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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

this is fire.

we're living a synopsis of the kali yuga in real time. the coda to an ugly symphony.

Tessa, your substack is the best history of it that i know of. and i've looked hard for one and i'm writing my own. i suspect many of us are.

working hypothesis: the strength of the MFM is our decentralization. each of us can bring 200% to the fight because we don't have a boss breathing down our neck and forcing us to do it their way. if someone tries to silo you into their worldview, beware. they have an agenda. maybe they're not working for klaus the louse, or taking a payout from the truth ministry but they have ulterior motives. maybe it's just egomania they haven't learned to let go of. just saying that if it smells fishy, it is.

this domestic color revolution will not last. gates has scheduled the next plandemic for 2025 but i think the people he works for will jump the gun because they've lost the reins.

and as crazy as it sounds i think we mustn't forget that as terrorized as we have been, we need to remember that (hopefully) we are still capable of having fun. i'm hopeful that we'll get more good songs and artwork and novels out of this than any other time in history.

spiritually speaking, i'm convinced we all signed up for this - crazy as i know that sounds - and we will succeed if we are disciplined on our own individual paths. (sorry to get all preachy) .

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I woke up and re-read your comment again, I really like your words!! And I think we all definitely signed up for this. We didn't just pop out into this world randomly, we have great powers to do good if we refuse to give up under pressure and intimidation!

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I’ve heard many Christian podcasters say something like your ending.

No matter whether we want to be here at this momentous time in history, the great reset, or Armageddon, we were meant to be here at this time.

On that point, I think about my obsessional watch on seeing 666 throughout my life. Like a warning of something bad happening. Like 6th bed, in 6th ward, on 6th floor where I received contaminated blood! And my watch on the Great mark. Makes me think I’ve been preparing myself for this spiritual war all my life.

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wow. agree. with me it's always been 11 11. which can be interpreted as a battle but also a new beginning

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oh mine is 11 11 too ! I didn't have an interpretation... Thanks!

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welcome to the club! did i mention it's also a portal? :)

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Noooo... where does this information come from, in a general sense ?

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ok, going out on a bit of a limb here. adrienne elise is a good place to start, she was wise to the plandemic from day one and is badass. she's an intuitive, really knows her way around esoterica. this isn't hippy dippy kumbaya bs, she does a weekly video and i always try to catch it.

this is her latest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFX56YPct6s

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...as of arriving through the gate #6 on August the 6th......wait, if was the 5th...even though the endeavor bombed like Hiroshima, whose anniversary it was the day mentioned...along with successful lowering of Curiosity on Mars surface....talking of my arrival to Toronto 2012, a very intense personal story. Noticing the signs of #6 along the way so I still could report them 10 years later.

#6 is very much that of man, that of the largest vulnerability....I even wonder whether "Sex" was fashioned after the "6th commandment" - or whether it was the other way round? By the way, have you noticed branding of Tesla models to follow closely? Model S, model X...and model 3, which goes for E in the reverse of 3. All in the name of #6.

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Interesting, I shall note that thank you.. My link my be of use.

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/666/

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All very true except that I say of myself the unseen angels watched over me and prepared me for today, that is for the day 'I' died in late 2019, then was filled with the Holy Spirit in 2020 around my birthday in February when Jesus came and asked me what I wanted.

I asked for everything and meant it, although I did not fully understand the implications back then. I was then taken in the Cloud and told to set up my website. I have not looked back.

I did not realise quite how bizarre this final act of history would be, a pantomime to end all pantomimes, the greatest show on earth.

And despite all the pain and the agony, full of absurd humour to hopefully make the most sour prune faced crack a smile.

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/666/

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/mark-of-the-beast/

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1000% believe in the Kali Yuga thing (not just because of the events, but also because the spiritual forces that create that era are here now).

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you're one of 'em MWD

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Makes some sense as Kali relates to calorific and heat, the anger of the demon Kali, whilst Yuga is a cycle.

In other words the hot cycle, the phase in the earth washing machine when everything is spinning and things are getting rather hot!

But Kali can also be the black goddess, so the time of the black when everything looks grim and black. They say Black Lives Matter but this is more about black hearts and such as George Soros, otherwise known as George Schwarz, i.e. George Black.

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Hi Tessa, NYMusicDaily and others on this thread,

With heartfelt gratitude for your work, Tessa, I'd like to refer all of you to the work of Shunyamurti, founder and guiding teacher of SatYoga.org, an ashram and wisdom/mystery school in Costa Rica.

Shunyamurti's teachings focus on deconstructing the ego (https://www.satyoga.org/blog/what-does-it-mean-to-kill-your-ego/) in order to awaken to the Divine Consciousness and Universal Love that all of us are really fractal expressions of. In his view, the darkness of our current world represents the culmination of individual and collective ego distortions that cannot endure and that are about to be drawn back into the Singularity from which all those not trapped in ego identity can be born into a new golden-age world.

In answer to an online question, he explains here (https://www.satyoga.org/blog/consciousness-never-goes-extinct/) what will happen at the end of Kali Yuga, the fourth great epoch of time in the recurring cycle of "kalpas" posited by the ancient yogis: golden age, silver age, copper age, and iron age.

