I think it is us - that feeling - we just have so many layers of distortions over it - we often don't access it. But it's always there. More of more of what you experienced coming online I think.
Many of us were given images of 'new age' versions of spirituality that just added on new layers that also have to go. It's that thing or substance and intelligence under all the images.
Acknowledging our literal electromegnetic selves and working with that (Like gratitude will put your heart in coherence with the earth's frequency) - and that love is our essence - is to me, the opposite of putting on a new garb or donning a new personality. It is just what is.
I still give my self full permission to throw out F-bombs, or get angry or call someone an idiot if it's appropriate to the moment. Full-spectrum human. The cool bit is that spectrum is widening and expanding, so we have access to more of who we are. It's really very practical.
Panic is aggravated anxiety. Once a critical threshold has been breached, all stations go on red alert. This could be seen as atrial fibrillation of the nervous system (and in particular of the fight-or-flight response). Fight-or-flight is survival instinct running through our adrenals and autonomic nervous system reflexes. The important point here is that panic requires the fuel of anxiety. And why is anxiety so prevalent in our modern world? Because anxiety, like depression, causes the subconscious mind to lock up and 3D print the future. This explains why puppetmasters seek to corral whole populations into labyrinthine webs of anxiety and depression. The opioid addiction strategy, for example, is fundamental to the building of their matrix infrastructure. Ironic as it sounds, our subconscious finds security in believing the future will play out even in a negative way, because "fixity of the future" rescues the immature mind from the terrors of freedom which can only grow out of uncertainty. It crystallizes fluidity. It houses inner freedom inside safe zones ( which leads on to smart cities). You are asking whether the sub or supra conscious mind can generate a magnificent future instead of a dystopian technocratic hell? Of course it can. This "imaging into being" has to happen if the "The Matrix" is ever to be dissolved in time. But will it happen? Not a given. Everything now hangs in the balance, on a knife edge. And since all knowable forms of matter (as opposed to non-atomic, "dark" matter which generates over 90% of the known universe) are only held together by the electron orbits of atoms which form molecules there is another fundamental illusion that is incarcerating our minds: the primacy of electromagnetism. Electromagnetic energy is NOT what fundamentally informs reality. It is the primary, creative vortex which generates all thought, imagination, love and emotion. These together drive energy into form. Electromagnetism is only froth on the surface. What we are going through is a test to see if we can move into higher dimensions of cognition and release ourselves from the grip of mechanistic-materialistic illusion.
So agree on the strategy used by the would-be controllers. (I'm putting them in the past.)
"Ironic as it sounds, our subconscious finds security in believing the future will play out even in a negative way, because "fixity of the future" rescues the immature mind from the terrors of freedom which can only grow out of uncertainty."
Such a keen insight. Yes, completely agree. Fear of freedom is so in play right now. (Can't not think of Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor)
This "imaging into being" has to happen if the "The Matrix" is ever to be dissolved in time. But will it happen? Not a given. Everything now hangs in the balance, on a knife edge."
So it appears. (Still, somehow I'm confident. Oddly, the more chaotic out there, the more confident I feel. )
I don't think electromagnetic energy is what fundamentally informs reality either. I see it as showing up in the manifest world as a matter of necessity to physical reality - though surely not Source, and I don't claim to understand it.
Well here's to humanity passing that 'test' and expanding out.
“…do infinite beings require reality-frames?” Ha! That would be a no then, it be very limiting. I’ll tell you what though, it’s fun framing different realities depending on how you’re feeling on a particular day. Because as we wear the meat suits, we gotta play by the rules of the physical game and it can still be fun to see how much we and get away with! Life is just a sandlot game in the end, isn’t it?
Pull me out of my narrow existence thinking, Kathleen! Yank me out. Sheesh! I should have read this post first thing in the morning. Instead, I read Caitlin’s Johnstone’s stack about the tanks and I was to paralyzed to read anything else.
