Wow, I could not have said this better myself, and I have thought just this for quite some time. I did a review of Desmet's book, and loved it. (see my substack if you want to read it) I am a psychologist myself, and found his explanation of "mass formation" to be a very elegant and logical description. Sure, it can be elaborated on, and described differently (a good friend of mine Dr Mark McDonald calls it "mass delusional psychosis"...sure, that works too!)
Never did I see, or even get the impression, that Desmet was blaming the masses for the world disorder we are now seeing. I do not understand why he was accused of that. And now the heinous ad hominem coming down the pike is ludicrous and only dangerous.
So your assessment of all of this in your article is brilliant...thank you for writing it!!
I agree with your comment. I read Desmet's book as well and found it easy to understand and beautifully written. And, like you, never understood it to say that he was blaming the victims. In my perspective, he attempted to explain how people can be fooled at times even when we believe otherwise. I also read Dr. Breggin's book early in the Covidian nonsense and found it eye-opening along with RFK Jr's Book about Fauci. I don't understand Breggin's response and find it disturbing coming from someone who I believed had more wisdom than is being demonstrated.
In an interviews with Bret Weinstein, Desmet suggested that the mass formation was on "both sides" , that in fact those calling out the WEF and other globalist elites were manifesting their own "conspiracy-based" mass formation, as if there is some equivalency in dysfunctional thinking between the two sides. I was floored when I heard this...and this is what Breggin, Catherine Austin Fitts, and CJ Hopkins are critiquing him for. Because there absolutely is no equivalency! Still I think both sides need to be discussing and clarifying this issue.
I really appreciate your ego-transcending style of applying the healing mind/spirit. So often people start arguing before sympathetically listening and fully understanding the other person’s point of view. It is as though they are not setting out to try to establish accord. Instead it can seem like they are trying to prove that they know more and understand more than another person and therefore are justified in pushing them away. Also, as it heats up , they get in a hurry to dismiss the other instead of slowing down and “ironing out” all those “wrinkles” which are at least three dimensional and require at least a 5-axis machining iron with very finely nuanced pressure adjustments to properly contact the curving surfaces involved to produce a final true agreement that takes all stresses into account. The “missionary mind” you speak of needs to be understood and retired in favor of the “healing mind” that you have so freshly described.
Thanks for sharing this link, Rylan. I watched the interview and it helped me understand and appreciate why they feel so strongly that Desmet's analysis is problematic.
I didn’t say I consider Desmet’s analysis problematic, I said understood why they would, particularly Dr. Breggin, given his experience with taking on the Big Pharma power structure and his critique of psychoanalysis, but also Fitts, who went to battle against the DC power structure. They expressed concern that Desmet’s focus on evolving personally would steer people away from taking actions that may make all the difference in turning things around.
I didn’t read Desmet’s book but have heard several interviews, and I found him very insightful, although I noticed he didn’t seem aware of actual conspiracies at play. I also questioned his using the term “hypnosis” to describe what’s happened to people. It’s not my understanding of the word, having experienced it a few times.
I agree with Tessa that it’s not possible or desirable for everyone to agree on everything, and that being open to all ideas, aware that we are all trying to find truth and the way forward, and we’re all at different places in the journey. People, beliefs, ideas and realities are constantly evolving, and the more tolerant toward one another, the better.
To parse out the claim of Desmet"s perceived creation of Mass Formation not being totally sponaneous, can you please provide an example or link? Thnaks in advance
consider how we are nurtured/positioned to choose between an either/or as our supreme authority...
such that our commander in chief is then tasked with the protection of society's wellbeing from the small percentage of society which tends to be the more psychopathic types, so protection that is being blindly dependent upon to handle this task...
then what happens if 5% or so who are by nature the psychopathic types having the ability to turn toward the darkness/evil thru dark nurture say another 15% and thus succeed in throwing out the good commander...
as in what happens if the good commander is replaced behind the facade of an either/or bogus choice between two evil commanders, all this while the 80% who are basically good people are blindly trusting so have no clue what the 5% are up to...
such that what Desmet is focusing on is walking up the 80% such that we don't blindly buy into this darkness, which is nurturing us, the 80%, to become a victim of a mass formation that leads us to be blind to this...
that, otherwise, if our focus is solo on the dark players and limited to a focus on a bogus either/or choice of who our commander and chief is, then at best we will engage in a never-ending game of wack-a-mole as a few represented as dark players are ceremoniously sacrificed for show as the darkness has its way with us...
that tweet OMG! A military commander explaining how the group structured thinking of a military battalion under his command operates and obeys. We aren't military units but it's obvious there's a caste of elitists who see all of humanity as soldiers to step into line, keep formation and die in the trenches for their wars.
Appreciate your reply. Bit of a convoluted take on what Patrick Wood cleanly explained by saying 2% of people are in charge because they know what is going on, then 8% of people think something is going on but know it's being kept from them, and the last 90% of people don't know what's going on and would rather die than find out.
All leadership roles (supreme authorities?) attract and reward individuals that exhibit psychopathic traits & act in a sociopathic manner - much like a really large cross-border mega corporation does.
And it's a contradiction that Mattias claims to want to reach the 80% that are under mass formation psychosis when mass formation psychosis needs everything he describes in the pathology of Mass Formation for it to exist.
The projection of the split must mask against, distance from a targeted displacement, such as to perceive ITSELF threatened and justified in its 'defences'.
There are conflicts and fallacies of thought set in the mind prior to the development of rational thought and self-differentiation that set the basic strategy of adpatation and survival of a world that is not OUT there - for we see according to a past we look through - so in truth do we in fact see? or are we engaged in mass displacements running as if reality by nature of mutually triggered patterns that re-enact past trauma?
Current politics makes for very strange bedfellows. We can all understand mass formation because we are all capable of it. There but for the grace of god.
I agree, I admire Desmet a great deal and cannot understand these people, like CJ Hopkins, who are obsessed with knocking him down. They either don't get it, which seems unlikely since we're talking about highly intelligent people, or they have some terrible reason for doing this. It's not good either way. Desmet is right on the money and has been for a good while now.
I happen to respect the work of all parties involved, and I don't have to agree with every single one of them on every single issue, which is impossible... it's just that.... we can honestly focus on what we believe to be important and let others do same. We will have the time to argue about terminology once we stop the 4G, if we can stop it..