Shunyamurti melds the perspectives of the Perennial Philosophy with those of modern science (quantum theory, chaos theory, complexity theory, etc.) to arrive at an interpretation of our time that few other "spiritual teachers" seem to address. More information is available here: https://www.satyoga.org/public-teachings-archive/.

Blessings to you all.

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Interesting idea on the history of the 2020-2023 MFM, nymusic. Would love to see you publish initial sketches of the key moments and pieces. If you'd like to try out a draft on my conservative-identified group substack, let me know...here, or in the comments there.

You might also just give everyone a list here of the key Tessa pieces.

And now I'm off to find out what in the world kali yuga is...

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ok cool will be in touch. kali yuga reduced to lowest terms is the current, concluding, largely unenlightened era. as the story goes the incoming age will be more hospitable to those seeking better

Tessa has indexed her greatest hits

https://tessa.substack.com/p/covid-and-great-reset

https://tessa.substack.com/p/soul-and-philosophy

think you would appreciate her bandcamp page https://tessamakeslove.bandcamp.com/

MAA has also indexed some real goodies

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/wake-up-toolkit

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Thanks! Reading a few of these, I notice that Tessa saw more clearly than most...I was certainly anti-lockdown from day one, but did not quite catch the scent of approaching totalitarianism.

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Jan 28, 2023·edited Nov 22, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

I was slow waking up all the way too. took me a long time before i realized this went beyond greed and incompetence. didn't realize how coordinated this was til about august 2020 when sherry tenpenny and dolores cahill sounded the alarm about how the shots worked, then it all made sense.

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Thank you, your words are so kind!!!

And you put it beautifully, "synopsis of the kali yuga in real time" is a perfect description!

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I appreciate your tune here. I wish more (including myself) would resonate with it better.

I've come across Rick Walker who's been doing long livestreams about the anger level rising in Canada. He's covered Canada Unity (I have no affiliation) a great deal, essentially accusing them of agitating for a revolution. I don't think anyone who knows the score denies that revolutionary change is what's needed, but almost everyone disagrees on the road to get there. Rick is correct that people have to be much more careful what they are putting their energy into and how they're doing it.

Personally, I'm agitated that it feels like "the baddies" have gotten away with everything, and that it was inevitable from the start. The coalition required to actually hold anyone accountable feels....out of reach. In addition to this, at least here in Canada we have no plausible path to prevent the plandemonium from returning in full force.

One aspects of the agenda that rarely gets enough attention is the slow process of those out-of-step with the agenda being denied support and eventually ground down from imposed poverty. I'm convinced that the only way to fight against this is for those "in the movement" to start building real tangible support systems for those ejected from society. Otherwise the army of freedom fighters will simply disappear from losing by attrition.

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Thank you, Gabriel!! There is a ton of crap happening, without a doubt. I have found that maintaining an even-headed attitude is the most beneficial when it's the most difficult to maintain, which is a paradox but we are in a long-term game, really. Not easy for sure!

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

This is a beautiful essay. I’m sure it was very challenging to craft. The way you built it with symbolism and archetypes invites reflection without being heavy in judgment. It’s a difficult, but beautiful balance.

Reading this piece, so many thoughts and reflections evoked, so necessary.

I was reminded of this, from the Tao Te Ching (12).

I modified it a little, because it resonates for me, so I offer it to you. 🙏🏽

Colors blind the eye.

Sounds deafen the ear.

Flavors numb the taste.

Thoughts weaken the mind.

Desires wither the heart.

Observe the world

But trust your inner vision.

Allow things to come and go.

Keep your heart as open as the sky.

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Thank you for sharing this. Interestingly, in the comment section on another substack a couple of readers were talking about how hard it has become to know which way is up given the constant barrage of info., conflicts, manipulations (not to mention most of us have PTSD relative to trusting any “expert” or givernmental authority-my experience around that began with battling the fin/tech elite’s attempted takeover of education).

One commented that he/she found it easy to know which way is up and trusts their experiences when they are in their garden, walking the dog, hiking in the woods, playing with their children, talking to their spouse, celebrating with a friend, etc. You get the point. The profoundness of his/her comment, both in its simplicity and directness, struck me. Caused me to catch my breath....especially in light of the current ongoing and arising conflicts among the latest set of “experts” many are clamoring to follow without question. Is it just another layer of deception (intentional or not is beside the point) encouraging us to give our lives over to others in a strange but still virtual space? I honestly do not have the answer. But I know that I need time and space in the real world to ground me. I would encourage everyone to do the same--to continue to hone one’s intuition and discerning heart skills in spaces where you are not being acted upon or going in search of something--both of those things can affect the lens through which we perceive realities.

These days my biggest problem with the MFM is that it seems to be a closed club fighting the tyranny many of us are battling....and that concerns me. It also concerns me that my efforts to encourage them to broaden the scope of their resistance and incorporate into their offerings viewpoints and experiences that are outside the medical realm as a means of demonstrating/revealing the tactics of the fin/tech elite’s “playbook” have been ignored, challenged as unreasonable, dismissed, etc. It defies reason, but I recognize I am an idealist and perhaps do not appreciate fully the demands on their time already. But I know I am not trying to be critical, I am trying to encourage open discussion about how we might reach more people and wake up the unsuspecting on how many different areas of their lives and thoughts are being “controlled.”

