Thanks for putting into words some other observations and reflections I’ve been having over the past couple of decades. I am constantly reminded at how “very smart people” can be redirected to effectively and consistently. Of course the answer IS real life. Analog wins in the end, although it may not be in a very idyllic way….
You wrote: "Those who expose corruption are permitted to speak, but only within careful boundaries. Like any sophisticated confidence game, it works in stages: first gain trust through real revelations, then build dependency through exclusive "insider" knowledge, finally redirect that trust toward constrained outcomes. Watch how alternative media platforms follow this pattern: expose genuine corruption, build devoted following, then subtly shift narrative focus away from systemic accountability. Each revelation seems to lead deeper into a labyrinth of coordinated awakening."
This made me think of the latest revelation about the Means siblings:
When they first came on the scene I thought how cool that someone is talking about these important food related topics and I was taken in like everyone else. Then after hearing a few people talk about how they might be a well-timed distraction from the larger health issue of the mRNA bio-weapon harms and then watching the Danny Jones Podcast with Mary Talley Bowden, Dr. Jack Kruse, and Calley Means it seemed well founded that they are a Limited Hangout.
Dr. Bowden asked some key questions that made me realize how fooled I was.
How did they get a book deal so easily? Especially calling out Big Food. The publishers ties to The Rockefeller Foundation.
Why were these two unknowns so heavily promoted on all the popular podcasts (Tucker, Rogan) when so many others have tried and failed?
What are their family connections to government?
If they care so much about the health of people why are they not calling for the shots to be stopped? (mRNA platform is financial boon for the industry and Calley is an industry lobbyist - duh)
Why after 4 years of the worst crimes against humanity and the mRNA bio weapon that is still killing people everyday are we talking about the harm of seed oils and fruit loops? The processed food discussion has its place, but now, at this time, why is it being allowed? Convenient distraction.
After hearing Dr. Bowden ask those questions I was floored. How did I not see it myself?
Such an obvious distraction from the bigger issue - the mRNA platform is not fit for human use yet it's being deployed in all new vaccines and on the childhood schedule. There is no one protecting the children, but sure let's focus on fruit loops.
How to make sense of all the voices coming from all the directions and wanting to trust someone, anyone? It's maddening.
Astute observation. You're asking all the right quesitons.
I linked to something I wrote about the MAHA strife in the piece. FWIW, I know some people who are friendly with the Means siblings and believe they may be pure in their goals. Regardless, it's easy to see how these issues can get railroaded even by well intentioned actors.
If there are not enough people running with the vaccine stuff, does not mean that it makes sense to crack down on those running with the food stuff. That's how you create strife and kill the enthusiasm of good people.
The whole "let's pick on the Meanses" is misbegotten.
I think you may have misread my intentions. I'm not suggesting 'cracking down' on anyone - I specifically acknowledged the validity of food sovereignty concerns while examining how different movements can get redirected or divided. The piece is actually about avoiding strife and supporting unity among people working on different but important issues. It's precisely about not killing the enthusiasm of good people, regardless of which aspect of these challenges they're focused on.
That said, if you're interested in a deeper analysis of how movements can get redirected, I'd encourage you to read Debbie Lerman's excellent reporting about the Means siblings, which provides additional evidence supporting the pattern I described about how authentic movements can potentially be something other than they may appear.
The interview surely did crack down on the Meanses. And so did ElleSD to whom you were replying encouragingly.
I am coming from a perspective of an ad hominem: attack the issue or the argument, not the person.
And I see a lot of people attacking the persons. Movements do get redirected, and that should be addressed as an issue on its own, rather than attacking and besmirching the humans involved.
And attacking and besmirching people who do good work is also a strategy of divide and conquer. I say no to that crap!
We agree re ad hominems. To be clear though - my essay deliberately avoided focusing on specific individuals. It was about examining broader patterns of how movements can be redirected or divided. While Debbie's piece provides a detailed case study that illustrates some of these patterns, my focus was on understanding the trend itself - how authentic movements can get channeled in certain directions, whether intentionally or unintentionally. This kind of pattern recognition is crucial for maintaining effectiveness in any movement. At the end of the day, we all need to follow our hearts while keeping our eyes open.
Yes, that is where the focus should be. On the trends, the deceptive patterns. So people can learn to avoid being snookered. Glad we are on the same page now.
"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."
I’ve spent the last 10+ years going down various rabbit holes and I’ve finally come to the conclusion it has been a matrix within a matrix, especially with so many “truthers” pushing synthetic antidotes which are turning out to be extremely harmful.
While I do think there are a lot of intentional nefarious players trying to derail well intentioned movements, I also think that on a very subconscious level that humans are magnetized to the level of truth that they can handle and equally share the level of truth that they can handle - ie they are not attempting to be co-intel, they are just magnetically drawn to lies because they are filled with that level of lies (on a heavy metal level or shadow level) - and so they perpetuate partial lies/ignore elephants in the room until they detox and face all the toxins within - this is just my working theory which I hope you enjoy 😊 some people like myself have been drawn to black pill content because I was not ready to deal with my own unhealed trauma and it became a sort of escape to “go down the rabbit hole” and find some valiant truth teller to protect me and peddle zeolite products to me lol. Once I faced my own shadows through somatic and nervous system healing, I stopped seeking “escape the matrix” boogey man stories from half truthers as much; as I was not magnetized to feeling helpless anymore.
I hope this makes sense. :-)
I am trying to assemble some friends in NY for the very reasons you listed!
Local connection is how we get out of this.
Thanks for your always resonant inspiring writing!
Thanks for the kind words and apologies for the delayed response.
Your hypothesis about people being "magnetized" to the level of truth they can handle resonates deeply. I've seen this play out repeatedly - someone understands vaccine mandates are wrong but can't process the full scope of harm from the shots themselves; someone recognizes the evil of wars until their trusted sources declare one justified; someone knows Iraq WMDs were a lie but can't consider the implications for 9/11; someone sees media manipulation around Covid but trusts climate change narratives without scrutiny. It's not necessarily intentional deception - as you note, it seems to operate at a deeper psychological level where unprocessed trauma and conditioning create these selective blind spots. Or, truly processing the magnitude of the lies.
Your insight about personal healing enabling clearer sight is especially valuable. When we're seeking external saviors or simple narratives to explain away complex discomfort, we often end up vulnerable to partial truths marketed as complete solutions. Ugh.
Really glad to hear you're building local connections in NY. I obviously agree with that approach toward moving forward.
🫶🏻 thank you for being so brave and such an articulate writer. I feel grateful for your depth and compassion and I’m grateful that we are all in this together, figuring it out as we heal and detox on all levels and rise above 🌞
Thanks for this brilliant essay it brought up thoughts of Hayek and CS Lewis writing.
Hayek,
Full of hubris, we believe we are “able to shape the world around us according to our wishes.” Blinded by this fatal conceit, the miracle of the modern world goes unnoticed. Few wonder what is “responsible for having generated this extraordinary order.”
To “plan” or “organize” the growth of mind, or, for that matter, progress in general, is a contradiction in terms. The idea that the human mind ought “consciously” to control its own development confuses individual reason, which alone can “consciously control” anything, with the interpersonal process to which its growth is due. By attempting to control it, we are merely setting bounds to its development and must sooner or later produce a stagnation of thought and a decline of reason.
The tragedy of collectivist thought is that, while it starts out to make reason supreme, it ends by destroying reason because it misconceives the process on which the growth of reason depends. It may indeed be said that it is the paradox of all collectivist doctrine and its demand for “conscious” control or “conscious” planning that they necessarily lead to the demand that the mind of some individual should rule supreme—while only the individualist approach to social phenomena makes us recognize the super individual forces which guide the growth of reason.
Individualism is thus an attitude of humility before this social process and of tolerance to other opinions and is the exact opposite of that intellectual hubris which is at the root of the demand for comprehensive direction of the social process.
CS Lewis
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
I am only making clear what Man's conquest of Nature really means and especially that final stage in the conquest, which, perhaps, is not far off. The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect applied psychology, has obtained full control over himself. Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won. We shall have `taken the thread of life out of the hand of Clotho' and be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish
it to be. The battle will indeed be won. But who, precisely, will have won it? For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls. It is in Man's power to treat
himself as a mere `natural object' and his own judgements of value as raw material for scientific manipulation to alter at will. The objection to his doing so does not lie in the fact that this point of view (like one's first day in a dissecting room) is painful and shocking till we grow used to it. The pain and the shock are at most a warning and a symptom. The real objection is that if man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be: not raw material to be manipulated, as he fondly imagined, by himself, but by mere appetite, that is, mere Nature, in the person of his de-humanized Conditioners.
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting
Andrew, I'm incredibly humbled by this comparison. Those passages are profound and eerily prescient - especially Lewis's warning about the "magician's bargain" and Hayek's insights on the fatal conceit of trying to consciously control humanity's development. Thank you for sharing these. They articulate so clearly what's at stake in our current moment.
Thank you. You have so clearly articulated these patterns behind ongoing perception-management and control.
The area in which we debate is continually defined by the same sources leading us to - of course - their solution. The illusion of choice. Over and over.
And yes, we watch movements like 'Occupy' start out with real energy and organization only to dissolve into fragmented and ineffective remnants.