Framing realities may be why we come into form even. Structure just goes with physical reality. I'm genuinely asking if we need it. And thinking creating from our infinite selves VS our meat-suit identities would be far more fun and likely reflect our deeper nature and those essential values that flow from them.
Thanks. I've been skipping Caitlin myself lately - though appreciate what she does and how well she does it.
👆love what you say there. Trying to tap into that infinite wisdom and play more often these days.
And agreed about Caitlin. For the last year, I have to brace myself before I go into it and some days I just can’t handle it, especially as well as she does it.
Oct 26·edited Oct 26Liked by Kathleen Devanney. A human.
This is such a gorgeous, important essay, as it airlifts us out of the Matrix to see it from above. Kathleen's question -- do infinite beings require reality-frames -- is absolutely fascinating! My instinct is yes, that we wouldn't be here on Earth if we didn't need that experience. I think of reality-frames as our spines, without which we'd just blob around; their symbiosis is like that between structure and freedom. One can't really exist without the other. My two cents. (And I'm realizing it's very close to what Sounder and Kathleen said, above.)
I so appreciate your conversation about this topic, you two! And I'm also SO grateful for the reminder that fixating on the methods of demolition is far less important than imagining into existence the rebuild. xoxox!
Perfect analogy - the spines. (Which I've heard said are also physical antenna.)
I am hoping that a big gift in the wake of everything that has to go, is the realization that we do create our own frames and structures and we are free to undo them when they no longer work for us. (Rather than without question, adopting to them).
Appreciate the generous and thoughtful comment. :-) xo
Heck yeah! That’s definitely a reality that needs reframing! Let’s talk about how it ought to be instead of, or at least, in addition of, how bad it’s been.
Oct 24·edited Oct 24Liked by Kathleen Devanney. A human.
my reality frame has been destroyed more than once in my lifetime (so far). The first time it happened, it was unsettling and traumatic. This has to do with finding that one's world-view up to this point was inaccurate in some profound way.... a betrayal of trust.... what I thought was the way things were and worked, turned out to be not the case (or important pieces were left out of my knowledge bank).
What to do, then? Well.... wallow a bit, recover, rebuild something more truthful. As this has happened to me more than once (and I am now what we would call "older"), I am so grateful for the wisdom and expansion of belief in what I consider to be reality. I searched madly for the scraps of information that had been omitted, or kept from me, or concealed..... a picture eventually emerged, and what I'm learning is what "infinite" really IS. And, where our power truly lies.
I can definitely see how nefarious beings would want to hide this knowledge. In the wrong hands (as it surely has been, hmmm?) it can be misused for evil ends. But what if we all start to use our power for good? What if it is possible to undo the evil? (what if......?) This is where God comes in.
There's still a lot to learn. And very often, I find I lack the words to describe it.
Yes, that first time is tough, but after awhile we get a feel for it. 'Oh right, this again.' And we know we'll be fine. Mostly cause we actually can't be defined.
I think reality frames are useful, at least until we recognize our infinite nature. Religion is to God as reality frames are to reality. They do not always connect, but they do provide for social cohesion. I will be happy with a reality frame that at least comports more closely with reality. The questions we ask determine how we leverage creativity. How does the small (subtle) become the big (manifest)? Does the field of photons and other emanations from billions of stars for billions of years integrate into our physical world in ways not yet dreamed of? Does consciousness of either our creator or ourselves have a role in putting order to the infinite emanations?
I think they are useful too - and probably part of the deal once we manifest into a physical world. I'm thinking if we first recognize our infinity, from there we will create with more spaciousness that is informed by the insights that come with recognition of that essential identity. The control-like stuff that ego's do would fall away.
I’m with you. The engineer in me, the project manager, the fixer sought to understand the assault elements to develop or apply counter strategies. But as I surveyed the situation, I realized the attack was too multifaceted, with many vectors reinforcing one another. And it’s been underway for centuries directed by entities with more resources and power than any one individual or organically arising group could muster. At best an individual or group may master a couple of vectors but there are more, and those countered have backups, or can be adjusted. Not saying the effort is wasted. Pushback, casting light into dark corners must happen for awareness and truth to prevail. But I’ve radically cut back time spent studying the landscape and seeking counters.