I recently went back to the work of Alison Hawver McDowell on her YT channel. In one of her recent clips she remarked that she was going to shine the light on some areas that are kind of lost at the moment and she was doing so, in part, because in her view the MFM has become stalled out.

Is this by design or purpose? Does it matter? Should we get stuck debating who is right or wrong/-gets credit, yada, yada, yada....while the world is burning.

Like Verne in the animated movie “Over the Hedge”, at this point the tactics of some and the eruption of infighting, has my tail tingling!

It was so refreshing to hear Alison’s view on things and the ways we can try to awaken others or how we can think about matters without the constant fight or flight that fear, trauma, and politics (yes, some of the truths we are fighting are disheartening and the battle is a marathon not a sprint) that the polarization in society and now the MFM induces.

Time to go to our quiet spaces and reflect, to search out peace and stillness so that our intuition gets a voice as well and our hearts do not become too weary to continue to seek the light of love and hope.

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Jan 27, 2023·edited Jan 27, 2023Author

Laura, I agree with you that "camp" mentality is hurting the bigger cause. The stunning part that this is exactly how history has been unfolding for centuries to come. I think that lots of emotions are at play, some healthy, some unhealthy, and it's true for all of us.

I also think that everyone has their own important battle, which is true for the "name" people and the people whose names are not yet broadly known. Each person is fully entitled to choose what's important to them. It's impossible to do everything, which is why there are many of us doing what we do.

I know that when I started this Subtack, my first article was sent to like twelve people. And for a few months, my readership remained humbling. And I never did "marketing" of my Substack, people who came to it came to it because they liked it, for which I am grateful. Today I am lucky to have a reasonably sizeable community here but I never changed my overall policy, I write about what interests me and what feels important, regardless of how "hot" it is or isn't. A few people who came to Substack way after me and did marketing more aggressively grew their lists faster than me, but I think everything balances out. We are all doing our job, and it's much healthier to do just that than to try to be like somebody else.

As far as Alison, she is of course brilliant intellect, but I have not been keeping up with her work unfortunately, she blocked me many months ago for her internal reasons, and since I am a happy person with zero interest in drama, I just stepped aside and have not really thought about it a lot.

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Jan 27, 2023·edited Jan 28, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

There are so many forces at work in the world which undermine our faith and confidence in ourselves. Unperturbed, I think many (though not all) humans are capable of incredible and unquantifiable sensitivity. We have an innate ability to sense and discern, and this ability can be either honed or dulled. Those that have paid attention to it, honed it, can sense things like a razor slices. The opposite is true for those that dull or bury it under the cacophonous din and poisons of modern life.

Personally, I believe we do find clarity in settings that are quiet enough to allow us to connect to this part of our inner selves. Gardening, hiking, meditation, playing music, cooking, making art…so many pathways are available to us.

Sometimes controversy has a way of redirecting our attention away from this connection. Instead of reflecting, I think we can become more emotionally or intellectually invested or attached. The result is usually reactivity and decidedly unclear in its sight. The opposite of insight, one might say.

As you say, there is a generalized level of trauma out in the world. This has spurred people to want to know, and in that ‘knowing’, to judge. This is useful, sometimes. But in a context of urgency, this can become a reflex; here, I think we can confuse ‘wanting to know’ with ‘judging’. So with these storms of turmoil about us, I find it helpful to go slowly, without judgement, observe, seek opportunities for reflection, and trust in that inner discernment to untangle what may feel pressing and urgent.

It’s in the quiet moments that we hone our discernment, build our inner strength, and our capacity to love.

Thank you for the opportunity to reflect on this. 🙏🏽

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Beautifully expressed 💋🙋🏼‍♀️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Thank you, TFish! And thank you for the quote. :)

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Thank you for this. I am disheartened to witness some of the infighting. I understand that there is room for debate about certain points and facts on our side of the aisle but it does cause me some distrust when the big names start calling each other names on the Bird. And those same big names are jockeying for followers and financial backing. I get suspicious of their motives. I don't stop following, just in case they bring some necessary new information to light; but I start taking what they say with MORE, not less, grains of salt. I have critical thinking skills and use them to the best of my ability. I recognize commercial "influencer" behavior when I see it. But it does sadden me because the fractious results are not good for the MFM.

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Thank you, Kathryn!! I went through the disheartened phase, and now I have accepted the fact that unless many, many people individually choose to be very honest internally, and not act of ego motive (I don't mean some kind of artificial moral purity, I mean the real thing, a real dedication to the spiritual and factual truth no matter who ends up being right or wrong about any particular thing, done with love for the people)... unless many people choose that, we are just going to largely walk in circles, continuing the historical trends that have been around for centuries. It is a very humbling realization but also I think it's realistic. In the meanwhile, we can build islands of love around us and stand tall.

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I agree. I do not like the financial side that many technically within MFM promote. The truth should be free as the Truth sets us free.

And in the beginning everything was free...

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Effortlessness has usually been a great indicator for me that what I’m doing is on the “right” path. As if the universe wants to validate your choice so even the challenges that come your way are, dare I say, fun to overcome. As it is with the old adage, “the more you resist, the more it persists,” the MFM has done a great job at spreading awareness and putting up guards against tyranny, but it’s time it focuses on healing and offering exit strategies from current destructive paradigms and offer parallel society options, as per your point.