Blaming is the activity of the 'redistribution' of guilt - not unlike a mix of musical chairs and pass the parcel but as a parcel no one wants to be holding in case the 'music stops' and penalty assigned. The power struggle is masked in getting, but actually more active as attempt to get rid of or 'escape' onto others, the toxic conflict and debts that compound with every attempt to solve responsibility for correction 'externally'. Such as 'waking up' others by 'correcting' our errors in them.
Loss of love's embrace and connection invokes the attempt to control a world set in fragmentation. In that sense a mass hallucination is 'normal' for humanity at our current stage of development - excepting this; what we see we strengthen in ourselves while teaching others, and under the law of sowing and reaping, it takes one to know one. So seeing past the masking to the light of another's presence is not invested in and identifying with another as judgement would reinforce in self and other.
But The main point is that observation and study of the mind cannot uncover truth if it is fitted to blame agenda. Nor can science be science if constrained to 'political' control narratives that pivot on guilting and controlling under penalty that can be mitigated by 'permissions' or credits in exchange for compliance that conditions behaviour as perception response.
Good points. AS long as we are stuck in blame and anger we are just that - stuck. Learning to hold ourselves responsible first and foremost and using flashes of anger and blame to spur ourselves on to being better people is valid. Just these two evolutionary emotions, useful for short periods, will prove to manage going forward as people become aware they have been hoodwinked.
Having looked at the couple’s screed against Desmet, it looks to me as if they were chiefly concerned with assigning blame to the globalist villains who orchestrated the episode and did not grasp that his work was chiefly about why so many went along with it. They wanted him to call out the leadership and because he didn’t, they used a personal attack to undermine his credibility. I’m not otherwise familiar with the couple’s work, but I won’t be getting better acquainted with it.
I am not sure if that claim is accurate... again, this can be easily resolved if they talk to each other. So, unless there is a circumstance that no one is saying (which is possible), this is resolvable by talking.
Those invested in guilt and blame as vengeance are as yet not only unwilling to look beneath what that conceals, but actively attack anything/anyone that doesn't comply with its dictate but seeks in its eyes to weaken or divert its wr affort. Hence nothing tru is allowed but what can be weaponised. We become what we hate.
This is also the nature of charges across a capacitor. Equal and opposite reaction may take different forms according to its medium, but its underlying motive is the same.
As soon as anyone evades the issues by attacking or smearing the person they are revealing a lack of substance. That is not a cue to attack them. But at some point to recognise a pattern of perception-response we no longer want, identify with or join with, and so we may find old groups no longer want us or vice versa. But the key is to leave with a blessing or the curse will come with you and you have yet to accept and release a part of who you are.
Yes, and I believe the most important point Desmet makes is that historically when other aspects of this psychological disturbance have arisen is that it is a small but vocal and vital minority who don’t buy into the mass formation (Dr. mark McDonald’s mass delusional psychosis) and stand against it who finally mega the difference. We have never to my knowledge faced such a debacle as we face now. Never more critically important.
But also the Book of Job, as abiding through 'temptations' to deny a deeper connection in life under adversity, change and challenge.
The fallacies and deceits by which we become entangled and caught in our own web are so deep as to call on resources or qualities that we don't know we have.
The capacity to stay present with, is also the capacity to discern.
A fundamental effect of the belief in feared threat or attack is fragmenting by reaction. Like a disturbed ant's nest. As long as the shock-shaping reaction runs, it is framed within false beliefs set as survival and will not question them. The presence of a true peace of acceptance in others allows free awareness to grow to the movement of curiosity. This is not available if we are desperate to 'wake them up! - which is not felt as love or acceptance but as a disturbance.
To my perspective the current revealing is of much that has been active but hidden, not just in our world, but in our own mind, and it is this disturbance that feels its 'reality' attacked, unsettled and called into profound uncertainty.
Yes, these times are far from limited to the external circumstances. There are no coincidences inner or outer. We are creatures of our times. The times choose us. When we are unable to understand our own mind we have real difficulty understanding external reality.
So he provided a new term to define a globally-scaled phenomena usually attributed to consumers of mainstream media.
That is very helpful, i feel so helped and empowered to not be mass formationed, or injected, or microchipped, or driven into poverty through erosion of real wages.
Mass formation provides opportunity to small businesses and a real way through the CRISPR Singularity Wormhole for us all to form together, massively!
And people are primed for mass formation by 12 years of public education - "We have, for example, the great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not
"to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim.. . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States . . . and that is its aim everywhere else." ... Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
That, unfortunately, is the purpose of mandatory public education in this country. And lest you take Inglis for an isolated crank with a rather too cynical take on the educational enterprise, you should know that he was hardly alone in championing these ideas. Conant himself, building on the ideas of Horace Mann and others, campaigned tirelessly for an American school system designed along the same lines. Men like George Peabody, who funded the cause of mandatory schooling throughout the South, surely understood that the Prussian system was useful in creating not only a harmless electorate and a servile labor force but also a virtual herd of mindless consumers." http://wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
"virtual herd of mindless consumers" = mass formation
A difficult situation is when healers try to protect others from missionaries. The healer has to become a missionary, but they are too honest to do it effectively. It's been heart-wrenching in the last two years to watch loved ones succumb to the missionaries in the family and agree to mRNA injections.
"Politics is about changing others; spirituality is about changing oneself", is a statement reflecting the same dynamic of healing vs. missionary mind.
Yes, he did, and I think he is not a fan, and of course, I like CJ Hopkins, too, and a whole lot!!! I don't even particularly care about using the concept of "mass formation," I just don't think we need to immediately define our position and split into "mass formation camp" and "anti mass formation camp." How is that going to help?
Yes! Conspiracy investigators are ANTI corruption people, like ourselves, pointing out who the totalitarian oppressors are, not excusing them like Desmet is doing. I find this book shockingly self-contradictory.
From what I heard or read of Desmet, I did not get the interpretation that he was excusing the ones on top. It could be an interpretation of some other people I like, which is also fine!!! We can't agree on everything with everyone. :) We really have an important fight to fight!
have not read Desmet's book. I agree with Tessa & Gabriel. all should simply agree to disagree and move on because there are bigger fish to fry, as the saying goes. this business of squabbling over you say po ta to and I say po tah to is a waste of time.
