I always have wondered what if language/words never occurred in our evolution as humans? When we speak about 'sensing' we say sight/taste/hearing/touch/smell.....but we do not 'say' or 'speak' to the 'voice' or language/words as being sensory. But truly our voice is the vibration of emotionality coming forth from or corporal body form. Words and language can vibrate in a most loving way or utilized as a 'weapon'. Her words were like daggers to my very Soul. Her words graced my Heart with such feelings of Beauty and Joy I could barely contain my Soul from dancing! I LOVED this share so much as it speaks to the part of me that knows and recognizes Truth. Thank you!!
Very interesting article. I think my favourite part was scapegoating. Perhaps because it was the easiest for me to understand. Also the last section, Spirituality vs. scholastic religion. I think dogmatic religion might be a better term, basically religions where one is discouraged from questioning anything about the religion. That got me to thinking right now, if religion is just a person's set of beliefs, we would all have one. And I think it goes without saying that we tend to not question what we believe. I think you may have brought this up in your essay when you said: "Doing internal work, on the other hand, comes with discomforts and takes one to the land of the unknown, the land where there are no familiar talking point to latch on to."
All of this makes me think of a passage from one of Frank Herbert's Dune books: ""Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes." It makes me think of the definitions of words, another concept you brought up and how in the end, the best path forward with words whose definitions are contentious are to simply do one's best to define how we ourselves define these words and leave it at that. Frank Herbert ends his passage on truth with this: "The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.” I love words, but I think in the end, they're like writing on water. They create ripples that can have great effects but we tend to forget how things started. Which I think is fine. This all makes me think of a line from Inception: "Well, dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up that we realise something was actually strange." To the strangeness of life :-)
nice triple synchronicity essay for me today! my current essay is looking at this same idea from a different perspective. my exploration has become unexpectedly complex and more personal as i dig into 'superstition' as one of the (dogmatic) psy-op words from various angles. and that somehow began to link itself to the dogma of new age woo-woo that creates serious disconnect and lots of intellectualised talking points disguised as feel good mind-centric spirituality goo-goo (as in radio-goo goo radio gaga https://youtu.be/azdwsXLmrHE). and tonight my friend and i talked about 'god', however that is conceived between us, as energy.
and another fascinating overlap came from my reading jasun horsley's really interesting look at 'story' and 'scapegoating', with how it has been used and applied to the story of the wwii holocaust. i think you may find it worth while. (i certainly did.) "The Wound of the Negative: History Written by the Victims: Stories We Tell Ourselves, or Stories We Are Ourselves, Part 14" https://childrenofjob.substack.com/p/the-wound-of-the-negative-history
oh! yes. your metaphors work and your analysis is sharp, imo, meaning that they align with my own observations with my own slightly different language. muchas gracias.
" When sincere people in the “resistance” attribute the great reset to this fantastical beast, the so called “darkness of paganism,” is it the actual pagans that they are thinking about—or the artificial ghost created by the globalist great resetters from a couple thousand years ago? "
This. Also, your last few paragraphs.
I am thinking of writing an article about this -- in particular, of the pitfall of using previously-established organized (indoctrinating) religion as a worthwhile opposition to the current evils at hand. On other Substacks I read, particularly in the comments, I notice a great groundswell of voices calling for a "return to Christianity" and Christian values. Among these voices, a GREAT many -- perhaps the majority -- believe sincerely that anything even sniffing of Paganism is part of the Great Reset and an instant ticket to Satanism. These individuals praise Jesus Christ, their -- and this is key -- Lord and *savior* -- for giving them strength.
I am in full agreement that, as you say, "whether people call God by the name of “God,” or “Jesus,” or “Bog” (the Russian word for “God”), or Allah (the Arabic word for “God”) ... they are calling for the same God, and the Creator is intelligent enough to feel our hearts." However, while I am certain that the highest Creator does indeed hear their calls, I am not so sure that they themselves recognize that there is no difference in the name used. The Human need to have an external savior is obviously deep-rooted; otherwise, so many would not have fallen for the great savior of The Science (tm) to deliver them from the evil of the COVID boogeyman. I am concerned that the continued reliance on the external savior of Christ is a potential pitfall in the truly holy battle for freedom -- not because there is anything inherently wrong with Christ Himself, but because the continued dependence on a single source of information (the Holy Bible) opens the door for external sources (manipulators) to offer their own dangerous interpretations of the Word (which is, let's face it, not always the most loving document, either, if read cover-to-cover). The same goes for any organized religion that requires others to interpret the written Word.