I’m glad to be here at this crazy time in this crazy jungle, and I’m blessed to be sharing the space with you and others. I don’t even mind the chaos agents all that much. Maybe they don’t realise they’re making us stronger by providing the challenges necessary for us to evolve as a species out of the stagnation.

I agree with nymusicdaily about making art and music and writing books. We can take ourselves seriously and that’s fine, but I wanna have fun and joy too because it’s what gives me reason.

I love your heart, Tessa. Not in a kumbaya way. In an inane knowing way. This article is so on the nose.

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Thank you, Visceral Adventure!! I am amazed with the power we have to do good. When we focus on that in sincerity, the power is tremendous. And that is exactly the reason why the not so well-intended people are working so hard. It is because we have the power to make good choices and when we do, they are gone!

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💯 let’s make them work overtime to try and overcome our authentic goodness and joy!

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The division in the MFM is just what the Octopus wants. Some of it is simple acrimony about what is fact or theory. Also sadly we see open war in the MFM with legal action between individuals. That is infuriating. Without naming names, it is caustic beyond reality how a well-known person in the MFM is suing another good person in the movent for millions for libel.

We must behave in a mature fashion in our intercource of ideas. It is crucial we learn from our common enemy and see how “it” goes about in goose step protecting the Covdian narrative that trashes the MFM (and fuels democide). This we must focus back in unison exposing the evil of the Covdian cult or we are truly doomed. The Octopus has the momentum and for the sake of Humanity, it is time to put aside differencs and focus on the core issues we all agree.

Tessa, your essays like this one serve as great philosophical lessons to help us with our understanding of the evil behind the push of the detestable and sinister mental mastubation of infusing people with nothing less than an experimental poison.

This will not stop until the vast majority of people say no. We know too many people who still have no idea and accept people dropping like fruit flies as normal. We have to red pill the brainwashed. Social media like the Stack is good to share info between those not programmed by the programmers.

To that end, I have created sticky notes with QR codes. I hand them to strangers and say “please read this” The code is a link to one of the many good and rock solid videos exposing the Octopus.

Tessa thanks for the opportunity to express myself here. And much gratitude goes to those reading my missive here. God speed to the MFM.

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Thank you so much, Frederick!! Thank you both for your beautiful words here and also for your work.

And yes, we are living in very puzzling times, and also very educational ones. To me, it was a learning process going from the original expectation that everyone was just going to bond together and be pure and honest and do everything we can to defeat the monster. And then history just kept happening in the usual, corrupt way, and it was a lesson in humility for me..And in hope for the future because it only means we have to wait longer, but in the end, there is way around defeating the inner tyrant and then the external one. Hugs!!

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By the way, I forgot to add, I have a theory that the individual you are referring to was to some extent set up to act on vanity instead of even-headedness. Which is to say, things may be more complex than they seem, and we are best of not taking sides per se. But that only emphasizes my main point about the importance of rejecting our own bad habits and praying for clarity and being truly our best selves.

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Jan 27, 2023·edited Jan 27, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Indeed! It is so difficult to not "take sides" as even the least programmed people still have that machine ingrained Pavlovian instinct (lack of better word). That includes me! Furthermore, it is just as easy to get suck in the middy middle. For sure, what I call the Octopus (or corporatocracy) is much more complex that what we can see from a macro level. Regardless, if preternatural (spirits other than God) or simple corruption, it all has no bounds. My biggest take away is what binds the Octopus together - money. With so much fiat currency and debt of 31 trillion, it is a matter of time it will all crash. No question. Then we no longer have the time and energy to even engage in these important exchanges. I do wonder what the elite have in mind for their comfort as "we the ants" (in their warped minds) will be unable to continue as their half-slaves (as we are today). Do they have unlimited supplies? Figuratively speaking, we know the elite do not know how use a screwdriver. At that point we the people will have the "hammer" (again figuratively speaking).

BTW - it is an absolute honor and a joy to have these exchanges with you Tessa!

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Thank you Frederick, and the honor is mutual!! xo

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well, my conviction is the unnamed person suing (at least two suits) other well known people in MFM IS THE SPY. Long ago I was made aware of the fact his narrative does not hold water (was he an idiot to take the risky shot himself ?? He who was among all other people perfectly aware how risky it was?) and is full of subliminal references to enhance his standing (e.g. he likes "carpentry"... to make connection/imply "goodness" ). And he all but admits he works closely with spies and ...by this connection alone implicated to be one of them. At that point there were two options: either a real whistleblower - which made him a dead man. Or the other one: a plant on a mission of subversion. The latter proves correct with time.

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Tessa, I have been reading your articles for some time. You have a very spiritual and practical approach that speaks to me.

I enjoy the way you present your ideas. You organize them perfectly, so my intellectual part is happy. You explore all the relevant aspects, and your argument is complete.

And then you draw on the inherent simplicity of the spiritual aspect of the human experience. Love, understanding and growth. Remaining centered in our spiritual self (however we may define it) and our values and letting that guide us through the madness and the dysfunctional relationships.