No! No! No! Desmet has written some shocking things about conspiracy investigators and this deserves to be pointed out and opposed. It is not squabble to shrug your shoulders at. Desmet might make it harder to catch and punish the perpetrators of the planned "pandemic"!
I'm sure all the people against medical tyranny can't agree on everything all the time. Anything that increases productive cooperation helps us all, anything that distracts and demoralizes us is bad for everyone.
By all means it's important to have a clear and coherent mindset, but don't worry about everyone else being on the same page when we only need to agree on enough to act.
We can all compare notes and debate the periphery issues after we've held those responsible accountable.
Exactly, there is no chance we can agree with everyone "on our side" on everything! Not possible. Cannot be done. But we can work toward the shared goal of resisting being dominated!!!!
One aspect of this “mass formation issue” I find fascinating is that there has long been an idea that an elaborate, multi-stage, multi-year process of very careful and very cautious testing is performed and must be performed before you release a pharmaceutical for widespread use by the public. We have all been taught this as a fundamental fact from childhood. Thalidomide horror stories have been drummed into everyone as a baseline “mass formation” in all of us. But in this wave, this caution was thrown to the winds and people just “drank the kool aid” which totally contradicted the easy-to-understand logical and basic toolkit of Everyman’s “medical common sense.”
Fear will do that. Remember the constant drumbeat of cases, and the daily death counts? Well, people are still getting covid, and some are dying, but most of us now realize that’s normal. What wasn’t normal was all the fear around a virus that better than 99.85 survive.
Definitely so. But the interesting part to break down the detail of is this—people automatically fear vaccines instinctively so there has been a lot of programming about the safeguards provided by slow, cautious, testing and scrupulous record-keeping to assure them that there was “safety” in the whole deal. So I think it is interesting that there must be a way the planners calculate that it is going to be possible to crank up the fear such that people abandon critical thinking about how is it possible to be safe by just “winging it” and taking a shot that is not merely “ experimental” but actually contra-indicated—“all the ferrets died.” There was a history of this mRNA approach failing to move past animal trials due to killing the animals pretty much every time ) That’s my layperson’s/level grasp of the subject of course.)
Such a beautiful, thoughtful piece. The missionary and healer walking into a bar reminds me of a joke Iain MacGilchrist told: a Lutheran preacher and a Catholic priest (I'm embellishing from memory in joke morph mode) and a Rabbi are at a conference and are seated together at lunch, but they haven't much to agree on, so the preacher suggests they tell each other what they would like people to say at their funerals. He says he would like his congregation to tell of his devotion to God, how it shone from him in his sermons and his work with his flock. The Catholic chimes in, saying he would want people to remark on how many of the poor he brought to God, and how his charity would be remembered. The Rabbi says he'd want those filing past his casket to say "Look, I think he's moving"
Why is this Desmet/Malone/Breggins embroglio happening at just this very moment? Just after the Biden speech, the day of the rollout of the bivalent variant, in the days just before the WHO (the corporate captured agency) is again pushing for unelected global control? What are we being distracted from doing or seeing? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? That unbelievable bill is on Newsom's desk that would slam dance on doctors' rights even further, and could tank integrative and alternative medicine. There's a move to take away, through bureaucratic requirements, nutraceuticals, AGAIN. We've been entrained to pile on, over years, when whatever the red meat du jour is, is hurled into the water. "Spiritual spine" is a lovely idea, so oxymoronic, a reconciliation of the body and the divine, and excellent alliteration too IMHO I'm not saying the explosion is purposeful, maybe it is just synchronicity, or a feature of the simulation or dark hearted multiverse we've landed in lol, or egg-laying aliens who never loved a child or had a mother are stealthily attacking us from the nonlocal nontemporal lol, but my sense would be to look away from the sleight of hand, partly towards what they don't want us to be seeing, and partly towards our individual divine dimensions, as you said in such a powerful way.
Thank you. I like your use of "healing mind" and "missionary mind". I know these minds well, but I have never had names for them. And for some of us, it is rather easy to slip from "healing" into "missionary". Having words for it may help.
Great article! I feel very grateful to have found your writings early in the pandemic. You have a beautiful way of focusing on our shared humanity, even when faced with lies, deceit, and corruption on a grand scale never seen before.
I did not know about the beef with Malone, Desmet, etc. until this a.m. when Malone wrote about it, which I am halfway through. Who are the Breggins anyway?
Peter Breggin did very good work on exposing antidepressants. They have all done good work, which is why I think it would be much better if they talked directly so that everybody could move on!
Also, a few hours prior to you publishing it, I sent a long voice message to a close friend about every single thing you write about here. Uncanny! And also, not.
Because, strong spiritual spines - which support our heart bodies and all the other inter relating bodies within and without.
I felt distinctly me and not-me or no-me as I read your article, Tessa. Very cool.
This is moving and profound, thanks. As for where the clash between the missionary mind and the healer's mind leads, I highly recommend Pierre Clastres book, Society Against the State. In it he shows that many of the tribes living in South America before the conquest ALREADY HAD a clear sense of where the impulse to be someone lording it over others could lead if unchecked. THEY FRUSTRATED THAT IMPULSE OUT OF WISDOM. They accepted the chief as someone whose charisma could resolve conflicts while rejecting any impulse on his part to seize power. In other words, long before the hell realm of dictators and owners of "truth" we face now, they frustrated before it arose the impulse of the individual ego to run rampant! This insight came through the spiritual connection you mention. The impulse to control through power is the evil twin of the impulse to control through a sanctified truth. Dictator or missionary, they both destroy through controlling. As for the horrible waste reflected in the Breggins going after Matthias Desmet, allow me to quote something from my comment to Matthias Desmet's Substack about it: "Good God, when are we going to end this internecine warfare between people who face the very same dangerous enemy? Sociopaths like Bill Gates couldn't think up anything better than to drive a wedge between those who are resisting their programs. Capitalism and patriarchy are the enemies here, not those of us being sucked into these mirage arguments!"
Thank you Michael!!! I go even further and I think that "capitalism" and "patriarchy" are catchphrases, and it's not about isms at all. But yes, totally agree with you, this standoff is tragic.
