A friend sent me Dr. Robert Malone’s blog this morning.
It was enormous and complex. I couldn’t read it all within the time I had. I wrote to come up with something simple and this is that!
It took more time than reading Malone’s blog.
Malone is associated with Matthias Desmet who first brought to wide publicity the theory of Mass Formation (here, for example). That’s the theory of how populations are manipulated and subjugated into total compliance by dictatorial leaders. Mass Formation is what happened in Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Hitler’s Germany and other places. A hundred million people or more died under Mass Formation events in the twentieth century. One of the characteristics of Mass Formation is that stepping outside of the orthodox worldview is massively punished. Desmets and Malone as well as some readers here and myself all think that we are in some stage of that totalitarian takeover.
I think we’re in a mass hypnosis event. Our world is like The Truman Show or The Matrix with most people not aware of it. The challenge is to wake up personally and collectively.
Those who see this, as a group, don’t know how to do it. I don’t know either.
But maybe that’s the point. We don’t know yet. Waking up is an emergent phenomenon that shows up according to our participation. Maybe our earnest participation IS the critical criterion.
It’s like the Butterfly Effect: A butterfly in the Amazon moves his wings and sets the great change in motion. (I think this butterfly is in the jungle not a giant warehouse.) In complex systems we can't tell what micro-event causes what. We can’t tell what causes what but our consciousness and intent are part of the event.
Waking up is an emergent phenomenon that shows up according to our participation. Our earnest participation is the critical criterion.
Genius inventor Buckminster Fuller's spoke of the “trim tab," a small mini-rudder that helps the main rudder on a giant ship to turn. A little of the right energy, homeopathically you could say, has the power to change things. We’re looking for the trim tab, the right energy.
There’s a joke about a boiler breaking down in a great building in New York, everybody getting cold. No one could figure out what the problem was until someone remembered this old guy who, it was said could fix anything on a boiler. They found him and he came over and had a look for a few minutes while everyone watched. Then he gave one little tap with a ball peen hammer and everything started working again. His price was $1000. The manager was enraged! “One thousand for one little tap with your hammer,” he said. “No, no, the tap was free” said the old guy. “The thousand bucks was for knowing where to tap.”
How did the old guy get so simple? (I’m wondering whether I should quit here where I’m arguably ahead.) But maybe that would be too simple.
But no. Waking up is an emergent phenomenon that shows up according to our participation. Our earnest participation is the critical criterion.
For me that has involved turning outcomes over to God and taking personal risks, usually publicly with others. Most communities, including spiritual and religious ones, have very little ability to talk amongst themselves about what’s going on, to welcome the honest input from members or outsiders. I haven’t dared talk about it myself until recently.
That silence is how totalitarian societies form.
The answer is simple. It’s just not easy.
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I’m offering a small group time to explore personally what’s possible (rather than engage in problem solving). It’s Thursday at 11am Eastern and you’re welcome to join in. Here’s the registration link.
Hello Andrew
I don’t usually become involved with posting/responding to anything other than what I post on The Realm of Possibility website.
As you have been and continue to be a dear friend since 1990 or so, I feel responsible, as a friend, to engage.
Rather than give a global response, I have copied and pasted your most recent post below and will respond within the context of your message. A for Andrew and J for John
A - I connect the dots of what’s out there a little differently but that’s not the main point I don’t think.
J - I understand, and yes, we all connect the dots in different ways – all of us – all 8 + billion - live in our unique separate reality. No two individuals see the world in the same way.
A - Whether or not a threat is real, if people feel they’re forbidden to discuss or look at it, they’re burdened with it.
J – Is it not the responsibility of those who feel forbidden to transcend their fear and to experience the freedom to express their views notwithstanding the injunctions experienced – real or imagined?
A - They / we do better when their relationship to these concerns are seen and heard.
J – Who amongst us is not responsible for being seen and heard?
A - Otherwise the concerns fester and lead to more trouble - people feel destabilized.
J – Concerns exist in our minds, no matter what they are. Only when we see that we are the creator of how we think, feel and act can we be at peace and feel empowered. When we know that in our guts, we stop blaming them, those, that or it - the world outside of us - and take specific action to redress the wrongs we may experience.
A - I think this is common, or even normal, now.
J – It is not normal for me, nor does it need to be normal for anyone.
A - If the concerns aren’t welcome - if dissent and saying NO isn’t an option - people can’t say YES either and are immobilized.
J – Welcome or not, we must stand up – as you do – and speak our minds. We face this challenge: Can we support what we say with hard evidence? If not, will we be taken seriously?
A - Denial that there’s a problem and becoming emotionally reactive around it on the other are both ways to avoid being with it in a useful way.
J – Do you believe I’m in denial? Am I being emotionally reactive? What am I avoiding ‘being with’ in a helpful way? What would be useful?
A - Taking action as I have often seen you do.
J – Am I not acting now? If I have evidence, as I do with global warming, I can work as I do. If I have no proof – but worse – conspiratorial theories – I can only do what I’m doing now and address the danger I see in a conspiracy – even when it’s around plots, schemes, and conspiracies.
Love … Woody
Hello Andrew
Like you, I see ‘lost’ and ‘found’ as our ‘sleeping’ and ‘awakening’, so we are on the same page.
As to your question: “how can I maintain connection with what is psychologically and spiritually nourishing and true in the midst of existential threats?”
I imagine you know the answer to that, but raise it to stoke further conversation and exploration and to see what other readers and I might have to say.
Following is my take: By definition, any existential threat may or may not exist other than in our mind and, therefore, in our feelings and often resulting in our actions.
When we see anyone or anything as a threat – if they are, or not – they are and they, them, those, that or it, exist as a threat – existential or otherwise.
The way I know of releasing myself from the psychological grip of an existential threat is to immerse myself in taking whatever action I can to counter the threat and be satisfied that I’m doing my best to address the threat.
Being satisfied with what I’m doing is the key.
Exploring the threat, for example, of global warming, gathering the scientific evidence around that and determining its cause and resolution and disseminating that information is all I can do. In taking that action, I am putting my thoughts and feelings (concerns) around global warming into action.
Another example might be the threat of humanity becoming controlled by a one-world government or some ill-intentioned group.
Again, I would do everything possible to seek evidence to support that contention and then do the same as I would do around the existential threat of global warming.
With both matters, I would explore and look for evidence one way or the other of the existence of that threat.
I’ve looked for evidence of global warming and found it – for and even a little against it as a threat.
Using the precautionary principle summed up in: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, the chances are it is a duck.
I give little time to unfounded beliefs, opinions, stories, and theories. Evidence is what means something to me.
We seem to live in an age of conspiracy theories unsupported by proof but fuelled by fear-mongering.
I know that I can think anything into being my reality. With that foremost in mind, I look for proof, and evidence, not others’ beliefs, opinions, judgments and half-backed information.
I’ve looked for evidence that the world is being taken over by ill-intentioned or well-intentioned others and found no evidence of that being factual.
What I’ve found are conspiracy theories. They abound and are frightening. But the evidence is lacking.
So, my friend, what say you?
Warmly … John