Eventually the realization hits. Individually and then (we can hope) collectively. For those who can see it - rather than resisting what's being imposed, rather than a 'No' we do what's right for us, (an intrinsic yes) and take actions that support that. We redefine our agency in a positive and practical direction. Rather than against the matrix-machine, we act as advocates for ourselves. It may seem a subtle distinction but it's crucial.
The whole current set-up places us as unempowered victims to 'their' system. In fact we are already free and obviously have power - they wouldn't have to work so hard at deception if we didn't.
We act out of that recognition.
What does a free person do? Grow food. Avoid being poisoned voluntarily. Spend time in nature and align to what is real. Find ways to exchange with others outside the system offered. Yes, that will become more challenging, but what is being planned won't hold - too many are already seeing it.
That's for laying it out so clearly. An important gift you are sharing. Best
Your comment gets to the heart of effective individual agency - shifting from reactive resistance to proactive creation. The key insight is that perpetual opposition still keeps us defined by the system we oppose. True independence means building parallel structures and living according to our own values.
Your point about growing food, avoiding voluntary poisoning, connecting with nature and reality, and creating alternative exchange systems represents practical sovereignty. It's the difference between fighting against something versus building something better.
The observation about their constant need for deception revealing our inherent power is spot on. Complex control systems only arise when natural authority is absent. Their elaborate mechanisms of manipulation indicate not their strength, but their fundamental weakness.
The path forward isn't battling the old system, but making it irrelevant through practical, life-affirming alternatives. Each person who steps out of dependency and into productive self-reliance demonstrates this quiet revolution.
You should be acting to protect your privacy and that of the coming generation. There is no freedom without privacy and AI control of humans cannot succeed without everyone giving it. This is where the fight must occur.
I keep thinking about the ways they elicit our compliance. Insurance is another one that comes up. It's virtually impossible to get needs met via the system without "working it" somehow. Coverage is deliberately conditional, forcing people to choose between financial and ethical compromise. As far as I'm concerned, strategy itself compromises us by putting us in the mindset of end goal and taking us off genuine learning curves.
Insurance is just another racket in the extraction economy - old guard parasites who've perfected the art of taking without giving. Pure superfluous middleman masquerading as service.
I love your insight about how they force us to play their game - either get financially bled or learn to work their corrupt system. And the moment we start strategizing within their rules, we're already caught in their web. Just like banking and healthcare, it's amazing how many of these dinosaur industries basically exist to shake us down while pretending they're doing important work.
Marxism is about class dialectic, class warfare. The 'controlled opposition' shoves people into silos, in which they can be controlled, exactly as in the Marxian dialectic.
Whether it's collectivist policies creating chaos or nationalist "solutions" expanding state control, the playbook stays consistent: Problem, reaction, solution. My concern now is that the border crisis becomes justification for digital ID and surveillance. Left or right, the infrastructure of control grows. Think problem-solving but watch for how "emergency measures" tend to become permanent features.
"Those who steer the first matrix wouldn't leave the off-ramps unsupervised." YES, thus there is controlled opposition on every issue. It's kind of like funding both sides of a war, which they also do. I saw that you had MMT in your list of influences. They are controlled opposition to monetary reform, they defend the current system with a phony "theory" and becasue money is behind them they are able to dominate the public discussion and keep real monetary reform at bay. During Occupy Wallstreet they employed emotional attacks at any mention of it. I bet most people here don't know what I am talking about when I say monetary reform. In fact there is a history of controlled opposition to monetary reform, making Marx popular served that function, as Silvio Gesell pointed out in the 20s. The monetary history is the history of power, not the military histories. It was acknowledged 3000 years ago that the most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance was the sole right to issue money as an asset, not a debt. As Frederick Soddy wrote in 1934, To allow money to become a source of revenue to private issuers is to create, first, a secret and illicit arm of the government and, last, a rival power strong enough ultimately to overthrow all other forms of government. That is what we are up against. monetary.org Take a look, and keep up the good work, Joshua.
I appreciate your insights about controlled opposition and completely agree about the monetary system being at the root of our captured society. However, I think you may have confused me with someone else regarding MMT - it's my belief that our debt-based monetary system is the root of most evil- and the coming CBDC agenda represents the most formidable control mechanisms we've ever faced. Either way, thanks for the enthusiasm, Howard.
With Trump being captured bu the west coast oligarchs and blessing crypto it appears as if an alternate financial system is now being set up, I think in collaboration with Wall Street, that will leverage the crypto enthusiasts and investors, which will result in digital identity being introduced along with a privately implemented CBDC. As with credit cards, use will be grown over time and it will become increasingly difficult to avoid participating. The tech oligarchs, I believe, do have a comprehensive vision of how this all rolls out, where AI and the security state fits in, and how everyone will be controlled to their financial benefit. The key to it all is theft of privacy. This is where the 2nd American Revolution must be fought.
You may be right but we'll see. A big component of this war - beyond being spiritual and for our consciousness - is centralization versus decentralization. We're just getting started on how that will play out. Tech may be our weapon as well as theirs.
If you understand how AI works, which depends upon complete theft of privacy for context in responses, it is easy to see that AI is on a clear track to take over most of the essential responsibilities of parenting, including inculcation of foundational beliefs and values, shaping of world view, establishing boundaries, and meting out of rewards and punishments, among many others. While one might be able to make an argument in favor of taking over this responsibility, it represents a deeply dystopian ~experiment that is placing everyone's future into the hands of a relatively small group of people having self interest in centralizing power over the culture and society. The power to control people at this level is FAR greater than that of a govt of laws, so one must be very careful what one wishes for, especially when all of this is not being discussed and debated, at least publicly.
With respect to decentralization, the one example that comes to mind is abortion, which decision has always struck me as nothing but a failed attempt to re-divide men and women over an issue which 95%+ have come to agree, at least in terms of personal behavior if not in rhetoric. The trend toward centralization of power is persistent, as those at the center are always greedy for more. I hear far more calls for eliminating the electoral college than I do for restoring state's rights. Many dont even comprehend what "state's rights" even means.
I am a technologists and far from being anti-technology. I can clearly see the benefits of AI to the world, especially in terms of economic productivity within everything I did over the course of a career. If I were young, I'd dive in enthusiastically. But I can see where the focus is right now, selling products and winning elections, and I think humanity is making a very BIG mistake in giving up on privacy and in unleashing what amounts to psychological mind control on children.
The only hope of resisting it lays in fighting to maintain privacy and it's nearly too late. Best... Love your stack.
Hi Howard. Indeed the private ownership of the money supply is the logical conclusion of Fascism. However, to your point about the public issuance of money as an asset, I see that when we look at money in situ, money is invariably and inherently debt-based. Twas ever thus. All agricultural societies are surplus societies that run year-on-year structural surpluses in order to persist. And surpluses represent the pulling forward of demand from the future via extractive mechanisms. And money became the utilitarian market-based proxy for those surpluses. Hence, the pulling forward of the demand for money is what makes money intrinsically debt-based; we borrow money when we want to pull our future demand into the present, whether we're a republic, a private business, or a private individual. And if we don't do it then someone else will, leaving us at a market disadvantage. And the holding money in a surplus society means losing money because structural surpluses are growth regimes that force monetary inflation. So in order to avoid losing money by doing nothing, we loan our extra money to a bank, which is a debt.
Even barter markets are debt-based. Goods are perishable, and seasonal, and have production lead times. My neighbor's chicks may be hatching during the two months or so when my milk goats are dried off, so one of us must be in debt to the other for a period of time if she needs to offload her chicks as soon as they are born.
That money must be a debt is a myth perpetrated by those who profit from it. There are examples throughout history of debt-free money. Lincoln's greeenbacks were issued not as a debt but as a permanetly circulating asset which is why the bankers hated them so becasue when issued debt began to dissappear from the economy as Henry Carey, Lincoln's economic advisor, described. Read what the bankers association said about them. The Bandbury Pound was another example. Money was an ancient innovation to pay debt, requiring debt to be paid with debt is a twisted abuse of monetary authority called usury, once banned by all religions before they were corrupted. The monetary history is the history of power. monetary.orgmonetaryalliance.org
Thanks Howard. I get that public banking is politically preferable to private banking. I agree with your recounting of the tug of war between public and private banking. I often recommend Bill Still's "The Money Masters" documentary as one of the most important documentaries for early-stage Red Pilling.
I just explained why money itself is a structural representation of debt. There's political theory of money and then there's situational, dynamic reality. It's like the difference between in vitro experimentation and in vivo reality. The academic field of study that deals with in vivo reality is classical cultural anthropology which is a systems theory of human ecology. I'd be happy to respond to any counterarguments you may have regarding money as structural debt.
"...a deeper conflict unfolds silently across the planet - a war for the freedom of human consciousness itself. This is what World War III looks like - not just bombs and bullets, but the systematic engineering of human perception."
Cheering from my keyboard that more people are realizing this. For me the biggest hit between the eyes was the same revelation you had about the Q-movement, that the managed expectation was to actually do nothing. That magic white-hats were supposed to swoop in and save the day at the last moment. Talk about Alice in Wonderland! They successfully diffused the red-blooded-American instinct of taking matters directly into hand, so I guess that is job well-done to the narrative managers.
I apologize for the delayed reply. Thank you for the thoughtful comment.
The hard part of most people re Q is realizing that it's not nothing. LIke any good dialectic people look at it in binary terms: nonsense or savior. I don't hear enough discussion about whether it could be something else, say a highly sophisticated intel op.
Your observation about Alice in Wonderland is a powerful metaphor on a number of levels.