Yes, let's go further! Let's go all the way! But I don't think capitalism or patriarchy are catchphrases, language is here for us to use. Systems exist in which we are enmeshed and they have names. Capitalism stands for a system in which profits come before people. Domination for purposes of profit. Same holds true for patriarchy. Both have actual histories in fact connected. And since you're responding to what I wrote, if you haven't read please read Pierre Clastres, a political anthropologist who died too soon. Society Against the State is not only about tribal societies purposefully existing without the State though that's where it starts. And in his second book Archeology of Violence he quotes liberally from Etienne de la Boetie, the extraordinary 18-year-old in 16th century France whose first question was, "How can it be that a majority obeys a single person, not only obeys him but serves him, not only serves him but wants to serve him?" Clastres uses him as a jumping off point to examine the birth of political power and the State, the birth of caste, law and coercion. And not only that. Clastres' paraphrase of de la Boetie: "The sign and proof of loss of freedom can be witnessed not only in the resignation to submission but in the love of servitude." (Something Desmet and the Breggins both would both merit examining.) I go into all this in my book World on Fire but I'll stop here!
In an interviews with Bret Weinstein, Desmet suggested that the mass formation was on "both sides" , that in fact those calling out the WEF and other globalist elites were manifesting their own "conspiracy-based" mass formation, as if there is some equivalency in dysfunctional thinking between the two sides. I was floored when I heard this...and this is what Breggin, Catherine Austin Fitts, and CJ Hopkins are critiquing him for. Because there absolutely is no equivalency! Still I think both sides need to be discussing and clarifying this issue.
Upon thinking about it, and without seeing that particular segment of the interview, I think groupthink is present in every group!
Now, I don't know what exactly Mattias said there. I would have to see that particular segment in order to make up my mind about what I think he meant. :) In general, cancelling people based on a quote and without having a hearty conversation about who meant what, is not particularly healthy. I hear all sorts of versions about who didn't want to talk to who, and I have honestly no idea. Which is why I am mostly campaigning for them to talk to each other, so that people can make up their own minds.
I couldn 't agree more!! I was flabbergasted when reading Desmet's descriptions of conspiracy researchers as somehow deluded and mistaken and suggesting that the covid related conspiracies (distorted definitions, tests, statistics, adverse reaction reports etc.) are simly "mecanistic" results of some " ideology" accidentally. What sort of ideology is that then if not malevolent? I would say plain evil, no excuses!
I think it is nuance. I cannot speak for Mattias but, having been born in the USSR, I think both things are simultaneously true.
One the one hand, the people living under a totalitarian rule are being abused and deceived, and it is even harder if one is born into such a society. On the other hand, even under a totalitarian rule, some people accept it without any doubt, and some feel like something's wrong... and some resist. All very nuanced!!!
Well, now the whole world is being deceived, and as Desmet and others point out, unless someone resists and dares to name and charge the perpetrators, like the Breggins, the Corona Committee, and many more, the dictators will be emboldened and their rule will get worse. Tyranny does not happen by chance as Desmet seems to think, but by design and with a sinister plan. What you say about nuance is all well when spelt out in detail, but without this, I'm afraid your "kindness" will fog up your stance.
The devil is always in the detail... anger is a very poor advisor in most circumstance, and this is not an abstract or theoretical statement, it is a very practical statement. Now, if somebody is going at you with a knife, you better defend yourself. But even as you defend yourself, you don't have to feel hatred..
Thank you, Tessa, for being the Light you are in this 3D classroom of ours. I really appreciate the time you take to write your articles and the insights you share. This latest piece is one of your best ones yet! Health & Blessings!
As usual a brilliant piece, Tessa. As a university professor (anthropology) I'm all too aware of a well known tendency among researchers, that we all share to a certain extent, at least at some point in our career: once we find a hammer everything looks like a nail. This is not to say that sometimes you never have a nail in front of you and that it never helps to have a hammer.
When I discover some new brilliant theory I still get that feeling that it explains everything etc. For a while. Then I go for a more nuanced position.
However it is difficult to maintain a somehow detached academical point of view in times of crisis. Do I? I hope but I don't know for sure... Furthermore I can get real angry too now and again, which doesn't help at all. Having seen right through it from the very beginning didn't help me much on the emotional level, actually. Despair and hate are so intense sometimes. Well let's hope for the best.
Thank you I enjoyed the article. When you got to the section on neuromodulation and religious belief I immediately thought of Newberg & Waksman’s book “How God Changes your Brain”
They make the case that, regardless of theology, the same parts of the brain fire up among believers in a punishing God. Similarly, a different part of the brain, but consistent across theologies, fires up among believers in a loving God.
How frightening to think this could potentially be used to influence behavior
Thanks, I'm gonna look those up and see. I'm a huge admirer of Desmet and I'm interested in what he has to say, but also wondering if he's being misunderstood. Also his English is good, but I can't help but wonder if that could be an issue.
The European cultural context is also much different to the American one. Malone is American but I'm not sure about Breggins - and, of course, the lovely Tessa is Russian, which brings in yet another cultural context.
Wow, I could not have said this better myself, and I have thought just this for quite some time. I did a review of Desmet's book, and loved it. (see my substack if you want to read it) I am a psychologist myself, and found his explanation of "mass formation" to be a very elegant and logical description. Sure, it can be elaborated on, and described differently (a good friend of mine Dr Mark McDonald calls it "mass delusional psychosis"...sure, that works too!)
Never did I see, or even get the impression, that Desmet was blaming the masses for the world disorder we are now seeing. I do not understand why he was accused of that. And now the heinous ad hominem coming down the pike is ludicrous and only dangerous.
So your assessment of all of this in your article is brilliant...thank you for writing it!!
Thank you Todd!!!!
I agree with your comment. I read Desmet's book as well and found it easy to understand and beautifully written. And, like you, never understood it to say that he was blaming the victims. In my perspective, he attempted to explain how people can be fooled at times even when we believe otherwise. I also read Dr. Breggin's book early in the Covidian nonsense and found it eye-opening along with RFK Jr's Book about Fauci. I don't understand Breggin's response and find it disturbing coming from someone who I believed had more wisdom than is being demonstrated.
Which book made your life better?
