All so true, and so real. If it's self-censorship, it's bad. But if it's intelligent moderation, it may not be. It seems like you saved a friendship and were close to even having a rare breakthrough. On the other hand, I'd like to think I moderated how I engaged with my friends who "don't want to know" but it got me nowhere with most of them and when I inevitably began to speak unreservedly, it burned what remaining bridges there were. So, while I wish it could have been different, I can't really regret it either. I now choose to speak freely and unreservedly whenever I see an opening and to avoid situations where this is not 'allowed'. Spiritually, this is a better place to be, I think.
I am in the exact same place at the moment so thank you Kathleen. The only difference is, I saw the big picture (Operation Paperclip 2.0) early on, decades in health care plus some years in patents and trademarks (shout out to Dr David Martin) gave me an added perspective on what was really afoot with the pandemic psyop and then finding CAF and her brilliance at explaining the financial coup d'etat started in the 90's pulled lots together quickly in 2020-21 and I ran around my life soundingthe fire alarm wherever ai could believing whole heartedly I was saving lives, not simply my own. And as everyone on this thread already knows, some firsthand, it backfired spectacularly and I was abandoned by all, even by the most beloved of relatives.
The one statement from someone I had a 20+ year friendship with that still haunts and hurt the most is "Well, I hope 'YOUR truth' keeps you safe." Never heard from them again and they last year declined our sons wedding invite even though they had known him and claimed to love him since birth.
It does make you question your own morality, discernment, intelligence, intentions, ability to walk on eggshells without crushing and ultimately your self-worth. I deeply miss every.single.one. of those relationships that colored my life beautiful and blessed prior to 2019. But now I view them all as part of the Illusion I too once believed in.
A friend is not someone we are friendly with- its someone who has your back, and compassionately, patiently, selflessly shares the journey with you even when they are looking at a different map.
What a heart-breaking story with your friend. Sadly, I can relate. Let's hope some of them pop out of the illusion soon. Learning curve is getting steeper by the day.
I lost several good friends due to cov-psyop too. I feel sad at times but not regret for standing up. Completely unable to "go along to get along" since childhood.
Good example that upon pulling one thread we find the roots of fascism go very deep. Especially in the universe of the public private partnerships of corporate culture.
Yes we are fortunate to have a long view of the roots of this so we can recognize and reject the deal being offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Yes amen. TRUTH for millions of us. Thank you. ♥️ I have experienced something very similar. My twin has also. I am so thankful we are on the same exact page. There is GREAT comfort in numbers.
As you can see Kathleen, my twin is up earlier than me 😀
Thank you for this message. It’s something that I struggle with in case I am ever asked. But honestly, I don’t think that will EVER happen. My asleep friends either don’t ask me any questions or avoid me altogether. Thank God for my sister!
Leslie and I always laugh and say, “how about that pumpkin spiced latte!” We will never forget that you wrote that! 😂😂😂
Just butting in this lovely discussion to proclaim I have twins and the connection these kind of sibling relationships hold is priceless. As an only child, I am super jelly.
The twins are pretty self sufficient at twelve. It’s the toddler that’s a handful. Having children after 40 is not the same as when you’re 30... you got three boys as well, right? How have you been managing and so eloquently putting your thoughts down with such grace and patience? Or have your children been helpful in building up those qualities?
Kathleen, I'm so moved by your honesty and self-reflection in this piece. I found many of your internal questions mirrored my own as I navigated relationships throughout the past 3 years, and re-living them through your essay was both painful and enlightening. Thank you for providing a space for that kind of internal work. Each of us is navigating uncharted waters, for sure, and I believe our unique ways of dealing with friends and family are all valid.
One thought: I agree wholeheartedly that the doubt and guilt are manufactured externally, and that our essential self doesn't even KNOW what those things are, but I also think that they are survival mechanisms, designed to keep us safe within the bosom of the tribe -- which makes shaking them off very, very difficult.
I loved this piece, and am grateful to you for writing it. xox
This is a very, very, fine piece. To be honest, I don't have any covid-believers left in my life anymore, no matter how long I was friends with them. It's just not worth it. I'm in Australia and the government nearly hit every stage of Stanton's 10 stages of genocide against the unvaccinated and they fell for it hook, line and sinker. The unvaccinated are family now. None of them have showed up and apologised. I won't die waiting. https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/australian-genocide-in-progress
Thank you. Yes, Australia has been tough to watch from a distance, so I can only imagine what it's been like for you. Thanks for the link - I'll check it out. Best.
