To deepen your understanding of the tyrannical technocratic vision, I highly recommend this video featuring a speech by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, top advisor to Klaus Schwab:
“Now, in the past, many tyrants and governments wanted to do it, but nobody understood virology well enough, and nobody had enough computing power and data to hack millions of people. Neither the Gestapo nor the KGB could do it.
“But soon, at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people. We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals.
“Data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than to just build digital dictatorships. By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself, because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it.
“And if indeed we succeed in hacking and engineering life, this will be not just the greatest revolution in the history of humanity, this will be the greatest revolution in biology since the very beginning of life 4 billion years ago.
“For 4 billion years, nothing fundamental changed in the basic rules in the game of life. All of life for 4 billion years, dinosaurs, amoebas, tomatoes, humans, all of life was subject to the laws of natural selection and to the laws of organic biochemistry.
“But this is now about to change. Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design, not the intelligent design of some god above the clouds, but our intelligent design. And the intelligent design of our clouds—the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud—these are the new driving forces of evolution.”
Once upon a time I was moved by the Harari vision. Now I see that he is just another sociopath enabler who doesn't understand the true role of genes in evolution and development. Genes are not the master. They are the servant. The work of Michael Levin on bioelectricity proves this. Here's a full list of his presentations on this topic:
I wonder how this links with the scientific understanding of the bio-fields and chi (qi). For miracle healing we use intention, breath and going to a state between being and non-being (one way I have heard it explained). Qi is life, energy moving, yin-yang, the meridians - everything, so if we can direct our Qi to heal cells it is like what they are doing with the electric pathways. 🤔 because Qi is electricity connected to ‘source’.
I use energy healing in body work. I have fixed a lot of soft tissue problems on clients. Some that looked like it required pain killers and emergency room treatment, even.
The human body is essentially a matrix of mind body spirit, with the body composed mostly of water. Water is our biological solid state hard drive, as the brain cannot hold all the quantum data by itself. The mind is the software running the hardware and the spirit is the user operating the accounts, the software, and maintaining the hardware.
While some energy healing can be a form of energy transfer where the user is drained to provide another user life energy (sorta like a blood transfusion), in my skill it is more akin to the double slit quantum observer effect. The particle is both wave and electron. The cat is both dead and alive. Which timeline I shift my perception to, is the timeline that has a higher probability of arriving and once arrives, it is adopted as software by our bodies, which then produce a change in the hardware to keep up with the software upgrade.
Human civilization is undergoing the natural leap from the belief that material matter controls our fate to the truth that spirit and mind controls more of our fate, and yes even matter itself, the body of the verse. This paradigm shift is as revolutionary as when mankind first utilized fire and tools. Our biological vehicles and avatars went from being the victim or object, to being the cause of events using tools. Once the spirit and mind are truly unlocked in the public collective consciousness, this will have an equal if not greater revolutionary effect on all civilizations.
Very well put. I completely agree that structured water is the matrix that allows for the transmission of bio electricity through all of the connective tissue right down to the cytoskeleton that penetrates to the nucleus of every cell. I highly recommend the work of Dr. Gerald Pollock on the fourth phase of water.
I actually have a masters degree in acupuncture, and I think Dr. Levin's research is one thread that lends some credence to the Chinese concept of Qi as a form of bioelectricity or maybe even something subtler on the quantum level. He is very careful not to speculate on such things, as I suspect his funding would dry up instantly. A very well-known acupuncturist named Jill Blakeway has recently written a book called energy medicine and is currently working on a documentary series that will include Dr. Levin.
One way to interpret the Indian chakra system is that the brain and heart are receivers and power transreceivers, respectively. The brain is remotely operated by the spiritual/quantum energy and is thus like a radio or remote drone.
My experience with acupuncture points came from martial arts and Tai Chi, mostly experiences where I hit my ulnar nerve on a desk and my entire arm went numb and useless for minutes.
Ah, thank you Anomaloid! Levin's work on bioelectricity is fascinating, and flows nicely with the hypothesis of formative causation and its model of Morphic Resonance that Sheldrake offers us. Sheldrake's hypotheses predict Levin's results!
Completely agree about the overlap with Sheldrake's work. In fact, I saw a live webinar with Michael Levin where Rupert Sheldrake was in the audience and asked some questions. Unfortunately, the only way I will ever find that interview is if I fall ass backwards into it again.
Continuing in this vein, I've been reading Entangled Life, written by Merlin Sheldrake, which gives a profound window into life as we know it through the perspective of the fungi from which we descend. In it, Sheldrake endeavors to describe the potential mind of fungi as demonstrated through the well-developed and intentional effects they exhibit on the minds of non-fungi. So far he has not mentioned morphic resonance or formative causation, to my notice, but quotes from Dawkins somewhat cheekily, and reads reminiscently in the ghostly voice of a late Terence McKenna.
In searching for the book, I discovered that Merlin has a podcast with the same name as the book and also came across another book that people say complements Merlin's book quite well. It is called In search of Mycotopia.
I enjoyed Terence McKenna's work back in the day. The neural net like structure of fungi is intriguing. The renowned mycologist Paul Stamets has had a lot to say on this subject in recent years.
Merlin has plenty to say on the matter, but we can scarcely extrapolate the immense consciousness that might emerge if every cubic micrometer of earth on the Earth had been packed with mycological neurons for a Billion Years, all of which have learned to communicate in layers of nested fractal complexity in the same manner our brains respond to the world outside, only quadrillions of times more massive and complex. Suffice it to say, it's nice living here; slim chance "we" are in charge of anything.
I want to believe in the ideal, possible future painted by Charles. I fear the looming reality is more in line with the technocrats. Maybe I'm just losing hope.
Change comes from where we put our feelings, and hence our energies. Shift as often as possible to appreciate the beauties around you; listen to the quiet voice of what your heart wants for the world, and by these things we join this inner inherent energy of wholeness with others, influencing others not yet there, and world healing begins, we recovering from the wounds of personal and techno mental force rather than the Power of heart connection and care.