I would never, EVER ask anyone to abandon his or spiritual beliefs; that is not my purpose. My purpose is, instead, to ask those who are currently without a spiritual mooring to *question* whether or not joining the rank-and-file of Christianity -- or another organized group -- is really going to help the cause of true freedom and resistance to indoctrination. The pendulum swings both ways; it is currently so far to the left that I fear that, when it does swing back, rather than passing through the middle it may swing directly overhead and smack us all so hard from the right that we don't know what hit us.
This opening salvo is breaking ground that is unique, rich, and rare.
This right here, brilliant:
"This story is an attempt to explain with some precision why talking points—all talking points—are a poisonous cage for a free soul. I will also try to show how they are used as a weapon, to confuse and enslave."
One gets ones hopes raised, thus, one imagines leaving the cage of "ALL talking points" to get to the meadow beyond talking points, but not behind language.
"I am writing this essay strictly from the inside, which means that what I am saying is going to safely and decisively bypass all familiar talking points!. There is no titillation or reinforcement of preexisting talking points that is going to happen in this post. :) "
And then….when the writer/guide get to the part of all people of all faiths ("religions") being in some way possessed (para phrasing) this reader felt a familiar faint inner startle, not a "blow" exactly, but a "talking point," for sure. That of Paganism appreciators. Just as certain of the wrongness of the others as all other Talking Points and I-Am-Right-ism.
Still, you had us clearing the clouds for most of the piece and I do think you are writing fascinatingly about AI, language, spiritism. You are fighting robots, yes.
Except for….one.
My Jewish father, close to the end of his life, said, when we discussed Jesus:
"He's helped more people than any other person who has ever lived."
I thought that was generous, and accurate. And I love love love accuracy.
" Helped " people, one might say, who can't ever know the "truth" about his life, his death, his mystery. Still, they were helped.
Anyway, fantastic work as always Tessa. I hope you keep writing about language and spirit, living language…like any other living life form. Many stunning passages in this essay.
once again i'm reminded of that old paul harvey clip about what he would do if he was the devil.
first thing i'd do if i was the devil is i'd try to convince everyone that i was the truth, the light and the way. and if that worked i'd be really ambitious and build out the cage, get everyone to trade a lifetime of slavery for the promise of escape.
of course you'd say that i was completely insane. and you'd be right.
Tessa... Thanks for your voice and for sharing your life with us as you do. I am certain that many here can echo similar experiences and discoveries and you provide a community for sharing those things. From the moment of conception we appear to enter this world encased in an artificial construct originating from generational human experience, societal/cultural fabrications, and real world material limitations. We are blinded in many ways from the time we are born until we pass on to the next plane. Sadly, revelation - awakening - freeing ones self from our encumbrances seems to require significant trauma. Universe provides that trauma in the level that we individually need, it appears. I do not begin to understand any of this, but being past 70 now I cling to Charles Fort's words:
"The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint."
I just read The Spirit of Intimacy(Into-me-see) by Sobonfu Some. What a gift she was as she past at age 48 I think it was, of drinking polluted water for most of her life
Yep language obfuscates or creates false impressions.
That's why a lot of science today is actually a religion, scientism.
We believe in things "proven" that are actually not proven.
Later we figure out a little more of the truth because the so called truth tellers were full of bullshit.
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
Generally speaking, only people who haven't experienced war (or violent crime, war on the micro-level so to speak) on their own porch /fear/ a potential enemy, and what they fear isn't really the enemy as such but losing their comfortable and safe lifestyle, earned or not matters not nor does the causal chain resulting in a war.
People who have experienced war (or violent crime) generally /hate/ war and are determined (not fearful) to stop the enemy, preferably by removing reasons for conflict as long as the removal-process isn't harmful to them, as individuals or a collective.
Americans have never, this side of 1900, experienced war at home (neither has Sweden, which is why there are so many parallels to draw upon for me). For Soviet-Russia, especially during the post-Great Patriotic War era, I think it probable that there wasn't a single family that hadn't lost people in the war. Fear for a new war, perhaps, but not fear of the enemy, only determination. Same with the afghans - their history is nothing but war, with foreigners and each other. Same with palestinian arabs - constant war of extermination against the jews since 1948, and internecine clan wars among arabs before colonialisation brought a brief period of relative peace.
