I love this article SO much! I've been thinking along the same lines in so many ways...I think a lot about the work of Chris Wark of "Chris Beat Cancer" (who survived late-stage colon cancer decades ago using natural methods). He named his website "Chris Beat Cancer" but has explained that he would name it "Chris Heals Cancer" if he could start over with the name, because he overhauled his perspective and habits, and took healing, loving steps (self-love and love toward others), rather than hostile/aggressive steps...Cancer was his enemy at one point, and we are surely facing an enemy in the globalist/transhumanist critters, but I think that most of us were leading OURSELVES into slavery with the technology anyway, even before the globalists recently stepped things up. I think we MUST unwind ourselves from super-squeezed lifestyle (as you accurately call it) and from voluntarily submitting to the repetitive, hypnotizing material on-line, as a first step...I recently moved from a townhome with no yard in the city to a house in the country with nearly an acre, and I already feel somewhat transformed just having some connection to nature again...I can't say strongly enough how much I appreciate your work!
Thanks Tessa. Running the assembly line a little faster than can be managed without stress is a primary management technique to extract value, and the other is "intermediation", adding layers of rules and compliance work to the flow of societal wealth creation.
We are in a late stage of intermediation, so the workers who create wealth are stressed, and many are opting out in any way they might be able to find. There are layers of managers and compliance officers, who are stressed, because they must find ways to "increase productivity" and reduce errors", while "increasing profitability" and always "complying with all pertinent regulations and procedures".
What I find, working my vegetable gardens year-round, is that the time urgencies of having a lot of tomatoes and peppers to make into Christmas-present-salsa are very different from the relentless pressures in a clock and documentation driven work setting. Planting seeds, pulling and pulling and pulling weeds for hours, before it rains, in the right timing of life and the seasons feels normal. There is urgency, sometimes it persists for days or weeks, but not at night. Sleep is good when you are living a normal human life.
How can one live a normal human life without being homeless? Nobody wants that, but it is the threat which looms ever more menacingly these days. Your path into love and humanity does not have a one-size-fits-all action-plan, except to love and act compassionately. I seek divine guidance. My own internal emotional blocks are my teachers.
Sometimes I feel a fear or desperation which does not seem to arise from my own life, and I practice compassion meditation. Our souls call out to each other sometimes. We should meditate compassionately, because to give is also to receive in this way.
I can feel how the supersqueeze was instrumental in my own descent into disease. Regarding the on the cellular level part, have you come across Dr Navaiux's Cell Danger Response work - this gives a mechanism to precisely what your lay out ( http://www.outthinkingparkinsons.com/articles/cell-danger-response ). I am totally with you on the way forward.
As a night owl that has a career based on the early bird getting the most worms I realized how unnatural setting the clock was. I would stay up all night long living a passionate creative relationship, then be forced to set a clock to wake me up after just a few hours sleep because the corporate office decided long ago that the business day for exempt professionals should start well before the sun rises. Their justification is that they pay us so much and give us so many fringe benefits that we should be “professional “ and work a couple hours before and after the “blue collar, hourly employees “ have left. If you are artistic and creative and not just a drone, you quickly realize how insane, unhealthy, and soul-crushing your “fancy professional position “ is , but you are trapped by the high monthly salary that enables you a high standard of comforts that you have less and less time to enjoy. Reading your Substack has become a guilty pleasure, or better analogy, a middle finger to the corporate office since I can read or listen any time day or night. I discovered their time trap too late. Your articles may save many young souls who are fortunate enough to find you.
I am not in a financial position to become a paying subscriber but I want to let you know that I deeply appreciate your writing,it resonates beautifully with me! Thanks so much for putting all this effort in,you are truly refreshing in so many ways…much love and joy to you…Herbie…Australia
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Few people want to live in the natural world. We prefer our climate controlled spaces and creature comforts. Outside, it's often too cold, too hot, too wet or too dry. Biting insects harass us.
Until we return to an agrarian lifestyle, spending time in parks, or working out in the gym is recommended. Or take the plunge and change your lifestyle from urban to rural. Yet the trend worldwide is the opposite. Abandoning the plow for the hamster wheel.
I've often had the same thoughts, but they didn't revolve around the clock -- they revolved around the automobile. I believe that life moves at walking speed, and the automobile basically allows us to ignore much of life while we're busy speeding from one thing to another.
Just as an example, when you're walking to the corner store, you can stop and talk to your neighbor who's outside. You can wave hello to the couple sitting out on the porch. You can connect to the people around you. In a car, you lose all that.
Enjoyed your article very much, thank you. At nearly age 80, I've somewhat enjoyed the last 3 years as an exciting conclusion to my life. Especially since in the last 2 years so many like you are exposing the truth. Frankly I knew the pandemic was BS from the get go because of my experience in public health and having suffered worse illnesses myself. I only feel sorry for the little curly, dark haired, children around here who face a challenging if not outright dangerous future.