I listened to the fascinating TED interview with Michael Levin linked in Anomaloid's post above. Michael Levin's experiments prove the mailability of the bioelectric field (an innate intelligence) that creates fundamental change in an organism - which, IMO, at the human level is totally influenced by our beliefs & attitudes, thoughts & feelings and choices & decisions. A path of healing, positive & fundamental change is possible and is now showing up in these lab experiments - portending a potential future of dreams for those who are willing while in parallel an unfolding nightmare is spinning out of control. For each of us I think it will come down to a choice - which path?
Wonderful! This also spoken of in the book, the Quantum Doctor by Amit Goswami, PhD, and googling him, his website. Our thoughts and feelings create from the quantum field, almost like a 3D printer, creating our lives. Thank you!
I agree that the quantum doctor idea is driving in the same direction.  I listened to a portion of that book a while back, but it didn't hold my attention for some reason.
Yes that is so. Now you can further understand why there is a hidden shadow hydra qabal that seeks to foment war and fear across the world's regions. What better way to keep thralls powerless than to make them fear, hate, and kill each for ultimately fruitless reasons?
I fear the same, and I believe Charles is acknowledging this in a sense, as giving up hope essentially hands the reins to the technocrats.
However, the important takeaway I get from this is that its essential we each hold this or a similar alternative vision of the future in order to sidestep what is coming down the technocratic/social pipeline.
Society seems to have been sort of been weaponized through lack of nuance, and if there is to remain any hope, there needs to be unwavering belief in not just the possibility, but the inevitability of an offramp, returning to that new (and ancient) conception of progress.
I took that as a bad joke, but if he is, then I'm hoping he is planning on smacking some sense into them. Metaphorically, of course. Or literally. Dealer's choice.
I kind of like to retain hope that those in the WEF may always be swayed to another perspective, despite the obvious alternative reality they seem to be living in. And I can't keep speculating on controlled opposition. So I'm okay with that hypothetical consultation, joke or not.
Many were involved in the WEF, including Putin and Tulsi. Not all of them will be on board with the depopulation agenda and technocratic tyranny via Slavery 4.0 however.
They want us to feel hopeless and powerless—that’s how they win. But what they don’t realize is more and more people are awakening every day, and we are reaching a critical mass of resistance the puny cabal will not be able to overcome if we join together in mass noncompliance.
This Catherine Austin Fitts conversation with Mike Yeadon is realistic but also hopeful:
Catherine, who understand what is occurring at the financial level possibly better than anyone else in the Resistance, is still optimistic, despite what she knows:
Mike Yeadon is a brave and brilliant being I feel honored to call my friend, and Catherine opened my eyes to the financial dimensions of this mass deception campaign and gave me a stratospheric view of what was occurring.
I believe that a simple exercise in comparing and contrasting the Truckers Movement to the Occupy Movement will show how these movements are actually the very antithesis of one another.
Firstly, the Occupy Movement originated out of a body of grassroots activism. And to such a degree the the even leftist social activist Chris Hedges didn’t see it coming. It was therefore an organic mobilization of souls that hold an elevated state of heart based unity consciousness. It is a non reactive state of consciousness that carries the same kind of social justice principles that are both timeless and universal. Interesting also that it happed in the earlier days of internet tunnel vision tribalism. It had no official partisan political agenda or leadership structure or financial support from Christian right wing oil and gas interests in Western Canada and the Us. In fact I believe those that choose to rally behind something like the truckers movement would not be drawn into, nor supply financial or any other support to Occupiers. That’s because although there was a small degree of overlap in both the spirit and intention of these protest movements, a mere scratch of the surface will reveal chasm of opposing ideological worldviews. Where the banner of the Truckers and anti vaxers is personal freedom from tyranny, the motivations of the Occupiers where social justice and responsible environmental stewardship. What I’m saying is the core of the Occupy Movement is the very same as The Black Civil Rights Movement, The Peace and Anti War Movements, The Back to the Land Movement of the 60’s, ect ect. And that these people have a vision of a world based on an entirety different set of values and worldview than what I have witnessed with The Truckers Movement here in Canada. I’m 60 years old and an old hand at this, I also witnessed first hand how these two started, and well as the the public display of their respective collective mentalities. But most importantly and unlike the Truckers, those in alignment with the social justice values of the Occupy Movement are not aligned with any form of tribalistic power seeking political populism.
I think you will find many of the tenets you praise about the Occupy movement were on full exhibit at the Freedom Convoy protests once you take the time to review the evidence.
Ok, I checked out your blog. First off, I’m no fan of Trudeau. I could see what he was years ago when he was an MP. I am not a “ pro vaccines”, I support the fundamental human right of bodily autonomy, I was against Trudeau’s entire reaction and his approach to dealing with the protestors. I’m under no illusions... I was an early member of Chris Martinsons site where over 12years ago I was introduced to people like Catherine Austin Fitts and Charles Eisenstein ect ect ect. But I also know why nearly all the highly original, highly intelligent and deeply concerned members at what is now Peak Prosperity left the site. It was because of what I am currently experiencing here. What is currently happened is if course nothing new. But what is new is this new breed of FB and internet warriors that have become professional masters in the realm of internet reality tunnel analysis. To me, your Letter to Trudeau is a perfect example of this. It is to write to oneself in a reality tunnel of others that do the same. Of course there is zero chance of Trudeau reading it. And even if he did he wouldn’t get past the first sentence. And it’s a personal insult to “ regular “ Canadians like myself who you seem to assume are sympathetic to someone like you that is clearly writing for a well educated group of elitist internet bloggers.Im a working class carpenter from Ottawa and many of my friends drive trucks for a living. My family are tradespersons and craftspeople and believe me none of them could even relate to someone you. It’s absolutely ridiculous that you would attempt to use people like us to your own advantage. To suggest that government has paid people to carry out stupid acts of vandalism and hate only shows your agenda of your manipulation of the message. It is trucks themselves with the F Trudeau signs and gargantuan tires ect that say it all. I’ve been working construction all my life and I know a bunch of idiots and babies when I see them.. Jeezers!
Apologies for taking so long to get back to you, John. In fact, it’s partly your fault ;-) You inspired me to prioritize my piece on the Canadian truckers, and it took a massive amount of time to slog through the hundreds of articles, videos, and eyewitness accounts I have been collecting since the beginning of this movement. Then I had to catch up on the backlog.