In an interviews with Bret Weinstein, Desmet suggested that the mass formation was on "both sides" , that in fact those calling out the WEF and other globalist elites were manifesting their own "conspiracy-based" mass formation, as if there is some equivalency in dysfunctional thinking between the two sides. I was floored when I heard this...and this is what Breggin, Catherine Austin Fitts, and CJ Hopkins are critiquing him for. Because there absolutely is no equivalency! Still I think both sides need to be discussing and clarifying this issue.
Do you have the link? I would love to see the clip for context, if you have it. 🙏🏼
And also, this is why when all fighting parties talk directly, all contextual nuances can be ironed out much easier!!!
I really appreciate your ego-transcending style of applying the healing mind/spirit. So often people start arguing before sympathetically listening and fully understanding the other person’s point of view. It is as though they are not setting out to try to establish accord. Instead it can seem like they are trying to prove that they know more and understand more than another person and therefore are justified in pushing them away. Also, as it heats up , they get in a hurry to dismiss the other instead of slowing down and “ironing out” all those “wrinkles” which are at least three dimensional and require at least a 5-axis machining iron with very finely nuanced pressure adjustments to properly contact the curving surfaces involved to produce a final true agreement that takes all stresses into account. The “missionary mind” you speak of needs to be understood and retired in favor of the “healing mind” that you have so freshly described.
this is the Special Solari Report interview, Fitts and Breggin
https://home.solari.com/special-solari-report-mass-formation-a-decoy-for-digital-concentration-camps-with-dr-peter-breggin/#comments
Thank you! If you happen to have a link to what Mattias said or wrote himself that is aligned with what they say, can you please share also?
this is Mattias reply part 1...
https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/am-i-an-expert-in-mass-formation?r=y3486&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
and add i wrote up a review of the interview if interested...
https://ryeguyx7x.substack.com/p/psychological-castration?r=y3486&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks for sharing this link, Rylan. I watched the interview and it helped me understand and appreciate why they feel so strongly that Desmet's analysis is problematic.
okay, well, be curious of hearing more about why you are accepting based on this interview why Desmet' analysis would be considered problematic...
I didn’t say I consider Desmet’s analysis problematic, I said understood why they would, particularly Dr. Breggin, given his experience with taking on the Big Pharma power structure and his critique of psychoanalysis, but also Fitts, who went to battle against the DC power structure. They expressed concern that Desmet’s focus on evolving personally would steer people away from taking actions that may make all the difference in turning things around.
I didn’t read Desmet’s book but have heard several interviews, and I found him very insightful, although I noticed he didn’t seem aware of actual conspiracies at play. I also questioned his using the term “hypnosis” to describe what’s happened to people. It’s not my understanding of the word, having experienced it a few times.
I agree with Tessa that it’s not possible or desirable for everyone to agree on everything, and that being open to all ideas, aware that we are all trying to find truth and the way forward, and we’re all at different places in the journey. People, beliefs, ideas and realities are constantly evolving, and the more tolerant toward one another, the better.
I didn’t know that. It seems incredible that Desmet might really believe a mass formation event can arise spontaneously.
this is false, Desmet clearly does not claim that it is totally spontaneous...
To parse out the claim of Desmet"s perceived creation of Mass Formation not being totally sponaneous, can you please provide an example or link? Thnaks in advance
then example...
consider how we are nurtured/positioned to choose between an either/or as our supreme authority...
such that our commander in chief is then tasked with the protection of society's wellbeing from the small percentage of society which tends to be the more psychopathic types, so protection that is being blindly dependent upon to handle this task...
then what happens if 5% or so who are by nature the psychopathic types having the ability to turn toward the darkness/evil thru dark nurture say another 15% and thus succeed in throwing out the good commander...
as in what happens if the good commander is replaced behind the facade of an either/or bogus choice between two evil commanders, all this while the 80% who are basically good people are blindly trusting so have no clue what the 5% are up to...
such that what Desmet is focusing on is walking up the 80% such that we don't blindly buy into this darkness, which is nurturing us, the 80%, to become a victim of a mass formation that leads us to be blind to this...
that, otherwise, if our focus is solo on the dark players and limited to a focus on a bogus either/or choice of who our commander and chief is, then at best we will engage in a never-ending game of wack-a-mole as a few represented as dark players are ceremoniously sacrificed for show as the darkness has its way with us...
then for a backstop on the % claims see...
https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1503960987052896256?s=20
note less than 2 minutes...
that tweet OMG! A military commander explaining how the group structured thinking of a military battalion under his command operates and obeys. We aren't military units but it's obvious there's a caste of elitists who see all of humanity as soldiers to step into line, keep formation and die in the trenches for their wars.
Appreciate your reply. Bit of a convoluted take on what Patrick Wood cleanly explained by saying 2% of people are in charge because they know what is going on, then 8% of people think something is going on but know it's being kept from them, and the last 90% of people don't know what's going on and would rather die than find out.
All leadership roles (supreme authorities?) attract and reward individuals that exhibit psychopathic traits & act in a sociopathic manner - much like a really large cross-border mega corporation does.
And it's a contradiction that Mattias claims to want to reach the 80% that are under mass formation psychosis when mass formation psychosis needs everything he describes in the pathology of Mass Formation for it to exist.
on last week highwire Desmet made this clear...
https://thehighwire.com/videos/inside-the-mind-of-the-masses/
Do you have a timestamp?
Of course it runs both ways.
The projection of the split must mask against, distance from a targeted displacement, such as to perceive ITSELF threatened and justified in its 'defences'.
There are conflicts and fallacies of thought set in the mind prior to the development of rational thought and self-differentiation that set the basic strategy of adpatation and survival of a world that is not OUT there - for we see according to a past we look through - so in truth do we in fact see? or are we engaged in mass displacements running as if reality by nature of mutually triggered patterns that re-enact past trauma?
Gibberish...
The meaning you give is your freedom to live.
Current politics makes for very strange bedfellows. We can all understand mass formation because we are all capable of it. There but for the grace of god.
I agree, I admire Desmet a great deal and cannot understand these people, like CJ Hopkins, who are obsessed with knocking him down. They either don't get it, which seems unlikely since we're talking about highly intelligent people, or they have some terrible reason for doing this. It's not good either way. Desmet is right on the money and has been for a good while now.
