travelled out and visited for a week, and helped them with their tech. It wasn't perfect, but we were working through the rough patches honestly and directly.
I had a week's worth of broadcast news, and realized how much all of the media corral their viewers. Interesting how this family member thought they were getting well-rounded information that, in reality, was anything but that.
I offered information, alternatives, but had no expectation that any of it would land.
I at least trusted that I could share thoughts and ideas with this loved one as a friend.
Then, last week, something snapped, and they viciously and brutally attacked me verbally, and all the old stuff just came pouring out once again, and with new stuff to boot.
Everything that made me Phil suddenly was seen as a threat and evidence of everything that was wrong in the world.
I tried to diffuse the situation, but they weren't having any of it.
Sadly, I am forced to turn away, once again.
Our light is to shine. But also I am reminded how much of a threat it is.
I won't dim mine down, but I don't expect the old guard, even the younger ones who have been indoctrinated to welcome it with open arms.
One would think that certain ideas and attitudes would be a given.
And one would be wrong. There's a reason the world looks the way it does today. It's being propped up by the propagandized, the unaware, the traumatized.
I don't hold any expectations of acceptance by these people. And a reminder that blood means nothing.
It all made me quite sad, really. Still doing my best to shake it.
Reading this... oh, so deeply sad. And I'm truly sorry they couldn't receive the branch you held out. There's a lesson in this for me (however reluctantly I want to learn it).
You're so right, no dimming your light, and yet, on the ground this sets us up for painful experiences. I'm aware those who 'let' me back in post our covid break, may just a quickly turn their backs again in the next op. I'm finding lately I don't want to be around them so much. I wanted the community, but this is far from my version of community. I am still a bit of an outsider, but more to the point, they bore me.
Our conversation feels flat, limited and stupid. So why exactly did I want back in? Maybe some idea of repairing and eventually helping, I don't know. They'll either wake up or they won't - it's not on me.
And it's not on you either. But I get the sadness. And I get the desire to connect. I suppose we find our connections, even if now mainly online. That's something, and really it's been a lifeline. I'm happy to have met you.
I hope you shake it quickly. Some of us 'see' you and appreciate who you are. ❤️
Your post, and Joshua Stylman's black-mirror image of yours, were the last two I read before my sleeping meds kicked in last night, so a bit late in thanking you for bringing a bit of humor to the grim march of technological 'progress', and reminding us of where and how to return to authenticity.
I saw that Stylman's post - he's so impressive and I'm always amazed at how quickly he churns out such meaty stuff. Have you seen his interviews with Naomi Wolf?
I seem to have less and less time I'm willing to spend on the details - once you see enough... and humor at the absurdity feels appropriate for the most part. I know there is a lot of dark stuff progressing, yet I can't believe (don't think it's denial, but can't say for sure) we end up as cyborgs.
Nature and Humans ultimately reclaiming this planet is what I see. Though whether I'll be around for that final break through, who knows? I sure as hell hope so. Would be like exiting the theatre right before the story resolves.
Doing well thanks, and hoping as much, or more, for you.
Yes! I DID see that interview! Though I started following him in March, and marked some posts that impressed me, he was just one of many names I quickly forgot in the deluge of information ... until I saw that interview. Now, his name is engraved in my memory and thanks to his parting remark in the interview ... I've started to weigh in when useful.
I hear you about those details, losing sight of the forest for the trees. That's the main reason that, other than sniping in comments, I've been keeping a low profile lately.
Still, so much to say and share with those I feel a kindred spirit. At least genetically, I guess I am closer to a social primate than a flea. But I waver between hope and despair for our relatively young species. Ants and amoebas seem to have proven track records. I'd be disappointed to find empathy-driven behavior turns out to be little more than an evolutionary spandrel.
Thanks again for your post, Kathleen, reminding us of what solid ground we might have always had.
Was looking for the real ending to an old favorite, but found this hilarious alternative
Though couldn't help but notice Dorothy's eagerness to return home is quickly described by her in less than wonderful terms, and the attention from her uncles, largely unwelcome and a bit yucky.
So, what's her beef with the adventure she was just on, really? I'm hearing normalcy bias comforts beats a new world adventure and that's probably true for many of. us. We don't love change.
You know I can't prove it but I think humans are essentially (minus all the layers of crud from our mega-distorted world) wonderful, compassionate, empathetic, creative, intelligent and loving. Of course with a spectrum there, and some who fall outside it.
Also gullible and too quick to give themselves away.
Maybe that's one of the lessons we're learning on this-here adventure? Need a lot of pressure to produce a diamond. Perhaps this squeeze we've been in will result in more clarity. 🤷♀️
It typically takes a couple of cups of coffe for me to wake up, but while sipping this morning ... I put the following YouTube on 1.75 speed. Though much of it is above my paygrade, I tried to take away from it what I could and try to parse the math and science from the woo, and came away thinking of mandelbrot sets (one of which I spied at 8:24), and recalled out chat about simulations within simulations.