I’m glad to hear you’re not a fan of Trudeau and that you’ve seen through him for years. The fact that you support bodily autonomy is evidence that you did not fall prey to the mass hypnosis campaign. I’ve only watched one video with Chris Martenson so don’t have a strong opinion about him.
I agree that falling into a “reality tunnel” is a danger in Internet communities. I do find myself encountering a wide range of intellectually and socioeconomically diverse individuals at Substack, though, which I appreciate—you being one example.
Of course, I knew Trudeau wasn’t going to read my letter. To quote myself in another comment, “My letters are less for the overt recipients than for documenting their crimes, assembling the scientific evidence, and rallying the Resistance.”
I’m sorry you felt it was a personal insult to “regular” Canadians. That certainly wasn’t my intention. Indeed, my profile on the Canadian truckers is intended to celebrate precisely those regular Canadians who mustered the courage to stand up against tyranny.
May I ask, if I’m the elitist, why am I the one championing the working-class revolt against the oligarchy, while you appear to have been deceived by the tyranny-enabling media’s false depictions of the truckers and protesters?
It’s a shame you didn’t take the opportunity to go and see the protests firsthand. Everyone who did came away with an entirely different perspective and realized the propagandists had painted a completely distorted picture of the peaceful, loving, and harmonious atmosphere populated by individuals of every background all united in a joyous desire for freedom and practicing goodwill toward all. I did the next best thing to visiting in person, which is playing hundreds of videos documenting the entire experience over the course of the event to get a more accurate understanding of the reality on the ground.
If you are open-minded and interested in learning the truth about the truckers, my “Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian) collects hundreds of videos, articles, and eyewitness testimonies documenting the experience with as much breadth and depth as is possible in a single article.
I wish you well, John, and I hope you come to understand the bravery of the truckers the elitist-defending media wants you to revile because they are such a great threat to the power structure oppressing people worldwide.
Ok. Maybe someone can help me with this. I’ve known about CAF for some time, and I mostly accept what she says. But the more I follow Bitchute and the other go to sites for her kind of perspective, the more I come across what seems to me to be Trump style Right Wing Trump Christian fascism. I know she is smart and cool headed, and I respect that, but the regular flippant laughter when dealing with deadly serious issues gives my cause for concern, Same goes for the Truckers Freedom Movement here in Canada. I’ve been at this for a while and it seems to have come down to trusting very few of even this crowd. But on the other hand, after 10 years finally being able to understand and fully accept Charles Eisensteins, Indigenous and other similar thinkers and peoples metaphysical worldview, makes me so happy I want to do happy cartwheels down the street.
Christian, yes—albeit one who challenged her pastor and lambasted the neocons in front of the congregation after the pastor had just praised George W. Bush, et al, so not the fundamentalist submissive kind, and certainly not “Trump style Right Wing Trump” or “fascist” (precisely what she’s fighting).
As far as the flippant laughter goes, humor is a sign of resilience. There is no question she views these issues as deadly serious or she wouldn’t be devoting her life to exposing and dismantling the democidal fraud being perpetrated on the world.
Have you watched her “Planet Lockdown” interviews?
Yes I’ve watched them. And I know her from Chris Martinsons site before it became Peak Prosperity. So my take on her has been pretty much in alignment with yours until I started to dig deeper into the Truckers and Anti Vac Movement here in Canada. That’s where the fascist comment comes from. Because once I started looking into to it, I started watching lots of Bitchute videos and it’s like they many of them are white right wing Christians. So I assume that is largely her her audience and clientele.
The Mr. Global thing confuses me also because I wonder how they intend to absorb China and South America and other non - western countries. Gotta wonder about investment banking also. But I agree that her background, experience and track record gives her lots of credibility. So I guess it’s just me getting feeling ready to give trying to understand all the crazy stuff... I gotta wonder if it is actually beyond me even after years of trying. Maybe the trouble is that I’m a Socialist Libertarian ( Occupy Movement), and most of the Bitchute followers seem to be Right Wing Libertarian. But we certainly agree on the trouble with Neo Cons.
Many technocrats, many intentions. Some controlled by dark forces, corrupted by the power they wield and the insatiable desire for more. Pure evil. Some altruist-eugenists perhaps have slightly less malign intentions and genuinely believe their interference is for the good of humankind.
I wonder if Harari is promoting here or warning? I get the sense he is not sure which way HE is fact wants to go....I can smell it deep in his psyche...
Interesting line of thought. Harari is an avid meditator. I first became aware of him on the Sam Harris podcast. Of course, Sam is another one who has turned out to be a major disappointment to me during the pandemic.
Joining you here my friend. Now that I've actually listened to him directly (opposed to just hearing others opinions) I feel into the same question. Perhaps he is mostly a good old fashioned smarty-pants who is getting swept into the great reset marketing matrix. Imagine that's a pretty seductive place to be. His invitation to meditation as an inoculation against propaganda is interesting. An invitation to "not get high on your own supply..." to global elite, perhaps? When I first discovered mindfulness meditation 15 years ago the first thing I did with it was become a better "business person"! It amped up my extractive power and gave me more agency in its deployment. T'aint the tools that make the carpenter... or the brushes that make the artist. Anyway, he's a fascinating character.
Oh dear! The “hacks” provided by human intelligence so far has been pretty catastrophic. “Better sugar substance”= cancer, “better fat(olestra)”=diarrhea. “Better weed/pest control”=cancer, sterility etc
When humans can be modest enough to finally know that we really don’t know as much as we like to believe…when we can walk on this magical ground with grace and gratitude and HUMILITY…then we might be open to really receive the gifts awaiting us.
Mother nature is and created the "best technology" there is. Through their Descartes lens, I know the technocrats like to believe their new stuff is so very "man made" genius and pure creation, but EVERY SINGLE piece of mod tech, is a pale reflection/mimic (and usually flawed) copy of mother natures technological perfection. We see flaw in her mechanisms that we must correct, simply because we dont recognise our own stupidity/ignorance of understanding her logic or vision. So we seek to correct. Like a 7yr old, who doesn't understand a problem as an adult does, but determines a solution, that can seem pure genius, depending on the perspective.
