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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xdxme Everyone that's watching at home, I'm sitting here with the amazing Dr. Suri. How do you say your last name? Suri Satnam Singh. Satnam Singh. Yes. I love that. And we're going to do a, um, a- Actual, real therapy session. Therapy session. We have spoken previously and gotten to know each other on the phone. And, you know, this is a very intimate thing. Therapy is typically very intimate. It always is. And now we're doing it as an exercise to show you kind of what that looks like. Um, and, uh, Dr. has been working for forever, his whole life. Licensed marriage and family therapist. Receiving a PhD in the depth of, uh, in-depth psychology from Pacifica. His writings present a holistic perspective on well-being. And you've previously worked as a clinical doctor, a group facilitator, consultant, and trainer in the social service agencies. Yes. So you are- you've done it all. Yeah, right? And you are now here with us on Witness Worldwide. And I am just so happy to be here. Um, I, uh, have been in therapy for five years. And- Sit back, relax. Okay. Well, it's chan- it's changed my life. Okay. Um, and, ugh, I'm already there. But, um, usually, you know, everything is very confidential in therapy. And that's, like, if- if you're a licensed therapist, everybody's like, I could never tell, you know, my deepest, darkest secrets to anyone. And we, like, swallow them, and we keep them, and they become petrified. And actually, you know, the things that you fear, or whatever your secrets are, um, that's why therapy's amazing. And also things that you don't even know that you have, traumas from childhood, um, and all this stuff. So I'm just so happy to be here. And I'm gonna drop into being present. Yes. So we're gonna call you Catherine, right? Yes, Catherine. Catherine is here. Yeah. Katie's gonna take a rest for a minute. Oh, thank you so much. I just, like, that's what I'm trying to do, is to be seen as Catherine Hudson sometimes. Yes. Well, a lot of times. Yes. When does Catherine come out and play? Um, a lot. When I- I- Catherine comes out and play- plays when I'm with my sister and my family. When I don't have to, you know, take care of that situation. Um, like if I- on holidays I have to do, you know, a little bit- I don't have to, but I choose to. Mm-hmm. Um, but when I can just rest and relax, and kind of, like, fall and surrender, that's when Catherine gets to come out. Because, uh, sometimes, you know, I- I built up this Katy Perry thing that everybody knows, and that's the reason why they're tuning in. And it's fantastic, but, um, it's, uh, more of a facade than it is a real- It was very interesting. Did you notice your behavior? And Katy? Oh, yes, my behavior, yeah. And then Catherine sat back in the chair. Yes. So, Katy gets a lot of attention, doesn't she? She sure does. Uh-huh. Maybe almost too much. Yeah. So, we were talking about in our prequel of the four primary- Yes. Archetypal presences for a woman. Yes. And Katy, we're going to give her some attention today. Sure. Is the priestess, and- and actually a goddess. Thank you. Actually a goddess. Thank you. And- Worked hard on that one. Yeah, and so she's the one that really elevates others and inspires and actually goes into the unconscious and makes things come forth that is there that others don't have the courage to bring forth into the light. Catherine is the self. And Catherine may be going underground a little bit. Uh-huh. Catherine is the one that maybe has feelings that are not really acknowledged, expressed- Or evolved. Or evolved. Uh-huh. Talk about that. What feelings are not evolved that you want to touch? Well, I- I mean, I think Catherine is always there because Catherine represents this child. And, like, I have such a connection to children because I am childlike, and that's how I operate, and that's how I express myself in- in really simplistic feelings, like joy and hope and happiness and dancing and singing. And, you know, I- I- I, um, I guess that would be me being a child. So that is Catherine. But, um- So how was Catherine growing up as a child? I know nothing about your childhood. Catherine growing up. Well, I love my parents. Yes. And I grew up, um, with a lot of, um, born-again Christian beliefs around me. And so I, um- I, um, had people around me, like-minded people like that. And I would say that it was a bit of a bubble. Um, although I- I don't regret or think I could change anything because- I want you to feel what you're saying. Okay. I don't regret or think I could change anything because I know I can't. But, um, um, it was- it wasn't always that easy, um, because, you know, it was very strict. And, um, I was a very curious person. And, um, uh, the curiosity sometimes- sometimes it wasn't allowed because you had to have faith. So my- I- it was hard for me sometimes to be curious about what was going on in the rest of the world. So I'm hearing Catherine was even underground in your childhood experience. Maybe. My parents I love and they did the best job that- they did the best job. And we're not going to pathologize your parents by no means. No. But we want to deepen into Catherine and- and Catherine's experience in growing up in that family, in that environment. And so what I'm hearing is that you had these maybe fundamental or rules and ways of being in the world that may not have been in sync with who Catherine really was because she was curious. Mm-hmm. Am I making any sense to you? Curious as a cat. Curious as a cat. What did some of that curiosity lead you to that was not permitted or that you wanted to investigate? Well, I- I- I mean I was curious about what was going on in the rest of the world and how other people lived and what they saw as they were living and I felt- I had the biggest fear- FOMO. I felt- I felt like I was missing out. Okay. And so, you know, I wanted to- I wanted to like work on my purpose, work on my craft so that I could travel the world and like have these experiences, meet these people, like re-educate my mind. And that is partially why I started singing is, you know, to pop my own bubble, to get out of my own situation. Mm-hmm. Who are you trying to get out of from your experience? Just who are you trying to get out of? I guess I was just trying to get out of one way of thinking. Okay. What was that thinking like? I don't know anything about it. Um, the thinking was like, um, it was like, you know, it was- it was like just do as I say, no ifs, ands, or buts. And it wasn't- it was like, you know, it was- it was based on my religious upbringing. And I just always- like I have so many questions. I ask all the questions in the world, and all the questions in the world have gotten me to where I'm at now. Um, and I wasn't- I didn't- it's not that I wasn't allowed. It's just that like it wasn't normal for people to ask questions in my position. You know, the client splits off their unconscious onto the therapist. I got very sad, some sadness when you were talking about that. I don't know if you're able to feel it, but it was split off to me. Am I connecting to something? Yeah, a little bit. That sadness. So I'm hearing that that was the adaptive personality. You know, you had to adapt to your environment. And you had an instinctual truth. Yeah, it was something I didn't learn. It was so weird. It's like it came from nowhere. And that caused a spiritual alienation that you had to go against your own calling of your own individual soul. My soul, yeah. And- but I loved all of it, but it was- it always- I always just felt like I was called for more. Called for more? Yeah. Uh-huh. And it was out there. Yeah. And I didn't know how to get it. And so I guess I- I, you know, started singing. Yes. That's how I got there. Well, I think it's okay because, you know, we sometimes are obliged to let go of old ways of doing things to have a larger life. And that's what happened. Yeah. That became Katie. Yeah. But Catherine is still carrying some- Well, it's not gonna happen- You call the word for me. I guess it's- What are the feelings? I guess it's not gonna happen in one day, right? No. It's gonna be a process, and that's why I- That's what therapy is, a process. It's no destination. You're processing. Yeah. No, I'm just like- I guess- I guess that, like- It's okay. It's okay, Catherine. I guess that, like, you know, I'm really strong as Katie Perry. Yes. That sometimes I'm not as strong as Catherine Hudson and, like- And Catherine doesn't have to be strong. But, you know, people, like, talk about my hair, right? Yes. And they don't like it or they wish that, like, it was longer. Uh-huh. And, like, I so badly want to be Catherine Hudson that I don't even want to look like Katie Perry anymore sometimes. Okay. And, like, that is a little bit of why I cut my hair is because I really want to be my authentic self, like, 100%. I understand. And so it hurts, you know, when I don't feel like I can. So what do you- Wow, that's- That's a lot to carry. Well, yeah, but- That dichotomy. Yeah, I know. I mean, I did it. You did do it. I did do it. And you're doing it. Okay. I made the choice, right? Katie is successful. Okay. I made the choice for sure. But, like, you know- These are two different presences. And also, like, the thing is, is, like, women don't have to be or people don't have to be just one thing, you know? And, like, you can grow and I'm in my 30s now and I'm not the same person I was four months ago. No. You know? And I think that's beautiful because of the re-education, evolution, and, like, I love growing. I love learning. Yes. And, you know, sometimes it's hard when people want you just to be, like, a time capsule of what you were. Even in, like, my own family and things like that, even with my friends, you know? Mm-hmm. But it's just my journey, I guess. I can't control anything else. So, your fantasy and your curiosity created this great goddess, this- Your fantasy did that. Your curiosity did that. So, you must give yourself- Yes? All right? Yeah, sure. I love- I'm so blessed. I understand. So grateful. I understand. You have- I love my life and I'm so blessed and I know a lot of people have given me this opportunity and, you know, I don't take it for granted. I don't take it lightly. No. And I love my family and my friends and I try and do my best, like, my intentions. I always try and set the right intention every morning. Yes. But I'm human and I'm living under this crazy microscope. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I made that choice but it's not always like- Yes. Yes. Well, let's throw the word out. There's a dichotomy. There's a- Yeah. A real conflict between Katy and Catherine Hudson. Sure, because look at Katy Perry. She's so glamorous. Yes. She's rich. She's luxurious, successful. Yes. And, like, Catherine Hudson, like, I didn't have any money. I didn't have any influence. I didn't have anything. That was- So, for your- So, it's a bit hard to go back there. Can we say for your fans that you are presenting that you have the formula? Yeah, for sure. You have- That's the whole point of this whole thing is that if people can see that, you know, at the end of the day is I'm just like them- Yes. Then they can dream just as big. Yes. You know? Yes. But Catherine, who has a lot of hurt and unevolved feelings, I'm taking your words. He called it. Katy gets all the attention. Sure does. There's a Kahuna principle. Energy, attention goes, what is it? Energy, it's all about success. That wherever we give our energy to and our attention to, that's what develops. That's what evolves. So, Katy is bigger than life, but Catherine gets a little bit of time. Well- Katy has the formula. Yeah. But the same formula will apply to Catherine, that she can be just as evolved and happy and content. And I think that like, I mean, I've been writing songs about this. So, I wrote this one song for this record called Mind Maze. How, you know, sometimes it's hard to navigate this world. Yes. And I wonder if I just push the reset button and surrender to love and surrender to loving myself, that like I would still be able to have all the things that I dream I could have as Catherine Hudson. And I knew it would be a delicate balance. It even talks about that in the lyrics. Like all, planning all these, spinning all these plates is a delicate balance because it's a thousand of them. And with witness, you know, I think that's the main point of this is that like, like, I don't know if I even, I want to be seen and heard, but like, I want to be seen and heard for real, I guess. And I think everyone wants to be seen and heard. Like, people don't want to be seen and heard just because of the pictures they post on Instagram or the filters that they pick. Like, that's not the head that lays down on the pillow. You know, like that's not the head that lays down on the pillow next to your partner. You don't get a filter. That's just real, true intimacy. And I think sometimes like we hide behind like all these things like Instagram or, you know, and I do the same thing. I create this character, but like that makes it so much harder to be real and intimate with people. Do you know what I'm saying? Because like they meet you for the first time and if they've been following you or in any circumstance, even your friend that you just meet for the first time, you see their Instagram, they're like a totally different person. Like who are people? Who are they? Yeah. I'm very respectful of you. It's like, you know, everybody wants a big house. I'm sure you have one. We all do. Yeah. We all want a big house. You know, like everybody dreams that way, of course. But we always spend time developing the quality of the house. What about the quality of the lives of people living in them? Yeah, of course. That's what I hear you and that you're trying to do today. I'm trying to do today. Yes. And I fall short all the time. No, you don't falter. You just don't give Catherine a lot of attention. Well, that's changing, Doctor. Yeah. So if you begin to give Catherine attention, what would that look like? Well, you would see that she's a massive dork. Okay. And that's coming out all the time. I'm a bit more nerdy than everybody thinks I am pinup. Okay. Which means it's like, you know, like I'm just a goofball and I like to play a lot. I like to, I love humor and I like to make people laugh. I like to laugh myself. And I love music. I think you're recovering your childhood. Catherine never got a chance to play because Catherine had rules to do. Yes? Catherine couldn't play. Catherine had, I don't want to use the word rigid, but would that be appropriate? Is that too strong? No, I mean it was a little rigid, yeah. Okay, it was rigid. So you couldn't dance and sing. I didn't know how to play, no. You didn't know how to play. I actually didn't even really know how to play with my nieces for a long time. Okay. Because I didn't even know what that looked like. Yes, yes, yes. I was telling everyone last night in the live stream that, that like I just learned how to hug. Oh. Because I was like, I always thought it was like, you know. Too intimate. Too intimate. Like a sexual thing. Of course. You know? Yes, yes. Like a hug is a sexual thing. That's right. Someone's going to feel my boobs or something like that. Yes, yeah. And I didn't realize that that's not everybody's intention. Yes, yes, yes. It's just a hug. It's just to like connect. Yeah, yeah. So I just learned that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if, how old was Catherine? I think she stopped growing at a certain age. And I think the fantasy of Catherine went into Katie. Yeah. All of that great childhood fantasy went into Katie. Sure. And made this bigger than life personality. Yeah. Okay? Sure. So when did Catherine stop? How old would you say Catherine is right now? She's eleven. Yeah. She's eleven. Because I started singing when I was nine. Okay. And then maybe I realized like, then I started realizing eleven, twelve, thirteen, I started going to Nashville. Yeah. To become more professional, you know? Yes. To learn how to write a song. And I love Nashville. But yeah, I started getting, turning pro at eleven or what have you. So could you say that's perhaps the reason that a lot of the feelings are unevolved? Because Catherine's only eleven. Yeah. But I'm a quick study. You're a quick study. So now that you have the concept and the vision, and the understanding, maybe Catherine can grow up to be twenty-one and be hugged. Hugged and have a glass of wine. But not yet. I'm going to eat one after this. All my makeup is just like off. What do I look like? No one cares. That's Katie, she's concerned. She don't care. So, wow. Now you cut your hair off because you don't like being Katie sometimes. Well, no. I mean, I'm such a chameleon always. But yeah. You're a performer. I'm a performer. An excellent performer. Thank you. And a great performer. Thank you. Let's not take anything away from Katie. No, of course. Don't dismiss any of it. I'm like, honestly, I'm only here because of, like, I'm only sitting in this chair because I'm Katie Perry. Okay, she sat up again. Oh, sorry. She was just like, she's still here. Catherine's going. Katie's not going anywhere. It's that struggle. Right? Wow. Sorry. That's so sorry. Doctor, I'm a bizarre person in general. I don't like that word. Why? I don't mind it. What's the connotation of bizarre? Bizarre. Can we get a refrain there? That you're a very interesting. I'm an eccentric. Eccentric. Exotic. Ooh, I love an exotic. Exotic. Okay, good. Intriguing. Intriguing. Thank you. Yeah, I don't like bizarre. Okay, I'm exotic and eccentric from now on. Okay. Hashtag exotic, hashtag eccentric. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the hair, talk about that. Because, you know, hair is extensions of your nerves. Ooh. So that's why I think. I got some short nerves. Well, I mean, you know, like, I always think hairdressers. We actually had an article in my master's program. Hairdressers are not therapists. Oh, right. Therapists are not hairdressers, right? But sometimes hairdressers, you can talk to them while. Exactly, because they're in your nervous system. Okay. They're stirring up all that nervous energy. Yeah. And that's why people are so relaxed at a hairdresser, even at a barber, because you're dealing with that person's nervous system. So they go. And the hairdresser just listens. Right. Like a good therapist that listens. Right, holds the space. Wow, wow. So Catherine is 11. So that means with relationships, she probably didn't get a chance to develop the art and science of dating. Not yet. No. But, I mean, I've had some good ones. Yeah. And, like, you know, I love them all in a certain way, and they've taught me so many things. And maybe I'm a little older because, like, at 11 I'd be like, nah, nah, nah. Yeah, yeah. And now with relationships, even if they don't hit whatever figurative finish line you're supposed to hit, I think that they all teach me something, you know? So you may be 16 because you've been dating. I've been dating, yeah. You've been dating. But, like, you know, I haven't found the person or figured out how to have, you know, a child with someone yet, but that would be a goal that I'd want in the future. Okay. But, you know, it was no one's fault. It's no one's fault. It's all just a lesson. Yes, yes. So can Catherine be okay with herself that she's learning how to date and to have relationships and to learn who men are and how they operate? Yeah. And maybe Catherine is not so evolved with her feelings and doesn't know how to be vulnerable and is scared to be vulnerable. They're scared just to hug. Well, yeah, strangers. Strangers. So, I mean, of course, you start dating. He's a stranger. Yeah, I guess so. So then it's a learning process. Yeah. You think you could give yourself some credit and time and space to develop along those lines and show the dork? I want to show the dork. Show the dork. I literally want to show the dork. Like, I just want a dork to match. Because, like, I look for, you know, there's five things I look for. Yes. And the five things I am looking for are, first and foremost, my love language is music, so I love music. Okay. And I love speaking through music, and I love someone that understands music. You know, as simple as knowing, having good taste. Yes. It could be someone that loves jazz, you know. They don't have to be in the music industry. And then, second, a sense of humor, because life sometimes is just a little too much unless you laugh. Yeah, yeah. And then, third, I would like someone to be intelligent so that I can learn. Of course. Whether it's emotionally intelligent, spiritual intelligence. And then, fourth, spiritual. Okay. I want someone that really, like, you know, knows that, like, there's something more than them. It doesn't have to be, you know, any belief system. It can just be that there's something more than them. It's not just us. And then, lastly, I like someone that's powerful. I like someone that puts all of that power into play, you know, into action. But, you know, and that's a tall order to ask for, especially for someone who's barely 16. Yeah. You know, I know. And, like, maybe some of it hasn't always been fair along the way. Talk about that not being fair. Someone that didn't get you. Somebody that did not understand that Catherine is evolving and she's not where she would like to be. You don't have to mention the name. No, I know. Yeah. But I've had a lot of really nice ones, and one of them in particular has been, like, a really amazing example of a man. And, you know, a gentleman. And I had to push pause on that because I had to grow. You know, I couldn't grow together because, like, two halves don't make a whole. Well. Okay? Okay. One whole makes something. Two wholes make two. Two wholes make two. And so I had to grow. And, you know, I'm just, like, I'm really grateful for someone like him who, like, mended my wings and, you know, holds a space for me so that I can't grow and doesn't judge me, you know, even if I can be. I can judge. Sometimes I'm a little judgy. But that's just my ego. Or maybe your upbringing. My upbringing, yeah. I mean, probably from some of my conditioning, but, yeah. What do you think of your next date you introduce yourself like you did to me as Catherine? Why did I laugh? Because you've never done it. Right? You've never done it. Catherine needs attention. Yeah, I guess so. There's got to be all of those five components out there in a man. Oh, for sure. I have tons of friends, and I have tons of family members, and, like, I may be single, but I'm not really lonely. Of course I'd love companionship. I mean, like, it would be amazing to have companionship because this is a wild-ass ride I'm on. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's a roller coaster. It's a roller coaster, and I'd love to throw my hands up in the air with someone. You know what I'm saying? Yes, yes, yes. But it'll happen, and I'm just creating that space right now for it to happen in the right way. Yes. Well, one component that stood out to me that was very, he's got to be powerful. I mean, you said five. You cannot have no little weak. Well, I just need what I would like, what I would love, is just someone that, you know, maybe has done the work as well. Yes. You know, meaning, like, has dug deep, has pulled out whatever is not serving them in their life. They are a whole person, a healed person. That's what I want, but, like, I have to be that as well. Well, I have the image of a powerful man just like Katie, who's also 21. Sure, I got five more years. Five more years. You know that he's spent a lot of time in business, his career, making money, getting famous. Or not. I'm not. I don't even care about that. Or behind the scenes, but probably got money, probably. Doesn't have to. I actually, like, I just want someone that understands. Understands. You know, and it doesn't, they don't have to have money. They don't have to be famous. They just have to understand, and sometimes in order to. But powerful. But powerful, but sometimes to understand, you have to definitely be in these fields. But I can understand a man who was powerful who also had developed his emotional self. Yeah. I've done it. Oh, I got tissue here. Oh. Thank you. Thank you. We love her. Hey, girl. Do I look like the hottest mess ever? No. That's okay. That can't happen. No. Wow. So what are you feeling now? What feelings are there? Relief. Relief. A little bit of relief. Oh, God. Like, expansion. Yes. You know? Like, I feel like, I feel like it's not, like, some people are just going to look and have a judgment, you know, and be. Who cares? Who cares? I can't, I really can't control what they think. No. I never could. But I guess I can live my most authentic self. And, like, you know, you were talking about the angel cards earlier. And I pulled an angel card two years ago. Yes. And this was after I was done with my last record. And all the cards said was authenticity. Oh, I was just getting ready to mention that word. I swear in the heavens. And I just paused and I stopped and I was like, authenticity. Authenticity. I just got to be the most authentic person. Let's look at inauthentic of some of the risks. So if you're inauthentic, we can anesthetize through substances. Has that ever happened? Oh, yeah. Okay. Which substance? Alcohol. Alcohol. I've had a dance with the devil. Okay. I wrote a song about it on this record. Okay. It's called Dance with the Devil. And I'm, you know, I'm sensitive as it is. Yes. And so, like, I can't, like, I'm that girl that has two glasses, right? And I'm like... Okay. Even, like, one glass of wine. And so I just really have to be balanced. I have to really know my limits. And so sometimes I have to take a break. Okay. And especially when, like, I'm not in a good place. That's when I use it, you know, to numb myself. Inauthentic. We go in the ways of what when you're inauthentic, the risk. You can anesthetize through substances. It's called anesthetizing? Anesthetize. Oh, anesthetize. Anesthetize. Yeah. You can externalize with anger. Well, sometimes I felt like, you know, I would have to, like, have a couple of drinks to go somewhere. Okay. Because I am Katy Perry out in the outside world. Yes. And so it would be hard, you know, to, like, be tired. Or it would be hard to be, like, you know, not witty or funny. Or just, like, whatever it is. You know, it wouldn't... It's always being on. So you can anesthetize with substances. You can externalize with anger. Do you ever get angry or hysterical or out of control? Yeah. Well, I would say anger... Angry, like, but that's because I let it build. That's why I meditate. Yes. That's helped me. That's why I do yoga now. Yes. You know, it's helped me. And, like... And it's not just me. It's, like, I feel like everybody in the world... We're going through so much stuff these days. You know? That's being flung at us, like, never before. This information and some of it being traumatizing. And then, you know, some... There are lives out there that they're really going through serious problems. Yes. And losing family members or, like, having sickness. And I can't even imagine that. And I can't even understand it. But, like, you know, if I could ever be a witness or hold space, you know, whichever way I can, I empathize, you know? Yeah. You care. I care. I empathize. Yes. But there are little tools. And I found meditation and yoga and therapy to be these tools. And, like, honestly, I'm in therapy with my family. And it's amazing. Yes. It's so beautiful because, like, you know, my family gets to talk and be a family. Yes. And, like, you know, I get to hear my father speak, who I love so much. And I get to hear my mother speak, who I love so much. Okay. Okay. Just feel the love. And let it move through you. And I didn't really hear them. Yeah. And it's – and I've tried to listen for them more and hold the space and have compassion for them and, like, love them in an authentic way, you know, because it wasn't always easy because we have very different viewpoints. But now we can agree to disagree in loving space. And so I'm just so grateful for this kind of tool. And I know that this is available for a lot of people. They just have to, like, investigate it. Yes. Go online. That's why the internet was created is, you know, to access tools. Yes. To go online and find it. You just mentioned two other risks for being inauthentic. You can internalize it and you become depressed. We've been there. Did you ever have some bouts of where Katie just couldn't – didn't want to go on? Yeah. I wrote a song about it. Okay. That's what I guess I do. That's how I process is I write songs. And you get rid of those feelings. Well, yeah, some of them. Some of them don't come out fully, and that's why I still do the work. Which song was that? What lyric comes to your mind? By the Grace of God. Can you say a few of those lyrics? They're very close to you. They're very close. They're heartfelt. It's hard, like I say, get on tour. Okay. And it's hard because I'm ashamed. Oh. Because, of course, Katy Perry's so strong. We're talking to Catherine. She's sitting back. But it's hard because I feel ashamed that I would even, like, have those thoughts, you know? I'd feel that low or that depressed. Then if you didn't get them out, you could act them out. We don't want that. No. We don't want that. So it's good that you got them out. Yeah, and I wrote that song By the Grace of God because, you know, I do believe in something much bigger than me. And I call that God for me. And, you know, I get to live this wonderful life, and I work very hard at it. Yes, you do. And I've been given this gift, but I know that, like, God has his hand on me. And I know that sometimes I go through things, and I think they're just too intense. I can't handle them. And then he swoops in, and he shows me that it's his grace that brings me through it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's okay. Let it go. It's just Catherine here. Catherine does not have to be strong. You're being Catherine. Remember I said at the very beginning there was some slow sadness coming through me? This is the sadness of Catherine that you're now feeling and allowing to come forth. Bravo. She wants to let that go. This is called authentic. And then also what we really don't want to happen, if you're inauthentic, not just you but all of us, is that you can somaticize it. What's that mean? Oh, that means symptoms will come in your body. What does that look like? Well, all those diseases that are out there. We don't pathologize anyone who has an illness. No. But yet we may have a part in it. And so often I've worked with individuals who have, quote, incurable diseases. Sure. And they've gone into remission and dealing with the mental emotional component, that the physical symptom disappeared. So the symptom is always the key to home. The symptom is the key to the cure. For example, I mean, you know, the cancers, even diabetes, all of those things have an emotional component. Sure. And, like, sometimes I've seen individuals who have symptoms, they go to the doctor and the doctor says, I don't know what's wrong. Well, like a hypochondriac. I've been that. Okay. Or when you go online and you diagnose yourself on WebMD. Yeah. No, don't do that. Yeah. What symptoms are you having? The doctor says, there's nothing wrong with you. I know. I've done that, actually. Okay. Okay. So you see, if we make a choice of being inauthentic, if Catherine can't live, then you're at risk for anesthetizing through substances, externalizing through anger, internalizing through depression, or creating symptoms in your body. We don't want that. No, thank you. None of that. No, thank you. So shame and hurt and sadness and love and joy, wherever we are, here we come. Come as you are. Come as you are. I always say, nobody can die for you and nobody can live for you. Right. If you don't live for you, you're wasting your life. It's a waste. Katie's living. That girl is hot. She be living. She's on fire. She is hot. Okay. She has ridden the lion. Okay. She has played the Super Bowl. Okay. She is. Katie, Catherine Hudson just wants to get in the sandbox. Hey, and she should. Yeah. She should. And be the little dork and the 16-year-old, 11-year-old. There may be some periods that were missed. Yeah. Like in playing with, did you mention your nieces? Was it your nieces? Yeah, my nieces, my two nieces. What do they do that you never did? Well, I guess I did it all. I just, they do it in a different way. My sister, who I love so much, and my brother-in-law, who I love so much. You know that my sister's husband is Danish, and he speaks to his kids in Danish, which is amazing. Wow. It's so beautiful. And so my nieces, Stella and Vega, they're just so happy. And like, I guess they just create a really safe place for them to fall, you know, or learn or try. And I feel like sometimes we live in a world that doesn't create a safe place anymore for anyone to try. Okay. Which is hard, I think, for everyone, because everyone, I think at their human core, at their core, they want to try. And we need teachers and guides to help us along the way. Yeah. I think therapy is one way to, just to be that guide. To have a guide. But, no, I just, I'm so happy. So, what are some of the things that Catherine didn't get a chance to do that your nieces? So, you have a safe space. If you have a safe space to do, to recover your childhood. Well, I just do, like, you know, I'm just a goofball. Goofball. What does that look like? I don't know. Dancing. Okay. And being weird and putting the tutus on the head and, you know, like, just, and I get to do it with my whole family. And my whole family are doing, they're all doing it now and we're all healing and it's amazing. Like, our family time together is better than it's ever been. Like, I used to think about, you know, like I used to see, like, my friends, you know, one of my friends has an incredible relationship with her parents. Like, she wants to go on holiday with them. And I'm like, oh, heck no. But, like, now I want to go on holiday. I can't wait for Christmas time. You know, like, so there's been such a healing because of therapy and I'm so grateful for it. And, like, even with, even with, like, our political time, right? Okay. So they believe one thing and I think one thing. They think one thing, I think one thing. But it's okay. And, like, I talk to them and sometimes it's hard to hear, but I still listen and they respect that. And, like, I, like, you know, they listen to me because I've given, I've created a safe space for them as well. You know, it's equal. So it's been amazing to be able to learn, you know, from my parents. I think it's almost, like, I almost feel like it was meant to be that way. Like, I was meant to learn that lesson through my parents that, like, it's not all one side and it's not all the other side. And that we have to speak with each other, not at each other. Yes. The word that comes up to me is maybe a new word for you, phenomenological. Sorry? I can't even say that word. Phenomenological. Phenomenological. In other words, everything in life is a thing. I'm not in terms of devastating it. Culture, nature, people, we experience them as phenomenons. So I can think of one of my teachers who said, value the differences. Do not evaluate the differences. Right. Value the differences. In other words, just witness people. Just be with them. Yeah. They can be whoever they are. No one is trying to change any. I'm not trying to change no one. You know, I just want to witness people. And I think other people want to be witnessed as well. Like, we can only change ourselves. We know that. We can only change ourselves. So I hear that some of the rigid rules in your family are breaking down to where now they're a little bit more open system rather than a closed system. There's feelings. Yes. And communication. Yes. Which are terrifying, I think. They were terrifying for us. Yes. Maybe terrifying for other people. Yes. And we are so close now. And like, we're on the journey of healing. And I'm so grateful. Like, I love my family. I love putting pictures of my family up. I've seen that the older that we get, we sort of relax a little bit more. Sure. We're not as rigid and doctrinaire and judgmental. We like, we want to be loved and appreciated. Well, my therapist says something amazing the other day. You have one choice. And I'm going to paraphrase because I'm going to get it wrong. To be right or to be loved. Okay. You know? Do you want to be right or do you want to be loved? Okay. I just want to be loved. Hey. You know? I can set aside all those ideas or things I think. I just want to be loved. What about the people that don't love you? Because they're out there. Hi. They're out there. What do you do with those? Well, I used to try and combat that. Mm-hmm. But that's not, I can't, again, I can't change that. You can love them. I can't change them. Honestly, like, and I don't mean this in like a catty way. Like, I see everyone as children. Okay. And I see, like, even the people that don't like me or the people that have a problem with me or whatever. First and foremost, I'm sorry if anything's ever been misunderstood. I try and move and work with so many pure intentions with integrity and character, and I just get it wrong sometimes. And I see them as children, though, and, like, I don't want to, I don't want, I don't want, I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to judge them. I don't want, you know, I don't want anything bad for them. I really just want, God bless them on their journey. And I hope that they can do the same for me. Maybe they can't, but. I would think people who don't love you probably don't love themselves. I can't control whatever people think. No, you can't, but you could maybe have that understanding. Yeah. That, you know, the place that you are now where you're letting your parents be who they are, you're just experiencing them. Those individuals are not letting you be who you are and not having a nonjudgmental face towards you. So I would venture to say they're not loving. It may be some of the still, the split off of your family of origin, your upbringing to where there was some judgmentality there, rigidity. And it still may be manifesting outside of you a little bit. Sure. If you didn't believe in the way that was told to believe, then you were. Exactly. Not a part of the conversation. Were you ostracized or shamed or talked about? Say for instance, give us one situation where you did something that was not according to the principles. I mean. Or was that more than once? I couldn't even give you one. Oh, you didn't do any. No, I did, I did, I did. I always, you know, I loved learning, even in church. But like, you know, and my mom and I, we have such a great relationship. And like, I sang, I used to sing this song in church called Come As You Are. Okay. By Crystal Lewis, who I love, Crystal Lewis. And like, I feel like sometimes, like, the church does more judging than loving. Okay. And that's why it doesn't feel safe for me sometimes. Okay. And like, if I was to come as I am, how would I be accepted? Because this is who I am, you know? Or this is who I'm developing into. So, I think my mom understands that even more so now than ever. That, you know, less judgment, and I deal a lot with judgment. I've been very judgy in the past. But less judgment, more compassion. More come as you are, you know? And I just feel like that would... So, the word God is real for you? Oh, absolutely, 100%. Okay. So, does God judge us? He lets us live, or he, she, whatever. Let's us live and take our mistakes. And lets us cut our hair off. And let us put wigs on and whatever we want to do. And we still live. We still have a chance. I mean, yes. I believe in, you know, the cause of law and effect. Yes. So, I know that every action has a reaction. Okay, I agree. And I believe in positive and negative and yin and yang and all those things. Okay, yes. So, I don't think that like you can say I'm a good person and go well and do the opposite. Okay. And that breed good things. Okay. So, I understand that. And that's kind of my philosophy is just like living by cause and effect. I think that's absolutely correct. I don't think there's a right or wrong because... What, who's to say? Yeah. I mean, you may have come from a world or a place where that's right for you. That was your culture. That was like how were you raised. There are some like basics. Yes, yes. But... Yes. Those are like the Ten Commandments. Yes, yes. I mean, but even... Who do we dare bring that up? Like in terms of killing another individual, there's an absolute with that. We have a government that can go to war and kill people and it's okay. We can kill an individual in self-defense. It's okay. We can kill a person to get their money. That is not okay. You'll go to jail for that if you get caught. So there's no absolutes in the creation is what I'm getting at. Right. Wow. There are no absolutes. There are consequences though. Yeah, sure. Yeah. There's a labyrinth of choices and we make choices and those choices will have consequences. They'll have reactions. Yeah. So how do you know these days when the choice is going to bring the consequences that you want? Where do you go? Is it here? Is it here? Is it your staff? Is it your therapist? It's a combination. Okay. It's a combination, but I try and go here. Okay. You know, because the head will just like... Tell me about it. It'll try and overthink the whole thing and like the heart will just say, wait, patience, save his draft. Mm-hmm. You know, let the universe take care of it. It's not your job. Like revenge is not yours or what have you. Don't be so catty. Don't be such a troll, you know, on the internet. Like try and be an example. Be kind and I have great people around me that I've had my whole career and my sister and my brother and my parents now are great reflections of kindness and love and empathy. So it's a combination of things, but I really try and lead with my heart. You know, which like is slow, too slow for everyone else, but it takes time. Why do you say that? Well, the head is all about time. Okay. Do you know? Like the head is all about time. It's like you got to do this, got to do this, blah, blah, blah. It's all about like strategy. Oh. But the heart is like sometimes... I don't feel it. Sometimes it's like this strategy is strange and it's giving me a yellow light. Okay. It's making my heart turn yellow. And what do you do with those situations? I got to listen to them. And you go against your heart and go into your head. Sometimes I do. Okay. And sometimes my ego comes into play, which is my head. Okay. And I make decisions sometimes like that that aren't great. And do you get consequences you don't like? Oh, yeah. My intuition, which is my heart. Okay. I think mostly, right? And my mind. Where does your intuition come from? There is a meditation I learned where you develop your heart to develop your intuition. Well, my intuition... You can also have your sixth sense as your intuition. So I have a little bit of some of that. But the two together, oof. Yes. We be flying. Where your heart and your head are together. Do I look crazy? I do. No, you look fabulous. Oh, my gosh. I look insane. This is Kathy. She is Katie. Katie is concerned. Katie Perry is coming out. I really like, honestly, this shot that will be used against me on the Internet for the end of time. Okay. Oh, awesome. Wow. Well, we have this... Katie came right at the end. So this is good because we have to... Katherine has to find her time. Katherine has to find her time to be Katherine because this is Katie's arena. No, this is both. This is both. Okay. This is both. Okay. Because if it was just Katie's arena, you would only see her in small segments not doing this. Okay. You know, not living life fully. Okay. Meaning like you're seeing everything in here in the Witness Worldwide situation and you're not seeing me shower and you're not seeing me use the restroom because nobody needs to see that. Thank you for correcting me. No, it's okay. Because you just evolved and I was holding the old paradigm. No. Where Katherine and Katie were separate. You just went to... I want them to... You just went to a space that that's what we were trying to get and you went there. I want them both to exist. Much to my surprise and I wasn't even aware... You see how you integrated them? Yeah, I stood up for Katherine. You did. She's... Katie Perry and Katherine Hudson, you thought you're getting one pop star, you're getting two now. Okay. It's a two for one. So that means you're going to be... You could be a different configuration now where Katherine is integrated with Katie. More heart. Wow. More heart. Well, we have this practice at our end of our sessions that you are acquainted with the angel cards and you live in that arena anyway. Thank you. As a goddess. So you know the angels. Thank you, teacher. Yes, yes, yes. Angels are all around you. Yes, yes. Thank you very much. So let's see what the angels are going to tell you. The last time I picked this, it was authenticity. So, angels, what shall I learn now? Freedom. Oh, wow. Isn't that appropriate? Freedom to be who you are. I'm a little tearful. The rule is I shouldn't cry more than you. I feel your ecstasy. Thank you. I think we did it. We got somewhere. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, doctor. I appreciate you.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103276/ https://www.amazon.com/Tuning-Channelers-America-Lee-Carroll/dp/B001ECWCEU Greetings dear ones, may the peace of the great spirit be with you always. So let us begin with discussion. The first time I ever talked to Tobias was on an airplane in 1997, and I wasn't particularly spiritual or metaphysical. I was in the business world at the time, and Tobias came in on his plane flight and started talking, and hasn't stopped since. Initially, it was just me talking to Tobias, I hadn't even told Linda about it. And how long did it take before you brought him to Linda? It was about a year. So you kept to yourself for a year? Yeah. I received what felt like what I experienced to be a telepathic contact from Bashar and his people. In that moment of the telepathic contact, a memory actually came back of having made an agreement somewhere prior to this life to do this. I grew up in a Roman Catholic family of Sicilian immigrants. Most of them, even today, after I've been channeling Joseph for 15 years, don't know what I do. They have some idea, because I don't talk about it to them, and they don't ask me. They know I do something weird. I was very lucky. I had a lot of support. My friends were very accepting. And that's one thing I've always been really open about. I didn't really hide it, even from employers, you know. And I always felt it was really important for me to be honest about that, because I saw how it impacted people. I started in a class where we were really studying making a trans-bridge, an intrapsychic bridge to other sources of intelligence. And so it started in the context of that class. See, I thought that all these esoteric things were for older women over 40 and would have nothing to do with men. So I was dragged to these two guys who channeled for me, and there was something, this was three years apart, they both told me the same thing. And that is when I had to start looking at how could guys 20 years apart in age, three years apart in ID, who never knew each other, give me information that was identical. And the information just happened to be that there was a master named Kryon who I was supposed to get a hold of. An arrangement, so to speak, was made prior to the physical life of the channel, within what you would call the over-soul of the channel, of which I am also a part. We are part of the same soul. You might refer to me as the channel's future self, and incarnationally speaking, I would look at the channel as my past self, just to put it in linear terms. We are not happy with the way that things exist currently in our reality. We are from what you would perceive to be the future. And we have come back to our past so that we may learn, and so that we may assist the planet, because what's going on now is going to impact the entire universe. Well, we would prefer that you ask us, if you like. There's nothing in particular we would like to say, except that we're here, and it's very, very pleasant to be here. It's a delight, it's a part of sharing, with a big S, if you might say. The archetype of sharing is something we enjoy embodying. I've had many, many lifetimes on Earth. I have deep love and compassion for humans, because I remember what it was like to go through the things that humans are going through now. I remember the challenge in particular, the challenge of knowing at some deep level that you are a spiritual being. Our goal is simply to help people live a more joyful, abundant life, and whatever it takes to achieve that, we're willing to do. So that, in a nutshell, if you will, is our work. You sit in the energy of a great shift. Many of you are feeling it. Maybe that's why you're watching this now. Maybe there's something that's happened in your life that would allow you for a moment just to open your mind, and look inside something you always thought was untenable before, only reserved for those on the lunatic fringe before. Here you find, instead, wisdom pouring out. Perhaps you'll even feel the love of God pouring out. There's a lot of things that are being transmuted and altered at this time, right? You're finding some things out about some of your religious leaders. You're finding some things out about religion that just isn't holding true to you, it's not ringing true to you anymore. What we want to tell you this, is that there is so much here that is hiding, but you must feel it. There's been such a shift in these last years, especially in the last 20 or so. You're remembering who and what you are, and it doesn't need an intermediary. This changeover from the old religious system that so many of you are familiar with is difficult. Very difficult, because it holds on tightly. Those who have such a strong concept of God as some higher authority, and as the only creator, they want to hang on to that dearly. They fear letting God go. Their old God, you see. Because they are so out of touch with themselves, they can't possibly even contemplate what it's like to have to go inside. Since so many humans are still part of traditional religion, we realize it's hard for them to accept this concept, and for them to absorb it, and assimilate it. There are mavericks out there. There are those who are going outside of the grid. There are those who are taking huge leaps of consciousness within themselves. They are looking inside for the answers, rather than letting somebody outside do it for them. They are breaking this pull, this type of magnetism, from mass consciousness, and going off on their own. How many aware people on the planet is it going to take that are able to put their awareness into their speech, and into their actions, before the collective consensus is affected? And that is yet to be determined. No one knows exactly when and how that will happen. They are going to be the examples to other humans that you can cross the chasm of old consciousness to new, that you can integrate the human and the divine right here, right now. You don't have to wait until you die to do it. You don't have to wait until your next incarnation. You can do it right here. You will see, within the next 10 or 20 years, a change in verbiage. As people are able to articulate more about self-responsibility, you're already seeing that. As people are able to articulate more about other levels of consciousness, a higher consciousness, you're already seeing more of that. People talk about it. My higher self, my higher consciousness. And then behaving from that level of integrity is what you will begin to see as well. Children have always generally had that capacity, and they get learned out of it, shall we say. Taught out of it. Generally by the age of three. Definitely by the age of seven, in your reality. But now, not so much anymore. They are coming through with what you call core fortification. Because you needed that fresh energy coming to the planet. Alright? You needed new ways of thinking and new ways of perceiving. They are less prone to absorb the telepathic onslaught of negative belief systems from the rest of society. They simply won't participate in those beliefs. So that's why they're in charge of racist teachers. Because they're already ahead of the game, in some ways. You're actually seeing children who will have a different attitude than any children have had before. That is understandable in an evolved species. You are asking whether you, as an older human being, can change. And the answer is absolutely a yes, where you can become childlike. The wisest you have ever been as human beings is when you were little children. They are just so uninhibited and joyful. And they live in the present moment with joy. They're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 years from now or even 10 minutes from now. They're living in the present moment with joy. And that is the key. You should all be like little children again. That's the best advice we could ever give to anybody. There's a new wave of channeling that's starting to re-emerge with the advent of the public awareness of quantum physics. Not that everyone's a quantum physicist, but that has opened people up to realizing that consciousness is so far beyond us and we can align with non-physical consciousness. I receive these blocks of energy. And I can receive a block in half a second and it'll take me 15, 20, 30 minutes to put it into words. I found over the years it gets clearer and clearer. There was a time when the kind of channeling I do was very different. I used to get information, wait, and regurgitate it. Now it's real time and I feel it in real time in a translocked state. The human brain operates on a certain frequency rate. And in channeling the altered state, it changes frequency rates. And it becomes something that might be closer in frequency to their reality, which might exist on a higher level. At the same time, he's kind of doing the same thing, altering his brain frequency so that somewhere in the middle, the frequencies sort of meet and lock and become synchronized. And so what you're kind of getting in the channeling as I understand it is he's not really speaking a language, he's just sending thoughts. It's getting translated through my body into the language I was raised to understand, which in this case is English. Let me tell you, I didn't used to like groups, I didn't like people. I chose to be an engineer in a sound booth, so I would not have to deal with people. It's a good call. I can push a button and hear them or not, and then release it or hear them or not. I had full control over my social life. I liked one person at a time, usually a woman. And so that would be my life. I was not a well-read, I was not an orator. I wasn't an in-front-of-the-camera guy. No, it isn't me. I know that it isn't me. And I'm doing my best to be as pure as vessel as I can for what it is. It's the most comfortable thing I've ever done in my life. Now that I've gotten used to it, it took me about ten years to get used to it. But it's my life's work. There's an misunderstanding about the law of attraction. The human, the limited human, uses it like this. I want a new car. And they expect it to come to them. Well, it will, but it will probably hit them and send them flying. The limited human says, I need a thousand dollars. I have to be able to pay my rent. Where it is becoming distorted right now is that it is turning into a mental exercise. Somebody out there wants to write a book, hundreds of pages, outlining it. And then the moment the human starts to read that book, they go mental. And then it shuts down, you see. The mind can only go so far. The law of attraction is your spirit, your soul. It is your, the deepest parts of you. It's not what the brain can conjure up. We understand that money is one of the symbols of abundance on your planet, and that's all well and good. You can have as much money as you want. But the idea really is, is to relax the definition that it has to come that way, because then you open the doors through which abundance could come in all the other forms in which abundance could come to simply allow you to do what you need to do when you need to do it. Sometimes that can actually just be being gifted something. That's still a form of abundance when someone gives you a gift. Because you're creating a reality that has an open door to accept the idea that you can be given something effortlessly without having to go through any specific machinations to make it happen. Society will tell you that you have to do X, Y, and Z in order to achieve a particular result. And they'll tell you that's not true. What has to be is that your vibrational state has to be in alignment. The idea is to also examine the belief systems where you might be resistant to the idea of abundance, because many of you have belief systems unconsciously that actually keep the idea of the experience of abundance at bay. The person is conditioned for some degree of abundance or non-abundance, depending on the pre-existing conditions with the parents growing up. And so conditioning is the first place to look. For example, you are raised on your planet with all sorts of contradictory and conflicting belief systems about money, such as love of money is the root of all evil. You will never be a success unless you have a lot of money. How do you allow those two things to coexist side by side without being confused? Because the conditioning will determine what the belief systems are and what the subconscious is holding on to. And if there's limitations there, then you want to heal whatever that misconception is, because all humans are deserving, innately, inherently deserving. It's just a matter of recognizing it, owning it, understanding it, and believing it. Many people who believe, well, I will never be successful if I don't have a lot of money, but also believe that I will become a greedy person, a bad person, if I only get a lot of money, may never allow themselves to become physically wealthy, because it is more important to them to be a good person than to be a bad one. So if they associate the idea of being a bad person with having a lot of money, then that's a belief they need to look at, because they don't have to have that association. The idea is not that you have to become more abundant than you are. The idea is to get in touch with what you are saying you are abundant in. And if you're abundant on lack, you will experience an abundance of lack. You have a conflict going on now between the limited human and the souled being. The soul doesn't really necessarily care about all of the human whinings. None of it matters. It doesn't matter if you didn't pay your rent. It doesn't matter if you were a multimillionaire. None of it matters. Those are things of concern to the human aspect only. But the soul cares about, and what your spirit cares about, is consciousness, which means awareness. Your soul and your spirit cares about the joy of being. The joy of being. In other words, experiencing what is in front of you to experience. The soul would rather have a bad experience for you than no experience at all. You see, those humans who try to run from experiencing things and doing things and creating things, they're really frustrating their own soul. Whatever vibration you give off, whatever frequency you create or generate, determines utterly and absolutely whatever experience is reflected back to you from your reality. Because physical reality really does not empirically exist apart from your definition of it. Even your own quantum physicists are beginning to discover this. So physical reality is likened to a mirror. It's not going to say, well, Johnny's been a good boy today, so we're going to reward him, or Susie's been a bad girl today, so we're going to punish her. It's very impersonal. It has nothing to do with the traditional concepts of a punishing or judgmental god. So whatever it is that you give off, whatever form you give yourself, however you define and identify yourself, is what is reflected back to you from your reality so that you can decide whether you wish to retain that idea and that frequency or whether you wish to change it. You create your realities. Every bit of your realities. From birth to death and everything in between. The vast, vast majority, unfortunately majority of humans, spend their valuable and precious creative energies chasing after the little things. From our perspective, the most effective way to alter your reality is to get in touch with, consciously, the beliefs that have created the reality you are experiencing so far. To find out what that belief is, to identify it and define it, will give you conscious recognition of what has been generating your reality. Once you have defined the belief, you can then understand, as a mechanism, how it has been generating the frequency that's caused the reflection you've been experiencing. And once you define it and recognize that as the mechanism, you can then replace it with a belief that you prefer. And you can also then believe, if you wish, that that new belief will replace the old one just as effectively and create reality just as effectively as the old belief did. But once you replace the belief, and thus then it generates new emotions, new thoughts and new behaviors, you will then get a new reality that is reflective of those ideas. When your life changes like that, don't be surprised that it changes. That's one thing that always amazes the angelic beings that I work with. A human asks for change and then their life starts changing. And then they, what do you call it, freak out. Because they lose their job and they lose their family and they lose all that old baggage they've been carrying around. And they're going to fear. But, understand that as the changes begin, there's an evolution of energy. It is a cleaning house, getting rid of the old to make way for the new you. You always say it's a bit like, um, you know, placing your order with the universe, if you will. You climb the stairs to the rooftop of the building and you throw your boomerang out to the universe. That's your order. And so you've taken yourself to a frequency level up here. So you place your order and then you start to worry about it. It hasn't come back yet. I must not deserve it. I'm not going to get it. So you drop yourself out. You go down a couple floors. Well, the order comes back and you're not standing on the roof anymore. You drop out of the frequency range that that exists in. So you've got to keep yourself at the same rate at which you are placing order. It seems like you're saying that it's almost a choice, like setting goals. Oh, no goals. That is so mental. That is so, what do you say in your expression, so yesterday. So, uh, eighties, uh, call it what you're telling us. Forget the goals. It is an exercise in frustration and futility. You, a sovereign being, don't need goals. Do you know why? I'll tell you why. Because you attract everything to you. Certainly it's never beneficial to anyone to do anything that does not feel good to them. And so many humans are doing things that don't feel good to them. And the perfect example of that is, uh, people are often in jobs they hate. They're doing the work for the money, not because they love it. So anytime you're doing anything that does not feel good to you or that does not resonate with you, you're doing yourself a great disservice. And you're distancing yourself more and more from your higher self. When you make choices, you literally re-energize yourself. Think of yourself as a type of magnet or an attracting type of energy. When you make choices in your life, you attract all the energy to you. We say to humans that all energy is there to serve you. It seeks to serve you. And the master allows energy to serve them. God is not this divine being who sits up there somewhere in the clouds on a throne and dictates to you what your life should be. God does not judge or criticize. God is not a single entity like that. It's the divine energy that permeates everything. We understand that the term God may have many different interpretations on your planet. But it is simply a generalization to make it easy to understand the concept that we are discussing. But that word holds many connotations and unfortunately many negative ones for this planet because of how you've been conditioned with religion. You've been sold a lot of lies. There's also a lot of truth in there. And if you want people to believe something that you're selling, and it's not the truth, you're going to sprinkle it with the truth. Because if you told them a bold-faced lie, guess what? They know you're lying. People project humanity onto God, yes. And the religions have done this as a way to help people conceive God. And it certainly makes sense. If you've got to have something to sink your teeth into, something to imagine as an image of God, then you need a religion, an organization, a codification of what God is into a personification. And in history that's what's happened. People have had to project some form of personification onto all that He is in order to conceptualize it. As you come into this era of I Am, there's also discovering that this God that humans have been seeking for the last 10,000 years doesn't exist out in heaven somewhere, isn't hidden somewhere. It is right here. It has always been there. There's a shift. We would suggest someone saying there's a new myth of God. A new myth of God arising at this time. And that is a very exciting prospect, to take the idea of God into a larger context of God goddess. All it is, that God is not simply a masculine image per se, but is a principle that is both masculine and feminine and the synergy of both. Everything that exists, even that rocky hillside outside your window there, everything that exists has a divine aspect. It is part of what you call God or goddess. And you don't like that. The viewers don't like that. The watchers don't like that. For they wish to put God on the pedestal. They want to say all good things come from God and they are taught they are nothing from birth. And it's not that way. We define love as the choice to see the divinity in all beings, not just human beings, not just spirit beings, but in all beings, all that is. Often we will use all that is, because that's what the infinite is, the one is. By definition, it is all that is. There is no outside to it. There cannot be an outside to it. That is, in our view, what God is. And so you are, literally, you are all God. You are all goddess. And you have the power that goes along with being divine, even though you don't think you do, most of the time. Magnificent, all of you. By definition of God are the ones I sit in front of. You want God to be one thing? For you are 3D. You want to worship God? For you are 3D. I tell you this, that the day that you start suppressing what you've been told and opening the door to what God really is, in will come God and he'll have your face on it. What do you say to people who really do not feel empowered? We would suggest that if people are not feeling empowered, the first thing we do is remind them that they are telling themselves some lies. When people say, I know I'm powerless or I'm feeling powerless, we say, ah, that's a story you're telling yourself. That's a story you're telling yourself based on fear. I'm going to simplify this for you. And perhaps some may think the answer is a bit terse, but just get over it. You're wallowing in your own self-pity. You have set up an energy of being a victim, a victim of life, a victim of other people. You're allowing them to steal your energy and to steal your heart and your consciousness. You're in a type of trap and you're letting it happen. You decide one day when you get out of bed or one night when you're taking a walk that you're just going to get over it. You're going to stop letting others take from you and you're going to stop taking from other people as well. You're going to be whole and sovereign. And it is truly that simple. You know what makes it complex and makes it difficult for humans is they develop all these multi-step programs and they write books and they have seminars and classes and they get more and more and more into the mind and away from the true matter at hand. You are an angelic being. You are God also. Get over all the rest of it. Human beings want to compartmentalize everything. They want to know the steps of ascension. They want to know, itemization by itemization, what things they must do in order to please God. Never understanding that if they are pieces of God themselves that there is a switch inside that is all ready to go. That switch, known very well in spirituality all over the planet, is the one that gives you permission for the epiphany, for the enlightenment to begin to pour in, for answers. It is slow and you must unlearn what you have taught. But it is true. Any human can, any human can, no matter what the situation, no matter where they are or who they are. In this so-called new age or age of awakening or age of spiritual awareness on your planet, the whole idea is that you are really at the end of the cycle of limitation that you have imposed upon yourself for thousands of years. And you're awakening into the remembrance that you don't have to do it that way. There's only one question that you should ask. It's the fast track, as they say, to spirituality. It is the fast track, as they say, to getting whatever it is that you have come for. Human beings, who would be watching this now, whatever is before you and whatever challenges are there, the fast track to all of that is to get into a meditative state with pure intent and say to God, to Spirit, I love you. I know you are there. Show me what it is I need to know. And don't expect an answer to fall upon you in a physical way, but instead expect that you have connected to what seems to be the chaos of the system, of the universe, connected in such a way that the synchronicity will begin to appear in your lives like little open doors here and there to guide you to the places that will answer the questions that you would have had otherwise. There are no victims. There are absolutely no victims. There are only willing participants. There are no victims. So you can create your reality. You can unclog from mass consciousness and create a separate reality. You are an immortal being who has chosen to project itself into this game. You are a sovereign, self-sustaining being. You're powerful creators. You can create everything you've ever experienced. And the only alternative to that is to make yourself a victim of fate or whatever, of my mother and father's mistreatment or whatever. Now, we realize people don't want to die of some painful illness or in a car accident or whatever, but nothing happens to you. Every death, we have said several times over the years, every death is really a suicide because nothing can happen to you vibrationally that you're not a part of, if you will. In other words, if you're constantly afraid of dying in a car accident, you're probably going to die in a car accident. If you're constantly believing that your body, no matter what its condition, healthy or unhealthy, has the resources to bring itself back to a state of perfect health, then you're going to achieve that state of perfect health. So, if someone gets cancer, they want to put themselves through that experience at some level? It isn't that the physical personality necessarily wants to have that experience, but it may be part and parcel of belief systems that have been bought into and ideas and definitions that have been bought into that allow you to experience the idea that you are a victim of something or out of control. But the idea is to learn through that that you're not, and that you actually can create something else, that you actually can transmute that idea, that experience, into something else or learn from it in a positive way. And the thing to also remember is that regardless of what happens to the physical personality, the spirit, the being, the consciousness is eternal and infinite and has the capability of experiencing a number of things. And even though it may experience, for a time, the idea of something that causes it pain and suffering, it is a temporary experience that the soul can nevertheless use to its benefit. You know, pain serves its purpose. It is a catalyst for change, because if you were happy and content all the time, you probably wouldn't move, would you? Probably not. No. So, it serves as a catalyst, and we will tell you pain is perception nothing more. I am not saying in any way, shape, or form that, again, this pain must be experienced. I am simply saying that it is part and parcel of the definition of the reality that you have decided to experience, the physical time-space reality. Such things are possible in that experience, but the idea is to learn through that experience that you actually don't have to suffer, that you can remember you are creating your life, and you don't have to be the victim of belief systems or definitions that say you are out of control. The basis of your existence is freedom. You all have free will. So, you are free, and we realize many people would disagree with us, and many don't see it like this, but you are all free to do whatever you want. You are all free to be whatever you want. You are all free to have whatever you want. There are no victims here. There are only willing participants. So, when you are allowing others to subjugate you, the moment you stop, you see that you have power. So, the whole thing was set up, this reality is showing you that you have power. Even though many of you choose to shackle yourselves and to curtail your freedoms, that is a choice too, but you are free. About 15 years ago, I started having some visions, and I didn't know what they were. So, I started doing some research on past lives, and I came across channeling, and it was the early 90s, and I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know anybody who did it, and I just knew it was something I was supposed to be doing. So, I found a couple books, and did some of the exercises, and had really visceral responses, but nothing really happened. I was trying to channel verbally, and my limbs would tingle, and my eyes would water. So, I would try it periodically, and kind of put it aside, and come back to it, and took a meditation class, and did some other things, and did some work on myself, and about a year after I started trying, I sat down one day, and just knew I was supposed to have a pencil and paper, and started to do automatic writing, and it's kind of developed over the years. What really started me on it, on the path of channeling, was reading the book, Opening to Channel, by Suneo Roman and Dwayne Packer. I've read the book several times, and followed their procedures, and the end result of that was, the spirit guide came to me. She appeared to me as an American Indian woman, and her name was Tamara. And so, I channeled her for a few years. I was aware, sort of on the periphery of my awareness, this male Indian. I didn't know who he was. I didn't know if it was real, or if it was my imagination, or where it was coming from. I didn't really trust myself as a channel gun. And so, it was kind of a scary process for me, in the beginning, and I didn't have a lot of confidence in myself. But I knew there was something there, that was beyond me. Well, I have several families, as many of us do, and I have more than one marriage. The wife that I have now, I was introduced to in the recording studio. And I was on my third crime book at the time. And so, we dated for a long time, before I ever opened my mouth to what I was doing. And I remember the day, when we were going to go have spaghetti, and we never made it to the spaghetti place, because I brought my books. I said, it's now or never, she's got to know, because I felt, I felt in my heart, what was going on, and I said, I've got to, it's either make it or break it right now. So, I brought my books to her house, and we never got out of there. She actually said, she took it all in, and she said, I'm going to have to think about it. She read the books, and called me up, and she said, this is everything I've always believed. Wow. So, we had a good meeting and melding at that time. At a certain point, she actually said, well, she'd like to hear what Tobias has to say. So, we sat down here in the living room, did our first channel with Tobias talking. And at a certain point, I started working with a psychologist who had some tough clients, you know, with difficult issues. And it would be the psychologist, myself, and, of course, Tobias. And I really enjoyed that. It was doing one-on-one in a very intense way. But then as word about that got out, then people wanted to do it in a group. Do the psychologist, Tobias, and a client. And a client, right, right. At some point, we literally started here in our living room, at home, and just a small group of about a dozen people. And it's now grown into what it is. I worked with a psychologist, Dr. Margo Chandley, and she would work with me to help me practice going into trance and let the entities talk. It felt very natural to me all the way along because I was always having a reassurance from my telepathic connection with my unseen friends that everything was going along as scheduled. And then I would get updates and recommendations from them and things I could do to prepare. And it all felt really, really comfortable and very, very aligned. Very, very nice. Plus, I had this wonderful psychologist that I could talk with about it and debrief about it. So I never felt odd or unusual. I know that some people have had it be very strange and unsettling. And it was never that way for me at all. I was actually introduced to a channel who was, you