I was thinking of writing a whole piece about that topic. The beauty of Q is that for all the hype, it absolutely delivered on the key area of 'Awakening'. Even today the 'Q clock' is predicting events in the news, and the slow drip of information coming to light continues to match up to the many 'reveals' from years past. My problem with the dialectic is of course that even the white-hat option that Gen Flynn and others paint as 'awakened' or 'red pilled' is not real freedom. So in many ways it has always just offered false hope to those of us truly interested in getting out from under the boot.
Well, Mr. Stylman, each new article in this series, reinforces it as quite a tour de force.
Tangentially, I would add that the reversion extant after revelation of deceit, is scalar. We can observe the same mechanism of action within localized organizations. It appears to be a matter of incentives. A reasonable prior is that each pursues their own self-interest. Systemically, this places revelation of deceit and corruption within a peculiar niche reserved for statistical outliers.
When a system is properly designed, instantiated and initiated, it is axiomatically self-correcting. This appears to be the result of atomized incentive structures. More concisely, perverse incentives render deceptive practices "profitable."
Sorting this profitability is a function of understanding prerogatives within command-and-control structures. Within private industry, fraud is profitable on an individualized scale. In organizations without a profit motive, fraud preserves reputation, which is the foundation of institutional power.
But you knew this already.
Where wealth and influence concentrate, predators and parasites congregate. The selection criteria for pivotal command and control structure emplacement, incentivizes expression of traits correlating with that congregation.
Some predators and parasites are born, others are made, both categories find their metier within incentive structures.
Many thanks for yet another thought-provoking exposition. Hope you consolidate this series into a book; I'll scrape together a sufficiency of the filthy lucre to obtain a copy, should you do so.
I'd argue that the system isn't broken - it's working exactly as designed. The concentration of wealth and power, the selection for predatory behavior - these aren't bugs, they're features.
As for the book - I've thought about it. My friends and family are getting tired of my schtick so I decided to start publishing to see if anyone else might be interested - I'm glad you are :-)
It's your unique perspective that provides the value. The various aspects have their own body of literature, but correlating those aspects requires a certain..... delicacy, shall we say?
That delicacy is a function of verification and avoidance of the more hyperbolic assertions extant within the conspiratorium. It isn't obvious how to refine the correlation credibly into fundamental patterns of human personality traits and behaviors.
I would say that you're one of a small handful of analysts and writers today, that can walk that tightrope. At least, so it seems to me thus far.
Timing, also, is of the essence. Public interest in this type of writing, is at an all-time high. Strike while the iron is hot, would be my recommendation. The book writes itself, as a natural outcome of the essays.
I know I must sound like a lunatic to most people - a few years ago I would have thought so myself. But once you start looking deeper, you can't unsee what you've seen. Funny how reality keeps pulling the rug out from under your carefully constructed worldview.
As far as the book goes, while I'm flattered, I'm still trying to understand my role in all this. Thanks for the vote of confidence, either way.
"I know I must sound like a lunatic to most people"
The erudite are enmeshed within their priors, Mr. Stylman, wholly invested. To them, your observations are threatening.
"Most people" lack a frame of reference with which to understand the correlations. To them, your observations can be intellectually intimidating.
I say "can be," but I'll reiterate my assertion that your unique perspective renders the material more accessible than most.
I think your role will only be understandable in retrospect. You will act according to your nature, and only time will reveal the relative importance of your contribution.
“... carefully crafted narratives that keep humanity trapped in a matrix of perceptions.”
It is not the narratives that keep humanity trapped. It is humanity’s horribly misguided belief in those narratives and its willful surrendering of one’s personal power and agency. This is the debilitating and highly damaging process of personal self-misidentification that begins early in life with a very young child’s vulnerability and need to seek and acquire acceptance from parents (and then later, peers and others) where one learns to divorce his/her self from their true free and unbounded nature and forever chain themselves to the ideas, whims, desires, pathologies, ego-trips, and errors of others that one encounters for the entire rest of their lives.
“The system doesn't just create propaganda - it creates contained paths for those who see through propaganda... the second matrix: capturing awakening through sophisticated channels of inauthentic opposition.”
When one really understands that he/she is truly free and untethered to anyone or anything else (in other words, really grows up or has a personal awakening) – no amount of propaganda can or will ever have a lasting or meaningful affect on them. It can surround you for sure (like in today’s perpetual and crafted Matrix of State Media artificiality)... but all that will just sit in the room you occupy like a bad stink. You smell it. You know it is there. You may know who put that stink there. And all you care about it clearing your air and getting away from that stench to find good, breathable air again.
“Understanding these patterns of controlled opposition can feel overwhelming. Each revelation seems to lead to another layer of deception.”
Understanding patterns of controlled oppostion becomes easy when you fully incorporate into your thinking that Liars Are In Fact, Liars. When America’s State Media or your local doctor or your next door neighbor or your signiifant other has violated your trust and has exposed themselves as untrustworthy or plain liars – that trust you may have once placed in them is gone forever. They can then say and do whatever they please and it just bounces off you like rain off your raincoat while taking your morning stroll. You sense it – you know it's there – and you now laugh at it for being foolish enough to think that it can still have any affect on you.
Controlled Opposition is just another flavor of Falsehood. Just more evidence of being in the presence of something potentially dangerous and harming to you – or just at the level of an annoyance like a fly that persists in bothering you.
The Bottom Line: Don’t look outside yourself for gurus or saviors or answer-men and women. Fine tune your own ability to detect lies and the liars who peddle them. Never surrender your power or the purity of your thoughts and belief to anyone or anything. Let ‘Them’ come at you with everything They’ve got - and then laugh in their face or give them the good-old two-finger salute.
This can be daunting at first. But it gets easier once you have freed yourself from the Prison that never was outside but only and always in your own mind. And once freed, it is done. You never have to free yourself again.
“The most powerful truth isn't a revelation - it's the recognition that consciousness can transcend their constructed boundaries entirely.”
Consciousness ALWAYS transcends everything else around it. Our Reality is nothing but Consciousness. The outward-appearing World isn’t even really there but is a display of dancing energies that instantly flash in-and-out of existence as Quantum Physics has revealed. We are that Consciousness – the Seer who is above and beyond any particular manifestation of it. It never narrows one inch. It could not if it tried.
What does change is in how one chooses to use and wield that precious consciousness – and who is its boss or slave.
Boss, or slave. That is always our choice. Simple, profound. And the most important decision we will ever make in our lives.
Appreciate your warrior passion, RS, but you are new-aging the reality. Consciousness is not a religion. The neopagan elevation of consciousness over energy such that Free Will finds itself in a fantasy world of Untethered Will -- Absolutist Will -- amounts to nothing more than taking the Neo character in The Matrix movie a lot too literally. You are not Neo and I am not Neo. We don't get to 'play God,' so to speak, and wave away the bullets that fly at us. And we don't get to pretend that we don't need to alternately learn from others and teach each other. You are not an island and I am not either. Evolutionarily we are small-to-large pack mammals. Our brain architecture is a deeply-worn social pattern that emerged from 4.2 billion years or whatever of the interplay of Cause and Effect. We don't get to pretend that we're better than that and expect to truly, deeply excel in accomplishing a well-rounded life.
Consciousness and energy are egalitarian together. They are symbiotic in Life. One cannot exist without the other in light-based reality; that we call it light-based references the fundamental, coequal importance of energy.
We're talking holism here. The We are biology inhabiting a dynamic, closed energy system. While consciousness and energy are symbiotic, the coequal thermodynamic and electromagnetic aspects within energy are also symbiotic. Closed, dynamic energy systems such as this universe -- and we can reason that characterization of it even though we can't observe the whole universe because that is how it behaves -- necessitate competition. And competition is as true under natural law as cooperation. If your neighbor lies to you it is probably because he or she doesn't have to cooperate with you on any meaningful level because the State has enslaved you both under the requirement that you obey the State first and last. The State sets you and your neighbor against each other by ensuring that you can't have free relations. Yet you act out the neopagan warrior fantasy that the State has no say over you.
The State outcompeted all free societies by killing all free persons that were willing to fight to the death for their free peoples' freedoms, and then assimilated all of those formerly free people that weren't willing to fight to the death, and all of us alive today are directly descended from the latter group. But fortunately for recessive genetics. the warrior spirit is not fully extinguished.
"It is not the narratives that keep humanity trapped. It is humanity’s horribly misguided belief in those narratives and its willful surrendering of one’s personal power and agency."
Josh was correct and your quoted material, here, is a miscorrection. The Matrix narrative is but a reflection of the physical and psychological prison planet that the Elites have built. You don't have the choice but to not surrender a large swath of your personal physical agency. And neither do I no matter how much I would like it to not be the case. Our physical choices are threefold: play by their rules as truly/conscientiously as we can, be homeless, or be imprisoned/killed.
Josh's excellent essay is discussing the path to true mental freedom such that we can maximize our physical freedom within this State prison. We're talking Applied Philosophy here. Adults don't get any more mature than this.
Ben: “... Consciousness is not a religion. The neopagan elevation of consciousness over energy...”.
Energy is the ‘substance’ that morphs (like ‘clay to a potter’) what appear as shapes in our Conjured Reality. Consciousness is the Experiencer Of and Generator of that Conjured Reality. It is the dance between the unseen world of fundamental Being-Ness and that which gets pushed outward and experienced in our everyday lives.