Only partially recommended because it was so long and beyond my understanding of math ... but I might listen again because of the interesting questions and speculations from people in other domains, and the humility, clarity, and character of the speaker. This might be good for 'background music' while house-cleaning.
Instantly I think, if it's beyond your understanding of math...Still, I'll give a listen tomorrow when I catch up on house stuff around here. At least there is 'woo' in it, a language I'm more comfy with. :-)
(Burrrrp) Just finished my fine home-made, microwave dinner.
When I think about that meal and about our resistance to change, I guess it depends on social context. Oops. Feeling an information-dump coming on.
Other than a couple of close friends, I have no social currency in Japan. By age, ethnicity, temperament, connections (or lack of), and leading the single and solitary life ... I am scraping the bottom of that dirty little secret few in the developed world openly acknowledge. Caste.
JMHO, but beneath America's chronically obsessive wrangling over equality of opportunity vs equality of outcomes, there is something more fundamental that has yet to be resolved, and that is caste. On my darker days, I suspect the French Revolution, and its American counterpart, did not fundamentally change governance, much less the group dynamics of social primates. Just a change of wardrobe.
For example, most Japanese working class are pushed and pulled through the gears of a similarly illusory meritocratic-mammon-machine. But they tend to be more fatalistic than their American counterparts. With a long tradition of royalty and bloodlines, caste seems to be taken for granted, and most of the ruling class is seen as a continuation of the family business. But Japan has no equivalent of 'the American Dream'. The parsing of that Horatio Alger myth might be one of George Carlin's finest moments.
Hand-in-hand with the quickly unravelling myth of meritocracy (in both the U.S. and Japan) is the myth of democracy. America, approaching it through the virtues of the sanctity of the individual, Japan through socially engineered 'harmony' ... no matter how superficial. A harmony that does not question authority, and conflates manners with morality, is drilled deep into the subconscious from a young age.
I suppose the best of those above values are possible within families or small communities, but the bureaucratic nation-state? The corporation? The school? Institutionalized religion?
Those on the far end of the spectrum you mentioned appear to be more willing and capable of employing tactics far removed from empathy to create, climb, and capture hierarchies … far removed from what is natural for empathy-driven social primates. And so far out of line, I tend to agree with you that those Towers of Babel eventually collapse under their own corrupt weight. My worry is that one of these collapses may bring our species down with it.
Caste. And change.
I still have Isobel Wilkerson's book on hold, partially because I can forget my place in Japan, and nurture a sense of community here.
I agree with you about humans, but I tend to think along lines of a bell curve … with maybe 2 or 3 standard deviations of the tails, the angels’ and ‘demons’ among us.
Me?
Quick.
Gullible.
And too slow in following your call for ’next’. You, and the very small group we have in common, are laying out a map as clear as day. And here I sit, still looking for true north, terminally waiting to begin my journey. 😅
Hugs and cheers Kathleen
p.s. Ooo, ooo, ooo! Another Oz parody popped up in my YouTube feed!
"Oops. Feeling an information-dump coming on." ha ha!
Oh, Carlin. "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." His relevance and brilliance, brighter all the time.
So many illusions and forms of the caste system on display, including the notion of a 'chosen' people and we are watching the end result of that insanity in live time.
The US has never lived up to its marketing hype, but the belief in its creation story was good fuel for a long time. We just have to recognize when values have been hijacked and we are being played. The move towards centralized everything, towards control is more obvious than ever, so agree human values work at community levels - as soon as you lost a say in your own life, they are reduced to concepts.
I think what's different going forward and why we can't look at history to gauge that, is the change in cosmic frequencies which are flooding our planet, (triggering more earthquakes right now) and their effect on us as electromagnetic beings. Seeing through the illusions is possible in a way it hasn't been for a very long time. Our physiology changes, and what we can perceive, how we are naturally plugged in directly, telepathy, self-healing, all these things come back online as it were.
We have been sleeping, and lots of people are shedding the energies that allowed that. It's going to be tough. The learning curve is super steep now. If you've been handing all your decisions over and walking through the world without any self-reflection or deep questioning... really tough.
The blinders are coming off. Mindlessly traversing the tracks already laid down won't be an option much longer.
As the big structures fall (I believe they will) and individuals are faced with choices about all the things they gave away, they'll either implode under fear and confusion, or they'll come into themselves. They'll have no choice but to get 'here'. I don't know other options, but I suppose we'll find out.
I had this waking-dream once about life on this planet a long long time ago. It was so incredibly beautiful, so spacious and heightened in aliveness, so real and connected that I burst into tears after it. The memory of that possibility opened up a remembering and subsequent longing. 'Of course, of course, that's how it's meant to be."
Direct-connect knowing is in us. We naturally do it. It's not possible to be outside it, not really. Reality was hijacked. And now Universe has decided it's time to throw this interference and all its crud off. Humans have decided this.
I don't how long that process takes, but I do hold this 'waking-dream' as an inner marker for what's coming. If I'm wrong on that I'll find out eventually.
Likely your true north will find you and you'll just know what to do. Already weaved in.