know, doing public sessions at the time. And I went and I listened to the entity coming through that channel for several months and thought that the information had value. It was interesting, seemed to be helpful to people who were asking questions of the entity. But at one point during listening to that entity, they actually offered to teach a class on channeling. And I went into the class not because I wanted to become a channel. That was the farthest thing from my mind. I just wanted to further my research. I wanted to see how something like channeling could be taught because I didn't understand that that could be done. Under one of the guided meditations that the entity was giving, I received what felt like what I experienced to be a telepathic contact. I decided, well, you know, whether it's really another entity or whether it's just a portion of my consciousness, what I did understand is that channeling itself is an actual altered state. And in that altered state, people have the ability to access information that they might not otherwise be able to in their normal daily waking state. And so in knowing that that information might be able to give people a different perspective on their lives, might be able to help them make the kind of changes that they wanted in their lives constructively, I decided that was reason enough to go ahead and experiment and see how far the channeling would go. When you come to Earth and you embody yourself in this thing called the biology, your physical body, you tend to lose the remembrance of who you truly are. Part of it, I guess you could say, is a good thing because it allows each of you to truly experience what it is like to live in an illusion. Because you have been cocooned and isolated, your history has been rewritten so that you don't remember who and what you truly are. So it's so important to start waking up to the truth of one's own nature. And the truth of one's own nature is what one finds when we go within and discover the connection to all, and to our goddess, all that is that lies deep at the heart of the true self. If it was intuitive of what you had going on on this planet, we might as well just turn on the lights and everyone goes home. You see, there must be secrets, there must be an overlay, there must be a veil, there must be the predetermined energy that says it can't be solved. This creates a little mountain to climb, does it not? Those who are watching this now, be aware that this is part of the mountain to climb for it has to do with your belief, what you've been told as opposed to what you feel. There are still what you might call traditional newcomers on the Earth who haven't necessarily run the gamut of all different kinds of incarnations you can have as a human on Earth, but the majority of you, yes, have experienced just about everything you can possibly experience. You have killed and been killed, you have been a benefactor and been benefited, you have been every gender, every experience, you have been every family member, you have had just about every disease that can be had, you have experienced absolute joy in certain lives, freedom, fear, everything, the whole spectrum, most of you, at this point. They always describe it as being like a rollercoaster. You know, if you've never been on one before, you kind of get on, you don't know when you're going to go up, when you're going to go down, when you're going to go around the corner, and it's a little scary, and you can be a little fearful, but then you get off the ride and it was great, you want to get right back on, and that's what it's like for the incarnational cycle. You go through and it's a little scary and a little bumpy, but as soon as you get off, you're like, that was a great ride, I want to go on again. So that's how they describe it to me, that once we see the big picture and understand it, we're excited to go back down. Most people don't believe in anything before life, nothing whatsoever. So you have 85% of the earth according to Time magazine that believes in a religion that supports the afterlife, and yet you have only about 4% of the earth, which would be Hindu and Buddhist, who actually believe in a forelife, which doesn't make spiritual sense. Somehow, mom gives you birth and you have a soul forever, but that's the teaching of the church. There was nothing before. There was nothing before, ask them, there was nothing before. You have pretty much all done it all, that's why you're arriving at the end of the cycle of limitation because there's really not that much left to explore. You have all done it all, so now you are remembering, you're waking up out of that particular dream because you're at the end of that dream almost. Because when you come into a physical existence, you become a creator in the physical dimension. You're creating your life and your activities and your experiences, your responses to the experiences. But it's all about the progression of the evolution of one's soul, isn't it, yes? And reincarnating allows you more and more understanding and knowledge through experience. You exist, that will never change. The form may change, but the fact that you exist will never change. Existence does not become nonexistence because nonexistence is already full of all the things that will never exist, and there is no room in nonexistence for the things that do exist. Existence is the only quality existence has to be. There is no not to be. A great teacher? No more the son of God, however, than you are. Exactly. A great teacher, yes. It makes a good story. Humans need a hero. They need sports heroes. They need political heroes, although there's not many. They need technology and science heroes, but they also need an icon that they can look up to and worship because they don't go within. The archetype of the Jesus, the Savior, is still very powerful on the planet, and yet that slowly is being replaced by people finding it within themselves instead of needing it to be out there as a figure. In the early days of the Catholic Church, there was, how would you say, a basic understanding that Jesus would appeal to the masses because he was a human, and that he would be such a fine example. It took them well over 500 years to even decide amongst themselves how he would be presented to the public in your modern terms would be how his PR campaign would be handled. So they developed this very interesting but not necessarily accurate story of Jesus, which wasn't even his real name to begin with. It was Yeshua, Yeshua ben Joseph. They need someone to look to and to worship, and their leaders even, religious leaders, who have no idea of what the I am principle is about, who have no idea that the God is already within, they encourage their groups to worship some far-off Jesus because it is a wonderful way of perhaps what you call anesthetizing them a bit, take the mind off their daily pain, but it's also a wonderful way of controlling. So whether it is the Christian Church, whether it is so many of the other religions, they create these icons, but the icons are out there somewhere, and they're generally hardly based in reality. For those of you who are extremely light, guess what? You've had extremely dark lifetimes. You've probably done some extremely dastardly deeds. So that's difficult. A part of your quote-unquote New Age movement wants to be all light and all happy, and I'll tell you that is not what this lifetime is about because there are prejudices there. And the idea here is that you release all of that prejudice, all of that judgment against the dark because you cannot have one without the other. Those who are biased to the light only are basically imbalanced, and they're going to have to then, sooner or later, experience their dark part, which they're deathly afraid of. They're afraid of that dark part within. Why do they label it dark? Why do they think it's evil as just another aspect of them? Because one doesn't want to be in the light by being in the denial of one's shadow. The idea, remember, is that growth is the product of integration of all that you are, not the exclusion of anything. It is the allowance that everything is valid. The balancing of everything is valid. That's why the more evolved you become, you actually become more aware of more dark because you're willing to integrate it all and balance it all within you. And so there are some who want to, you know, step into that space and say, oh, I'm nothing but light. I haven't had any dark lifetimes. And we will tell you it is precisely the opposite because usually it's not until you have mastered the dark or some aspect of the dark that you are given abilities and to work in the light as well. Momentum to snap into the light is actually gathered by exploring the darkness as deeply as you can. Kryon says on the other side of the veil, it is much, much different. We don't have the minds we do now. We don't have the logic we do now. And this is like a play. Kryon says it's very much like a play. When the guy, when the curtain closes, the guy with the knife who has been murdered by the other guy, the curtain closes, they all get up and go have a party. You know, there's no animosity, they don't care, they don't carry vendetta. And so on the other side of the veil, it's like we regroup and come back in. So there really are no victims or villains. There are no victims or villains. And this, of course, will fly in the face of every single teaching that anybody's ever heard in this nation. There is also no heaven and hell. This is a very interesting theme and I'm glad you asked that because, you know, when I'm in Israel, which I have been numbers of times, especially in the heart of Jerusalem, these questions are asked. It's inconceivable that Hitler's not in hell. There's a line across. That guy has got to be being punished right now. According to my channeling, the men I work with who channel, that is not the case. He came and he did something. He went to the dark side, if you want to call it, and a whole bunch of people went with him. And he had the choice and so did they. And he created something that we just find abhorrent and just awful. And yet, you know, when the curtain closed, he got up and everybody gave him a party. That being who was Hitler agreed to be of service to that collective, to that group, to that genetic line. And that's a hard one for humans to see. That's a very hard thing for them to begin to forgive. And then that goes back to the veil. Why the veil is placed there? Here. So that you don't remember everything. Everybody who was, which you would call adversely or tragically affected by the era of Hitler and the Hitler himself, was there because they created, together, they co-created that reality that was, from a human perspective, certainly a very tragic and sad and awful time in your history. But Hitler was a catalyst for growth in many people who participated in that holocaust. And there really was a holocaust in human terms. And so, good people The fact that such a being existed in your reality is part and parcel a reflection of what your reality allows, and thus it is a service to you to show you this is what you support. Is this what you want to continue to support or do you want to change this in the future? So it can be used as a service in that way. So yes, on a soul level, it can be looked at as a service, even though on the human level it may only be seen as an atrocity. We do not teach or believe that you have to repay past debts, if you will. And that's what many people see commonly, like you have. You pass misdeeds from this lifetime or another lifetime. You've got to make up for those debts and argue nonsense if you want us to be more blunt on this bullshit. Discussing what you would call the concept of sin has been done many times. And you know that I will say this and it is controversial to almost all that you have in thought. There is no such thing. Sin has been and is created by human beings wishing then to assign something to it. It is often then control. It is often then punishment. Where you will have some guru tell you what is appropriate behavior. When you see those who are in prison for certain acts that are atrocious, when you see those who take lives, you will say, sure, that is inappropriate and I will say to you that is exactly what it is in the scheme of the balance that you have chosen to create as your culture. But spiritually, it follows a pattern where those who have done it have done it by free choice and when they get to the other side of the veil, there is no judgment. Therefore, sin, by the very nature of its definition, does not exist as sin. There are no sins, that is to say, things that you do which then you will be punished for. All your power is right now so it does not matter what has happened in the past. All that matters is where you want to go from here and you have all the power to go wherever you want from here. Right here and now you have that power. When you do not remember that you are eternal and infinite, the physical personality ego, the construct that you create that is the physical mind does not know that death does not equal annihilation. When the physical mind thinks that death equals nonexistence or annihilation, it then goes into survival mode, panic, fear, doubt. But when it understands that physical reality is simply a temporary manifestation, a mask, if you will, a projection of a greater consciousness that you are and you understand that you always exist, then the fear of death vanishes. Let us say each time you conquer a fear, let us say each time you discover something about timing, your spiritual jar fills up a little inside. This spiritual jar is your akash. It keeps track of the energies that you saw and when you come back in the next time, all of that is ready at the same level you left it. You never have to relearn it. Many of you ask what role do past lives play and we will tell you a very big one. They are not really past, they are concurrent. As you are both working on things, both lifetimes are working on things, you are clearing things out energetically through both emotional bodies. We have shamans walking around. We have the past Buddhas walking around who will never be Buddhas and never be shamans but it is there. All their life experience is there. Free choice determines whether they will open the closet and when they do, you will find them putting upon everything they have learned. This is how you can have someone who is completely untrained in spiritual things suddenly become a master. It seems to be out of the way things work but believe me, they have paid their dues and they have studied and they have had lifetimes of learning just like you have. Why are so many humans afraid of death? Well that goes back to conditioning as well. The two are disconnected from source energy so if you are disconnected then you don't remember what is going on. That was part of the game which is the way the game was set up but there are more and more of you who are awakening and remembering that you are immortal beings. Transition or death is always a pleasant experience. We are talking about at the moment you make a transition. When you come to the planet there is a predisposition you might say a groove that you have traveled in that has upon it a potential of your time of death. It is a human being who understands however that they can pop out of that groove and go in another direction with their own free will which means that they will never meet their death in the groove. Therefore we are saying this that although the death is a potential around you all the time and at some level that potential is known you are still in control on this planet of your life in a grand, grand fashion. There is no predetermined time that you are going to die. You will choose it at the moment by free choice in real time in 3D. The idea for most individuals when they pass on into spirit is that it is like for a physical person waking up from a dream. Just as you wake up from a dream during the night and say oh well that is just fading away that wasn't real. So too a soul may find itself a spirit may find itself suddenly in spirit going oh this is who I really am that was just a dream. Dying is the easiest thing you will ever do because you are re-emerging back into the world of spirit back to where you came from back to your source and it is always it is like a breath of fresh air it is like taking off a tight shoe you feel a kind of sense of relief and release and if you could get a small glimpse or remembrance of it you would never fear death again and you would go through the rest of your lives with a smile on your lips and with joy in your heart. There are energies of angels that you would call specialists we are not compartmentalized to that degree for all one but we take our tasks and we do certain kinds of things for one another and in that you might say some then come into the planet and some then are supporters there are far more supporters than there are humans who come in. I am a supporter. All humans have guides and helpers yes you are all connected to much larger families than you may be aware of many of the guides are simply friends that you have experienced other lives with who simply may not be incarnating in the same time frame that you are have remained in spirit for that duration to help you from the other side so to speak you are never alone there is always help out there no matter how far down you think you fall. The idea is that often a guide will attempt to remain unobtrusive also in giving you the information because the whole point of guiding you is to actually teach you to be your own best guide so the idea is that many times a guide will use the props that exist in your own physical reality already to get you to pay attention to information that they feel you might need to know or that might serve you so for example synchronicity in life those little coincidences that aren't accidental of just winding up at the right place at the right time overhearing exactly the conversation you needed to hear exactly at the right moment to be able to get that next piece of information you needed at exactly that moment may have been the work of your guide steering you in a certain direction and not delivering the information directly but knowing the information was available to you in your reality already if they would only nudge you down a certain street at a certain time that's all they may need to do sometimes you might actually hear them more strongly and more directly you might experience them in your dreams very often dream communication is one of the strongest ways that guides will communicate with you and many of the so called dreams that you may remember when you wake up may not always have just been the random collection of processing going on in your brain from the day's events but may actually be representative of a communication or conversation you're having with friends and family on another level the emotional body creates the physical template all illness starts in the emotional field without exception if it's a genetic mutation that starts in the emotional field and it is something that has been so generously left behind by one of your ancestors they had a big emotional issue a block it altered their genetic material and it got passed down to their genetic line many people carry with them even throughout their lives even unto their death resentments guilt and worry and that is where all physical illness comes from from these negative emotions that people nurture even it all goes back to emotions because the emotional body creates the physical reality so if you're talking about weight and health you know how you are feeling about yourself is determining your physical body more so than what you're consuming and how you're exercising which is a very different way of thinking for many of you because you're conditioned to think that it's all physical but it's not it's all emotional make no mistake there is no thing as a generic human being you come from such a different platform different lives different cultures and you arrive in this culture some of you may wish to only eat one kind of thing some of you wish to eat another do what your body feels best with that results in the most energy and the most appropriateness for you at the deepest level in the human psyche there is this archetype called separation and it's based on the fact that you separate yourself from source when you choose to become born and everyone has that experience over and over and over every lifetime that you choose to be incarnated you are experiencing separation separation from source separation from unconditional love separation from the light separation separation I feel disconnected I feel separated something's missing in my life the desire for something transcendent becomes very strong and instead of seeking it authentically within through one's spirituality people will often seek it through external substances and mind altering substances seeking something transcendent through the use of drugs and alcohol which usually represents a belief system in the person that thinks something is missing that needs to be replaced by something artificial if that doesn't exist as a belief then you will find that people will naturally naturally ingest whatever food or liquid is in keeping with their best benefit many of them are using to numb they don't want that is very selfish and it is actually about discovering yourself working on yourself is the greatest gift you can give to humanity and that sounds so self-centered and so negative but that's how you've been conditioned it is about putting yourself first loving yourself first taking care of yourself first having compassion of yourself first and knowing yourself first if you want to keep someone from accessing their own power and helping to heal the planet or helping to heal mass consciousness you're going to tell them that it's very selfish for them to look inside instead of worrying or being afraid of what's going on in the world around you just focus on your own world then and truly then you are able to help humans but you'll understand only humans that are choosing help look at your issues and there's a great sage who likes to say if you want enlightenment to lighten up and certainly so that is absolutely true but we would suggest that one of the great secrets to lightening up is being willing to heal and transform one's life to find good in the world around them to look for it not just to stumble over it accidentally but to look for the good first of all in themselves to be appreciative for this gift of life that they have in these human bodies all of you are physical extensions of your god selves be joyful be joy be happy you know you all are beautiful beings of light and we are very honored to have an opportunity to speak to you or to work with you and you really are very special and very rare this planet has some very beautiful things on it and a range and expression of love is amazing the kind you have with a friend with lover kind you have with a lifelong mate with your brother, with your mother, with your father. They're varying shades, and that is what is so special about the love on this planet. It's not like that everywhere. Enjoy being human while you can. Enjoy the things that the physical world has to offer. Have fun. Play. Love. Laugh. And allow new ideas and new inspiration to come in. Imagine yourself singing new songs, creating music, writing books, painting pictures. Imagine yourself waking up in the morning and looking forward to the day, not how you're going to get through the day. Open yourself up now. Go beyond. And don't be afraid of what you're going to lose because you didn't leave it anyway. If you lift the veil and start to see all that is here, what you're going to see is pure love. What you're going to see within that is an uplifting potential spirit, not only for you but those around you. Your life will change dramatically at that point at which you decide to eliminate trauma. Hook up to that which we have called the connection to the other side of the veil, and I want you to know this, dear human being. It doesn't matter what religion you are on the planet. You can still be that and love God in this way. No matter what the doctrine is on the planet, you can still be that and love God in this way. This is not climbing out of one box into another. This is discovering the core issue, and that is that you always have been and always will be in control of your life as a piece of God in this universe. And so it is. And so we thank you for the gift of sharing, because you allow us the gift of seeing through all of you that many more ways that creation has of expressing itself, and it expands our understanding of all that is. So we simply extend our unconditional love, our deep appreciation, and heartfelt thanks for the co-creation of this transmission. And we bid you a fond and exciting good day. Thank you so much. That's so great. Thank you. You're welcome. You're back. I'm back. I'm back. Consider the body a vehicle, like a car. I'm usually the one behind the driver's seat, behind the wheel. But when Bashar comes through, it's like I slide over the passenger seat. I have memories of other lifetimes where I've had similar abilities to connect to other realms and dimensions, but not exactly like this. It's like you've somehow reached beyond your normal, ordinary self. That's how it feels to me. There's times in a channel where I just go out. God knows where it is. I mean, I'm aware of things happening in the room, but at a certain point, even that kind of goes away. I get to experience another reality all together in a channel. I get to experience an entirely different world view. You are the first to get a new car in a channel. I feel, I almost feel overwhelmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFACrLxr0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015370 A truly inspirational film, Finding Joe explores the studies of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Take a journey through the human psyche and discover the pattern hidden in every story. TEXT many years ago in Thailand there was a temple that was called the temple of the Golden Buddha and there was a huge statue of Golden Buddha and word came to this village where the monastery was that an army from neighbouring country was about to invade and they got the brilliant scheme to cover the Golden Buddha which is quite large with mud and concrete's so that it looked basic like a stone Buddha ma the army would perceive no value in it [Applause] and sure enough this army rolled in with his case signs and weapons and as they passed by the monastery they saw nothing with a big stone Buddha and they had no reason to plunder it while years went by because the army continued to occupied until there was a time when the monastery in the village when no one remembered that the Buddha was golden until one day a young monk was sitting on the Buddha meditating on his knee and as he got up a little piece of concrete happened to crack off and he saw something shiny he realized it was gold under there and so he ran to his fellow monks said the Buddha's golden the Buddha's golden they all came out and they realized he was telling the truth and they took their picks and hammers and eventually unearthed the Golden Buddha [Music] [Applause] now what's submitted for here's the metaphor is that each of us is golden by nature we were born golden we're born high we were born knowing were born connected to our bliss were born knowing truth were born knowing everything every great spiritual master has ever said we were one with the Christ the Buddha everyone but then we went to school on they said you had to just like this and this would boil it girls do this with black people this with white people do on and on and on and so we developed a casing of stone over the Buddha to a point where at a young age maybe four or five six or seven we believed that we were the stone Buddha not the golden one and then something comes along that cracks our casing maybe it's an injury a divorce the financial setbacks our government will change something that really scares us some bugs us and knocks off a piece of our our armor and only in that moment of the armor being knocked off do you get to look inside and see the goal then let me tell you friend at the moment you see that gold the armor and the concrete will never satisfy you again at that point you truly answer the true hero's adventure and all you want to do for the rest of your life is pick away the stone because the gold is so much more fun [Music] who is Joseph Campbell and why should we care a topic that comes up a lot Joseph Campbell was one of the leading mythology experts of all time Joseph Campbell is a philosopher the man who had this ability to see the truth in a world where we've lost sight of that in many ways he studied all of these classical myths traditions and they actually started by studying Native American mythology he fell in love with it when he was a kid this was his bliss he wound up studying the Aboriginal cultures he studied Greek mythology he studied Arthurian a legend he dissected and really diagrammed all of our stories he compared the philosophies the mythic stories of the whole world our myths or movies or novels or romances and he find this one story within all the stories that we can relate to no matter where you come from he recognized that in spite of all the different stories we seem to be telling there's really only one and he called it the hero's journey there must have been thousands and thousands of hero stories from every culture but until Joseph Campbell came along certainly I never realized how they all kind of fit together and how they were basically the same story I was a religion major in college I was taking my final exam I had a moment where I've just gobsmacked [Applause] it's just like holy crap it's all the same thing I mean it is really all the same thing the hero's journey is a pattern you can almost think of it as an algorithm that has three basic parts separation initiation and return separation you are in one kind of a reality in one kind of a place you are separated from it initiation you're put into another place where you are in some manner initiated returned you come back a simple version of the hero's journey is you know someone starting out in their normal protected world and then Vinci getting a call to adventure a call to adventure there's a vision there's a quest it's the story of the hero enduring some trials various trials and ordeals meeting different obstacles along the way people that hurt you people that help you doors will open as Campbell would say for you where there are no doors for others dragons will appear that your dragons alone you get to like the innermost cave where you're really challenged like the greatest crisis and you find your true self the achievement the glory but then that's not the end of it that has to bring that back to the community there's a return to tell the story that is a heroic journey separation initiation return all of the adventures of the human story are in there all the heroes all the villains all the gods and goddesses and all of the knights and all of the fantastic creatures we can conjure up in animation they're all in there because they're all in here because they're all in here this is where they come from if you look at some of the greatest pieces of literature the greatest works of philosophy they all have what Joseph Campbell called the hero's journey and if you look with a piercing eye you can recognize his outline and just about any movie a story would read Star Wars The Matrix Harry Potter Wizard of Oz that's a classic story of a hero's journey you first see Dorothy and her natural environment and just like out here in regular life a person is operating in their natural environment every day and living in their house and that kind of thing and then something happens to shake that world up and you go on a journey in which you have to face certain tests and challenges [Music] storytelling is typically about people learning something you go to a place which is dark and mysterious you are faced with yourself there is a relationship between facing fear and this kind of soul gain you acquire quality a hidden strength of value moments where somebody is tested somebody moves to a place where it feels like a crisis point and then they are restored redeemed made better through that trial and we call them heroes [Music] if all of these stories boiled down into one map we can use that map because all human beings are the same whether they're going through a war like World War two or going through a war inside it's basically the same kind of process in other words we're not separate from the characters we see in our movies and in our novels they are us it's one journey [Music] the whole idea of hero's journey a journey of life clear patterns to guide you through you're born you you have a childhood you have a adolescence and you try to find the place for you to become an adult and you go through adventures you struggle with your inner conflict and finally you become a hero you slay the Dragons use you succeed in in conquering all the demons and and you step over stressful with the final you have arrived we can old we die but within the short span we have to have some meaning some reason for this existence doesn't have to be higher mighty and fantastic you can have a very simple life still go through the similar pattern we go on we watch a great hero's journey movie it's that impulse within us that seed of potential that wants to be actualized that's being talked to during those movies and being whispered to it's time for you to do that that's the story here that's what it's all about there's wonderful narrative iconography for how to live life [Music] the idea that trihard you get the little engine that could I think I can I think I can I think I can I can this idea that we really can do better be better that our greatest cells are still hidden and that the future is the prospect of coming to terms with that cell Dorothy had to confront her inner barriers and so the journey she went on was not just a journey to find out how the deal with the Wicked Witch of the West it was how to deal with her own inner resources how to claim her own inner resources and at the end of the movie how did she get back home while she clicked her heels together so she had it all the time the ability to get back home but it didn't get mobilized for her until she went through all of those challenges and was able to kind of test herself it's kind of the ordinary moving into the extraordinary it's going through the dark to come out to the light going from an unsatisfying life to a satisfying life by pushing through the scariest things you could imagine you the most important thing that the myths teach us is to go beyond what we perceive as the limits of our possibility so mythology needs to be seen for what it is which is a metaphor for our human existence it's not a history lesson it's a metaphor for life and for universal experiences a lot of people read the myths and they say well that refers to something historical the creation of the world or something like that but Joe didn't think that he thought that it's really a narrative about the psyche what Jung called the self [Music] the problem is that many of us are metaphorically impaired we don't realize that this thing that they're talking about is actually a metaphor for a transformation process just kind of like the holy grail where it's not the thing it's not the actual concrete grail it's an intangible thing but the holy grail is a metaphor for that intangible feeling and so if you look at a book and it says you will go to heaven and you don't realize that they're talking about heaven on earth heaven in our bodies heaven right now in the now you might fall into a trance of thinking that you're literally gonna go someplace else if you follow the rules having been brought up in a mythical culture I was very familiar with the different motifs and themes that were encapsulated in say a mythical being whether it was the Lord Shiva or Ganesh or a goddess just thinking the name of that person the whole story was evoked Carl Jung called these archetypes archetypes up from module encapsulated stories or mythologies and they're in this form of a seed in consciousness when you plant that seed in consciousness that archetypal seed that mythical journey then that seed starts to sprout and as it sprouts the patterning forces create the situation circumstances events and relationships for the unfolding of the story it's better to have a story to look through at life than an explanation the reason for that is the story is richer I [Music] say select two or three heroes and heroines either in mythology or religion or history and then ask these mythical beings to incarnate through you and then don't be surprised when you see situation circumstances coincidences synchronicities relationships short suddenly short that actually are part of the story that you have been seeking to Express once upon a time in the forest there was this little tiger cub amongst a flock of sheep and he ate grass and he wandered around with the Sheep [Music] and when he tried to say anything all that came out was a sort of little meow not much of a roar and one day through those forest comes a large male tiger and he's just about to pounce on the sheep and he sees this tiger cub he says what are you doing here tiger cub goes man picks the tiger cub up by the scruff of the neck and he carries him over to a pod and he puts his face over and he says look see that face you're not a sheep you're a tiger the male tiger says okay we need to do something he slays a sheep but he grabs a big hunk of raw meat and he shoves it in the little tiger's mouth [Music] and the little tiger gagged on it is all do on the truth but it went down and he got a little bit energy and pretty soon he had a bigger tiger roar and eventually he had a full tiger roar he went off with the male tiger I think the moral here is self-evident if you're a tiger living among sheep you're a pretty poor specimen of a tiger and we are all Tigers living among sheep we are all individuals with an a self that we don't even begin to understand and unfortunately I've you could open a metaphor out the food we get from the culture around us is maybe food for sheep it's not food for Tigers [Music] we have to catch at least the spark on what your life is going to be or you may spend those dreary decades in corporate America climbing the ladder only to discover it's against the wrong wall you get to the top who cares if this path of the hero's journey is fairly simple in design why then is it that everybody isn't living it [Music] well the answer is that most people on the planet live under a kind of a mass hypnosis [Music] there's a tremendous pressure even in the media on really keeping people in their place in the sense of keeping them happy tranced out consumers [Music] it's a trance of comfort it's a trance of not sticking your head up above the crown very much that keeps the enterprise nor most people think it's a luxury and a great privilege to stay home and look at their 800 inch television if you just spaced out you're not developing we're stimulated by some images and some loud noise it's about collecting things and stuff and making a lot of money and doing a lot of things and it's impossible to enjoy that because you end up on that treadmill and you can't get off and so most people unfortunately because they are so victimized by the environment they have no time to think or be themselves they become bundles of conditioned reflexes and nerves that are constantly being triggered by people and circumstance into very predictable outcomes and predictable patterns of behavior there is no creativity that's the trance that's the wasteland where we're just guided toward this weird sense of what's real in our lives and those ideas that are imposed on us from the outside about what we should and should not do it usually starts out with something like you shouldn't talk to that person because they're from a different tribe you certainly shouldn't marry that person you should go to this school you should have a certain type of car you should live in a certain type of house you should have a certain number of kids buy this type of age should should should should should what I experienced in my own life was I gotta have the degree from this University I've got to have this advanced degree from this university preferably either a law degree or a medical degree or something to that effect some letters after my name which would say that I have a stamp of credibility I can go out and make my six figures in society can kind of deem me worthy I have countless examples of young people who go to college because they expected to go to college and they studied biology because since the time they were 6 they were supposed to be a doctor it's very difficult for a person who's brought up in this environment of instant gratification with the media with advertising with all the promises of instant gratification by buying something for example or having a certain level of affluence that you lose contact with this mythical domain which is actually part of your soul it's there in everyone it's their passion with their blesses their unique skills is their unique ways of expressing themselves is their soul which if they think they could do anything if you look at every her own journey the hero has been confronted with the fact that the world that they thought was reality was nothing more than an illusion I go back to the matrix which is what was the matrix it was just this big illusion it was the dominant values and beliefs that the world had put around this guy neo the seeker on the hero's journey and what did he do he felt this longing to go beyond the illusion to go beyond the matrix so he took the red pill and he woke up to reality and what was a reality reality was he was full of potential [Music] separation begins with what we call the call to adventure Campbell tells us there's literally almost a phone ringing it's like the universe the divine God whatever you want to call it literally dialing you up and ringing and giving you a call asking you to step out until with your journey something breaks into the your quotidian reality and makes it impossible for you to continue well you could hang up the phone you can run away but he'll keep coming back it'll keep coming back until you finally answer the call [Music] if you're not paying attention the wake-up calls come in the form of a sledgehammer you know if you're paying attention they might come in a tickle feather so we don't always get the call as a choir of angels with trumpets singing to us beautifully one Sunday morning in Star Wars Luke comes back his house has been burnt down he's gotta go oftentimes it comes in the depth of our despair in losing a job getting fired getting divorced - having your House foreclosed on these things that you just would never want to have happen or often the exact things we need to catapult it's to catalyze us into the next that next version of ourselves bad things happen to good people and when that happens to them they typically are thrown for a loop because they frequently have felt everything's going along I'm doing everything right what happened well you know the universe just up ended you and it does do that Chinese symbol for crisis r2 symbol the first wise danger and second why immediate is opportunity so crisis is ballz danger and opportunity this idea that if one storyline collapses that that's the end of the movie it's not true of human life and never wants true of human life I know people who have prospered in the most extraordinary way in the worst type of adversity but actually reveals something to them about themselves they didn't know and that became the new journey they took let me put this into really practical hundred-pound terms because if the camera had been pointed at me when I was 24 years old what it would have seen was a person who weighed 320 pounds you would have seen me puffing on two or three packs of Marlboros a day relationship that I didn't want to be in and I had a job I hated everything was wrong in my life and so those are ripe moments for a wake-up call in life you know if you haven't been paying attention enough so that you end up with the job you hate a relationship you don't want to be in a body you don't like and you're addicted to a bunch of things you're ripe for a sledgehammer blow from the universe and I got it you step over a threshold meaning you move from one world into another sometimes you're shoved from one world into the other I went out for a walk and I stepped on the ice on the road and my feet shot out from under me and I smacked my back of my head on the ground frozen ground and it knocked me out just enough I wasn't completely unconscious but I had a vision while I was semi knocked out I could see down through all the layers of myself to this pure consciousness inside and I could see how all the fat I had was organized around a whole bunch of feelings I didn't want to let myself feel like sadness from childhood and a lot of old grief and my family and anger and things like that and I realized that the fat was there to keep me from feeling those feelings and so as I began to come back to normal consciousness I made a vow that I was going to change my life so that I could live in that state of pure consciousness instead of having to have all of that armor around me once you make the decisions that Joseph Campbell is talking about about really hearing the call and being willing to take on the challenges of that new awakened life once you do that you begin to feel a power that it's like nothing else I've ever experienced and I think a lot of us are just plain old afraid of that [Music] I tend to think that people wake up to the fact that they're the hero of their own life when they get tired of being the victim of their own life at the point that that you say enough you know IIIi don't want to listen to my parents anymore I I have had it with my boss I'm really having problems perhaps with the sermon I'm being taught you could either surrender to victimhood and a lot of people do or you can surrender to a fundamentalism you can basically give your responsibility to someone else and say tell me what to do and I'll do it or you can say I have a choice here and I'm responsible now what what does it mean to be the hero of your own life it means to be responsible for your own adventure [Music] Campbell talks about metaphorical death where something dies so that something can live and in every hero's journey there's some death moment where some old has to go on some new has to stay he quotes Nietzsche and he says that the snake that cannot shed its skin must perish [Music] when death is a motif in a myth it doesn't refer necessarily to what happens at the end of one's biological and physical existence it's an indication that changes taking place I went through that process when I stopped being a tribal administrator and started becoming a writer I put that aspect of myself way it was valuable and I learned a lot and that drawn it but it enabled me to go on no death no life no death no transformation no death no change I said okay I don't want cut anymore I want this put that away made myself into something else and in essence resurrected into being right the whole key to blessing death is to recognizing that it's just a death of one old form that has played itself out has no use anymore which always as the phoenix rises and gives way to some new form that has new intrinsic meaning i makes your life even bigger and better you want a new birth new revelation new insight into life as you grow as a human being you will learn to keep dying [Music] I think it's tricky to afford a proof I think there are proofs in our lives I think the proofs exist in our ability to transcend the worst things that have happened to us um my proof is I was abused as a little boy and not something I chat about typically but in this context it was the whole the worst thing ever you know and it went on for a very long time I was very young and and I'm Who I am in part because I had to face that because I had to wrestle with that because I had to accept that and acknowledge that and forgive and and all the terribly difficult things that come with that I had to tell my parents I had to you know it's this you know and by the way it's one of these things that you work with for the rest of your life but from that most difficult thing also came a kind of understanding I get high marks on compassion I wouldn't wish it on anybody but it is part of what made me mean so the truth is it's not what happens to us it's what we do with it the forest represents the darkness the unknown the edge of your world and it takes the courage of a hero to go into that forest the people in your community don't understand why you want to go into that for us and in fact they're pulling you back asking you why can't you be happy with what you have here but there's this urge that exists within the year to go and explore Joseph's often used the knights of the round table when they behold the golden chalice there's a story with King Arthur and his knights [Music] after the night's have seen the Grail and decided to go forward on a quest they made a vow [Music] they decided that the Knightly thing to do the noble thing to do as individuals seeking their own in the collective was to go in to the forests at their own points each night enters the forest where it was darkest and there was no path they cannot follow other people that they have to go in find their own entry into dr. Horace and Campbell makes it really clear if you go into the forest where there's already a trail that's the one sure sign that you're not on your path because if they follow somebody else's entry is somebody else's path that's not going into the forest that's not initiation you need to find your own path and that kind of comes from that impulse within to go out and really discover who you are beyond it's the narrow confines of how you've been conditioned what you've been told to do and go out and explore for yourself what your truth is and how you can go out and rock it [Music] the hero's journey for me is having the courage to look within yourself and say what am i here to do what am I most passionate about in my life what are my greatest gifts how do I give them to the world and Joseph Campbell captured it with a phrase follow your bliss follow your bliss I don't think more profound teachings that have been given than this one follow your bliss means listening to your heart and following your truth there's something specific about the word bliss it's not ecstasy it's not um happiness there's a serenity and bliss I like to talk about your bliss is the thing you can't not do so it's your authentic journey I've heard follow your bliss but I didn't know where it came from and what's cool is that it's grounded in deep Hindu spirituality and philosophy and it comes from the Upanishads there were three launching points into enlightenment sat-chit-ananda so saath means beingness chit means consciousness and Ananda means bliss or rapture Joseph Campbell said to himself I don't really know what my beingness is if I'm honest with myself I don't really know what my consciousness is but I do know what my bliss is and I can follow my bliss and that idea of trusting ourselves and trusting that deep impulse within us to go out and follow our bliss do what makes us feel most alive that's the path that's the key that's the essence of the hero's journey [Music] follow your bliss does not mean get addicted to pleasure it's more than just something that you wish for it doesn't mean escapism it doesn't mean hedonism it doesn't mean selfishness it doesn't mean listening only to sensory pleasures like having sex with anybody to look at or sticking up a candy store if you want candy don't follow what other people think is your bliss don't follow your wallet follow the thing that's presenting itself as as your your most serene and fulfilling state sometimes it's difficult to let go of that inner resistor and just say okay I accept the possibilities of the present I will follow my bliss I will listen to the call of spirit that's a very big deal [Music] daddy said what do you want to do I said I need to leave school I'm never gonna learn anything I'm not going to university said I want to play drunk I've learnt to play drums in the Attic and that's my world and totally naive like so dad sends me off to London with the drum kit so I went to London and all of it came true of course I'm not sitting out I've got to be originally got to be famous but I have to be doing something I love to do and I have so much passion and I didn't even know what that was really all about but I do now [Music] how do we find our place this is what everybody's as [Music] first thing is ask yourself what am i passionate about now what are the things I love do it what are the activities when I engage them it feels like hours go by in minutes that's one big clue about what you Blizzard [Music] what I say is find out what you most love to do and then do more of that thing ask yourself right now what was it that made me different as a child what set me apart what caused me to cry at night in my pillow because I didn't fit in with the in-crowd that is probably precisely where the door to your bliss is going to open go back and find it [Music] let's say you would never had to think about money and you never had to think about time but all the money in the world and all the time in the world how would you express yourself and how would that benefit the ecosystem the larger web of being we have to find a way of reflecting on those experiences we've had that engaged us in where we became lost and totally absorbed in them so for some people that way to do that might be to write these things down others don't think like that they don't like to use words all the time so maybe collect some images you know cut some images just magazines collect music that's always inspiring you but some way to to bypass that outer barrier to your own sense of energy it's not about being successful it's not about feeding your family right some bad poetry do something that gives you that moment you can write in a journal is writing in a journal as a conversation you have with yourself you can get to know your gifts your talents your weaknesses your hopes your dreams your lessons [Music] Joseph Campbell always gave the same advice to his students graduating Sarah Lawrence don't do what daddy says because daddy has one interest in mind for you and that's your security and if you bargain away your life for security now you will never find your bliss I started skating because my older brother was into it and I enjoyed it but I didn't take it that seriously until the first time I went to the skate park and I saw these guys literally flying out of empty swimming pools I got so excited that that was even possible as a person to be you know to be flying in the air with a skateboard in your hand once I saw what was possible and what you could do with this this thing that I had come to enjoy I had to keep going I mean I just wanted to fly [Music] I think it's really important to do things that make you happy and I know that sounds very obvious and you know some of you the viewers might say well now let's hold hands and sing Kumbaya but when you look at every great inventor every great business person every great scientist you look at these people who have gotten to the so-called mountaintop and almost every single one of them to a person didn't do it for the money they did it because they were chasing their bliss if you're following your dream and you're doing what you love it's not always going to be a financial success but it will be a personal success because you are still doing this thing that you love doing and what's more important [Music] I would describe my discovery of surfing exposure [Music] I was just watching surfers there watching what they were doing and what surfing was all about and the routes that they were taking and the ways they were doing it I think I knew subconsciously before I knew consciously I think I knew that I was gonna do something in surfing I knew that surfing was gonna be a big part of my life so I wanted to absorb all the information I could just because you don't know what the call on your life is right now doesn't mean play ostrich and stick your hand in the sand and say well just because I don't know and I guess I shouldn't move towards anything the very fact that you're looking for your bliss means that you're in the process of getting to your bliss I mean part of life and part of the whole journeys exploration human results is often buried very deep we don't know they're there and we don't know they're there often because we don't look for them we don't take the journey some people found them and many people have not found them and because they've not found their talents they think they don't have any I believe passionately that we all have deep talents go look try things you've never done before if there are things you wish you'd done but you never did well why didn't you go and do it try if you always go the same route to work take some different motives that people you never speed to go and speak to them at least put yourself out there but don't anticipate what you'll find put yourself in uncomfortable situations at least every seven days if every set at least every seven days people aren't laughing at you are scratching their heads wondering why you're dreaming so big or doing what you're doing or have such a fierce resolve to achieving your goals that I don't think you're stretching enough and ultimately we grow the most through the things that stretch us the most you [Music] my personal journey I was bright enough I got into the best university but a part of me need the journey I was interested in the West so I jumped at the next opportunity to get a scholarship and then get on the boat and my slow boat to the West took 14 days I am I landed in Portland Oregon and to be a foreign student I stretched myself I arrived I know very little English and go to a classical English for foreign students I learn English and I embrace the Western culture I search myself so suddenly I see a part of me which which I never knew us there [Music] one of Joe's most beloved quotes about bliss is that when you follow your bliss the universe will open doors where there were only walls a wonderful image and in fact a lot of people's experience is so like this you feel like you're beating your head against a brick wall and then suddenly you you shift just a tad and lo and behold there's a passage that opens up when you truly step forth and and trust your bliss unseen forces have the power to rearrange things to accommodate your step of faith I took that robert mckee course i thought well that's not that hard um and I wrote a screenplay and I sent it to a friend of mine who was somebody's assistant who left it on his desk and some other agent wandered by and picked it up and read it and said oh this is good and so then my friend went oh and he ran to his boss he said you should read this because that guy over there who's a junior agent liked it and his boss was a senior agent and then I got a phone call that was fantastic was the craziest thing and so it seems like I sold the first screenplay ever a row but the truth is I kept writing till I got lucky if I stopped writing I would never gotten lucky there was no luck coming to my house going hey here's a book deal hey we want to buy that screenplay that you haven't written you know you just keep doing it and eventually you're likely to get lucky why do most people not follow their voice one word fear right we're literally overwhelmed by fear and primarily were overwhelmed by the fear of what other people will think of us Campbell says that what will they think of me must be put aside for bliss one of the biggest inhibitors to following our bliss is what will they think of me am I going to look like an idiot if I follow my bliss and I fail am I going to look like a fool all these different questions come into our mind your friends and family you know it can be very well-meaning but really we'll collude with you to create a story that is hard for you to get out of for example you know don't do music you won't be a musician you know there's no point trying to be a dancer because you never make a living doing them I think that's the first step to the journey there the demons we often have to face down we are each our own greatest inhibitors and so people people can say oh yeah this guy's holding me back or this situation but really you're holding yourself back and you're deciding hey I don't want to look bad in front of those guys or I don't want those guys to say some bad things about me so I'm not gonna do that who made that decision you I am NOT going to do that it means you've decided [Music] there's a poem of Rumi the great mystical poet from the Middle East in the 12th century who said I want to sing like birds sing not worrying who listens or what they think but if you can do that then you can achieve the impossible [Music] for me one of the most formative times the first probably most formative time was when I dropped out of law school all of my friends at the time told me at least stay through the first year and I couldn't make it through the first semester I was literally nauseous at the idea of completing this that burned my resume I had no desire to live within the corporate world in any sense and at in the same 24-hour period of time and did my relationship of five years and dropped out of law school it was an incredibly gut-wrenching soul wrenching time moved back in with mom there were several months where I just laid in bed and slept and read it wasn't a pretty process but the only thing I knew I wanted to do was to coach a little league baseball team a little bit of instinct that I had a little bit of bliss I had my life at that time was to work with these kids and I had no idea what would come out of it and then three six months later I had an idea that wow there's an amazing opportunity to serve families and sports the internet was just getting going this was 1998 and I had a vision of what I could do to serve these families and created a company that there's no way I could have imagined when I dropped out of law school no possible way but as it turns out I started this business we won the business plan competition at UCLA we raised five million dollars I hired the CEO of Adidas to be our CEO and we hired the law firm that I would have wanted to work for before I graduated from law school so this is beautiful you know sense of this is it this is what happens when we follow our bliss magical things happen that we couldn't have imagined when we're going through the tough point of making the decision to take the leap to go for it and to make the difference [Music] there are two roads in life the red road in the Black River the Red Road is the tough road because it's narrow it's winding it's full of storms it's full of obstacles the black road is easy it's straight and it's wide doesn't offer any challenges the storyteller never says you have to travel this road or you have traveled this road [Music] they end up telling you the story of the red and black road by saying this the choice is yours always the choice is yours living the spontaneous life with my father the bond and the passions that my father shared with me we got on a plane 7:00 in the morning out of Santa Monica Airport flying towards a Big Bear where I had won a ski race the day before we're returning to Big Bear to collect my trophy on the way we enter storm and we crash headlong right into this rugged mountain 8200 feet it's the level we crash I woke up our bodies were sprawled in this 45-degree icy shoot it was a blizzard it was hard to find everybody it took me about you know half hour 45 minutes peace everybody where they were my dad's girlfriend Sandra was still alive my dad was hunched over and it was unclear whether he was dead or just so knocked out that he you know sort of like comatose or something I just told myself that he was knocked out at a certain point I had to admit that he wasn't able to help me anymore that was on my own Sandra and I took shelter under a wing many things happen eventually we started down this initial icy chute she slipped and was killed an hour later I came across her body I covered her with twigs and leaves and stuff even though I knew she was dead pretty much but her eyes were open so it was confusing for me at that age I was 11 and then I continued down and varied terrain and all kinds of things happen I got stuck in snow I had to get through Little Creek gulches and broken rock and ice and I just wanted to go away more than anything in the world I wanted that pain to go away now had I not had I not you know gone in there and seen that that thing that that thing I feared the most I would not have learned to sort of find the gem and the treasure of pain those answers that were there for me and had I not face that pain had I not gone and stared in the eyes of the thing I feared most that I wanted to run through most I would not be here now with this book which is really besides having a kid the most satisfying experience of my life [Music] Campbell talks about the fact that when we go on the hero's journey there's a dragon we must sway now a dragon is the most challenging fierce creature that can ever be created in mythology Joe Campbell describes the dragon as being a beast covered with scales and on every scale it says either thou shalt without shalt not [Music] so this beast is a construction of all of the rules regulations social obligations cultural accretions that have made you feel that you either have to or can't do certain things [Music] slaying the dragon to me is the most interesting it's the final moment it's the time when you are faced with the scariest thing you've been faced with and you get to take everything you've learned and and knock this guy out if you were to ask me what's the one thing that's that keeps people from their mountaintops what's the one thing that keeps people small rather than allowing them to present their genius to the world it's it's they're fierce or as Joseph Campbell says it's they're dragons there is anything that gets in you it's a beast it's a monster fear is you know what we face every day you know we fear that we're gonna be rejected that we're going to be you know no one's gonna answer return our phone call that no one's gonna like what we made or what we did or what we said fear that is unfazed has a tendency to creep it moves through your experiences it starts to toxify your perceptions you become scared and love is what web on with and fear is what we learn and I think there's a great truth in that I I decided I wanted to do a full loop round you know and I had this idea I knew it was physically possible I mean you know you do what you do with hot wheels you can do with a skateboard right and so I presented the idea to my sponsor at the time and I said hey I think I could do this and they said that sounds awesome let's build a ramp and I designed the ramp you know and all this was on paper and it was my idea and I'll never forget driving up and seeing it and this wave of fear just crashed over me like oh my what tonight are you serious like I made a loop I'm really gonna like and I'm the only one that's even volunteering to do it and at that point I felt like there was so much at stake to not do it you know cuz at the time no one was building extravagant ramps no one really had money to do that kind of thing and there was and I was like and I just had to sort of internalize and say okay you keep telling yourself this is possible this is the time we got to make this happen and little by little I figured it out and I took some heavy heavy hits that day [Music] actually now we own one for our hot Jam tour that we can do on tour every single night but but that first time you know that was so I was just frightening but I had I had to really step back and go okay you can do this [Music] fear is a very interesting fact first of all we need to realize that fear is an inherent part of the human experience but it's not about getting rid of fear where is it gonna go it's not there's nowhere for it to go the issue is to have courage to move forward in spite of the fear you feel the courage is not a lack of fear the courage is is dealing with your faith nobody would ever be smart as courageous you didn't confront their own fear that's not courage at all it's just doing something that you find relatively unchallenging curt is when you know what to do and you do it and lack of courage is when you know what to do and you don't do it courage is is the ability to to get up after you've fallen and and try again exploring the unknown and trying stuff that maybe people have thought was impossible it's just like a muscle if you want to get stronger you want to run a triathlon to run a marathon or do whatever you want to do physically you know you need to train you need to get stronger courage is exactly the same thing you think of it like courage Jim you've got to consistently go up to your fears and go one step past it one step past it and you'll find your comfort zone expand each time you do that things used to freak you out won't freak you out as much and now you have the tools you have this strength literally to lift more in your life as you face your fears more and more authentically there is some power monsters get by being darkened in the closet and there is some diminishment by facing them facing them head-on so joseph campbell talks about slaying dragons and what do most of us do in our lives whether it's a difficult assignment at work whether it's a difficult conversation we know we should have with a loved one whether it's something we're resisting we leave and run in the opposite direction rather than running away we should go closer to because once we can see our fears the death of the fear becomes certain do the things that scare you you know courage is what comes afterward it is okay to be scared that shouldn't stop you a healthy warning but it shouldn't stop [Music] [Music] Oh grrrrrr dragon that hoards all of these stories talking those terms for several reasons on the one hand we could call it projection in a psychological sense so we project out and we create an antagonist that we have to slay but what's actually happening is we're dealing with the energies inside ourselves what is outside is in fact a reflection of what's inside that in fact you've sort of chosen your monster of course in Star Wars which was pretty much entirely based on Campbell's paradigm Luke Skywalker has to go into the cave where he does battle with Darth Vader where finally he cuts off Darth Vader's head and the head rolls to his feet and Darth Vader's helmet opens up what does he see but his own face he thinks that there's evil outside of him when the struggle between good and evil is understood to be going on inside of us it can be very beneficial this is part of a personal transformation overcoming our negative aspects emphasizing our good ones but what often happens of course we want to feel that we are good so we don't find the negative within ourselves we're gonna find it somewhere out there the great obstacle for most of us really is ourselves you know if we can overcome that basic fear about what we might achieve and we take that risk I think all kinds of things open up in Campbell's terms know we we can all be heroes [Music] the hero encounters these obstacles and inflames at the and that's how we react when we find ourselves in a situation where we have that kind of cognitive dissonance how do I get out of it well first thing is you have to surrender you have to stop fighting it so slaying the dragon is really coming to terms with that inner part of you yourself that you think is bigger than you and in doing that then you grow a bigger sense of yourself [Music] however I think that it's loving your dragon that's the much more efficient thing to do it also feels a lot better [Music] when you do that then frequently whatever the dragon was hiding hoarding they step away and give it to you they give it to you because there's nothing what are you fighting you're fighting yourself when you stop fighting yourself then you're no longer engaged in the fight and you're open to what might come to you there's always a gift in battling demons and overcoming them because that's what our souls journey is about it's about facing fear and growing beyond it and as we overcome our fears we gain power to look at her lives the best most rewarding moments have come after a struggle as such what we do with our lives is what makes us heroes or not [Music] and there's Grayson knowing that and there's a gift in believing that every - is half of a + waiting for stroke of vertical awareness in other words on one level it's a negative yeah you had your device yeah you had that health challenge yeah you got fired okay we're not arguing that was not troublesome but what awareness can you add to it so you get a far bigger picture that helps you master it at a certain point in the hero's journey it's going to become about you loving and accepting yourself as you are that's a powerful moment because that lines you up directly with the universe now there's no more war going on inside yourself and as that gap heals between you're unlovable self and your ability to love that unlovable self you gain an awesome power in life the way we think of time is as linear I'm born I'm gonna go through these things and I'm gonna die the hero's journey tells us no you're gonna go here you're gonna have this adventure and you're gonna come back and guess what you're gonna be right back where you were now you're gonna go over here and have this adventure you come back you're gonna go here you're gonna have this adventure in your and come back and guess what you're gonna be right back where you were now you're gonna go over here and have this adventure you come back and guess what you're right here what did you bring back what the hero brings back is a story Gilgamesh for example the Gilgamesh epic he went out and even if it looked for the plan of immortality he went through all kinds of trials with the feminine with the monster and so on but he finally swam to the bottom of the sea and got the plan of immortality he came up on the shore and put it down while he was bathing the snake serpent came and got the plan of immortality but he went home to auric anyway and he had this story to tell for Gilgamesh there was no concrete objective thing widget to give to the community no gold no treasure and so on the story of the Train getting the treasure is the treasure and so the giving of the story is the invitation for other people to make the same journey that's why it's a circle and never ends I love that idea that there's a circle and the circle needs to be closed and the way to close the circle is to come back return with something different than you started with and to share that and that to me is like a perfect hero's journey that's the ultimate into the hero's journey it's not slaying the dragon it's not being the bad guy it's giving back the essence of that journey what's life about how can I make a difference and who can I make a difference two and four and then it gets real easy hey can I get a shirt oh yeah here the shirt hey can I get a board yeah here's a board oh my friends got an autistic son he's trying to make a movie he doesn't have the money what can we do that finish the movie all of a sudden we're doing things that we are gonna do anyway but down the said we can make money for him and make him finish the movie and then I'll send it's like well let's do that again that was great [Music] when I found this success in skating that I never dreamed possible the first thing I wanted to do was to try to help kids get a facility and that was the first thing I did I started a foundation for public skate parks to date we've helped build about 500 skate parks it's my passion it's of what I would love to do is to provide facilities for these kids who who deserve a chance I love talking to young riders about riding there's a scholarship i fund which is of screenwriting scholarship at Wesleyan where I went to call it we owe it to everybody who wants to be what we are when they grow up they say if you speak to somebody at the level of the mind and you'll speak to them right if you speak to me a heart you will speak to the heart but if you speak through your life and your life is the story then you'll change lives and that's what mythical beings do and it's why stories are great because my story right now which is my also my truth may have an effect on you and therefore I am picking the internal I'm making it external and through that I'm sharing experience [Music] no matter how long you get to live life is ultimately very short and before all of us know we're gonna be dust and the street sweeper gets buried next to the CEO and all that really matters at the end of the day is how big we showed up and how courageous we were [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I think when we are on our death beds what fills our heart with the greatest regret is not all the risks we took and not all the opportunities we seized and out all the times we went out on a limb and looked silly what fills our heart with regret at the end if our lives are all the risks who didn't take in all the opportunities and you didn't cease and it's really all you got to do to get to the next step I believe we all have it in us to think to ourselves I can't give up that choice to not give up is a story you're telling yourself [Music] makes you feel the morning that makes you feel like you can overcome anything that makes you feel transcendence and that's all we done [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you