We have understood mothers tech, from the purely Descarte perspective. We used to understand it at a soul level from the wholistic perspective, but as our villages and tribes expanded, I think we grew outward focused and forgot our soul technology focus.
I love your ever hopeful style Charles, hold that tight, as I think darker days are coming and those of us will need it to help light our path to the dawn.
I agree with your alternative vision of our future 100%, but...
I'm uncomfortable that you chose the word "progress" to describe it.
"Progress" implies movement from some sort of bad-ness in the past to some sort of good-ness in the future. To use the word "progress" is to impose a mythological arrow of time pointing upward, and to claim the moral superiority of a particular vision or goal. "Progress" has no meaning until we have agreed upon the "bad" or "old" which we associate with negative concepts/emotions (violence, disharmony, anger, hatred, isolation) and the "good" or "new" which we associate with positive concepts/emotions (peace, harmony, love, community, etc.).
From my perspective, we need to not just re-envision "progress" from its materialist technocratic form but to understand that the concept of "progress" is itself problematic. It prevents us from falling in love with the world, as it exists, in the present. It creates a moral dichotomy between the "good people" who believe in a particular trajectory of progress and the "bad people" who question or reject that vision. It shapes time as a line with a positive slope, rather than as a series of great cycles or an ever-weaving tapestry of unimaginable intricacy.
So by all means let us create a more peaceful, more harmonious world in which we acknowledge the wisdom of nature, the consciousness and intelligence of the universe, and the limits of our finite planet. But please let's not call it "progress".
You make a good point about the word progress. I'm not sure if it was always this way, but the modern connotation seems to be strongly toward everything in the past being bad. My personal opinion is that the main issue we are facing is from the worldview that espouses that life is inherently dangerous, especially nature, and it needs to be controlled and dominated. It is interesting that the left has aligned themselves with the globalists who take this perspective because it is completely anathema to the traditional Eco-environmentalist perspective of much of the left.
My own perspective is largely informed by my lifelong study of Taoism (starting over 40 years ago). I am not a Luddite and I'm not inherently concerned about advanced technology. I just think that advanced technology should enable us to harmonize with nature not control it. We will never know enough about all the moving parts to control any one part of nature without causing unforeseen consequences elsewhere. Antibiotic resistance anyone?
Well expressed. . . my blood is thumping in my chest: this is a tough one for me.
The one piece I see missing is the acknowledgement of how bad bad is.
I truly believe the Old is dying, the New already born and all we see are the death throes of the end of a very sad age. . .
However, this has been a life and death struggle for the heart of humanity.
Scott Peck defined evil as "militant denial". The militant deniers march on destroying all that matters. This cannot be neutral. To deny truth is to align with destruction.
I was personally faced with the "heart of darkness" in the systems and hierarchy of my own world. I almost lost my mind, literally. When I had looked fully, accepted how bad it really was, I was able to take my energy away and walk on. Richard Rohr spoke of how at some point you must take your energy away from evil or it will take you. (my paraphrase)
Love has died in those who move forward, by denial of the wonder of Life.
They have no interest in the destroyed billions who have been twisted through their experimentation. Their goal is not healing and transformation. These "miserables" are simply the cost of progress, dust beneath their feet, an inconvenient reality that will soon be dealt with. Thankfully, I believe they misread the Deep Magic and are about to be surprised.
I agree with your description of where we head. . . my heart sings to the music of it!
I feel it wise to own the depth of terror from which we are being extracted.
Thank you, Charles for owning the challenge of discourse in these liminal days. . .
This is the 3rd world wide human civilization seeded and grown. All the previous ones were destroyed for one reason or another. LosTech or Lost Technology, is a phenomenon known better in Japan than in the West.
As you have been guided to ask me this question, does this mean you are prepared for learning to elevate your spiritual strength? Oh well, that's not up for me to decide.
As for examples of LosTech, the most accessible video documentation on this would be the various ancient megaliths of stone. The Pyramid of Giza being a stick out of place.
Don't we learn to create with heart, not just with the mind through duality? knowing what is not-love, helps us define love. Scott Peck, Richard Rohr and so many others, including our own fine Charles here, sincerely learn to create with love by knowing the 'not-love' that only the mind alone can produce, not the mind-heart combination to which we are in the process of evolving...
Yes, Judy. . . I forgot to mention my own heart rending journey facing my own denial and darkness within. . . the Hope of extraction for any and all who turn to the Wonder, Light and Love that throbs around us. . . the Spring which is here. . . we have waited for this for generations of Winter!! I am so hopeful! (It might be a rough ride but we can know energetically where we are going together is worth whatever comes. . .) :D
Sounds like a similar journey ... we're getting closer to the more beautiful world ... our hearts can't not know it's energetically different this time around. Thank you for your loving and thoughtful reply. Have you read "Dark Night of the Soul" by Pamela Kribbe? The only way out is through ... been there done that too many times, but we did choose it, didn't we?
Every time I insist to my family that I'm still full of hope, my sisters say, "We know, Judy, bless your heart," in that condescending way one might indulge a child with an imaginary playmate, but I'm blessed anyway, and just laugh with joy.
Judy, your line " our hearts can't not know it's energetically different this time around" thrilled me. Somehow to have you put it in words helps me not feel alone in the knowing.
The first essay I read by Charles spoke of his sense of this moment in history as an incomplete awareness glimpsed for his whole life and suddenly it looms large (my synopsis). It hit me like, "See! I'm not loony!" :D
Thanks for sharing your joy, with another one out of the dark night of her soul!
I'm fully convinced that it is more productive as well as more honest to approach every person as a full human soul with needs and desires and dreams like our own.
But some things the Billionaires do are easier to understand and sympathize with than others. What about false flag terrorism? Bioweapons labs devoted to engineering natural viruses to make them more lethal? Designing vaccines to release the spike protein, which is the toxic payload of the COVID bioweapon? Suppressing early treatments that effectively treat COVID?
Do we take at face value the many simulation events in which Gates and the WEF have planned out scenarios for dealing with a hypothetical Coronavirus that mutated to increase human infectivity? Or do we believe that the COVID virus was deliberately released?
The stories that "Everyone is doing the best they can" and "I would do the same if I were in their circumstances" are important and beneficial stories. They are effective antidotes for the polarization that divides us. But they are only stories, and there are facts they cannot explain.