No, Consciousness is not a religion. Consciousness is greater than that. Religion is doctrines and control structures and false paradigms of social and thought control.
“We don't get to 'play God..'”.
I agree. Because we are all already aspects of Divinity ourselves. We don’t play at being what we fundamentally already are. We were/are Divine before we ever became human beings.
“If your neighbor lies to you it is probably because he or she doesn't have to cooperate with you on any meaningful level because the State has enslaved you both under the requirement that you obey the State first and last.”
If your neighbor lies to you it means they have made the value judgment that some personal aim of their’s that they seek is more important than being truthful. It is an aspect of egoism and misplaced values.
“The Matrix narrative is but a reflection of the physical and psychological prison planet that the Elites have built.”
The Elitists did not build the Matrix and Prison. The Matrix already existed when cavemen walked the Earth. The Matrix creates a menta prison of a false and fradulant 'reality' to keep one from waking up to Who and What they really are.
What Elitists did was to build upon an already long-existing mental and spiritual deviancy that incorrectly holds that there is such a thing as Subject and Object, or Thought vs. The Experiencer beyong thinking. Quantum Physics has already proven that to be false. There is no separation between subject and object. There is no ‘Object’ without an Observer to collapse the wave function into what they appears to be.
“... we can maximize our physical freedom within this State prison.”
On this, we are in total and complete agreement. As long as we free our Minds first.
Hey RS I was speaking to a very intelligent guy over at The Honest Sorcery's stack last week, about evolutionary biology and RNA World Theory which is the consensus view and also what I believe to be true, and he said that what I had just told him was just like a documentary he'd watched just the night before, called "Photon," which is on YouTube. I'm about halfway through. It's very good because the footage really helps a person to see the symbiotic nature of consciousness and energy and. Everything has consciousness/spirit/intelligence at different densities. And here's the key insight: among elemental reality (light, plasma, mineral, etc) consciousness exists and operates purely at the energetic level/density, which means that in those early states of evolution consciousness and energy are one and the same - a rock is elemental matter chemically (energetically) holding itself together and obeying natural law according to its evolved., intelligent chemical reactions. Reactions only ever come from intelligence successfully reacting to cause and effect under natural law.
Highly recommend you check out that documentary, friend.
"Energy is the ‘substance’ that morphs (like ‘clay to a potter’) what appear as shapes in our Conjured Reality."
The only conjuring of reality that was ever performed was by Creator. Creator brought into being the conscious primordial soup beginning that was left to its own devices to evolve for itself. We can know that because Free Will is self-evident to clear thinking. Thus, when you later speak of our divinity you are mispatterning by mistaking Creation for Creator, which is the mistake that all neopagan pan-isms make. Creator is the divinity -- when put in religious terminology anyway -- and Creation is what we are. Creatures of the Creation and, as such, Creational consciousness patterns natural law - follows the self-organizing Creational dynamic as observed in all nonpolitical causes and effects.
Just because consciousness/spirit molds (animates is my word of choice for this phenomenon) energy does not mean that energy isn't likewise simultaneously animating consciousness. It is, which was my point about your new age placement of consciousness (the personified potter) in a position of supremacy over the energy (the inanimate clay). That hierarchy is the subject-object misperception that you decry later on in your comment.
Beyond that separation lies complex symbiosis, as a nested/fractal emergent-propertied, cyclical evolution: while it's true that today the potter molds the clay, it is also true that the clay molded the biological evolution of the mineral-based human potter, and it is also true that, as the specialized focus on cause and effect that it is, the material science of clayworking continues to mold the potters understanding of Creation.
"If your neighbor lies to you it means they have made the value judgment that some personal aim of their’s that they seek is more important than being truthful. It is an aspect of egoism and misplaced values."
No. WADR, this is an immature understanding. I get it emotionally, but it lacks structural understanding. It is idealistic. We are evolved as small-to-large pack mammals in separatist societies, which is why warfare has existed since the dawn of man. Your neighbor is not in your pack. Not your kinfolk. You are foreigners to each other and the State owns you both, and you just happen to live right next to each other. Lol, how fucked up is that? Your neighbor don't owe you jack shit, including the truth, and never will. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you can really understand the lay of the land around you which is THE most important understanding a man needs to acquire in order to protect his kin. By all means make the effort to build and maintain a constructive relationship with your neighbors. I certainly do. But don't fool yourself and sour yourself with idealistic expectations. The only people we can and should expect high-level honesty from are those with whom we share our life's work -- our homestead -- on a daily basis.
Ben: “The only conjuring of reality that was ever performed was by Creator.”
On this we again agree. But maybe in a different way. Humans are a manifestation of Divinity/Creator Itself. Thus the dynamic of what’s called Co-Creation (but in reality it’s just two windows into the Creator Nature of the One Divinity.
As for Consciousness..
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
RS, below is a link to a comment I wrote the other week on RNA World Theory. See how elemental reality evolved into us. And see how it is what we still our, and that our headspace is just this wild emergent phenomenon of biochemical complexity.
Regarding Planck's quote that you included, he is right about everything except the claim that regards "matter as derivative from consciousness." He is conflating the Creator's consciousness that Created all matter with his own. Just as you did. That's a leap not based in Reason, and Reason is all that we have because reason-based cause and effect is all that the dynamic universe has, as intelligently designed by Creator.
Matter is derived from both consciousness and energy in symbiosis. Embodied consciousness. There is no matter without the two together. There's only dark energy and dark matter. Hmmm, that's interesting - I wonder how those might possibly be related to light energy and light consciousness. :)
Ben: "He is conflating the Creator's consciousness that Created all matter with his own. Just as you did.”
As I indicated earlier, I see no true separation between/among Consciousness at all. It is all One. It appears to be ‘subdivided’ (for lack of another term) into Individuation and consciousness on smaller scales but which remains fully within and connected to The Whole One. Near Death Experiences come back with the perspective of experiencing that Wholeness of Consciousness and they come back forever changed.
I am one who subscribes to the description that Universe/Existence contains no such 'thing' as Matter. At its most basic level – all ‘things’ are composed of Energy and/or Light. And that is it – nothing else. The atoms and subatomic particles that compose ‘matter’ are almost entirely void space. So empty that what remains is hardly even detectable at all.
What IS left is Energy itself. Pure, undeluded Energy. The building blocks of apparent Reality. What we perceive as ‘things of substance’ that we can touch like tables or chairs and the like are not things at all but are the repelling of energy forces that we perceive as solid things.
Energy is the Play-Doh of Consciousness. Our Minds will ‘Things’ into being by the manipulation of Energy at its most basic level – with Consciousness underpinning our Minds.
I can see how Consciousness can create Energy. I do not see a way that Energy could in fact create Consciousness. The Potter (Consciousness) creates the Pot (Energy). The Pot (Energy) cannot reverse-engineer and conjure Consciousness and turn into a Potter or its own Creator. It has no sense of Being-ness to 'think' or have direction of will and purpose.
No, RS. You are still doing the subject-object, separate-self, human supremacy thing that is the definitive feature of all religions, hence my neopagan labeling. Animism is the our common/universal cultural heritage for 97-99pc of modern human history for a reason: it enabled humans to more or less follow natural law rather than political law. It was and is based on pure Reason with pure Reason being the *accurate* patterning of cause and effect in the ecology, and with the ecology meaning everything, and everything ultimately meaning the known universe.
You conflate our human mind metaconsciousness with consciousness itself. That is the first falsehood of human supremacy. Just because we are the only currently existing species on the planet (I insert "currently" because we obviously outcompeted our competitor hominids as we went along) with the ability to reason out that a Creator exists or did exist (we have no way of reasoning as to Creator's current status) doesn't mean that we are 'co-Creating' along with Creator. That's a megalomanical idea, RS, that you can't begin to justify with reason. What exactly have we created? Create in the context of Creator means to make something out of apparent (to us) nothing; the reason Creator must exist in the first place is because according to universal law something (the universe) cannot come from nothing, and the objective consequence of Creator having apparently done exactly that -- produced a universe out of nothing -- tells us that from our limited vantage point inside the universe, we know absolutely nothing of Creator other than its necessary existence. Yet you have made up the postmodern 'quantum' fashionable fiction that we are co-Creating with Creator, and the implication being that we were Creator's specific end goal of Creation. That's pure ontological narcissism, friend, not reason.
We can't do that. All we can do is what
As I began to talk about previously, humans are only metaconscious (self-conscious) in the first place because mineral reality had evolved to attain memory capabilities which is the prerequisite for consciously molding reality through chemical means. Realize that once you understand the crucial concept of emergence (of emergent properties) it is not at all false scientific materialism to say that all that we ever do is mold our surroundings by conscious chemical means. (Wikipedia's entry on emergence is one of their better entries.) We humans with our highly advanced metaconsciousness are just an emergent property of our elemental bodies. And that's where RNA World Theory and that Photon documentary come in.
Realize that quantum physics was hijacked/coopted by postmodern new age culture for its own religious purposes. And the Elites' have at least a partial role to play in that bs.
I'll post another comment on emergence and RNA World Theory in a minute.
Thanks for putting into words some other observations and reflections I’ve been having over the past couple of decades. I am constantly reminded at how “very smart people” can be redirected to effectively and consistently. Of course the answer IS real life. Analog wins in the end, although it may not be in a very idyllic way….
