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!
Thank you Jennifer!! Your words are so beautiful. It is a mysterious dance, impossible to describe in logical words sometimes. But love really mysteriously helps solve a lot of problems, if it is real and fearless, and filled with self-respect. I think self-respect, complete respect and love for one's own soul and life's mission are a requirement for being able to love others without being a pushover. We've been lied a lot about what love is, and love is rooted in fully accepting yourself first and trusting the universe to heal you and guide you.
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.
Thank you John!!! I think you are making very wise choices focusing on your garden and the real reality. And I love your last paragraph here in particular!!
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 honored and frankly very happy to provide a middle finger to the corporate office. :) They have been sucking the souls out of people for so long!!!
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.
What is interesting is that across the world, in many countries at different times, there has been a giant push to tear the people away from the land and the plow and to lure them into cities, for the "enjoyment" of the hamster wheel. Why was that? Well, the factories needed workers, obviously. And now, the super greedy ones just want to finally own everything and they don't want anybody else on the land. But the people who lived off the land were in some way always more "secure" (unless of course the state officials robbed them explicitly, which has also happened.) It seems like so many things only become blatantly clear after a very long time passes (if we are lucky).
We have become like those barn chickens who don't go outside for the short time the barn doors are opened, because some of them are so far at the back of the barn they cannot see the open door and some are so used to the indoor condition they have no wish to experience the outdoors as there's no concept of what it's like.
'Barn conditions' have been long advertised to the majority...warmth, comfort, ease, no grubbing in the soil for sustenance as experienced by the parents and grandparents of the colonially impacted third world that has had all its traditional 'security' practices belittled and destroyed over the last few centuries, be they spiritual or agrarian.
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.
You definitely have a point!!! Nicholas Carr wrote a few books exploring the topic of how technology and convenience leads to atrophy of previously constantly used skills, etc. I have not read his most recent one but the ones before were very interesting!!
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".
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.
And if you saw the draft, it was nearly twice as long!!! :) I had to have some decency here and break it into parts., for everybody's sake, including my own.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you, Natasha, and this is such a good story!! But also sorry they tricked you. Still, a very good and useful story!!!
One of the funniest scenes I have witnessed (no pun) was when a homeless guy was preaching at the already trying-to-preach Jehovah's witnesses, and they couldn't get away because they had a stand with literature and all. I thought it was fair.
One time I walked up behind two Jehovah’s Witnesses who were on my front porch, preaching to my daughter who had answered the door. They were handing her their Watchtower literature, and telling her that she was going to go to Hell. My daughter was seven years old. Yes, I told them to leave.
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.
I agree. Iain's books are amazing. -- The ticking clock versus the gestalt of contextual awareness. The clock is important in some ways, but when it dominates, we lose touch with the broader world and meaning.
really appreciate how you tie these pieces together (trifold approach to destabilize the psyche, unrelenting supersqueeze, moving into heart space awareness is the way out/forward).
I feel the major players are simply playing a role that is inevitable - someone must play it - as we must awaken to all that we've been complicit to, and ignorant of, within ourselves and the in the world around us. A cosmic steamroller coming to press out all the dross, filth, excess, all that is unnecessary for where we are headed. Gracefully, we're being given ample time to sort through it and make some conscious decisions so as (perhaps) to lessen the destructive forces we experience and witness around us as the great shift is culminated (the Great Reset being only a feeble attempt to remain in a place of perceived power).
Thank you, John, and I think this existentially accurate.
"The major players are simply playing a role that is inevitable - someone must play it - as we must awaken to all that we've been complicit to, and ignorant of, within ourselves and the in the world around us."
The ones lying and creating pain on purpose are without doubt fully responsible for their actions, and their motives as well. And I think that existentially, there is always a balancing. .
At the same time, we are responsible for doing our job and not "helping" them by getting caught up in their stories or by adopting their emotional patterns or methodology. All this is very mysterious but it makes sense in a grander scale of things!!
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!
Thank you Jennifer!! Your words are so beautiful. It is a mysterious dance, impossible to describe in logical words sometimes. But love really mysteriously helps solve a lot of problems, if it is real and fearless, and filled with self-respect. I think self-respect, complete respect and love for one's own soul and life's mission are a requirement for being able to love others without being a pushover. We've been lied a lot about what love is, and love is rooted in fully accepting yourself first and trusting the universe to heal you and guide you.
You are so very right!
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.
Thank you John!!! I think you are making very wise choices focusing on your garden and the real reality. And I love your last paragraph here in particular!!
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.
And most importantly, I hope you feel better soon!!!!