Thanks for the fun clips! I had no idea how many iterations of Oz were out there.
Hugs and cheers to you, Steve.
PS - I will have to look up the Isobel Wilkerson book - don't know it.
And though full of gratitude for the exchange, I can't help but to feel a bit like a time thief, when you could be deep in weeds of your next creation. On the other hand, I hope I can help fuel your next bomb-burst of a post.
What you said about community levels being reduced to abstractions re-ignited my anger at both Facebook and YouTube's excuse for censorship, (and by committing lies by omission, gas-lighting) — punishing or silencing the truth-tellers for 'breaking community standards'. The blunt hubris of that phrasing is infuriating.
Still in a chat with a mutual follower I am only just now getting to know (Elizabeth Schneider, https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/power-outages-and-the-coming-pole/comment/123393314 ... and will toss a frisbee with your name on it to her. She had been working as a project manager for a federally funded mechanical engineering firm, but saw enough of the corruption to testify in court about it. We 'met' under Kyle Young's 'The Secular Heretic' stack about the power outage in Spain and Portugal, with many in comments saying the same as you regarding a change in extra-terrestial 'weather'. I brought her name to your attention because she and I are similarly black-pilled regarding institutional approaches to problem solving, and she reminded me of how so few Americans read books any more. She is coming from a STEM-ish background, and you and Mary more from liberal arts, but all roads are leading to Rome.
That waking dream you had ... reminds me of a couple of experiences I've been putting off writing about, but also about Jill Bolte Taylor's great TED talk. The experience sounds so similar, and so far beyond the reach of the psychopathic imitators ... though A.I. is getting scary close.
I've loved the Judy Garland version of The Wizard of Oz so much, that when I occasionally used it for Comparative Culture classes, I had to make sure to stand at the back of the class so the students wouldn't see my teary eyes. I am such a sucker for the sentimental. And that made those parodies all the more hilarious.
Oh, and I'm sorry for mentioning Isabel (spelling error) Wilkerson out of context. There are so many great writers out there, and I just assumed I'm the only one catching up. I checked her out on Wiki, and was surprised that 'Caste' is not the only book she wrote ... but it is one that has been translated into Japanese, and it was a Japanese friend who brought the book to my attention.
Just past the witching hour in Japan, so heading to bed, hoping True North will find me in a dream, waking or sleeping. You've been a big help in providing maps and a compass.
Thanks, about half way through. Pretty fascinating correlations. "Could be humanity's last invention". They know and they move forward anyway. Because of course they don't want humans on the planet. They will not succeed. Best.
Thanks Kathleen, I found his correlations fascination as well… I meant NOT to be preachy and appreciate you recognizing that aspect but on the whole the technology that is available and what it can/will do?
I don't know about you, but I'm off social media entirely. I still have a twitter account but I never use it. I read a pretty wide cross-section here on Substack, especially long-form essays, with varying viewpoints. And I haven't watched TV news in years. Does that make me weird? Some kind of throwback anomaly? I don't know. But I feel a lot saner than I used to. I've stopped caring who said what. The human connection, the soul connection, the natural life of walks in the woods with a dog feels more real than anything. And I do feel that profound shift we are undertaking as a species, some may say a choice, if choice is to be had, between the machine and the mystery. Blessings.
Same for me.
Take a look at Notes from time to time. The Truth Social posts I know of from my son. Cable news gone nearly 15 years ago. And yes, saner.
I'm with you Navyo. Those connections and Nature are clearly becoming what's precious.
Blessings back.
I'm weird right with both of you.
Absolutely. And I feel as if the last 5yrs has felt like 50yrs.
The last 5yrs has felt like 1yr to me. Time has warped.
Yeah, something is up with time. More fluid and feels less 'real'. (I think - can't explain it - somehow part of the control system that's dismantling.)
I'm reminded of the 13 moons of the natural cycle, as opposed to the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar created to fit into an orthodox narrative. All the artifice is becoming visible and beginning to shift.
You had me with the title and the accompanying artwork. And you're so right... what else can one do when confronted with a wobbly reality, but seek solid ground? Of course the irony blazes through here: the unseeable, unprovable Divine proves to be the most solid option. Gotta love a Universal Power with a sense of humor...
Thanks for this, Kathleen. xox
Love that irony! Yes, sense of humor seems to be built in.
Thanks, Mary. Always appreciate your reading and commenting. xox
Hi Mary.
Just past midnight, I found myself grinning at Kathleen's funny, and then profound take on reality ... and before closing down, read Joshua Stylman's grimly detailed take on a lot of the same things.
Just wanted to give you a heads up about Joshua, a new find for me, but one that I see Kathleen follows.
It's a small, small world.
Maybe we are all clones of each other?
Hmm ... a new metaphor for 'echo chamber' or 'bubble'? 🙃
Cheers!
Hi Steve! I saw your restack of Stylman's post and read it... 😱 Thanks for putting him into my field of attention; it IS a small 🌍. Cheers back! Xox
Hi Mary!
