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 for another amazing article. I feel that this was actually two discussions in one. The first being the schism between Breggin & Desmet, and the second being a very scary exposure of the nano-particle + magnetism (5g) possibilities that I have not seen being so coherently explained elsewhere. Thanks for exposing the horrible research they are doing and making it easy to understand, although I'm not sure I want to LOL
Re the spat that Breggin is trying to stir up. Not sure why. I agree with Todd Hayen's comments - I found Desmet's explanation to make perfect sense and helped me understand why I cannot reach my vaccinated relatives with logic or facts. I wish Breggin would back off, he is causing damage and strife. One of his arguments is that we were kept from meeting in person, so there could be no 'mass formation' forming ... apparently he doesn't get into forums, discussions, tweets, or fb .... (Also, he blows his own horn quite often and I never trust someone who does that quite as much as I might otherwise) Thanks again for a great substack!
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.
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.”
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?
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!"
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.
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
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 for another amazing article. I feel that this was actually two discussions in one. The first being the schism between Breggin & Desmet, and the second being a very scary exposure of the nano-particle + magnetism (5g) possibilities that I have not seen being so coherently explained elsewhere. Thanks for exposing the horrible research they are doing and making it easy to understand, although I'm not sure I want to LOL
Re the spat that Breggin is trying to stir up. Not sure why. I agree with Todd Hayen's comments - I found Desmet's explanation to make perfect sense and helped me understand why I cannot reach my vaccinated relatives with logic or facts. I wish Breggin would back off, he is causing damage and strife. One of his arguments is that we were kept from meeting in person, so there could be no 'mass formation' forming ... apparently he doesn't get into forums, discussions, tweets, or fb .... (Also, he blows his own horn quite often and I never trust someone who does that quite as much as I might otherwise) Thanks again for a great substack!
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.
C .J. Hopkins has also weighed in on the subject - don't we all have bigger worries than to quibble about "mass formation"?
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.”
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?
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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