You inspire me with everything you write. I don't always comment, but please know that I am always grateful for your courage and your honesty.

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I am so grateful for your words, Deby! I think I commented earlier but maybe I didn't actually send it, or Substack ate it, I don't know.

Your words make me so happy, I think there is so much beauty in this world, and we are all so powerful when we choose to connect to our soul in full, and stay connected.

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My thoughts exactly. She also encourages participation and does not claim a proprietary interest in “truth.” Perhaps most importantly she has a gifted way of reminding us that the journey is a personal one and needs to be approached in that manner. While admiring some of the experts along the way and listening to their counsel can be helpful, they should be guides not demagogues. Treating people as heroes rather than with respect as somebody (like many) that have special skill sets to illuminate what has evolved and what is unfolding is critical to real and sustainable change.

I saw and experienced this first hand in my local battle against Gates et al and their impact on my state’s education system. I was outspoken which led to me being the leader locally but the reality was I hated that. To truly succeed we needed more people engaged and doing the work, not just a handful. The reality there was when we won a battle many thought we’d won the war and they went back to sleep.

Once you see the pattern and also the destructive nature of hero worship, you also become more discerning about who are leaders that understand the importance of participation as a way to soundly grow a movement and those who are basking in being viewed as an “expert” and then become obsessed with maintaining their newly acquired standing.

Generally, I think most people just want to live their lives and until recently (despite the excesses, abuse, and ongoing corruption behind the scenes) the actions of the fin/tech elite in owning us have gone unnoticed or have been an acceptable price to pay for our security and standard of living (let’s face it as a society we are living well beyond our means and have allowed that to be funded by predatory and scheming philanthropists and pandering politicians). But now, with COVID for many the spell has been broken or it has confirmed for others what they had suspected or that symptoms they have seen or experienced of possible demise are not a figment of one’s overactive imagination.

The reality with humanity making real change is, in my view, only truly possible when more people are participating in the challenge, examination, and exploration of these issues in different areas and then beginning to see the intersections. We need leaders who understand this and can delegate the work and approach (as well as bringing that work to the public) in a way that reveals the enormity of the beast we are fighting and the task at hand to slay it and still have a foundation upon which to build a better future for generations to come.

But sadly, I’m beginning to think that is pie in the sky and wonder if my time would be better spent tending things in my life and finding ways to ensure that my children know how to survive in a variety of circumstances. That is, get busy working on teaching them how to tune in to their intuition. How to be respectful but firm when something is amiss. How to own their viewpoints and experiences without fear of confrontation. Etc.

I have done much of this work with them already, and my example during COVID (fighting every step to keep them unjabbed in a hostile public and private setting). But now, I want to turn back to a more friendly and hospitable way of teaching and growing because many in the MFM seem to be exhibiting signs in their personalities and tactics that resemble Fauci et al and that honestly makes me so very sad, angry and disheartened--but not defeated.

My intuition is telling me it is time to take a break from the as well--to ensure that I do not lose my spiritual bearings in the latest game of virtual manipulations/propaganda sand misguided efforts to win the “minds and hearts of the people.” My heart and mind are mine.

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Thank you Laura!!

I think the thirst for domination is so ingrained in our culture that many people feel naked if they don't dominate large numbers of people. To me, leadership, whenever I am in that position (which all of us are in sometimes), is about trying to serve the best I can, and doing good for the world. It doesn't mean that it always works perfectly, but this is where I personally come from. We are all important, we are all gifted, and denying it is myopic.

But then the society trains us that leadership means having a lot of adoring addicts around us. How satisfying is that, even? It is so much more pleasant to be respected by people in a human manner, in earnest, and be a part of the community of honest thinkers who all have something brilliant to contribute. It just feels a lot better than zombieland!!

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Jan 27, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

A wise woman. Thankyou for your comments

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Business is a juggle.

A few thoughts, are there more people on stack willing to pay to read or more people wanting to be paid? Consider supply and demand when feeling out the viability.

The truth is a juggle.

Too many varying variables to know what passes for truth among humans. I do know a few truths, the Earth will continue to spin as it orbits the sun, and all the influences this system promotes.

Life is a juggle.

If you want to eat you better start growing food enough.

I keep paying the wrong authors, I get sick of them quickly once I demand more, more excellent content, and become increasingly critical of ideas I don't agree with. This business model is freaky.

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Substack as a commodity. What could go wrong?

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Ha!

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My business model is free, take it or leave it.

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David."

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/

P.S. David is the son of Covid. :)

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For some of us early Substack readers, who came here hoping to find uncensored truth (which we found in abundance early on), untrammeled by evidence of "click bait" and sensationalism, it is the new competition for the "freedom buck" that is most concerning. None of us should begrudge talented and brave authors from making money from their efforts. As is often the case, the better authors will attract the larger numbers of subscribers. But, as this competition heated up, one could sense that, for some authors, the competition led to fewer incisive articles and more rehash of old and well-known material, sometimes several times each day.

The old adage, "nothing good lasts forever" seems to apply. While I support as many authors as my budget and my time allow, I do find I have to curate my inbox more than ever, and I pass over many headlines (especially the URGENT and BREAKING) headlines with subjects that appear to be old news.