Just finished a longish comment to an exchange with Kathleen. Stylman is one sharp dude, and though I've been 'following' him for a few months, it was one of his interviews with Naomi Wolf that burned him into my consciousness.
I'm a pack-rat at saving Substack posts, and so when I went back to read some of his earlier posts ... I was pleasantly surprised to see he runs in good company, including a couple of favorites — Catherine Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb.
Though the rabbit hole can be scary dark, the art and humor you and Kathleen are bringing to the table make it more than bearable.
Laughing at the devil ... huddling with friends for a more human-friendly kind of warmth. 🥰
Hugs Mary!
Laughing at the devil! YASSSS!! Love that description. Hugs back, and gratitude for the warmth...XOX
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Kathleen, Yikes! This is extremely interesting, and there's so much to follow up on. How did you ever compile all this?? I'm not done yet, and most likely neither is anyone else who's reading it.
I'm saving it for future reference.
Yes, it sure is "the Wobbly" all right. Some of this stuff makes me sick. Sometimes I wish it would just fall over and let that be the end of it, but I know there probably won't ever be an end to it. It's all so insidious and diabolical. I'm keeping an eye out for that Divinity waiting for us "everywhere" with open arms. Thanks for all your work on this.
Danka Ronnie - yeah interesting times for sure. I know, there is some deeply disturbing doings goin on. And yet... I'm optimistic. I see that Divinity in you btw. :-)
Thanks for the comment and usual kindness. xoxo
When I hear of earthquakes and aliens I actually do a little dance. Just. Bring. It.
Exactly my sentiment, Sadie Jay! Thanks. ❤️ Hope you're doing great.
Oh my, Kathleen! Thanks for catching me up (or thank your son.) I'll have something to share with the fairies and the trees and the rocks. :) It's so liberating to read stuff like this and be neutral.
Babies Donald and Elon...I'm DYING! You have to give that content creator credit. I was hoping Elon would open his jacket so I could read the t-shirt he was wearing. Does anyone know what it says? Not that it matters. I'm so very happily out of the loop.
I deleted the Substack app from my phone today because Notes was making me crazy. UGH. I wish they had never started that.
I love your posts, Kathleen. Keep them coming! 🧚🧚🌲🌲🌲🪨 XOXO
Thank you, dear Barbara. Can't wait for your next post! They are like opening up to calm reality. So very reassuring.
I know, that baby video made me too happy. :-) Small pleasures - even digitally.
Oh and btw, I can't keep my son away from your forest oil!! 🥰
I'm working on one...slow like the Turtle that I am,.:) 🐢
Yay, that your son is enjoying the Forest Oil! I just made a fresh batch that will be really potent because of all the young needles. 🌲🌲🌲 XOXO
I am with you K....off Unsocial Media, except a few Substacks and some Truth Socials. That one was hilarious on Saturday night. The comments are great too, along with all the photos of The Biden over the years. It is all so ridiculous.
If it wasn't for God and His creation and the miracles that are around me everyday, I would think I was going nuts. It is the connection to nature that keeps me sane and grounded. I am who I am because of what is internally mine to begin with. The media, the noise, the discord from the outside just pushes me to be stronger in who I am. I laugh at the manipulation and look forward to the day when all will be made clear and the wicked get what is coming to them. As promised.
Thank you for being you.♥♥
Love this:
The media, the noise, the discord from the outside just pushes me to be stronger in who I am.
Maybe it's even the whole point in some ways? Where else we gonna go if not deeper into God and Nature and connections with each other?
And thank you, for being you, darlin. 😘
First, love the fire hydrant--is that what it is?--in the wobbly picture. Smoking a cigar, playing a harmonica? Not sure, but love it.
In an interesting synchronicity (at least to me), the President of Germany who put Schicklgruber/ Hitler in as kanzler/ councillor was said by some to be senile. He didn't recognize people he'd worked with. Like Biden, he was a corrupt warmonger and may have been in on the plot to lose WWI, since he was furious when the Kaiser and his diplomatic kanzler extended peace without annexation when Germany had effectively won. So he was likely in Rothschild's pocket. https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/gottfried-feder.
Can the same be said for Biden, Trump and Musk? I'd bet on it.
Loved the ending video! The furrowed brow is AI genius, if that's not a contradiction in terms.
And most of all, love your insights, Kathleen. I'm feeling very hopeful in the midst of this jello. And your good company, with others, is a huge factor in that.
Thanks, T and appreciate you adding the link. I did a read through - you are so very thorough at rewriting history. I typically shake my head, impressed.
And yeah, anyone playing the role of leader didn't get there without that level of support.
Same here - evidence among many wonderful folks - things will work out. xox
Wow!! Fantastic in every way!! Thank you!
How kind! Thank you, Tricia. :-)
Music, yard work/play, dishes and now comedy for a week or two, keeps me busy. Jimmy O. Yang is funny. Sadly, most folk will only see what they want to see, and be misinformed by material that while true in parts, is designed in its presentation to support existing bias and emotional commitments thereby continuing to isolate sub-groups from each other. That plan will work, -on us, until and unless we make a better plan.