I see it like a household that has a daughter that charges incest/rape at the house head. This has the likelyhood of destroying the family relationship, but if true, then it needs to go through that disclosure process. However, what if it was only partially true? What if it was an enemy of the family that raped the daughter and then reprogrammed her memories so that the therapist would extract false memories?
So the polarization that divides us is the beginning of an awareness that those who we thought had humanity's interests at heart, do not. This has unsettling consequences for our economic, political, and social order.
Eisenstein is worried about a real and well known phenomenon. Evil likes to do evil things, and then blame the good guys for them. Humanity, in a fit of rage and pain, then go out and kill some kulaks for it. The cycle of violence continues unabated, generation after generation of blood feuds. All based on a lie. The kulaks did not cause the problems. The Soviet Union Bolsheviks were the problem.
This methodology is also detected in Ukraine and in the USA. Why do Leftists always project their own shadow faults unto their enemies, often domestic? It is the same type of shadow projection as the military industrial complex, except they project it externally to foreign enemies.
The only kind of healing that I have seen people do is spiritual and in disclosing the real hard truths.
Scientism or positivism is a philosophy, or some may call it religious belief, that holds that the scientific method of understanding the world yields optimal outcomes (whatever those might be). What we are witnessing today may be the denouement -- or some might say last hurrah --of scientism. As countless science fiction movies and stories beginning with Mary Shelley in the nineteenth century have revealed to us, the final common pathway of scientism is a technologic nightmare. The road to hell indeed is paved with good intentions. When one becomes too wedded to one's self-constructed path towards "progress" one is able to justify all kinds of horrors, including those such as the Nazi atrocities committed by Mengele and his cohorts. Thus, depopulation, promoting toxic medical products, destroying fertility and chem trails are horrible crimes that it is beyond the scope of many of our imaginations could possibly be connected with any benign intentions. Most of us are not in a position of power high enough to corrupt our minds sufficiently to justify such crimes in the name of some supposed higher goal. That such crimes might be conceived in the name of good is testimony to the corruptive effects of wealth and power. Insanity might be a better word than corruption to describe the effluents of the minds of the rich and powerful. The corruptive influences of wealth and power could go a long way towards explaining the tendency to demonize the people who develop these plans. While demonization may be an oversimplification of their motives, the fact remains that their actions are immoral and evil. They have become untethered from morality in the name of morality. In short, they have lost perspective. This of course assumes benign intentions in the first place. The situation is likely to be far more complex than this, with different players having different kinds of motivations, some more based on maximizing profits for their companies, some more based on power, some based on ego, and some based on more superficially benevolent motivations. Some may be even based on friendship or loyalty rather to other globalists or powerful people or organizations. However, the diversity of motivations does not in anyway undo the immorality of the projects conceived by these individuals, or exonerate those individuals. Justin Trudeau, for example, may be acting in fealty to the WEF, or to benefit Canadians, but it doesn't justify shutting down people's bank accounts, trampling protestors with a horse (although I acknowledge he didn't directly order this himself) or jailing protestors (this was done on his direct orders). The human tendency to disconnect from morality when given power is one our Founding Fathers of the United States attempted to regulate in the Constitution, by creating a "more perfect union." This union certainly has a long way to go to approach perfection, and it is now sorely in need of improvement, to reign in the unbridled powers of government, NGO's and big corporations.
Dramas like to focus on tech gone wrong, but we see less about the enormous amounts of tech gone right, which has produced the amazing prosperity enjoyed by those who choose to use it. A healthier society would focus more on what works instead of obsessing about what doesn't.
Obsession is by definition, pathologic. The point is that the higher we go, the farther we can fall. With great power comes great responsibility. The last 2 decades have arguably been the greatest efflorescence of Western civilization. Without responsibility our current culture has also come one of the greatest dangers to Western civilization. The great advances of civilization coming from technology may or may not be worth the price. Who is doing the calculus? Is anyone even interested in doing the calculus?
Some think advances are desirable, others think they're undesirable. In either case they're inevitable. Doesn't matter what any individual, or even large majorities, thinks about it. Invention is often a solitary endeavor, at most the product of a few. Once invented, it is up to each of us to adopt it or not, but not to prohibit it. Creation can't be uncreated.
Some think advances are desirable and undesirable both at the same time. I believe that they are indeed inevitable as you say. However, it would be worthwhile to be prudent enough not to implement an invention prior to adequate safety testing. The old idea, whatever you can do you should do has now been proven false by nuclear bombs and now, in my opinion, mRNA injections. However, the creative process, if piloted skillfully and avoiding the Scylla of natural destruction and the Charybdis if self-destruction, can lead to wonderful things. We certainly could use some wonderful creations in today's world of mass destruction of lives and the social fabric.
There are many wonderful creations. The creations we dislike are usually wonderful creations that were misused after they were invented. Nukes are a good example, producing cheap, plentiful energy throughout the world. A hammer can build a house or murder your neighbor. People are as creative about destruction as they are about construction. The inventions aren't the problem.
"No technology is inevitable." This is a hugely important point -- I fear that most people do not share this view. Creating systemic environments that allow for people to regain the helm in building tools in service to all humans strikes me as a key challenge in this moment.
In fact many technologists like Kurzweil et al. would claim that in 2022 we have already crossed the threshold of the singularity, past which we are subject to the will of our technologic creations. Considering the manipulability of the consumer amygdala, the growing surveillance of each wallet with eyes, and the mounting predictive intelligence of the AIs, this is not a perspective to take lightly. What the proponents of this perspective often fail to recognize, however, is the sovereignty we retain at the root of our souls. Whether or not the computing power and predictive intelligence of the AI-driven info-attention-economy continues to soar without bound, at any point in that inevitable, meteoric conquest of humanity by our robot offspring, we can each and all make the choice to stop and sit and breathe and know ourself.
Agreed - our ability to tap into the truth of our soul and use that as a bulwark against the attempted takeover of our attention and our mind is key. I am concerned about how few people even understand that a takeover is happening.
Perhaps, as the pendulum swings, we will see that reclaiming sovereignty and sharing bliss can be as or more contagious as forfeiting our willpower to the totalitarian state for a ramshackle tall tale about impending disease and doom.