I’ve come to realize the best strategy is awareness, and our innate human qualities are our best defense. Our minds and hearts can summon the light, love, and frequencies to shield us going forward. Synchronicity with nature results in forces more powerful than any arrayed against us, and can shield and repair the physical body and psyche. Technology can be profoundly helpful, however the current value systems are woefully inadequate to realize the potential benefit. Some may choose the trans-human and those attendant frequencies, some may choose the light. And those choices affect a collective energy. As long as beings of light set the boundaries coexistence may be possible. Technological assessments can be more earth centric and humanistic. Not to say that interference won’t happen. Assaults will continue until determined ineffective or counter-productive. But we set the conditions and have control of the outcome.
"Our minds and hearts can summon the light, love, and frequencies to shield us going forward. Synchronicity with nature results in forces more powerful than any arrayed against us, and can shield and repair the physical body and psyche."
Beautifully said and thank you for saying it. I've thought about co-existence with the transhumans - may be inevitable.
As you say, we'll set the boundaries and conditions. Me too. (on pragmatically optimistic.)
A court case happening now in France. A woman's husband, drugged and let men (ages 26-to 70) in to rape her over 10 years. She has insisted it all be made public. To me this reveals a level of self love (hers) standing up to such unconsciousness and darkness. It is most heartening to know this kind of strength of love in real form, real time, waking up.
Thanks for putting to words the tender terrain we are all engaging. Way better than the A.I. version waiting in the wings. or is it crawling along in those hidden places?
Wow what an incredible story - both a hideous expression of the worst of humanity - and out of it - its opposite. I agree, what courage to stand up, and be public. An amazing expression of self-love.
Thank you, Mary. Very Kind.
I don't know but I do know that AI is so freaking boring compared to spontaneous and creative humans. :-)
For some reason, all of a sudden I am feeling the logjam breaking apart, and the power falling away from these people and groups that wish to control us. That power is waning, and it feels like we are beginning to emerge from that fog.
The BRICS summit is showing the world that the U.S. hegemony is failing. And domestically, people are standing up and coming forward to set new examples of independence and freedom.
You know what? I'm feeling the same. Which is why perhaps, the 'show' isn't holding so much of my attention anymore. It's thinning out and not looking all that persuasive.
I love everything about this essay! I believe "Ask and ye shall receive" is a cosmic law, so if you ask, you WILL get the answer you're asking for. Hence, the importance of asking big Utopian questions like "How good can it get?" Thank you for sharing these illuminating ideas.
Kathleen, just now finishing my third reading of this article. First time through I said to myself, "What the hell was that?" Second time, I said: "OK, wait! Maybe I'm almost getting some of it." But I was pretty confused and it made me uncomfortable. I have been listening to Kerry K, the spiritual teacher on youtube, and I thought maybe you had been too. After this third reading which included all the comments this time, I feel less anxiety about all this. It's just that it's so different than anything we've heard or known about before, which seems to be a good thing, right? Definitely better than AI, that's for sure. It is kind of scary though especially for those of us who grew up in such an "either-or", "this way, or no way" kind of world." So now, it seems that it's all open-ended and we can create our own reality going forward. I have so looked forward to freedom, but it's kinda like "be careful what you wish for" because it also comes with a lot of responsibility. I agree though that this "new way" has got to be much better and more exhilarating that the "old way". I'm done with all that too, so bring it on (I think). LOL
Thank you for that honest accounting, Ronnie. I really appreciate that.
There is a genuinely scary thing about letting go of a reality we knew and opening to one we'll create. I get that.
And despite that - I think we're looking at a great opportunity. A better world is coming, might be ugly for a bit, but it's coming. I already know from knowing you, that whatever you do in that creation (or rewriting, as Mary just wrote about) it will be positive.