Dr. Dyer, interview one. Okay, Wayne, you came up here to write your latest book. Can you tell us a little bit about what you came up to write about? Yeah, I'd be happy to. One of the things that has intrigued me over the years is so many people coming up when I talk about purpose and finding meaning in their life, is, uh, what is my purpose? How do I find it? It always seems to be eluding me. I can't seem to get there. I've always felt that the real purpose of life is just to be happy, to enjoy your life, to get to a place where you're not always trying to get someplace else. So many people spend their lives striving, trying to be someplace that they're not. They never get to arrive. One of the ways to understand about how to find your purpose in your life is to return to nature, to find your own nature. I wrote a book a few years back called Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, which was based upon the ancient teachings of Lao Tzu in a book called The Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu reminds us that all being originates in non-being. Jesus put it this way in the New Testament. It's the spirit that gives life, that you didn't really come from your parents. You're, you really, all of us came from this place called spirit. When you showed up here in this world, you showed up here from a tiny little drop of human protoplasm, a speck, if you will, and everything that was in that little speck that became you. Everything that you needed was in that tiny little speck. One of the most important metaphors that I ever used is that the first nine months of your life, from the moment of your conception until the moment of your birth, everything was being handled for you. There was nothing for you to do. You don't get consumed with the color your eyes are going to be or what your body is going to look like. It's all taken care of for you. You just surrender. I call it a future pull. And it's pulling. It's pulling you in the direction of whatever it is that you were supposed to be. And to me, it's not too great a stretch to say if everything you needed for the physical journey was already handled in there, then why not everything for the rest of the journey as well? All of your purpose, it's in there. All of what you, your personality, it's in there. Everything that you were to be, not just the physical you, but everything, if you just let go and allow. And so we're born. And we look at this beautiful little creature. As parents, I have eight children. I've seen it happen many times. And you look at this beautiful little child and you look at it and you say, Great work, God. Great work. Couldn't be any better. We'll take over from here. And then we're surrounded by all these people and our family, our culture, wherever we go. And we begin to be told that we can't really trust in who we are. We have to trust in something outside of ourselves. So we're on a journey towards ambition. Once you begin to say we'll take over from here, you introduce something, you just take this perfection and you just edge out the creator. You edge God out. E-G-O. Ego. This ego is the part of us that starts to tell us who you are is not this perfect divine creation, this piece of God that you came from. It doesn't say that. It says who you are is what you have. It begins with things like our toys, and then our bank accounts, and then the possessions that we have. Before you know it, we begin to identify ourselves on the basis of our possessions. We begin to take on a set of beliefs about the more that I have, the more valuable I am as a person. And so we spend our lives taking these young children and immersing them in a culture that emphasizes more. It becomes almost a mantra of the ego. You have to have more. And the more you have, the more you are aware of how much other people are trying to take it away from you. The more you get consumed with how do I protect it and how do I make more of what I have. The dilemma here is that if you are what you have and things go away, then who you are also goes away in the process. The second aspect of the ego is this idea that I am not only what I have, but I am what I do as well. Are you going to get that? No, no, please, go ahead. Oh, it's all right. Well, we're stopped here. Do you want anything, Dr. Dyer? You want water or anything? No, no, I'm fine. Mr. Rowland, guys, we're cutting. What? Keep rolling, keep rolling. Please. So the second component of this ego is the idea that not only is who I am what I have, but it's what I do. And what I do becomes this thing called achievement. And in this whole world of believing that I am what I do, we become consumed with this whole idea of my success, my value, my worth as a human being is based upon how much I accomplish. So I have to make more money, I have to get a promotion, I have to compete with everybody else who's trying to get what I have. We are taught this over and over and over again. All of our young people are taught this when they go out into athletics. The most important thing you can do is be number one. And you see, we're number one. We're better than everybody else. And we constantly find ourselves in this competitive notion again of believing that our world is one in which we have to compete. That's what the ego says. Now, the third aspect of this is the idea that I am what other people think of me. That is, I am my reputation. Particularly, this is relevant for young people who are taught that you have to dress the way other people think. And if other people don't like you, then there's something wrong with you. If you're consumed with that, then you're going to be something different every time you turn around. Now, this is particularly relevant with women, especially in relationship to the family. Women are often taught in our culture and our society that the only way that you can fulfill yourself is by how you relate to your family, to yourself as a daughter, to yourself as a mother, to yourself as a grandmother. And while these are very important and creative aspects of every woman's life, if that's the choice that they make, it's not necessarily the only thing. And many women feel that deep within them that they have a calling to accomplish something great, to make a contribution. And oftentimes we'll put it aside. So what I encourage women to think is don't ignore that calling inside of you. Don't ignore the part of you that says you came here to create something powerful, and you have just as much of an influence in doing that, just as much of a right to do that as anyone else does. Look, I don't need to be having this conversation right now. I don't have time for this. I can't deal with this right now. We move into then the later parts of the ego, which talks about something called separation. And the ego has a very strong belief system that who I am is separate from everybody else. And then another component of the ego teaches us that I'm also separate from everything that's missing in my life, from all the things that I'd like to have. And then finally, the ego teaches us the most egregious error of all. It teaches us that we are separate from God. And one of the simple constructs that you learn in the afternoon of your life when you shift into the meaning phase of your life is to realize that you came from a source. We can call it God. We can call it Tao. It doesn't matter what we call it. And that this source is everywhere. There's no place that it is not. It must be because it creates everything. Everything comes from this source. Then it must be in me if there's no place that it's not. It must be in me. And if it must be in me, it must also be in whatever it is that I feel to be missing from my life. If you know that, then in some way, everything that's missing from your life that you would like to have, you're already connected to it in spirit. And all you have to do is figure out a way to align yourself with that and have a knowing that you're already connected to it. You just have to bring it on its way. That's intense. What, was that out loud? Yeah, you just said that out loud. Sorry. That's okay. It is intense. There's no question about it. Please continue. I was saying that as we move into the afternoon of our life, we take the same ego constructs that we learned in the morning of our life, which is all about competition, winning, being better than everybody else, and we try to apply these same constructs to the afternoon of our life. And what happens is we end up living a lie for what was true in the morning, in the evening, has become a lie. The problem is we don't really know how to move into the meaning phase of our life. This is when we have to learn to go back to those first nine months, from the moment of our conception until the moment of our birth. Lao Tzu speaks about this in the Tao Te Ching. Let yourself be lived by it. He says that the Tao does nothing. It's leaving nothing undone. This is where we have to get to a place where we can surrender and have a knowing that we're not alone and that we're going to be guided and that we have a nature and that we can trust in this nature. It's not something that we have to always be struggling with. It's not something we have to be in charge of. Literally, think about it. Let yourself be lived by it rather than you taking over. But as we move into the meaning phase of our life, what's happening is we begin to think about fulfilling a Dharma, fulfilling a destiny, fulfilling something inside of us, a calling that only we can feel inside of us. No one else can tell you what that is. But if you feel it and you know it, winning and being ahead of other people takes a back seat to feeling fulfilled and living your life on purpose. I don't get it, to be honest with you. That really doesn't surprise any of us, David. Seriously, if I didn't have ambition, nothing would get done. Mom, is that supposed to be a comment about us? Can I have a napkin, please? You know what I mean. Like we're supposed to sit around and wait for things to happen to us magically? There's nothing wrong with a little magic in life. I can't trust magic. What I can trust is my own will to get things done. That's my main problem with what Dr. Dyer's saying. Okay, he's right there. You want to keep it down? He didn't hear me. Dr. Dyer, you want to come join us? Sure, I'd love to. How are you guys doing? Great. This chicken's great. Mmm, good, good. So, Dr. Dyer. Yes? We were all just discussing your first interview and all those things you said, and basically David thinks that it's all B.S. What? David? B.S.? Really? I don't think all of it is. I mean, I'm entitled to my own opinion, right? Absolutely, you are entitled to your opinion, and I respect it. And you know, David, you don't have to get this all at once. You know, just get a little bit at a time. That's all it takes. You know, you just start practicing it. Eventually it becomes a way of life, and you start living from a different perspective. I'm not really a spiritual person. I'm too busy. Yeah, spirituality's kind of like a luxury. That is true. I find it hard to find time to meditate. Let me ask you this. Do you think that you're an inspired person? Do you live an inspired life? Do you feel inspired? Um... I have no idea. Really? Well, let's take an example. Let's supposing I had an apple pie that we had just made, and out of this apple pie we take one slice. We take this, we take the rest of the pie, put it over here, and I take this slice and I give it to someone. Let's say I gave it to you, Ron, and I say, Ron, what is this? Um... That's an apple pie? How do you know that? How do you know it's an apple pie? Because it came from an apple pie. So... Well, you laugh, but I mean, the truth is, that's a very profound statement that you've just made. That everything in the universe must be like what it came from. You take an acorn and you'll never get a rosebush out of it. You look at yourself and you ask yourself the question, where did I come from? Who am I, and what am I like? You know, instead of making our choices out of the place that we really are, our authentic self, we're making them out of the ego. And every time we make choices out of the ego, all kinds of things begin to happen to us that take us away from finding meaning in our lives. So how do you know if you're making a choice from your higher self? You gauge everything on the basis of how you feel. Are you stressed out? Are you anxious? Are you fearful? Are you angry? Do you feel good about yourself? Do you feel like you're on purpose? Do you feel like your life has any meaning? When you're operating out of the only part of yourself that is authentic, bliss is your response. But what about the upside of ambition? I mean, I'm a filmmaker, and if I didn't... Doesn't ego serve me? I mean, if I was going with the flow, I'd never get a movie made. That's a conclusion that you've come to because you think out of the ego. The fact is that you might even be able to make much greater films if you came out of a higher place. Imagine yourself as being able to live and work and do everything that you do from this place that... Well, it's called dharma. What's dharma? Dharma is a spiritual principle that implies there is a purpose to our lives. Like an otter has a dharma, a bird has a dharma. Everything has a purpose. And when you find yourself living from that purpose, you have found your dharma. Your dharma is something that you will be living by. And rather than constantly using the ego, you will begin to say, this is what I'm here for. I call it a calling. It's like an inner calling. How do you know what your dharma is? Like, what if you can't even find your dharma? Yeah, I can't even find a date, let alone my dharma. Well, your dharma isn't anything you're ever going to find. Your dharma is something that you're always connected to. It is your divine purpose. It is something that you are aligned with through your entire life. The ego has kept us away from it. Excuse me, I have to take this. This is what I'm talking about. I'm sorry to interrupt. How does this help me find a date exactly? You don't need to find a date. If you live what I'm talking about, you'll understand that everything will be perfect and everyone that comes into your life will come in on time perfectly. You're a divine creation of God. You're a spiritual being. You don't need anyone else to confirm that. I love that. It's true. Dr. Dyer said it was. It is true. You know, I don't want you to think that I don't appreciate what you're saying. I do. Not that you would necessarily be concerned with what I'm saying because that's the ego telling you what to think, right? So you were listening? Yeah, I'm listening. I just think it's good to have a plan. Well, what's your plan? To be a successful filmmaker. To make a name for myself. To make money. To have a good relationship. So you're talking here about prosperity. You're talking about abundance. You're talking about happiness. I haven't any problem with that. I've been attracting abundance and prosperity into my life forever. I think it's actually quite easy to do. I really believe in that. For you. Well, you know, the problem, what you're talking about here is the ego. The ego and your attachments. You know, you become attached to, you know, how much money you're making and how well your film is doing and is everything working the way, you know, I've been told that it should work. When you become attached to things and they go away, you then lose who you are. But it feels so much like survival. We're not talking about survival here. We're talking about a shift. A shift away from the morning of your life and having to do everything for external reasons and moving into a higher place in your life. Why don't we start with that tomorrow? How to make this shift. It's a good idea. You know, I tell my audiences all the time that if this is something new to you and you've never heard it before, there's a shift probably heading your way as well. That's all I need. It could happen. When great thinkers talk about union with God, there's this theme that comes through. It's about being in silence when everyone else is asleep and there are no distractions, when you feel yourself alone with Source. This is the time when you're closest to Source. Being alone with Source is not just about feeling good. It's about a new awareness of my own divinity and what it's capable of achieving. It's all about returning back to the place that you came from. T.S. Eliot has a great quote. We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Rolling! Okay, we'll start with the transition from ambition to meaning. Great, that's a good idea. I can give you an example from my own life. It might be helpful. When I first started writing, I was very blessed to be considered, quote, successful. My motivation very often became how much money was I going to make on this book? What was my next contract going to look like? How many weeks did it appear on the New York Times bestseller list? What position was it? Did you get on the Tonight Show? Did you get on the Donahue Show? Hold on, I'm confused. Yeah? Yeah, if you were success, who cares what was motivating you? Well, I guess that you begin to change your definition of what it is that constitutes success. I mean, success can be identified in those terms, and there are other ways to look at it as well. But there's people listening to you. I mean, where would you be if you didn't initiate it? I mean, it got you started, right? I'm sorry to interrupt. Are we switching to a Q&A format? I'm just, I'm just curious. Sorry. No, that's okay. It's a very normal question. It's a very common concern that people have. For myself, we talked about my writing, David, and yes, by all means it was successful, but there was a part of me, inside of me, that said there's something more for me. I was writing books about psychology. Your erroneous sounds. Pulling your own strings. The sky's the limit. All of them were doing well. All of them were bestsellers. But inside of me, I was shifting. There was a calling to something else, and I could see the shift taking place in my life. And the shift was, it was more in the direction of spirituality. It was more in the direction of higher consciousness. I began to become excited and thrilled by reading people like Krishnamurti, by reading people like Muktananda. And I remember going to my agent and I said, I want to write a book about how to take some of these great spiritual ideas. He said, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to write a book about sex. He said, this is going to sell. This is like Dr. Ruth has got one, but you're way better than Dr. Ruth. You know, and he's going on and on. And he said, and then I've got a second book for you, and we're going to do a two-book deal, and you're going to write a book about how to make money. You know, Wayne Dyer's approach to making money. And I'd say, Artie, I said, I can't do that. I said, I have to write about it. And he said, no, nobody's going to buy this stuff. He said, this is just, he said, that's just for, that's the airy-fairy stuff. That's out there, that's all that new-agey stuff. He said, you don't want to. I said, but I have to write that. That's what I'm living, that's what I'm feeling. It's so exciting. And I remember submitting the proposal to him, and he said, all right, I'll send it in. And they reluctantly, they didn't give me much of an advance at all because they didn't even believe in it. But off I went. There was a strong inner kind of feeling that I had something greater to give. I had something that I had to do that was beyond just going through the motions, just doing what I had already mastered, what I knew how to do. I remember when I made the shift, even though there was a little bit of fear, I remember feeling probably the freest that I'd felt ever in my life. I wasn't motivated by whether people are going to buy it, how much money I'm going to make, whether people are going to put me on a best-seller list. Those became external kind of factors. Those became things that started to chase me rather than me chasing it. Basically, I think, David, what I'm trying to say to you is that you get to a place in your life where you start to be guided by something that's larger than yourself. Just stay aligned with what you're here for and stay in harmony with Spirit, with God, with Source. Stay there. And as you stay there, the meaning phase of your life begins to take over. And once you cross over into the afternoon of your life, it's impossible to go back. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Can you hear me? Great. Dave. Dave. You want to stay with the same frame size, right? Yeah, sure. Okay, guys, ready. Okay. Crossing. Wayne, can you just shift your chair just a tiny... Sure. Oh, perfect, perfect. Perfect. Okay, so we good? We are good. All right. David. We're rolling. David? David, why don't we take it from where Wayne was talking about the shift? We can just continue from there. Sounds good to me. Okay, this shift, this movement from ambition to meaning, from the morning to the afternoon of your life, generally it's preceded by what we call a quantum moment. Sounds strange, perhaps, to use a term like that, but quantum moment really refers to the characteristics of what it is like when you have what Maslow called a peak experience. The first of these qualities, there's four of them. The first of them is that it's very vivid. The second quality or characteristic of these quantum moments is that it's a surprise. And the third characteristic of these quantum moments is that they are benevolent. They always feel good. The fourth and final quality is that it's enduring. That is, it isn't just something that comes and then goes and it's out the window. It lasts with you forever. For example, I left drinking behind in my life 21 years ago, and I couldn't even imagine that I could have given it up because I'd always had two or three beers every single day for the previous 10, 15, 20 years. I couldn't even remember a day when I hadn't. And I knew that I had to make that change. And it was 4.05 a.m. in the morning. I could remember the clock when it turned. I woke up, and there was like a breeze in the room, something that I'd never experienced before, the smell of roses. This was 21 years ago now. I can tell you what was hanging on the closet, the hook that I had there. On the mirror there, I had a little cartoon that I had there. I can still see that thing exactly as if it happened this morning. The vividness of this is something that I've never, ever been able to forget. I can remember how surprised I was at what was happening at that time. It was almost as if some kind of force had taken over, and I was just amazed by it. So if you're lucky, this happens to you? David, it has nothing to do with luck. It's like when the moment is right, when you are in a different state, in a different place in your life, exactly what is supposed to happen will happen for you. The low points in your own life, these times when you think that nothing could go any worse, oftentimes are the things that we need to propel ourselves to a higher place. Let me give you an example. The night before that moment that I just described to you, I had taken my entire family, five children and my wife, and we had all gone to this restaurant. And like I always did, every single time I went to a restaurant, I ordered not just one beer, but two. And that was so that in case the waiter wasn't there when I wanted my second one, I would be able to have it. And the waiter said to me, Oh, excuse me, sir, he said, I'm sorry, but I can't serve you alcohol. And I said, Why? He said, Well, last night one of our waiters served someone who was underage, and we had our license suspended. I said, Come on, we're getting out of here. And I made each one of my children get up, get back into the car, strapped into their car seats and so on. My wife, who God knows had so much to do, and it was such a hardship for her. But it didn't seem to matter to me at that time, because I wanted to have my beers, and I was making myself more important than everyone else. And we drove off and went to another restaurant. And I can remember thinking that night as I went to sleep how ashamed I was. My wife tried to talk to me a little bit about it, but I would have none of it. I was right, and that's just what the ego always makes you. It makes you right. And that night, that experience that I had at 4.05 a.m. the next day, not only did it get me off of alcohol, it probably saved my life. It transformed my life in so many different ways. And it was all because I was open to it. You don't believe that. It sounds like more sitting around until some sort of epiphany comes to you. It's not about waiting around. You know, in the Tao, one of the great lessons that I learned is that it teaches us how to be soft, how to be flexible, how to not be always in control. One of the great teachings of the Tao says that let yourself be lived by it. But you didn't do anything. That's the whole point. That's the place you want to get to where you just allow. In the recovery movement, it's called letting go and letting God, allowing this source that is always flowing through each and every one of us to do and perform its magic. And that magic will always work in our best interest if we just surrender to it, if you could just stop interfering in your own life and just let yourself be done. If you can get to that place, nothing will be left undone. Everything that you need will be there for you. It's mysterious for most of us because we believe that we're the ones who have to do everything. Isn't it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months? Why isn't that true for the next 90 years? Because we interfere. When I was 19 years old, I was in the United States Navy and as an enlisted man. And I was given my assignment to join the aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger. And it was on deployment in Yokosuka, Japan. So I boarded a refrigerator ship, the USS Vega, in Alameda, California. And just as I was getting on that ship to take my 29-day voyage across the Pacific Ocean, my Uncle Bill, Bill Volick, who was a schoolteacher in Hayward, California, handed me a copy of a book. And the book was a collection of short stories written by Leo Tolstoy. He wrote not just great novels and great stories, but great spiritual literature as well. He was considered to be the soul of Russia. And the first story in this collection was called The Death of Ivan Illich. Now, Ivan Illich was a judge who lived in Moscow. One of the more important features of this story is his relationship to his wife, who he basically hated because he despised his work. And he felt that she had pressured him and pushed him into doing this, that it was a prestigious thing to do. And he was filled with internal rage and anger at what he had done. The title of the story kind of gives it away, The Death of Ivan Illich. You know he's going to die. Now, Ivan Illich was lying on his deathbed, and his wife is holding his hand, this woman that basically he despised for all of his life. And he looks up into her eyes, and his last words are, What if my whole life has been wrong? And he died. I was very shaken and very moved by that. And I took out a pad of paper, and I wrote a note to myself. And I said, Dear Wayne, don't die with your music still in you. And I've lived that for my entire life. When you die, you will return to that source, and you will be in that space of love. But the Tao says that you don't have to die to get there. You can die to the ego, and live from that space of perfect love while you're here. That vivid, surprising, benevolent, enduring quality that defines the quantum moment, that leads us into the shift, is really an indication that you're returning back to the source. You're beginning to live from the Tao. It's reconnecting with the field of intention. In Greek, the word enthusiasm breaks down to entheosiasm, which means the God within. When you have passion, when you have enthusiasm for something inside of you, that's really God speaking to you, and saying to you, Don't get to the end of your life, and have to be able to say what Ivan Illich said, What if my whole life has been wrong? I can't think of a greater tragedy than that. Come on, where'd you go? I'm sorry, it's just... It's so beautiful. Synchronicities. It's like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm, and the ego is no longer the driving force in your life. You begin to recognize that there's a powerful, organizing intelligence that's in all things, and it's working with you and for you, almost as if you're making it happen by just being connected to your source. The destiny that appeared to be imposed upon you by something outside of yourself is no longer the relevant driving force in your life. You're connected to the source, and it's almost as if this divine, organizing intelligence, God, the Tao, whatever you want to call it, it's almost as if it's saying to you, You play the music that you came here to play, and I'll be there to help you overcome any struggle or any obstacle that comes along. And it's not going to be a struggle because Source is supporting you. Yes, hi. Could I get a cab, please, to Monterey Motors? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. I can't stop thinking about what you said about a destiny being imposed upon you. Well, you know, I think all of us, each and every one of us, have a knowing within us. You know, it's been said that when you trust in yourself, you're trusting in the very wisdom that created you. It's there to tell us who we are and what we're meant to be. I know, but so much of society is putting stuff on people, it seems, all the time. Dr. Da, can I ask you a question? Sure. Are men and women different when it comes to this? Do they shift differently? It's very different, as a matter of fact. There's some recent studies that have just been published on that. I'd be happy to share them with you, if you like. That would be great. Okay, super. All right, I'm taking off. Okay, man. I'll catch up with you. So there was this incredible study done. I've got it right here. It's called The Moment That Turns Your Values Upside Down. And there's four components to it. There's men and women, before and after. Now, before one of these quantum moments, they were asked just to list the most important priorities of their life, from the most important to the least important. Now, for men, the very first and most important value that they had learned was wealth, the accumulation of money. It's not really that big a surprise, because we are taught as men, when we're growing up, that your job is to support your family, your job is to get ahead. The second most important value for all of these men was a sense of adventure, to go out there and, you know, what, conquer the world? Be the guy. Yeah, absolutely, be the macho guy. The third was achievement. You know, as men, we're raised to believe that you are what you do, what you accomplish, what you're able to create. The fourth is the idea of pleasure. You know, going out with the guys, getting as many dates as you can, having as much fun as you possibly can. The fifth of these is to be respected, all right? And we all know, as men, what that means, you know? You're not giving men any respect, man. And then you get out there, and when you're growing up and you're a kid, and if you don't get respect, you're having fights. Here are the top priorities of our lives, you know, be able to make money, to have a sense of adventure, to have, you know, to achieve, to feel pleasure, to be respected. That's basically the morning of our lives. This sounds like my list. What are you talking about? When was the last time you had fun? Oh, do not even listen to her. I know how to have fun. Do you mind? I'm trying to hear Wayne. Go on. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. So the second part of this study, which is the after. A quantum shift has taken place. Same questions, only it's many years later, and they followed this over a lifetime. And the number one value is spirituality. Spirituality. The number one thing. It has gone from making money to spirituality, which wasn't even on the list before. You can't even find it. I've got the top 15 of them listed right here. It's not even on there. The second one is personal peace. Less anxiety, less stress, if you will. The third one is family. Now, family was on the other list, but it was way down before. Now, what happens after one of these moments, you begin to look around and say, what is it that's important to me in my life? And then the next is God's will. This is the one that says, I have a sense of purpose. And then honesty is the fifth quality. Not just honest that I don't steal, but how honest am I as a man with my feelings? Authentic. Yeah, that's exactly right. Those are the top qualities for men. So there's the before and there's the after. You can see what a significant change this is, what a shift has taken place here. Okay. I know what you're going to ask. I can already tell. What's the deal with the women? Bring it on. For women, it's even more astonishing. Before one of these quantum moments, the number one value is family. And it's not surprising, because women are kind of raised in our society, in our culture, to be a good mother, to be a good daughter, to support your family, to take care of your children, and so on. The second one, which may surprise you, was a sense of independence, of feeling as if I would like to feel independent. Women are very conflicted. Yeah, makes sense. The third was career. Now, very often, women never even felt that they had a right to go for a career because they were obligated to be taking care of their family. And this is not a put-down of that at all. What we're saying here is that there's something more. The fourth quality for women was fitting in, having to be like everybody else and so on. Yeah. And then finally, attractiveness. And this became not just like it's nice to look nice, but my whole values are how do I look, and where do we get this? You know what? That is so scary when you break it down like that, because where is it that we learn as women we're supposed to be pleasing everybody else all the time? Well, go on the newsstand. You know, all you see are magazines with pictures of girls with waists this big and, you know, with implants, lots of emphasis on makeup, having the right labels, carrying the right bags, and so on. So these became the top qualities or characteristics or values for women before one of these shifts. Well, I hope the after list is better. Their values shift dramatically. The number one value for women after having this experience, it's right here, is my own personal growth. Now, remember, before it was like taking care of everybody else, doing the right thing, fitting in, and now it's all of a sudden, how am I growing as a human being? How do I feel about myself? The second is a sense of self-esteem. Am I worth anything? How do I feel about myself? Am I a valuable human being? The third one is spirituality, my sense of my connectedness to something bigger and greater than myself. And then happiness. Again, this wasn't even on the list. It was almost at the bottom of the list before. How often have women been raised to believe that their happiness isn't an important thing, that doing what they are supposed to do rather than feeling, you know, a sense of, I'm entitled to be happy. And then a very interesting one. It's called forgiveness. This became very important in their lives. Forgiveness. That's good, because then you can forgive all those people that gave you bad information about what you're supposed to be doing. Yeah, there's a whole lot of resentment that begins to take place in people. It's what so many people just go along with. Whatever you're looking for in your life is there for you. It will show up where and when it's needed. It's always in your mind. Whatever you need to complete this project, whatever you need to create, it's all there. You can prepare and then let go. It's an easy trusting that everything will happen perfectly. We live in a world in which all things are possible. There are no accidents. There's a divine organizing and intelligence that supports all things. I think you have to get to the place where you're no longer focused just on yourself. And the things that you really want for yourself, you begin to say, how can I want them more for someone else than I want them for me? And that's God realization. One of the things that happens when you move away from ego is that you move from a sense of entitlement to a sense of humility. You realize you're entitled to nothing. That's just the ego speaking. So the fundamental truth is that you must be like what you came from. If you came from divinity, you must be divine. If you hold your hands up and say, these are the hands of God, then what does God do with his hands? God is just giving. That's all God knows how to do. So you shift your thoughts from what can I get to how can I offer, how may I serve? If your attention is off yourself and about giving, the universe will respond by giving back to you. The universe will say, how may I serve you? But you have to be in a place of service yourself. That's when the transition is complete, when you move into that place that is without ego. As we move into the meaning phase of life, it's not as if you no longer are ambitious. It's that you have ambition with meaning. You're ambitious about other things. So now your ambition is transformed into purpose, and you have to learn to become the observer, to step back. You begin to live in process, trusting where your source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome, and that detachment allows you to no longer be fighting. It allows things to just come to you, and you no longer being the person who's making things happen. You're allowing them to show up. The fight is gone. So I get asked over and over again, is there a purpose to the ego? And my reaction to that is, it's just not worth defending. The ego is the thing that is the false self, and when you're defending it, you're defending an illusion. You're defending something that really isn't who you are. Your authentic self is way beyond the ego. Every one of us knows that we came here with music to play, and yet we have a tendency to believe that we are separate entities, and that we have to fit in, and that's our role in life. And none of that is true. The shift can happen in many ways. It can be just a comment. It can be a coincidence that occurs. A particular event that you weren't expecting. It can be anything at all. But the result is always the same. You begin to realize that you're not here to push life, to make it a struggle all the time. You're here to enjoy and to be living in peace. That's what happens when you're in the afternoon of your life. I was just thinking about all the things I have to do to pack us up to leave. Oh, yeah? I'm like a walking to-do list. I think 90% of my day is spent managing everyone else's life and all their problems. Uh-oh. You are very appreciative. That's not what I mean. I love taking care of you and the boys. I do. I love my family, but... But? When I paint, I go somewhere. I feel connected. I... I feel blessed. And you're good at it. I miss it so much. On the hike yesterday, Jack told me that I don't paint. I realize that my own children have no idea who I am. They don't even know what I do. So do it. Yes, absolutely. Thank you. I want to stay here. What? Just for a week. Right now. Just this next week. What, you think I'm going to leave you here all alone? Jason, every cell in my body wants to stay here just a little bit longer. I'm hearing you, but I have no idea what you're saying. I need to reorient myself. I need to find my way back, and I need solitude to do it. Quinn, you're a mother of two small children. You don't get solitude. Jason, you have to know I love you. And I love the kids, and I... I am still us, but I am more than this. There's just one problem. See, I don't know how to do what you do. You'll be great. It's just for a week. You'll survive. And then we go back to normal. I don't know about that. Oh, oh, oh, you're good at this. Oh, that's not fair. You know what you're going to get good at? What? Laundry. I see lots of laundry in your future. That's great. That's great. If you want to see the doors open in your life, you detach yourself from what the ego says, and you allow yourself to live from this divine place called spirit. And what Lao Tzu called the virtues, he said there are four of them. The first of these is reverence for all of life, which is respect. The second is sincerity, which is really nothing more than just honesty. The third is gentleness, which manifests itself as kindness in our life. And the fourth is supportiveness, which just manifests itself as service, offering service to others. Those are the four virtues. And Lao Tzu asked us to live by them. There's a great quote by the poet Hafiz. He said, even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Just think what a love like that can do. It lights up the whole world. How you doing? Thought you got everything you need? I think I got even more than that. Really? I'm actually inspired. I was looking at some of the footage. I'd love to do something with these interviews, something creative. Like what? Well, this place. There's something happening here. What you're talking about, the people, themes, I think I can really do something with it. Wait a second. Wait a second. I thought you were just a technician on this shoot. Isn't that what I heard you say before? I guess not. I think I'm getting it. Well, you know, David, the point is, we're all going to get it. Ultimately, we're all going to get it. There's a great line from A Course in Miracles where Jesus says, if you want to be like me, knowing that we are alike, I will help you. If you want to be different than me, I will wait until you change your mind. And you will change your mind. And really, isn't it the ultimate thing is, why should we have to die in order to get it? We ought to be able to get it while we're here. It's been a pleasure. Thank you, my friend. God bless you. Nobody needs to ask the question, what is my purpose? It will always be found in service. If you can just for one day put your attention on making life better for someone else, if you can focus on thinking like that, that's how God thinks. It's an ancient concept, but it's still relevant. To touch someone's life is more valuable than any amount of money. My friend Byron Katie says, to believe that you need what you don't have is the definition of insanity, that you can't be fulfilled until you get all these things. That's an illusion. Really. You don't need anything more. It doesn't matter what it is you do. You could be a cab driver, a teacher, a factory worker, a manager. What matters is that you put your attention on how may I serve. Think of the people you go to, whoever you are in your path. You can run an entire business this way, not being attached to outcome, putting attention on service. Your life becomes about living those virtues. How can I serve? How can I be gentle? How can I be reverent? Thinking like that means you're living in meaning. The messages of the morning are about what you can and can't do, about how society defines you. But in the afternoon, after the shift, it's about connecting to an energy that's taking care of everything, and we're all just being done. Try to stop yourself from breathing, from your fingernails growing. Living the virtues is all we need to do. The truth is, I feel something else is in charge of all of us. So it's really about surrendering to it, surrendering to something that is bigger than you, that you are connected to, and that's really in control of everything. There's a place deep within us that wants to feel fulfilled, that wants to know that my life has made a difference, that I've left this place, this planet that I've lived on, better than when I arrived, that someone's life has been profoundly touched because of my existence. We all want that. It's not about age or about finding yourself. Whoever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyun40F5WY https://rumble.com/v59x0qt-neil-oliver-interviews-whitney-webb-its-us-versus-them.html ‘….organised crime, secret services, corporate power, the deep state….they’re investing massive amounts of money in manipulating us…’ This week Neil talks power & corruption with the brilliant and forensically detailed investigative journalist Whitney Webb. greetings fellow Time Travelers get ready to be Charmed challenged and inspired by my next excellent guest uh but before we get started just a quick reminder to check out my patreon.com site uh by means of which you can support the channel get along there show your support and get uh Early Access to new content exclusive access to question and answer sessions it's a great site uh we enjoy ourselves on there so come and make it better by being there too okay now time for an inspire ing chat hi everyone time for another informative if not inspirational conversation uh with a specialist someone that can bring unique insight to a subject uh today's guest in question is Whitney Webb uh investigative journalist Whitney Webb uh Whitney has been uh if you're not already aware of her Whitney has been methodically forensically piecing together uh the ways that politics and economics and organized crime came together in a hellish what would you say Minaj uh that helps explain the mess we're in uh if you're not aware of Whitney's work uh via podcasts and extensive writing really more to the fact substack published books then I strongly recommend that you Rectify that that Gap in your in your knowledge in your own time if such a Gap exists because the story that Whitney tells is I assure you more fascinating and compelling and and ultimately revealing than any Hollywood Thriller you could you could name uh welcome Whitney Webb many thanks for making time for me oh absolutely my pleasure to be here thanks for having me H I'm I'm I'm frankly in awe of the work that you've been doing uh that it's your command of detail uh and how much of it you you you seem to just hold in your head at any one time it it just uh I'm I'm preoccupied with your ability to articulate a story that's that's so packed with detail so I I'll I'll get right into it um I think as I said in the intro people will have varying levels of awareness of the work that you've been doing uh but so just to get things off on an even Keel um was there an identifiable moment would you say when our governments and Associated establishments became crime syndicates or or was it ever thus yeah well there's a lot of different things you can you can point to I suppose um throughout uh you know American history so a lot of my work on this particular topic has been uh mostly focus on the United States which is where you can probably tell from my accent where I'm from um but the way you know I wrote a book um called One Nation Under blackmail that sort of looks at these Origins and uh sort of where I pinpointed it um uh sort of goes back I guess to um to the 20s and the 30s uh more or less where um this particular group which called themselves the national crime syndicate this um mix of organized crime factions sort of came together and then during World War II uh they formed an alliance with uh US military intelligence the Office of Naval intelligence and then in uh in the years after World War II that Alliance deepened including with the uh creation of the CIA and that's why you have so much overlap for example with early uh CIA Hitman and people involved in CIA assassinations being members of the mob as well and that particular National crime syndicate uh was essentially a meeting of the Italian mafia in the Jewish mob the Jewish mob being led by mayor Lansky and the Italian mafia being led by uh lucky or Charles luchano um and the two of them were childhood friends and so previous to their team up organized crime in the United States was sort of an ethnic Silo so you would have like or Irish organized crime Italian organized crime and so on and so on it was sort of in these you know divided uh by ethnicity and these two figures because of their childhood friendship sort of came together and sort of uh broke that pattern uh they created an organization that uh became rather Infamous called Murder Inc and essentially you know through their fusion with um U organized with intelligence became increasingly powerful and it sort of uh they became sort of symbiotic I I I've argued and um but really one of the ways they were able to do that first is um they took over uh the Democratic party initially and I definitely argue that they took over both parties relatively quickly um but the way they did so with the Democratic party the base of the Democrat uh Democratic party historically uh were unions and so they took over the leadership of the unions um and took over the leadership of who counted the votes and all of this very early on in the 20s and the 30s and you know through that were able to get their candidates through and there were a few instances where you know they threatened uh you know keep people's lives in in this sort of political hierarchy in New York state and then through that we're able to sort of you know move on to dominate the country and that definitely became very extensive with their team up with intelligence and it's important to keep in mind that the people that essentially created the CIA and early American intelligence were pretty much all Wall Street bankers and lawyers uh people may know about that in the case of you know rather Infamous CIA directors like Alan Dulles being from the Wall Street Law Firm solivan Cromwell but the leader of the OSS which is sort of the precursor to the CIA uh Bill Donovan was also deeply tied to Wall Street and even former CIA deput Deputy directors from just 20 years ago have essentially said the CIA has always sort of been uh bankers and so you know bankers and in organized crime a lot of them are interested in um you know wealth and ultimately rackets so if you think of organized crime sort of as its own entity and sort of take away all the all the associations we have with it because of Hollywood and and all of these other narratives essentially what it exist exists to do is expand the rackets that are lucrative and perpetuate them infinitely uh because if if the racket is discovered or the organized crime syndicate has broken up uh the flow of money stops and so a lot of these um lucrative rackets uh later you know intelligence later became very involved in then these include things like arms trafficking and drug trafficking this used to be these used to be the rackets of the ma but by teaming up with intelligence you know they were able to expand them and and dominate them and and you know as a result a lot of the Wall Street banks have become sort of dependent on moneya laundering uh the income they make from moneya laundering from all of these like illegal rackets has become you know really critical to their operations and people like Katherine Austin Fitz have argued that if you know the drug trade were actually to be stopped in any meaningful way we'd see a collapse of some of the biggest banks um in the world which is why you have you know PE Banks like HSBC for example getting caught money laundering for some of the biggest and and most criminal Mexican drug cartels and then people like Mark Carney stepping in to try and smooth things over of course he's a former uh governor of the bank of England and make of Canada and is slated to follow uh Justin trudell allegedly um as you know head of the uh left-leaning uh Canadian you know political sphere so uh sorry went on a little bit of a rant there I don't know if you'd like to is it is it the case simply that are we dealing with two versions two two sides of the same coin you is the mindset of the of the of the Wall Street Banker it is the mindset of the the the power hungry politician essentially the same as the mindset of the of the alapon and the Myer Lansky and the and the lucky luchano are are they all just manifestations of the same character traits yeah I well I think it's become increasingly similar with time and ultimately a lot of these people have uh that function like mob families or have documented TI to organize crime uh for example you know I'd have done a lot of work on the Jeffrey Epstein case and his main Patron is an American billionaire named Leslie Wexner uh who has documented tied to organize crime to the extent that you know he's from Columbus Ohio uh the Columbus Ohio police uh had a uh put out a report on his ties to organized crime and it was shut down by the Columbus Police Chief um who had ties to Wexner and was providing police off officers to wexner's home like First Security and a lot of other corruption there and and essentially covered it up and those ties came up because his tax lawyer uh was murdered in broad daylight shot in the face and what is considered still an unsolved mystery even though they did solve it and tied it to Wexner but they buried uh their report and the the lawyer was murdered the day before he was going to testify to the IRS about tax evasion about unspecified things but he was um the lawyer for wexner's business interest at the limit limited so a lot of these people have spent an insane amount of money rebranding themselves as philanthropists so I think one figure that uh was sort of exposed as doing that during the co era of course is someone like Bill Gates Right who has spent a lot of money framing himself as altruistic and as a philanthropist but a lot of these guys do that um and in reality you know this is something from The Playbook that was taken from JD Rockefeller the United States first billionaire who was very much hated uh for what he was doing to the country um you know back in the early 20th century and tried to Rebrand himself as a philanthropist and did so with the help of people like Edward bernes who is considered the father both of propaganda and public relations uh which P I guess you could argue public relations Is essentially propaganda for the corporate sector uh but you know there's been a lot of manipulations on the public in in trying to change our perception of who these people are and what they do uh but consistently this particular uh these particular networks a lot of whom are connected to organized crime have been engaged in crisis after crisis that the world has experienced in massive wealth transfers for us to them and CO's a great example of that uh where you know so many people that seem to have apparent forn knowledge that something drastic was coming uh were able to benefit so hugely economically while the rest of us um obviously have been left in a very different situation and it's true if you look at the 2008 financial crisis or any number of other Financial crises um you know that have happened in the past 100 years you pretty consistent uh wealth transfer to the point where like the the 0.1% of the world have such an insane amount of wealth and power at this point and we're still being so manipulated by them to the point where at least in the United States right now uh people are clamoring for a you know uh competing squads of billionaires uh to save the country so you know you might have Donald Trump and Elon Musk in one side and then all the Democratic party donors uh many of whom are from Silicon Valley like Eric Schmidt and Piero midar and a lot of these other big names you know these uh oligarch figures you know which billionaire faction is going to save us all but ultimately um at the end of the day they've been uh stealing our wealth and uh convincing us to give away our freedoms in exchange for what they promise is security but we don't get security we just get less and less Freedom um and we're essentially being herded into what I would argue is sort of a technocratic nightmare uh the Cornerstone of which is this digital ID agenda uh which is uh meant to be linked to some sort of digital wallet that contains programmable surveil money either a cbdc issued by a central bank or issued by a private bank and um I think ultimately uh what people need to do is not focus so much on these political saviors being put out in front of us but focus on what we're going to do to not comply um with the the digital ID agenda and these other things that they need in order to push us into this world they've been building um and I I would really appreciate it if people would focus on that again because I think there was a lot of Consciousness generated around that uh during covid for example where people rightly in my opinion pointed out that vaccine passports are really sort of a trial run for a lot of this broader digital ID stuff um but you know the digital ID stuff is marching uh Full Speed Ahead and now in the United States a lot of the people that were critical of it as vaccine passports um are are essentially uh calling for it I mean you have people like Trump on the campaign Trail saying the US desperately needs a biometric uh entry exit system um um and you have this campaign lawyer going on podcast saying we need to be scan our face and our eyeballs in order to be able to vote in the United States you know if we need voter ID why can't we just use a physical ID or something like that why does it have to be biometric and digital and then you see that you know the the Trump campaign just like the Democratic party are beholden to these Silicon Valley donors a good example of that would be Trump's recent um VP pick JD Vance um who was uh intimately tied up with Peter teal who created a CIA f fed uh data mining companies that are surveilling Americans and profiling them for intelligence based on our online activity and are very much invested in these digital ID agendas and digital wallet agendas um and and these programmable surveill uh currencies and um again I think we need to focus more on what we can do as people and as communities and not think that we can just sit back in our armchair and just vote you know once every four years or once every you know X number of years between election cycles and and everything's going to be magically better I think people need to take uh responsibility and and think about what we can do as people to opt out of these systems that they're trying to impose on us you've already done Whitney what what what mystifies me what fascinates you which you've already listed a a mindboggling cast of characters um you know you've already no no no no it's no it's it's it's part of what revals makes plain the interconnect edness you know whoever it was Einstein or John M or whoever who said that you know if if you pick up one thing in the universe you find it's connected to everything else and and your research seems to make plain that whoever you look at is somehow connected to everyone else and you were talking there about how these competing camps of billionaires you know trying to persuade us you which way to which way to jump next right I wonder if in in your research if you've if you've come across is is there anyone out there in that what or the billionaire or the influential or the powerful fraternity that's a goodie or are they all just degrees of Badness well you know as far as the you know the 0.1% goes there's a lot of names that are put out in front of us and then there's a lot of uh people even wealthier than them that we don't even see and I think a lot of the billionaires that are put out in front of us people like the Silicon Valley oligarchs for sure um were allowed to become billionaires for particular reasons and some of them um you know started off creating uh companies uh that became huge in Silicon Valley but they teamed up very early on with the National Security State um and then that allowed them to become these monopolies and a lot you see a lot of CIA involvement in most of these big uh Silicon Valley companies and so they were really public private Partnerships I guess you could say from the off and these include Google uh which has CIA Origins uh Oracle which started as cia's project Oracle that Oracle co-founder Larry Allison was working on right before he made Oracle the company and which then became a CIA contractor um you have uh paler uh Peter Teal's company after PayPal um its first funer being the CIA um and then its only client until 2008 was the CIA and then its Engineers made over 200 visits between 2005 and 2009 to CIA headquarters to develop their product that company of course for those living in the UK now controls all of the NHS data and has since covid and it's the same for the United States as well including efforts to predict the next pandemic before it even happens based on uh various samples taken from people in in these Health Systems so and and again you know they're contractors for in intelligence uh you know the homeland security and all of these other security agencies profiling people as subversives they were the first company used by uh the United States government to Target Wikileaks and uh they had a plan called the Wikileaks threat they put out uh pretty pretty early on I think in 2010 or 2011 or so and have been going after free speech for a very long time um and and targeting Americans for domestic descent and putting them on the CIA naughty list I guess you could say of Americans who could be targeted and have their constit constitutional rights suspended if certain continuity of government protocols were ever invoked and these are people that are held up to us as you know good billionaires Peter teal for example is framed as a Libertarian but if he's a Libertarian uh why would build a company that would give the state this kind of power I mean it honestly doesn't really make um very much sense at all and um you know someone like Elon Musk too has been framed as sort of a hero um I would argue that's sort of been manufactured I mean this is someone who's uh very open about being a pentagon contractor now an intelligence Contractor Building spy satellites for us intelligence agencies and also building brain chips um which I I you know just on the face of it don't really trust that technology at all um and you know is trying to make Twitter half of the US Financial system and have you link your government issued ID to your social media account and then tie that to your finances um hoping to make uh you know Twitter uh a major bank and all of this stuff when you can be you know deerson from Twitter easily I guess that would mean that when Twitter becomes a bank you could also be debanked quite easily as well um and uh you know I think a lot of these people uh you know they have a lot of capital at their disposal they have a lot of money used to make us think certain things about them uh and think they're squabbling but if you look you know like at Peter teal I mentioned who's you know very much aligned with the the US Republican party right now and then you look at someone like Eric Schmidt who's essentially been running key aspects of the Biden Administration and was a major Clinton donor uh they're both steering uh uh uh members of the steering committee of the Bilderberg conference which is an overtly globalist conference uh closed to the public where uh top politicians from around the world top corporate leaders and top people from the quot un quote nonprofit sector come together to decide essentially what's going to happen in the world over the next couple of years so they seem to agree on a lot more than they don't agree at these globalist confabs which doesn't just include Bilderberg it includes things with the world economic Forum annual meeting or the Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference I mean there's infinite number of these um that go on but they seem to be quite uh cozy you know when they're together in in their in these sort of elite conclaves uh but for us in the public they sort of you know create uh I would argue a lot of bread and circuses so maybe there are good billionaires out there but I think the ones that are pushed out in front of us and that we're sort of being manipulated into seeing as our heroes and saviors let's just sit back and let Elon Musk save us from tyranny or things like that you know I think that's investing a lot in people who have uh questionable business relationships and people seem to get caught up in the rhetoric whether it's rhetoric about people like Elon Musk or campaign rhetoric um when it comes to politicians and they don't Focus us on uh they don't follow the money and they don't follow people's policy records when it comes to politicians or their business decisions and business relationships uh when it comes to you know the other type of billionaire it's so it's so troubling the the the all-encompassing picture that you paint but do you think there's any degree or any extent to which the the looming threat of as you know as you were describing a digital Gulag archipelago is illusory you know clearly clearly the mood music is to persuade us that once this digital cage closes There's No Escape for anyone forever but do you do you think there's any extent to which it's not the case you talked about the necessity to find other platforms to you know to to look at other ways of doing things to to turn our backs on some of these preeminent figures you know are we being are we is there any way in which we're being tricked into thinking that they have more potential control than they do uh yeah I mean I think they absolutely do and I think that's part of um uh you know the manipulate manip manipulations that that Target the public or to make us think that we're powerless and we have no power and these people have invested so much money on uh finding every excuse they can to try and get us for in the case in the case of digital ID get us to voluntarily want to adopt it and we have to focus on the fact that if digital ID does not succeed and people do not comply it will fail I mean it is a it is the Cornerstone of like the entire UN Agenda 2030 um without it the the programmable surveill money won't work um a lot of their designs for what they want to do in the online virtual world will not work and so much of it will not work if we do not uh comply with digital ID and they're trying to force it on us as a voluntary thing U sort of in the same way that V passports were voluntary which is why I encourage people you know if you want to change um the direction the world is going you need to figure out how you are going to set up your life so you don't have to comply with digital ID the same way um you know maybe if you were forced to comply with vaccine mandates and vaccine passports how will you get around those type of restrictions when they try and impose you know digital ID on people for various reasons as I said earlier you know before it was about um you know the vaccine and all of that now in the US a conservatives mainly are being pitched as this is a solution to Illegal migration this is a solution to voter fraud and all of this stuff there's efforts to frame uh biometric digital ideas essential to sobbing cyber crime and hacking and cyber bullying and any other normal of uh any I mean essentially any ill of society they're just going to say digital ID is going to be the solution to that and um there sales pitches But ultimately if we you know the digital ID is the is essential to the whole idea of the social credit score and any of these other um you know orwellian uh designs that you know at least enough people I hope know by now um is part and parcel um of this agenda and I think again it comes up to people having to make a choice and the way they do this is is through you know they try and get us uh to comply with this is through convenience it's convenience to opt in it's convenient to have a digital ID um it's convenient to have you know money on on on your phone and have your whole life be based on your smartphone and and all of this it's convenient to vote once every four years for one one of the two lesser evils in all of this uh but really it's the convenience that they're using to enslave us and it's inconvenient to find ways to opt out of these systems and and change uh your life so that you're more resilient and you're your life is actually sustainable for you and your family and your community it's perhaps inconvenient to get out off of the couch and off of the chair and and go meet your neighbors physically and stop being on the online world so much and making real human connections and real human Solutions uh to the problems we're facing because I mean again that's why during Co the lockdowns I think were a big part of it to keep people isolated to keep people from connecting and force people to feel like they could only connect with others through this V virtual world that these people control because they control the infrastructure the software and the platforms so I think you know people need to uh consider that this convenience is really the carrot uh maybe there will be a stick at some point but they seem to be focused a lot on the carrot in the idea of having us voluntarily adopt these things because it's easy uh the way they're setting things up or it will be easy um or they'll frame it that way at least but I think it's very important for people um to uh realize that they have the power otherwise they wouldn't be investing all this money to manipulate us and and and Pitch us on this and you know I think it's important for people to think critically about what's being done and I think you know there's a lot of efforts to manipulate uh prominent voices in alternative media for the purpose of uh getting people who have realized these agendas during covid at least or maybe before uh to to come back sort of into the fold and trust certain people that are selling these particular Solutions under different metrics um and anyway again I think you know there is a lot of Hope and a lot of people you know listen to my interviews or read my report and think it's um you know very blackpilling or depressing and whatever but ultimately you know uh I think it's it's more depressing to feel like we don't have any power to change things only the billionaires do I think that's very depressing Outlook personally and I think these are people we should not be trusting considering the state of the world and where we are going and we should take the power back as people and we do that by taking actions in our own lives and doing things in our neighborhood and our communities and with our families and and realizing that this is not where we want to go um at the end of the day and there is so much we can do and I think a good starting point again is to say no to digital ID uh we don't need this biometric digital ID uh surveillance uh surveillance State that's going to be used not just to survey what we're doing in re uh in real time but also to predict what we might do in the future um a lot of these uh you know plans on the books and things that are being developed uh by these intelligence agencies are all about predictive policing meaning pre- crime and also applying that same methodology to healthc care prevent the next pandemic before it happens and all of this stuff so you don't even need to declare a pandemic anymore to get emergency youth authorization or or mandates in particular communities and stuff like that that is the world they are setting up it is very bad and we should opt out and uh we can opt out I I don't find what you're saying of what you none of what I've listened to you saying now and over months and years I don't find it depressing because I firmly believe that knowledge is power and that you can't know enough and so I think that that you're simply uh you know laying out often in very condensed and detail Rich uh uh material the things that people need to know and I would also I wonder uh at the moment it it seems to me that things have got especially visible and ridiculous you know the the whole the the attempted shooting of Donald Trump followed almost literally Moments Later by Joe Biden being you know erased from the presidential ticket uh you know other other spectacles like Benjamin Netanyahu and his the standing ovations that he received in Congress uh Vladimir zinski of Ukraine being invited to sit in on a cabinet meeting for the new labor government in in 10 Downing Street it feels as though what what many people are now calling the Leviathan as a as a as a as a noun to describe the The Blob or or the Deep state that the Leviathan has never been so on the surface so visible as it is now and I wonder at the extent to which in their final pursuit of digital IDs and cbdcs and 15 minute cities and and all of the rest of it that they aren't actually Running Scared and that the and to some extent the initiative is with us so many of us millions of us who have seen the Leviathan surface yes I I think that's true and I think they're being more overt because um you know I think they're very arogant I think they think that they are very confident in their abilities to manipulate people which they certainly absolutely can um and they can manipulate people very um effectively um and I I but ultimately I think you know a lot of their arrogance is their downfall but it's up to us once again uh to show that they're wrong and show that we're not powerless that we're not completely dumbed down and egocentric and and just focused on hedonistic uh Pursuits and that we actually care about the state of the world the future for our children we're going to say no to these orwellian um systems that are being rolled out globally I mean digital ID is something that is being pushed through so fast uh the EU is adopting it now for entry exit stuff uh the UK is going to roll it out next year the US is pushing for it as the only solution uh to migration and to voter fraud and Donald Trump is essentially now a in and he's been promoting all of these things on the campaign Trail um uh where I live in Chile is rolling out digital ID uh you know right after Christmas this year and uh it's voluntary for now but all of these things are going to be voluntary at first and then they'll try and make it so it's you know involuntary essentially you don't have the smartphone you don't have the ID well you can't come in here um and I think people again need to prepare uh for what for ultimately what to what to do about that and to sort of you know maybe it's inconvenient to not have constant access to these platforms and these things at your fingertips but there's other things there's Alternatives we can build and we have time uh to do that now and I think it's it that's where a lot of the focus uh should be and not so much on on the circus but again um I think people too um you know what's unfortunate now particularly in like election season a lot of people that know that it's a unip party whether in the UK or you know the United States um you know that know that like you know in the UK the the Tories and labor agree on so much more than they don't when they're actually in power um you know illegal migration just being one example and then when you look at at the US and the Republicans and the Democrats Pro surveillance pro war Pro any other number of things pro- Israel pro- oligarch essentially um at the end of the day and nothing really ever gets solved the problems continue and maybe you know the argument ends up being well if we elect this guy the March towards this tyranny will be slightly slower than if the other guy gets in I mean is that really the best we can do um and at this point you know people that were aware of the unip party getting sucked into this tribalist mindset of I support this guy after instead of this guy and all of that I mean um I think we need to step back and realize that voting for the lesser of two evils every four years is going to end us we're going to end up in the exact same place as if we just sat back and did literally nothing um and I don't really think that this is the only solution that people should pursue I mean I think it's honest uh honestly insanity espe considering we saw with Co where essentially every country in the world adopted the same policies and it made no sense to do so and now the people that criticize that at the time despite all of the backlash and all of the name calling have been proven right and now you know if you're criticizing both of the candidates in the US presidential race as I am I'm getting called U of accused of rooting for the other guy or having Trump derangement syndrome or you know uh being a Trumper also which I was also called during Co even though I was very critical of Trump's first term and it's just um you know this tribalist madness people really need to snap out of it they're so good at manipulating us and dividing and Conquer conquering us and we need to realize this is an issue of Us Versus Them the them being the point one% of this Global oligarchy that has taking control of both the public and the private sector and have essentially created my colleague Ian Davis calls the global private public private partnership uh which is again a lot of people in talking about the world economic Forum during covid you know painted it as communist well it promotes itself as the the the main broker of public private Partnerships worldwide uh which is you know really more in line with what musolini uh defined as corporatism ausing of the public sector and the corporate sector or rather you know certain corporate monopolies fusing with the state and that is essentially what we have and that's what these public private Partnerships uh are and uh they don't work but we're being pushed into even greater deepening of them and I think there's also efforts right now in a postco era that they're going to uh do a control demolition of certain public sector institutions that they've blamed for everything that's happened and then take things directly into the hands of these um private sector monopolies that essentially control the politicians and the public sector anyway um and is essentially just a bait and switch to get people to think that change is coming but it's not and um this type of Hope and change energy is I call it because of the initial uh Barack Obama campaign in 2008 uh they try and do this with all these different politicians around the world who are routinely disappointing uh they did it you know with with Javier mlay in Argentina who since he's been in power has been like yes I'm going to destroy the secret the Ministry of Education but I want Facebook to be in charge of the Ministry of Education and Google uh Google AI to decide who I fire and who I hire within the government and uh give Outsourcing uh Argentinian to Israel uh saying that he was going to put uh that he was against the Argentinian establishment but he's put uh people that were in the previous very establishment Administration the Macker Administration in his cabinet including J major Bankers from JP Morgan in charge of the economy JP Morgan being one of the banks that helped saddle Argentina as far back as the 1980s with the insane debt problems it has today it makes absolutely no sense um uh based on what his campaign pitch was and people need to remember that campaign wed sales pitches to get you to voluntarily acquest to the leadership of someone uh who in the case of a lot of the politicians running in the US now they've been president before and they've made it very clear who they serve when they're in office and we're being led to believe that it'll be different this time and they did that with liberals in in 2012 with Obama oh he just needs four more years oh it was the Republicans oh it was this that prevented him from doing what he was supposed to do his first term and then his second term was worse and I think it'll be uh just the same uh with Trump who bent over backwards during the co era uh to this to this Global agenda uh he called on Silicon Valley to surveil uh social media users and profile them for pre-crime uh so they they could prevent shootings before they happen uh you know that's a a conservative president I mean that's a horrible policy um when uh covid was happening he essentially outsourced um a covid era fiscal policy to black rocks Larry fank uh and black rock start handed out all this the money uh that the Federal Reserve printed uh and Larry f used to handle uh you know Donald Trump's personal fortune and stuff you know it's crony capitalism at the end of the day um and you know if you want to think he's different this time fine but we can't put all of our faith and all of our eggs in one basket for people that have already shown us who they are and uh and I think these political saviors are are made up and they try and get energy behind them in all of this and so many people that know better fall for it routinely and I think we need to realize the extent to which we're being manipulated and even if you know that mainstream media lies uh that doesn't mean that other people aren't also lying to you or manipulating to you because a lot of people even in Independent Media have become very beholden to the same algorithms that mainstream media are now beholden to and the people that control those algorithms are these same Silicon Valley oligarchs uh who finance both parties and manipulate um you know essentially control our politicians and it's important to keep in mind in the United States as well uh that Silicon Valley has essentially merged with the National Security State they're contractors for the military they're contractors for intelligence Google Microsoft Amazon all of these guys that's what they do and they manipulate us on their behalf um you know in 2014 the US Air Force uh announced a multi-million dollar research project to use social media uh to control people like drones uh to basically turn uh people's minds off using social media and manipulate them that way and militaries around the world um I know it's true in the UK too with what what I believe is um might be wrong but I think it's like the 77th Brigade or something like that there's all of these uh military agencies and security agencies focus on manipulating online opinion um and they have they've invested millions of dollars in bought armies and do you think that someone that is a contractor for the Pentagon uh and for these militaries around the world now through SpaceX is going to say no to those same militaries bot armies that they've developed to manip at people's opinion on behalf of the so-called deep state that we're all supposed to be targeting and fighting against I think people really need to take this stuff seriously and realize that you know waking up to the Illusions around covid and mainstream media isn't necessarily enough we need to keep our guard up we need to think critically and rationally um and we need to question everything and we need to go straight to the source that's why I make an effort in all of my articles to extensively the hyperlink and Source everything I say please go engage with that material yourself look at the things I re researched in the sources I used and draw your own conclusions maybe you don't agree with me uh but I think you know a lot of people that woke up I guess from mainstream media have moved uh to maybe different sources but their relationship with media is the same just listen to what the person says and take their word for it and don't do any due diligence or research and I think people need to become just like we need to take indiv individual responsibility with our lives we need to take responsibility for the media we consume as well and become active consumers of media not just passive media consumers or will just continue to be manipulated in this way um and and distracted have you found in your ex you know in your extensive efforts to find alternative ways have you find have you found a Channel or channels that you trust you know you talk there about the way in which you know that you know that the algorithms are affecting increasingly the independent journalists and people are becoming beholden to the same things that have United the you know the mainstream media of old cryptocurrencies you know there's so much there's so much heat around whatever a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and the rest is is you know I I hear a lot of people talk about how blockchain whether it as it manifests in uh Bitcoin but but bit but but um blockchain and distributed Ledger may have within it the seeds of something that is genuinely free and genuinely peer-to peer you know are you are you confident that in the in the Brave New World that you espoused that there are already ready the seeds of channels and and uh mediums of exchange that aren't dirty and tainted and controlled by The Usual Suspects uh yeah I mean I think you know there was for example you bringing up Bitcoin you know maybe initially with Bitcoin there was some promise there but I think you know in a lot of my recent work on this um with the former editor-in-chief of Bitcoin magazine Mark Goodwin you know we focused a lot on um how in recent years uh well really beginning in 2010 if not earlier uh you know there's been a major effort to uh capture Bitcoin uh and the infrastructure and essentially dollarize it have it become a you know a tool of US dollar hemony um and there's a lot of efforts to to link it to these US dollar stable coins that are very questionable whether it's tether USD yeah yes or uh Circle usdc which is very much tied to Black Rock tether was very much tied um to the um FTX scandal and also um has a lot of interesting ties to the Epstein crowd as well if you go far enough back um and you know these are sort of Being Framed as Alternatives but you know tether for example recently uh allowed onto its platform the FBI and the Secret Service to surveil users and just decide what wallets they can just shut down at will and have said that they they want to be um a key partner of the US in expanding dollar hemony globally um and you know ultimately Bitcoin was framed with something that's going to stop um irresponsible money Printing and Central Bank policy and government fiscal policy uh but what's happening right now is that there's efforts to basically use Bitcoin as a sync to hyperinflate into so basically uh to make it the greatest enabler ever of that IR responsible Central Bank policy and I think you know that's part of why you know this this effort to sort of dominate a lot of the infrastructure around Bitcoin the on andof ramps is why you're seeing people like black rocks Larry Frink changing his tune on bitcoin and allegedly Jamie d of JP Morgan has and all of these other Wall Street guys um because they they think it's something they can use and they can control and sure people can use and uh use it uh but the way they're trying to set it up and and impose it and develop regulations for it they're going to try and prevent the use cases where it actually would enable Freedom so for those you know that are in the Bitcoin Community or developers now is the time to try and uh develop solutions that hedge against that because again it's important to be vigilant in the Bitcoin Community just like so many other you know uh communities uh in sort of this effort to fight against um tyranny you know they're being told just sit back in your armchair relax trust the plan and Bitcoin because it's so great will magically solve all of these problems while you know they're basically making it this tool of the dollar and all of that um and that sort of effort to sell people into this complacent mindset is happening across the board and I think it's something we really really need to resist you know we're being led to sleep and it reminds me a lot of you know qanon in the Trump era where we just need to sit back and Trust the plan even though Trump is not keeping his campaign promises and doing things that are very against what he campaigned on um you know we need to hold our politicians to account we need to hold people in media to account and really you know just be I don't know have individual responsibility I feel like I'm just a broken record with that but I think it's again I think it's very important and at this point you know even if Bitcoin is co-opted I think there are things that can be done uh to use it sort of invert um what they're trying to do to it and and use it to sort of um counter aspects of what the elite are doing for example there's a you know technology that's a part of Bitcoin now that can be used to uh uncensor publish uh you know documents and distribute it to everyone with a Bitcoin node instantly and have it not be able to be erased we could make that uh you know use that as a way to really cut out the the social media censorship and make a make it so that important information gets out to people and there's other things that you know I'm focusing on bitcoin I guess but you know outside of Bitcoin there there are things we can do and there are Technologies we can develop and plenty of Alternatives we can make whether it's it's currency or or something else but it's it's time for people to focus on those Alternatives and focus on developing those Solutions um you know why it's still much easier to communicate freely because I think it's quite likely um that as we you know go into the next few years as we get closer to the year 2030 it's going to become harder to communicate online and people need to uh you know rapidly think about what we're going to do to face this stuff and a lot of it involves building alternative systems to change the subject slightly when you were talking there about um the way in which you know people you there there seem to be a coming together a a crystallizing of opposition to to tyranny in the in the immediate aftermath of of Co you know people you know seem to realize that there was you know there was something wrotten in the state of Denmark but uh but but then but then people started to sort of snap back into line be it around Ukraine or or whatever and with with that in mind why do you think it is that everyone let's say in the in the in the US presidential election sphere takes the same stance always on Israel you know there's always this lock step uh Israel is only right Israel is always right uh to what extent should we be aware of and worried about the APAC is really Lobby influence hegemony really over over American politics yeah well there's a lot to say there um and there's a lot of history there as well so what I mentioned in the beginning about the national crime syndicate and the Jewish mob and the Italian mafia um getting in bed very early with us intelligence keep in mind that isra was created in 1948 when all of that stuff was happening and the very same Jewish Mobsters involved with that in the United States were also sending a lot of uh weapons to the hagana which later uh morphed into the IDF when Israel was created and was sort of this paramilitary group that helped uh create Israel in Palestine and um you know a lot of those connections persisted and you had a lot of early CIA people be very um influential in the rise of Israel's National Security State uh that's why have like statues in Tel Aviv to CIA officials early CIA officials like James Jesus Angleton um and and things like that and that's why in a lot of past CIA scandals Iran Contra being a good example you have intimate CIA and Israeli involvement you know I would argue that that a lot of those intelligence organized cre crime like f factions the United State States work very closely in Israel because of that shared history ultimately a lot of the same organized crime networks uh dominate both countries and um you know AAC has become a major vessel for that again uh going back to Leslie Wexner who I've done a lot of work on uh most of APAC is populated with people that are uh former Wexner fellows you know he's been very focused on developing young global leaders since the 1980s and actually directly interfaces uh you know with the uh World economic Forum young Global leader program which is hosted at the Center for Public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School uh which uh Wexner expressly created along with Jeffrey Epstein so you know a lot there's been a lot of influence of these organized crime linked billionaires um on us uh on us politics and they're also very influential in Israel as well a great example is also the bramman family um who uh you know dominated the early liquor industry after American prohibition ended they're Canadian uh they exploited a lot of loopholes the reason they were able to get their liquor across the border during prohibition is because of their connections to organized crime which persisted long after prohibition ended um and you know for example the Bromans are the people behind Justin Trudeau Steven bromfman is was his biggest uh the the arguably the most influential figure in his Rise um and you know the brothman are very influential in the US as well they've been tied to sex scandals like Nexium Edgar bromfman senior had a relationship allegedly with Jeffrey Epstein and as it relates to finances and that's why Epstein is said to have left Bear Sterns in the early 1980s um and uh you know there's a lot of these associations that unfortunately you have um an oligarchy that has a lot of influence in the United States and also um in Israel and unfortunately they conflate criticism of these uh people that are essentially the successors oligarch successors to the Jewish mob um as you know representing all Jewish people and if you criticize them you're framed as anti-semitic but it's actually I would argue anti-semitic to conflate uh or organized Crim link billionaires with all Jewish people I mean what and also like you know criticizing the Israeli state or criticizing U mad is framed as anti-semitic on occasion but that's like saying um if you criticize the CIA you're anti-American or if you criticize MI5 you're a anti- Brit you know I mean it doesn't make any sense on its face and these people are using um you know what has been historically a targeted ethnicity as a shield for you know crimes that they have committed and that's why I think ultimately none of the real benefactors of the Epstein Scandal are ever going to come to Justice and what The Client List and all of that stuff is never going to be made public um and it's because you know uh I mean we know so much about the Leslie wex or Epi relationship and literally nothing has been done to that man and nothing will be done um and I think that's a testament to how influential these people have um have become and their explicit efforts in in dominating um and in manipulating specifically you know uh the Jewish Community whether the US and in Israel uh Leslie Wexner is a man who bragged to New York Magazine about being de ically possessed and and then he went on to focus most of his quote unquote philanthropy on molding the minds of leaders of the Jewish American Community specifically and also in Israel and you know I I think that's I mean can you imagine if that happened like on the Christian side some a a Catholic billionaire that just brags about being demonically possessed going on to train Catholic priests and leaders of you know Catholic communities around the world um you know I think it makes no sense and unfortunately you know the the overuse of you know anti-Semitism which does exist um but the overuse of it is being used to protect people who need to be held accountable and unfortunately you know not necessarily saying that all of these people are of one ethnicity but the fact that these people these particular actors can be shielded from criticism the global or oligarchy uses them to advance agendas because you can be called a bigot for criticizing them and I think that unfortunately needs to change and I think in the US you know there's a lot of effort um to compromise our politicians I wrote an you know an extensive book looking at the use of sex blackmail um against American politicians and again this is something that the CIA and and also Israeli intelligence and really intelligence agencies all over the world Learned From the Mob because sex blackmail was something that the mob did back in the 20s and 30s and even before to expand their power and influence and it's worked very effectively for intelligence agencies since then um but then what I also argue in the book is that in the era of you know the technology um you know after the 2000s I guess and you know the use of technology and personal electronic devices becoming ubiquitous uh they don't really need to compromise us with sex blackmail they have access to our Communications they can blackmail us with things that they uh access from our devices or they can implant things on our devices that are incriminating even if they're not even ours and accuse us of things and and things like that um and so you know there's been efforts to Blackmail us for a long time and you know one faction of that certainly does is an outgrowth of the Jewish mob but it's much broader than that and again I would encourage people to look at this Union of organized crime and intelligence and realize that that's essentially um what's running the world um at this point and we don't want these people including people who ad say admitted like are proud of the fact that they think they're demonically possessed to be uh guiding where our world is going and and creating systems that they want to onboard everyone onto I mean it's complete Insanity and again going back to Silicon Valley why did every single Silicon Valley oligarch have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein um you know why are more questions not asked about that it's truly U mind-boggling the two gole Co co-founders were subpoena as part of the Jeffrey Epstein JP Morgan uh case in the Virgin Islands so was Elon Musk Peter teal had extensive meetings with Jeffrey Epstein uh Reed Hoffman of LinkedIn uh and these are you know some are Republic donors some are Democrat donors why why do all these powerful people have all these relationships with a guy uh that was a sex blackmailer and I would also argue you know a a a very accomplished Financial criminal and currency Speculator which hasn't been a focus of Epstein reporting at all uh but these people engage in Brazen Financial crime and have gotten away with it uh for a very long time as part of this extensive wealth transfer uh from us to them and uh yeah I I'll stop there he it is interesting that um you know when you Jeffrey Epstein's name sits you right at the center of of so well of so many parts of the web you know there's so many connections there it's interesting that there clearly came a time when when his use was no more it's interesting that even even at the heart even people that are at the heart of these machinations these mellian figures they can end up you know facing the exit door for all time MH sure well you know I would I argued before that Jeffrey Epstein was really middle management uh the person he was mostly fronting for was Leslie wexter who's again never going to be held accountable uh for for anything there um and I think again um you know he a lot of the abstein Scandal they want you to focus so much on the salacious aspect uh the sex blackmail the human trafficking as aspect and I don't necessarily want to downplay that um either because it's obviously horrendous and horrible but I think there's been an effort to have uh the the focus exclusive on that and not on the other things he did uh which involve a lot of brazen Financial crime uh that has resulted and helped facilitate this massive wealth transfer for us to them um uh and I think uh you know some of my reporting on you know like when the JP Morgan EP case came out uh I wrote a piece on Jamie Diamond and it turns out he his rise to power to become head of JP Morgan was intimately influenced by Leslie Wexner himself and uh people that are intimately tied up with this group of uh you know organized crime linked billionaires that called themselves the mega group that includes the bramman and Wexner they co-founded it and and a handful of other billionaires that are responsible um for for Donald Trump and Barack Obama for their political careers and all of this I mean this is something that truly influences both parties and that's why I think in the United States unfortunately um so many politicians are are completely beholden to Israel and very willing to overlook you know the war crimes that Israel commits and also you know the fact that Israel has been very aggressive um Nation against the United States when it comes to espionage um actually from the Edward Snowden documents uh there was one that that ranked uh the most aggressive uh you know Espionage countries engage engaging in aggressive Espionage against the United States and Israel was number three after Russia and China why is that and um you know documented instances of them um stealing you know important military technology I wrote a lot about that as it related to EP visits to the Clinton White House in the 1990s um efforts to directly send um American sensitive American Military technology to China through Israel and all of this and I would argue that a big part of this um excuse me uh goes back to something that was actually charted out by Samuel pisar who was a very close friend of Robert Maxwell uh back in the early 70s um he testified before Congress that what was going on in the early 70s was what he called uh the rise of the trans ideological iCal Corporation where essentially he said Western capital and Eastern Capital so the state-owned companies of then communist Russia and China were merging with Western capital and that they were Building A system that was making the nation state IR relevant and he told this to Congress in the 1970s a congressman asked them if this was a bad thing and he was like not necessarily you know and this is someone who was very much in bed um with both the KGB and the CIA and also uh Israeli intelligence and was you know one of the closest figures to Robert Maxwell who helped helped affect a lot of those things as it relates the technology transfer um in other things while he was alive and his uh his children uh the twins uh Christine and Isabelle as well as galain and Kevin and Ian intimately involved in all that after his death and this is something that of course goes well beyond peace aren just the Maxwells I think that's ultimately what has been happening um and you essentially have this I think that helps explain why uh you have um so many of these uh billionaires in the US including ones that back uh you know someone that frames himself as a China Hawk like Trump people like Larry Fin and Steven schwarzman big backers of trump so intimately tied up with China for example um you know there's a lot of um cap you know these connections of transnational Capital not enough people follow the money and focus on this rhetoric they want us focus on it you know sort of the more superficial geop political level um but ultimately you know these people are all enacting biometric digital ID uh programmable surveill money whether it's cbdcs or a private sector equivalent um and are all you know on board with the sustainable development goals in agenda 2030 which if you're familiar uh with who wrote them and who developed agenda 2030 and the sustainable development goals it's people like Mike Bloomberg a billionaire and Mark Carney uh Goldman Sachs Career Central Banker um also probably a billionaire um and and you know it's Banker designed it's a way for uh you know just complete control of the populace complete Financial surveillance complete surveillance of everything you do and with the goal if you listen to people like you all knowah Harari of putting that surveillance inside your body um you know it's it's complete Madness and um you know I would really hope that people oh sorry no no just what you're saying there just toward towards the end there um it's so anti-human you know antihuman is is a description that many many people using the the the blatant rise or return of a kind of a eugenicist Neo malthusian uh you know anti anti-pop agenda is so clear you know that if if the if if 2030 if agenda 2030 is enacted it will in all likelihood be the the premeditated murder of half the population of the planet and yet it's being it's being pushed it's being pushed in this uh in this cold-blooded premeditated way that I I do I do Wonder at the extent to which we have unconsciously inadvertently created an ecosystem on planet Earth in which thrives and Rises to the top a a parasitic uh Psychopathic class that is is apart from money and power is motivated by just I don't know some kind of fear of fellow humankind and a and a shared conviction that they would do better if they had to look at many many fewer of us yeah I think that's part of it I but I think the you know this Eugenics ideology that you point out as making a comeback has its antecedants in a lot of these groups in Elite Britain in the early 20th century and also late 19th century and also in the United States and they sort of came together um but a lot of infu influential people were members of those uh so for example you know the science fiction author HG Wells was one of these prominent eugenicists of that era and he wrote um and and stated things like you know eventually uh when this eugenic stuff comes to fruition the human species is going to split and you're going to have the elite who are intelligent tall and attractive and then the lower class is going to be these squat like goblins who are intellectually stunted and cognitively incapable of doing what they can do now and they eat bugs what do you know um and it seems like they've been sort of leading us on this path and I don't think it's so much that they're antihuman they're anti- uh well well it is anti-human in the sense that they're not anti antium in the sense about when it's applied to themselves and other Elites but people that aren't part of their Club they view uh as you know worse than dirt and so the idea is to sort of uh shape people to become uh what their Twisted vision of the lower classes is to actually become that like physically and mentally and emotionally and we're being manipulated into that unfortunately and so this explosion of uh you know uh efforts to sort of uh you know genetically manipulate us and mentally manipulate us with AI which is re reaching unprecedented levels and Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt say on their book on AI that the end result of AI is going to be the people that are dependent on it for algorithms are going to become cognitively diminished to the point that they can't live without Ai and there will be a splitting of the species just like hgw says into the people who are capable of understanding Ai and the people who are CA not capable and the people who are capable of understanding it are the people that program and develop AI or who sustain the people that program and maintain it and then the other lower class the people that the AI acts upon who are becoming cognitively diminished and will be unable to understand what AI is doing to them and what is happening to them at all and this I mean it's it's it's frankly very disturbing and a lot of these groups um these Eugenics groups never really went away um the earliest days of the world economic Forum intimately tied up with the with the club of Rome um which is an outgrowth of this other grou