You wrote: "Those who expose corruption are permitted to speak, but only within careful boundaries. Like any sophisticated confidence game, it works in stages: first gain trust through real revelations, then build dependency through exclusive "insider" knowledge, finally redirect that trust toward constrained outcomes. Watch how alternative media platforms follow this pattern: expose genuine corruption, build devoted following, then subtly shift narrative focus away from systemic accountability. Each revelation seems to lead deeper into a labyrinth of coordinated awakening."
This made me think of the latest revelation about the Means siblings:
When they first came on the scene I thought how cool that someone is talking about these important food related topics and I was taken in like everyone else. Then after hearing a few people talk about how they might be a well-timed distraction from the larger health issue of the mRNA bio-weapon harms and then watching the Danny Jones Podcast with Mary Talley Bowden, Dr. Jack Kruse, and Calley Means it seemed well founded that they are a Limited Hangout.
Dr. Bowden asked some key questions that made me realize how fooled I was.
How did they get a book deal so easily? Especially calling out Big Food. The publishers ties to The Rockefeller Foundation.
Why were these two unknowns so heavily promoted on all the popular podcasts (Tucker, Rogan) when so many others have tried and failed?
What are their family connections to government?
If they care so much about the health of people why are they not calling for the shots to be stopped? (mRNA platform is financial boon for the industry and Calley is an industry lobbyist - duh)
Why after 4 years of the worst crimes against humanity and the mRNA bio weapon that is still killing people everyday are we talking about the harm of seed oils and fruit loops? The processed food discussion has its place, but now, at this time, why is it being allowed? Convenient distraction.
After hearing Dr. Bowden ask those questions I was floored. How did I not see it myself?
Such an obvious distraction from the bigger issue - the mRNA platform is not fit for human use yet it's being deployed in all new vaccines and on the childhood schedule. There is no one protecting the children, but sure let's focus on fruit loops.
How to make sense of all the voices coming from all the directions and wanting to trust someone, anyone? It's maddening.
Astute observation. You're asking all the right quesitons.
I linked to something I wrote about the MAHA strife in the piece. FWIW, I know some people who are friendly with the Means siblings and believe they may be pure in their goals. Regardless, it's easy to see how these issues can get railroaded even by well intentioned actors.
Eh. No.
If there are not enough people running with the vaccine stuff, does not mean that it makes sense to crack down on those running with the food stuff. That's how you create strife and kill the enthusiasm of good people.
The whole "let's pick on the Meanses" is misbegotten.
I think you may have misread my intentions. I'm not suggesting 'cracking down' on anyone - I specifically acknowledged the validity of food sovereignty concerns while examining how different movements can get redirected or divided. The piece is actually about avoiding strife and supporting unity among people working on different but important issues. It's precisely about not killing the enthusiasm of good people, regardless of which aspect of these challenges they're focused on.
That said, if you're interested in a deeper analysis of how movements can get redirected, I'd encourage you to read Debbie Lerman's excellent reporting about the Means siblings, which provides additional evidence supporting the pattern I described about how authentic movements can potentially be something other than they may appear.
https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/cia-central-casting-the-means-episode
The interview surely did crack down on the Meanses. And so did ElleSD to whom you were replying encouragingly.
I am coming from a perspective of an ad hominem: attack the issue or the argument, not the person.
And I see a lot of people attacking the persons. Movements do get redirected, and that should be addressed as an issue on its own, rather than attacking and besmirching the humans involved.
And attacking and besmirching people who do good work is also a strategy of divide and conquer. I say no to that crap!
We agree re ad hominems. To be clear though - my essay deliberately avoided focusing on specific individuals. It was about examining broader patterns of how movements can be redirected or divided. While Debbie's piece provides a detailed case study that illustrates some of these patterns, my focus was on understanding the trend itself - how authentic movements can get channeled in certain directions, whether intentionally or unintentionally. This kind of pattern recognition is crucial for maintaining effectiveness in any movement. At the end of the day, we all need to follow our hearts while keeping our eyes open.
Yes, that is where the focus should be. On the trends, the deceptive patterns. So people can learn to avoid being snookered. Glad we are on the same page now.
What a great read! I find myself trying to address these ideas constantly with others, but with nowhere near the clarity that you've provided here.
Teachings from the Pleiadians
"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."
Barbara Marciniak
This is so spot on to where my mind has been at.
I’ve spent the last 10+ years going down various rabbit holes and I’ve finally come to the conclusion it has been a matrix within a matrix, especially with so many “truthers” pushing synthetic antidotes which are turning out to be extremely harmful.
While I do think there are a lot of intentional nefarious players trying to derail well intentioned movements, I also think that on a very subconscious level that humans are magnetized to the level of truth that they can handle and equally share the level of truth that they can handle - ie they are not attempting to be co-intel, they are just magnetically drawn to lies because they are filled with that level of lies (on a heavy metal level or shadow level) - and so they perpetuate partial lies/ignore elephants in the room until they detox and face all the toxins within - this is just my working theory which I hope you enjoy 😊 some people like myself have been drawn to black pill content because I was not ready to deal with my own unhealed trauma and it became a sort of escape to “go down the rabbit hole” and find some valiant truth teller to protect me and peddle zeolite products to me lol. Once I faced my own shadows through somatic and nervous system healing, I stopped seeking “escape the matrix” boogey man stories from half truthers as much; as I was not magnetized to feeling helpless anymore.
I hope this makes sense. :-)
I am trying to assemble some friends in NY for the very reasons you listed!
Local connection is how we get out of this.
Thanks for your always resonant inspiring writing!
Thanks for the kind words and apologies for the delayed response.
Your hypothesis about people being "magnetized" to the level of truth they can handle resonates deeply. I've seen this play out repeatedly - someone understands vaccine mandates are wrong but can't process the full scope of harm from the shots themselves; someone recognizes the evil of wars until their trusted sources declare one justified; someone knows Iraq WMDs were a lie but can't consider the implications for 9/11; someone sees media manipulation around Covid but trusts climate change narratives without scrutiny. It's not necessarily intentional deception - as you note, it seems to operate at a deeper psychological level where unprocessed trauma and conditioning create these selective blind spots. Or, truly processing the magnitude of the lies.
Your insight about personal healing enabling clearer sight is especially valuable. When we're seeking external saviors or simple narratives to explain away complex discomfort, we often end up vulnerable to partial truths marketed as complete solutions. Ugh.
Really glad to hear you're building local connections in NY. I obviously agree with that approach toward moving forward.
🫶🏻 thank you for being so brave and such an articulate writer. I feel grateful for your depth and compassion and I’m grateful that we are all in this together, figuring it out as we heal and detox on all levels and rise above 🌞
Thanks for this brilliant essay it brought up thoughts of Hayek and CS Lewis writing.
Hayek,
Full of hubris, we believe we are “able to shape the world around us according to our wishes.” Blinded by this fatal conceit, the miracle of the modern world goes unnoticed. Few wonder what is “responsible for having generated this extraordinary order.”
To “plan” or “organize” the growth of mind, or, for that matter, progress in general, is a contradiction in terms. The idea that the human mind ought “consciously” to control its own development confuses individual reason, which alone can “consciously control” anything, with the interpersonal process to which its growth is due. By attempting to control it, we are merely setting bounds to its development and must sooner or later produce a stagnation of thought and a decline of reason.
The tragedy of collectivist thought is that, while it starts out to make reason supreme, it ends by destroying reason because it misconceives the process on which the growth of reason depends. It may indeed be said that it is the paradox of all collectivist doctrine and its demand for “conscious” control or “conscious” planning that they necessarily lead to the demand that the mind of some individual should rule supreme—while only the individualist approach to social phenomena makes us recognize the super individual forces which guide the growth of reason.
Individualism is thus an attitude of humility before this social process and of tolerance to other opinions and is the exact opposite of that intellectual hubris which is at the root of the demand for comprehensive direction of the social process.
CS Lewis
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
I am only making clear what Man's conquest of Nature really means and especially that final stage in the conquest, which, perhaps, is not far off. The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect applied psychology, has obtained full control over himself. Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won. We shall have `taken the thread of life out of the hand of Clotho' and be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish
it to be. The battle will indeed be won. But who, precisely, will have won it? For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls. It is in Man's power to treat
himself as a mere `natural object' and his own judgements of value as raw material for scientific manipulation to alter at will. The objection to his doing so does not lie in the fact that this point of view (like one's first day in a dissecting room) is painful and shocking till we grow used to it. The pain and the shock are at most a warning and a symptom. The real objection is that if man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be: not raw material to be manipulated, as he fondly imagined, by himself, but by mere appetite, that is, mere Nature, in the person of his de-humanized Conditioners.
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting
and impious.
Andrew, I'm incredibly humbled by this comparison. Those passages are profound and eerily prescient - especially Lewis's warning about the "magician's bargain" and Hayek's insights on the fatal conceit of trying to consciously control humanity's development. Thank you for sharing these. They articulate so clearly what's at stake in our current moment.
I thought the initial quote was written by Frank herbert perhaps I’m incorrect
Thank you. You have so clearly articulated these patterns behind ongoing perception-management and control.
The area in which we debate is continually defined by the same sources leading us to - of course - their solution. The illusion of choice. Over and over.
And yes, we watch movements like 'Occupy' start out with real energy and organization only to dissolve into fragmented and ineffective remnants.
Eventually the realization hits. Individually and then (we can hope) collectively. For those who can see it - rather than resisting what's being imposed, rather than a 'No' we do what's right for us, (an intrinsic yes) and take actions that support that. We redefine our agency in a positive and practical direction. Rather than against the matrix-machine, we act as advocates for ourselves. It may seem a subtle distinction but it's crucial.