"A New Conception of Progress" you speak to this so beautifully and articulately, as you always express yourself this way.
And it is wonderful to write this down. But... it is not new.
Many live this way and always have. With beautiful connection and beautiful respect.
Stopping to see and wonder is always good and necessary.
There are many on both 'sides' of this present day insanity who live this way.
And I see how important it is to strive towards compassion and understanding of others. But be careful you are not seeing through a distorted lens because you so desperately want to see the good.
All peoples struggle with their shadows, their internalized messages of worthlessness. (maybe not all, I can't know)
For some those shadows take the stage.
Sometimes people do bad things to other people with ill intent. Sometimes people are not integrated or able to stand in integrity.
We are complicated beautiful beasts and we can do great harm intentionally because we move from a place of hubris.
Ah Charles, undoubtedly your best piece of writing yet!
Thank you for pouring the balm of sanity over what is becoming an increasingly polarised world, as we seek villains for our discontent everywhere, except within ourselves.
As for your last 10 points, whatever happened to Keep it Simple? I believe a better world is one where we can pursue peace, liberty and happiness. Peace and liberty are inter-related and largely bring about happiness. And I think they can be achieved in the following order:
1. Pure and present observation of "what is", followed by a complete acceptance of it. This defines our frame of reference within which we live. Without sitting still and observing Nature and the rush of humanity we cannot see who and where we fit in the big picture. Accepting "what is" means understanding we cannot change the picture, but we can change how we react to it.
2. Dedication to a simplification of life. Use less of everything, and make do with less stuff. This lets in more room / time for the true pleasures of life, which are family, friends and fun. This self-reinforcing philosophy on its own will lead to the downfall of our current destructive way of life, and the building of a more sustainable, healthier and happier life for all.
3. Slow down and help people. Charity, like its sister mercy, blesses those who give as well as those who receive. The African concept of "Ubuntu", when lived without expectation of personal reward, means that helping others should be our default mode. "I am, because you are". To get there we need to first build "Sisonke", which is the bridge of human togetherness that spans our differences.
Right on! Only minutes ago I encountered a similar trinity from Teilhard de Chardin:
"First, Divine Omnipotence: we create and shape ourselves through the process of evolution: how can we suppose, or fear, that we will arbitrarily interfere with the very means whereby we fulfill our purpose?
Then, withdrawal: Divinity awaits us when the evolutionary process is complete: to rise above the World, therefore, does not mean to despise or reject it, but to pass through it and sublime it.
Finally, charity: our love expresses and crowns the basic affinity which, from the beginnings of Time and Space, has drawn together and concentrated the spiritualisable elements of the Universe."
“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.”
The idea of a creator God is silly and illogical, but if there were one who hated me irremediably i can't think of anything worse than that. Enlighten us :)
The WEF/Davos crowd want to create/hack/engineer a new race of beings which they are already completely enamored of. It's about as creepy as it gets. We see things being created all the time so there's nothing illogical or silly about it. The Judeo-Christian mythos has given us your scenario with the added caveat that there are those whom this creator deems salvageable. When we look at how flimsy one's identity is these days, and the silly and illogical need to come up with better ways to protect it, these ancient mythologies begin to make perfect sense. In other words, it isn't you who is hated irredeemably, but the idiotic fabricated identities which we all come up with and cherish more than life itself.
Things are created automatically due to conditions. The Davos gents do what they do because those desires arose in them due to conditions. Same would apply to a creator God.
I agree however that I'd like to avoid being a Davos robot up until I fully wake up from the dream of existence.
I recognise the first part of your description of the technocratic view of progress from the 1990s, when I was teaching bioethics as part of a philosophy course. Back then, among both the public and experts, the prevailing view went something like: 'Our technological abilities are increasing very fast, possible ahead of our values. Developments such as human cloning have the potential for good or for evil; it depends how we use them'. In the intervening years, that sense of perspective seems to have been lost - with the rise of the internet, the more cautionary voices were drowned by by those celebrating digital utopianism and a sort of 'it's here - we must'.
Anyway, my problem comes with your latter presentations of the technocratic mission. Here, it seems to me to be inherently controlling, anti-pluralistic and consequently, against human flourishing. I think this, as just I've just written in my own piece on here, is because its become political perfectionism - a kind of utopian drive which is so obsessive that its adherents feel anything is justified to realise their dream. So in that sense, its main actors are doing wrong. They are not listening. They are not considering other perspectives. They are, in Hannah Arendt's terms, 'refusing to share the world'.
BUT/AND these political forces aren't exclusively a property of certain evil individuals and here I think you're right about the foolishness of trying to pin all the blame on certain villains. What would be more fruitful - and I what i think we used to do in British society much more until the last decade or two - is ask the broader questions about actions, policies which are in turn underpinned by values. Then the particular political figures become much less important, just the latest executives and experts who are part of the whole, as they should be.
So, one problem is degradation of values. Values are best disseminated by the education system, which has clearly failed for several generations. Save the education system to save civilization.
I was given four months to live two years ago after being diagnosed with a acute high risk form of blood cancer. Although I was advised to “ let nature take its course” I took the treatment instead. So new stem cells, new immune system and DNA.
I also took the Covid vaccines afterwards.
I came very close today death from a blood infection after my heavy chemo that was used to destroy my old immune system.
Although I didn’t die, experienced what people commonly hear about spiritual near death experience. It was then that I came to understand things I could never before have imagined to be true.
I actually took the Covid vaccines in a show of solidarity with all the medical professionals that cared for me during the darkest hours of my life.
So I decided to take them for a reason that will likely seem irrational to you. I took them in as a display of my love for those who cared for me and my fellow cancer patients at the blood cancer clinic.
I also value our system of socialized Medicare in Canada. I believe that I wouldn’t have made it in the US. That’s because I’m not financially well off.
Perspective is everything I believe.
For me everything boils down to intentions.
And I don’t believe that we even experience the world as it is, rather I believe we experience it as we are. Although I was given a poor prognosis, I’m certain that I am cured. I’m also certain that the vaccines cannot harm me. And I know this from what I learned on the other side.