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Professional liars whose job it is to keep people in front of their televisions reading gossip magazines eating vast amounts of toxic food and shopping - always shopping for the latest fashions and trends. That's the ideal for propagandists and great efforts are made in trying to achieve and maintain that ideal. Anything that keeps the masses from organizing themselves and asking important questions about what their masters are really up to. The 1960's. A period of heightened awareness and rebellion against the establishment with students leading the resistance. But when the situation seems to be getting out of hand the establishment ordered it to be stopped and the propagandists moved quickly to lead the young people away from dangerous protests into such fashionable protests. That was then. This is now. Fashion celebrity sex music technology any kind of a revolution except the social revolution. In this film we will reveal the methods used by the propagandists to control populations on behalf of their owners. You're gonna have to speed it up. Although these rich and powerful owners only make up 1% of the world's population they have mastered the use of propaganda over the other 99% turning them into consumer slaves who work harder and harder to buy things they don't need. These consumer slaves are also made to pay 'taxes' to their government money which is used to develop new weapons for the pernicious invasions and occupations of other countries. In the last five years alone they've given their owners more than $US 1 trillion for these illegal and immoral wars that can't be won. And are even encouraged to send their own children to fight them. This is Doctor of Psychology, Professor. You have just been exposed to a range of propaganda devices used by the West to control. Manipulate, neutralize, and anaesthetize entire populations. It's own. And that of other nations. The success of these mind-warping devices depends on their remaining hidden from the masses. But Our Dear Leader has insisted that you see with your own eyes exactly how this war against the mind is used to turn Western citizens into compliant slaves. Creating Ideas and Illusions. Has this man just broken a world record? Has he just created a medicine that can save thousands of lives? Perhaps he has been chosen to represent his community in some way...? No. This man has just purchased a telephone. And these people. What is making them scream and cry with such profound joy? They are on a television program where they are receiving consumer items. This for some boots. This for some clothes shelves. And this hysteria is not because they have found God but because they are receiving sneakers. The propagandist knows that an individual has a natural desire to be on a winning side and appear to fit in with the crowd. One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to make them chant favourable, yet deliberately vague slogans like. "This Changes Everything." "Just Do It" "I'm Lovin' It" or "Support Our Troops". "The point of slogans like "Support our Troops" is that they don't mean anything that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means because it doesn't mean anything". Noam Chomsky. Points out Professor Noam Chomsky. With this in mind propagandists can provide simple answers to complex problems and ask for approval without question. Either you're with us. Either you love freedom. Or you're with the enemy. They can use this method to sell phones. Violence. Cosmetics or even false wars like the unwinnable 'War on Terror' announced by these degenerates. And the hypocritical 'War on Drugs' announced by this master criminal who is awarding a medal to this man for joining the war on drugs despite this man being a drug addict. The most popular slogans contain 'virtue' words that embody what slaves in the West have been conditioned to value most dearly. Words like FREEDOM. TRUTH PEACE LIBERTY and most importantly. DEMOCRACY "The 20th Century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy" - Howard Zinn writes Howard Zinn. Let's look at that last line again: the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. Is this true? Let's look at the facts: Since 1945, America has tried to overthrow 50 governments. Many of them democracies. In the process, over 30 countries and their people have been attacked including our own great and powerful Socialist sovereign nation. And the result? Not one single undemocratic country has been turned into a genuine democracy. I want peace as much as you do. The grotesque act of invading other countries, claiming them as your territory and stealing their resources to keep your emperor crown or corporate owners in power used to be known as 'empire building'. The latest propaganda slogan for empire building is: 'Globalization' a vague word with warm connotations of unification. But what it really means is the acquisition of other people's resources at any cost and unlimited slave labour. Slave labour needed to produce the unnecessary goods sold to these slaves. Slaves to persuasion and influence. In reality, these are "debt slaves" since they can't even afford the things they buy. Even in times of peril and economic meltdown at the orders of their President they must keep consuming. Is this democracy? On February 15, 2003 millions of people worldwide took to the streets in the worlds' largest ever day of protest. A protest against the pirate Bush regime and their British and Australian lapdogs who wanted to go to war on manufactured grounds. The majority of the world voted against this war but were ignored. Is this democracy? The powerful 1% went ahead with their pre-planned war as always using the poorest people's children to do the fighting. We're here for your fucking freedom, so back up right now! It is important to note that these cowards were happy to order mass death and destruction despite never having been in battle themselves. Is this democracy? No. Real democracy is when the majority of people make a decision and it is upheld. For example, in polls taken throughout the world the vast majority of citizens want to see these war criminals committed to stand trial for crimes against humanity since 90% of the casualties of their false 'War on Terror' were innocent civilians. 'War on Terror' is a vague propaganda slogan as a real war on terror would include direct intervention in Darfur Myanmar and Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has made a mockery of the American's claim to love democracy. A real war on terror would start with American citizens refusing to pay taxes that support Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. Taxes that could be used to help Americans who are unemployed working without healthcare and homeless. Of course, if you dared to point this out in America you would be named "Anti-American" and a traitor or one of those "who hate freedom" so people keep quiet because they are afraid of expressing how they feel. "You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened that all sorts of devils are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them." - Professor Noam Chomsky points out Professor Noam Chomsky. Before you can distract and marginalize them, however. You first have to know what motivates them. Fear. Communism in reality, is not a political party. It is a way of life. An evil and malignant way of life. It reveals a condition akin to disease that spreads like an epidemic. And like an epidemic a quarantine is necessary to keep it from infecting this nation. Fear is the engine room of imperial propaganda. We cannot wait for the final proof. The smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Those who have understood this have manipulated people for centuries. Indeed millennia by manufacturing and controlling religion. The Western religions of Judaism. Christianity and Catholicism use a propaganda manual called The Bible. Although it is the same story, each brand claims its version is the best one. As with any advertising the propagandist knows that there is no ideia easier to sell than the ideia that you are vastly superior to everyone else. So they tell their followers that they are unique in human history that they are descended from the first man and first woman and that they are chosen by their Supreme Creator to rule over all other cultures. To secure the deal, they add the ideia of an eternal soul. That way, death doesn't seem so bad and they won't resist being sent to fight against competing brands. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger. Religion. Of course, only the truly ignorant believe that books like the Bible are really the word of God. Religion is horribly unmistakably human. "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction:" jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, "capriciously malevolent bully." Scientist Richard Dawkins. With the use of science, we can now diagnose God as a psychopath with extreme narcissistic personality disorder. He is a character created by humans who sought to control others by naming themselves as prophets of God. While most people who claim to be prophets of God are kept in mental asylums, others make their way into positions of power. "Hence today I believe I am acting in accordance with the Will of the Mighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." - Adolf Hitler. Working in accordance with God isn't just for believers: British Prime Minister Tony Blair turned to Catholicism after killing as many innocent Muslim civilians as possible. Now he can be forgiven for mass murder and sit next to God for eternity. 00:21:55.000,00:22.00.000 All he has to do is sit in a box and confess his sins to a priest. All he has to do is sit in a box and confess his sins to a priest. Catholicism is the ideal choice for terrorists like Tony Blair, the Mafia, and the IRA. The Catholic Church wholeheartedly supported the Nazis and with the help of the CIA, continued to protect them after the fall of the Third Reich by passing them along the infamous 'ratline' to safety in America. It also goes out of its way to protect the malignant child abusers who run its operations worldwide. - Most of all it protects the Pope. - The richest man in the world who travels to Africa pleading for an end to poverty despite never using his own riches to help his most desperate followers. Instead, he promises the poorest that they will be the richest in Heaven. This crusade, this war on terrorism, ah, is gonna take a while. This toxic Texan claims that God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan so he did killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. He must speak to the same God as his father whose war and sanctions killed millions of innocent civilians in the same place. I have said to the people of Iraq that our quarrel was not with them but instead with their leadership. Above all with Saddam Hussein. You, the people of Iraq, are not our enemy. We do not seek your destruction. This man clearly enjoys killing people: even though he was too scared to fight for his country during the American War of Aggression in Vietnam he broke all records for killing prisoners during his time as Governor of Texas. Such a civilized society, America where this two-term President refused to pardon Ricky Ray Rector from execution. A man so severely retarded that when the guards interrupted his last meal to lead him to his execution he assured them it was ok because he would "just have to finish it when they got back". Like God these leaders show no mercy to the weak. 00:24:48.000,00:24:51.500 Even in their own country after a devastating hurricane. Even in their own country after a devastating hurricane no mercy for the weak. And here no mercy for the weak. Beware the 1%. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Although the psychopath makes up less than 5% of the Western population those infected with narcissism and unusual intelligence force their way into the 1% who rule over the masses. Drawn to politics and big business, they are strongly against democracy. Because in a true democracy these treacherous monsters would be impeached and sentenced to death for lying fraud treason race hate mass murder and war crimes. But "impeachment is not acceptable" declared this smiling new president who came to power in 2009. Why? Because he is one of them. His advisers are drawn from the same gang of Washington thugs and Wall Street banksters as the so-called opposition. His presidency was paid for by the same lobbyists and corporations that sponsored all of the other presidents before him. Here we see the most obvious lie in democracy: the one that two candidates represent a choice when they are clearly run by the same interests. "There's actually a single-party system in the United States: a Demorepublican party under the guise of two parties, Democrat and Republican. No matter which of the two you vote for, you vote for the Demorepublican Party'. 00:27:00.000,00:27:03.500 This was said by a conservative idealog, R Ridger." This was said by a conservative idealog, R Ridger. This time, vote like your whole world depended on it. Allowing people to vote for one of your brands is the best way to make them feel like they are connected to their candidate and involved in a democracy. When they become wary or distrustful of one candidate you give them a completely new, smiling face and simple slogans like "Yes We Can" and "Time for Change" that are easy to chant and provide hope but are essentially meaningless. Meaningless because this charming President will do exactly what he is told to do by his corporate masters spending countless billions on killing humans in far-away lands while his own people continue to suffer. Democracy is just a slogan. Emulating Psychosis. Survivor is coming with a super big cast. In this vulgar television series carefully selected Americans have to pretend to survive by being the most conniving, manipulative, and money-hungry contestant on embarrassingly contrived, multi-million dollar sets to win money. For a million dollars I can do just about anything! This is a perfect metaphor for America where the real survivors are the millions of homeless people who don't get to go home after filming. Look at these images from celebrated filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. What happened to this man as a child? What did America do to him that he should make such images for people to watch? Is he a psychopath? No. He is simply re-interpreting the western cult of death he grew up with for new generations of consumer zombies who crave seeing their fellow humans mutilated in new and inventive ways. This cult of death is rooted in the Bible which the Imperialist slaves believe is actually the word of God. The same God that's used to send them to kill humans on the other side of the world because they have a different God. "God and country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed." Luis Bunuel. Here we see the simplistic duality of good vs. evil peddled by today's rulers. God is on our side and everyone is choosing our brand. Make your choice! You're either with us, or against us. This reassures the 99% that the 1% is strong. This reassures the 99% that the 1% is strong and has everything under control. Now they can relax and get back to their football game video games TV shows or go shopping. The 1% have always controlled the 99% with religion. They are the ones who control information and decide what people think. They even decide what people know about the past. Rewriting History. "Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell. There's people running along the dikes. Good job I saw you splatter one right in the back with a rocket Roger. I just got lucky I guess. When carrying out attacks on other nations, destroying their infrastructure and deforming their future generations with the use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons the imperialist needs to rewrite history and keep repeating it over and over until it becomes true. The young lady with the red hair, right behind the school teacher there. Mr. President, why did you drop the atom bomb? Mr. President, the future wants to know 'was it right to drop the atom bomb?' I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right. Throughout the years of negotiations, we have insisted on peace with honour. Let us be proud of the young Americans who serve with honour and distinction. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush, New York, May 2005. Repeat over and over that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in WW2 and the Jews will enjoy endless sympathy despite Israel continuing to commit many of the same crimes as the Nazis. But if you keep silent about the 26 million Russians killed by the Nazis in WW2 then Russian suffering becomes invisible. Let us see now how this has been applied throughout history. Every year, America celebrates the progress of Western Civilization with a propaganda campaign known as Columbus Day. 500 years ago Christopher Columbus set off to claim new riches for the Catholic Church. Arriving on a lush Hispaniola in 1492 he spoke of the 3 million Taino Indians who came out to greet them as the friendliest, kindest people in the world. He then systematically enslaved, raped, and killed them at such a rate that by 1555 every single one of them was dead. "Christopher Columbus not only opened the door to a New World, but also set an example for us all by showing what monumental feats can be accomplished through perseverance and faith." - George H.W. Bush, 1989 speech. Such perseverance and faith was the basis of Manifest Destiny in which the American government decided that God wanted white Christians to take over the continent. Their God clearly didn't like the 100 million Native Americans who lived in harmony with nature as 99% of them were systematically murdered. This fact is now celebrated with a propaganda campaign called 'Thanksgiving Day'. Only nobody speaks of land theft, genocide, or destruction of culture. Nobody questions the propaganda films depicting Native Americans as vile savages trying to stop God's civilized white settlers from making a home. They're too busy eating and celebrating unaware that the few remaining Native Americans hold a National Day of Mourning on the same day as a protest against this invasion. Ironically, the Americans also have a day for celebrating their victory over invaders. Independence Day is a celebration of 'The Declaration of Independence' which was created by intellectual men whose visions were similar to the superior ideals of Juche. Their vision for a glorious nation of equal and happy citizens who were not oppressed by the forces of religion and empire now lies in pieces crushed beneath the uncontrolled drive for profits that have lead to enormous human suffering and environmental destruction. But America is not the only perpetrator of crimes against humanity and the planet. Imperialism is in the heart of the British occupying India and running Opium Wars out of China. It twitches in the spine of the wicked Japanese; the French in every continent and the World Bank and IMF in every poor country since World Ward Two all have committed grave crimes against humanity in their search to conquer, steal, and erase memories with their lies. Celebration of a nation. Give us a hand. Celebration of a nation - let's make it grand. Lies like Australia Day a celebration of the day in 1788 when Australians who are merely geographically displaced European criminals deemed unworthy of being on British soil were sent off to settle as far away as possible. These low-grade humans call Australia 'The Lucky Country' But their arrival was not so lucky for the Aborigines, who had been there for 40,000 years. For them - the oldest human presence on Earth - the 'Lucky Country' is a propaganda phrase used to cover up Australia's most enduring taboo: Genocide. White Australians don't like that word. They admit to words like pacifying. Killing. Cleansing. Excluding. Exterminating. Poisoning. Shooting and starving anything but genocide anything but the truth. Look at this film called 'Australia'. It was made with large tax breaks by the Australian white government to advertise Australia as the Lucky Country. It used an Aboriginal child to distract people from the ongoing genocide there and the fact that Australia is now a dumping ground for nuclear waste by its British and American masters. Another country that refuses to acknowledge its psycopathic past is Japan a failed empire that tries to cover up all of its vile and putrid atrocities. While the world cares for threatened species, the Japanese butcher them relentlessly. The Japanese even enjoy luring dolphins into harbours and murdering them in a rage. This barely disguised need to mutilate life is no surprise to us in Korea. But we will come to this shortly. First, let's examine how propaganda was turned into such an effective weapon by the West. The Birth of Propaganda. It is a remarkable fact that modern propaganda began with the British who established a secret war propaganda bureau in 1914 in order to sway American public opinion and gain sympathy for the Allied cause. It was headed by George Creel, who described it as: "A vast enterprise in salesmanship - the world's greatest adventure in advertising." His immediate job was to convince the pacifist American people that a war some 4,000 miles away was worth fighting, even though American soil was not threatened. Hollywood helped this cause by exploiting a weekly film audience of 80 million with titles such as: 'The Hun Within' 'The Kaiser' 'The Beast of Burden' and 'The Claws of the Hun' which all suggested that the German threat was right on American soil. The process worked so well that Americans learned to hate German civilians almost as much as the targeted German government and just six months after his re-election on a 'Stay out of The War' pledge, President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany. One week later, the US set up its own propaganda organization: the Committee on Public Information which became so successful that it continues to this day as the United States Information Agency. While the British abandoned propaganda in peacetime the Americans maintained its use under the leadership of Creel Commission psychologist Edward Bernays who argued that American public opinion must be engineered from above by society's few masters the 1% to control the rabble. His first experiment was to convince American women that smoking was glamorous and liberating despite common fears that smoking was associated with prostitution. He did this by hiring models to march in New York's Easter Parade each holding a lit cigarette and wearing a banner proclaiming it a "torch of liberty". The business world then turned to Bernays to indoctrinate citizens with the capitalist story until the masses willingly adopted the ideia that America is a country "of big business, by big business, and for big business." "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" - Benito Mussolini. Meanwhile, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was openly thanking the British and Americans for their propaganda model and put it to good use for rallying the German people to war. Do you want, if possible. Even more total, more radical war than we can even dream of? Histórical documents prove that Goebbels ordered stormtroopers to burn down the German Reichstag, which he blamed on the Communists. This had the desired effect of frightening the population who surrendered their civil rights and enabled the Nazis to swiftly transform Germany from Republic to Fascist State and launch WW2. Cover Ups and Omissions 35 million lives were given up in WW2 in patriotic fervour created by propaganda campaigns. Australia marches with Britain! Land of plenty. Land of untold resources. All placed gladly, willingly, at the feet of Mother England. Look carefully at this man. He is the. Emperor of Japan, whose forces have committed the appalling atrocities against British, Empire, and Chinese troops. And civilians, men and women, in Hong Kong. These are the swine who bound and bayoneted our helpless soldiers in their hands. If these pictures serves to kindle a flame of vengeance throughout the civilized world, they will have served their purpose. Let the cry be vengeance. Bloody vengeance! For the second time, the American public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. Another war - not for me - America should keep out of it and I know I will. If war breaks out in Europe I think this country should heed the advice of its first president and avoid all foreign entanglements. In the event of war in Europe, I think we should stay out of it entirely. So President Franklin Roosevelt needed something that could provoke Hitler into declaring war on the U.S and frighten the public into action. He did this by deliberately failing to warn his fleet commanders that a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was imminent. The warnings came to him from the governments of Britain, Australia, and the Soviet Union and are now a matter of public record. We in Korea were among the first to alert the Americans because we know better than anyone what the vicious Japanese are capable of. More power to you, President Roosevelt! The entire country's behind you, filled with hope and patriotism. As if using propaganda to send their pacifist population to war wasn't bad enough. Consider how America repaid its people for defeating the Nazis: Operation Paper Clip. Operation Paper Clip was the safe transfer of Nazi scientists and operatives into the CIA. Nazis like Josef Mengele - the infamous 'Angel of Death' who carried out live experiments on humans in the death camps. These death industry pros were given new identities as US citizens and employed in US laboratories to develop a dazzling array of mind-control programs for the CIA. As well as new products and ideas for US bio-chemical warfare expansion. Not only did companies like General Electric, DuPont, Ford and Bell help with Operation Paperclip but so did Americans like Prescott Bush - the patriarch of the Presidents George Bush. Documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress show that he committed treason continuously between 1924 and 1951 first by using Jewish slave labour in collusion with the Nazis and then by bringing those Nazis and their assets into America. Despite being a traitor to his country, this Nazi collaborator became a senator and his family has assumed great power in America. But they are not the only fascist family to thrive from tyranny against humanity. Court records show that the Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was selling more oil to Hitler's war effort than to the Allies and for this, a federal judge ruled John D. Rockefeller committed treason against the United States. Treason. The most heinous crime of all. Prior to WW2, this man joined fellow traitor Prescott Bush and the British Royal Family in sponsoring the eugenics initiatives that gave rise to Hitler's racial hygiene programmes. Horrifyingly, today the Rockefeller family, the U.N and World Health Organization remain at the forefront of administering "population programs" designed to reduce world populations to more manageable levels. One can only imagine what terrible ideas these monsters have in store for us. To understand how Rockefeller avoided being punished for treason, we need to go back to WW1 when Germany was winning the war without a single shot being fired on German soil. David Ben-Gurion - the head of a powerful group of Zionists - and the American Rothschild family approached the British with the promise to bring the Americans into the war. In return they wanted Palestine. The British agreed to this land theft and, at the cost of American lives and money which has never been repaid they signed the Balfour Declaration, which was addressed to Lord Rothschild from the British Government promising Palestine to the Rothschild Zionists as "a national home" for Jews. This is both sinister and unnecessary since Jews lived peacefully for thousands of years amidst the Arab majorities in the Middle East and had no desire to steal their land. The Zionist collaboration with the British worked: Germany went from winning the war to capitulating and signing The Versailles treaty at - where else? The Rothschild's Palace. Palestine was then declared a British mandate and the Zionists were able to swiftly colonize Palestine after the Second World War. On May 14th 1948, after Rockefeller leaned on smaller countries in the UN to vote Israel into the United Nations Israel declared its "independence from British mandate". Today, the British Mandate over the land of Israel ends. We declare a Jewish State in the ancient land of Israel. It will be called The State of Israel. And one year later had claimed 78% of Palestine despite only owning 6% of it. The first Prime Minister of Israel was Zionist David Ben-Gurion who employed Reuters - which was owned by the Rothschild Zionist organization to start an enormous propaganda campaign, which continues to this day. Complicity. Once Israel was established with UN approval and the world was sold on the fairytale of Jews finally returning to Israel David Ben-Gurion started a campaign of ethnic cleansing. "We have taken their country We must do everything to insure they never return We must use terror, assassination, intimidation," "land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." - David Ben-Gurion 1948. For over six decades Israel has tenaciously pursued this hateful agenda of colonization. Ethnic cleansing murder terrorism land theft and cultural genocide with great success thanks to American tax-payers who give $3B in direct economic and military assistance each year. It is widely understood that this money is currently being used to build this apartheid wall that costs an estimated $1m per mile. "Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of "their liberty and property perpetuated a system of gross discrimination." â€' Nelson Mandela Israel has become Nazi Germany destroying their victim's land, confiscating their property putting them in concentration camps even stamping numbers on their hands a practice that lead to Yaffa Yarkoni, holder of the Israel Prize, to speak out: "The Territories should be given back and that's it we should learn from the Holocaust not to abuse and humiliate other peoples." Yaffa Yarkoni is talking about Article 49 of the Geneva Convention which says that no state may put its own civilians as settlers into occupied territories. "Settlers" and "settlement" are of course propaganda phrases that evoke legitimate and comforting feelings of finding a home. However, as acclaimed journalist Robert Fisk writes in his novel 'The Great War for Civilization': "The far more disturbing - and far more accurate - word for Israel's land-grabbing in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967 is colonizing. Settlers are colonists" - Robert Fisk. So why doesn't the world condemn Israel and demand it's withdrawal from the Occupied Territories? Why is America the only country still fervently supporting Israel and its policies? Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa observes that. "The Israeli government is placed on a pedestal in the US, and to" criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic. People are scared in the US to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful." Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Censorship. The most important propaganda victory for Israel has been selling the ideia that it is the victim and the Palestinians are the terrorists. They do this by controlling the media. According to Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer the Holocaust is constantly exploited to deflect criticism of Israel and its own immoral policies. "Hardly a month goes by without a new TV production, a new film, a new drama, new books, prose or poetry, dealing with the subject, and the flood is increasing rather than abating." - Professor Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. The reality is that America's relationship with Israel could not withstand public scrutiny which would quickly expose Israel not as a victim but the most powerful country in the Middle East. It is the world's fourth largest nuclear power and the fifth largest arms producer; it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons but thanks to America has never signed a non-proliferation treaty or agreed to international inspection; it is also an occupying power in a stolen land that is not held accountable for its actions by anyone. "Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed." This was said by an Israeli army officer who was acquitted of any wrong-doing after shooting 13 year old school girl Iman al-Hams seventeen times. After confirming the kill to his soldiers, he emptied a full magazine into her head. The world never finds out about these things because Israel doesn't allow it. It calls itself a democracy but uses a type of propaganda called censorship, where certain phrases and words are not allowed: Journalists are not allowed to use the word Palestine; it's. "The terrorist infrastructure." These territories are not occupied, they are: "disputed." These are not humans seeking freedom from oppression, they are: "terrorists." This is not an apartheid wall. It is: a "security barrier". This is not assassination and murder. It is: "pacification." This is not state-sanctioned terror. It is: "self defense." This is all part of a carefully orchestrated plan to dehumanize their victims a tool learned from what the Nazis did to Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies and the mentally diminished. International Diplomacy. This propaganda phrase is needed when the imperialist decides to carve up or give away something that doesn't belong to them like Palestine or Korea. Thanks to Western propaganda half the world still believes their invasion of Korea in 1950 was needed to fight Communism. They have no ideia that Our Eternal Leader was trying to unify Korea after their leaders tore us apart for war profiteering. They remain ignorant of why we feel han towards this grave injustice. And what was the result of this manufactured war? A bombing campaign that destroyed 75% of our country and killed 4 million of our citizens. The American bandits also tested biological weapons by dropping infected insects and other agents on us and our Chinese brothers and sisters. Despite these evil and cowardly acts, the West was unable to defeat our glorious nation in the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War. Despite a record 7 threats with nuclear weapons by the Americans, with their enormous wealth and military might we remain undefeated winning one victory after another and we are now their longest running adversary. They are afraid of us. But we are not afraid of them. The Americans label us "unpredictable" and dangerous but America is the only nation insane enough to use nuclear weapons on their fellow human beings. Rivers and streams throughout the city began to boil. People evaporated where they stood, leaving shadows of their bodies scorched onto the streets. In a matter of seconds, 4 square miles of Hiroshima became an atomic wasteland. Several minutes passed, then a black rain began to fall on the city. Sticky, pebble-sized drops of radioactive ash. And it is America that has invaded 37 countries in the last 50 years. We have invaded none. Even our limp-wristed brothers and sisters in the South feel Han towards the 33,000 imperial occupiers on their land. They also want the Americans to leave so we can be reunited as one Korea. Don't the consumer slaves of the West want to know why their forces are occupying our country? Do they care? Do they even know? The answer is that most of them don't know and don't care because their owners have full control over what they see and think. Television. Far more seductive than opium infinitely more effective at shaping behaviour and expectations than alcohol and religion television is the most powerful weapon of psychological warfare in history. Consumer slaves in the West schedule their lives and relationships around watching television. They use it as a babysitter for their youth and wake up to this drug; consume it whenever possible during the day, and go to sleep with it. They even take it with their meals. Television, or TV as they call it in the West, doesn't kill. It pacifies turning viewers into compliant zombies. They wear a vacant, glassy-eyed look on their faces because they are in a trance-like state. This is ideal. Now the consumer is sitting still and ready for indoctrination. No force is necessary here; he is a willing participant. It is no mistake that happiness in the West peaked in the 1950's before television was used to enforce capitalism's consumer message. The message that you are not happy. Not unless you buy this product. Look like this person. Or drink this beverage. The West calls these images advertising. Advertising. Advertising is both propaganda and propaganda distributor. Advertising is about hawking product and creates artificial needs since most products are completely unnecessary. Advertising unashamedly fosters unhappiness with oneself and with ones possessions. In fact, the very purpose of advertising is to open up emotional vulnerabilities and make people feel that without this product, they are defective. You need to protect your skin. You need to hydrate your skin. You need to moisturize your skin, and you need to repair your skin. Corporations employ psychologists, writers and filmmakers to sell what is essentially the same product. A certain toothpaste, for instance, claims to have a feeling of freshness. This one claims to have dazzling strips of whitening ability while this one is for people who claim to have teeth so sensitive that it feels like they've been stung by lightning. One of the tricks of effective advertising is to identify the product with a highly desirable quality that has widespread appeal. If you buy this, you will have clear skin and become attractive to others. Use this product and pretend that you, too, can be a farmer. Drive this car, and appear liberated and adventurous like these actors. Advertisements are nothing but bait laid out for certain types of consumers. These same methods are used to glorify the corporations who make these products. This is called "corporate" propaganda. For example: The General Electric Company likes to boast about its 'Imagination at work' which includes money lending and manufacturing equipment for building missiles and other armaments. The truth is that corporations exist only to make money and are even legally compelled to prioritize making profits over competing interests such as the wellbeing of consumers. And there is no such thing as enough profit for the capitalist. - This is why they promote globalization. - The new slogan for empire. It allows them to promote their symbols, also known as brands by using slave labour in third world countries. These imperial brands are a symbol of value and meaning like a flag but their only allegiance is to profit, not country. Their goal? Maximum profit. Their target? Human beings: Turn them into mindless consumers who crave their product and keep buying it at any cost to their country, fellow citizens, and the environment. And for what? Look at the background of this commercial. This product is for those with money and high social standing according to the image. This is how the bizarre need to appear superior to friends, fellow workers and neighbours is mercilessly enlarged and exploited. But advertising is not just for adults. Propagandists spend $12B per year specifically targeting children to form consumer habits early on. They can ingrain their brand by repeating it over and over until the child is indoctrinated and manipulated beyond control. By 18 months, babies in the West can tell the difference between brands and by 2 they're asking for brand products by name. From the age of 7, the average child has seen 20,000 TV commercials every year. One, two, three, four. Not gonna wear it anymore. There is only one other group more coveted and groomed by advertisers than any other: pre-teen and teenage girls. The propagandists call this the Tween market but in fact it is corporate paedophilia. The aim of corporate paedophiia is to make young people feel inferior and defective by using images that are unattainable and these images are used against consumers for the rest of their lives to keep them feeling inadequate unless they buy their products and stick with their brands. The fashion industry is the same. Wear this and you might fit in. Look like this and you will be attractive and popular like the people in these gossip magazines. These people are called 'celebrities'. Where do we begin...? The Cult of Celebrity. While it is natural for a person to become popular for being the best at what they do today in the West you are a celebrity if you simply appear on screen. Any screen. Even by mistake. You gain credibility and praise for nothing and the more you appear, the bigger a celebrity you become. If you become a big enough celebrity you then become a brand to be sold and traded like any other product. Meet Miss Kim Kardashian. She is famous for owning some clothes shops and going shopping. She wears diamonds and fur because they are symbols of wealth in the West. And because she believes she is superior to other humans, she ignores the true cost of these luxuries. This celebrity is called Madonna. She recently started a trend of shopping for children in third world countries, which gained her enormous publicity. She could have adopted one of the millions of poor black children in America who have no home but that would not have gotten her the attention she so desperately craves. Meet Mr. Tiger Woods an athlete who has made millions of dollars from his image as an honest, dependable family man even though the greedy golfer was also having sex with over a - dozen waitresses, porn stars and C. - Grade models at the same time. This is B-grade actor is Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger seen here with his wife when he was re-elected as Governor of California. Unlike the other B-grade actor who served as governor of California this actor won't get to be President because he made fathered a child with the family maid in their marital bed. These two actors are very big celebrities. Their names are Brad and Angelina and their brand is Brandgelina. They also shop for children in third world countries. Like other celebrities, they constantly complain about the media attention they get even though they have entire teams of propagandists who alert the media each time they go shopping for children or purchase a coffee wearing the latest designer clothes. The truth is that celebrities like these are merely collaborators. For example, despite the fact that tobacco in the West is laced with more than 2000 deadly chemicals designed to addict and kill humans celebrities frequently appear in magazines, movies and fashion shoots smoking cigarettes. Big Tobacco pays these trained-monkey collaborators of death enormous amounts to smoke and glamorize their product knowing that the youth want to be celebrities too. - Nicole, don't do that. - You promised. Sometimes celebrity exacts a terrible toll on the human brain, leading to confusion and misery. This poor man is Mr. Michael Jackson a very famous musician who recently died from a drug overdose. Let's look at what America did to this man: his ancestors were raped from Africa and brought to America as slaves and his childhood was spent working and performing for a violent father who colluded with record companies to profit from his talents. So much pain at the hand of capitalism leads to an identity crisis. These disturbing images are not film trickery but the result of a practice known as plastic surgery. In surveys, 9 out of ten women in the West are unhappy with their appearance which drives them to spend enormous amounts of money buying cosmetics, clothes, and plastic surgery despite the fact that they will never become celebrities or look like the models in the advertisements. This is consumerism. Many of the biggest celebrities have no talent at all. This very famous woman is called Miss Katie Price. Her brand name is Jordan and despite my research it seems clear that she doesn't actually do anything. Love it. This is Miss Paris Hilton. This narcissistic parasite comes from a wealthy hotel family. She glorifies her opulent lifestyle without guilt and is said to charge $150,000 to appear at parties. She even has a TV program called My New Best Friend Forever where people compete to be her new best friend. Proof that anything in the West can be reproduced and commodified for profit. This is part of a trend in the West for what is called 'Reality Television'. A type of freak show programming about talentless narcissists who like to talk about themselves and go shopping. In the field of American reality TV competition is fierce for the most grotesque example of such exploitation. There are shows like 'The Swan' where women who are deemed ugly enter a plastic surgery competition to see who can be turned into the most beautiful. She's just very masculine: face; body; basically everywhere. So we really need to change her body with a lot of liposuction, breast augmentation. We really need to feminize her face by doing a brow lift, rhinoplasty, take the fat out of her cheeks and her chin. She really deserves to be in this program. This one is called 'My Super Sweet 16' where children have tens of thousands of dollars spent on them simply because they are turning 16. They are treated like celebrities, despite the fact that they have achieved nothing and are out of touch with reality. But this is nothing compared to a reality series called 'The Bachelor' where a handsome, wealthy young man declares his commitment to picking a wife from a bevy of 16 potential brides. His sincerity in talking to each woman is chilling as are their claims to love him. After sampling all of the potential brides, he decides who to marry turning the most personal of decisions into a commodity an experience to be manipulated, packaged and sold worldwide. Distraction. Distraction techniques like television and celebrity magazines are the propagandist's best tools for keeping people from thinking and talking about important issues. Now they have another: The Games industry now generates more money than the film industry and has cemented the West as a culture of death, violence and destruction. This is Grand Theft Auto 4. Here, you can kill anything that moves and have sex with prostitutes. This game appeals so much to people it sold half a billion dollars worth of units in its first week of sale. Because gaming and animation desensitizes violence and death much of the billions in military spending goes into recruiting young, poor and uneducated people to fight their Fortune 500 wars using these same techniques. Most serve one weekend a month and two weeks a year. This game is based on something called WWE, which stands for World Wrestling Entertainment. Extreme violence cheered on by Americans baying for blood. They know the names of each one of these actors and yet they don't know where Britain is on the map despite the efforts of the British to be their best friends. 85% of American young adults can't find Israel, Iraq or Afghanistan on a world map. 30% of them can't find the Pacific Ocean on the map. 75% of them don't know the population of the U.S and 11% of them can't even find it on a map. This is ideal of course: keep the masses ignorant and pacified on the couch distract them with violence, death and the illusions of celebrity. Reduce resistance and thought. Make them choose the bland over the brilliant the meaningless over the thoughtful. And dazzle them with trash. This is now what people around the world accept as normal. This manufactured reality has become more real than this: 3.8 million homeless Americans. But the media doesn't want people to know about these Americans. Not unless they can be used for entertainment. Meet Miss Tyra Banks a former clothes model who now has a talk show where she pretends to be concerned about people's problems and society in general even though she has no qualifications to do this. Here she dresses up and pretends to be homeless in order to experience life on the streets which is impossible because she owns numerous homes and great wealth. The audience doesn't question this charade but instead it willingly feeds into her need to talk about herself. Here we see America's Next Top Model where everything is covered in her Tyra brand. Everyone has to shout and scream and appear delighted at the mere mention of her name. In this episode she has the contestants made up to pose as blood-splattered and mangled corpses while across the other side of the world her fellow Americans were shooting, stabbing, and blowing up an estimated 1.8 million Iraqi civilians. Like most Americans, she doesn't know or care about these numbers. She is concerned only about a life of style over substance. Terrorism. There are now more propaganda-filled screens and magazines than at any other time in history and these are controlled by just five giant media companies. This creates more opportunities to distract people from what really matters. More opportunities to brainwash them. More opportunities to sell them poisoned food and drugs they don't need. More opportunities to drip feed them a meaningless, distorted reality. No, this is not a Hollywood blockbuster. The planes crashing into these towers are real and these buildings crashed to the ground, including one that wasn't hit by anything at all. The American population was terrorized, hypnotized, and traumatized by repetitive showings of the devastation with the media repeating over and over that it was a terrorist attack. However, 11 years after that day, it seems certain that everything was staged like a Hollywood blockbuster. Logic, physics and history point to this incident being another false flag operation like the bombing of the German Reichstag, Pearl Harbour, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident and polls in the US confirm this: 87% of Americans now believe that 9/11 was a contrived pretext for an endless War on Terror and the opportunity to remove their democratic rights and liberties. One by one the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice. But the real threat to Americans is not terrorism. Between 2001-2009, the number of deaths from terrorism stood at 3,000. In the same period, there were 192,000 deaths by homicide; 204,000 Drunk Driving; 360,000 Suicide; 456,000 Second Hand Smoke; 873,780 Diabetes; 4,622,268 Cancer; 5,304,000 Smoking Related; 6,238,284 Heart Disease. Today our nation saw evil. We will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. But their leaders focus only on the phantom dangers of terrorism while allowing drug and food companies to make more and more poisonous food that is killing its people like an internal, unspoken genocide. They even protect these killer companies: cigarettes for example are the only consumer product that doesn't have to list its ingredients on the packet. To be fair, it would be difficult to fit the names of 2000 poisons on such a small box. Here we are reminded that wars are not fought for flags and citizens but for corporations. The 'War on Terror' engineered by American propagandists to frighten and control their people is impossible to win but endlessly profitable. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." - George W Bush, Washington, May 2008. The Revolution Starts Now. We are the only country left on the planet that has not been invaded by Imperial propaganda. We have not succumbed to their tyranny and we never will because we know what the ruling 1% is afraid of: They are afraid of real democracy. They are afraid that people will begin to recognize their propaganda and start rejecting it. They are afraid people will demand more power than the fraudulent auctions passed off as elections. They are afraid people will begin organized Resistance and stop obeying laws designed to dis-empower them. They are afraid people will start asking why they have to fight wars for the Fortune 500 companies. They are afraid that people will start to realize that those who commit atrocities against humanity have names and can't hide behind flags and corporations forever. They are afraid the people will gather in mass crowds and make citizen arrests or worse. More than anything, they are afraid that the world will decide it wants a new beginning a revolution that has no place for the pillagers and plunderers and exploiters. We are the headquarters of this world revolution! We will fight to the death to defend our peaceful nation and Beloved Leader from the cruelty, exploitation, greed enslavement and violence against helpless peoples everywhere. We will defend ourselves as we defend the rights of billions of humans who do not benefit from 500 years of Western civilization and the cancerous empire of corporate collusion. We must remain vigilant at all times and be alert to their insidious attack on the mind. For they have come before and they will come again.