Yes, agree Sounder. I suspect planning is underway in groups with more to come. But I'm surrounded by sub-groups and reality-takes that are fully head-shaking too. 🤷♀️ We'll see how it all unfolds.
Thanks for the comment. Best to you.
Swimming in the cold English sea at dawn with my adult son is my greatest reality, walking in the woods where Thomas Hardy lived is another, climbing the hills around the Jurassic Coast and watching storms, cycling my bike along the old railway line so I have no part of the traffic. The rest of the world seems like a cartoon version of itself! Thank you for another great post Kathleen.
Love this, April. I'm right there with you. So essential to find those touch-points of reality where we can in this current madness.
Cartoon versions, so true. (Which is probably why I found it so gratifying to see Trump and Musk reduced to AI babies.) Thanks, best.
Every day it's getting more clear to me that we are living in a simulation. Not sure how it will end but happy to have the awareness I do. Guess we picked the short straws?
Agree there is definitely something to the simulation concept - as difficult as it is to wrap my head around. Maybe that's what's breaking up - what was artificially imposed? And what's real stays?
I don't know. But I have this odd memory of life on this planet before it was hijacked - and it was really really great. It's like an internal marker I carry around. This mess we're living in is the result of a synthetic take-over. Once shed, we'll again know who we are. Humans don't require governmental bodies and all their rules. Natural Law, cosmic order and Nature provide all that, and we're designed to live in alignment.
"Guess we picked the short straws?" lol! Depends on how you look at it I guess. Can certainly feel that way.
Thanks, Kat Bro. Best.
Ok, I see why Steve Martin recommended you. I suspect exactly what you have described….a hijacking occurred and we do not require governmental bodies. It is most obvious to me. I am so relieved to read that from someone else. I was not “trained” for the woo part but I sense what you have put forth in every fiber of my being so I should probably stop fighting it with my propensity towards logic. Thank you, more than you can ever possibly know, for putting your idea forth.
That's such a kind comment, Elizabeth. Thank you.
I have a feeling we'll all be getting a crash-course in Woo over the coming months and years.
I was gifted with an incredibly open-minded mother who operated without any guardrails - her mind went where it went. (I did a report on 'Life After Life' in the 6th or 7th grade for instance, because the assignment was read a book from home.) My teacher's response to the subject matter left a life-long impression on me.
Lately, that background feels like a huge advantage..
After many years taking university classes I started to see how siloed information was and how that created biases, and how identities got in the way of new information once they became attached to those biases.
Eventually that pushed me out of the education system and into the woo which requires larger contexts to make connections. All of which turned out to be incredibly helpful during these recent dystopian chapters we've been living through.
The world most definitely is not what we thought it was. I think we're all here for an amazing time.
So appreciate your reading/commenting, Elizabeth. Best to you.
No, the world is most definitely not what we thought it was. Memo received on that loud and clear. I’ll look to you for the woo part. Thank you and my best to you as well.
Or a simulation of a simulation, ad infinitum?
Reminds me of Augustus De Morgan's 'Siphanaptera' ...
'Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.'
Meh. I prefer those pretty mandelbrot sets to fleas.
I prefer the fractals too. The whole contained in the part thing makes perfect sense. We're both at once.
Flea though feels like a good metaphor for an ego trying to assert itself and its own agenda in a whole intelligent Universe. Deeply delusional. :-)
Hi Kathleen!
Chomp!
(Watch out. It's dinner time in Japan for this flea.)
🥰
😂
When so much shit is theatre, I mean on any new thing being kayfabe. But the shadows in Plato’s Cave are certainly wobbling. Like enough currents have made the flames flicker a bit out of control. Expecting more of this, for sure.
I'm expecting more of this too. What does the world look like when the collective is questioning what's real? Including, inevitably, themselves? Identity crises at a level we can barely imagine.
Fortunately they'll be plenty of people - like you, Tonika - who will play with that creatively.
I hope so! Thanks for initiating the spark!
It occurred to me this morning, and even more emphatically after your column, that the whole of our government could now be created by AI video and audio, and we would be none the wiser.
Just images of people and places, and audio that more or less sync up to the pictures.
A "Wizard of Oz" illusion of governance, while policy is dictated by a very few. And the "check printing computers" whir along - sending our tax money to whichever insiders across the world are on the team.
Oh, wait - that's what's been happening for some time now. All that's left to do is dispense with humans in D.C. altogether. We would never know the difference.
Exactly, Philip.
I think many of us are getting a glimpse now with revelations on the Biden autopen and the rest of that hot mess. The whole contract between we-the-people and government has been long gone, but the marketing kept us paying taxes (fear-fueled mainly) and playing out our part as 'good' citizens.
We really don't know who's who, can't trust 'see it to believe it' anymore. Where does that leave us in relation to government/authority/each other and finally ourselves?
It's all up - and while the dispensing of pesky humans is their plan - what will we do?
They fear us. And they should. Universe is on our side.
