Chapter 8 - Was There Something We Forgot?
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we LOVE the truth, we cannot know it.” - Blaise Pascal (b.1623)
While there may be no easy escape from the coming collision of the beleaguered human soul with a militarized, social, economic, and very-near “alien-level” technocracy intent upon imposing full-spectrum dominance over all life on Earth, neither can we avoid or excuse ourselves from the assorted existential demands that we must individually face while fulfilling our daily responsibilities to ourselves, to others and to life itself.
Perhaps, by virtue of the difficulties that our ancestors withstood over time, it’s possible to imagine how, given whatever dire calamities might befall us, that they need not relegate us to purgatorial despair … even when a viable escape route from the turmoil is not immediately apparent.
One of the more dependable uses of ADVERSITY, has always been to inspire humans to unite their attention with that which remains timeless and true in all that we know must SUFFER and DIE… and then to SEE the world (and ourselves within it) as still capable of PERSEVERING despite our many weaknesses and imperfections and even though it may do nothing to delay our inevitable annihilation.
Opening ourselves to such fundamental and cross-generational currents of sustenance and renewal allows for the possibility at least, that some such limitless reserves of COURAGE still reside within us. Intuitively, we all know that bravery in the face of fear has always been essential to our* survival and to the slowing of our descent into more grievous division, isolation and punishment.
To assist us in this effort, I would point out that we have been endowed by nature with certain intrinsic POWERS, the most valuable of which are provided unconditionally to us at birth, and which accompany us throughout life, for the most part independent of our own rational control.
To begin with some of the more obvious of these “embodied” GIFTS, I would offer that chief among these are...
1) Let us call it the divine manifestation of human will – the persistent source of intention which turns our PERCEPTIONS into ACTIONS.
2) The biological restoration of body and soul provided by SLEEP & HEALING,
3) The revelations and inspirations available to us through SPIRIT & DREAMS,
4) The special benefits that follow from all forms of energetic physical MOVEMENT,
5) The intentional alteration and navigation through conjectural states of ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS,
6) Any and all forms of creative PLAY and ACTIVE IMAGINATION.
7) Our subversive and resilient SENSE OF HUMOR.
8) Our ability to breakdown TASKS, to complete ACTIONS, and to follow PLANS over time.
9) The body’s primacy in enabling awareness of HUNGER, SEXUAL ATTRACTION, and other primary DESIRES
All these capabilities serve an epistemological purpose that helps expand our abilities to observe, identify and modify habitual and programmed patterns of perception, thought and behavior, on the way to LIBERATING us from the debilitating effects of fear, confusion, lethargy, and shame.
Consider, for example, one such gift… our tenacious SENSE OF HUMOR, which enables us to autonomically expel laughter, even BEFORE we know WHY we do so.
Some of what we know about LAUGHTER is that it derives from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex - the same area of the brain that produces pain-subduing endorphins. In addition, laughter is also a primitive and unconscious vocalization that serves to entertain us.
While there are thousands of languages spoken in the world, and hundreds of thousands of dialects, everyone speaks laughter in pretty much the same way. Babies are even able to laugh long before they ever speak. Even children who are born blind and deaf still retain the ability to laugh.
Laughter as I see it then, is the sort of natural inheritance that points us back to an archaic and potentially formidable POWER that thrives with undiminished vigor, deep within our body and soul.
Through its attendant ability to instantly recognize and interpret the incongruous and ABSURD, we are allowed to step back for a moment and reframe our “felt” experience in ways that might PREVENT us in future from falling too easily into fragile or unconsciousness states that could put us at some unanticipated risk or disadvantage.
As someone for whom comedy is a significant part of my life’s work, I have NEVER underestimated the leveling force of laughter … much less the more specific and devastating effects of sarcasm and SATIRE.
As the graphic novelist (V is for Vendetta, Watchman) and bardic magician, Alan Moore has said about the societal role of “magicians,” namely bards and satirists.
“You pissed off a bard, forget about him putting a mere curse on you; he might just as easily put a SATIRE on you. And if he is a skillful bard, and he puts a satire on you, it could destroy you in the eyes of your community. It shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in their eyes, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were.”
A society, such as ours today, largely blocked by FEAR… allows little “official” room for the rebellious effects of conspiratorial satirical laughter. The forces of CONTROL know only too well that if the satire were ever to spread too widely, that they might find their goose cooked publicly.
Imagine if Gates and Fauci were ever to receive the comedic “drubbing” they deserve? Maybe it is coming, but for now, except in uncensored “back-channels” the fear factor and the POS blocks any public attempt to make them the butt of jokes… in spite of the fact that untold millions see them as nothing more than an asshole comedy duo.