Thanks, Kathleen. You have always been so understanding and accepting of my questioning and skepticism. "I" really appreciate THAT! I agree, "looking at a great opportunity". Listen to Mama Cass sing the song "A New World is Coming". It's the perfect theme song. https://youtu.be/wwLMRFOt6FI?si=92asTpwckkoLQ5zF
"Reality is most definitely at least as strange as fiction." The difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to make sense, and fact doesn't. Which is what makes it tricky to deal with facts. So asking a question like 'how good can it get?' is a good idea.
We've already been 'chipped' (via school, culture, money-as-debt, vaxxes, media, consumerism) and again, asking the question 'how good can it get?' is a good exercise of our Free Will.
Thank you as always! I recently wrote in my journal “in the seeing I do the weaving”. When things hurl at me from the screen (or in outer “reality” as I recently experienced hurricane Helene) I know I have the power to perceive it, then weave it to “how good can it get”. It’s certainly a fine line between spiritual bypassing and actively creating but I’m working it everyday. Every day I wonder why so many dystopia narratives and films and hardly any utopias? We’ve got so much GREAT cocreating ahead of us with nature and humanity.🌸🙏
Love your comment and wow - how was your experience with Helene? I still can't get over some of the images and stories out there.
Yeah there is a lot of bypassing that goes on in 'spiritual' communities that's a total turn-off for me. Though I think that understanding is also falling away and something more grounded will show up.
We do have a lot ahead to look forward to.!! Best to you.
The darker energies always try to pull us back. Living with light and love has to be done intentionally, with discipline, connected to the Source by prayer (relationship to it), the Guidebook (Bible), and experience (nature). We can't make a one-time decision in other words, it has to be worked and worked, but if enough people do it, there is less dark to pull us back. Tween/teen version of this is due out soon I hope!
And genuine seeking will always find a path. Many ways to discover that still and silent place that refuels, opens, calms and informs. I'm good with whatever works for whoever. :-)
Exciting about your book! Keep me posted please. I know it's a labor of love for you. ❤️
Some synchronicity seems to be in the air. The following relevant video popped up in my YouTube feed yesterday, bringing me to a greater appreciation of the Socratic paradox, "all I know is that I know nothing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVMKl44B1v0
FYI - did watch this and enjoyed their discussion. Must be many of us are coming to same general conclusions about now.
There is something deeply unreal about our world and dilemma -maybe enough of that veil has thinned that we are feeling some underlying remembrance, that in fact, all is deeply well.
Though still keeping a low profile on my homepage, working on a book-review if not translation of a new Japanese book written by anonymous employees of a company tagged, and justifiably reluctant, to sell Replicon, the Japanese mRNA.
What a worthy endeavor, Steve. I've read about that self replicating, repulsive replicon. (It's all in the name, isn't it? -cold-blooded and reptile-like comes to mind. )
I use to mistake love, for joy. When I felt love for the first time, I didn't even know what it was.
What is this? Where did it come from? Why do I feel this for this person?
When it hits you it's the best feeling in the universe.
Thanks 420MM.
I think it is us - that feeling - we just have so many layers of distortions over it - we often don't access it. But it's always there. More of more of what you experienced coming online I think.
Many of us were given images of 'new age' versions of spirituality that just added on new layers that also have to go. It's that thing or substance and intelligence under all the images.
Acknowledging our literal electromegnetic selves and working with that (Like gratitude will put your heart in coherence with the earth's frequency) - and that love is our essence - is to me, the opposite of putting on a new garb or donning a new personality. It is just what is.
I still give my self full permission to throw out F-bombs, or get angry or call someone an idiot if it's appropriate to the moment. Full-spectrum human. The cool bit is that spectrum is widening and expanding, so we have access to more of who we are. It's really very practical.
Appreciate your reading and commenting! Best.