I feel like we really do have at least 2 clear timelines playing out now. One is destined to live a life aligned with nature, and Natural law and the other... I don't know.
But some of us could see - to varying degrees - what's been going on. We saw the versions of Biden on display; we saw the marketing campaign around the jab and tried to warn others... So these tricks didn't work on everyone.
We know real and can see through the lies, I think, because we are present to ourselves in a deeper way.
The biggest shock through Covid was how quickly smart people gave themselves away to the whole psyops. They went right past common sense and alarming contractions and distortions. It was like watching actors get a new script and even though it was completely at odds with the old script and their usual character, they were eager to play their new part. As if waiting for instructions.
Thankfully some of us maintained awareness of own instructions. The more we were pushed towards compliance , the stronger those instructions became.
I'm hoping by now many more have realized what happened and are coming into themselves. However it all shakes out, the human signal in its purity will survive and thrive.
Appreciate the comment, Philip. Best.
After a number of years of estrangement, I recently re-engaged an older family member who was sick.
We were both aware of, and made an agreement to set aside the past, and re-establish our relationship from the here and now.
Months of phone calls and texts, even travelled out and visited for a week, and helped them with their tech. It wasn't perfect, but we were working through the rough patches honestly and directly.
I had a week's worth of broadcast news, and realized how much all of the media corral their viewers. Interesting how this family member thought they were getting well-rounded information that, in reality, was anything but that.
I offered information, alternatives, but had no expectation that any of it would land.
I at least trusted that I could share thoughts and ideas with this loved one as a friend.
Then, last week, something snapped, and they viciously and brutally attacked me verbally, and all the old stuff just came pouring out once again, and with new stuff to boot.
Everything that made me Phil suddenly was seen as a threat and evidence of everything that was wrong in the world.
I tried to diffuse the situation, but they weren't having any of it.
Sadly, I am forced to turn away, once again.
Our light is to shine. But also I am reminded how much of a threat it is.
I won't dim mine down, but I don't expect the old guard, even the younger ones who have been indoctrinated to welcome it with open arms.
One would think that certain ideas and attitudes would be a given.
And one would be wrong. There's a reason the world looks the way it does today. It's being propped up by the propagandized, the unaware, the traumatized.
I don't hold any expectations of acceptance by these people. And a reminder that blood means nothing.
It all made me quite sad, really. Still doing my best to shake it.
Reading this... oh, so deeply sad. And I'm truly sorry they couldn't receive the branch you held out. There's a lesson in this for me (however reluctantly I want to learn it).
You're so right, no dimming your light, and yet, on the ground this sets us up for painful experiences. I'm aware those who 'let' me back in post our covid break, may just a quickly turn their backs again in the next op. I'm finding lately I don't want to be around them so much. I wanted the community, but this is far from my version of community. I am still a bit of an outsider, but more to the point, they bore me.
Our conversation feels flat, limited and stupid. So why exactly did I want back in? Maybe some idea of repairing and eventually helping, I don't know. They'll either wake up or they won't - it's not on me.
And it's not on you either. But I get the sadness. And I get the desire to connect. I suppose we find our connections, even if now mainly online. That's something, and really it's been a lifeline. I'm happy to have met you.
I hope you shake it quickly. Some of us 'see' you and appreciate who you are. ❤️
I hear you... 😢. This has been far too much for a human to endure in 5yrs. More grief than I can process.
Thank you Kathleen, that was original!
Appreciate the feedback, Clyde. Best.
Hi Kathleen,
Your post, and Joshua Stylman's black-mirror image of yours, were the last two I read before my sleeping meds kicked in last night, so a bit late in thanking you for bringing a bit of humor to the grim march of technological 'progress', and reminding us of where and how to return to authenticity.
Cheers Kathleen!
Hey Steve.
I saw that Stylman's post - he's so impressive and I'm always amazed at how quickly he churns out such meaty stuff. Have you seen his interviews with Naomi Wolf?
I seem to have less and less time I'm willing to spend on the details - once you see enough... and humor at the absurdity feels appropriate for the most part. I know there is a lot of dark stuff progressing, yet I can't believe (don't think it's denial, but can't say for sure) we end up as cyborgs.
Nature and Humans ultimately reclaiming this planet is what I see. Though whether I'll be around for that final break through, who knows? I sure as hell hope so. Would be like exiting the theatre right before the story resolves.
Hope you're well, Steve. Cheers.
Hi again Kathleen.
Doing well thanks, and hoping as much, or more, for you.
Yes! I DID see that interview! Though I started following him in March, and marked some posts that impressed me, he was just one of many names I quickly forgot in the deluge of information ... until I saw that interview. Now, his name is engraved in my memory and thanks to his parting remark in the interview ... I've started to weigh in when useful.
I hear you about those details, losing sight of the forest for the trees. That's the main reason that, other than sniping in comments, I've been keeping a low profile lately.
Still, so much to say and share with those I feel a kindred spirit. At least genetically, I guess I am closer to a social primate than a flea. But I waver between hope and despair for our relatively young species. Ants and amoebas seem to have proven track records. I'd be disappointed to find empathy-driven behavior turns out to be little more than an evolutionary spandrel.