To be honest, there is a sense that the worst is yet to come. All the pieces are in place for a wallop and very soon. Please don't forget about us - we are the bell weather for the rest of the world and some of us fought like hell in the streets. Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones mentioned us and that meant a lot. https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/gates-meets-with-australian-pm-to
I don't think 'they' are done in terms of trying more of the same. They will, and it's really all they have. It's not working. Can't work. Some of them know that and would like to bail so I imagine a lot of infighting going on too.
I do think they are done in the larger sense despite their desperate attempts.
Is there a particular point you made or fact you shared that you think is giving you this sense? Something you said you're unsure of? Or is it that you answered your friend's question very open-ended question as broadly and as fully as you did?
You impress me as someone with enormous sensitivity, compassion, patience, so I can only imagine that when your friend asked you what you thought, you expressed it -- thoughtfully, patiently, factually. I say bravo to her for finally asking and bravo to you for giving her the gift of your informed and honest opinion.
No, I don't think that's it at all. I think the sense of doubt and guilt is manufactured and has been absorbed. It's not from me - in my essential self - it's been given to me. Startling to see that really.
Thank you - for your generous words. And yes, I give my friend credit for pushing past her comfort zone and asking.
This piece reflects something I've pondered on often-all the many ways we've been taught, shown, lead, pressured, and on and on to not trust our SELF. So many layers to the teasing out of those false narratives we carry. When you think about it starting as babies and every system we are/were exposed to reinforcing this message-you don't know, ask someone else, don't trust you self-it's likely remarkable every time we recover what we do know, that we do know. Excellent flushing out and sharing one of those threads. Thank you!
Thanks, Mary. I had a feeling you would you appreciate this piece. Sometimes the layers feel a bit endless don't they? And that makes sense, being born into this Truman Show world. What is life gonna be like once all that is shed? I think really, really Good. Best.
On a Leo Hohnman article on ICD-10 coding to identify undone, partially done patients, a comment I saw from one lady, Rachel said she recently found she’d been given classification as ‘schysotypal’ as an ICD-10 code.
Where this is going:
1. What with many doctors both in Germany, and Canada being declared mentally ill as not conforming to The Narrative.
2. the Holocaust survivor composer also being declared mentally I’ll and ordered into a psychiatric hospital to get done without her consent.
My sister has kept calling me crazy for even telling her of what has been published about WHO and WEF plans. Not once but 4 times in two days. But I’m also a bully for saying she’s ignorant of geopolitical maneuvering? I’m ignorant of physics and chemistry!
Once declared with a psychiatric label for any reason (ex: complex grief) it sticks forever. But my liver failure diagnosis WAS removed!
They are labelling our noncompliance as evidence of psychiatric disturbance. Those of us who’ve seen through the deception are the 30% who did not comply in the Asch and Milgram experiments. Those that comply the most are also the easiest to hypnotize and be manipulated by NLP and nudge applied Behavioural psychology.
But that will not stop them labelling us all as crazy. Remember Boo Radley and how they treated him as a societal pariah?
The propaganda has most people in line for the freaks to siphon the financial surplus and more (like blood). Freaking vampires.
Its rather easy to watch as the train bears down the tracks, what is seemingly hard is to just move off the tracks.
The post was insight into your motional state, don't be hard on yourself. I focus on what I need to do not what others ought to think. The good people will come around sooner or later.
This was a very relatable essay. I've been there before - I think anyone with heterodox beliefs, in this highly controlled age, has experienced this hesitation to speak, and the sense of having transgressed by being too honest, having done something dirty and wrong. There's a fine line between exercising the discretion necessary to navigate the mindraped social landscape, and self-censoring because there's still a part of you that wonders: what if they're right? What if you're the crazy one? After all, so many people disagree....
Yes. Very familiar with those feelings of having transgressed by saying too much and being dirty and wrong for it. 9/11 comes to mind.
What I was trying to bring light to is more like a wiggling worm (as TFish referenced in a comment) that finds its way in via the nonstop broadcasting; some invisible web of frequencies. Or maybe just a finer layer I'm only now hitting having moved through many others?
(I pretty much assume I don't have all the details on Reality Show World correct, but I'm never tempted to think normie world is 'right' either. Not for decades.)
9/11 is indeed a good example. Interestingly that became a lot less controversial over the years. Time was people would freak out at the intimation that it was an inside job, even at the LIHOP level. Now they just sort of shrug, "Yeah, maybe." OTOH I don't get nearly as worked up about it either. It's like the Kennedy assassination. Historical distance produces emotional distance.