And though, a good laugh may not be quite enough to forestall the considerable momentum of the coming cyborg transformation, or any of the many other insults to the human soul we have previously discussed, a deep belly laugh invariably proves to be one of the MOST under-appreciated tools in helping us to raise a more energetic counter-response against whatever the control grid might be launching at us next. But before that can happen, a greater number of us must be willing to “get” the joke – and tragically, that is a big motherfucking chasm to cross.
Considerations of such PRE-RATIONAL powers also begs the question of how else we might expand our human capacities by way of stopping any further fearful capitulation of our souls to the threatening demands of the technocracy and its multi-tiered transhumanist agendas?
To that end, let’s shift the focus in the direction of the more numinous. Philosopher and esotericist Rudolf Steiner (b. 1861) insightfully anticipated our present condition early in the last century – even predicting in 1917 the appearance of VACCINES that would drive all inclination toward spirituality out of people’s souls when they were still very young… so that they do not develop any foolish inclinations connected with spiritual life – ‘foolish’ here, or course, in the eyes of materialists.
“Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.”
Such a revealing description of mind control is no less out of place today.
Considering the enduring nature of our predicament, what might he suggest as the corrective to such a woefully entrenched situation?
Steiner again… “However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.”
While in ways, this resembles many oft-repeated “new age” maxims, which generally serve to reassert the persistent influence of the Great Mother archetype across contemporary “spiritual” movements and philosophies, how I interpret Steiner’s statements, in the context of our present moment, is as intended to restore us to our more purely ENERGETIC nature for purposes of uniting us within more communal frames, around the axis mundi of shared physical experiences and interpersonal emotional connections that we see fully-expressed in the incarnated forms of biological, kinetic and imaginal life.
Such a shift, while significant in scope, does not and cannot in my view, involve a complete rejection of technology. It is, I think, rather late in our story for such a complete break from technology to be feasible… except for the most rugged of off-griders.
Rather, what I am seeing is a need to more clearly DIFFERENTIATE between technology as it provides us with useful human “TOOLS” and technology as it gets turned into anti-human “WEAPONS,” that are then more often than not put to largely immoral and destructive purposes.
I would go so far as to say that THIS distinction, while not often publicly discussed, has long been an intrinsic part of the PARADOXICAL nature of the Faustian “deal” that technology offers to humanity.
A pencil after all is not a knife and belladonna flowers are not the deadly poison that can be extracted from them. All technologies have properties very specific to each of them and distinguishing among those properties, as well as defining the purposes to which they can and SHOULD variously be put, is a critical aspect of human discernment (and judgment) for which the responsibility must come back to each of us.
We might also safely assume that such distinctions are not something that MOST people will be drawn to understand or to reflect on too deeply. The majority of folks, as recent events demonstrate all too clearly, tend to take in their popular “technology” just as they take in their popular “science” - as massively over-simplified narratives quite literally “Made-for-TV.”
But then again, we only need ENOUGH people (3-4% by some estimates) to begin to extrapolate the broader spread of new states of mind, which might allow the overall balance to tip … causing genuine and possibly momentous changes to take effect. Are we close to that number? I would like to think so, but I don’t know how to confirm our current conversion levels.
Technologically speaking, we do of course also have the whole mad exploding brain of the INTERNET to consider… and although its arrival is relatively recent, its impact today is immeasurable… particularly as it serves as the “origin myth” for so many more complex and novel technological developments that have been CONSTRUCTED on top of it... in little more than three decades time.
Non-specific as the term “Internet” might be, it nevertheless serves a central and overarching role in defining the cultural environment and technological context in which most of us today not only exist, but also transact, prosper, conspire, celebrate and even mate.
And yet, here too, we must not gloss over the previously indicated divergence between a technology’s practical UTILITY on one hand, and whatever HARM and INSULT it might be used to deliver on the other. Obviously, it is in the wild generation of non-stop harmful effects that much of our technology has been dedicated to these past 20 months.
Although at this point, we have been fully colonized and commoditized by big tech companies and the media, there still exist all sorts of independent outlier technologists, working both alone or in collaborative groups or “cells” that serve to counteract the many restrictive effects of the tech monopolies, by keeping their own methodologies open-sourced, encrypted, respectful of individual freedoms and dedicated to serving humanist ends in their more elemental, “unmediated” and less commodified forms… as opposed to… all that other evil shit!
So, while we all may wish at times to eject ourselves from the hypersonic rocket of technology, it is also very possible that another way out of our impending “slavery” to the technocracy is waiting be found in confronting the underlying “GOD CODE” more directly, so that we might better stand up to the panopticon control grid, and defend ourselves through an expanded alchemical understanding of both the dark and light uses of technology.