Panic is aggravated anxiety. Once a critical threshold has been breached, all stations go on red alert. This could be seen as atrial fibrillation of the nervous system (and in particular of the fight-or-flight response). Fight-or-flight is survival instinct running through our adrenals and autonomic nervous system reflexes. The important point here is that panic requires the fuel of anxiety. And why is anxiety so prevalent in our modern world? Because anxiety, like depression, causes the subconscious mind to lock up and 3D print the future. This explains why puppetmasters seek to corral whole populations into labyrinthine webs of anxiety and depression. The opioid addiction strategy, for example, is fundamental to the building of their matrix infrastructure. Ironic as it sounds, our subconscious finds security in believing the future will play out even in a negative way, because "fixity of the future" rescues the immature mind from the terrors of freedom which can only grow out of uncertainty. It crystallizes fluidity. It houses inner freedom inside safe zones ( which leads on to smart cities). You are asking whether the sub or supra conscious mind can generate a magnificent future instead of a dystopian technocratic hell? Of course it can. This "imaging into being" has to happen if the "The Matrix" is ever to be dissolved in time. But will it happen? Not a given. Everything now hangs in the balance, on a knife edge. And since all knowable forms of matter (as opposed to non-atomic, "dark" matter which generates over 90% of the known universe) are only held together by the electron orbits of atoms which form molecules there is another fundamental illusion that is incarcerating our minds: the primacy of electromagnetism. Electromagnetic energy is NOT what fundamentally informs reality. It is the primary, creative vortex which generates all thought, imagination, love and emotion. These together drive energy into form. Electromagnetism is only froth on the surface. What we are going through is a test to see if we can move into higher dimensions of cognition and release ourselves from the grip of mechanistic-materialistic illusion.
So agree on the strategy used by the would-be controllers. (I'm putting them in the past.)
"Ironic as it sounds, our subconscious finds security in believing the future will play out even in a negative way, because "fixity of the future" rescues the immature mind from the terrors of freedom which can only grow out of uncertainty."
Such a keen insight. Yes, completely agree. Fear of freedom is so in play right now. (Can't not think of Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor)
This "imaging into being" has to happen if the "The Matrix" is ever to be dissolved in time. But will it happen? Not a given. Everything now hangs in the balance, on a knife edge."
So it appears. (Still, somehow I'm confident. Oddly, the more chaotic out there, the more confident I feel. )
I don't think electromagnetic energy is what fundamentally informs reality either. I see it as showing up in the manifest world as a matter of necessity to physical reality - though surely not Source, and I don't claim to understand it.
Well here's to humanity passing that 'test' and expanding out.
Thanks for your insightful comment - Best.
Cheers. Here's to that positive outcome.
“…do infinite beings require reality-frames?” Ha! That would be a no then, it be very limiting. I’ll tell you what though, it’s fun framing different realities depending on how you’re feeling on a particular day. Because as we wear the meat suits, we gotta play by the rules of the physical game and it can still be fun to see how much we and get away with! Life is just a sandlot game in the end, isn’t it?
Pull me out of my narrow existence thinking, Kathleen! Yank me out. Sheesh! I should have read this post first thing in the morning. Instead, I read Caitlin’s Johnstone’s stack about the tanks and I was to paralyzed to read anything else.
Agree Tonika.
Framing realities may be why we come into form even. Structure just goes with physical reality. I'm genuinely asking if we need it. And thinking creating from our infinite selves VS our meat-suit identities would be far more fun and likely reflect our deeper nature and those essential values that flow from them.
Thanks. I've been skipping Caitlin myself lately - though appreciate what she does and how well she does it.
👆love what you say there. Trying to tap into that infinite wisdom and play more often these days.
And agreed about Caitlin. For the last year, I have to brace myself before I go into it and some days I just can’t handle it, especially as well as she does it.
This is such a gorgeous, important essay, as it airlifts us out of the Matrix to see it from above. Kathleen's question -- do infinite beings require reality-frames -- is absolutely fascinating! My instinct is yes, that we wouldn't be here on Earth if we didn't need that experience. I think of reality-frames as our spines, without which we'd just blob around; their symbiosis is like that between structure and freedom. One can't really exist without the other. My two cents. (And I'm realizing it's very close to what Sounder and Kathleen said, above.)