I happen to respect the work of all parties involved, and I don't have to agree with every single one of them on every single issue, which is impossible... it's just that.... we can honestly focus on what we believe to be important and let others do same. We will have the time to argue about terminology once we stop the 4G, if we can stop it..
Yes and untold amounts of the global population are perishing from covid plandemic public health policies, whether under mass formation or not?
Blaming is the activity of the 'redistribution' of guilt - not unlike a mix of musical chairs and pass the parcel but as a parcel no one wants to be holding in case the 'music stops' and penalty assigned. The power struggle is masked in getting, but actually more active as attempt to get rid of or 'escape' onto others, the toxic conflict and debts that compound with every attempt to solve responsibility for correction 'externally'. Such as 'waking up' others by 'correcting' our errors in them.
Loss of love's embrace and connection invokes the attempt to control a world set in fragmentation. In that sense a mass hallucination is 'normal' for humanity at our current stage of development - excepting this; what we see we strengthen in ourselves while teaching others, and under the law of sowing and reaping, it takes one to know one. So seeing past the masking to the light of another's presence is not invested in and identifying with another as judgement would reinforce in self and other.
But The main point is that observation and study of the mind cannot uncover truth if it is fitted to blame agenda. Nor can science be science if constrained to 'political' control narratives that pivot on guilting and controlling under penalty that can be mitigated by 'permissions' or credits in exchange for compliance that conditions behaviour as perception response.
Good points. AS long as we are stuck in blame and anger we are just that - stuck. Learning to hold ourselves responsible first and foremost and using flashes of anger and blame to spur ourselves on to being better people is valid. Just these two evolutionary emotions, useful for short periods, will prove to manage going forward as people become aware they have been hoodwinked.
Having looked at the couple’s screed against Desmet, it looks to me as if they were chiefly concerned with assigning blame to the globalist villains who orchestrated the episode and did not grasp that his work was chiefly about why so many went along with it. They wanted him to call out the leadership and because he didn’t, they used a personal attack to undermine his credibility. I’m not otherwise familiar with the couple’s work, but I won’t be getting better acquainted with it.
I am not sure if that claim is accurate... again, this can be easily resolved if they talk to each other. So, unless there is a circumstance that no one is saying (which is possible), this is resolvable by talking.
Those invested in guilt and blame as vengeance are as yet not only unwilling to look beneath what that conceals, but actively attack anything/anyone that doesn't comply with its dictate but seeks in its eyes to weaken or divert its wr affort. Hence nothing tru is allowed but what can be weaponised. We become what we hate.
This is also the nature of charges across a capacitor. Equal and opposite reaction may take different forms according to its medium, but its underlying motive is the same.
As soon as anyone evades the issues by attacking or smearing the person they are revealing a lack of substance. That is not a cue to attack them. But at some point to recognise a pattern of perception-response we no longer want, identify with or join with, and so we may find old groups no longer want us or vice versa. But the key is to leave with a blessing or the curse will come with you and you have yet to accept and release a part of who you are.
Yes, and I believe the most important point Desmet makes is that historically when other aspects of this psychological disturbance have arisen is that it is a small but vocal and vital minority who don’t buy into the mass formation (Dr. mark McDonald’s mass delusional psychosis) and stand against it who finally mega the difference. We have never to my knowledge faced such a debacle as we face now. Never more critically important.
Kipling's If comes to mind
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_if.htm
But also the Book of Job, as abiding through 'temptations' to deny a deeper connection in life under adversity, change and challenge.
The fallacies and deceits by which we become entangled and caught in our own web are so deep as to call on resources or qualities that we don't know we have.
The capacity to stay present with, is also the capacity to discern.
A fundamental effect of the belief in feared threat or attack is fragmenting by reaction. Like a disturbed ant's nest. As long as the shock-shaping reaction runs, it is framed within false beliefs set as survival and will not question them. The presence of a true peace of acceptance in others allows free awareness to grow to the movement of curiosity. This is not available if we are desperate to 'wake them up! - which is not felt as love or acceptance but as a disturbance.
To my perspective the current revealing is of much that has been active but hidden, not just in our world, but in our own mind, and it is this disturbance that feels its 'reality' attacked, unsettled and called into profound uncertainty.
Yes, these times are far from limited to the external circumstances. There are no coincidences inner or outer. We are creatures of our times. The times choose us. When we are unable to understand our own mind we have real difficulty understanding external reality.
So he provided a new term to define a globally-scaled phenomena usually attributed to consumers of mainstream media.
That is very helpful, i feel so helped and empowered to not be mass formationed, or injected, or microchipped, or driven into poverty through erosion of real wages.
Mass formation provides opportunity to small businesses and a real way through the CRISPR Singularity Wormhole for us all to form together, massively!
And people are primed for mass formation by 12 years of public education - "We have, for example, the great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not
"to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim.. . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States . . . and that is its aim everywhere else." ... Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
That, unfortunately, is the purpose of mandatory public education in this country. And lest you take Inglis for an isolated crank with a rather too cynical take on the educational enterprise, you should know that he was hardly alone in championing these ideas. Conant himself, building on the ideas of Horace Mann and others, campaigned tirelessly for an American school system designed along the same lines. Men like George Peabody, who funded the cause of mandatory schooling throughout the South, surely understood that the Prussian system was useful in creating not only a harmless electorate and a servile labor force but also a virtual herd of mindless consumers." http://wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
"virtual herd of mindless consumers" = mass formation
A difficult situation is when healers try to protect others from missionaries. The healer has to become a missionary, but they are too honest to do it effectively. It's been heart-wrenching in the last two years to watch loved ones succumb to the missionaries in the family and agree to mRNA injections.
"Politics is about changing others; spirituality is about changing oneself", is a statement reflecting the same dynamic of healing vs. missionary mind.
Thanks Tessa. Tense times.
We each and all need to do our own work, I think.
Thank you John!!! And again, thank you for all you do!
C .J. Hopkins has also weighed in on the subject - don't we all have bigger worries than to quibble about "mass formation"?
Yes, he did, and I think he is not a fan, and of course, I like CJ Hopkins, too, and a whole lot!!! I don't even particularly care about using the concept of "mass formation," I just don't think we need to immediately define our position and split into "mass formation camp" and "anti mass formation camp." How is that going to help?