This is a phenomena (among others) I find odd and disturbing. For sure, time takes the sting out of things, but that's not really the same as a willingness to roll with treachery and murder when it finally dawns on you that's what happened. I kept thinking, 9/11 - that will surely eventually get through and... no. Then there was a turning point, where the rejection of it being an Op kinda dulled, and a vague acceptance that it might have been one came in, but no corresponding wave of outrage.
Maybe- it's a deeper thing happening. Like the reality-show-world is being seen through by enough people now that the 'life and death' narrative carries less weight. (And even that framing is limited.) Or, maybe it's overwhelm;(how many things can we be in outrage over at once?) or it reflects humanity's slow erosion - via so many slings and arrows over time - the dulled reaction is more a matter of being disconnected and so underwelmed by everything. IDK.
I'm a bit more optimistic. It's hard to be angry about something that happened over two decades in the past. However, as acceptance that 9/11 was a false flag op spreads, it makes future ops less likely to succeed.
Take COVID. Yes, they successfully turned the world upside down. On the other hand pushback by regime skeptics was immediate, increased in intensity over time, and ultimately forced the regime to back down far short of where they wanted to be at this point. I suspect that two decades of things like 9/11 Truth percolating through the collective unconscious had something to do with that.
Oof, I needed to read this today. I imagine any friend of yours with sense in their head and not too proud would be circling back around to fix the tears in your relationship. I so wish I can have these kinds of conversations with friends who walked out of my life. To get over it, I keep telling myself it was for the better, that if they didn’t want to give me the time of day, what kind of friends were they really, but it still hurts. I invested so much time, energy, effort and patience in cultivating those relationships, how easy it was for them to discard me. It made the ones that stuck around, even more dear. And you know something? There are people who I’ve never met in real life that I consider closer friends than I did those that I’ve known for decades. The litmus test of the importance of individual freedom is now a shortcut to insta trust and connection.
That's a sweet thought on friends circling back. I hope to see more of that soon. Yeah, so much disillusionment with old friends; it does continue to hurt.
RE: "The litmus test of the importance of individual freedom is now a shortcut to insta trust and connection." So true.
I count you among my new friends, Tonika. So appreciate you.
It’s a seeming never-ending web, isn’t it? Even though we personally discover truths, uncover deceptions, conduct out own research, or just trust our instincts, that worm is always there,wiggling it’s way through our consciousness.
The conditioning is deep, and I think it’s more than just avoiding controversy or upset. It’s certain topics, certain kinds of questions that seem more strongly inhibited—to speak of or to listen to. And not just the adults, the children too. I have noticed, however, that the younger the mind is encouraged to question supposed-unpopular topics, the more resilient they are when facing social devaluing.
Re "It’s a seeming never-ending web..." it does feel that way sometimes, yes.
So true, with young minds - permission, permission, permission to explore early, must make a difference. (I credit my mother with an exceptionally open mind, which she certainly cultivated in her kids.)
Thanks TFish- I always appreciate your insightful comments.
Thanks Kathleen for sharing that story, I have experienced similar feelings. Some people are so tied to their opinion, view, belief that they take it as a personal attack if you express a different opinion. Sensing this we often pull back if we value the friendship and don't won't to rock the boat.
All so true, and so real. If it's self-censorship, it's bad. But if it's intelligent moderation, it may not be. It seems like you saved a friendship and were close to even having a rare breakthrough. On the other hand, I'd like to think I moderated how I engaged with my friends who "don't want to know" but it got me nowhere with most of them and when I inevitably began to speak unreservedly, it burned what remaining bridges there were. So, while I wish it could have been different, I can't really regret it either. I now choose to speak freely and unreservedly whenever I see an opening and to avoid situations where this is not 'allowed'. Spiritually, this is a better place to be, I think.
I am in the exact same place at the moment so thank you Kathleen. The only difference is, I saw the big picture (Operation Paperclip 2.0) early on, decades in health care plus some years in patents and trademarks (shout out to Dr David Martin) gave me an added perspective on what was really afoot with the pandemic psyop and then finding CAF and her brilliance at explaining the financial coup d'etat started in the 90's pulled lots together quickly in 2020-21 and I ran around my life soundingthe fire alarm wherever ai could believing whole heartedly I was saving lives, not simply my own. And as everyone on this thread already knows, some firsthand, it backfired spectacularly and I was abandoned by all, even by the most beloved of relatives.