This is my favorite piece of yours yet and speaks to something that I think is vital to the human condition: fear. So much of what motivates us is based in fear. Grappling with understanding our fears and then overcoming them can resolve far more of our petty personal issues than we realize. It won’t solve them all, not by any measure. But it prevents the meaningless from getting in the way of the truly important.
The four temperaments and transmarginal inhibition experiments by Pavlov give a lot of info on why some people end up numbing themselves with this "torture".
Thanks for this. It’s the jive I’ve thought for years, while participating in the hive, ever since I read Alvin Toffer’s “Future Shock” in the ‘70s as I started my career. Thanks for summing it all up from another perspective. Retirement has it’s benefits; returning to soul love is one. Much of it to you. BTW, you’re a great written word communicator.
It felt good to read you , Tessa, after a terrible day where I've put everything to measure, all this confusion, the waisted life, the loneliness of feeling alone stuck with people, well I wont say it, only that they're not my people regardless of the shared DNA, lucky me they're the last of the western middle class, but they were 'zelenskied' too.
This is an amazing post that is very long but without even one extraneous sentence and the thoughts are top notch. I literally read the whole thing despite the length and it is amazing and very deep thinking.
I am so glad that you continue to have the gumption to keep on banging about these things. especially the hungry ghosts. its a huge aspect of what drives us and our world. the mysterious, the unknowable, the unseen and until we start really exercising our other senses, like the tiger used to do for us when we walked through the wild, we will continue to open ourselves up for a dinner from those much more insidious kind of guestsm- fear, spiritual starvation, hopelessness and denial.
And yes i hear you on the marketing because i have my own shameful moment when i was grabbed of the streets of Amsterdam by scientologists, who knew how to spot a lost looking being - and I was, newly arrived intimidated, lonely and also absolutely broke, and then continue to put me through a rigorous questionnaire which at the end proves that Im absolutely crazy and need to buy the book if i want any chance of functioning. Unfortunately this was eons ago and I couldn't return it or get my money back and yes I am still angry at them for taking something of mine that I couldn't afford to give with their fear mongering tactics.
Tessa, have you read Iain McGilchrist's book "The Matter with Things"? I think you'd get a great deal out of it, and don't seem like someone put off by a *really long* read. His YouTube channel is also worth a look.
Good post. Definitely feels as if our biological beings are being stressed. While there are numerous factors for this for certain we will not discover healing ways to cope through the biotechnological madness of the digital world as currently employed. There are many ways to destabilize and endanger animals.
I love this article SO much! I've been thinking along the same lines in so many ways...I think a lot about the work of Chris Wark of "Chris Beat Cancer" (who survived late-stage colon cancer decades ago using natural methods). He named his website "Chris Beat Cancer" but has explained that he would name it "Chris Heals Cancer" if he could start over with the name, because he overhauled his perspective and habits, and took healing, loving steps (self-love and love toward others), rather than hostile/aggressive steps...Cancer was his enemy at one point, and we are surely facing an enemy in the globalist/transhumanist critters, but I think that most of us were leading OURSELVES into slavery with the technology anyway, even before the globalists recently stepped things up. I think we MUST unwind ourselves from super-squeezed lifestyle (as you accurately call it) and from voluntarily submitting to the repetitive, hypnotizing material on-line, as a first step...I recently moved from a townhome with no yard in the city to a house in the country with nearly an acre, and I already feel somewhat transformed just having some connection to nature again...I can't say strongly enough how much I appreciate your work!
Thanks Tessa. Running the assembly line a little faster than can be managed without stress is a primary management technique to extract value, and the other is "intermediation", adding layers of rules and compliance work to the flow of societal wealth creation.
We are in a late stage of intermediation, so the workers who create wealth are stressed, and many are opting out in any way they might be able to find. There are layers of managers and compliance officers, who are stressed, because they must find ways to "increase productivity" and reduce errors", while "increasing profitability" and always "complying with all pertinent regulations and procedures".
What I find, working my vegetable gardens year-round, is that the time urgencies of having a lot of tomatoes and peppers to make into Christmas-present-salsa are very different from the relentless pressures in a clock and documentation driven work setting. Planting seeds, pulling and pulling and pulling weeds for hours, before it rains, in the right timing of life and the seasons feels normal. There is urgency, sometimes it persists for days or weeks, but not at night. Sleep is good when you are living a normal human life.
How can one live a normal human life without being homeless? Nobody wants that, but it is the threat which looms ever more menacingly these days. Your path into love and humanity does not have a one-size-fits-all action-plan, except to love and act compassionately. I seek divine guidance. My own internal emotional blocks are my teachers.
Sometimes I feel a fear or desperation which does not seem to arise from my own life, and I practice compassion meditation. Our souls call out to each other sometimes. We should meditate compassionately, because to give is also to receive in this way.
I can feel how the supersqueeze was instrumental in my own descent into disease. Regarding the on the cellular level part, have you come across Dr Navaiux's Cell Danger Response work - this gives a mechanism to precisely what your lay out ( http://www.outthinkingparkinsons.com/articles/cell-danger-response ). I am totally with you on the way forward.