Yes! Conspiracy investigators are ANTI corruption people, like ourselves, pointing out who the totalitarian oppressors are, not excusing them like Desmet is doing. I find this book shockingly self-contradictory.
From what I heard or read of Desmet, I did not get the interpretation that he was excusing the ones on top. It could be an interpretation of some other people I like, which is also fine!!! We can't agree on everything with everyone. :) We really have an important fight to fight!
have not read Desmet's book. I agree with Tessa & Gabriel. all should simply agree to disagree and move on because there are bigger fish to fry, as the saying goes. this business of squabbling over you say po ta to and I say po tah to is a waste of time.
No! No! No! Desmet has written some shocking things about conspiracy investigators and this deserves to be pointed out and opposed. It is not squabble to shrug your shoulders at. Desmet might make it harder to catch and punish the perpetrators of the planned "pandemic"!
Noralf, can you please direct me toward the exact talk or quote you are talking about? Thank you!
This can't be overstated.
I'm sure all the people against medical tyranny can't agree on everything all the time. Anything that increases productive cooperation helps us all, anything that distracts and demoralizes us is bad for everyone.
By all means it's important to have a clear and coherent mindset, but don't worry about everyone else being on the same page when we only need to agree on enough to act.
We can all compare notes and debate the periphery issues after we've held those responsible accountable.
Exactly, there is no chance we can agree with everyone "on our side" on everything! Not possible. Cannot be done. But we can work toward the shared goal of resisting being dominated!!!!
Don't get me started on the "no virus" crowd-- they have not seemed like team players.
One aspect of this “mass formation issue” I find fascinating is that there has long been an idea that an elaborate, multi-stage, multi-year process of very careful and very cautious testing is performed and must be performed before you release a pharmaceutical for widespread use by the public. We have all been taught this as a fundamental fact from childhood. Thalidomide horror stories have been drummed into everyone as a baseline “mass formation” in all of us. But in this wave, this caution was thrown to the winds and people just “drank the kool aid” which totally contradicted the easy-to-understand logical and basic toolkit of Everyman’s “medical common sense.”
Fear will do that. Remember the constant drumbeat of cases, and the daily death counts? Well, people are still getting covid, and some are dying, but most of us now realize that’s normal. What wasn’t normal was all the fear around a virus that better than 99.85 survive.
Definitely so. But the interesting part to break down the detail of is this—people automatically fear vaccines instinctively so there has been a lot of programming about the safeguards provided by slow, cautious, testing and scrupulous record-keeping to assure them that there was “safety” in the whole deal. So I think it is interesting that there must be a way the planners calculate that it is going to be possible to crank up the fear such that people abandon critical thinking about how is it possible to be safe by just “winging it” and taking a shot that is not merely “ experimental” but actually contra-indicated—“all the ferrets died.” There was a history of this mRNA approach failing to move past animal trials due to killing the animals pretty much every time ) That’s my layperson’s/level grasp of the subject of course.)
Such a beautiful, thoughtful piece. The missionary and healer walking into a bar reminds me of a joke Iain MacGilchrist told: a Lutheran preacher and a Catholic priest (I'm embellishing from memory in joke morph mode) and a Rabbi are at a conference and are seated together at lunch, but they haven't much to agree on, so the preacher suggests they tell each other what they would like people to say at their funerals. He says he would like his congregation to tell of his devotion to God, how it shone from him in his sermons and his work with his flock. The Catholic chimes in, saying he would want people to remark on how many of the poor he brought to God, and how his charity would be remembered. The Rabbi says he'd want those filing past his casket to say "Look, I think he's moving"
Why is this Desmet/Malone/Breggins embroglio happening at just this very moment? Just after the Biden speech, the day of the rollout of the bivalent variant, in the days just before the WHO (the corporate captured agency) is again pushing for unelected global control? What are we being distracted from doing or seeing? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? That unbelievable bill is on Newsom's desk that would slam dance on doctors' rights even further, and could tank integrative and alternative medicine. There's a move to take away, through bureaucratic requirements, nutraceuticals, AGAIN. We've been entrained to pile on, over years, when whatever the red meat du jour is, is hurled into the water. "Spiritual spine" is a lovely idea, so oxymoronic, a reconciliation of the body and the divine, and excellent alliteration too IMHO I'm not saying the explosion is purposeful, maybe it is just synchronicity, or a feature of the simulation or dark hearted multiverse we've landed in lol, or egg-laying aliens who never loved a child or had a mother are stealthily attacking us from the nonlocal nontemporal lol, but my sense would be to look away from the sleight of hand, partly towards what they don't want us to be seeing, and partly towards our individual divine dimensions, as you said in such a powerful way.
Thank you. I like your use of "healing mind" and "missionary mind". I know these minds well, but I have never had names for them. And for some of us, it is rather easy to slip from "healing" into "missionary". Having words for it may help.
Thank you!!! I suspect we all know those minds, both in other people and in ourselves. :)
Great article! I feel very grateful to have found your writings early in the pandemic. You have a beautiful way of focusing on our shared humanity, even when faced with lies, deceit, and corruption on a grand scale never seen before.
I did not know about the beef with Malone, Desmet, etc. until this a.m. when Malone wrote about it, which I am halfway through. Who are the Breggins anyway?
Thank you, your words make me very happy!!
Peter Breggin did very good work on exposing antidepressants. They have all done good work, which is why I think it would be much better if they talked directly so that everybody could move on!
Amazing post.
Also, a few hours prior to you publishing it, I sent a long voice message to a close friend about every single thing you write about here. Uncanny! And also, not.
Because, strong spiritual spines - which support our heart bodies and all the other inter relating bodies within and without.
