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Rio de January's avatar

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!

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John Day MD's avatar

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.

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