The whole current set-up places us as unempowered victims to 'their' system. In fact we are already free and obviously have power - they wouldn't have to work so hard at deception if we didn't.
We act out of that recognition.
What does a free person do? Grow food. Avoid being poisoned voluntarily. Spend time in nature and align to what is real. Find ways to exchange with others outside the system offered. Yes, that will become more challenging, but what is being planned won't hold - too many are already seeing it.
That's for laying it out so clearly. An important gift you are sharing. Best
Thanks for the kind words.
Your comment gets to the heart of effective individual agency - shifting from reactive resistance to proactive creation. The key insight is that perpetual opposition still keeps us defined by the system we oppose. True independence means building parallel structures and living according to our own values.
Your point about growing food, avoiding voluntary poisoning, connecting with nature and reality, and creating alternative exchange systems represents practical sovereignty. It's the difference between fighting against something versus building something better.
The observation about their constant need for deception revealing our inherent power is spot on. Complex control systems only arise when natural authority is absent. Their elaborate mechanisms of manipulation indicate not their strength, but their fundamental weakness.
The path forward isn't battling the old system, but making it irrelevant through practical, life-affirming alternatives. Each person who steps out of dependency and into productive self-reliance demonstrates this quiet revolution.
You should be acting to protect your privacy and that of the coming generation. There is no freedom without privacy and AI control of humans cannot succeed without everyone giving it. This is where the fight must occur.
Soooo good. And exactly what I've been thinking about!
Great post.
"The way out of their matrix is with eyes wide open and feet planted firmly in local soil."
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
I keep thinking about the ways they elicit our compliance. Insurance is another one that comes up. It's virtually impossible to get needs met via the system without "working it" somehow. Coverage is deliberately conditional, forcing people to choose between financial and ethical compromise. As far as I'm concerned, strategy itself compromises us by putting us in the mindset of end goal and taking us off genuine learning curves.
Insurance is just another racket in the extraction economy - old guard parasites who've perfected the art of taking without giving. Pure superfluous middleman masquerading as service.
I love your insight about how they force us to play their game - either get financially bled or learn to work their corrupt system. And the moment we start strategizing within their rules, we're already caught in their web. Just like banking and healthcare, it's amazing how many of these dinosaur industries basically exist to shake us down while pretending they're doing important work.
Brilliant synthesis - thank you 🙏
Marxism is about class dialectic, class warfare. The 'controlled opposition' shoves people into silos, in which they can be controlled, exactly as in the Marxian dialectic.
Individualism is the response.
Whether it's collectivist policies creating chaos or nationalist "solutions" expanding state control, the playbook stays consistent: Problem, reaction, solution. My concern now is that the border crisis becomes justification for digital ID and surveillance. Left or right, the infrastructure of control grows. Think problem-solving but watch for how "emergency measures" tend to become permanent features.
"Those who steer the first matrix wouldn't leave the off-ramps unsupervised." YES, thus there is controlled opposition on every issue. It's kind of like funding both sides of a war, which they also do. I saw that you had MMT in your list of influences. They are controlled opposition to monetary reform, they defend the current system with a phony "theory" and becasue money is behind them they are able to dominate the public discussion and keep real monetary reform at bay. During Occupy Wallstreet they employed emotional attacks at any mention of it. I bet most people here don't know what I am talking about when I say monetary reform. In fact there is a history of controlled opposition to monetary reform, making Marx popular served that function, as Silvio Gesell pointed out in the 20s. The monetary history is the history of power, not the military histories. It was acknowledged 3000 years ago that the most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance was the sole right to issue money as an asset, not a debt. As Frederick Soddy wrote in 1934, To allow money to become a source of revenue to private issuers is to create, first, a secret and illicit arm of the government and, last, a rival power strong enough ultimately to overthrow all other forms of government. That is what we are up against. monetary.org Take a look, and keep up the good work, Joshua.
I appreciate your insights about controlled opposition and completely agree about the monetary system being at the root of our captured society. However, I think you may have confused me with someone else regarding MMT - it's my belief that our debt-based monetary system is the root of most evil- and the coming CBDC agenda represents the most formidable control mechanisms we've ever faced. Either way, thanks for the enthusiasm, Howard.
With Trump being captured bu the west coast oligarchs and blessing crypto it appears as if an alternate financial system is now being set up, I think in collaboration with Wall Street, that will leverage the crypto enthusiasts and investors, which will result in digital identity being introduced along with a privately implemented CBDC. As with credit cards, use will be grown over time and it will become increasingly difficult to avoid participating. The tech oligarchs, I believe, do have a comprehensive vision of how this all rolls out, where AI and the security state fits in, and how everyone will be controlled to their financial benefit. The key to it all is theft of privacy. This is where the 2nd American Revolution must be fought.
You may be right but we'll see. A big component of this war - beyond being spiritual and for our consciousness - is centralization versus decentralization. We're just getting started on how that will play out. Tech may be our weapon as well as theirs.
If you understand how AI works, which depends upon complete theft of privacy for context in responses, it is easy to see that AI is on a clear track to take over most of the essential responsibilities of parenting, including inculcation of foundational beliefs and values, shaping of world view, establishing boundaries, and meting out of rewards and punishments, among many others. While one might be able to make an argument in favor of taking over this responsibility, it represents a deeply dystopian ~experiment that is placing everyone's future into the hands of a relatively small group of people having self interest in centralizing power over the culture and society. The power to control people at this level is FAR greater than that of a govt of laws, so one must be very careful what one wishes for, especially when all of this is not being discussed and debated, at least publicly.
With respect to decentralization, the one example that comes to mind is abortion, which decision has always struck me as nothing but a failed attempt to re-divide men and women over an issue which 95%+ have come to agree, at least in terms of personal behavior if not in rhetoric. The trend toward centralization of power is persistent, as those at the center are always greedy for more. I hear far more calls for eliminating the electoral college than I do for restoring state's rights. Many dont even comprehend what "state's rights" even means.
I am a technologists and far from being anti-technology. I can clearly see the benefits of AI to the world, especially in terms of economic productivity within everything I did over the course of a career. If I were young, I'd dive in enthusiastically. But I can see where the focus is right now, selling products and winning elections, and I think humanity is making a very BIG mistake in giving up on privacy and in unleashing what amounts to psychological mind control on children.
The only hope of resisting it lays in fighting to maintain privacy and it's nearly too late. Best... Love your stack.
Hi Howard. Indeed the private ownership of the money supply is the logical conclusion of Fascism. However, to your point about the public issuance of money as an asset, I see that when we look at money in situ, money is invariably and inherently debt-based. Twas ever thus. All agricultural societies are surplus societies that run year-on-year structural surpluses in order to persist. And surpluses represent the pulling forward of demand from the future via extractive mechanisms. And money became the utilitarian market-based proxy for those surpluses. Hence, the pulling forward of the demand for money is what makes money intrinsically debt-based; we borrow money when we want to pull our future demand into the present, whether we're a republic, a private business, or a private individual. And if we don't do it then someone else will, leaving us at a market disadvantage. And the holding money in a surplus society means losing money because structural surpluses are growth regimes that force monetary inflation. So in order to avoid losing money by doing nothing, we loan our extra money to a bank, which is a debt.
Even barter markets are debt-based. Goods are perishable, and seasonal, and have production lead times. My neighbor's chicks may be hatching during the two months or so when my milk goats are dried off, so one of us must be in debt to the other for a period of time if she needs to offload her chicks as soon as they are born.
I don't like money. It's unsustainable.
That money must be a debt is a myth perpetrated by those who profit from it. There are examples throughout history of debt-free money. Lincoln's greeenbacks were issued not as a debt but as a permanetly circulating asset which is why the bankers hated them so becasue when issued debt began to dissappear from the economy as Henry Carey, Lincoln's economic advisor, described. Read what the bankers association said about them. The Bandbury Pound was another example. Money was an ancient innovation to pay debt, requiring debt to be paid with debt is a twisted abuse of monetary authority called usury, once banned by all religions before they were corrupted. The monetary history is the history of power. monetary.org monetaryalliance.org
Thanks Howard. I get that public banking is politically preferable to private banking. I agree with your recounting of the tug of war between public and private banking. I often recommend Bill Still's "The Money Masters" documentary as one of the most important documentaries for early-stage Red Pilling.
I just explained why money itself is a structural representation of debt. There's political theory of money and then there's situational, dynamic reality. It's like the difference between in vitro experimentation and in vivo reality. The academic field of study that deals with in vivo reality is classical cultural anthropology which is a systems theory of human ecology. I'd be happy to respond to any counterarguments you may have regarding money as structural debt.
"...a deeper conflict unfolds silently across the planet - a war for the freedom of human consciousness itself. This is what World War III looks like - not just bombs and bullets, but the systematic engineering of human perception."
Cheering from my keyboard that more people are realizing this. For me the biggest hit between the eyes was the same revelation you had about the Q-movement, that the managed expectation was to actually do nothing. That magic white-hats were supposed to swoop in and save the day at the last moment. Talk about Alice in Wonderland! They successfully diffused the red-blooded-American instinct of taking matters directly into hand, so I guess that is job well-done to the narrative managers.
I apologize for the delayed reply. Thank you for the thoughtful comment.