And so on around the world. That is part of the socio-psychological reason (as well as the spiritual one) why the West is in such dire straits now: war has become an abstraction, something distant happening elsewhere and something affecting virtually no-one except the actual soldiers (and the people being brought peace, liberty and democratic capitalism via shock and awe (aka death from above)).
That is also why this war of words works - everything, almost everything is abstract for the vast majority, and you the individual matters not to the Machine Society: you're replaceable by another flesh-drone, being equal in worth and dignity to all other flesh-drones. Your food is a packet with flashing clashing colours. Your drink much the same. Your leisure-time consists of trying to trigger jaded senses and blasé sensibilities, and your spirit languishes in a menage á troi with ennui and anomie.
The door is open. Leaving the Machine is possible. But the choice must be freely made because the cost - spiritual and material - is your entire previous existence with no guarantee of success, pleasure, or anything at all but a moment of clarity and a single breath of free air.
I made that choice almost a decade ago now. Hasn't been easy, never will be. Materially speaking, we get by on 1/4 of what we used to earn. Ain't easy.
Spiritually? I can't put words to it. Listen to 'Also Spracht Zarathustra' or 'De Neuvième' - those pieces expresses the feeling so much better.
Completely OT:
PS: What kind of a mousetrap is that? The mouse is in no danger - the hook on the triggering rod makes it impossible for the trap to snap shut. Did you pick it for that purpose, trying to say something by way of a visual kenning? DS
I always have wondered what if language/words never occurred in our evolution as humans? When we speak about 'sensing' we say sight/taste/hearing/touch/smell.....but we do not 'say' or 'speak' to the 'voice' or language/words as being sensory. But truly our voice is the vibration of emotionality coming forth from or corporal body form. Words and language can vibrate in a most loving way or utilized as a 'weapon'. Her words were like daggers to my very Soul. Her words graced my Heart with such feelings of Beauty and Joy I could barely contain my Soul from dancing! I LOVED this share so much as it speaks to the part of me that knows and recognizes Truth. Thank you!!
Very interesting article. I think my favourite part was scapegoating. Perhaps because it was the easiest for me to understand. Also the last section, Spirituality vs. scholastic religion. I think dogmatic religion might be a better term, basically religions where one is discouraged from questioning anything about the religion. That got me to thinking right now, if religion is just a person's set of beliefs, we would all have one. And I think it goes without saying that we tend to not question what we believe. I think you may have brought this up in your essay when you said: "Doing internal work, on the other hand, comes with discomforts and takes one to the land of the unknown, the land where there are no familiar talking point to latch on to."
All of this makes me think of a passage from one of Frank Herbert's Dune books: ""Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes." It makes me think of the definitions of words, another concept you brought up and how in the end, the best path forward with words whose definitions are contentious are to simply do one's best to define how we ourselves define these words and leave it at that. Frank Herbert ends his passage on truth with this: "The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.” I love words, but I think in the end, they're like writing on water. They create ripples that can have great effects but we tend to forget how things started. Which I think is fine. This all makes me think of a line from Inception: "Well, dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up that we realise something was actually strange." To the strangeness of life :-)
hola, tessa.
nice triple synchronicity essay for me today! my current essay is looking at this same idea from a different perspective. my exploration has become unexpectedly complex and more personal as i dig into 'superstition' as one of the (dogmatic) psy-op words from various angles. and that somehow began to link itself to the dogma of new age woo-woo that creates serious disconnect and lots of intellectualised talking points disguised as feel good mind-centric spirituality goo-goo (as in radio-goo goo radio gaga https://youtu.be/azdwsXLmrHE). and tonight my friend and i talked about 'god', however that is conceived between us, as energy.
and another fascinating overlap came from my reading jasun horsley's really interesting look at 'story' and 'scapegoating', with how it has been used and applied to the story of the wwii holocaust. i think you may find it worth while. (i certainly did.) "The Wound of the Negative: History Written by the Victims: Stories We Tell Ourselves, or Stories We Are Ourselves, Part 14" https://childrenofjob.substack.com/p/the-wound-of-the-negative-history
oh! yes. your metaphors work and your analysis is sharp, imo, meaning that they align with my own observations with my own slightly different language. muchas gracias.
thank you.