Bill Maher travels across the world interviewing people about God and religion. He examines the tenets of the Abrahamic religions and raises the questions of homosexuality, Jesus’s existence, the Sabbath laws and Islamic extremists. Religulous, the documentary’s title, is a portmanteau of the words religious and ridiculous. Maher disagrees with the concept of organised religion, arguing that it makes the world a more dangerous place by inspiring fanaticism while shunning scientific evidence. His journey takes him to numerous destinations, including the Vatican, Jerusalem, Salt Lake City and London, meeting people from a variety of backgrounds, including Christians, Hasidic Jews, Muslims and former Mormons. Religulous is an honest, if somewhat irreverent film challenging the notions of God and religion throu

https://actfiles.org/the-impact-groundbreaking-documentary/ https://rumble.com/v5749hh-the-impact-groundbreaking-documentary.html "THE IMPACT" is a groundbreaking documentary, based on an extensive independent investigation into the activities of a transnational network of terrorist organizations that reveals for the first time the methods of mass manipulation and the connections between major world events such as the 9/11 attacks, the epidemic of school shootings, the Waco tragedy, the war between Ukraine and Russia, the looming threat of the Fourth Reich's global dominance, the creation of modern concentration camps for prisoners of conscience, and the invisible genocide that is happening right now. A hidden war for the future of all humanity is being waged, with the battlefield being your very consciousness. In this war, the main strategy of the enemy of democracy is to implement its plans through your actions, by influencing your thoughts, decisions, and actions with precisely calculated manipulative techniques. As a result, without even realizing it, you become traitors to your country, your people, your children, and even yourselves, merely by falling under the influence of the enemy's covert attack. "THE IMPACT" reveals hidden methods of manipulating public consciousness through informational terrorist attacks - targeted and organized campaigns, carried out through the media and aimed at destabilizing society as a whole. The result: civil unrest, protests, revolutions, and civil war. This is more than a film; it's the most crucial documentary since the defeat of Nazism. It's the key to understanding our times. A puzzle that brings all the pieces together. Until now, you've only seen fragments, but after watching this film, the complete picture will become clear. Prepare for a global revelation, the triumph over an invisible enemy, and the dawn of a new era. An era where Freedom and Democracy prevail. "THE IMPACT" is a film that doesn't just talk about history but changes it. Watch “The IMPACT” now and discover the hidden truths that will forever change your perspective on the world. ____________________ "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." — George Washington, the 1st President of the United States of America. Disclaimer. The creators of "THE IMPACT" have produced this film, dedicating their time and resources to ensure that this crucial information reaches a global audience. This is a non-commercial project driven by a commitment to freedom of speech, universal human rights, and the preservation of democracy. Сopying and using the entire video or partial fragments is permitted, provided the original meaning is preserved and the source is credited. ALL EPISODES OF “THE IMPACT” FILM 00:05:34 CHAPTER 1: The Enemy's Global Plan The Enemy's Weapon Is Terror Global Hidden Terrorism Influence Of Informational Acts Of Terrorism On Your Health How Informational Acts Of Terrorism Destabilize Society 00:35:55 CHAPTER 2: Transnational Terrorist Network of Anti-Cult Organizations Hidden Mechanisms of Inciting Hatred Brainwashing Deprogramming Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross Anticultist Steven Hassan Ideological Center Of Anti-cult Groups Mass Media Are Accomplices Of Anti-cult Terrorists Alexander Dvorkin's Anti-cult Terrorist Activities Anticultists’ Influence On Law-enforcement Agencies Criminal Scheme By Anti-cult Terrorists How to Defend Your Rights and Freedoms 02:44:19 CHAPTER 3. Anti-Cultism As A New Form Of Nazism Nazism has Never Disappeared 03:10:34 CHAPTER 4: Crimes of Anti-Cultism Against Humanity Genocide and Holocaust The Falun Dafa Case: Terror in China The “Ukraine” Case 04:12:28 CHAPTER 5: The Abode Of Anticultism The “Russia” Case The Civilizational War 04:59:07 CHAPTER 6: How Civil War is Being Fomented in America Mechanisms of Artificial Provocation of School Shooting Incidents by Anti-Cult Representatives Ways To Prevent School Shootings The “Waco” Case Role of Mass Media in the Waco Tragedy Aftermath of the Waco Tragedy Oklahoma City Bombing 08:05:16 CHAPTER 7: The Trial Reparations The SHIELD Conclusion