As a night owl that has a career based on the early bird getting the most worms I realized how unnatural setting the clock was. I would stay up all night long living a passionate creative relationship, then be forced to set a clock to wake me up after just a few hours sleep because the corporate office decided long ago that the business day for exempt professionals should start well before the sun rises. Their justification is that they pay us so much and give us so many fringe benefits that we should be “professional “ and work a couple hours before and after the “blue collar, hourly employees “ have left. If you are artistic and creative and not just a drone, you quickly realize how insane, unhealthy, and soul-crushing your “fancy professional position “ is , but you are trapped by the high monthly salary that enables you a high standard of comforts that you have less and less time to enjoy. Reading your Substack has become a guilty pleasure, or better analogy, a middle finger to the corporate office since I can read or listen any time day or night. I discovered their time trap too late. Your articles may save many young souls who are fortunate enough to find you.
I am not in a financial position to become a paying subscriber but I want to let you know that I deeply appreciate your writing,it resonates beautifully with me! Thanks so much for putting all this effort in,you are truly refreshing in so many ways…much love and joy to you…Herbie…Australia
Few people want to live in the natural world. We prefer our climate controlled spaces and creature comforts. Outside, it's often too cold, too hot, too wet or too dry. Biting insects harass us.
Until we return to an agrarian lifestyle, spending time in parks, or working out in the gym is recommended. Or take the plunge and change your lifestyle from urban to rural. Yet the trend worldwide is the opposite. Abandoning the plow for the hamster wheel.
I've often had the same thoughts, but they didn't revolve around the clock -- they revolved around the automobile. I believe that life moves at walking speed, and the automobile basically allows us to ignore much of life while we're busy speeding from one thing to another.
Just as an example, when you're walking to the corner store, you can stop and talk to your neighbor who's outside. You can wave hello to the couple sitting out on the porch. You can connect to the people around you. In a car, you lose all that.
What do you think? Am I just crazy?
Enjoyed your article very much, thank you. At nearly age 80, I've somewhat enjoyed the last 3 years as an exciting conclusion to my life. Especially since in the last 2 years so many like you are exposing the truth. Frankly I knew the pandemic was BS from the get go because of my experience in public health and having suffered worse illnesses myself. I only feel sorry for the little curly, dark haired, children around here who face a challenging if not outright dangerous future.
This is my favorite piece of yours yet and speaks to something that I think is vital to the human condition: fear. So much of what motivates us is based in fear. Grappling with understanding our fears and then overcoming them can resolve far more of our petty personal issues than we realize. It won’t solve them all, not by any measure. But it prevents the meaningless from getting in the way of the truly important.
The four temperaments and transmarginal inhibition experiments by Pavlov give a lot of info on why some people end up numbing themselves with this "torture".
https://www.sott.net/article/136090-Transmarginal-Inhibition
Some of us are choleric and fight longer...
Thanks for this. It’s the jive I’ve thought for years, while participating in the hive, ever since I read Alvin Toffer’s “Future Shock” in the ‘70s as I started my career. Thanks for summing it all up from another perspective. Retirement has it’s benefits; returning to soul love is one. Much of it to you. BTW, you’re a great written word communicator.
It felt good to read you , Tessa, after a terrible day where I've put everything to measure, all this confusion, the waisted life, the loneliness of feeling alone stuck with people, well I wont say it, only that they're not my people regardless of the shared DNA, lucky me they're the last of the western middle class, but they were 'zelenskied' too.
This is an amazing post that is very long but without even one extraneous sentence and the thoughts are top notch. I literally read the whole thing despite the length and it is amazing and very deep thinking.
I am so glad that you continue to have the gumption to keep on banging about these things. especially the hungry ghosts. its a huge aspect of what drives us and our world. the mysterious, the unknowable, the unseen and until we start really exercising our other senses, like the tiger used to do for us when we walked through the wild, we will continue to open ourselves up for a dinner from those much more insidious kind of guestsm- fear, spiritual starvation, hopelessness and denial.
And yes i hear you on the marketing because i have my own shameful moment when i was grabbed of the streets of Amsterdam by scientologists, who knew how to spot a lost looking being - and I was, newly arrived intimidated, lonely and also absolutely broke, and then continue to put me through a rigorous questionnaire which at the end proves that Im absolutely crazy and need to buy the book if i want any chance of functioning. Unfortunately this was eons ago and I couldn't return it or get my money back and yes I am still angry at them for taking something of mine that I couldn't afford to give with their fear mongering tactics.
Tessa, have you read Iain McGilchrist's book "The Matter with Things"? I think you'd get a great deal out of it, and don't seem like someone put off by a *really long* read. His YouTube channel is also worth a look.
Nice essay, btw :)
Good post. Definitely feels as if our biological beings are being stressed. While there are numerous factors for this for certain we will not discover healing ways to cope through the biotechnological madness of the digital world as currently employed. There are many ways to destabilize and endanger animals.