I so appreciate your conversation about this topic, you two! And I'm also SO grateful for the reminder that fixating on the methods of demolition is far less important than imagining into existence the rebuild. xoxox!
Thank you Mary.
Perfect analogy - the spines. (Which I've heard said are also physical antenna.)
I am hoping that a big gift in the wake of everything that has to go, is the realization that we do create our own frames and structures and we are free to undo them when they no longer work for us. (Rather than without question, adopting to them).
Appreciate the generous and thoughtful comment. :-) xo
Heck yeah! That’s definitely a reality that needs reframing! Let’s talk about how it ought to be instead of, or at least, in addition of, how bad it’s been.
100%
my reality frame has been destroyed more than once in my lifetime (so far). The first time it happened, it was unsettling and traumatic. This has to do with finding that one's world-view up to this point was inaccurate in some profound way.... a betrayal of trust.... what I thought was the way things were and worked, turned out to be not the case (or important pieces were left out of my knowledge bank).
What to do, then? Well.... wallow a bit, recover, rebuild something more truthful. As this has happened to me more than once (and I am now what we would call "older"), I am so grateful for the wisdom and expansion of belief in what I consider to be reality. I searched madly for the scraps of information that had been omitted, or kept from me, or concealed..... a picture eventually emerged, and what I'm learning is what "infinite" really IS. And, where our power truly lies.
I can definitely see how nefarious beings would want to hide this knowledge. In the wrong hands (as it surely has been, hmmm?) it can be misused for evil ends. But what if we all start to use our power for good? What if it is possible to undo the evil? (what if......?) This is where God comes in.
There's still a lot to learn. And very often, I find I lack the words to describe it.
Thanks, Dani.
Yes, that first time is tough, but after awhile we get a feel for it. 'Oh right, this again.' And we know we'll be fine. Mostly cause we actually can't be defined.
I think you found those words very nicely. :-)
Thanks so much for comment. Best to you.
I think reality frames are useful, at least until we recognize our infinite nature. Religion is to God as reality frames are to reality. They do not always connect, but they do provide for social cohesion. I will be happy with a reality frame that at least comports more closely with reality. The questions we ask determine how we leverage creativity. How does the small (subtle) become the big (manifest)? Does the field of photons and other emanations from billions of stars for billions of years integrate into our physical world in ways not yet dreamed of? Does consciousness of either our creator or ourselves have a role in putting order to the infinite emanations?
I think they are useful too - and probably part of the deal once we manifest into a physical world. I'm thinking if we first recognize our infinity, from there we will create with more spaciousness that is informed by the insights that come with recognition of that essential identity. The control-like stuff that ego's do would fall away.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Sounder. Best.
I loved this! Of course! Goes right with my daughter Cassandra's question: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/whats-the-best-that-can-happen?
I thought of that when writing it. Yes, same idea. Thanks, T! xo
That was my first thought, too!
I’m with you. The engineer in me, the project manager, the fixer sought to understand the assault elements to develop or apply counter strategies. But as I surveyed the situation, I realized the attack was too multifaceted, with many vectors reinforcing one another. And it’s been underway for centuries directed by entities with more resources and power than any one individual or organically arising group could muster. At best an individual or group may master a couple of vectors but there are more, and those countered have backups, or can be adjusted. Not saying the effort is wasted. Pushback, casting light into dark corners must happen for awareness and truth to prevail. But I’ve radically cut back time spent studying the landscape and seeking counters.
I’ve come to realize the best strategy is awareness, and our innate human qualities are our best defense. Our minds and hearts can summon the light, love, and frequencies to shield us going forward. Synchronicity with nature results in forces more powerful than any arrayed against us, and can shield and repair the physical body and psyche. Technology can be profoundly helpful, however the current value systems are woefully inadequate to realize the potential benefit. Some may choose the trans-human and those attendant frequencies, some may choose the light. And those choices affect a collective energy. As long as beings of light set the boundaries coexistence may be possible. Technological assessments can be more earth centric and humanistic. Not to say that interference won’t happen. Assaults will continue until determined ineffective or counter-productive. But we set the conditions and have control of the outcome.