Yes, John Lemieux! I too have been to the other side. And I too accepted vaccines when my family and friends felt afraid, in the gentle certainty that vaccines cannot harm me (for I am not my body), but that fear harms us all as it throws a filthy rug over the love we came here to share.
You didn't lose your job because of these fascists, comfortable with your stay at home job. You don't know the stress and trauma of losing your job to these pieces of crap corrupt people. It's easy for you to act high and mighty because you are not a casualty...
Without anger, people will just follow the herd and keep following this corrupt system.
No, not anger at the individuals but anger at everyone that serves this corrupt fascist (state corporate) system.
History shows that nothing changes until people are angry and fight evil.
Agreed that anger is a natural and potentially useful emotion. Appreciate that you refer to the lucid and endearing Darren Allen. But, being angry and fighting evil have ended up nowhere many times in the past. Thousands of veterans of various wars have found out that their fighting has been in vain. Philip K. Dick commented “To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire.” And, while Ben Franklin's "What begins in anger, ends in shame" may sound wishy-washy, in my eyes it's a description of many turns of events observed by me in my own life. Back to Allen's article : an alternative to reforms doesn't have to be a revolution or war. It can be in leaving the system and developing a parallel way of life that will potentially act like a life raft when the system collapses.
I've been feeling anger more deeply than ever. And one of my teachers related that anger is easier to feel than sadness. So I sit with my anger now, and I realize often that I am hiding sadness beneath it. It is important, indeed necessary, to recognize the energy of anger, and the motivating power. But perhaps if we can hold more space for each others' sadness, we will be able to direct that fierce energy, that rage and fury as I feel it, toward healing the conditions and systems that make us sad.
And beware, please, of the way those values can be hijacked and manipulated. This statement, with all its truth and beauty and wisdom, would sound suspicious now, sadly, from the official narrative or someone I didn't already trust. "Now is the time to turn the technologies of control toward a new purpose: to serve life and beauty on earth. That starts with healing the damage we have done." - Yes, of course yes. However the Digital IDs will be sold as ways to be inclusive, to help each other belong. Connecting things with carbon footprint, and ability to see the carbon footprint of businesses, will be sold as ways to heal the damage done to Earth's life support systems. . .
As other things, horribly dangerous things, were pushed as ways to protect each other. And on the threads of compassion, so many lives were destroyed from these injections. And the hate / division from believing them.
How sad to need to be skeptical about things that talk about inclusion and healing and earth, and love. . . and diversity and regeneration ...
(Please don't misunderstand, I'm not questioning Charles' integrity when he says those things, but because they *Are* such expressions of authentic being and honest attempts to heal .. and are so obviously needed in these times ..
they are the cords,
like compassion,
inclusion,
connection,
equity ...
On which all sorts of things may attach,
to be allowed in,
even welcomed, celebrated,
demanded.
Some of those things (like digital IDs .. everyone's human Right, they say),
Your best column yet, Charles. How might the mass of humanity evolve toward a very different worldview? And how does this new order of things police the sociopaths among us, eager to take advantage of altruism? Can this be done without primary human organization being tribal in level, so that what everyone does is highly visible to others? In principle, what to do to improve ecologies is not as difficult as reforming human behavior and beliefs in practice.
This essay is wonderful, and wonderfully timed, Charles, thank you. Yesterday I read a story from Wendell Berry's book The Wild Birds, entitled "It Wasn't Me". It was about exactly this New Story. Here's an excerpt: "It's no use to want to make it on your own, because you can't. Oh, Glad Pettit deals in a kind of property you can put in your pocket. Or he thinks he does. But when you quit living in the price and start living in the place, you're in a different line of succession." I know you've quoted from Berry in some of your books, and I often wonder how deeply you feel connected to his work and writings. He was featured in The New Yorker last month, and has a new collection of writings coming out. In my wildest dreams, you, Wendell, Marilynn Robinson and maybe Robin Wall-Kimmerer would all get together and just take over the world and tell us what to do! Just kidding.
I also often wonder about your relationship with Owen Barfield. I know you did that excellent course with Orland Bishop, and I remember you saying in that course that you had read the beginnings of some Steiner books. I'm reading Barfield in a much more focused way these days, and I am finding a lot more clarity on Steiner's thought through reading Barfield. In particular, I wonder if you've given thought to the "adversaries," named Ahriman and Lucifer in Steiner's (and Barfield’s) writings. So, rather than one triumphant narrative of progress, there are in fact, two, both of which need to be held in check by the human being who can go deeper into conscious relationship. Here is an excerpt from Unanscestral Voice by Barfield that I'm reading right now: "The aim of Lucifer is to conserve the past too long; to maintain, in the present, conditions that rightly obtained in the past, but should now be superseded. He adores tradition. In particular, he seeks to maintain the permeation of the mind by the “given”, the physical, the instinctive warmth, which men bring with them from the past and must indeed use, but which should no longer permeate, or at least not involuntarily, their mental powers. . . . The aim of Ahriman is to anticipate the future, precociously: to bring about, long before their appointed time, conditions which, if all goes well, will rightly obtain in the future, but which can only appear in the present as a wicked caricature. In pursuit of this aim he will persuade you, if he can, to eradicate the past instead of transforming it. He abhors tradition. History is his bane. He operates, in the present age, principally in the field of mind, leaving the feelings for Lucifer to exploit. He freezes. His purpose is to destroy everything in human thinking which depends on a certain warmth, to replace wonder by sophistication, courtesy by vulgarity, understanding by calculation, imagination by statistics.” Anyway, all of this is to say I’m excited by the synchronicity between what I’m studying, and what you are writing about. Cheers, Brother Charles.
Thank you for this Brian, I was wondering and thinking exactly the same (re Steiner). I am very happy that more and more people from all world-views and none are synchronising around cool concepts and thoughts such as Charles and yourself. ….Hopeful!
“Heaven is always one more booster away.” That may be true—but not in the way they think.
Charles, I always appreciate your nuanced takes as well as your solutionary (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/becoming-solutionary/201903/becoming-solutionary) approach. You not only expose and examine the challenges we face, but you also offer counter-positions to combat the destructive narratives.