The one statement from someone I had a 20+ year friendship with that still haunts and hurt the most is "Well, I hope 'YOUR truth' keeps you safe." Never heard from them again and they last year declined our sons wedding invite even though they had known him and claimed to love him since birth.
It does make you question your own morality, discernment, intelligence, intentions, ability to walk on eggshells without crushing and ultimately your self-worth. I deeply miss every.single.one. of those relationships that colored my life beautiful and blessed prior to 2019. But now I view them all as part of the Illusion I too once believed in.
A friend is not someone we are friendly with- its someone who has your back, and compassionately, patiently, selflessly shares the journey with you even when they are looking at a different map.
Beautifully said, Kate.
What a heart-breaking story with your friend. Sadly, I can relate. Let's hope some of them pop out of the illusion soon. Learning curve is getting steeper by the day.
Best.
For me, the unvaccinated are my friends and family now. Only they really get it.
I lost several good friends due to cov-psyop too. I feel sad at times but not regret for standing up. Completely unable to "go along to get along" since childhood.
Good for you! Who know that characteristic would save your life one day.😊
Good example that upon pulling one thread we find the roots of fascism go very deep. Especially in the universe of the public private partnerships of corporate culture.
Thank. you KW! Yeah, those fuckers know how to get in deep. Fortunately, we're 'deeper'. Best.
Yes we are fortunate to have a long view of the roots of this so we can recognize and reject the deal being offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
I am a ball of rage today and your post calmed me down a bit. That is quite a skill. Anyone who knows me would congratulate you! xx
Oh, I know those days, Frances! Glad to be of help.🙏
🙏 truth. For millions of us.
Thanks, Aaron. Best.
Yes amen. TRUTH for millions of us. Thank you. ♥️ I have experienced something very similar. My twin has also. I am so thankful we are on the same exact page. There is GREAT comfort in numbers.
So true. And our numbers are growing. Best.
As you can see Kathleen, my twin is up earlier than me 😀
Thank you for this message. It’s something that I struggle with in case I am ever asked. But honestly, I don’t think that will EVER happen. My asleep friends either don’t ask me any questions or avoid me altogether. Thank God for my sister!
Leslie and I always laugh and say, “how about that pumpkin spiced latte!” We will never forget that you wrote that! 😂😂😂
Well hello twins!
My sisters and I often say the same - thank God we have each other!
RE pumpkin lattes. That makes me smile.😘
Just butting in this lovely discussion to proclaim I have twins and the connection these kind of sibling relationships hold is priceless. As an only child, I am super jelly.
Super "jelly" is super adorable. Where do you find the time, mom of twins, to create such beautiful content? So impressive.
The twins are pretty self sufficient at twelve. It’s the toddler that’s a handful. Having children after 40 is not the same as when you’re 30... you got three boys as well, right? How have you been managing and so eloquently putting your thoughts down with such grace and patience? Or have your children been helpful in building up those qualities?
Kathleen, I'm so moved by your honesty and self-reflection in this piece. I found many of your internal questions mirrored my own as I navigated relationships throughout the past 3 years, and re-living them through your essay was both painful and enlightening. Thank you for providing a space for that kind of internal work. Each of us is navigating uncharted waters, for sure, and I believe our unique ways of dealing with friends and family are all valid.
One thought: I agree wholeheartedly that the doubt and guilt are manufactured externally, and that our essential self doesn't even KNOW what those things are, but I also think that they are survival mechanisms, designed to keep us safe within the bosom of the tribe -- which makes shaking them off very, very difficult.
I loved this piece, and am grateful to you for writing it. xox
Thanks, Mary - that's a very interesting insight/thought on the survival mechanism. Hmm... hadn't considered that. Makes a lot of sense to me.
I loved your last piece as well!
https://marypoindextermclaughlin.substack.com/p/a-story-we-need
This is a very, very, fine piece. To be honest, I don't have any covid-believers left in my life anymore, no matter how long I was friends with them. It's just not worth it. I'm in Australia and the government nearly hit every stage of Stanton's 10 stages of genocide against the unvaccinated and they fell for it hook, line and sinker. The unvaccinated are family now. None of them have showed up and apologised. I won't die waiting. https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/australian-genocide-in-progress
Thank you. Yes, Australia has been tough to watch from a distance, so I can only imagine what it's been like for you. Thanks for the link - I'll check it out. Best.