I’m pragmatically optimistic.
"Our minds and hearts can summon the light, love, and frequencies to shield us going forward. Synchronicity with nature results in forces more powerful than any arrayed against us, and can shield and repair the physical body and psyche."
Beautifully said and thank you for saying it. I've thought about co-existence with the transhumans - may be inevitable.
As you say, we'll set the boundaries and conditions. Me too. (on pragmatically optimistic.)
Thank you for the great comment, Mike. Cheers.
A court case happening now in France. A woman's husband, drugged and let men (ages 26-to 70) in to rape her over 10 years. She has insisted it all be made public. To me this reveals a level of self love (hers) standing up to such unconsciousness and darkness. It is most heartening to know this kind of strength of love in real form, real time, waking up.
Thanks for putting to words the tender terrain we are all engaging. Way better than the A.I. version waiting in the wings. or is it crawling along in those hidden places?
Wow what an incredible story - both a hideous expression of the worst of humanity - and out of it - its opposite. I agree, what courage to stand up, and be public. An amazing expression of self-love.
Thank you, Mary. Very Kind.
I don't know but I do know that AI is so freaking boring compared to spontaneous and creative humans. :-)
Appreciate the comment. Best.
Perfectly said, Kathleen!
For some reason, all of a sudden I am feeling the logjam breaking apart, and the power falling away from these people and groups that wish to control us. That power is waning, and it feels like we are beginning to emerge from that fog.
The BRICS summit is showing the world that the U.S. hegemony is failing. And domestically, people are standing up and coming forward to set new examples of independence and freedom.
I am very encouraged!
Love this comment, Philip.
You know what? I'm feeling the same. Which is why perhaps, the 'show' isn't holding so much of my attention anymore. It's thinning out and not looking all that persuasive.
I'm glad to read this. A good reflection for me.
Thank you. Best.
I love everything about this essay! I believe "Ask and ye shall receive" is a cosmic law, so if you ask, you WILL get the answer you're asking for. Hence, the importance of asking big Utopian questions like "How good can it get?" Thank you for sharing these illuminating ideas.
So kind! Thank you, Alicen.
And yeah, I love that question and have been daily testing it out. So far, so good. :-)
Thank you for your stack, too. Mutual appreciation.
Kathleen, just now finishing my third reading of this article. First time through I said to myself, "What the hell was that?" Second time, I said: "OK, wait! Maybe I'm almost getting some of it." But I was pretty confused and it made me uncomfortable. I have been listening to Kerry K, the spiritual teacher on youtube, and I thought maybe you had been too. After this third reading which included all the comments this time, I feel less anxiety about all this. It's just that it's so different than anything we've heard or known about before, which seems to be a good thing, right? Definitely better than AI, that's for sure. It is kind of scary though especially for those of us who grew up in such an "either-or", "this way, or no way" kind of world." So now, it seems that it's all open-ended and we can create our own reality going forward. I have so looked forward to freedom, but it's kinda like "be careful what you wish for" because it also comes with a lot of responsibility. I agree though that this "new way" has got to be much better and more exhilarating that the "old way". I'm done with all that too, so bring it on (I think). LOL
Thank you for that honest accounting, Ronnie. I really appreciate that.
There is a genuinely scary thing about letting go of a reality we knew and opening to one we'll create. I get that.
And despite that - I think we're looking at a great opportunity. A better world is coming, might be ugly for a bit, but it's coming. I already know from knowing you, that whatever you do in that creation (or rewriting, as Mary just wrote about) it will be positive.
Exciting time to be alive. xoxo Best to you!
Thanks, Kathleen. You have always been so understanding and accepting of my questioning and skepticism. "I" really appreciate THAT! I agree, "looking at a great opportunity". Listen to Mama Cass sing the song "A New World is Coming". It's the perfect theme song. https://youtu.be/wwLMRFOt6FI?si=92asTpwckkoLQ5zF
You just gotta love Mama Cass, right?