The hard part of most people re Q is realizing that it's not nothing. LIke any good dialectic people look at it in binary terms: nonsense or savior. I don't hear enough discussion about whether it could be something else, say a highly sophisticated intel op.
Your observation about Alice in Wonderland is a powerful metaphor on a number of levels.
I was thinking of writing a whole piece about that topic. The beauty of Q is that for all the hype, it absolutely delivered on the key area of 'Awakening'. Even today the 'Q clock' is predicting events in the news, and the slow drip of information coming to light continues to match up to the many 'reveals' from years past. My problem with the dialectic is of course that even the white-hat option that Gen Flynn and others paint as 'awakened' or 'red pilled' is not real freedom. So in many ways it has always just offered false hope to those of us truly interested in getting out from under the boot.
Love your whole series so far.
Well, Mr. Stylman, each new article in this series, reinforces it as quite a tour de force.
Tangentially, I would add that the reversion extant after revelation of deceit, is scalar. We can observe the same mechanism of action within localized organizations. It appears to be a matter of incentives. A reasonable prior is that each pursues their own self-interest. Systemically, this places revelation of deceit and corruption within a peculiar niche reserved for statistical outliers.
When a system is properly designed, instantiated and initiated, it is axiomatically self-correcting. This appears to be the result of atomized incentive structures. More concisely, perverse incentives render deceptive practices "profitable."
Sorting this profitability is a function of understanding prerogatives within command-and-control structures. Within private industry, fraud is profitable on an individualized scale. In organizations without a profit motive, fraud preserves reputation, which is the foundation of institutional power.
But you knew this already.
Where wealth and influence concentrate, predators and parasites congregate. The selection criteria for pivotal command and control structure emplacement, incentivizes expression of traits correlating with that congregation.
Some predators and parasites are born, others are made, both categories find their metier within incentive structures.
Many thanks for yet another thought-provoking exposition. Hope you consolidate this series into a book; I'll scrape together a sufficiency of the filthy lucre to obtain a copy, should you do so.
Thanks, Ted.
I'd argue that the system isn't broken - it's working exactly as designed. The concentration of wealth and power, the selection for predatory behavior - these aren't bugs, they're features.
As for the book - I've thought about it. My friends and family are getting tired of my schtick so I decided to start publishing to see if anyone else might be interested - I'm glad you are :-)
It's your unique perspective that provides the value. The various aspects have their own body of literature, but correlating those aspects requires a certain..... delicacy, shall we say?
That delicacy is a function of verification and avoidance of the more hyperbolic assertions extant within the conspiratorium. It isn't obvious how to refine the correlation credibly into fundamental patterns of human personality traits and behaviors.
I would say that you're one of a small handful of analysts and writers today, that can walk that tightrope. At least, so it seems to me thus far.
Timing, also, is of the essence. Public interest in this type of writing, is at an all-time high. Strike while the iron is hot, would be my recommendation. The book writes itself, as a natural outcome of the essays.
I know I must sound like a lunatic to most people - a few years ago I would have thought so myself. But once you start looking deeper, you can't unsee what you've seen. Funny how reality keeps pulling the rug out from under your carefully constructed worldview.
As far as the book goes, while I'm flattered, I'm still trying to understand my role in all this. Thanks for the vote of confidence, either way.
"I know I must sound like a lunatic to most people"
The erudite are enmeshed within their priors, Mr. Stylman, wholly invested. To them, your observations are threatening.
"Most people" lack a frame of reference with which to understand the correlations. To them, your observations can be intellectually intimidating.
I say "can be," but I'll reiterate my assertion that your unique perspective renders the material more accessible than most.
I think your role will only be understandable in retrospect. You will act according to your nature, and only time will reveal the relative importance of your contribution.
“... carefully crafted narratives that keep humanity trapped in a matrix of perceptions.”
It is not the narratives that keep humanity trapped. It is humanity’s horribly misguided belief in those narratives and its willful surrendering of one’s personal power and agency. This is the debilitating and highly damaging process of personal self-misidentification that begins early in life with a very young child’s vulnerability and need to seek and acquire acceptance from parents (and then later, peers and others) where one learns to divorce his/her self from their true free and unbounded nature and forever chain themselves to the ideas, whims, desires, pathologies, ego-trips, and errors of others that one encounters for the entire rest of their lives.
“The system doesn't just create propaganda - it creates contained paths for those who see through propaganda... the second matrix: capturing awakening through sophisticated channels of inauthentic opposition.”
When one really understands that he/she is truly free and untethered to anyone or anything else (in other words, really grows up or has a personal awakening) – no amount of propaganda can or will ever have a lasting or meaningful affect on them. It can surround you for sure (like in today’s perpetual and crafted Matrix of State Media artificiality)... but all that will just sit in the room you occupy like a bad stink. You smell it. You know it is there. You may know who put that stink there. And all you care about it clearing your air and getting away from that stench to find good, breathable air again.
“Understanding these patterns of controlled opposition can feel overwhelming. Each revelation seems to lead to another layer of deception.”
Understanding patterns of controlled oppostion becomes easy when you fully incorporate into your thinking that Liars Are In Fact, Liars. When America’s State Media or your local doctor or your next door neighbor or your signiifant other has violated your trust and has exposed themselves as untrustworthy or plain liars – that trust you may have once placed in them is gone forever. They can then say and do whatever they please and it just bounces off you like rain off your raincoat while taking your morning stroll. You sense it – you know it's there – and you now laugh at it for being foolish enough to think that it can still have any affect on you.
Controlled Opposition is just another flavor of Falsehood. Just more evidence of being in the presence of something potentially dangerous and harming to you – or just at the level of an annoyance like a fly that persists in bothering you.
The Bottom Line: Don’t look outside yourself for gurus or saviors or answer-men and women. Fine tune your own ability to detect lies and the liars who peddle them. Never surrender your power or the purity of your thoughts and belief to anyone or anything. Let ‘Them’ come at you with everything They’ve got - and then laugh in their face or give them the good-old two-finger salute.
This can be daunting at first. But it gets easier once you have freed yourself from the Prison that never was outside but only and always in your own mind. And once freed, it is done. You never have to free yourself again.
“The most powerful truth isn't a revelation - it's the recognition that consciousness can transcend their constructed boundaries entirely.”
Consciousness ALWAYS transcends everything else around it. Our Reality is nothing but Consciousness. The outward-appearing World isn’t even really there but is a display of dancing energies that instantly flash in-and-out of existence as Quantum Physics has revealed. We are that Consciousness – the Seer who is above and beyond any particular manifestation of it. It never narrows one inch. It could not if it tried.
What does change is in how one chooses to use and wield that precious consciousness – and who is its boss or slave.
Boss, or slave. That is always our choice. Simple, profound. And the most important decision we will ever make in our lives.
Appreciate your warrior passion, RS, but you are new-aging the reality. Consciousness is not a religion. The neopagan elevation of consciousness over energy such that Free Will finds itself in a fantasy world of Untethered Will -- Absolutist Will -- amounts to nothing more than taking the Neo character in The Matrix movie a lot too literally. You are not Neo and I am not Neo. We don't get to 'play God,' so to speak, and wave away the bullets that fly at us. And we don't get to pretend that we don't need to alternately learn from others and teach each other. You are not an island and I am not either. Evolutionarily we are small-to-large pack mammals. Our brain architecture is a deeply-worn social pattern that emerged from 4.2 billion years or whatever of the interplay of Cause and Effect. We don't get to pretend that we're better than that and expect to truly, deeply excel in accomplishing a well-rounded life.
Consciousness and energy are egalitarian together. They are symbiotic in Life. One cannot exist without the other in light-based reality; that we call it light-based references the fundamental, coequal importance of energy.
We're talking holism here. The We are biology inhabiting a dynamic, closed energy system. While consciousness and energy are symbiotic, the coequal thermodynamic and electromagnetic aspects within energy are also symbiotic. Closed, dynamic energy systems such as this universe -- and we can reason that characterization of it even though we can't observe the whole universe because that is how it behaves -- necessitate competition. And competition is as true under natural law as cooperation. If your neighbor lies to you it is probably because he or she doesn't have to cooperate with you on any meaningful level because the State has enslaved you both under the requirement that you obey the State first and last. The State sets you and your neighbor against each other by ensuring that you can't have free relations. Yet you act out the neopagan warrior fantasy that the State has no say over you.
The State outcompeted all free societies by killing all free persons that were willing to fight to the death for their free peoples' freedoms, and then assimilated all of those formerly free people that weren't willing to fight to the death, and all of us alive today are directly descended from the latter group. But fortunately for recessive genetics. the warrior spirit is not fully extinguished.
"It is not the narratives that keep humanity trapped. It is humanity’s horribly misguided belief in those narratives and its willful surrendering of one’s personal power and agency."
Josh was correct and your quoted material, here, is a miscorrection. The Matrix narrative is but a reflection of the physical and psychological prison planet that the Elites have built. You don't have the choice but to not surrender a large swath of your personal physical agency. And neither do I no matter how much I would like it to not be the case. Our physical choices are threefold: play by their rules as truly/conscientiously as we can, be homeless, or be imprisoned/killed.
Josh's excellent essay is discussing the path to true mental freedom such that we can maximize our physical freedom within this State prison. We're talking Applied Philosophy here. Adults don't get any more mature than this.
Ben: “... Consciousness is not a religion. The neopagan elevation of consciousness over energy...”.