Thanks again for your post, Kathleen, reminding us of what solid ground we might have always had.
Was looking for the real ending to an old favorite, but found this hilarious alternative
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exm2Hi28Xw
Hugs and cheers Kathleen!
Never saw that alternative ending! Very funny!
Though couldn't help but notice Dorothy's eagerness to return home is quickly described by her in less than wonderful terms, and the attention from her uncles, largely unwelcome and a bit yucky.
So, what's her beef with the adventure she was just on, really? I'm hearing normalcy bias comforts beats a new world adventure and that's probably true for many of. us. We don't love change.
You know I can't prove it but I think humans are essentially (minus all the layers of crud from our mega-distorted world) wonderful, compassionate, empathetic, creative, intelligent and loving. Of course with a spectrum there, and some who fall outside it.
Also gullible and too quick to give themselves away.
Maybe that's one of the lessons we're learning on this-here adventure? Need a lot of pressure to produce a diamond. Perhaps this squeeze we've been in will result in more clarity. 🤷♀️
😘
Part 2 ...
Hi again Kathleen, and good morning from Japan!
It typically takes a couple of cups of coffe for me to wake up, but while sipping this morning ... I put the following YouTube on 1.75 speed. Though much of it is above my paygrade, I tried to take away from it what I could and try to parse the math and science from the woo, and came away thinking of mandelbrot sets (one of which I spied at 8:24), and recalled out chat about simulations within simulations.
Only partially recommended because it was so long and beyond my understanding of math ... but I might listen again because of the interesting questions and speculations from people in other domains, and the humility, clarity, and character of the speaker. This might be good for 'background music' while house-cleaning.
https://michaelclarage.substack.com/p/lecture-what-is-a-fractal-toroidal/comments
Fully awake, if not 'woke' .... time to do a bit of cleaning myself.
Hugs Kathleen.
Thanks for the share, Steve.
Instantly I think, if it's beyond your understanding of math...Still, I'll give a listen tomorrow when I catch up on house stuff around here. At least there is 'woo' in it, a language I'm more comfy with. :-)
Happy Cleaning, friend.
(Burrrrp) Just finished my fine home-made, microwave dinner.
When I think about that meal and about our resistance to change, I guess it depends on social context. Oops. Feeling an information-dump coming on.
Other than a couple of close friends, I have no social currency in Japan. By age, ethnicity, temperament, connections (or lack of), and leading the single and solitary life ... I am scraping the bottom of that dirty little secret few in the developed world openly acknowledge. Caste.
JMHO, but beneath America's chronically obsessive wrangling over equality of opportunity vs equality of outcomes, there is something more fundamental that has yet to be resolved, and that is caste. On my darker days, I suspect the French Revolution, and its American counterpart, did not fundamentally change governance, much less the group dynamics of social primates. Just a change of wardrobe.
For example, most Japanese working class are pushed and pulled through the gears of a similarly illusory meritocratic-mammon-machine. But they tend to be more fatalistic than their American counterparts. With a long tradition of royalty and bloodlines, caste seems to be taken for granted, and most of the ruling class is seen as a continuation of the family business. But Japan has no equivalent of 'the American Dream'. The parsing of that Horatio Alger myth might be one of George Carlin's finest moments.
Hand-in-hand with the quickly unravelling myth of meritocracy (in both the U.S. and Japan) is the myth of democracy. America, approaching it through the virtues of the sanctity of the individual, Japan through socially engineered 'harmony' ... no matter how superficial. A harmony that does not question authority, and conflates manners with morality, is drilled deep into the subconscious from a young age.
I suppose the best of those above values are possible within families or small communities, but the bureaucratic nation-state? The corporation? The school? Institutionalized religion?
Those on the far end of the spectrum you mentioned appear to be more willing and capable of employing tactics far removed from empathy to create, climb, and capture hierarchies … far removed from what is natural for empathy-driven social primates. And so far out of line, I tend to agree with you that those Towers of Babel eventually collapse under their own corrupt weight. My worry is that one of these collapses may bring our species down with it.
Caste. And change.
I still have Isobel Wilkerson's book on hold, partially because I can forget my place in Japan, and nurture a sense of community here.
I agree with you about humans, but I tend to think along lines of a bell curve … with maybe 2 or 3 standard deviations of the tails, the angels’ and ‘demons’ among us.
Me?
Quick.
Gullible.
And too slow in following your call for ’next’. You, and the very small group we have in common, are laying out a map as clear as day. And here I sit, still looking for true north, terminally waiting to begin my journey. 😅
Hugs and cheers Kathleen
p.s. Ooo, ooo, ooo! Another Oz parody popped up in my YouTube feed!
Short and sweet ... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cZCtLMep3Qg
"Oops. Feeling an information-dump coming on." ha ha!
Oh, Carlin. "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." His relevance and brilliance, brighter all the time.
So many illusions and forms of the caste system on display, including the notion of a 'chosen' people and we are watching the end result of that insanity in live time.