I love being a composite cloud of energies
A Canadian Grandma
Thank You, Sister Tessa.
The Word Is Not The Thing.
A fundamental layer of mind-control is inserted when people are convinced that the word is the thing.
Words carry subtle innuendo and inherent assumptions about reality.
When certain words are accepted as "real", they lead to foregone conclusions.
When "God" is the word, and "God's Commandments" are written down, tyranny is empowered.
The "Law of Love" is not that way.
;-)
" When sincere people in the “resistance” attribute the great reset to this fantastical beast, the so called “darkness of paganism,” is it the actual pagans that they are thinking about—or the artificial ghost created by the globalist great resetters from a couple thousand years ago? "
This. Also, your last few paragraphs.
I am thinking of writing an article about this -- in particular, of the pitfall of using previously-established organized (indoctrinating) religion as a worthwhile opposition to the current evils at hand. On other Substacks I read, particularly in the comments, I notice a great groundswell of voices calling for a "return to Christianity" and Christian values. Among these voices, a GREAT many -- perhaps the majority -- believe sincerely that anything even sniffing of Paganism is part of the Great Reset and an instant ticket to Satanism. These individuals praise Jesus Christ, their -- and this is key -- Lord and *savior* -- for giving them strength.
I am in full agreement that, as you say, "whether people call God by the name of “God,” or “Jesus,” or “Bog” (the Russian word for “God”), or Allah (the Arabic word for “God”) ... they are calling for the same God, and the Creator is intelligent enough to feel our hearts." However, while I am certain that the highest Creator does indeed hear their calls, I am not so sure that they themselves recognize that there is no difference in the name used. The Human need to have an external savior is obviously deep-rooted; otherwise, so many would not have fallen for the great savior of The Science (tm) to deliver them from the evil of the COVID boogeyman. I am concerned that the continued reliance on the external savior of Christ is a potential pitfall in the truly holy battle for freedom -- not because there is anything inherently wrong with Christ Himself, but because the continued dependence on a single source of information (the Holy Bible) opens the door for external sources (manipulators) to offer their own dangerous interpretations of the Word (which is, let's face it, not always the most loving document, either, if read cover-to-cover). The same goes for any organized religion that requires others to interpret the written Word.
I would never, EVER ask anyone to abandon his or spiritual beliefs; that is not my purpose. My purpose is, instead, to ask those who are currently without a spiritual mooring to *question* whether or not joining the rank-and-file of Christianity -- or another organized group -- is really going to help the cause of true freedom and resistance to indoctrination. The pendulum swings both ways; it is currently so far to the left that I fear that, when it does swing back, rather than passing through the middle it may swing directly overhead and smack us all so hard from the right that we don't know what hit us.
Good morning Tessa (Spirit Guide).
www.Next Level Soul podcast, host Alex Ferrari.
www.AnimalSpirit.org. (Anna Breytenbach).
www.AnimalTalk.net (Penelope Smith).
Living in a Artificial Culture, where everything is artificial. Artificiality………No Spirituality...
Maybe I could write a better comment. But that would take time from the rereading. Tata Love (now I know)
Nice one.
I started worrying about the validity my own perception of the world going all the way back in high school.
Yes, I was that weird introverted kid ;)
This opening salvo is breaking ground that is unique, rich, and rare.
This right here, brilliant:
"This story is an attempt to explain with some precision why talking points—all talking points—are a poisonous cage for a free soul. I will also try to show how they are used as a weapon, to confuse and enslave."
One gets ones hopes raised, thus, one imagines leaving the cage of "ALL talking points" to get to the meadow beyond talking points, but not behind language.
"I am writing this essay strictly from the inside, which means that what I am saying is going to safely and decisively bypass all familiar talking points!. There is no titillation or reinforcement of preexisting talking points that is going to happen in this post. :) "
And then….when the writer/guide get to the part of all people of all faiths ("religions") being in some way possessed (para phrasing) this reader felt a familiar faint inner startle, not a "blow" exactly, but a "talking point," for sure. That of Paganism appreciators. Just as certain of the wrongness of the others as all other Talking Points and I-Am-Right-ism.
Still, you had us clearing the clouds for most of the piece and I do think you are writing fascinatingly about AI, language, spiritism. You are fighting robots, yes.
Except for….one.