Again, I'm delighted that authors here are reaping the benefits of their work, and I'm delighted to contribute to their success. I was hoping, though, that Substack would not turn into a new form of social media. (Talk about hesitating to push the "Post" button.)

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You don't know how loudly and joyously I am laughing at "especially the URGENT and BREAKING," thank you for that!!! This is so true!!!

I worked in the media (the noble kind at the time, a high standards indigenous publication), and I am used to the standard where "breaking" is good for a couple of hours, and then it's just news. And then it's no longer news. It's been waaaaay overused to the point of self-destruction.

But that's nerdy technical stuff, beyond that, you can just sense the vibe and see what is in the driver's seat, the truth or clickbait.. And in a way, it's an eternal problem where a little bit of corruption leads to more corruption and then more corruption, and when just a few less pure-minded folks jump in the midst of the pure-minded folks, then the pure-minded folks are suddenly faced with the baffling challenge of competing on the toilet level of marketing, and the humbling existential lesson is not to become afraid but continue with the truth while adjusting to the environment (that more or less sums us the challenge of our civilization, too).

I could go on for hours about this, I've been thinking about this for years

And I am still laughing about "especially the URGENT and BREAKING"! xoxo

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To be honest, as I mentioned, I was apprehensive about sending my comment. I'm both happy and relieved that you did not take offense at even the possibility that someone (not me) would be critical of your not sharing your writing for free. And I'm glad you enjoyed my ALL CAPS stuff.

A long time ago I was banned from a Substack for asking a simple question about restricting comments to paid subscribers. The author assumed that I was being critical of his efforts to earn income from his articles, but that was not my intent at all. I was merely suggesting that, because of the importance of the subject in the article, open comments would be a good thing for open discussion. At least he was kind enough to refund my "unused" subscription money, but the language and vitriol when he banned me took me by surprise. He even once trolled one of my comments on a different Substack I felt like I was being stalked.

So, I'm rambling again. I'm glad you didn't take offense; I enjoy your Substack immensely and would not want to see you stop writing. Take care.

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I did not see even a hint of anything offensive in your comment!! I thought it was a very well thought-through comment. And the ALL CAPS stuff, precious. :) As it happens, I am yet to send my first paid post (which I plan on doing shortly but I have an open offer for anyone who genuinely can't afford a paid subscription but wants access to paid articles, to comp them, I think it's fair).

My primary goal is to do good for the world, but of course I also need to eat, otherwise, l will die of starvation and will write nothing at all, or I will just write about food :). The reality is that all work, including intellectual work, takes time. I take a long time to write big articles. Editing interviews is also time-consuming, I do it thoroughly and don't cut corners. So it is work like any work. Real work.

My grudge is against grifting and sensationalism, as well as dishonesty and and poor fact-checking. Now, anyone can make a mistake, absolutely anyone. But when an honest person makes a mistake, he says, "Hey, I made a mistake, sorry." That's a normal way to do things. The not so normal way to do things is to double down on the original position so as to avoid admitting to a mistake. Etc. etc.

And I am sorry that you had to go through the experience for being banned for expressing your sincere opinion. I keep my comments open, I debated with myself many time whether I should keep them open to paid subscribers only but I like an open discussion. At the same time, I don't blame authors who close public comments, it's a personal choice, everybody makes it the way it makes sense to them at a given time.

Hugs to you!

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I won't pay for truth; it should be free as it was in the beginning...

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A philosophical question (based on what you say in your bio): when you still working as a building surveyor, would you do all your surveying work for free, truthfully?

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I would have done if I could. I even once said it to a chap. I have always been employed though so academic. I was also offering a product, my reports.

If someone wanted me to put what I write in print in a book then I might reasonably ask to cover the costs, but my wife and I have enough to live on. I would rather do something else practical like gardening to earn extra pennies if I really needed the money which I don't.

It is written a worker is worthy of his wages, but the so-called big names in this Covid war already have plenty of money so why charge for the truth? That's why we are in such a mess now, because the truth was not freely and widely made available about the vile big pharma program for example.

Even now we have 'Buy the book about the Covid 19 truth' or similar in so many words. Joseph Mercola does that via Amazon. He is exceedingly well off, although what he does with his money is his own affair.

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Bravo Tessa! 🙏 Wonderful reading. Thank you!💗

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Thank you!!! Took me forever to write this one!

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Gorgeous piece, Tessa! thanks so much. With warm thoughts and fulsome hugs from the tropical highland forests - some call it a jungle :-) - of northern Thailand!

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Thank you, Cat!!! Hugs back to you!!!! Tropical forests sound amazing from where I am :)))

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I can imagine.

It is very nice indeed.

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You are not making me long for tropical forests any less, you know :)

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555 (Thai for hahaha)

Well, if you are ever in this part of the world I would be happy to show you the little village and mountain trails around here. :-)

Hmm... i suppose that this might still not be helping much. 555

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:) And I learned something new!!

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"It's all about control. It's all about compliance."

But according to award-winning author Jeff. A. Tucker, there's still hope for humanity.

Some brave Canadian independent journalists work on this:

https://youtu.be/sy1N7Q-cmxs

But have read this too:

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-fda-major-shift-an-annual-cull?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=436968&post_id=98788926&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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Few thoughts on all of this:

•I have seen the exact same trends you described on the broader level also emerge in smaller local antimandate groups I work with and I reached the same conclusion you did as to why they were happening.