https://rumble.com/v58nnkl-july-27-2024.html TIMECODE 00:00 Introduction. ”The Impact”: an Ahead-of-its-time Film 03:17 Address to the Creators of "The Impact" 05:01 The Rise of Global Anti-Cultism: A Hidden Threat Exposed 11:14 Puzzle Coding: The Psychological Manipulation Behind School Shootings 11:56 45th US President Donald Trump and Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico Assassination Attempts: The Key Role of Puzzle Coding Method 15:00 Why Watching “The Impact” and Learning about the Problem of Puzzle Coding can Help Reduce Mass Shooting Cases by 80% 16:24 Consequences “The Impact” will Cause 18:21 Anti-cult Organizations - Tip of the Iceberg of Global Anti-Cultism 19:37 Civil War in the USA. First Step in the Enemy's Final Strategy 22:27 Real Reasons Behind the Waco Siege Tragedy in 1993 28:02 Collapse of the European Union. Second Step in the Enemy's Final Strategy 30:26 Civilizational War Between Muslim and Non-Muslim Worlds. Third Step in the Enemy's Final Strategy 36:12 Rise of Muslim Tension in Russia: Crocus City Hall and Dagestan Terrorist Attacks 38:48 The Role of Migration Flows from Muslim Countries to Europe in the Civilizational War 40:21 Scenario of the Civilizational War 45:31 Addressing the Real Scale of the Climate Crisis 46:46 The True Reason Behind Rapid Rise of Meteorological Hazards on Russian Territory since August 2023 and how it is Related to Banning ALLATRA in Russia 49:39 Dangerous Tendencies in the Earth’s Seismic Activity 50:37 President Putin's Role in Solving Global Crisis 52:15 The Resurgence of Nazism 56:50 Signs of Fascism and Nazism in Modern Russia 1:17:42 The Intertwining of Church and State supported by Anti-cult Organizations 01:19:17 Direct Appeal to Vladimir Putin 01:24:04 Hidden influence of Anti-Cult Organizations on Russia’s President and Russia 01:31:20 How Nazism Transformed German Society and is Transforming Russian Society Today 01:34:35 Patriarch Kirill's Statement echoes Nazi Germany's Protestant Pastor Rhetoric 01:36:56 The Role of the Church in Inciting Nazism in Modern Russia 01:38:28 How Nazi ideology is imposed on President Putin 01:45:55 Who Stands Behind President Putin 01:55:58 The Climate Catastrophe 01:57:04 Consequences of Unjust Persecution and Expulsion of ALLATRA International Organization from Russia. 01:58:13 Economic Losses due to the Climate Disasters in Russia since August 2023 and Who Should Be Held Accountable For It 02:03:47 Public Warnings of Dr. Cholakian and Mr. Danilov were not Heard 02:07:47 The Importance for President Putin to Become Aware of the Real Scale of Climate Threat Leading to Russia’s Destruction 02:11:27 How President Putin is Manipulated 02:13:36 Call for a Face to Face Meeting 02:16:18 Religious Rituals can not Combat the Climate Crisis. Science Can 02:19:47 Necessity of Establishing a Moratorium on Wars and Weaponry Use and Production for 100 Years. President’s Putin Role in It 02:21:56 How People of Russia will Remember President Putin 02:25:37 Warning President Putin About Assassination Attempts 02:28:27 Dr. Cholakian is Breaking Protocols with Urgent Appeal 02:31:49 - Disclosure of an order from Russian authorities on the liquidation of Dr. Cholakian and Mr. Danilov 02:37:42 The Role of Russian Officers 02:39:47 Final Appeal

John Perkins was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, governments of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. John used development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGiEwVos3x0 00:00 - Applying for NSA; Going to the Amazon 09:02 - Shuar people of Ecuador 15:34 - Saved by a shaman 25:36 - "touching the jaguar" 32:09 - Collapse of Mayan civilization 41:27 - Edgar Mitchell 51:25 - Working for the shadow government 54:50 - America's strategy to build an economic empire 01:05:02 - Becoming an "economic hitman" 01:09:58 - CIA "Jackals" 01:12:14 - Red tide of communism 01:18:53 - Indonesia 01:25:22 - Realizing the evil plot 01:36:11 - Presidents removed by CIA 01:40:22 - How China took over Ecuador 01:56:08 - America's next move 02:05:27 - Putin 02:13:45 - Surviving assassination attempt 02:24:35 - Befriending CIA hit men 02:29:30 - CIA's domestic influence 02:36:45 - World Bank / Pandemic corruption 02:41:48 - Aliens are here 02:45:31 - Death economy

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I'm Afshin Rutansi, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE. Amidst the ongoing UK-US-EU armed Gaza genocide, it's been a week since the likely next president of the USA survived a shot to the head in suspicious circumstances. The Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump came after years of US military-industrial-media censorship complex attacks on him for being an unpredictable servant of oligarch power, as opposed to the faithful, demented lapdog Biden. Will either make any difference to the slaughter of Ukrainians and Palestinians in the US proxy wars, or is street protest rather than elections the only peaceful means open to Americans wanting an end to US international wars on the poor? A reason why a Supreme Court decision has de facto banned political protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Next week, the Answer Coalition will try to surround the Capitol building in Washington, DC. They will demand the arrest of Israeli PM Netanyahu, as he addresses the US Congress. Brian Becker is the national director of the Answer Coalition and joins me now from Washington, DC. Brian, thanks so much for coming on. You've been organising demonstrations in the streets, publishing against the powerful for decades. I mean, how has it come to this, you needing to protest the idea of Netanyahu accused of genocide addressing your corrupt politicians next week in the Capitol in DC? Well, it's not the first time that Netanyahu has addressed both houses of Congress. When President Obama was pursuing the Iran nuclear arms deal, so-called, Netanyahu came to both houses of Congress and basically trashed the most important foreign policy objective of the then sitting president of the United States. And again, he received standing ovations from both sides of the aisle. It's even more disgraceful though this time, much more disgraceful, because the whole world has watched in real time, in real time, a genocide carried out by Netanyahu, orchestrated by Netanyahu. Netanyahu is the singular person who has done the most to prevent the ceasefire from taking place. And for Netanyahu to come at this moment to speak before both houses of Congress, to receive a hero's welcome, a hero's welcome from both of the establishment parties, it's a real disgrace. Prior to his address to Congress, he will be meeting with Biden in the White House on July 22nd. So we have protests going on for all three days, but on July 24th, when he speaks before both houses of Congress, tens of thousands of Americans of all walks of life will be surrounding the Capitol saying no to genocide and saying, yes, Netanyahu should be arrested. As a matter of fact, we're gonna have a giant arrest warrant, which people can not only observe and hold, but sign on to. And again, this is a mass movement that exists in the United States. It's something really different for Palestine. It's been going on since October 8th, the day when the Israeli massacres really began. And we see a sea change in consciousness at the grassroots in America, but in Congress, it's the same old Congress, the same old plutocratic Congress tied at the hip to the Israeli war machine. Yeah, polls show 64% of the US public want a ceasefire despite Biden's envoy to the UN, Indra Thomas-Greenfield, putting her hand up to veto the ceasefire at the UN Security Council, famously. As to the difference, and it's bipartisan, those demonstrations you're helping to organize. As to the difference between Trump, the expected president in November, and Biden, is the forecast that Trump would just speed up the genocide, whereas Biden will keep it at its current pace? Or would Trump do something to save the lives of all those millions of Palestinians who now face death or starvation or a life-changing injury? Yeah, I think the variable here is what's going on in the ground in Gaza and what's going on in the ground throughout the Middle East, and I would include there in Lebanon. Left to their own druthers, so to speak, both Biden and Trump would want Netanyahu to have a full, all-out military victory, destroy Hamas and the Palestinian resistance once and for all, but that's not possible. And so if the aspiration of Trump or Biden is to completely eliminate the Palestinian people and their just struggle for self-determination and freedom, they're kidding themselves. That's not going to happen. Even now, after nine months by this powerful Israeli military, armed to the teeth, being resupplied with tens of billions of dollars of weapons, including 2,000-pound bombs, 1,800-pound bombs by the Pentagon, they haven't secured their military objectives of the defeat of the Palestinian resistance. They have succeeded at killing a lot of people. They've succeeded at killing a lot of children and their mothers and their grandparents. They've succeeded at making people in Gaza homeless and succeeded in causing famine, but they haven't succeeded militarily. So in terms of whether Trump or Biden will be a decisive difference, it's not all up to them. Yes, they have a lot of power. Yes, they have a big military, but the Palestinian resistance has shown by its resilience that it's not able to be conquered at this point. But whereas Trump clearly, and his vice president nominee, J.D. Vance, clearly favor a ceasefire agreement or a peace agreement about the war in Europe, things J.D. Vance has said, let alone what Trump has done and said, shows that any expanded war into Lebanon, into Iran, Syria, Iraq, would be more likely under a Trump presidency than under a Biden administration, or it doesn't really make any difference. I should add that Biden is still in the race at the time of this recording. Well, let's think back. Just we can hypothesize based on some recent history. Trump ordered the execution of General Soleimani in the Baghdad airport, January 3rd, 2020. Pro-Iranian forces in the region and Iran itself retaliated and struck U.S. military bases in Iraq. They struck 12 of them. And after that, Trump, instead of retaliating back, actually stood down because the U.S. realized that if they went forward with this war, a full-scale war with Iran, U.S. forces would suffer very heavy casualties. They're very vulnerable throughout the Middle East. So again, if it was just up to Trump, I think Trump would be glad to be a partner in genocide, a real, complete genocide. Biden, maybe not a full, complete genocide, a complete extinguishing of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but certainly embracing Netanyahu's objectives of all-out military victory. So I think in that sense, they're both the same. Trump is more, less prudent, let's put it, than some of the U.S. other policymakers, more reckless, more open to provocation. But I think aspirationally, they're about the same. And again, I think their power, though, is limited. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, they've been clear that these wars are good for the U.S. economy, quite brazen about the idea that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians killed on the battlefield in the proxy war on Russia is good for business and good for ordinary workers in the United States. How do you weigh up what it means for blue-collar workers, the American carnage, famously, as the expression went in the Trump inauguration speech? How do you compare them both? Because the head of the Teamsters is at the RNC convention and will be at the Democrat National Convention. Well, I think this notion that endless war is good for working people in the United States is not only false, it's basically rejected by most American workers. You look at the surveys and the polls, most people want a ceasefire in Gaza. And most people, including many who vote Republican, but many who vote Democrat, too, are disgusted that the United States is sending hundreds of billions of dollars for endless war against Russia, a proxy war in Ukraine. Yeah, but the U.S. government says it's recycled through so that it ends up on Main Street, USA, rather than to Zelensky's forces or to Netanyahu's. Well, in one sense, that's true. Much of the money never leaves the United States. It's really just contracts being signed with military industrial complex contractors. But those are capital-intensive industries. There's not many workers there, actually. Most cities in the United States do not have large numbers of industrial enterprises pumping out weapons. It's a very high-tech industry. It's very capital-intensive. It's not labor-intensive. And a lot of the subcontracting actually is taking place outside the United States. So the idea that this is a great boon, economic benefit, sort of a poisoned benefit that accrues to American workers is largely a fiction. But it's part of the demagoguery of the two parties who always say, as you mentioned, Blinken, Sullivan, they'll say, oh, it's good for American jobs. This is the same thing Reagan pushed, George H.W. Bush pushed. That's what Bill Clinton pushed. That's basically not true. The American people are spending $1.5 trillion. That's the real military budget, by the way. It's about $900 billion in the Defense Department. But hidden in the budget is another $600 billion that's going for the manufacture of weapon systems and the maintenance of the U.S. military-industrial complex. That's good for Wall Street. That's good for the banks. That's good for American capital. Not really a great benefit to the American working people. Yeah, because Biden continually repeats these talking points that he's a friend of the unions. You might have to remind us of what he did enacting legislation against the railway transport workers to stop a nationwide rail strike. I mean, Biden is not pro-union, is he? No, he's not pro-union at all. I mean, he's slightly less evil than the Trump National Labor Relations Board, but he's not pro-union. As you mentioned, that anti-union legislation wasn't enacted by Biden. It was enacted a long time ago, but it was implemented. It was imposed on the railway workers' unions by Biden this time. Because frankly, railway workers, if they go on strike in two weeks, could shut down the entire capitalist economy in the United States. That's how important rail is. So in these really important industries that are decisive and that would give working class people strategic leverage over government policy, those strikes are illegal. Same in different other key industries, including public service, government workers, transportation, et cetera. So Trump, I mean, Biden is pretending to be pro-labor because he wants hundreds of millions of dollars of labor donations. More and more workers, by the way, are turning against that. They're saying, let's stop funding either the Republicans or the Democrats. Let's use that money to organize unorganized workers. And 50 years ago, 33% of the U.S. workforce was union. Today, it's 6% in the private sector, 6%. It's one of the least unionized workforces in the country, which means workers don't have rights. You can be fired at will. You don't have benefits. You can be laid off on a moment's notice and your wages can be driven down. So Biden has done nothing for unionization except like mild some sort of talking points for labor, but he's done nothing. Brian Becker, I'll stop you there. More from the National Director of the Answer Coalition and host of the Socialist Program podcast after this break. Welcome back to Going Underground. I'm still here with the National Director of the Answer Coalition and host of the Socialist Program podcast, Brian Becker. Brian, at the end of part one, you were talking about how easy it is for workers, arguably, to shut down the United States. How precarious is the United States system right now? Many people saying that if the bullet had hit Trump a few millimeters one way or the other and Trump had been assassinated, there might've been civil war. How unstable is the republic? It's just below the surface. Very, very, very unstable with tens of millions of very angry people. Some vote Democrat, some vote Republican, some don't vote at all. That would be the majority, in fact. But there's a lot of anger. There's a lot of discontent, a lot of alienation. When you think back to the 1960s, we had JFK. He was assassinated November 22nd, 1963. After that, the massive escalation of US involvement in Vietnam took place. Five years later, his brother, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated after he won the California primary, meaning he would've been the Democratic nominee and very likely would've beaten Richard Nixon. And he had pledged to end the war in Vietnam. He was shot dead. And then Richard Nixon continued the war for five more years. A million more Vietnamese died, 30,000 more Americans died. George Wallace, who was contesting with Nixon for the far right vote in 1972, he was felled by an assassin's bullet. You had the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Malcolm X, 1965, Medgar Evers, NAACP in 64. Assassinations are typical of a period of political instability. In that time, it was because of the Vietnam War in particular, a war the US couldn't win. We are now in a new period, a declining empire. Everybody can see the US empire is declining. American soft power is in decline. The American economy has really been ravaged by three major economic recessions. They give them different names. It was the 2008 Wall Street meltdown or the 2020 pandemic where 60 million Americans lost their jobs. But about 30 or 40 million people in the United States have lost their jobs through mass layoffs since 1996. So you have big parts of the country that are hollowed out. At the same time, young workers in America can't afford to buy a home. The American dream that was always, you can buy a house, you can do better than your parents. Nobody believes that now. So we're entered a period of extreme political instability. If that bullet had not simply struck Donald Trump's ear, but would have actually killed him, I think we would be in a very, very different state right now in American politics. I think everything is so poised and so combustible for sort of a social explosion. Nobody knows exactly what the outcome would be, but we are living on very thin ice here in the United States. You would never think it if you're overseas. You think, oh, America is the richest country in the world, the biggest military in the world. Well, people once thought that about Tsarist Russia too, or other dynastic rules that had gone on for centuries. And suddenly you find out the soft underbelly of those governments are revealed when there's a shock to the system or a triggering event to the system. And sometimes an assassination is something like that. Of course, the greatest threat arguably right now is not even the threat of climate catastrophe. It is World War III because of this war against Russia, the NATO war on Russia through Ukraine. Trump clearly wants to address that. So just on that issue at all, because there'll be no change under Biden, Trump says he will end that war and they would open up peace negotiations. There'd be Georgia, not war, war. Does that mean that Western Europe will just follow the United States as usual as its vassal states? Or will Western Europe draw away from the United States and want to continue a war? Or does it just follow Washington's orders? Well, I would think based on the recent history that Europe does seem like a semi-colony of the United States, including some of the major biggest capitalist economies in the world. It's quite something when you think about the limited sovereignty that say Germany, which still has US military forces occupying it, which has been true since 1945, this sort of ability or willingness to go along with the United States, even when it's against the interests of their own country, their own people, their own economies. I don't know if Donald Trump will actually follow through on his vow to end the US involvement in the war in Ukraine against Russia. I don't know about that. Trump imposed more sanctions on Russia, certainly than Obama did. He was tougher in spite of all of the allegations by the Democrats that he was a puppet of the Kremlin. Actually, Trump's foreign policy was quite terrible quite terrible against Russia. So, Trump was saying anything to get elected. We don't really know. Right now, Trump only wants to win. Once he has achieved his victory, which I think will happen, then the real Trump foreign policy will be revealed. Will he end the war? It's hard to say. I don't think it's a matter of principle for Trump. And again, I think that Trump will do whatever the dominant wing or dominant force within the ruling class in America, and there is a ruling class, even though Americans are told, we're only just a big middle-class society, or maybe there's a few rich people and lots of poor people. We have a ruling class. It's a very experienced state. Some people on the right call it the deep state. I just call it the state because since 1945, when the US became the dominant empire in the world, replacing the British empire, the state has really directed US foreign policy and politicians come and go, but the state orientation is fundamentally unchanged. It doesn't really change very much at all. Okay, well, obviously for you and your fellow Americans, the future doesn't look so bright, but if Trump is elected, the oligarchs of Western Europe clearly don't like him, and it does have repercussions for vassal states in the US empire. Do you think we were seeing that when we saw victories from the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France, and we're seeing some victories reverberating in different vassal states as instability increases in Washington, DC and in Wall Street? I mean, one would hope. I mean, the multipolarity that we're now witnessing, unlike the unipolar power that came into existence after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp in 1991, that next sort of 25 year period where the US ruled the roost and basically Russia and China, at least in their core decisions at the UN were essentially appeasing the United States, hoping to sort of divert the war drive of the United States somewhere else rather than against them. That period has ended. The Russian invasion of Ukraine signaled the end of that period. We now live in a period of multipolarity, meaning different centers of power, but it's the beginning of a new period. Where will Europe stand? I mean, Europe right now seems to be completely cohered around its vassal status with the United States, functioning as a supine junior partner. And I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which I think the Biden administration deliberately provoked and wanted to have happen, was partly done to secure and fasten Europe to the United States. And that, at least in the first year or so, did happen. Where will Europe go? I don't know. The French election is extremely important. Everybody expected the far right to win. They did not win. The popular front groups by the left, sort of more far left and moderate left, they united wisely. By the way, Bolsonaro was defeated in Brazil. Modi didn't do as well as he expected in India. The election in Colombia, where for the first time in a long time, there's a progressive government in Colombia, there are signs of yearning for progressive social change that are manifesting themselves, even in the context of sort of a right-wing shift in American politics. I would say both Biden and Trump have shifted things to the right. Of course, some might say, so focused is the Biden administration on trying to destroy the Russian Federation before China, who knows what else? They've taken their eye off the ball from Latin America, from the Sahel in Africa and areas of Southeast Asia. Do you think a Trump presidency will be back on board? I mean, he's not going to make the same mistake as appointing a John Bolton-type figure who's been on this show as national security advisor, presumably. But will there be greater dangers now? You mentioned Colombia and not exactly a pink tide in Latin America, but there certainly has been progress in Africa, West Africa. Trump could signal great dangers for liberation movements in the developing world? I think he could because, one, Trump is very reckless. He's not prudent. He feels he has a messianic personality and he's willing to do anything. He thought for sure he could destroy the Maduro government in Venezuela. They pronounced Juan Guaido was the new president. Although I should just interrupt there, Brian, and say he subsequently said, and from John Bolton's memoirs, we understand that actually he favoured negotiation with Maduro in Venezuela. Obviously, Venezuela heading to the polls in a few weeks' time. But it was Bolton who was puppeteering Trump. I don't believe that. Bolton is a self-serving, far-right militarist whatever, and he's fallen out with Trump. Trump was all about bringing Maduro. He wanted that feather in his cap. And he also thought that he could overturn the Iran nuclear arms deal, which he did. He also thought he could reverse Obama's normalization opening to Cuba, which he did. And Biden continued both of those Trump policies, both in Iran and Cuba. So I don't believe Bolton on that. I think Trump was all about bringing down Maduro. I think that what we can expect from Trump is that if Trump feels that he can achieve anything, anywhere, like bringing down an independent government, I think he'll go for it. I think he's very likely to pursue a reckless policy. At the same time, you could see what he did with Korea. I mean, when he went to Singapore and to Hanoi and met with Kim Jong-un and issued the Singapore Summit, for instance, in June 2018, Trump, for his own reasons, he wanted to get a Nobel Peace Prize the way Obama had. Well, exactly. So he might want it again and want to taunt with all these different countries in his final presidential term. It could happen. Like in the case of North Korea, Bolton was the obstacle. He was the one who sabotaged the second summit in Hanoi. Bolton really did play that one. But Trump will feel a greater sort of freedom to do what he wants to do. So it's very unpredictable because he is an unpredictable figure. At the same time, my point being that the machinations or the machine, let's put it, the machine of the state, of the imperial state, it's a very deeply developed and well-practiced machine. Yeah, but Trump knows it because it's the second time around now for him, isn't it? He knows how that worked against him as he sees it last time around. I mean, you're saying, like many other people, that it's very difficult to predict, which is quite a thing to say about a president who's been president before. How should the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS institutions cope then, given he's unpredictable? Because they need to predict and forecast right now, given Biden clearly demented and unable to win another term. Yeah, I think in terms of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and all things related to China, that the Trump policy is going to be extreme against China. I think Trump will focus more like with a laser focus against China and against the associated organizations that are considered to be organizations with China as an anchor, like BRICS, like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. That's where Trump and his team are going. They feel that China must be stopped. And how will it be stopped? They hope that ultimately due to China, what happened to the USSR, the dismemberment of a very large government led by a communist party, Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, the areas in China that are not considered part of the main stream of China, the struggle to separate them will be accentuated. I think that the militarization and the deployment of US Naval and Air Force assets against China, which Biden has done already, but will go with great intensity under Trump. So I think the graver war danger now will be in the Pacific. I think the Pentagon is preparing for war. The quadrennial Pentagon report in 2018 when Trump was president was the one that said, we're changing US military doctrine. The war on terror is no longer the priority. Major power conflict is now the priority. And that has been sustained. So I think Trump is coming back there in terms of his foreign policy focus. Brian Becker, thank you. Thank you. That's it for the show. Our continued condolences, meanwhile, to those bereaved by UK-US-EU armed genocide. We'll be back on Monday to ask veteran Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin with back channels to Hamas whether the days of Israel are now numbered. Until then, keep in touch via all our social media if it's not censored in your country and head to our channel, goingundergroundtv on rumble.com to watch new and old episodes of Going Underground. See you Monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABJJpEQBAc This documentary goes over many philosophical concepts that inspired, and are presented in, the trilogy. They spend the first half on the original film, and the rest of the time then goes over parts 2 and 3, with a couple of things on the Animatrix shorts. It consists of clips of aforementioned releases and interviews. It does a good job of informing the audience about the various thoughts, although it would obviously take far longer to go over all the symbolism in them, and one can ask the very appropriate question if something anywhere near that definite and final is even desired, by viewers or the Wachowskis alike. That does mean that this is limited, but it is likely enough to enlighten and provide food for thought. In line with the series, this may provoke debate, rather than give answers set in stone. Whether one cares for this or not may depend on the extent of their knowledge on the subject, the old ideas, as well as how much they've thought about the presence of such in these three silver screen efforts. Obviously, it also makes a difference if one particularly wants to think about the meanings one could possibly take out of them. TEXT: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? Philosophy always needs examples. It needs illustrations. And the more lively and juicy those illustrations are, the more effectively you can get points across. Only try to realize the truth. What truth? There is no spoon. Philosophy is a very abstract subject and it doesn't lend itself very easily to dramatic or fictional, least of all film presentation. So, it's interesting when a a film succeeds in in doing it. It's very rare that you can find a movie that engages you in that and is damned entertaining at the same time. It's this sprawling, brawling, wonderful action adventure that works on that level so completely. What was startling to me was that the Wowski brothers managed to cram so much that was philosophically interesting into one featurelength movie. Wowsky brothers are very very uh concerned about piercing through the macity, piercing through the superficiality not just of America but of the of our own modern and postmodern society and culture. The philosophical issues in the matrix slaps you in the face. And don't worry about the vase or that vase. They're able to pose and set certain philosophical problems to a very broad audience. What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything? They've updated classic philosophical analogies like uh Plato's allegory of the cave and Deart's story of the evil deceiver in ways that actually interest people. Each character and each symbol is also sort of a hypertext of metaphor of illusion in philosophy in math or science, physics, biology, in computer language and in religion. It's a story of enlightenment. A way of looking at the world, a way of being in the world, a way of treating other people, a way of relating to authorities, a way of relating to underlings. God damn it, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe. My beliefs do not require them to. It's like this big thought experiment that helps us to think about things that are going to be really important in the future. Looking at the Matrix world as it's depicted in the movies, I think leads one to this radical revisionary metaphysics of how things could be. It's not just about making a movie. It is about also deep message. It's a very prophetic message, very progressive message and still entertaining, amusing, unsettling, soothing, all the things that great art ought to be. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it your entire life. I'm somebody who believes in truth. And I think that sort of everybody does in a certain sense. If you define truth loosely enough uh and and broadly enough as the truth is whatever is really the case. Once you have that, you're left with a problem of method. How are you going to discover what is really the case? One method traditionally is something like revelation where God somehow tells human beings what the truth is and so it just gives you the answer. But then there's another method that arises around science and philosophy which is the method that philosophers typically call critical reason. And the idea there is that human beings are going to figure out the truth for themselves. This isn't real. What is real? You still have to go out and do science. You still have to go out and do morals. You still have to go out and do art. Philosophy was always the coordinator of these. Philosophy always tried to stand back and say, "This is how they all fit together." And this is driven out of a sense of wonder about why am I here and what's going on? The really fundamental deep questions that human beings ask. A lot of people know more philosophy than they realize because philosophy is basically all around them. It's in the um the culture that they they live and breathe. I can't imagine anybody not being interested in philosophy because the questions are so fantastic. How do we know what we know? Or how can we be sure that what we think we know, we do know? How do I know that the world as it appears to me in my experience is anything like the world as it is in itself beyond my experience? Human consciousness. What is this thing? Our subjective experience of the mind and the world. Why do we have it? How is the mind related to the body? Do we have free will? What is causation? What's a law of nature? Why something is right or something is wrong? The radical inongruity and mystery at the center of things at the mystery of what is. what it means for God to be outside of time. What it means for God to be qualitatively other than anything we experience. Our relationship between ourselves and our behavior and the way our environment shapes or influences us. What can I know? What should I do? And what may I hope or put differently perhaps what is real? I'd rather spend my time thinking about that than boiling up colored liquids in a test tube which I don't understand anyway. You know the question just as I did. What is the matrix? The answer is out there. Neo, philosophy can go deeply into ideas, but unless those ideas grab people at some level, then you're going to talk past them. In philosophy, we use a lot of things that are called thought experiments where we suppose these sort of hypothetical cases and then ask what what do you think given this hypothetical? In science fiction, the these are like really wellw worked out thought experiments. Sometimes people say the basic question in science fiction is what if? You're doing some sort of thought experiment is another way of putting it. I'm saying what if I change the parameters of the world thus and so. Whenever Philip Dick was was talking about an altered reality or reality wasn't what it seemed. I mean on the one hand uh he was questioning reality but he was also talking about a political reality. He was talking metaphorically about a lot of the things that are discussed in the Matrix. To some extent, that led to the beginning of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction where we're trying to write literary science fiction. We're not the first people to have tried to do that, but we were the best. Cyberpunk. It's about uh the street having its own uses for high technology, people appropriating and altering technology um for their own purposes for uh to get ahead kind of get around the system or to for subversion. The theme of cyberpunk is people turning into machines and machines turning into people. there are these holes in lacuni and you know these faults and flaws and that the that the technologies rot and that there are sort of technical failures and that the PR gloss that's put out by the establishment is not really reality at all and you know if you back off a few steps you can sort of see you know a larger picture which is you know not particularly flattering Free your mind. I'm a sci-fi geek and a fantasy geek and a comic book geek and all of those things uh were present in the original Matrix. And so I immediately, I think, had the same reaction as geeks all over America. This is the ultimate geek movie. It's like watching, I don't know, the blooming of the rare Sumatran fungus or something to see guys who are like genuinely hip instead of very counterculturally aware having just a massive blowout the door style popular success. I am not as much a fan of action films as some other people. So the first time I saw The Matrix, I was overwhelmed by it, overwhelmed by the imagery and the ideas and didn't have a very clear coherent sense of how one should understand it. For the first time, I was so wowed by all of the effects that it it took a second viewing to actually start to think more clearly about all of the philosophical ideas that you could find in it. The philosophical aspects I think weren't obvious to people at the beginning. I thought when I watched it since I was a philosopher I could see what they were but it took a bit of work to see the philosophical especially as the film progressed and after a while people started to talk about those philosophical themes and then it became a subject of philosophical discussion. I have these memories for my life. None of them happened. What does that mean? The matrix cannot tell you who you are. But an oracle can. That's different. Film in some way articulates the modern myths that a culture finds relevant. This is a very savvy modern myth. One of the dominant metaphors that runs through a lot of stories in literature uh and myths and religion is that we're all on a journey or some kind of a quest in life. We're trying to go from one stage to the next and figure out how to behave ethically on that journey. And the myths are just a great storehouse of knowledge about that and techniques and ways to survive on the road of life so to speak. What we have in the Matrix trilogy is jazz mythology. You don't have a single rigid scheme. In the mythological content of the Matrix films, the WVskis are introducing little elements of mythology here and there, sticking them together, which is a very rich textured way of making a film. Jesus Christ, he's fast. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ. You scared the big Jesus out of me. Hope the oracle gave you some good news. In the first Matrix film, the mythological drive is clearly based around Jesus of Nazareth. You are the one new. It's all about prophecy and expectation of the one, which from a Christian perspective, that's what the Hebrew Bible is about. thoughts about expectation and prophecy of a messiah. Thomas Anderson. Anderson sounds a lot like Andros, Greek for man, which provides us with the phrase son of man. He dies and is resurrected. He can do miracles. So, it seemed like very overt Christian imagery. When I began to think about what kind of Christianity that was, it became clear to me that it wasn't just traditional Christianity, but it was Gnostic Christianity. Nazi Christianity flourished in the early centuries of the first millennium and it was a fierce competitor with traditional Christianity as we would understand it today. Gnosticism frames the fundamental human problem in terms of ignorance. The solution being enlightenment whereas traditional Christianity orthodox Christianity um tends to frame the problem in terms of sin and repentance. This is where the parallel to the matrix becomes so interesting. Nasticism would hold that the fundamental human problem is that we are diamonds in the mud. We are a soul or a spirit that's trapped in a material body and we need to get out because we are divine sparks and we don't belong here. There's a term in Buddhism called samsura and this has to do with the way we ordinarily perceive our world. The matrix which is a web of illusions in which people are inshed or trapped is napped parallel with the Buddhist notion of samsara. Ignorance is the problem within the matrix and within Buddhism and the solution is awakening which is achieved through knowledge. They're not forms of belief. You have to believe this and you're saved. They're forms of liberation or awakening. If you do these certain kinds of practice and consciousness, you can awaken to this light or this interior reality or this ultimate spirit. In a certain sense, you're living in a dream world until you wake up to that reality. The Matrix is a computerenerated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this. The point of the matrix probably is to raise questions about our world. It's to make us think about our own world in slightly different ways and maybe to make us ask questions about what the the real limits and bounds on our own behavior are. You know, you see the the scene at the end of the first movie where everyone's moving around in a sort of trancelike way and Neo seems to be the only one that in that sense is awake in the phone box. But that notion of awakeness seems to me more like a social and political notion. I don't look at the story of the matrix as being literally a story of man versus technology. It's much more about the robots and the machines and the computers represent rigid thinking. the institutionalized control which uh people generally allow themselves to be subjected to. You have a social critique on the outside dialectical materialism that's sort of marks filtered through Cornell West. But the irony is is that in in the matrix um people are the means of production eventually. this great symbol of people being batteries while they sleep. Their bodies are actually batteries that power the city of the uh the robots and this whole mechanical society. It's a very powerful symbol is people, you know, when they're completely asleep to what's going on around them are exploited to that extent. They're giving up their very life force to run the society in a lot of ways. When we become u passive consumerrist, you know, we're surrendering our life force. You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Cornell West has written about how black people can see themselves through white eyes. They don't see themselves with their own eyes as authentic human beings. They are viewing themselves through a framework of ideas. given to them by the hgeministic white society. I think that is an idea which the Wowski brothers have really taken to heart and incorporated as one of the strands in this multiplex of prisons that their people are breaking out of. Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many of them are so in so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. One ought to be suspicious of all forms of authority. One ought to be suspicious of all forms of obedience that require certain kind of blind submission to authority. The only thing that we know for certain is that nothing is certain. And that idea goes back in some form to Socrates. Socrates was famous for saying that he didn't know in particular what virtue was. and he wasn't sure that anybody did. Um, and in one place he says, "Perhaps only God knows this." Socratic wisdom famously is knowing that you do not know and knowing the limits of of things. This recognition of the limits of our knowledge seems to be foundational for beginning to remedy that condition. There's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. The Matrix succeeds in sucking in the viewer precisely in the same way that the allegory of the cave sucks in the reader. Allegory of the cave appears in the central books of Plato's Republic. We discover that there are prisoners who've been bound from infancy to a single place in a dark underground cavern. What they see is the interior of a cave wall and on it are projected shadowy images from a fire behind them. These prisoners don't know they're prisoners, don't think they're prisoners. This is the only reality that they've ever known. This level of reality Plato and his mentor Socrates equate to the level of reality at bottom. The life you've led is not in fact the totality of what is possible for you. And if you could release yourself from bonds you don't even see, you would then be able to see the world as it truly is. Similarly, we have Neo's situation in the Matrix. We have Trinity and Morpheus reaching out to Neo, bringing him through his own choice into being unchained or in this case unplugged. What does that mean? It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, cuz Kansas is going bye-bye. Miss Kentley, be what? Be real. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that asks the question, what is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. These questions of casting doubt on all of our knowledge was the first step in tearing down our knowledge, reducing it to its foundations and then building it back up again. Renee Deart, he was one of the great Renaissance geniuses. Decart was amazing. He was a great scientist and a tremendously imaginative and resourceful scientist. I think no scientist has ever been more ambitious. He thought he had a theory of everything. No, he saw himself ultimately as a natural scientist and philosophy for him was just part of his program. He wanted to get everything down to its foundations. When he performed that methodical doubt, the one thing he thought he could not doubt was cog. I think therefore I am. That is I as a thinker am as a as a race cognitance a thinking thing. His basic idea that we only have access to the content of our own minds gives us this thing called the problem of the external world. The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room, you can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. There are no general features, Day thought, that you can use from within a dream to be certain that you're dreaming. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. And he raised the question of the evil genius. He said, "How do you know there's not an evil genius deceiving you into thinking there's a world of people, tables, and chairs, and objects out there when in fact none of that exists?" Right now, we're inside a computer program. Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self. When the Matrix film came out, I thought, "Wow, this is Barkley for a popular mass audience." George Barkley was an Anglican bishop living in the 18th century Ireland. He came right after Sir Isaac Newton and he was very worried about the effects of the Newtonian worldview. Barkley realized correctly that if we follow the Newtonian ideology, you don't need God, you don't need spirituality, you don't need the soul, you don't need anything other than what can be described by equations. And that bothered him because he wanted to feel there is a divine presence in the world. Barkley had the most radical solution which was just to deny that there is a world external to our ideas. Reality just is the ideas that you have of it. What he said was, "Well, you have an overinflated conception of reality. Here's what reality is. Appearance is reality. To exist is to be perceived. So reality only exists in your subjective experiences. We think of ourselves as subjects over against objects. Subjects are these self-sufficient beings and objects are these things that they dominate and control." land as the story goes objectify this idea of being a self-contained subject is a daycart invention and that name is a daycart invention. It is not the spoon that bends it is only yourself. So he invents modernity and he invents it takes Kant to come along and finish it. Kant was taken by the question of well you know how can we know what things are in and of themselves? Is appearance any reasonable reflection of reality? And uh Kant is famous for concluding that um there's really very little we know about what reality is like in and of itself. And his point was that actually the mind has structures that impose structure on the world and actually create worlds in certain ways. So that we're not perceiving a pre-given world. But the structures of the mind are bringing forth phenomena created as much by the mind as by whatever it is that's out there. When you sit at a table and you touch the table and you see the table, you have these phenomena, you have these conscious experiences of color, of shape, of tactile pressure. But these phenomena are not the ultimate causes. Kant was convinced that there was something beyond that, which is reasonable because we don't control our phenomena. If I look up at the sky, I can't change it from blue to pink. there's something out there which is generating these sense perceptions, these phenomena and giving them to us. A simple way to summarize can is that he maintained that the world was the product of a matrix. The structures of the mind bring forth the world. I thought it wasn't real. Your mind makes it real. Then of course Nietri is always in the shadow. I mean you know God is dead. Love is dead. We are dead. How do you come to terms with new conceptions of love after you've crossed the Rubicon in which you acknowledge that it's not simply about obedience to an authority? It's about creating himself through choices and decisions. You have to break out of the herd mentality. Man will overcome man in an uber mch, a superman. God became man so that man could become God. Don't think you are. Know you are. I share with nature the idea that we're at our best when we're not conscious. which sounds a little wacky, but if you think of athletes in flow when they're playing at their best, they say they don't even know what they're doing until afterward. And chess grand masters I've heard say the same thing that their arm goes out and makes a move before they even have time to become aware of or think about what's going on. In nature's philosophy, there is simply a world of people who are locked into their constructs. They are born into systems of valuation in which one thing is good, another thing is bad. They must do this, they must do that. And what defines the Superman is that he stop rejects all of those constructs. Neo, no one has ever done anything like this. That's why it's going to work. He doesn't give them force. He sees through them and decides he will use his own will to do what he wants. The herd mentality can be thought of as the matrix. Everybody's having a collective hallucination and everybody's thinking, seeing the same thing and so on, which is just a absolute nightmare for somebody who wants to wake up and which would be a nightmare for Nichi. Welcome to the desert of the real. According to continental philosophers, we're now in the post-modern condition, a condition in which um reality has all but disappeared. And in fact, one of the interesting things about Bodriad is that if you take him seriously, he appears to hold that reality has disappeared. Postmodernists are fond of thinking of their work as something sort of radically different from what's what's gone on before. But I think it's a sort of straightforward extrapolation of the sort of stuff we get in Kent and the idea that the world is in some way or other a construction of what's going on in my mind. It's really striking that it's one of the few movies that shows a work by a real philosopher in the context of the movie. So Bodriard Similar and simulation turns up towards the beginning of the movie in this book that Neo has his contraband software in. If we turn to page one of similacran similation, we see bodiard commenting on a bore fable in which ctographers of an empire create a map that is so perfect and co-extensive with geography that it touches the real geography at every point. What's really interesting is that for Bojiard, the map is what's important. The map has primacy for us. The map is a similocum that as a model loses all reference to reality. Um in Boiard's fable, reality exists only as rotting shreds that are attached to the map. And this is the state of our age according to Bodriard that the model itself has primacy for us. The real has become irrelevant if undefinable and clings only as vestigages. And he's coined the phrase the desert of the real to describe the state of our age. In the case of Cipher, the film is quite clear that the life of the people within the matrix is quite agreeable. It's quite happy. It's quite pleasant. I know this state doesn't exist. You know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss. It's just that all their beliefs are false. So they have they're happy though they don't know anything. He's making a deal to be plugged in in a paradisial setting. And that is a a metaphor of what it is that keeps us asleep. We want illusory safety being asleep when we think we're awake. We want to be numb. This relates to a very famous thought experiment in philosophy. The philosopher Robert Nosik um imagined a thing called the experience machine. Nosix says, "Imagine that you have this machine that's a kind of perfect simulation machine that can give you any experience you desire, no strings attached, plug in, live out a fantasy life, and then not even ever know that you plugged in." I can't go back, can I? No. But if you could, would you really want to? Nosik says, "Well, most people wouldn't plug in because you don't just care about pleasure. you care about being in touch with reality in a kind of basic primitive logically primitive way. I mean this is just one of our fundamental concerns that not just that we live a happy life but that we live a real life that we be in touch with the truth. Do you believe in fate? No. Why not? Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. I know exactly what you mean. In philosophy, one of the perennial questions is the nature of free will. Um, and we all think that we have free will, but it turns out when you start to try to answer the question of um, what free will is, it looks uncomfortably like we couldn't have it. If we're purely physical beings, as the first Matrix film seems to suggest, then perhaps we have no free will at all. I'd ask you to sit down, but you're not going to anyway. If the oracle's knowledge really reflected uh one way that the p the future could unfold, well then um Neo isn't free or responsible for any of his actions. He's just playing out a path that's been set in nature or in motion by something completely independent of him. Are the people in this film free? Are they in control of their destinies? The first film raises this in an interesting way because you have uh these pronouncements from the oracle which suggest a kind of well fatalism or suggest that maybe everything's already written in stone. You're going to have to make a choice. In the one hand you'll have Morphas's life and in the other hand you'll have your own. [Music] Second films of trilogies typically are the best ones because everything's up in the air. In a way, I think the Bajskis delivered an entertaining action film with the first Matrix and then wanted to bring in more of their riddles, more of their rich tapestry of ideas in the second and third films. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves or aliens. It's a system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing. The story the first one tells because it just gets started. It leaves you with a thousand different fun interpretations that you can make and it doesn't really challenge you in terms of fundamental issues about what's a messiah, what's a savior, what is liberation, what is waking up. The second renaissance and a matrix cartoons actually tell you the fall of man. It starts out everything was happy. Sort of the garden of Eden situation. Uh civil society was fine, the head machines, all that was fine. But then two things happened and they use two words to describe original sin here. and corruption, vanity and corruption. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise. Humans basically attack the machines. The machines therefore turn on the humans and imprison them. And incidentally, they use a phrase that the machines had the pure spirit of humanity. Most of the traditions say that spirit is loving, kind, benevolent, and your true nature until you fight it. Then it'll appear as a demon or then it appears as a horrifying machine. Neo is going through his own literally awakening or liberation. How he's going to return to source and that means merge with spirit or light. If you look at just the first installment, it can be read as a simple dualistic tale that the matrix is bad. If you get out of the matrix, that's good. And it's a very simplistic kind of notion if it's read that way. In the context of all three of them, it it's clearly a non-dual statement because consciousness and matter are basically all interwoven. At the end of the first film, Neo has attained what he was supposed to attain. So, he is the master. He is the adept. Um there is nowhere else for him to go in terms of this nosis. And what I think the second film shows is that um that may be true, but the nosis is only a means to another end. It's not an end in itself. I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do. That's all. I just wish I knew. In the first film, we only get that glimpse of the really ugly, drab, horrible real world, the desert of the real. And we spend most of the time in the realm of mentally projected images. In the second film, we finally get some bodies. The sex between Neo and Trinity seemed to affirm the body so beautifully. And the rave scene seemed to affirm material incarnation too. And that seemed to be what we possessed over and against the machines. There's a whole school of spirituality as you know east and west called tantra that basically maintains that neither men nor women can get final enlightenment without each other. And some of those trics maintain that you actually have to have sexual union in order to get the energy to unite in a really binding way that will allow you to transcend your own ego and your own separateness. It's a celebration of embodiment. It's a celebration of physicality and sensuality. There's no ideas. There's no minds. And there's a real interesting contrast there because their dance is a ritual. It's a communal event. This is not the first time they've done this. The drums are there. They're all set to go. You know, this is what they do. This is their sacrament. And one of the important things about it is that it's public. Everybody's body is equal. But what Neo and Trinity are doing is dangerous because it's private. It's the elevation of a certain body over all the other bodies. and you're not fighting for the survival of the group anymore. You're fighting for this one person that you love, but he's supposed to be special. So, um, ifnosticism is about freeing yourself from those attachments, then Neo is definitely a failure at that. All must be done as one. If one fails, all fail. When the keymaker says all must work as one, it sounds like the uppanads. And I hear overtones of Advita Vidanta. The Aanishads were scriptures essentially that were written about 800 BC. They are texts which discuss philosophy at a deep level. They're probably the earliest serious philosophical texts. In them is a teaching of monism. Sometimes it's called advita vanta. And this is the belief that all things are united as one. All things come from the same source. Brahman who is the foundation of all beings. And so the goal of this form of Hinduism is to realize your identity with the all. A program can either choose to hide here or return to the source. The machine mainframe. Yes. Where you must go. where the path of the one ends. You could see reloaded as analogous in some ways to the New Testament because the New Testament is the Old Testament reloaded, made new. And one of the main concerns of the New Testament, especially Paul's letters, especially viewed from within a Protestant interpretive context, is free will and grace. And this is free will is a central concern of the second film. Candy, you already know if I'm going to take it. Wouldn't be much of an oracle if I didn't. But if you already know, how can I make a choice? Because you didn't come here to make the choice. You've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. Well, the second film seemed to me to shift uh focus away from epistemology, questions about skepticism and knowledge towards uh questions about free will. You know why we are here? I am a trafficker of information. I know everything I can. The question is do you know why you are here? Uh free will is a deep philosophical problem and a deep philosophical problem always arises because of two things. On the one hand it seems things have to be a certain way but on the other it seems they can't be. You start off with determinism. Determinism is a combination basically of two claims. The first is that everything which exists or occurs has a cause. The second is that causes make their effects inevitable. You combine those two claims and you've got a real problem for free will. We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. Lelass in the early 19th century gave us the image of physical determinism that we still tend to use. It's very vivid. And he says in effect, everything that happens in nature is simply the result of the interactions of all the smallest parts called, you know, the atoms if you like or the subatomic particles. If we knew the position of every atom at a moment and we could predict the next instant, an omnisient demon who had a complete snapshot in effect of the universe at any instant could then predict the whole future forever because what happens at every moment is simply a deterministic outcome of the interaction of those small parts. Contemporary physicists tell us it's wildly wrong. That is that quantum indeterminacy reigns. But even if that's true, at a more macroscopic level, things seem to be very deterministic indeed in many regards. You are here because you were sent here. You were told to come here and then you obeyed. We usually think we can know about what's going to happen next in the future based on our knowledge of laws of nature. That's how I know if I hold up my keys or a wallet or something like this and let go of it, it's going to definitely fall downward. And Hume said, well, how do we know that there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth, causality. Whenever gravity operates in any way, this that's that's causality. Hume called it the cement of the universe. It's what ties one event to another. People don't generally have a philosophical view about causality. They just think that things happen and that uh when something happens and is and something else happens that regularly after it then the A cause B. Hume said, "Really, strictly speaking, the most we can say is up until now, heavy objects have always fallen downwards." And the only basis we have for thinking that it's going to fall downwards again the next time I drop it is, he says, in this belief that the future will continue to be like the past. And he says that's really a matter of for us custom or habit. Hume is, you know, perhaps the greatest skeptical philosopher ever to have lived and [Music] takes pleasure, sort of socratic pleasure in showing people how their attempts to solve skepticism don't succeed. Action, reaction, cause, and effect. Everything begins with choice. No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without. We have all kinds of fascinating dilemmas that are presented to the characters in the second film. Um the most prominent are the kind of binary choices that are presented to Neo. You can save Zion if you reach the source, but to do that you will need the key maker. If you want the key maker, follow me. You won't know which door. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the matrix to her and to the end of your species. Over and over again in the matrix, Neo is not able to transcend those dichotoies. He kisses Perself. He doesn't look for a third way, a way out. He takes one or the other of the doors. I can't do that. I won't. Well, you have to. Why? Because you're the one. Usually when those dichotoies happen, we look for somebody to figure out a way that the dichotomy is false. Somebody figured out a way to smash through the choice that's being given. But in the second movie, Neo is revealed as a slave to those choices. The prophecy was a lie. The one was never meant to end anything. It was all another system of control. I don't believe that many philosophers Blay Schopenhau nature recognize there's one form of making things happen that we are very familiar with which is volition which is free will we don't really make choices we think we make choices and we don't that's what characterizes the second level schopen's will as he called it u you know mindless desire in his book the world is will and representation he talks about human experience is very subjective and that the only grounding that you can come to is human will, human choice. Choice the problem is choice. Schopenhauer was one of the really great philosophers and there have been many who gave a very detailed account of the manifest world which in a certain sense is the matrix and then outside of the manifest world there's a deeper world of reality. Choplan's view is that our perceptions, our consciousness is the physical brain seen from the inside and that what externally looks like cause and effect. If I knock a vase, it falls over. That seems externally to be cause and effect. The corresponding process, it's lots of powerful impulses pushing this way, pushing that way, but all ultimately combined into one vast will. And when the appananish hit the bookshelves in Latin, he was as thrilled as I was when the matrix came out. He said, "Wow, these people had discovered the same notions and had evolved a whole religion centered on the process of enlightenment by seeing through that illusion." And this is one of the interesting differences between Eastern philosophy and western philosophy. Western philosophy in a way is a big head trip. We sit at our desks and we work out these theories and we write out our Barclayian notions and shenan harriian notions but we don't integrate them into our lives. Why is what separates us from them you from me. Why is the only a real source of power without it you are powerless. In Hinduism it's regarded as a spiritual path to really feel that enlightenment of really feeling that you're in Brahman. every human being carries in in the very center of their being this spiritual reality. And so you're going to intuitively know that in a certain sense you're living in a dream world until you wake up. And Schopenhau is one of the first really great modern philosophers to write about that thing. Where are you? While your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. Why am I here? The architect's speech is is one of the really pivotal, most important explanatory pieces in the whole thing. The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version. We learned that Neo is not a particular unrepably unique nonfgeable individual but in fact he is uh something determined by the needs of the computer system. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. In this respect, the film maybe pays a nod to Plato's own view and saying that there aren't unique selves but just self types or soul types. Just as we learn there are philosopher soul types who are best able to lead. So too Neo becomes an a particular iteration of a soul type. The one which has led you inexurably. Here we see a lot of monitors which at some points are showing Neo reacting in different ways. The architect says something and each of the Neos says something different. The camera zooms into individual monitors and the film carries on as if that monitor is now a whole story. Whether no one told me or no one knows what those monitors are showing are parallel virtual renderings of what Neo is thinking of doing. But there is one point where Neo has exactly the same reaction in all of these monitors. when the architect gives them the choice of going through the left door or the right door to save Trinity or to save the world, every monitor gives the same reaction because at that point Neo doesn't have ambivalence. It doesn't have multiple thoughts, multiple ideas of what to do. It's one single action which is to save Trinity which is the expression of his love. hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. What we see at the end of The Matrix Reloaded is that Neo is willing to sacrifice everybody in Zion for this one person. And that means he hasn't grasped what Neo is really supposed to be all about. And he's certainly a failure at the calling he's supposed to have to free everybody because he just treats this one person as more special than everybody else. Love is held up as the ultimate reality. It is what motivates us and drives us and orients us. I don't think it's coincidental that so many of the world traditions not only speak about love in abstract terms but concretize it in terms of not human love but divine love. It is the highest glimpse that we can attain of divinity. In all the tre traditions, love is what holds Nirvana and Samsara together. The simplest explanation of that is love can conquer all. When the architect refers to things that can only be understood by a lesser mind, that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. He means a different kind of mind. Rationality cannot solve the problems produced by the films. Otherwise, the machines would have won. There's something else that seems to be essential that saves in this film. It's intuition. It's insight. It's perception. It's the kind of experience that comes in a flash. What the architect says is that the anomaly who is Neo will be revealed as the beginning and the end. And if he is the first and the last, the beginning and the end, it points forward to revolutions in that he will be the programmer who reprograms from within and reboots the entire system in one giant cosmic reincarnation. Everything that has a beginning has an end. When I walked out of the Matrix Revolutions, I kind of had a I know it's not very um cool to have this, but I had a warm glow about me. I felt this like really nice ending. is an ending in which the notion of the good and the benevolent is attained and is disseminated throughout the world. It's a message of hope but that in the ending of Matrix Revolutions there's a sense of not destroying the enemy externally not destroying Smith from the outside but by entering into Smith and bringing light the light of enlightenment the light of seeing through illusions into that darkness. The darkness itself disintegrates. The great 20th century interpreters of mythology have talked about the eternal return. What does the hero do in the Odyssey and the Iliad? He goes out, comes back. Um, you go down to the underworld, you come back up. We all come from the truth, the light, the good. And we've fallen down into these ladders of the material. We need to climb back up and really brush away the ladder underneath us until we get back to to where we came from. enlightenment to the true nature of reality is the solution in and of itself. What he's seeing is something to do with the program that makes up the very fabric of the universe. What he learns is real dreams, insight, prophecy. I'm not saying these things are divinity, but he learns that they are real in a way that he didn't understand in the first two films. If there is an answer, there's only one place you're going to find it. where you know where and if you can't find the answer then I'm afraid there may be no tomorrow for any of us by the third film you have a sense that he's like becoming more and more and more himself you cannot stop him but I can as he you know defines who he is to the extent of being ready to sacrifice himself completely and if you fail I Oh, [Applause] it's pretty obvious that this is at least in some way evoking the book of Revelation and the apocalyptic themes of it are consistent with that. At the beginning, um, God creates and at the end the world is destroyed, but then there's a new beginning. So, a new heaven and a new earth at the end of all things is achieved in the matrix. Just look at that. Beautiful. Did you do that? In Hinduism, Sati is the first wife of Shiva. She is disrespected and Shiva is disrespected by her father and she decides to emulate herself. Shiva is consumed by grief carries her body around on his shoulder throughout the universe and Vishnu out of compassion takes Aati cuts her into a million pieces and her body falls upon the sacred land upon India. At each spot that her body falls a pilgrimage site is born. We have here a character in the matrix through whom the matrix is sacralized. And in fact we see her as a program who can program who creates a sunset who creates a rainbow and those things are typically associated with divinity and many religious traditions. You believe in karma? Karma is a word like love, a way of saying what I am here to do. Neo pilots the logos to the machine city and logos means word and so what he's doing is he's bringing the word to the machine city and the fact that Ramakandra very deliberately says that karma and love are words then maybe these are the things that Neo is bringing to the machine world symbolically speaking maybe he's bringing to them love so that they can be fully human right whatever that may mean and he's also bringing to them notion of karma or duty which would bring with it an understanding of the interconnectedness and relationship among all things both machine and human. Go up over them. The sky the only way. We have the image of Trinity and Neo soaring above that world into a world of lightness. That could be heaven. That could be the Pllearoma in Gnostic terminology. Could be Nirvana. It could be Moa. It could be the eternal unnameable Dao. It could be the Platonic form of the good. And it's not named because it's indescribable. That's why all traditions ultimately say it is ineffable because you can't name it, but you can perceive it and you can experience it. But that scene of exiting the world of Zion, the world of the machines and going another level to me gestures to the idea that there is another level. Beautiful. The easiest place to see Dowoism is in revolutions, most potently in the yinyang earrings that the oracle wears throughout the film. The oracle herself seems to construe the architect as her polar opposite. She unbalances equations. He balances equations. She is dark. He is white. She is intuition. He is rationality and order. She creates chaos. He creates linearity. and they seem to balance each other. But there's another very important yinyang in Revolutions, which of course is Neo and Smith. The oracle explains to Neo, he is your opposite. I love the scene where Neo and Smith are cycling during the fight in the rainstorm. It just looks like a big yin-yang symbol to me. And of course, the Matrix itself is rebooted. And this cycle of beginning and ending, the anomaly is revealed as the beginning and the end is central to Dowoism. As the Da Jing says, it arises and the Dao lets it be. It dissolves and the Dao lets it be. It is done. You have to die to resurrect spirit. And that's it's a very common motif not just in the Christian tradition. It's it's a very common motif in Buddhism. You have to die to your separate ego in order to awaken to being one with everything. And so Trinity has to die because because Neo's going to die to his physical body as well. And he has to also have that same death in the Matrix. What's so interesting about that scene is it's a a intersection point between Nietian Superman philosophy and a fedantic notion of dissolving the personal ego and achieving immortality and union with Brahman, union with the world because Neo allows himself to be dissolved but some part of him integrated into all the other beings, all the other smiths and shines out through their eyes with light. The primary creation myth of Jewish um cabala, Jewish mysticism um explains that in the beginning God creates a light that is a superal light, a divine light, not sunlight and that it is contained within vessels that in the shira the shattering cannot contain the light and the pieces scatter everywhere and then this light is released into the universe as sparks. That's the fundamental problem in Jewish mysticism that these sparks need to be reconstituted um and brought back to divinity. And then when that happens, then the matrix itself is dissolved because it's no longer alienated. Machines showed up in the gross realm as horrifying attacking machines only when men were alienated from spirit. Because that's how spirit appears when you're alienated from it. It appears as Smith attacking you in the matrix and as the machines attacking you in Zion or the gross body. And when spirit is reconted, both of those revert to their natural expressions of light and peace, which is how the the movie ends. The perennial philosophy is a term that Aldis Huxley used to describe a philosophy that goes back to the earliest known serious works of philosophy 800 years before Christ and it keeps recurring in different times. The Matrix is sort of science fiction perennial philosophy down here. Sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix. And when I look at these machines, I I can't help thinking that in a way we are plugged into them. It's the perfect movie to build a course around because modern philosophy begins with Dayart thinking that we're brains in vats. Billions of people just living out their lives oblivious. Even if a philosopher hadn't seen the film, they they found that students were assigning it to them as homework because when they would start talking about Daycart, their students would say, "Oh, this is just like the Matrix." And then the teacher would say, "Well, I'd better go rent that." There is no escaping the nature of the universe. It is that nature that has again brought you to me. Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost. Everything is information. That's the ultimate level of reality. That I think is the metaphysics which is suggested by the matrix. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. We've had emails from people all over the world who are seeking us out as religious gurus. They see the film as this modern religious text that provides meaning for them and they want us to help them understand it. You think that's air you're breathing now? [Music] You got a whole generation of young people who are more and more calling themselves the Matrix generation in the way I was Mottown generation of Philly sound generation you know so that says much the overall Matrix trilogy is incredibly subtle and complex if you watch all three of them they're a seamless artistic work this is one of the very few movies that has tried to make this sweeping statement about these grand dimensions of of of human existence that that have been touched upon on by the great traditions for 2 or 3 thousand years. If you look at the whole trilogy, it's really outlining this whole general view of body, mind, and spirit. And what has to happen when they're alienated, and they're alienated because of men and women's vanity and corruption, and that it can be reunited when when somebody either the individual or a savior helping others reconnects with spirit and that realigns all these different dimensions, which makes the full integrated human being. That's the story that the trilogy tells. And I don't know any movies that that attempt to do that that broad a scope. And that's why that's why I think you have to applaud the extraordinary ambition of it. The fact that they would simply sit down and try to do that is to me astonishing. I mean that that alone puts it in a very unique category. And I think that's really that's why it's so so exquisite.