My Jewish father, close to the end of his life, said, when we discussed Jesus:
"He's helped more people than any other person who has ever lived."
I thought that was generous, and accurate. And I love love love accuracy.
" Helped " people, one might say, who can't ever know the "truth" about his life, his death, his mystery. Still, they were helped.
Anyway, fantastic work as always Tessa. I hope you keep writing about language and spirit, living language…like any other living life form. Many stunning passages in this essay.
once again i'm reminded of that old paul harvey clip about what he would do if he was the devil.
first thing i'd do if i was the devil is i'd try to convince everyone that i was the truth, the light and the way. and if that worked i'd be really ambitious and build out the cage, get everyone to trade a lifetime of slavery for the promise of escape.
of course you'd say that i was completely insane. and you'd be right.
You put so much thought and care into what you write, it is a joy to read.
Tessa... Thanks for your voice and for sharing your life with us as you do. I am certain that many here can echo similar experiences and discoveries and you provide a community for sharing those things. From the moment of conception we appear to enter this world encased in an artificial construct originating from generational human experience, societal/cultural fabrications, and real world material limitations. We are blinded in many ways from the time we are born until we pass on to the next plane. Sadly, revelation - awakening - freeing ones self from our encumbrances seems to require significant trauma. Universe provides that trauma in the level that we individually need, it appears. I do not begin to understand any of this, but being past 70 now I cling to Charles Fort's words:
"The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint."
I just read The Spirit of Intimacy(Into-me-see) by Sobonfu Some. What a gift she was as she past at age 48 I think it was, of drinking polluted water for most of her life
Yep language obfuscates or creates false impressions.
That's why a lot of science today is actually a religion, scientism.
We believe in things "proven" that are actually not proven.
Later we figure out a little more of the truth because the so called truth tellers were full of bullshit.
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
Alphabet vs the goddess lecture by Leonard Shlain
https://robc137.substack.com/p/alphabet-vs-the-goddess
Generally speaking, only people who haven't experienced war (or violent crime, war on the micro-level so to speak) on their own porch /fear/ a potential enemy, and what they fear isn't really the enemy as such but losing their comfortable and safe lifestyle, earned or not matters not nor does the causal chain resulting in a war.
People who have experienced war (or violent crime) generally /hate/ war and are determined (not fearful) to stop the enemy, preferably by removing reasons for conflict as long as the removal-process isn't harmful to them, as individuals or a collective.
Americans have never, this side of 1900, experienced war at home (neither has Sweden, which is why there are so many parallels to draw upon for me). For Soviet-Russia, especially during the post-Great Patriotic War era, I think it probable that there wasn't a single family that hadn't lost people in the war. Fear for a new war, perhaps, but not fear of the enemy, only determination. Same with the afghans - their history is nothing but war, with foreigners and each other. Same with palestinian arabs - constant war of extermination against the jews since 1948, and internecine clan wars among arabs before colonialisation brought a brief period of relative peace.
And so on around the world. That is part of the socio-psychological reason (as well as the spiritual one) why the West is in such dire straits now: war has become an abstraction, something distant happening elsewhere and something affecting virtually no-one except the actual soldiers (and the people being brought peace, liberty and democratic capitalism via shock and awe (aka death from above)).
That is also why this war of words works - everything, almost everything is abstract for the vast majority, and you the individual matters not to the Machine Society: you're replaceable by another flesh-drone, being equal in worth and dignity to all other flesh-drones. Your food is a packet with flashing clashing colours. Your drink much the same. Your leisure-time consists of trying to trigger jaded senses and blasé sensibilities, and your spirit languishes in a menage á troi with ennui and anomie.
The door is open. Leaving the Machine is possible. But the choice must be freely made because the cost - spiritual and material - is your entire previous existence with no guarantee of success, pleasure, or anything at all but a moment of clarity and a single breath of free air.
I made that choice almost a decade ago now. Hasn't been easy, never will be. Materially speaking, we get by on 1/4 of what we used to earn. Ain't easy.
Spiritually? I can't put words to it. Listen to 'Also Spracht Zarathustra' or 'De Neuvième' - those pieces expresses the feeling so much better.
Completely OT:
PS: What kind of a mousetrap is that? The mouse is in no danger - the hook on the triggering rod makes it impossible for the trap to snap shut. Did you pick it for that purpose, trying to say something by way of a visual kenning? DS