Energy is the ‘substance’ that morphs (like ‘clay to a potter’) what appear as shapes in our Conjured Reality. Consciousness is the Experiencer Of and Generator of that Conjured Reality. It is the dance between the unseen world of fundamental Being-Ness and that which gets pushed outward and experienced in our everyday lives.
No, Consciousness is not a religion. Consciousness is greater than that. Religion is doctrines and control structures and false paradigms of social and thought control.
“We don't get to 'play God..'”.
I agree. Because we are all already aspects of Divinity ourselves. We don’t play at being what we fundamentally already are. We were/are Divine before we ever became human beings.
“If your neighbor lies to you it is probably because he or she doesn't have to cooperate with you on any meaningful level because the State has enslaved you both under the requirement that you obey the State first and last.”
If your neighbor lies to you it means they have made the value judgment that some personal aim of their’s that they seek is more important than being truthful. It is an aspect of egoism and misplaced values.
“The Matrix narrative is but a reflection of the physical and psychological prison planet that the Elites have built.”
The Elitists did not build the Matrix and Prison. The Matrix already existed when cavemen walked the Earth. The Matrix creates a menta prison of a false and fradulant 'reality' to keep one from waking up to Who and What they really are.
What Elitists did was to build upon an already long-existing mental and spiritual deviancy that incorrectly holds that there is such a thing as Subject and Object, or Thought vs. The Experiencer beyong thinking. Quantum Physics has already proven that to be false. There is no separation between subject and object. There is no ‘Object’ without an Observer to collapse the wave function into what they appears to be.
“... we can maximize our physical freedom within this State prison.”
On this, we are in total and complete agreement. As long as we free our Minds first.
The Honest Sorcerer not Sorcery.
Hey RS I was speaking to a very intelligent guy over at The Honest Sorcery's stack last week, about evolutionary biology and RNA World Theory which is the consensus view and also what I believe to be true, and he said that what I had just told him was just like a documentary he'd watched just the night before, called "Photon," which is on YouTube. I'm about halfway through. It's very good because the footage really helps a person to see the symbiotic nature of consciousness and energy and. Everything has consciousness/spirit/intelligence at different densities. And here's the key insight: among elemental reality (light, plasma, mineral, etc) consciousness exists and operates purely at the energetic level/density, which means that in those early states of evolution consciousness and energy are one and the same - a rock is elemental matter chemically (energetically) holding itself together and obeying natural law according to its evolved., intelligent chemical reactions. Reactions only ever come from intelligence successfully reacting to cause and effect under natural law.
Highly recommend you check out that documentary, friend.
"Energy is the ‘substance’ that morphs (like ‘clay to a potter’) what appear as shapes in our Conjured Reality."
The only conjuring of reality that was ever performed was by Creator. Creator brought into being the conscious primordial soup beginning that was left to its own devices to evolve for itself. We can know that because Free Will is self-evident to clear thinking. Thus, when you later speak of our divinity you are mispatterning by mistaking Creation for Creator, which is the mistake that all neopagan pan-isms make. Creator is the divinity -- when put in religious terminology anyway -- and Creation is what we are. Creatures of the Creation and, as such, Creational consciousness patterns natural law - follows the self-organizing Creational dynamic as observed in all nonpolitical causes and effects.
Just because consciousness/spirit molds (animates is my word of choice for this phenomenon) energy does not mean that energy isn't likewise simultaneously animating consciousness. It is, which was my point about your new age placement of consciousness (the personified potter) in a position of supremacy over the energy (the inanimate clay). That hierarchy is the subject-object misperception that you decry later on in your comment.
Beyond that separation lies complex symbiosis, as a nested/fractal emergent-propertied, cyclical evolution: while it's true that today the potter molds the clay, it is also true that the clay molded the biological evolution of the mineral-based human potter, and it is also true that, as the specialized focus on cause and effect that it is, the material science of clayworking continues to mold the potters understanding of Creation.
"If your neighbor lies to you it means they have made the value judgment that some personal aim of their’s that they seek is more important than being truthful. It is an aspect of egoism and misplaced values."
No. WADR, this is an immature understanding. I get it emotionally, but it lacks structural understanding. It is idealistic. We are evolved as small-to-large pack mammals in separatist societies, which is why warfare has existed since the dawn of man. Your neighbor is not in your pack. Not your kinfolk. You are foreigners to each other and the State owns you both, and you just happen to live right next to each other. Lol, how fucked up is that? Your neighbor don't owe you jack shit, including the truth, and never will. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you can really understand the lay of the land around you which is THE most important understanding a man needs to acquire in order to protect his kin. By all means make the effort to build and maintain a constructive relationship with your neighbors. I certainly do. But don't fool yourself and sour yourself with idealistic expectations. The only people we can and should expect high-level honesty from are those with whom we share our life's work -- our homestead -- on a daily basis.
Ben: “The only conjuring of reality that was ever performed was by Creator.”
On this we again agree. But maybe in a different way. Humans are a manifestation of Divinity/Creator Itself. Thus the dynamic of what’s called Co-Creation (but in reality it’s just two windows into the Creator Nature of the One Divinity.
As for Consciousness..
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
– Max Planck
RS, below is a link to a comment I wrote the other week on RNA World Theory. See how elemental reality evolved into us. And see how it is what we still our, and that our headspace is just this wild emergent phenomenon of biochemical complexity.
Regarding Planck's quote that you included, he is right about everything except the claim that regards "matter as derivative from consciousness." He is conflating the Creator's consciousness that Created all matter with his own. Just as you did. That's a leap not based in Reason, and Reason is all that we have because reason-based cause and effect is all that the dynamic universe has, as intelligently designed by Creator.
Matter is derived from both consciousness and energy in symbiosis. Embodied consciousness. There is no matter without the two together. There's only dark energy and dark matter. Hmmm, that's interesting - I wonder how those might possibly be related to light energy and light consciousness. :)
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/what-a-year-2024-was/comment/83713667?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4r6y5j
Ben: "He is conflating the Creator's consciousness that Created all matter with his own. Just as you did.”
As I indicated earlier, I see no true separation between/among Consciousness at all. It is all One. It appears to be ‘subdivided’ (for lack of another term) into Individuation and consciousness on smaller scales but which remains fully within and connected to The Whole One. Near Death Experiences come back with the perspective of experiencing that Wholeness of Consciousness and they come back forever changed.
I am one who subscribes to the description that Universe/Existence contains no such 'thing' as Matter. At its most basic level – all ‘things’ are composed of Energy and/or Light. And that is it – nothing else. The atoms and subatomic particles that compose ‘matter’ are almost entirely void space. So empty that what remains is hardly even detectable at all.
What IS left is Energy itself. Pure, undeluded Energy. The building blocks of apparent Reality. What we perceive as ‘things of substance’ that we can touch like tables or chairs and the like are not things at all but are the repelling of energy forces that we perceive as solid things.
Energy is the Play-Doh of Consciousness. Our Minds will ‘Things’ into being by the manipulation of Energy at its most basic level – with Consciousness underpinning our Minds.
I can see how Consciousness can create Energy. I do not see a way that Energy could in fact create Consciousness. The Potter (Consciousness) creates the Pot (Energy). The Pot (Energy) cannot reverse-engineer and conjure Consciousness and turn into a Potter or its own Creator. It has no sense of Being-ness to 'think' or have direction of will and purpose.
No, RS. You are still doing the subject-object, separate-self, human supremacy thing that is the definitive feature of all religions, hence my neopagan labeling. Animism is the our common/universal cultural heritage for 97-99pc of modern human history for a reason: it enabled humans to more or less follow natural law rather than political law. It was and is based on pure Reason with pure Reason being the *accurate* patterning of cause and effect in the ecology, and with the ecology meaning everything, and everything ultimately meaning the known universe.
You conflate our human mind metaconsciousness with consciousness itself. That is the first falsehood of human supremacy. Just because we are the only currently existing species on the planet (I insert "currently" because we obviously outcompeted our competitor hominids as we went along) with the ability to reason out that a Creator exists or did exist (we have no way of reasoning as to Creator's current status) doesn't mean that we are 'co-Creating' along with Creator. That's a megalomanical idea, RS, that you can't begin to justify with reason. What exactly have we created? Create in the context of Creator means to make something out of apparent (to us) nothing; the reason Creator must exist in the first place is because according to universal law something (the universe) cannot come from nothing, and the objective consequence of Creator having apparently done exactly that -- produced a universe out of nothing -- tells us that from our limited vantage point inside the universe, we know absolutely nothing of Creator other than its necessary existence. Yet you have made up the postmodern 'quantum' fashionable fiction that we are co-Creating with Creator, and the implication being that we were Creator's specific end goal of Creation. That's pure ontological narcissism, friend, not reason.
We can't do that. All we can do is what
As I began to talk about previously, humans are only metaconscious (self-conscious) in the first place because mineral reality had evolved to attain memory capabilities which is the prerequisite for consciously molding reality through chemical means. Realize that once you understand the crucial concept of emergence (of emergent properties) it is not at all false scientific materialism to say that all that we ever do is mold our surroundings by conscious chemical means. (Wikipedia's entry on emergence is one of their better entries.) We humans with our highly advanced metaconsciousness are just an emergent property of our elemental bodies. And that's where RNA World Theory and that Photon documentary come in.
Realize that quantum physics was hijacked/coopted by postmodern new age culture for its own religious purposes. And the Elites' have at least a partial role to play in that bs.
I'll post another comment on emergence and RNA World Theory in a minute.