The US has never lived up to its marketing hype, but the belief in its creation story was good fuel for a long time. We just have to recognize when values have been hijacked and we are being played. The move towards centralized everything, towards control is more obvious than ever, so agree human values work at community levels - as soon as you lost a say in your own life, they are reduced to concepts.
I think what's different going forward and why we can't look at history to gauge that, is the change in cosmic frequencies which are flooding our planet, (triggering more earthquakes right now) and their effect on us as electromagnetic beings. Seeing through the illusions is possible in a way it hasn't been for a very long time. Our physiology changes, and what we can perceive, how we are naturally plugged in directly, telepathy, self-healing, all these things come back online as it were.
We have been sleeping, and lots of people are shedding the energies that allowed that. It's going to be tough. The learning curve is super steep now. If you've been handing all your decisions over and walking through the world without any self-reflection or deep questioning... really tough.
The blinders are coming off. Mindlessly traversing the tracks already laid down won't be an option much longer.
As the big structures fall (I believe they will) and individuals are faced with choices about all the things they gave away, they'll either implode under fear and confusion, or they'll come into themselves. They'll have no choice but to get 'here'. I don't know other options, but I suppose we'll find out.
I had this waking-dream once about life on this planet a long long time ago. It was so incredibly beautiful, so spacious and heightened in aliveness, so real and connected that I burst into tears after it. The memory of that possibility opened up a remembering and subsequent longing. 'Of course, of course, that's how it's meant to be."
Direct-connect knowing is in us. We naturally do it. It's not possible to be outside it, not really. Reality was hijacked. And now Universe has decided it's time to throw this interference and all its crud off. Humans have decided this.
I don't how long that process takes, but I do hold this 'waking-dream' as an inner marker for what's coming. If I'm wrong on that I'll find out eventually.
Likely your true north will find you and you'll just know what to do. Already weaved in.
Thanks for the fun clips! I had no idea how many iterations of Oz were out there.
Hugs and cheers to you, Steve.
PS - I will have to look up the Isobel Wilkerson book - don't know it.
Hi again Kathleen.
And though full of gratitude for the exchange, I can't help but to feel a bit like a time thief, when you could be deep in weeds of your next creation. On the other hand, I hope I can help fuel your next bomb-burst of a post.
What you said about community levels being reduced to abstractions re-ignited my anger at both Facebook and YouTube's excuse for censorship, (and by committing lies by omission, gas-lighting) — punishing or silencing the truth-tellers for 'breaking community standards'. The blunt hubris of that phrasing is infuriating.
Still in a chat with a mutual follower I am only just now getting to know (Elizabeth Schneider, https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/power-outages-and-the-coming-pole/comment/123393314 ... and will toss a frisbee with your name on it to her. She had been working as a project manager for a federally funded mechanical engineering firm, but saw enough of the corruption to testify in court about it. We 'met' under Kyle Young's 'The Secular Heretic' stack about the power outage in Spain and Portugal, with many in comments saying the same as you regarding a change in extra-terrestial 'weather'. I brought her name to your attention because she and I are similarly black-pilled regarding institutional approaches to problem solving, and she reminded me of how so few Americans read books any more. She is coming from a STEM-ish background, and you and Mary more from liberal arts, but all roads are leading to Rome.
That waking dream you had ... reminds me of a couple of experiences I've been putting off writing about, but also about Jill Bolte Taylor's great TED talk. The experience sounds so similar, and so far beyond the reach of the psychopathic imitators ... though A.I. is getting scary close.
I've loved the Judy Garland version of The Wizard of Oz so much, that when I occasionally used it for Comparative Culture classes, I had to make sure to stand at the back of the class so the students wouldn't see my teary eyes. I am such a sucker for the sentimental. And that made those parodies all the more hilarious.
Oh, and I'm sorry for mentioning Isabel (spelling error) Wilkerson out of context. There are so many great writers out there, and I just assumed I'm the only one catching up. I checked her out on Wiki, and was surprised that 'Caste' is not the only book she wrote ... but it is one that has been translated into Japanese, and it was a Japanese friend who brought the book to my attention.
Just past the witching hour in Japan, so heading to bed, hoping True North will find me in a dream, waking or sleeping. You've been a big help in providing maps and a compass.
Hugs Kathleen.
https://youtu.be/QnZ9GI__rEg?si=PQRK610Ha8awL8B1
Thanks, about half way through. Pretty fascinating correlations. "Could be humanity's last invention". They know and they move forward anyway. Because of course they don't want humans on the planet. They will not succeed. Best.
Thanks Kathleen, I found his correlations fascination as well… I meant NOT to be preachy and appreciate you recognizing that aspect but on the whole the technology that is available and what it can/will do?
…was sure a HOLY COW moment…
Yes, it will not succeed.
Agree very much a HOLY COW on where they'd like to take us.
Will Universe/Nature/God intercede via humans who say enough is enough? I have to think so.
I don't know how it all unfolds, but I see a better world post this version. Good to know where our line in the sand is.
Best.