I'd say Mama Cass was running a little ahead of time! And yeah, I love her.
And what a voice.
Thank you for that retro-moment that's also part of our future. :-)
"Reality is most definitely at least as strange as fiction." The difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to make sense, and fact doesn't. Which is what makes it tricky to deal with facts. So asking a question like 'how good can it get?' is a good idea.
We've already been 'chipped' (via school, culture, money-as-debt, vaxxes, media, consumerism) and again, asking the question 'how good can it get?' is a good exercise of our Free Will.
Thanks Joshua. So true, so many ways to enslave... Appreciate the comment - best.
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You crack me up, David
Spiritual energy off the charts? Sounds like an-a-we-so-me-prob-lem!
I look forward to reading your post.
Thank you and best wishes coming your way. :-)
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Thank you as always! I recently wrote in my journal “in the seeing I do the weaving”. When things hurl at me from the screen (or in outer “reality” as I recently experienced hurricane Helene) I know I have the power to perceive it, then weave it to “how good can it get”. It’s certainly a fine line between spiritual bypassing and actively creating but I’m working it everyday. Every day I wonder why so many dystopia narratives and films and hardly any utopias? We’ve got so much GREAT cocreating ahead of us with nature and humanity.🌸🙏
So kind of you Kimberly.
Love your comment and wow - how was your experience with Helene? I still can't get over some of the images and stories out there.
Yeah there is a lot of bypassing that goes on in 'spiritual' communities that's a total turn-off for me. Though I think that understanding is also falling away and something more grounded will show up.
We do have a lot ahead to look forward to.!! Best to you.
The darker energies always try to pull us back. Living with light and love has to be done intentionally, with discipline, connected to the Source by prayer (relationship to it), the Guidebook (Bible), and experience (nature). We can't make a one-time decision in other words, it has to be worked and worked, but if enough people do it, there is less dark to pull us back. Tween/teen version of this is due out soon I hope!
Agree on the intention bit and need to sustain.
And genuine seeking will always find a path. Many ways to discover that still and silent place that refuels, opens, calms and informs. I'm good with whatever works for whoever. :-)
Exciting about your book! Keep me posted please. I know it's a labor of love for you. ❤️
Hi Kathleen.
Some synchronicity seems to be in the air. The following relevant video popped up in my YouTube feed yesterday, bringing me to a greater appreciation of the Socratic paradox, "all I know is that I know nothing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVMKl44B1v0
Cheers!
FYI - did watch this and enjoyed their discussion. Must be many of us are coming to same general conclusions about now.
There is something deeply unreal about our world and dilemma -maybe enough of that veil has thinned that we are feeling some underlying remembrance, that in fact, all is deeply well.
Thanks Steve.
I actually saw this video in my ever mysterious youtube cue- and was curious about it. Appreciate the nudge.
Cheers back!
My pleasure Kathleen.
Though still keeping a low profile on my homepage, working on a book-review if not translation of a new Japanese book written by anonymous employees of a company tagged, and justifiably reluctant, to sell Replicon, the Japanese mRNA.
In the meantime, been involved with some good coversations with Depswah and another rabbit hole of a thread (with A.) deep in comments weaving in and out your theme ... https://ponerology.substack.com/p/dead-inside/comments#comment-73732647
No rest for the wicked, so I'm back to work ...
Keep up the good fight!
What a worthy endeavor, Steve. I've read about that self replicating, repulsive replicon. (It's all in the name, isn't it? -cold-blooded and reptile-like comes to mind. )
More like 'no rest from the wicked'.
I wish you luck and will check out the comments.
Best.
Got only 3 hours sleep last night. Maybe something's in the air.
Was catching up on some reads and found another deep dive in substack that parallels what you've tapped into ... https://www.mindprison.cc/p/the-cartesian-crisis/comments, Long, so I have only skimmed it so far.
B'night again, I hope. 😴