•There are a few people I believe are bad actors (a few people in the MFM are very good at vetting people but no one really knows that they do this) but interestingly, I have never heard of anyone besides those parties with more experience flagging them as such or complaining about them online.

•To some extent I know many of the people (e.g. through mutual friends) who many very negative things have been said about (e.g., this person is controlled opposition). Based on this first hand knowledge, I do not agree with those accusations.

•However, virtually no one is perfect and many people in the MFM movement have plenty of personality issues just like everyone else. This doesn't bother me, but our society is designed to set everyone in a position of influence up as a perfect human who should be attacked for any human shortcomings they have. For example, if you take me, most people who know me think I'm a good person and really appreciate all the effort I put out to effectively help the world around me, but at the same time, I could easily find a way to focus on my own human shortcomings and use them to produce a narrative I'm a bad person. I have the luxury of being anonymous, so I don't have to deal with that (people just judge me off of what I do here) but almost everyone else in the MFM has to deal with that on a daily basis.

•Every single community I have ever participated in has had grifters enter and try to exploit the group; this is a reality of capitalism you can't really get around. In my eyes most of the conflicts I am seeing happen now are occurring because people either feel their new livelihoods are being threatened or because people want to take out someone with a following to attract their business. I wish this wasn't going on, but this is also what I have seen happen so so so many times before.

•While a lot of people are livid about the grifter accusation being placed onto the MFM, I actually ultimately view it as a positive thing. Because it's been made clear you can make money being a journalist (or whatever else) in this area, it is motivating a LOT of people to try to do that. Because that motivation is there, it is causing subjects like vaccine safety go from being fringe messages to something everyone is trying to share with others. This is transformative and would not be possible if there was not a financial incentive to do it.

•For example, I've talked with friends who have been at the vaccine safety issue for decades and put more work into it that most can even imagine (along with suffering greatly to do so). Comparatively in the space of slighty under a year, I've been able to get more traffic than they have received over the entire course of their full time career working at this issue (which is kind of unfair). However, the reason I've been able to is because the money people can make promoting this issue has created such a broad platform for awakening the public that it passively spreads out to me as well, and this is something that millions upon millions being spent for a PR campaign could have never done.

•A lot of people are ultimately forced to do work that you could characterize as grifting; it dosen't particularly benefit the people who pay for it, and those customers have to be manipulated into wanting it. My philosophy has been to do my best to have work where the people who pay me feel they benefitted from my service and they got a good deal on it...which is very challenging to do in our economic system (but I essentially have). On SS, my goal instead is to get the best ratio of public good to work put in that I can and this is an incredible platform for doing that. I still keep on going back and forth on the monetizing part because that's not why I came here, but people frequently ask me to accept payments and I have causes I want to use extra financing to support.

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Jan 27, 2023·edited Jan 27, 2023Author

Thank you. I agree on many points, with an additional philosophical layer.

• What I described here is largely a description of the civilizational trends, this dynamic repeats again and again in many areas, and in our civilization itself. (How much of what we believe is really, really true? Big question.)

• In the case of COVID dissidence, it is just the newest, freshest example that is straight in our faces. And it is the "battle of our times" for us, I think very similarly to how other attempted (and often successfully implemented in the end) reforms and restructurings were the "battle of their time" for the people who walked the Earth before us.

• I would say that the most drastic global reform that has ever taken place in known history was the transition to modern state structures and modern "world religions." Still a very new thing historically speaking (comparing to hundreds of thousands of years or maybe even millions of years of human existence) but to us, it is all we know right now, all our parents know, our grandparents, and their parents etc., and it feels like the only way to be. Oh, and before that, time. https://tessa.substack.com/p/supersqueezed. And after that, the written language, although the formal adoption of the written language kind of coincides with the solidification of the mindset resulting in modern state structures.

Anyway, back to Earth.

• I personally think that the vast majority (perhaps not all but most) of the big names that are now under the scolding sword, do not work for the other side but are simply imperfect people with own hang-ups and weaknesses and egos and what not. This conclusion rings true to me (going back to my Truth diagram), and I think it to be correct. Why? By applying my general life experience and "reading" the vibe.

And since I don't expect perfection, I usually filter out the weaknesses and focus on the commonalities. This just seems more productive. Cancel culture is dysfunctional, in my opinion. Does it mean that we should not have debates with each other on the things we disagree upon? Of course it doesn't mean that, but the nature of public internet debates is wobbly and leans toward the “court house” format by definition (which in many cases is counterproductive), and then as it reverberates, it gets to the "he said she said," and then everything is in the toilet.

Public square is a good concept, and it can work wonderfully (and probably did historically) when every participant is honest, humble, and has he eyes exclusively on the truth, but it is unlikely to happen in internet debates, and so, it ends up in the toilet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf71YotfykQ

And yes, popular love and hate follows fickle patterns, one day someone is everyone's darling, the next day (and possibly with some help from the actual alphabets), they are the devil. For that reason alone, it seems both happy and practical to just do your thing and do it from the heart and not be sensationalist. It's also better for the truth, which is why I do it.