I felt distinctly me and not-me or no-me as I read your article, Tessa. Very cool.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you Victoria!!!! xoxo
This is moving and profound, thanks. As for where the clash between the missionary mind and the healer's mind leads, I highly recommend Pierre Clastres book, Society Against the State. In it he shows that many of the tribes living in South America before the conquest ALREADY HAD a clear sense of where the impulse to be someone lording it over others could lead if unchecked. THEY FRUSTRATED THAT IMPULSE OUT OF WISDOM. They accepted the chief as someone whose charisma could resolve conflicts while rejecting any impulse on his part to seize power. In other words, long before the hell realm of dictators and owners of "truth" we face now, they frustrated before it arose the impulse of the individual ego to run rampant! This insight came through the spiritual connection you mention. The impulse to control through power is the evil twin of the impulse to control through a sanctified truth. Dictator or missionary, they both destroy through controlling. As for the horrible waste reflected in the Breggins going after Matthias Desmet, allow me to quote something from my comment to Matthias Desmet's Substack about it: "Good God, when are we going to end this internecine warfare between people who face the very same dangerous enemy? Sociopaths like Bill Gates couldn't think up anything better than to drive a wedge between those who are resisting their programs. Capitalism and patriarchy are the enemies here, not those of us being sucked into these mirage arguments!"
Thank you Michael!!! I go even further and I think that "capitalism" and "patriarchy" are catchphrases, and it's not about isms at all. But yes, totally agree with you, this standoff is tragic.
Yes, let's go further! Let's go all the way! But I don't think capitalism or patriarchy are catchphrases, language is here for us to use. Systems exist in which we are enmeshed and they have names. Capitalism stands for a system in which profits come before people. Domination for purposes of profit. Same holds true for patriarchy. Both have actual histories in fact connected. And since you're responding to what I wrote, if you haven't read please read Pierre Clastres, a political anthropologist who died too soon. Society Against the State is not only about tribal societies purposefully existing without the State though that's where it starts. And in his second book Archeology of Violence he quotes liberally from Etienne de la Boetie, the extraordinary 18-year-old in 16th century France whose first question was, "How can it be that a majority obeys a single person, not only obeys him but serves him, not only serves him but wants to serve him?" Clastres uses him as a jumping off point to examine the birth of political power and the State, the birth of caste, law and coercion. And not only that. Clastres' paraphrase of de la Boetie: "The sign and proof of loss of freedom can be witnessed not only in the resignation to submission but in the love of servitude." (Something Desmet and the Breggins both would both merit examining.) I go into all this in my book World on Fire but I'll stop here!
In an interviews with Bret Weinstein, Desmet suggested that the mass formation was on "both sides" , that in fact those calling out the WEF and other globalist elites were manifesting their own "conspiracy-based" mass formation, as if there is some equivalency in dysfunctional thinking between the two sides. I was floored when I heard this...and this is what Breggin, Catherine Austin Fitts, and CJ Hopkins are critiquing him for. Because there absolutely is no equivalency! Still I think both sides need to be discussing and clarifying this issue.
And yes, both sides need to be discussing!!
Upon thinking about it, and without seeing that particular segment of the interview, I think groupthink is present in every group!
Now, I don't know what exactly Mattias said there. I would have to see that particular segment in order to make up my mind about what I think he meant. :) In general, cancelling people based on a quote and without having a hearty conversation about who meant what, is not particularly healthy. I hear all sorts of versions about who didn't want to talk to who, and I have honestly no idea. Which is why I am mostly campaigning for them to talk to each other, so that people can make up their own minds.
I couldn 't agree more!! I was flabbergasted when reading Desmet's descriptions of conspiracy researchers as somehow deluded and mistaken and suggesting that the covid related conspiracies (distorted definitions, tests, statistics, adverse reaction reports etc.) are simly "mecanistic" results of some " ideology" accidentally. What sort of ideology is that then if not malevolent? I would say plain evil, no excuses!
I think it is nuance. I cannot speak for Mattias but, having been born in the USSR, I think both things are simultaneously true.
One the one hand, the people living under a totalitarian rule are being abused and deceived, and it is even harder if one is born into such a society. On the other hand, even under a totalitarian rule, some people accept it without any doubt, and some feel like something's wrong... and some resist. All very nuanced!!!
Well, now the whole world is being deceived, and as Desmet and others point out, unless someone resists and dares to name and charge the perpetrators, like the Breggins, the Corona Committee, and many more, the dictators will be emboldened and their rule will get worse. Tyranny does not happen by chance as Desmet seems to think, but by design and with a sinister plan. What you say about nuance is all well when spelt out in detail, but without this, I'm afraid your "kindness" will fog up your stance.
The devil is always in the detail... anger is a very poor advisor in most circumstance, and this is not an abstract or theoretical statement, it is a very practical statement. Now, if somebody is going at you with a knife, you better defend yourself. But even as you defend yourself, you don't have to feel hatred..
Thank you, Tessa, for being the Light you are in this 3D classroom of ours. I really appreciate the time you take to write your articles and the insights you share. This latest piece is one of your best ones yet! Health & Blessings!
Thank you Larry!!! It is so kind of you!!!
It's all about kindness I see
It's also true:-)
As usual a brilliant piece, Tessa. As a university professor (anthropology) I'm all too aware of a well known tendency among researchers, that we all share to a certain extent, at least at some point in our career: once we find a hammer everything looks like a nail. This is not to say that sometimes you never have a nail in front of you and that it never helps to have a hammer.
When I discover some new brilliant theory I still get that feeling that it explains everything etc. For a while. Then I go for a more nuanced position.
However it is difficult to maintain a somehow detached academical point of view in times of crisis. Do I? I hope but I don't know for sure... Furthermore I can get real angry too now and again, which doesn't help at all. Having seen right through it from the very beginning didn't help me much on the emotional level, actually. Despair and hate are so intense sometimes. Well let's hope for the best.
Always glad to read you anyway!
Thank you I enjoyed the article. When you got to the section on neuromodulation and religious belief I immediately thought of Newberg & Waksman’s book “How God Changes your Brain”
They make the case that, regardless of theology, the same parts of the brain fire up among believers in a punishing God. Similarly, a different part of the brain, but consistent across theologies, fires up among believers in a loving God.
How frightening to think this could potentially be used to influence behavior
Thank you Elizabeth! This sounds like an interesting book, thank you for the reference!
Thanks, I'm gonna look those up and see. I'm a huge admirer of Desmet and I'm interested in what he has to say, but also wondering if he's being misunderstood. Also his English is good, but I can't help but wonder if that could be an issue.
The European cultural context is also much different to the American one. Malone is American but I'm not sure about Breggins - and, of course, the lovely Tessa is Russian, which brings in yet another cultural context.