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https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1773336445173829641 📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there. And what, do you know, what is the end game? Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the hill as well as in the White House. And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites. But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine. It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia. And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state. They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992. It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective. Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station. All of these arrogant displays of american hubris, treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military. Well, we're getting an education right now. We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine. We were building an army to attack them. We put a hostile government into that country in 2014. And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about. They said, we don't want NATO on our border. No one paid attention. President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them. So what's the outcome? You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that. But we're losing. The globalists are losing. And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive. And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev. But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people. They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money. Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar. When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible or worse. I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military. And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war. And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference. Yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now. And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time. It's in ruins. But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine. And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience. He does not want a war with the west. If he wanted that, wed already have it. But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over. We'll be in a full fledged war. Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting. You know, I think we grossly miscalculated. Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia. Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia. What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us. Although this administration has decided to ignore it. He expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law. He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that lived there, and he wasn't going to surrender Crimea. The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base. Biden said. Our goal is regime change. Our goal is to get rid of Putin, and our goal is ultimately to divide Russia into constituent parts, then exploit it. All of his supporters, his staffers, everyone in the globalist camp knows this is the truth. The so called oligarchs Kolomoisky, Soros and others were all part of this. None of this is news. Finally, he said, enough's enough. He stopped. They set up a strategic defense. They ran an economy of force mission, and now they have a force in place that can go as far as it needs to go, which includes to the polish border. They have a plan for 31, 31 month war against us if we insist on fighting it. And we are in no shape to fight a war. We can't even recruit the United States army or the Marines. The Marines are running around trying to recruit illegals and are being encouraged to do so by the administration. Is that what you want in the ground force, to fight for this country? Forget it. It's not going to work.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VTt_THL4A Mehdi Hasan and Ilan Pappé debate whether Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism with Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Israeli former Member of the Knesset Einat Wilf in this Intelligence Squared debate from June 2019. _________________________ Is there a country in the world that attracts so much criticism as nazi Israel? Studies consistently show Israel to be one of the most disliked nations in the world (along with Iran and North Korea). But how much of this is to do with genuine concern about Israel’s nazi actions, and how much is actually a cover for the 'age-old hatred of the Jews'? Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept and the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé go head to head with Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Israeli former Member of the Knesset Einat Wilf in this Intelligence Squared debate from June 2019.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgNWg-a2EgE My analysis and breakdown of the themes and ideas that make Falling Down such a fascinating movie, and even more relevant today than it was in 1993.

https://www.andrewkaufmanmd.com/hippo/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbigfSB1_Yg A collaborative film by Spacebusters and Dr. Andrew Kaufman about how authentic medicine was hijacked by the power elite and turned into a deadly, sickness for profit industry.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4661358 A documentary that tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know. Learn the terrible truth about the rape, torture, slavery, and mass murder inflicted upon the German people by the Allied victors of World Word II.

https://rumble.com/v4y0l1b-jeffrey-sachs-the-untold-history-of-the-cold-war-cia-coups-around-the-world.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10122392/ Details the year leading to the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.

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From burning down olive groves to murder, Israeli settlers are some of the most evil people on the planet. The continuous theft, destruction, and illegal annexation of Palestinian West Bank lands (violation of international law) are supported by 🇺🇲 Jewish billionaires like Jared Kushner and subsidized by US taxpayers. Each settler = War criminal https://x.com/expatvibes/status/1794369199361413237

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8438864/ In Killing Gaza, independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel's 2014 war on Gaza. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfg2CxDqeI8 Reporters At War is a three-part series that takes a long hard look at one of the most dramatic and dangerous careers of modern times, that of the war correspondent. More than 300 journalists have been killed in battle zones in the last dozen years, some 200 of these having been deliberately targeted by their killers. The War in Iraq’s rate of attrition is the highest ever. Though 63 died in the Vietnam between 1963-1975, it’s been estimated that at the above rate around 4,500 journalists would die if the Iraq conflict lasted as long as the Vietnam War. Then there’s the psychological trauma of witnessing the brutality of war close-up, constantly, day in, day out, over long agonising periods of time. No wonder nervous breakdowns, marital break-ups, alcoholism, etc affect war correspondents to a degree unexperienced by most ordinary folk. Reporters At War also examines the ever-changing circumstances that the war correspondent must file their stories under and the evolving technology that is supposed to make their job easier…that, at least, is the theory. It also looks at some early examples of how technology aided and abetted the faking of war newsreel footage, the impact that television may have had on the outcome of war and the pressure that reporters now find themselves under in the satellite-driven, 24-hour rolling-news era that they now unwittingly find themselves starring in. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53T-x1o4OU In the first of this two-part interview, investigative journalist at The Grayzone and author Max Blumenthal discusses the “genocidal” nature of the Democratic Party, in relation to its support for Israel’s campaign of violence against Palestine. While citing several concrete examples he also illuminates troublesome connections between American mainstream media, government and Israel, including how they work in tandem to vilify Palestinians and mislead the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuo4JU-qncM In the second of this two-part interview, investigative journalist at The Grayzone and author Max Blumenthal speaks candidly about his own past experience in Palestine and how that allowed him to anticipate the unprecedented Israeli assault on Gaza today. He also shines a light on the extent to which Israeli society reflects the militarised Israeli state, reinforced by “systems of indoctrination” that promote “fear and loathing of Palestinians.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Na3J5GLyg Professor and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald debate the resolution, "The U.S. should strike Iran's nuclear facilities." Taking the affirmative is Dershowitz, an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. He is the author of several books about politics and the law, including The Case for Israel, and The Case for Peace. His two most recent works are The Case Against Impeaching Trump, and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo. In January 2020, he joined President Donald Trump's legal team as Trump was being tried on impeachment charges in the Senate. He is a strong supporter of Israel, self-identifing as both "pro-Israel and pro-Palestine." Taking the negative is Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer, investigative journalist, and best-selling author. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America's top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald has won the highest awards in journalism, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations. This debate was moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:06 Dershowitz's Opening Statement 00:19:43 Greenwald's Opening Statement 00:37:48 Dershowitz's Rebuttal 00:45:27 Greenwald's Rebuttal 00:53:56 Q&A 01:35:08 Dershowitz's Summation 01:40:22 Greenwald's Summation

PROPAGANDA IN OBLIKOVANJE SOGLASJA: KAKO SE MANIPULIRA MNOŽICE 1. Uvod: Svet, nasičen s sporočili Vsak dan nas bombardirajo s tisoči sporočil – reklame, politične kampanje, družbena omrežja, novice. Njihov cilj ni le informiranje, temveč usmerjanje naših odločitev: kaj kupiti, koga voliti, katerim idejam slediti. A kako je ta sistem nastal? Kdo je oblikoval tehnike masovne manipulacije? Odgovor leži v rojstvu sodobne propagande in javnih odnosov (PR), ki so jih zasnovali elitni misleci z enim ciljem: nadzorovati množice brez uporabe sile. 2. Edward Bernays in rojstvo "inženiringa soglasja" Eden ključnih mož, ki je izumil sodobne tehnike propagande, je bil Edward Bernays. Bernays je bil nečak Sigmunda Freuda, zato je močno uporabljal psihološke principe za vplivanje na množice. Prepričan je bil, da so množice neracionalne in vodljive ter da jih je treba usmerjati s simboli, emocijami in instinkti. Namesto brutalne represije, ki so jo uporabljali avtoritarni režimi, so zahodne demokracije razvile sofisticirano obliko nadzora: propagando preoblečeno v "javno mnenje". To je bil rojstni trenutek "inženiringa soglasja" (Manufacturing Consent), kjer ljudje sami "prostovoljno" sprejmejo tisto, kar elita želi. 3. Prvi veliki test: Ameriška propaganda v 1. svetovni vojni V letih 1916-1917 je bil ameriški predsednik Woodrow Wilson pod pritiskom, da se pridruži vojni. Američani niso želeli vstopiti v evropski konflikt, Wilson pa jih je moral prepričati, da je vojna "boj za demokracijo". Ustvarili so prvo veliko propagandno mašinerijo – Creelova komisija. Povezali so PR strokovnjake, novinarje, oglaševalce in zvezdnike, da so ustvarili vtis, da je vojna moralna dolžnost vsakega Američana. Poudarjali so čustvena in simbolična sporočila: Nemci so bili predstavljeni kot krvoločni huni, ki morijo otroke. Hollywood in znane osebnosti so postali orodje propagande. Vsakodnevni govorci so po vsej državi na kratko razlagali, zakaj je vojna nujna. Rezultat? Američani so v enem letu iz pacifistov postali goreči podporniki vojne. 4. Kapitalisti prepoznajo moč propagande Po vojni so elite, kot so Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, ugotovile: Če lahko propagando uporabijo za prepričevanje ljudi v vojno, jo lahko uporabijo tudi za zaščito kapitalističnega sistema. V tistem času so bile ZDA pretresene s stavkami in uporom delavskega razreda. Namesto da bi izboljšali razmere za delavce, so korporacije začele uporabljati propagandne tehnike za uničenje socialnih gibanj. Bernays je predstavil novo idejo: kapitalizem je mogoče prodati kot "ameriški sen". 5. Kako so Američane spremenili v potrošnike? Bernays je ugotovil, da morajo ljudi spremeniti iz državljanov v potrošnike. https://rumble.com/v5vju5z-consumed-inside-the-belly-of... Nakupovanje ne sme biti več vprašanje potrebe, ampak želje. Uporabili so tehniko "mnenjskih voditeljev" (opinion leaders) – zdravniki, znanstveniki in slavni ljudje so postali orodje propagande. PR je ustvaril umetne "tradicionalne vrednote", ki v resnici niso obstajale, npr.: Zajtrk z jajci in slanino (kampanja za prodajo več slanine). Cigarete za ženske kot "simbol svobode" (Torches of Freedom). Vse to so bile zelo premišljene kampanje, ki so manipulirale podzavest ljudi. 6. Medijska manipulacija in propagandne vojne Bernays je spoznal, da je za učinkovit nadzor ljudi potrebno nadzorovati medije. Vsak disident je bil označen za sovražnika – pri Guatemalskem državnem udaru leta 1954 je Bernays demoniziral predsednika Arbenza kot "komunistično grožnjo", čeprav to ni bil. ZDA so kasneje uporabile enako taktiko v Vietnamu, Iraku in drugod, kjer so vedno ustvarili "sovražnika", ki ga je treba odstraniti. 7. Oblikovanje soglasja kot osnova demokracije Walter Lippmann (Bernaysov sodobnik) je trdil, da morajo družbo voditi "odgovorni možje", ki so zaščiteni pred "neumnostjo množic". Namesto prisile je propagando opisal kot "mehko obliko nadzora", kjer ljudje mislijo, da sami sprejemajo odločitve, čeprav so manipulirani. Bernays je PR preimenoval iz "propagande" v "javni odnosi", da bi koncept postal bolj sprejemljiv. 8. Uporaba propagande v moderni družbi Vse politične kampanje so danes zasnovane na teh načelih. Novice niso več objektivne, ampak so orodje oblikovanja javnega mnenja. Družbena omrežja so nova oblika propagande, ki je še bolj subtilna in ciljna. Primeri: Vojna v Ukrajini → "Boj za demokracijo", medtem ko je v ozadju geopolitična igra. Covid ukrepi → Čustvena manipulacija, da bi ljudje sprejeli omejitve svobode. Zeleni prehod → Korporacije prepričujejo množice, da je nakup električnih avtomobilov "etična dolžnost", čeprav je industrija umazana. 9. Zaključek: Kdo nadzoruje tvoje misli? Propaganda je danes močnejša kot kadar koli prej. Večina ljudi se ne zaveda, kako močno so njihova mnenja oblikovana. Več kot 100 let je propagandni sistem nevidno, a učinkovito usmerjal množice. Tisti, ki nadzorujejo informacije, nadzorujejo realnost. 💡 Ključno vprašanje: Ali si sposoben misliti izven propagandnega okvira? 💡 Ali si sposoben prepoznati manipulacijo in postati avtonomen v razmišljanju? https://rumble.com/v4ezebl-state-of-mind-the-psychology... Če se množice ne zbudijo, ostanejo ujetniki elite, ki jih vodi v smer, ki ji služi – ne pa ljudem samim. Kako obvladovati in voditi množice v demokratični ureditvi? Dokumentarna oddaja z bogatim arhivskim gradivom pokaže, kako so mnenjski vodje v ZDA razvili orodje prepričevanja prebivalstva, da bi to privolilo v vstop v prvo svetovno vojno, in kako jim je v manj kot 50 letih uspelo razviti eno najbolj prodornih strok našega časa – odnose z javnostmi. PROPAGANDA, LA FABRIQUE DU CONSENTEMENT / PROPAGANDA - THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT / Francija / 2017 / Režija: Jimmy Leipold https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/tuji-dokumentarni-filmi-in-oddaje/174663246?fbclid=IwAR3BGYPdb0WUY9A3THm7Qa5ga-MJ5R1VooCjFgwm-4S2yvCgTBO7AWsLMIY

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ruaqG27U8VKN/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548638/ A journey from your darkest thought to your greatest dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFDndrMrJuk ONE: The Movie is an independent documentary that surveys beliefs on the meaning of life, matching with the view that "we are all one". The movie was created and directed by Michigan filmmakers Carter Scott, Ward M. Powers and Diane Powers, and featured interviews with Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jaggi Vasudev, and others. It was originally released in movie theaters in North America with accompanying promotional events in late 2005 through 2007. An (English version in US) was released on DVD in 2007. The filmmakers asked twenty questions of religious and spiritual teachers as well as artists, authors, atheists, and people on the street. The answers are accompanied by the image of a "nameless traveler" who has grown weary with the suffering and negativity of the world, and who begins a search for meaning and truth. The documentary covers a range of spiritual and philosophical themes such as the source of fear, enlightenment, spirit, the meaning of life, compassion, life after death, diversity, the nature of God and Heaven, and religion (including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism, New Age, New Thought Spirituality, Hare Krishna, Native American spirituality, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Christian fundamentalism). ONE also explores contemporary themes of war, conflict, terrorism, peace, global change, social responsibility, and environmental concerns. Prior to editing the movie, the filmmakers consulted with American philosopher Ken Wilber, founder of the Integral Institute. The 20 questions asked of participants were: Why is there poverty and suffering in the world? What is the relationship between science and religion? Why are so many people depressed? What are we all so afraid of? When is war justifiable? How would God want us to respond to aggression and terrorism? How does one obtain true peace? What does it mean to live in the present moment? What is our greatest distraction? Is current religion serving its purpose? What happens to you after you die? Describe heaven and how to get there? What is the meaning of life? Describe God? What is the greatest quality humans possess? What is it that prevents people from living to their full potential? Non-verbally, by motion or gesture only, act out what you believe to be the current condition of the world. What is your one wish for the world? What is wisdom and how do we gain it? Are we all One? Participants included Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay), Thomas Keating, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Riane Eisler, Robert Thurman, Jaggi Vasudev, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Mantak Chia, the late Bhakti Tirtha Swami, Richard Rohr, Sister Chan Khong, Hassan Al-Qazwini, the late Wayne Teasdale, Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg, and Muruga Booker.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ruaqG27U8VKN/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548638/ A journey from your darkest thought to your greatest dream.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2732932 This provocative, bold, and deeply moving documentary profiles Adam Winfield, a soldier-turned-whistleblower who returns from the battlefield to expose shocking war crimes that the U.S. Army will do anything to cover up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxak6lFd-I Documentary takes a devastating tour of the American cinematic landscape, moving from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters to reveal an astonishing and persistent pattern of slanderous Arab stereotyping, including Palestinians that paved the way for Zionism and its propaganda. Featuring acclaimed author and Hollywood film consultant Dr. Jack Shaheen, the documentary exposes American cinema's long love affair with Arab villainy and buffoonery, from over-sexed Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and blood-thirsty terrorists. Along the way, the film provides striking insights into the origin of these images, their disturbing similarities to anti-Semitic and racist stereotypes from the past, and their political resonance during key moments of conflict in U.S. history. In the end, Shaheen inspires us to think critically about the destructive social and political effects of Hollywood's projection of Arabs, challenging us to envision counter-narratives that do justice to both the diversity and humanity of Arab people (Middle Easterners), and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.