• As far as "grifting" in the MFM, it saddens me. It is to be expected, it is not shocking that it's there, but if people mean what we are saying, i.e. an existential threat, etc., then it seems unthinkable to be grifting around it. It is just emotionally incompatible.

Doing good work and being fairly compensated for it is fair and just. I, for example, spend a lot of time writing my articles and editing interviews and doing research, and it is fair to be paid for it. That said, I am yet to post a "paid" article, and when I start posting them, I have a standing offer to all readers to comp anyone who genuinely can’t afford to pay. I am still thinking it through but I think on the inside, we know the difference between paying for good work and grifting activities.

Conclusion: Just like my diagram over there shows, there are many elements to the equation. We cannot make sense of it without engaging all parts of us, and there is no formula. That is the challenge and the joy of it.

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Thank you for this thoughtful reply Tess! :)

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Thank you for same! We had a nice exchange of thoughtful replies. :)

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While Substack has driven some traffic to the issue of vaccine safety, the biggest issue propelling the traffic was not Substack. It was a rushed, experimental, liability-free, massively-propagandized, mandated, dangerous shot that created the demand for knowledge on the issue.

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

💬 there is no “one way” to fight the Great Reset.

🔥! I’m fighting a mighty temptation to do a blue-haired side-shaved impersonation, namely to repeat the above line line after line, until cows come home. I mean davosrobofolk have gone bust 😇

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I can't resist putting in these related tidbits about narcissists and psychopaths.

An exploration into "how the other side lives" from Neuroscientist and "Pro-social Psychopath", James Fallon Ph.D. wherein the entertaining former "Hobbit" research-scientist tells how he became involved in PET-scan neuroimaging of mass murderers, for insanity-defenses at his center in Houston. He did find a distinctly identifiable pattern of brain activity, which seemed to exclude the capacity for empathy. Then life got interesting... Thanks Robin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzqn6Z_Iss0

The Canadian premier may just be a narcissist, but he might be a sociopath too. If he's just a narcissist he might feel less threatened by the hoi-polloi.

Justin Trudeau Called A Tyrant As He Is Swarmed By Angry Mandate Protesters

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/justin-trudeau-called-tyrant-he-swarmed-angry-mandate-protesters

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"And now for something different...." :) Thank you, John, that looks intriguing, hopefully not too creepy to watch!!

I think Trudeau is so beholden to his masters that with the people, he is just playing a role, thinking it's all barely real comparing to his real relationship with his masters. I was thinking about that scene, too!

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It's about 15 minutes and he's bright, charming, disarming and not creepy at all. His mom tells him something at a party about his father's family history... "there but for the grace of God"...

:-)

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Unless we redeem back to truth that heals, we persist in a 'pathology of the psyche' - or rather of the mind that takes a seeming call to war from a sense of being attacked or unjustly denied by Others - be that people or world (or gods & demons such as virus and vaccine).

The idea of a medical freedom movement is already an artefact of a medicalisation of health - and the pharmacological marketing of such 'medications' for 'medically' defined sickness.

Those invested in pharma-interventions to suppress or fix a 'broken or unsecure' biological mechanism, may march against mandatory experiment while defending protection racket that they are dependent on.

The idea of freedom as being free of checks and balances - such are natural consequence - drive the deregulation of any conscious governing service, for a freedom to GET maximal profit for minimal cost - not least by outsourcing the pain to those who demand unconsciousness as their 'freedom' from pain arising from a mis-guided or mis-aligned sense of thought, feeling, speech & behaviour.

The limiting, and sacrificially destructive core of a false image or model of life is rising to awareness as a 'death cult' - at which point the Many want old normal back (buy some more time).

But there is not going back to not knowing what we know - but the attempt drives deep self-betrayal with amplified destructive consequence.

What is rarely understood is that 'normalised dissociation from pain - or unconsciousness packaged to socially masked behaviours, is unnatural, but passes for life by keeping the sacrifice hidden or masked as virtue or necessity by narrative substitutions and truth we are not ready or as yet unwilling to face, to own and thus to release unto healing.

The nature of defences against healing are anything that passes as false solution or anything that passes as threat that calls for sacrifice Now! - Or Else!.

What and where Is life?

What Is freedom?

We have made each and together our own versions of life, self and world. But we can only truly join and share in the love of truth and the truth of love. War has no time for anything that would undermine its cause - and now as the Final Battle of Good v Evil, shall any and everything born or breathing be sacrificed to The Cause?

For such is the 'worship' of evil that is 'justifies' or gives basis for claim to attack and deny anyone, override anything, in terms of a lesser paying to save from a greater evil. Thus vaccine damage is but a corollary or side effect to the Cause - that holds back The Terror. Denying freedom the 'sad but necessary 'cost' to SAVE from Planetary Catastrophe.

But it never was about climate or health or life at all - but about leverage and control over life running as if to serve or protect and empower.

Grievance given power becomes a tool for breaking life from within.

Medicine that serves grounding, centring and aligning in wholeness is not really Outside life, but can seem to be from the mind of a masking control over separation and struggle within itself - as if releasing defences would let evil rush in.

See how it is by our own defences that we generate such dissociations as to progressively lose our feelling of life to an masking armour.

This need not be!

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