Thank you, Gary, and no, I've never heard of it!!! I will check it out, I am very curious now!!
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 honored and frankly very happy to provide a middle finger to the corporate office. :) They have been sucking the souls out of people for so long!!!
And thank you so much for your kind words!!! I am smiling from ear to ear.
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
Thank you Herbert!!! Many hugs to you. xo
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.
What is interesting is that across the world, in many countries at different times, there has been a giant push to tear the people away from the land and the plow and to lure them into cities, for the "enjoyment" of the hamster wheel. Why was that? Well, the factories needed workers, obviously. And now, the super greedy ones just want to finally own everything and they don't want anybody else on the land. But the people who lived off the land were in some way always more "secure" (unless of course the state officials robbed them explicitly, which has also happened.) It seems like so many things only become blatantly clear after a very long time passes (if we are lucky).
It look as if 'great minds think alike' as the British saying goes...just read the above you've written AFTER I'd written almost the same : )
This is the reason some refer to the Great Reset as Neo-feudalism.
Centuries before the industrial revolution there was another push to privatize land:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
We have become like those barn chickens who don't go outside for the short time the barn doors are opened, because some of them are so far at the back of the barn they cannot see the open door and some are so used to the indoor condition they have no wish to experience the outdoors as there's no concept of what it's like.
'Barn conditions' have been long advertised to the majority...warmth, comfort, ease, no grubbing in the soil for sustenance as experienced by the parents and grandparents of the colonially impacted third world that has had all its traditional 'security' practices belittled and destroyed over the last few centuries, be they spiritual or agrarian.
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?
You definitely have a point!!! Nicholas Carr wrote a few books exploring the topic of how technology and convenience leads to atrophy of previously constantly used skills, etc. I have not read his most recent one but the ones before were very interesting!!
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://robc137.substack.com/p/transmarginal-inhibition-the-way
Some of us are choleric and fight longer...
Thank you for the link, Rob!! This sounds interesting!
That is a fascinating article. Thank you!
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.
Thank you Igor!!! I am so happy you enjoyed it!
And if you saw the draft, it was nearly twice as long!!! :) I had to have some decency here and break it into parts., for everybody's sake, including my own.
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.
Thank you Burton!!!
"Grappling with understanding our fears and then overcoming them can resolve far more of our petty personal issues than we realize." I fully agree!!
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.
Thank you, BertPE!! I'll check out the book, too!
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.
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.
Thank you, Natasha, and this is such a good story!! But also sorry they tricked you. Still, a very good and useful story!!!
One of the funniest scenes I have witnessed (no pun) was when a homeless guy was preaching at the already trying-to-preach Jehovah's witnesses, and they couldn't get away because they had a stand with literature and all. I thought it was fair.
One time I walked up behind two Jehovah’s Witnesses who were on my front porch, preaching to my daughter who had answered the door. They were handing her their Watchtower literature, and telling her that she was going to go to Hell. My daughter was seven years old. Yes, I told them to leave.
Good for you!!!!!
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 :)
Thank you, Miss Teacup! No I haven't, and I will check it out!! Thank you!!
I agree. Iain's books are amazing. -- The ticking clock versus the gestalt of contextual awareness. The clock is important in some ways, but when it dominates, we lose touch with the broader world and meaning.
really appreciate how you tie these pieces together (trifold approach to destabilize the psyche, unrelenting supersqueeze, moving into heart space awareness is the way out/forward).
I feel the major players are simply playing a role that is inevitable - someone must play it - as we must awaken to all that we've been complicit to, and ignorant of, within ourselves and the in the world around us. A cosmic steamroller coming to press out all the dross, filth, excess, all that is unnecessary for where we are headed. Gracefully, we're being given ample time to sort through it and make some conscious decisions so as (perhaps) to lessen the destructive forces we experience and witness around us as the great shift is culminated (the Great Reset being only a feeble attempt to remain in a place of perceived power).
Thank you, John, and I think this existentially accurate.
"The major players are simply playing a role that is inevitable - someone must play it - as we must awaken to all that we've been complicit to, and ignorant of, within ourselves and the in the world around us."
The ones lying and creating pain on purpose are without doubt fully responsible for their actions, and their motives as well. And I think that existentially, there is always a balancing. .
At the same time, we are responsible for doing our job and not "helping" them by getting caught up in their stories or by adopting their emotional patterns or methodology. All this is very mysterious but it makes sense in a grander scale of things!!
(tried to like your comment, but didn't work)
Yes, we are all responsible. The question lingers: how aware are we all of the motives behind our actions?