Or maybe this happens in the course of the re-engineering the Propaganda Operating System (POS) by way of making all aspects of that underlying culture-wide OS freely TRANSPARENT to the public. (What a day that would be!) It’s an extreme and terribly anti-proprietary thought I know, but it is possible, if there existed a popular mandate to take such liberating actions in the service of humanity.
In any brighter future, there must concurrently exist a “CYBERNETIC” component, which empowers those people who exercise a genuine hacker-level ability to “steer” code and collective awareness toward states of more “expanded” consciousness, expression, and action. Once technology is decoupled from commercial concerns, and from purposes of invasive data-gathering and surveillance, the broader range of possible and useful repurposings opens up.
Without obsessing too much then on HOW enhanced technology-based “defensive” and anti-POS initiatives might manifest, we can safely assume that there exists out there a deep desire to keep our soft and vulnerable selves from being so easily compromised by the oligarchy’s new transhumanist world order, that has long sought to vanquish us for purposes of achieving our inevitable SLAVERY.
Personally, I like to imagine what might emerge in the course of such developments as would follow from a novel merger of SPIRITUALITY and PIRACY - an experience that unites anarchist passions and purposes together with a level of craft and wisdom that might PERHAPS manifest in ways that we have not yet seen take shape.
One fully important step in the realization of such a new overall direction is the REPLACEMENT of thick-headed and compromised commercial, corporate MEDIA and TECH INDUSTRY narratives with our own home-grown media born of our own personal sources of creativity. This has long been happening, but considering the unprecedented offensive reach of surveillance and censorship, has recently assumed much greater importance.
For myself, what I have experienced of late is a general FALLING AWAY of all interest in corporate TV, movies, or music… though I still pine for the small musty movie theaters of my youth where I once bathed in the popcorn-scented flickering wonder of Fellini and Buñuel films.
If SOCIAL MEDIA has any virtue to recommend it, it may be in encouraging us to be not just AUTHORS of our own crazy ideas and experiences, but inevitably PUBLISHERS of them as well… even if that expansion is accomplished in defiance of expanding tools of censorship. This gets made more abundantly clear, every time I or people I admire get another ban from Facebook. Now you might well say, who the fuck cares, right? It is a dying world, and the sooner we let go of concern, the sooner it dies.
At the same time, all such pushing on the bounds of self-expression brings with it a dash of “viral” possibility, which given the right circumstances, might serve to hasten the means by which people help to make obsolete the old legacy media’s propaganda and mind-control “ENTRAINMENT” models. Remember when you overcome your desire for something, the hold that it has over you is diminished or even eliminated altogether.
It’s also useful to remember that even the most ADVANCED digital technologies remain LIMITED by how they are coded and authorized and by the CONSCIOUSNESS that conceived them. To that end, I think it is next to impossible today for anything formulated within the POS to go “viral” that is not allowed to go viral. There are simply too many controls in place to allow that to happen on its own. Breaking that lock could have profound impacts in terms of virality and what gets pushed to the top of certain people’s newsfeeds.
While I am confident that emergent synthetic augmentations of homo-sapiens will no doubt shortly supersede current biological human abilities, they will never actually BE humans... and that is NO small distinction.
“Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in ‘changing the consciousness’ of the oppressed, not in changing the actual situations which oppress them." ~ Paulo Freire
Looked at historically, such rapid societal transformations as we are undergoing right now, look to me to mirror those times in the past that saw the rise of large “experiential” religious, spiritual and ecstatic movements.
While that may not be a popularly held perspective quite yet, my own thinking is that we may be approaching a new instantiation of that old-time ecstatic “RELIGIOUS” experience. The only way this doesn’t become potentially problematic is if the experience remains intimately personal and richly embodied.
Seeing as how united the oligarchs have been right from the start of the Covid PsyOp in preferring strip clubs to churches in their lockdown closure regimens, I think we can be pretty certain that the big churches (and their well-compensated henchmen pastors – and the pope no less) will continue doing all that they can moving forward, to keep usurping, capturing and compromising all such religious/moral and spiritual/communal impulses and redirecting them to their own self-serving commercial purposes, utterly absent any thought of what might be best for an individual or a community’s actual spiritual health.
If the last year has been marked by a war on the human soul, as I keep claiming it has, then a more specific war on GOD and SPIRIT has been an essential target of that aggression.
The hijacking of such timeless ATTRACTOR forces has long been used by those in power as yet another way of forcing our natural and beautiful human impulses towards higher levels of being to drop back into various secular and communitarian “boxes” of behavioral obedience, population control and subservience to the dogma of what I outlined earlier in Chapter 5 as the “Propaganda” religion - a joyless belief system custom-suited for “slaves”... of all races and social credit scores.