To be honest, there is a sense that the worst is yet to come. All the pieces are in place for a wallop and very soon. Please don't forget about us - we are the bell weather for the rest of the world and some of us fought like hell in the streets. Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones mentioned us and that meant a lot. https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/gates-meets-with-australian-pm-to
I don't think 'they' are done in terms of trying more of the same. They will, and it's really all they have. It's not working. Can't work. Some of them know that and would like to bail so I imagine a lot of infighting going on too.
I do think they are done in the larger sense despite their desperate attempts.
Thanks for the link - will check it out.
Is there a particular point you made or fact you shared that you think is giving you this sense? Something you said you're unsure of? Or is it that you answered your friend's question very open-ended question as broadly and as fully as you did?
You impress me as someone with enormous sensitivity, compassion, patience, so I can only imagine that when your friend asked you what you thought, you expressed it -- thoughtfully, patiently, factually. I say bravo to her for finally asking and bravo to you for giving her the gift of your informed and honest opinion.
No, I don't think that's it at all. I think the sense of doubt and guilt is manufactured and has been absorbed. It's not from me - in my essential self - it's been given to me. Startling to see that really.
Thank you - for your generous words. And yes, I give my friend credit for pushing past her comfort zone and asking.
Ah! I see now. Thank you.
This piece reflects something I've pondered on often-all the many ways we've been taught, shown, lead, pressured, and on and on to not trust our SELF. So many layers to the teasing out of those false narratives we carry. When you think about it starting as babies and every system we are/were exposed to reinforcing this message-you don't know, ask someone else, don't trust you self-it's likely remarkable every time we recover what we do know, that we do know. Excellent flushing out and sharing one of those threads. Thank you!
Thanks, Mary. I had a feeling you would you appreciate this piece. Sometimes the layers feel a bit endless don't they? And that makes sense, being born into this Truman Show world. What is life gonna be like once all that is shed? I think really, really Good. Best.
On a Leo Hohnman article on ICD-10 coding to identify undone, partially done patients, a comment I saw from one lady, Rachel said she recently found she’d been given classification as ‘schysotypal’ as an ICD-10 code.
Where this is going:
1. What with many doctors both in Germany, and Canada being declared mentally ill as not conforming to The Narrative.
2. the Holocaust survivor composer also being declared mentally I’ll and ordered into a psychiatric hospital to get done without her consent.
My sister has kept calling me crazy for even telling her of what has been published about WHO and WEF plans. Not once but 4 times in two days. But I’m also a bully for saying she’s ignorant of geopolitical maneuvering? I’m ignorant of physics and chemistry!
I also know that I am unable to remove the diagnoses of depression and anxiety even they were caused by untreated hypothyroidism. Even though the organic psychiatric effects are well known and their improvement with adequate Levothyroxine. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/hypothyroidism-important-diagnostic-consideration-psychiatrist
Once declared with a psychiatric label for any reason (ex: complex grief) it sticks forever. But my liver failure diagnosis WAS removed!
They are labelling our noncompliance as evidence of psychiatric disturbance. Those of us who’ve seen through the deception are the 30% who did not comply in the Asch and Milgram experiments. Those that comply the most are also the easiest to hypnotize and be manipulated by NLP and nudge applied Behavioural psychology.
But that will not stop them labelling us all as crazy. Remember Boo Radley and how they treated him as a societal pariah?
We, the awake, are all Boo Radley now.
They can label us all they want - the truth will out.
And maybe Catherine Fitts is right, the best strategy for next few years will be "duck and cover."
Tyranny can't succeed - it never does. And more people are seeing then ever.
Boo Radley seemed a nice guy to me. Best.
The propaganda has most people in line for the freaks to siphon the financial surplus and more (like blood). Freaking vampires.
Its rather easy to watch as the train bears down the tracks, what is seemingly hard is to just move off the tracks.
The post was insight into your motional state, don't be hard on yourself. I focus on what I need to do not what others ought to think. The good people will come around sooner or later.
Thanks. Yeah, I agree - good people will come around. Best.
Thank you for sharing these hard-won insights and self-reflections.
Thanks, Gary.
This was a very relatable essay. I've been there before - I think anyone with heterodox beliefs, in this highly controlled age, has experienced this hesitation to speak, and the sense of having transgressed by being too honest, having done something dirty and wrong. There's a fine line between exercising the discretion necessary to navigate the mindraped social landscape, and self-censoring because there's still a part of you that wonders: what if they're right? What if you're the crazy one? After all, so many people disagree....
Asch conformity effect is a bitch.