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https://t.me/rtdocfilms Maidan: Road to War was shot from 2014 to 2022, as the DNR and LNR territory was subjected to daily shelling from Ukraine. The film delves into the 2014 situation in Ukraine and pieces together the course of events. The Maidan protests in Kiev in 2013 were prompted by the government’s decision to suspend the signing of the association agreement with the European Union. At first, the protests looked like a rock festival, but soon signs of hostility started to creep in from politicians and nationalists. They were deliberately provocative. The leaders of nationalist organisations admit they had been preparing for violent street riots long before the protests engulfed Kiev. They planned a revolution to depose the government. See how the events unfolded and what eventually led to the conflict in our film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7vVUDMlaA Disclaimer: This is another joke video. Bill Gates knows what's best. I will be amongst the first to get vaccinated. I am a good 'global citizen.' Global Government is the only way humanity can be saved. The killing over over a million Iraqis was a liberation. Bush and Blair are hero's, Edward Snowden's a criminal and communism is the only logical way forward. On a serious note: The people featured in this video do not necessarily agree with any of the points made in this video. In this video I aim to pick up where Alex Jones left off in his documentary film Endgame and show people the web of corruption spun by our globalist overlords since the time the Rothschild family became prominent. It's also worth pointing out that I am not antisemitic before people accuse me of being as such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSM3p6yxSn8 This video sheds light into the nature of love, relationships, the "New Age" movement, reality-creation, quantum physics, objectivity vs. subjectivity and how it all relates to the topics of "conspiracy theories", psychopathy, and the importance of holistic self-work. Veil of Reality https://veilofreality.com/portfolio/love-reality-and-the-time-of-transition/ https://veilofreality.com/2012/11/25/love-reality-and-the-time-of-transition-transcript/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHc... https://veilofreality.com/ https://veilofreality.com/videofilm/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: It may be a strange thing to say but beware of love today, wherever you come across it, whether it is in the newspapers, a magazine article or in conversation. The word 'love' generally describes an emotion, which emerges inside us via highly toxic channels. In current understanding, it is a feeling gripped by possessiveness, chaperoned by jealousy and with its alter ego, hate, waiting ready in the wings. Love such as this - whether parental, amorous or social - is an emotion, which is genuinely short on charm: easily upset, manipulative and, even, vindictive. The enlightened have no relationship with this emotion, preferring instead the pure feeling of compassion, which, unlike love, does not flow through the polluting channels of the ego. And this is why it is so charming. Simon Parke, One minute mindfulness https://www.facebook.com/uros.cerar/posts/10153276942017438 This is the transcript of our film “Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition“. Written, narrated and audio editing by Bernhard Guenther. Visuals and video editing by Humberto Braga. “Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition” has been selected as the #1 film 2011-2012 of the “Top 100 Global Development Movies”.”The best positive, inspirational, thought-provoking movie of our times.” – RYB TV Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition – Transcript By Bernhard Guenther, October 2011 It is true, all we need is love. But do we really know what love is? Love is a word that is sung about in songs, written in poems, talked about a lot and it is something many people long for one way or the other, mostly in the form of a partner. We hear it a lot these days: “Be heart-centered” and “Be love”, “Love is the answer, because love always wins!”, “Send Love and Light!” and so on. People use it casually in conversations in their every day lives. It is seen as the solution to all the world problems. All you need is Love! If that’s so easy, how come nothing has changed fundamentally on planet earth despite the obvious technological progress? ?We still see genocide, oppression and wars happening. Hundreds of thousands of children and civilians have died in the Middle East and around the world because of the war machine under the control of psychopathic leaders who couldn’t care less about anyone who holds up a peace sign with a proclamation of love as the force for change. ?Looking at it more closely we can see that “Love” is one of the most abused and misunderstood words. We mistake things like gratification, sentimentality, obligation, duty, passion, desire, and other superficial emotions, ideas and conditioned concepts as “Love” in order fill something that is ultimately lacking within us. These distortions are also used mostly unconsciously as buffers to avoid facing reality as it is by looking at the world with rose-colored glasses on, instead of seeing oneself and the world more objectively beyond appearances. “For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” – Niccolo Machiavelli There is personal love between humans, motherly love, love of family and community, love for oneself, love for something greater than the self, love for god and even love for man-made ideologies and concepts such as for a nation and country.? So what is love? How can we describe or define such a powerful force? Words are very limiting and can only point to it, but are not it. Maybe we can start by examining what love is not. When it comes to interpersonal relationships we often see control games, jealousy, and envy which is obviously not love, but expressions and behaviors based on fear and need. ??Love is related to emotions and feelings, but they can be merely based on chemical reactions in the brain that result in a “high”, where people feed off each other which is also be the basis for psychic vampirism. Many relationships are based on this feeding mechanism, which has nothing to do with love, but is a parasitic need resulting in co-dependance. Sexual attraction is also mistaken for love at times. Many people get into relationships for the wrong reasons, be it to escape their loneliness, to fill a hole in their lives or feed off another person. For the most part this happens unconsciously and so people tend to lie to themselves about love and their relationships in many ways, not seeing the other person as he/she is and not even seeing themselves clearly as they are. “People convince themselves of their own lies, becoming victims of their own inventions as they begin to direct their lives by standards of behavior, ideas, feelings, or instincts which do not correspond to their inner reality. What is truly serious in this matter is that the individual loses all points of reference regarding what comprises truth, and what comprises lies. He becomes used to considering as true only that which is convenient for his personal interests; everything that is in opposition to his self-esteem or in conflict with already established prejudices, he considers false.” – John Baines To truly love another person we need to see the other as he/she is without trying to change that person. That is the basis for unconditional love, but for that to happen we also need to know ourselves and see us as we truly are , so we don’t fall into the trap of illusory projections which only result in disappointment and hurt once the romantic phase is over. It’s about acceptance and consideration, being able to give and receive, to be externally considerate and not expect anything.?? But beyond personal relationships, the idea of love has also been distorted and used superficially as slogans. It is equated with being positive, open, friendly, not saying or focusing on anything “bad” or “negative”, to be always cheerful and have a smile on ones face. Of course there is nothing wrong with kindness and friendliness as well as positivity, but it must be based on truth and reality, not lies, self-calming rationalizations or avoidance, including political correctness which only leads to complacency and ignorance. Some people say we need to be more heart-centered, loving and compassionate. Yes, obviously we all need to connect more to our heart, show empathy and compassion, especially extending it the whole world, beyond our close friends and family. ??But what does that really mean? Many people seem to associate love with emotions and feelings or niceness, but is it not more than that, like a higher state of consciousness and being??? We seem to mistake many things for “love” and even judge the intellect as “bad”, mistaking it for the monkey/predator mind, hence many suggest that we should “think” with our heart and do what we “feel” like doing, which mostly results in mere self-deception and lack of critical thinking. It’s about aligning the heart with the intellect, intuition with logic, mysticism with science. Many people seem to force themselves into this artificial and superficial state of love through contrived affirmations and “feel good” spirituality, ignoring anything that may be a threat to their “positive” life view. ??Ultimately this results in suppression and armor that is manifested by denying the shadow part of themselves and the world as they ignore objective reality. On the surface they don’t even think that anything is “wrong” with them. It’s very much a blissful ignorant state, trying to stay high on artificial emotional projections, avoiding anything that may give them a downer and living in a subjective tunnel vision with blinders on. One can see this kind of attitude in many self-proclaimed “aware” and “conscious” people who follow shallow New Age teachings and pop psychology resulting in self-calming but lacking deeper healing, growth and essentially real love. “We’ve all met people who seem too sticky and gooey. They are “too nice” and sickeningly sweet. We sense that they are somehow being fake when we are around them and we feel we never really know them. They are, as the saying goes, “too good to be true.” These people are barricaded behind their mask or persona. They will deliberately avoid any kind of negative reaction or emotion. They refuse to be real and suffer the acceptance of their own dark side and this can be a dangerous thing.” – Rebeca Eigen “The Shadow describes the part of the psyche that an individual would rather not acknowledge. It contains the denied parts of the self. Since the self contains these aspects, they surface in one way or another. Bringing Shadow material into consciousness drains its dark power, and can even recover valuable resources from it. The greatest power, however, comes from having accepted your shadow parts and integrated them as components of your Self. Everyone carries a Shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl G. Jung Love is not merely an emotional state, but a state of consciousness. Just like there are different levels of consciousness, there are also different levels of love one can access on the spectrum of consciousness based on ones level of being and awareness. ?There is carnal love based on the sexual center and animal part in man which is the biological drive to procreate, ensuring that organic life on earth continues. This drive is mechanical tied to the esoteric meaning of the General Law and waking sleep state homo sapiens is under. “As a cell of humanity, man forms part of organic life on Earth. This life in its ensemble represents a very sensitive organ of our planet, playing an important role in the economy of the solar system. As a cell of this organ, man finds himself under the influence of the General Law, which keeps him in his place. In fact, this law leaves him a certain margin or tolerance. It allows him some free movement within the limits it sets. Within these boundaries, which are very limited objectively although subjectively they appear vast, man can give free rein to his fantasies and his ambitions. Without going too far into the definition of these limits and detailed description of the components of this General Law, we can say as an example that one of those factors is hunger: the servitude of working to assure our subsistence. The chain: sexual instinct; procreation; and the care of parents for their children, is another factor. The esoteric maxim that applies to this aspect of life is conceived thus: carnal love is necessary for the general good.” – Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis Then there is courtly love based on the higher centers, which is a higher state of being that can only be accessed through sincere self-work, not giving in to mechanical driven behaviors and choices. Essentially for true love between two people to manifest there needs to be a connection and matching on all centers: physical, sexual, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. We need to continually work on ourselves to bring the centers into balance, so no one feeds of the other, but both compliment each other. Love, in its truest sense means to see the world, oneself, and others more objectively. From an esoteric perspective it’s about evolving towards this objective love. In other words, the more we are objective with ourselves and the world, raising awareness and see things as they are, the higher the degree of love we can access. It is based on knowledge, being and understanding, not merely emotional states and “happy thoughts”. Subjective love is attached to one’s own idea of the other or to what can be gained or obtained from the other. People call the most various desires love. These can have to do with social status, addiction to power over or domination of another, sexual interest and so forth. The emotion fluctuates between satisfaction of getting and fear of losing and is generally centered on the self. Subjective love seeks to somehow forcibly appropriate another into one’s extended self. One example of this is showing off what a clever or good-looking partner or child one has in order to somehow increase oneself. Any games of domination or co-dependence which often involve the term love fall in this category. However, by doing the work towards objective love one shouldn’t ignore or suppress anything that doesn’t live up to the ideal of higher love beyond the self. Everyone is on a different level of being with different lessons to learn and integrate. ?It seems to happen very often in spiritual and esoteric circles that people claim attributes to themselves and inflate their being above the actual state of where they are and what they need to learn and confront in order to grow and evolve. ??Objective love is not a detached unemotional state of existence. It simply means to act from one’s true self beyond conditioning, programming and projections, but with a “clean” emotional center, not one that is shut down. Our emotions are the gateway to love, but they are not love. It’s about opening up to vulnerability and not suppressing negative emotions such as anger, sadness, jealousy, grief, but work through them which leads to compassion and empathy, not only for oneself or close friends and family but for the world and humanity at large. ??This also means to experience and feel emotions so we can let them go without suppressing them or projecting them on someone else. There are many ways to do this. Art, music, journaling as well as breathwork, bodywork and other healing modalities can help in the process of transmuting the shadow into light through emotional cleansing. It’s a delicate and deep process that doesn’t happen over night. In that sense relationships are also lessons in love and not an end in itself, but can help us to learn more about ourselves. People and friends who are also engaged in sincere self-work can show us valuable lessons as they serve as mirrors and can help to expose parts of ourselves we wouldn’t be able to see since we all have subjective blind spots. A mirror generally is perceived as shocking or socially disagreeable. This comes from the fact that if the mirror is any good, it will conflict with the subjective filters of perception most people maintain concerning themselves. In other words, people’s self image is more or less based on lies to self and in the degree the mirror reaches its intended truthfulness, it will challenge these lies. “According to the Great Work, a friend is one in which you support and encourage the others expansion in either the mind or the spirit.Otherwise they are people you are sentimentally attached to it because they would eat cinnamon bun with you. And they will say ‘hee, hee, hee’ aren’t we having fun”. Drug addicts do the same thing. Drug addicts want to be around people who will support them and be away from real friends. Do you know why? Because it feels good. To be a member of a mystery school can be catastrophic to the ego and to the ego’s habits and to the propensity for mediocrity. No one ever cried striving for excellence. They only cried when their mediocrity was taken away from them and pointed out to them.” – Jerhoam The more lessons are learned, the more knowledge gained, understood and applied, the more we purify our emotions, the more one’s being and awareness raises as the higher centers are activated and the more we can “see the unseen”. However, this is a process that is different for each depending on many factors. Psychopaths on the other hand (about 6% of humanity) have no capability to experience anything close to love, compassion and empathy by birth. It’s not a psychological disposition but a genetic one. That is another topic which is very misunderstood and ignored, especially since most psychopaths can appear as “normal” through their “mask of sanity“. They are not necessarily criminals in prisons, but can be CEO’s, politicians, spiritual leaders, a husband, wife, child or the neighbor next door. They can tell you exactly what you want to hear, appear compassionate, empathetic and understanding without meaning or feeling it one bit. To assume that we are all the same and that everyone has access to this higher love (or any form of love) is self-deceiving at best and we can see those kind of assumptions in the oversimplified idea of “we are all one!”. You cannot BE what you’re not, nor can you give what you don’t have. We are all one, but we are not all the same. There seems to be some major blind spot and oversimplification about the idea of “we”. This has nothing to do about “us vs. them”, but understanding how complex humanity actually is, what we choose to believe and wish for and what we avoid to look at and confront, within and without. “Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn’t been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.” – Dr. Robert Hare “It feels more democratic and less condemnatory (and somehow less alarming) to believe that everyone is a little shady than to accept a few human beings live in a permanent nighttime. To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically saying that some human beings are evil, but it is disturbingly close. And good people want very much not to believe in the personification of evil.” – Dr. Martha Stout If one looks into the accounts of Near-Death experiences (NDE) and what some people have seen or realized, there is a common theme:? This profound experience of objective Love, which is not related to the Love as the human personality experiences it. It is for example, as one person who had a NDE said, not a sentimental, get a tear, ‘feel someone’s pain’ feeling, not an emotion. It is beyond sentiment or feeling someone else in this form, but relates more to an all expansive, knowing and understanding. “The problem is not the term “love”, the problem is the interpretation of the term. Those on third density have a tendency to confuse the issue horribly. After all, they confuse many things as love. When the actual definition of love as you know it is not correct either. It is not necessarily a feeling that one has that can also be interpreted as an emotion, but rather, as we have told you before, the essence of light which is knowledge is love, and this has been corrupted when it is said that love leads to illumination. Love is Light is Knowledge. Love makes no sense when common definitions are used as they are in your environment.? To love you must know.? And to know is to have light.? And to have light is to love. ?And to have knowledge is to love.” – from the Cassiopaean sessions?? Ultimately there is no love where there is no truth and knowledge. Love entails seeing the world as it is- not as we like, want it or assume it to be. Hence, true love is essentially linked to how much one can access objective reality. “You know the consciousness movement has let us in to create a kind of a hybrid spirituality that is mixed with a very toxic degree of narcissism and we need to look at that . It has made us very hyper sensitive and not very strong. I would say to you what has it made us conscious of because if it made us that conscious of the world we wouldn’t be in this state we’re in. If it made us that conscious of the world, we wouldn’t have dropped the ball on the management of freedom and the bill of rights, but we did. We’ve lost our civil rights. We dropped the ball. We dropped the ball on the management of the earth’s creatures and we got a hundred and fifty chimps left. What have we become conscious of these last fifty years? Where have we been? We’ve been processing wounds. I know people who say I’m working to become conscious but I won’t look at the TV and I won’t read the news. Then what are you becoming conscious of? Myself. Now I have to tell you something, that’s exactly the formula through which you cannot heal. You cannot heal. Do you… Can you understand that? That kind of narcissism is the classic formula for fueling your own rage. Your own rage. Narcissism and it’s about me, it’s about me, it’s about my time, my space, my needs, my this, my wounds, my this. I have to tell you, that the ungenerous heart and the narcissist go to the hospital and get your meds, because you cannot, it is not possible to find yourself healing from the serious disorders that require an emergence into a cosmic level of consciousness.” – Caroline Myss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmclQJ_lBA In order for love to be the agent of change towards a better world and to bring about positive change we also need to acknowledge the darker side of life and the world we live in, the things and issues many people look away from, believing that by simply focusing on the “good” and “positive” there will be a shift in consciousness. This kind of thinking is the blind spot in many New Age teachings these days, which actually results in the opposite of what is intended for the unacknowledged shadow grows bigger and stronger, manifesting itself unconsciously through our collective. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. “An Ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is. To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them.” – J. Krishnamurti The many ideas of just focusing on love and how people interpret that, or sending love to the world leaders and humanity or even to the planet are not acts of real love, but merely emotional projections which are self-deceiving and put man more into sleep, believing he’s actually doing something and bringing about positive change. True love respects free will and one cannot give or send love to someone who didn’t ask for it. One has to wonder when people talk about world peace and love, but still vote for Obama and believe the lies we’re being told by our governments, be it about 9/11, the war on terror or anything else that has been clearly used for social control. One can have as many positive/loving/nice thoughts and emotional highs as one like, but if one still believes in lies, follows teachings based on lies, there will be no raise in consciousness nor access to a higher love that can actually be a true agent of healing and awareness. On the contrary, believing in lies feeds entropy, no matter how well-meaning the intent. Love is beyond words and no change is going to happen if people simply repeat that “love is the answer” or “all you need is love” while still clinging to illusions and not engaging in sincere self-work. Without a deep understanding and knowledge of what love truly is and entails, we just keep going in circles as history is repeating itself. If we really want a shift in consciousness then we need to take a look into the mirror and also do the work to see the world as it is without ignoring things that may not look that “pretty”. There is still much we have to confront before we can enter a new world based on love, peace and truth. “Love is not a behavior, an attitude, a mannerism. It is not etiquette. It is not convention. Love may express itself in many different ways—softly or forcibly. Love can appear meek. Love can appear strong. Love can challenge you. Love can criticize you. Love can expose your illusions, your fantasies and your self-deception. Love is not what people really mean when they talk about love, in nearly all circumstances. Real love emanates from Knowledge. It, in essence, is the expression of Knowledge. Only Knowledge can take you there. Knowledge can bring two people from opposite ends of the world together for a greater purpose. That is the power of the Great Love. And the Great Love is what the world needs now.” – Marshall Vian Summers There also seems much confusion about what is supposedly positive or negative, subjective or objective. Some people claim that there is nothing like objectivity and all is subjective. Everything depends on how we look at things and quantum mechanics, so they say, shows us that there is no objective reality or truth, but there is only “my” or “your” truth and we create our own reality by the thoughts we have, what we like to see and what we focus on. But is that really so? It seems that the science of quantum mechanics has been oversimplified into sales-bits in the new age arena and movies like The Secret. This doesn’t mean throwing out the baby with the bath water, as our perception does seem to have an influence on reality, but maybe it’s not as simple as we have been made to believe by many bestselling “self-help” gurus these days. “For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.” – Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics The question about the existence of an objective truth is a tricky one to answer. Philosophical views on truth and criteria for knowing it vary with the old dispute between rationalism and empiricism. However, beyond philosophical or scientific discussion, there usually seems to be one element that is barely questioned in more depth: the state of being/awareness of a person which relates to how much objective reality he/she can actually access. In our current state of being and existence we cannot perceive objective reality fully, however we can work towards objectivity and expand our understanding of reality and ourselves accordingly. A “shift in consciousness” and “awakening” implies a higher state of awareness, which means to become more aware or it all, which implies again to see the world and oneself more objectively, without blinders on. This doesn’t happen by itself, but requires sincere effort and work to separate truth from lies, within and without. That is the basis of esoteric work which relates to gaining self-knowledge in order to raise awareness and consciousness to a higher level of Being. “To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.” – Jacob Needleman Subjectivity is the preference to rather consider one’s favorite beliefs than the external world. Such a tendency is generally backed by a strong emotional attachment to these beliefs. Wishful thinking, assumptions and opinions based on reactive behavior directly relate to it. Objectivity is the ability to see things as they are, not as we envision them to be, like them or want them to be. The ability to perceive objective reality depends upon one’s ability to clearly receive . To reach a higher state of objective awareness, one must first see themselves clearly and that entails to work through one’s lies, illusions, buffers and self-deceptions. “The survival of the ego is established pretty early in life by our parental and societal programming as to what IS or is NOT possible; what we are “allowed” to believe in order to be accepted. We learn this first by learning what pleases our parents and then later we modify our belief based on what pleases our society – our peers – to believe.?[…]?One of the first things we might observe is that everyone has a different set of beliefs based upon their social and familial conditioning, and that these beliefs determine how much of the OBJECTIVE reality anyone is able to access. Suffice it to say that, under ordinary conditions of reality, we almost never perceive reality as it truly IS. There are thousands of different little “hypnotic suggestions” that have taken hold of us from infancy on, that determine, in any given moment, what we believe or think or think we believe or believe we think.” – Laura Knight-Jadczyk It’s easy to over-philosophize the idea of objectivity vs. subjectivity without considering some very practical applications. For example, regardless of what one believes to be “one’s truth” or what one is thinking about and visualizing, if you walk off a cliff, won’t gravity pull you down? Isn’t one plus one two, and not three? Is the world round or flat? And in regards to global issues: Is the official 9/11 story true or have we been lied to? Was it a false flag attack? Are we losing our basic rights for our protection from the so-called “terrorists” or is there a different reason? Is Obama telling the truth or is he lying? These question can be answered objectively if proper research is done. However, the truth may not necessarily agree with one’s preferred beliefs, opinions or assumptions. So it is important not to fall into denial or avoidance when some of our core beliefs are being challenged, especially if one is emotionally attached to them and the ego tries to (unconsciously) defend the lies in order to be “right” as the truth may open up a can of worms one is not ready to handle. Moreover, no matter how much one tries to close oneself off from the “outside world”, believing that nothing will affect them as long as one focuses on “positive” thoughts and what one “likes” to experience, the bigger issues of the world still have an effect on us all, precisely because we are all one and everything is connected. No man is an island and no one’s reality is isolated from the Whole. A fatuous paradigm that is currently running amok though the New Age community for quite a while is better known as You Create Your Own Reality (YCYOR) and is deliberately creating a lot of confusion. YCYOR is a very misleading and tentative paradigm with a certain half-truth in it, that is never expressed in this way in the Esoteric Traditions. Michael Topper brings some common sense to this issue: “What makes the YCYOR (You Create Your Own Reality) evangelist fatuous is precisely the fact that all such personal decreeing, positive thinking and confident imagining takes place in an inevitable context. There are implications! There are repercussions! No one decrees in a personal or private, solipsistic vacuum. There is a variegated World of myriad “pulls” and “claims” coexisting along with the private desires and designs of the given ego-subject. But “so what?” we hear the die-hard “reality-creator” claim “don’t we remain untouched by those ‘co-existents’ as long as we keep secure in the confidence of our own private deservedness, our own authoritative affirmations and specific commissions of positive thought-re-inforcement?” No. Man does not live by “commission” alone. This is why you do not create your own reality, but merely generate reality-hypotheses or scenarios which are continuously reflected and tested against the Whole; and the Whole, being inseparable from the Potential of your own innate-global Being, is constituted by the explicit and implicit alike, by that which is produced through active or positive commission and that which results from the gaps, blind-spots and vacuums of interpretive omission. All the lines, potential and actual, exist within one’s being and are inevitably calculated into the total account! This is what it means when we say there’s a context in which all our desire-formulation and “decreeing” takes place. This is a Deity-centered reality, not an ego-centered reality. Only the totality of the soul-nature is in touch with the Totality of Spirit-being. Anything else necessarily involves a partial perspective, a conceptual self-estimation producing inevitable blindspots. What you have selectively omitted from “your reality”, is manifested as well! We can of course say the “victim” still deserves his fate or has drawn his fate to himself by a quality of callousness embedded in his characteristic thought-formulae; and occasionally this interpretation may touch on some real factor involved in the negative effect. But neither the simple presence of some attitude toward elements of the ultimate negative resultant, nor explanations of residual “karma” (or anything of the kind) may adequately account for all cases in the same category. It is just simply not true that every rape victim somehow “invited” the experience as a personal form of “commission”. The converse implication of this, of course, is that only in alignment and integral consonance with the Whole-value of Being may Reality be accurately manifested through the medium of “personal expression” for then there is no discrepancy between “personal” and Universal, the perspectival “part” and the indeterminate Whole. It is under this condition that the “impossible” can be manifested (i.e. that which is self-evidently beyond the power of anyone to “personally” manipulate or control). For, understood in this way (and only in this way) it may be seen that unimaginable effectiveness results when the expression of one’s “personal” will is not different than or removed from the Spirit of Divine Will, i.e. the Will to reveal Spirit as the Truth and authentic character of everyone’s illimitable Being. This means that, in terms of “personal will”, only the Spirit of the Teaching Function remains. There is no will remaining in the repertoire of “personal will” except that which expresses perfect alignment, integration and identity with Divine Will. Contrary to unwarranted popular opinion, such initiated alignment with the Will of Absolute Spirit-being does not result in “working one’s will unopposed”. On the contrary, the very presence of the Awakened Truth in the form of the Spiritual adept has always generated immediate opposition; it has always “awakened” a corresponding reaction from the collective ego’s self-protective slumber. Initiated alignment of will with the creative Whole doesn’t guarantee “smooth personal circumstances”; on the contrary, look at the story of every adept, examine the events surrounding the Masters known to history. Rather it ensures that such events will possess the character of an authentic teaching-demonstration, to all who have the Soul to see. It ensures the Will of the Whole is always done, regardless the partiality and prejudice by which that Whole may be perceived in any given case.” – Michael Topper There is an objective truth outside the context of what our little “I” perceives. It seems a tendency in certain Conscious Movements to overgeneralize and distort spiritual “higher” truths and quantum physics with an oversimplification of: All Truth is relative! ?Hence some people unconsciously (or consciously) use this explanation as an excuse and justification for the atrocities in the world or for whatever one may want to believe in one’s own little subjective world, no matter how illusory, false and based on pure wishful thinking or emotional projections it may be; even to the point of declaring that it is all just about “my” or “your” truth and there is no objective truth. Obviously we all have our own personal lessons to learn and talents to develop, which could be interpreted as one’s “personal truth”, however that doesn’t exclude oneself from the collective lessons we all “need” to look at if we want to evolve consciously as ONE.?? Simply acknowledging that we are all one, separation is illusion and seeing everything as “Light” while focusing on what one believes to be “positive” and ignoring what one perceives as “negative” does not result in change for the better.?? Conversely, by insisting on what one would like to see, as opposed to seeing the world as it is, is coming into conflict with creation, which then results in entropy and MORE suffering on a global scale, not less. A deeper insight into this gives the Event Enhanced Quantum Theory developed by physicists Ark Jadczyk and Philip Blanchard. Its conclusion in a nutshell: “Everyone who “believes” in an attempt to “create reality” that is different from what IS, adds to the increase of chaos and entropy. If your beliefs are orthogonal to the truth, no matter how strongly you believe them, you are essentially coming into conflict with how the Universe views itself and I can assure you, you ain’t gonna win that contest. You are inviting destruction upon yourself and all who engage in this “staring down the universe” exercise with you. On the other hand, if you are able to view the Universe as it views itself, objectively, without blinking, and with acceptance of the reality and appropriate responses to how things really are, you then become more “aligned” with the Creative energy of the universe and your very consciousness becomes a transducer of order energy, and your actions are consonant with what is. Your energy of observation, given unconditionally, matched by the appropriate actions, can bring order to chaos, can create out of infinite potential.” – from “The Secret History of the World” by Laura Knight-Jadczyk Some people seem to mistake objectivity for negativity and wishful thinking for positivity. Most of what people see as negative or positive are their subjective projections and opinions that don’t really reflect the world as it is. Without Truth and Objectivity there won’t be a change for the “better”, nor a raise in consciousness, within and without. In that sense, many well-meaning and good-hearted folks who want a better world actually do more harm than any good by ignoring and denying aspects of our reality that may not fit into their subjective “positive” world view; instead believing that by shutting the so-called “negative” out and just seeing everything as “One” and “Light”, visualizing, meditating on world peace and projecting “love and light”, it will create peace and harmony. Nothing could be further from the truth and that is actually exactly what certain forces, who do not wish humanity to awaken for their own interests, want us to do and believe. It ties in with how religious and spiritual values have been corrupted. In other words, the ones exposing the lies and atrocities in the world, the ones looking at the world as it is with all the different “faces of god” including the unpleasant ones which many people perceive as “negative” and hence like to ignore, are actually doing LIGHT WORK in the true meaning of the word: Making the darkness conscious, raising awareness and shining Light into it. Light is information and knowledge, not just making things “light” in the sense of being “nice” or “kind” and “loving” without saying anything “bad” or “heavy”. “When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.” – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoch “Real compassion kicks butt and takes names and is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this FIRE, then find a new-age, sweetness and light, perpetually smiling teacher and learn to relabel your ego with spiritual sounding terms. But, stay away from those who practice REAL COMPASSION, because they will fry your ass, my friend.” – Ken Wilber This contrived “niceness” seems also very common in today’s conscious movements, where people don’t want to say anything “negative”, in their subjective understanding of it of course. In general, some folks hide behind a social etiquette and mask without wanting to say anything bad or touching on any taboo subjects. They speak around issues in order to be spiritually or politically correct so as to “not step on anyone’s toes”. Of course, that doesn’t mean that one should be mean, aggressive and rude or push information on someone who didn’t ask for it. It simply means to be sincere and honest with conscience and awareness. There is a time to speak up and a time to be silent. And sometimes you have to be direct, call a spade a spade and give the lie what it deserves: the truth, regardless of what others may think, even if it doesn’t sound “nice” and it doesn’t conform to what someone “likes” to hear. You can be considerate and still speak the truth, even if others see it as “negative” from their conditioned point of view. “Cowardice asks the question: “Is it safe”?? Expediency asks the question: “Is it politic”?? Vanity asks the question: “Is it popular?”?But conscience asks the question: “Is it right?”?And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular?but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. There are many so-called conscious festivals these days with music, art, workshops and lectures. Lots of pretty people in hip clothes, feathers, furry hats and much eye candy, supposedly representing the “counter-culture” of aware people. There is nothing wrong with dressing up, partying and having a good time, however, when looking at the program of talks and workshops of some of these festivals something seems to be missing, mainly the topics we need to become aware of as a species if we want to make the right turn. At any festival that claims to be “conscious” and “spiritual” and is supposedly the reflection of the “counter-culture”, one must ask why are there no workshops or lectures about the genocide in Palestine, the crimes by the US government aka Military Industrial Complex, the idea that psychopaths without conscience seem to rule our world and institutions, that 9/11 is a lie that has cost oppression and misery all over the world based on a fake war on terror, that Obama is a corporate puppet just as the old “boss”, that UFOs may not be signs of our “space brothers” coming to help us but that we are actually “food” in many ways, or that we are not “one big human family”, but that there may be souled and soulless humans and many other issues? ……all these topics are part of being aware and conscious, are they not? It seems that conscious festivals like that are becoming more and more a hip thing rather than using it to truly help people become aware of the shadow that needs to be made conscious of and shined light into. It’s not just about doing yoga, eating raw food and knowing permaculture, nor is it simply about being “positive” for the sake of being positive or learning about how to manifest your desired income. “We’re very much grounded within the counter culture of the 1960s of which this festival is indeed a legacy and an extension historically, and talk to you about some of… I don’t really want to talk to you about the similarities because you know what the similarities are…the similarities are mainly cosmetic. And there are some other philosophical similarities which I’ll discuss but one of the things that I’d like to talk with you about are some of the differences. In the 1960s, the counter cultural movement had at its core, we have the music yes, we had the drugs which was not in all ways a high side of it. There was the music, there was a definite sense of counter culture, there was a definite repudiation of certain values which people deemed to be obsolete and unsustainable. But it bears noting that there was also at it’s core the repudiation of a war and ultimately the ending of a war, which means that the counter culture at that time was making a serious stand against something new on the planet; something horrible on the planet called “American military domination of anything it cared to dominate”. And that gave a moral authority to the counter culture of the 1960s, and I would hope that a festival like this does not- in a heart that brings us here, the consciousness that brings us here- I’m reminded of a line in “A Course in Miracles” where it says, “You cannot bring the light to the darkness you must bring the darkness to the light“. Dream and I were having an interesting conversation… we were talking about this festival and she said people just wanted to be in the light for a few days…But I say to you as your sister, as your spiritual companion, embedded in the principles of “A Course in Miracles” and in my own spiritual search, but I know that there is only one truth spoken in many different ways…There is a difference between transcendence and denial…and if the consciousness that brings you to a festival like this, is one in which we feel- as Americans, as men, as women, as citizens of the planet- that we can be here, that this can be anything with true gravitas or moral authority and we are forgetting the fact that our country has turned into a permanent war machine, then there is something very sad about this festival rather than happy for me. Now we were talking about, earlier, we were talking about the fact that men in…about the feminine power…and the divine feminine…and it was another I heard someone say that the men here are holding the space for the feminine ,which is very beautiful, it’s a very beautiful thing the, the mix of, you know- obviously there are men and women here, and both for the women who want to hold the space for the divine feminine, and as well for the men who want are holding the space for the divine feminine, thank you so much. I’d to talk to you for a moment about the divine feminine because the divine feminine has a fierce aspect. The divine feminine is not just dressing up, the divine feminine it’s not just getting pretty in whatever pretty of the day is, whether it’s big boobs or feathers. It’s all just cosmetic… hello… The divine feminine cares about the fact that 17,000 babies die on this planet everyday of hunger. The divine feminine cries, the divine feminine shrieks when she has to. You know if you… there is an interesting anthropological characteristic of every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives; and that is the fierce behavior of the adult female of that species when she senses that there is a threat to her cubs that whether it’s the mama bear or the tiger or a lion. Did you know that even among the hyenas the adult female hyenas encircle their babies, encircle the cubs while they’re feeding and will not let the adult males of that species anywhere near the food until the cubs have been fed. Surely the women of America could do better than the hyenas. And the fact that collectively, not in terms of our hearts, our hearts are good, and I know that the heart that draws us to a place like this today is good, but we have to ask ourselves at what point, whether you’re in therapy or your at a festival like this, at what point do you stand in that place which is not comfortable, do you stand in that place which is not comfortable and not turn away? Because if a counter cultural movement, such as this at least externally represents here today, is one, I asked earlier, I said “Hmm. Is there anything political going on here today?” and I was told “No, these are just people who are ready to transcend.” And let be very clear once again about that difference between transcendence and denial because if the counter cultural movement in 2011 is one in which it is deemed for whatever reason acceptable to look away from the fact that tremendous amounts of unnecessary human suffering occur on this planet and in this country for no other reason than that so a relatively few people on this planet and in this country can have all the money they want. That is not service, it is NOT counter cultural, it is the the epitome of being co-opted by the very culture that we seek to counter. Now you might say to me “What do you want us to do?” I don’t know what your supposed to do… None of my business what your supposed to do. But I’m asking you as Jesus said to the disciples the night before the crucification in the garden of Gethsemane, “Please do not go to sleep. Do not go to sleep in the hour of my agony. Remain awake!”… That’s what they do to you. They put you to sleep! The system would love this festival! The system would love this festival because its not saying “Fuck you!” to anybody. And there’s a sense that that is somehow spiritual. There’s a sense that that is somehow spiritual, and I believe deeply that, as “The Course in Miracles” says, “Look at the crucification but do not dwell on it.” I’m not saying let’s dwell on what’s bad, because if you dwell on what’s bad then it’s true, that is you just focus on it and make more of it. But to not look at it at all… to not look at it at all, there’s not the divine feminine about that. The divine feminine… if there was a starving child here…somebody tell me…if there was a child here or if anyone- god forbid- let’s just talk about our deep humanity… Let’s say right here right now- god forbid- somebody, uh, had a heart attack or something. Well the fact that I’m speaking up here would be irrelevant. Somebody would yell out say, “Is there a doctor here?” We would all get deeply human very quickly wouldn’t we? Are you with me? Now this is an interesting thing about our country, if you look and see, I always say that if I’m if I’m on an airplane somewhere, anywhere in the world… I love to sit next to an American …I… characterologically we’re cool people and we care. We’re not, you know… We’re human beings and there’s a spunkiness and it’s a coolness. But our collective capacity for denial and grandiosity is frightening and perilous….” – Marianne Williamson In the end most people are only afraid of the unknown and what they don’t understand. Once we make the effort to deprogram ourselves from our conditioning and gain knowledge and understanding within AND without, shining “LIGHT” into darkness, our awareness/consciousness rises and we start to SEE in alignment with who we truly are, beyond preference, wishful thinking or denial and then can act in alignment with our Higher Self and the Universe. If we truly love life, the world we live in and want positive change, then this also implies to look at the issues and injustices in the world so many of us like to ignore or deny. This is not being “negative”, but the work to be done during this Time of Transition “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ” – Martin Luther King Jr. Seeking truth and making the darkness conscious needs to happen within AND without, not just one or the other. Activism and spiritual self-work go hand in hand. It’s not separated but interrelated. The problem that comes with truth seekers and activists who only focus on the outside is that they can easily fall into the trap of disinformation or they resonate with lies because their “Reading Instrument”, the Self, is not “tuned” correctly through sincere self work which would help their critical thinking abilities. It becomes harder to separate truth from lies and one may even spread disinformation unknowingly because one is less likely to see the “unseen” or the “devil in the details” so to speak, resulting in oversimplifications, assumptions, and misconceptions. In other words, I need to understand my “machine”, my habitual way of thinking and how my emotional reactions and attachments can distort things, how I take in information and how my own bias and conditioned beliefs filter information which can result in cognitive dissonance. “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.“ – Frantz Fanon “In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.” – G.I. Gurdjieff According to the mystic and spiritual teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, the human organism is constituted by two fundamental functions: essence and personality. Essence is what we are born with, the raw material of one’s being. It includes the physical body, genetic make-up, energy metabolism, the inborn capacity for emotions and sensations. There are also external influences that affect us, such as planetary vibrations, present in the immediate environment at conception, during the fetal stage, and at birth. An astrological birth chart can give some insight into that. As we grow, our essence is molded by cultural influences. It can mature along the lines of its inherent nature and potential, or it can become blocked in its maturation and hence form something that works against its inborn potential. Essence would evolve in societies where essential practices and values predominate, such as sincerity, love, truth, compassion, knowledge, and so on. Obviously we live in a world where such values have become distorted and ponerized, meaning that our society at large has taken on pathological values that are seen as normal and people can no longer make the distinction between healthy and pathological thought processes and logic. One is no longer able to draw a line between correct thinking and deviate thinking. The influence of higher density beings and forces may also have an effect on us in that regard as explored in UFOs, Aliens, and The Question of Contact. Personality is the mask we carry over our essence. The vehicle for essence to work through so to speak. Our personality is conditioned and programmed through upbringing in a society that is built on lies, and the stronger the programming, the harder it is for essence to come through. Hence, de-programming and facing the lies of one’s personality is key so it becomes a direct reflection and expression of essence, which ultimately leads to conscious actions based on one’s inherent potential. In a mature person, essence and personality form one continuous “I”, which is to say that the person is unified. “People are always infused with all kinds of fantastic ideas about themselves, the world, people, love, idealism, society, etc. Led by his eagerness to evade a disagreeable reality, man gives free rein to his imagination and is inclined to believe the first agreeable lie he encounters along the way. The individual projects his personal illusions onto a cold and immutable reality, and thus deceiving himself, he endeavors to contemplate reality through rose-colored glasses. “Disillusion” is a painful process and can be prolonged, depending on how much time the individual takes to realize he is living artificially and that this condition is a product of his internal dreams. Great courage is required to face reality and to destroy the mirage of a pleasant dream.” – John Baines On the other hand, many spiritually inclined people only focus on the self, believing that will change the outside eventually, without making the effort to look at the world more objectively and acting upon it. Gandhi’s call to “be the change you want to see in the world” has also been misunderstood that way. First of all the “kind of change” people want to see is different for each based on one’s subjective understanding of it, which can be very distorted, especially if one is avoiding seeing the world as it is, believing in lies and just projecting one’s desires and hopes that are based on the conditioned personality, resulting in wishful thinking. For example, just being “nice” because I want to see a “nice” world does not automatically make the world so, especially since some humans are “wired” differently. Another issue is that many people try to explain everything through one system or teaching and do not see its limitations or even distort it to mold it into their belief system. For example, not everything “negative” in the world is a manifestation of our shadow material, nor is everything that happens to us our karma, nor do we attract everything with our thoughts. Sure there is truth to the idea of karma, but using that explanation to justify all the atrocities in the world is short-sighted and misses the point as we still have to act and learn our lessons, not just “turn the other cheek” or stand by and keep silent, saying “oh it’s just your/their/my karma”. We are not the peak of God’s creation and so special and holy that nothing other than ourselves would harm, control or manipulate us. It’s actually quite arrogant and anthropocentric to think that way. We don’t do everything to ourselves. It’s not about blaming, but getting out of our self-centered view of reality and the universe. There are other forces acting on us, just as we influence, consume and to a certain extent control lower life forms such as plants and animals. As above, so below. “There are a thousand things which prevent a man from awakening, which keep him in the power of his dreams. In order to act consciously with the intention of awakening, it is necessary to know the nature of the forces which keep man in a state of sleep. First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him. One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position.” – G. I. Gurdjieff The learning never stops and humanity still has much to confront and learn about that may require a whole new understanding of reality, just like there are different or expanded views now in science compared to what Einstein and Newton had discovered. There is always more to learn and find out that requires an adjustment and new understanding, expanding our view and understanding of reality. It is what raising consciousness implies. People who are stuck in one idea or teaching and try to explain everything through it are building their own limited reality box. This also relates to psychology, astrology, philosophy, the healing arts, spiritual practices or any religion (east and west) where many “experts” in any of these systems are looking through one lens (many of them distorted/false to begin with), not realizing that this approach can easily lead to distortion and a tunnel vision. It can also become an egotistical point of pride preventing that person to admit to him/herself that there is maybe more to the story which one hasn’t considered before, especially when they have written books about it, their career depends on it and they have an image to sell/live up to. One can see these fallacies with many popular spiritual teachers, researchers, visionaries, therapists and self-help gurus, where career and image seem to take precedence over truth and reality. There are many topics that affect us more than many of them are aware of, be it the idea of hyperdimensional manipulation, genetic psychopathy or soulless humans. But instead of being more open to such topics and looking into them sincerely and unbiased, these seemingly intelligent and aware individuals ignore or debunk them right off-hand exposing their own lack of critical thinking. Awareness and study of the aforementioned topics and also looking into the “taboo” subject of conspiracies would actually help and expand their knowledge and ability to truly help others and society at large. Many people tend to laugh at the term “conspiracy theories” and even use it with a negative, condescending tone. The social reality that they are taboo solidifies this also deeper into people’s minds, subconsciously. Nobody wants to be called a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s like calling somebody a “wacko” and commonly used as an ad hominem attack that lacks critical thinking. Most people don’t have a true understanding of what the word “conspiracy” actually means. Historian Richard M. Dolan brings some common sense to this issue: “From a historical point of view, the only reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of the power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo.?[…]? The very label ‘conspiracy’ serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue. The United States comprises large organizations – corporations, bureaucracies, ‘interest groups,’ and the like – which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. ‘Conspiracy’, in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe.“ – Richard Dolan “Do I believe in conspiracies? Naah! Do I believe that powerful people would get together and plan for certain outcomes? Naah! Do I believe that powerful interests would operate outside the law and maybe even kill people? Naah! Do I believe secret government agencies might feel the need to assassinate a person and cover it up? Naah! I think everything in America is open and clean and above board and powerful people always play by the rules.” I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to. It accommodates these changes. I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation on the part of those who own the country. I think they see where their self-interest lies. They see a certain amount of freedom seems good, an illusion of liberty. Give these people…give these people a voting day every year so that they’ll have the illusion of meaningless choice… meaningless choice that we go like slaves and say, “Yeah, I voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established before the debate even begins and everyone else is marginalized and made to seem either to be communists or some sort of disloyal person, a “kook”- there’s a word- and now it’s “conspiracy”, see? They’ve made that something that should not even be entertained for a minute; that powerful people might get together and have a plan. Doesn’t happen, you’re a kook, you’re a conspiracy buff! – George Carlin Our views on life and existence, science and religion, spirituality and evolution, consciousness and psychology as well as reality as we know it would take on a whole new understanding when looking deeper into the topics we dismiss so easily simply because we don’t “believe” them to be true. Let’s not forget, not too long ago we believed that the earth is flat. “Consciousness means, literally, “knowing-together.” A development of consciousness would therefore mean knowing “more together,” and so it would bring about a new relationship to everything previously known. For to know more always means to see things differ

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1580346/ ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of today's youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture's apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students, parents, and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of today's struggling generation as some of the worlds leading scholars, activists, and media personalities provide their insight into the ideas and movements that can inspire change.

John Stockwell left the CIA when he decided that what they were doing was endangering national security not protecting it. John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years. Having managed American involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies. As a Marine, Stockwell was a CIA paramilitary intelligence case officer in three wars: the Congo Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Angolan War of Independence. His military rank is Major. Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975. In December 1976, he resigned from the CIA, citing deep concerns for the methods and results of CIA paramilitary operations in Third World countries and testified before Congressional committees. Two years later, he wrote the exposé In Search of Enemies, about that experience and its broader implications. He claimed that the CIA was counterproductive to national security, and that its "secret wars" provided no benefit for the United States. The CIA, he stated, had singled out the MPLA to be an enemy in Angola despite the fact that the MPLA wanted relations with the United States and had not committed a single act of aggression against the United States. In 1978 he appeared on the popular American television program 60 Minutes, claiming that CIA Director William Colby and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had systematically lied to Congress about the CIA's operations. PURE RAW (FALSE) PROPAGANDA! If you believe the Zionist/Israel accusations (LIES) about October 7. Watch this former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1719700058583482770 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1tfkESPVY

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364198/ Are we controlled? To what extent and by whom? What does it mean for humanity's future? The enormous implications of these questions deter most of us who must deal with the daily consequences of the answers. STATE OF MIND digs deeply into the sources to reveal that much of that which we believe to be truth has been deception, deliberately implanted in our consciousness to erect a "tyranny over the minds of men". From cradle to grave our parents, peers, institutions and society inform our values and behaviors. But this process has been hijacked. STATE OF MIND examines the science that has evolved over generations to keep us firmly in place and maintain the status quo so that dictators, power brokers and corporate puppeteers may profit from our ignorance and slavery. From the anvil of compulsory schooling to media and entertainment, we are kept in perpetual bondage to the ideas that shape our actions. STATE OF MIND delves into the abyss to bring to light the manipulation and shocking and suppressed examples that reveal the true agendas at work. From the ancient roots of the control of human behavior to its maturity in the mind control experiments of intelligence agencies and other organs of manipulation, STATE OF MIND reveals a plan for the future that drives home the dreadful price of our ignorance. We are prepared for a new paradigm. Will we choose our own paths or have one selected for us? STATE OF MIND unveils the answers that may decide whether humankind will fulfill its destiny or be forever shackled to its own creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGizqsLumo The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies research portfolio includes investigating children who have memories of past lives; the nature of consciousness and the mind-body relationship; neuro-imaging studies of psi events; and individuals who report experiencing near-death experiences(NDEs). In this panel, the legendary actor, writer, and comedian, John Cleese, convenes DOPS research faculty to present an overview of the research to which they have dedicated their academic careers.

As the dawn of 1940 cast long, ominous shadows across the Polish countryside, a dreadful construction was being erected amidst the peaceful landscape, one that would soon become an emblem of humanity's darkest hour - Auschwitz. Built under the merciless command of the Third Reich, this concentration camp emerged as a chilling testament to the unthinkable horrors born of prejudice, hatred, and utter disregard for human life. Under the grim guise of 'racial purification', thousands of innocent lives were stripped of their dignity, subjected to brutalities that defied comprehension. At the epicenter of this was Josef Mengele, infamously known as the 'Angel of Death'. As a physician at Auschwitz, Mengele carried out unspeakable experiments on the helpless prisoners, often without the use of anesthesia, under the twisted banner of scientific research. But have you ever pondered over the chilling details of these experiments? How was it possible for such horrific acts to be conducted in broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of the world? Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, once remarked, "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." As we traverse the sorrowful chapters of Auschwitz, we owe it to the memory of those lost to confront the unsettling reality of the Holocaust. Join us as we delve into the sinister labyrinth of Auschwitz, unveiling the horrifying experiments conducted within its cold, unfeeling walls. Welcome to the diary of Julius Caesar. Auschwitz Emerges. The Shadow Over Poland. As the year 1940 dawned, the whispers of a new and ominous structure began to spread across the Polish lands. Auschwitz, originally known as Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, was conceived in the minds of Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Höss, two men whose names would forever be etched in the annals of humanity's darkest period. The chosen site for this facility, situated near the town of Oświęcim in Southern Poland, was a paradox of pastoral beauty and impending doom. Its strategic location at the crossroads of major railway lines made it an ideal place for the mass movement of people - a cruelly practical consideration for the Nazi regime's deadly intentions. Rudolf Höss, a man with a stern demeanor and a chilling loyalty to the Nazi cause, became the first commandant of Auschwitz. Selected by Heinrich Himmler himself, Höss was instructed to create a concentration camp that would set a precedent for all others. As the bricks were laid and the fences erected, few could have envisioned the monstrosity that Auschwitz would become. What had once been a Polish army barracks was transformed into a place of despair under the hands of prisoners transferred from Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in Germany. As Auschwitz's first inmates, these individuals were coerced into constructing the very walls that would confine them. A fascinating yet tragic anecdote tells of a prisoner who, with the clandestine use of a smuggled camera, managed to capture images of the camp's early days. These photographs, concealed for years, now serve as an important testament to Auschwitz's grim genesis. 00:00 Auschwitz 1:39 The Shadow Over Poland 5:18 The Dreadful Metamorphosis 8:41 An Ordinary Day in Extraordinary Circumstances 11:51 The Art of Endurance in Auschwitz 15:55 The Twisted Science of Josef Mengele 19:22 The Dark Economy of Forced Labor 22:50 Starvation and Survival in Auschwitz 26:13 Living in the Shadow of Punishment 29:58 The Silent Resilience of Auschwitz's Women 32:56 Victims, Survivors, and Tormentors 35:41 The Unseen Battle within Auschwitz 37:45 The Bitter Freedom of Auschwitz 40:50 The Echoes of the Past in Today's Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UL9_dIJXVo How do normal young men turn into mass murderers? With detailed accounts from the diaries of Nazi death squads, Academy Award winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky crafts a chilling study on the nature of evil. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3358086

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qigGJPBLuN8&list=PLQv7ILzUxt5YXdgBlWuqfPn1amfDHMFNK https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6953928/ Testimony from witnesses, survivors and Nazis themselves reveals the truth about the mass executions carried out by the Third Reich's Einsatzgruppen.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2532528 Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8237924/ Academics, public relations experts, and satirists of various kinds describe the history and nature of propaganda.