At first glance certainly, things would seem to be working out quite well for the slave owners. Everyday people, for the most part, seem only too ready to surrender the remnants of their sovereignty and individual autonomy, i.e., their “souls” … for whatever empty “promise” of safety, security and “donuts” the oligarchs might toss their way.
The scope and fallout from the “shitstorm” that was unleashed in March of 2020 has in the time since then, become easier for us to see in its many particulars. For all the noise about "science" - as a society, we have largely become highly allergic to "facts," unless they are delivered through the singularly popular firehose of the “Propaganda Operating System” (POS.)
As I write this in November of 2021, fully half of U.S. adults have taken at least one “jab” of the unapproved and untested mRNA materials. I wonder how many of those recipients are traditionally religious enough people to be at all familiar with the Biblical story of the “Mark of the Beast.”
If you are not familiar with the story, it is worth a short synopsis.
I have previously addressed my own views on the matter of the Covid “injection” in some detail (LINK), but suffice to say, the very idea that such an untested (liability-free) product might be anywhere near proven “safe” is just ludicrous, and the public clamor for it, only explainable to me as proof of the most massively successful mind-control experiment of all time. (And you thought “Building 7” was a big con. Sadly, humans rarely exceed our expectations for them.)
I would go even further and suggest that NOTHING in all the insane events of the past 19 months is more precisely indicative of the degraded state of human reason and will, than the gleeful parade of millions of TV addicted lunatics high-stepping it to their drive-thru inoculation stations, so that they might, as one acquaintance suggested, “rejoin the human race.”
One must wonder if our unique biological life with all its miraculous aspects, has come to mean so little to so many that we might just as well simply toss it away, without a second thought, because the media and the eternally criminal pharma industry and its army of snake-oil barkers like Gates and Fauci, convince us it is no longer our own.
(Not to take too sharp a turn, but little wonder as well that nearly ALL protest movements in the United States have collapsed and been replaced by extravagantly funded, and “approved” BLM-style anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-police, anti-”white terrorist” corporate PR campaigns. This is a separate topic I know, but it certainly helps explain how they were able to get away with such a string of monumental controlled demolitions as we have witnessed this past year across ALL sectors of our society, covered over by ten coats of medical emergency and media distraction.
Even a wordy person like myself finds themselves regularly at a loss for what to say… except occasionally to imagine that somewhere in heaven (or tucked away in the Akashic Records - who cares where) the prophetic spirits of heroic blood watches over us… MLK, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Patrice Lumumba, Sitting Bull… and together they will join with many other true apostles of human freedom to RISE UP and jolt sleeping humanity to awaken itself and so serve termination notices on our pantheon of demonic criminal overlords and send them all scrambling into a fucking PANIC! (I recall Chris Hedges once suggesting that Richard Nixon was the last president who was afraid of the American people. Considering Nixon’s ending the Viet Nam war, as well as creating OSHA and the EPA, on top of what we know about his paranoid nature, maybe so.)
At this point, it seems clear to me that as a society, we have gone so far astray in terms of our loss of RESPECT for ourselves, for each other and for the earth… that we have essentially LOST OUR WAY when it comes to whatever measure of power, truth, and righteous action we might still wield within us… assuming we find courage enough to call it forth.
Let me be clear … I am not a “religious” person, nor am I a member of any church or follower of any faith. At the same time, I feel fully infused of late with the power of LOVE and SPIRIT, and it is from that “experience” that I am directed to believe that we MUST pursue all possible avenues that might somehow help us to realign ourselves with deeper realities and stronger integrities… for ourselves, our loved ones, our closely connected communities, and our very threatened posterity.
And if we DON’T do that, then maybe the separation of our species from the face of the Earth, tragic though it will be might also be justly deserved… once seen across time for what we have proven ourselves to be… yet another crazy and ambitious existential experiment rendered by fate as justly short-lived.
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ALL CHAPTERS:
Prologue - Trivial Accessories to the Machine
Chapter 1 - All your Cyborgs Will Be Techno-Liberals
Chapter 2 - That Which Tallies the Numbers, Sets the Rules
Chapter 3 - All Rebellions Must Be Scheduled in Advance
Chapter 4 - Binge-Watching the Incomprehensible
Chapter 5 - A Propaganda OS as State Religion
Chapter 6 - Ignorance as Comfort Food
Chapter 7 - Their War to End All Wars
Chapter 8 - Was there Something We Forgot?
Chapter 9 - In Any Other World
Epilogue - Preparing Our Souls for the Ancestors