Yes. Very familiar with those feelings of having transgressed by saying too much and being dirty and wrong for it. 9/11 comes to mind.
What I was trying to bring light to is more like a wiggling worm (as TFish referenced in a comment) that finds its way in via the nonstop broadcasting; some invisible web of frequencies. Or maybe just a finer layer I'm only now hitting having moved through many others?
(I pretty much assume I don't have all the details on Reality Show World correct, but I'm never tempted to think normie world is 'right' either. Not for decades.)
Thanks.
9/11 is indeed a good example. Interestingly that became a lot less controversial over the years. Time was people would freak out at the intimation that it was an inside job, even at the LIHOP level. Now they just sort of shrug, "Yeah, maybe." OTOH I don't get nearly as worked up about it either. It's like the Kennedy assassination. Historical distance produces emotional distance.
Vaxx etc. seems to be following a similar path.
This is a phenomena (among others) I find odd and disturbing. For sure, time takes the sting out of things, but that's not really the same as a willingness to roll with treachery and murder when it finally dawns on you that's what happened. I kept thinking, 9/11 - that will surely eventually get through and... no. Then there was a turning point, where the rejection of it being an Op kinda dulled, and a vague acceptance that it might have been one came in, but no corresponding wave of outrage.
Maybe- it's a deeper thing happening. Like the reality-show-world is being seen through by enough people now that the 'life and death' narrative carries less weight. (And even that framing is limited.) Or, maybe it's overwhelm;(how many things can we be in outrage over at once?) or it reflects humanity's slow erosion - via so many slings and arrows over time - the dulled reaction is more a matter of being disconnected and so underwelmed by everything. IDK.
I'm a bit more optimistic. It's hard to be angry about something that happened over two decades in the past. However, as acceptance that 9/11 was a false flag op spreads, it makes future ops less likely to succeed.
Take COVID. Yes, they successfully turned the world upside down. On the other hand pushback by regime skeptics was immediate, increased in intensity over time, and ultimately forced the regime to back down far short of where they wanted to be at this point. I suspect that two decades of things like 9/11 Truth percolating through the collective unconscious had something to do with that.
Good point.
I like optimistic where grounded - I prefer your take. Let's go with that! 👍
Oof, I needed to read this today. I imagine any friend of yours with sense in their head and not too proud would be circling back around to fix the tears in your relationship. I so wish I can have these kinds of conversations with friends who walked out of my life. To get over it, I keep telling myself it was for the better, that if they didn’t want to give me the time of day, what kind of friends were they really, but it still hurts. I invested so much time, energy, effort and patience in cultivating those relationships, how easy it was for them to discard me. It made the ones that stuck around, even more dear. And you know something? There are people who I’ve never met in real life that I consider closer friends than I did those that I’ve known for decades. The litmus test of the importance of individual freedom is now a shortcut to insta trust and connection.
Heartfelt and beautiful, this essay, thank you.
That's a sweet thought on friends circling back. I hope to see more of that soon. Yeah, so much disillusionment with old friends; it does continue to hurt.
RE: "The litmus test of the importance of individual freedom is now a shortcut to insta trust and connection." So true.
I count you among my new friends, Tonika. So appreciate you.
Ditto, Kathleen! 🤗
It’s a seeming never-ending web, isn’t it? Even though we personally discover truths, uncover deceptions, conduct out own research, or just trust our instincts, that worm is always there,wiggling it’s way through our consciousness.
The conditioning is deep, and I think it’s more than just avoiding controversy or upset. It’s certain topics, certain kinds of questions that seem more strongly inhibited—to speak of or to listen to. And not just the adults, the children too. I have noticed, however, that the younger the mind is encouraged to question supposed-unpopular topics, the more resilient they are when facing social devaluing.
I suppose it’s like a muscle: use it or lose it.
Re "It’s a seeming never-ending web..." it does feel that way sometimes, yes.
So true, with young minds - permission, permission, permission to explore early, must make a difference. (I credit my mother with an exceptionally open mind, which she certainly cultivated in her kids.)
Thanks TFish- I always appreciate your insightful comments.
The power of open-minded parenting! Thanks for your writing 🙏🏽
💞 😊
Thanks Kathleen for sharing that story, I have experienced similar feelings. Some people are so tied to their opinion, view, belief that they take it as a personal attack if you express a different opinion. Sensing this we often pull back if we value the friendship and don't won't to rock the boat.
Yes and I don't think there's a formula. Many people will still wake up, and the connection will be important. Thanks for comment.