To deepen your understanding of the tyrannical technocratic vision, I highly recommend this video featuring a speech by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, top advisor to Klaus Schwab:
https://rumble.com/vwb4ab-march-3-2022.html
Here is a teaser to whet your appetite:
“Now, in the past, many tyrants and governments wanted to do it, but nobody understood virology well enough, and nobody had enough computing power and data to hack millions of people. Neither the Gestapo nor the KGB could do it.
“But soon, at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people. We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals.
“Data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than to just build digital dictatorships. By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself, because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it.
“And if indeed we succeed in hacking and engineering life, this will be not just the greatest revolution in the history of humanity, this will be the greatest revolution in biology since the very beginning of life 4 billion years ago.
“For 4 billion years, nothing fundamental changed in the basic rules in the game of life. All of life for 4 billion years, dinosaurs, amoebas, tomatoes, humans, all of life was subject to the laws of natural selection and to the laws of organic biochemistry.
“But this is now about to change. Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design, not the intelligent design of some god above the clouds, but our intelligent design. And the intelligent design of our clouds—the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud—these are the new driving forces of evolution.”
Once upon a time I was moved by the Harari vision. Now I see that he is just another sociopath enabler who doesn't understand the true role of genes in evolution and development. Genes are not the master. They are the servant. The work of Michael Levin on bioelectricity proves this. Here's a full list of his presentations on this topic:
https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/presentations/
I usually recommend this TED interview first:
https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c
I wonder how this links with the scientific understanding of the bio-fields and chi (qi). For miracle healing we use intention, breath and going to a state between being and non-being (one way I have heard it explained). Qi is life, energy moving, yin-yang, the meridians - everything, so if we can direct our Qi to heal cells it is like what they are doing with the electric pathways. 🤔 because Qi is electricity connected to ‘source’.
I use energy healing in body work. I have fixed a lot of soft tissue problems on clients. Some that looked like it required pain killers and emergency room treatment, even.
The human body is essentially a matrix of mind body spirit, with the body composed mostly of water. Water is our biological solid state hard drive, as the brain cannot hold all the quantum data by itself. The mind is the software running the hardware and the spirit is the user operating the accounts, the software, and maintaining the hardware.
While some energy healing can be a form of energy transfer where the user is drained to provide another user life energy (sorta like a blood transfusion), in my skill it is more akin to the double slit quantum observer effect. The particle is both wave and electron. The cat is both dead and alive. Which timeline I shift my perception to, is the timeline that has a higher probability of arriving and once arrives, it is adopted as software by our bodies, which then produce a change in the hardware to keep up with the software upgrade.
Human civilization is undergoing the natural leap from the belief that material matter controls our fate to the truth that spirit and mind controls more of our fate, and yes even matter itself, the body of the verse. This paradigm shift is as revolutionary as when mankind first utilized fire and tools. Our biological vehicles and avatars went from being the victim or object, to being the cause of events using tools. Once the spirit and mind are truly unlocked in the public collective consciousness, this will have an equal if not greater revolutionary effect on all civilizations.
Very well put. I completely agree that structured water is the matrix that allows for the transmission of bio electricity through all of the connective tissue right down to the cytoskeleton that penetrates to the nucleus of every cell. I highly recommend the work of Dr. Gerald Pollock on the fourth phase of water.
I actually have a masters degree in acupuncture, and I think Dr. Levin's research is one thread that lends some credence to the Chinese concept of Qi as a form of bioelectricity or maybe even something subtler on the quantum level. He is very careful not to speculate on such things, as I suspect his funding would dry up instantly. A very well-known acupuncturist named Jill Blakeway has recently written a book called energy medicine and is currently working on a documentary series that will include Dr. Levin.
One way to interpret the Indian chakra system is that the brain and heart are receivers and power transreceivers, respectively. The brain is remotely operated by the spiritual/quantum energy and is thus like a radio or remote drone.
The heart receives energy from elsewhere as well.
A distinct possibility in my opinion.
My experience with acupuncture points came from martial arts and Tai Chi, mostly experiences where I hit my ulnar nerve on a desk and my entire arm went numb and useless for minutes.
Also Joe Dispenza's work and Robert Lipton's.
Bruce Lipton?
I was going to suggest that he probably meant Bruce Lipton. Bruce's work on the role of consciousness in epigenetics is legendary.
Ah, thank you Anomaloid! Levin's work on bioelectricity is fascinating, and flows nicely with the hypothesis of formative causation and its model of Morphic Resonance that Sheldrake offers us. Sheldrake's hypotheses predict Levin's results!
Completely agree about the overlap with Sheldrake's work. In fact, I saw a live webinar with Michael Levin where Rupert Sheldrake was in the audience and asked some questions. Unfortunately, the only way I will ever find that interview is if I fall ass backwards into it again.
Continuing in this vein, I've been reading Entangled Life, written by Merlin Sheldrake, which gives a profound window into life as we know it through the perspective of the fungi from which we descend. In it, Sheldrake endeavors to describe the potential mind of fungi as demonstrated through the well-developed and intentional effects they exhibit on the minds of non-fungi. So far he has not mentioned morphic resonance or formative causation, to my notice, but quotes from Dawkins somewhat cheekily, and reads reminiscently in the ghostly voice of a late Terence McKenna.
In searching for the book, I discovered that Merlin has a podcast with the same name as the book and also came across another book that people say complements Merlin's book quite well. It is called In search of Mycotopia.
I had not heard of Merlin Sheldrake's work on the subject. Going to add it to my reading list now. 😀
I enjoyed Terence McKenna's work back in the day. The neural net like structure of fungi is intriguing. The renowned mycologist Paul Stamets has had a lot to say on this subject in recent years.
Merlin has plenty to say on the matter, but we can scarcely extrapolate the immense consciousness that might emerge if every cubic micrometer of earth on the Earth had been packed with mycological neurons for a Billion Years, all of which have learned to communicate in layers of nested fractal complexity in the same manner our brains respond to the world outside, only quadrillions of times more massive and complex. Suffice it to say, it's nice living here; slim chance "we" are in charge of anything.
Fascinating Ted interview.
That TED interview blew my mind. I share it whenever it seems relevant.
I want to believe in the ideal, possible future painted by Charles. I fear the looming reality is more in line with the technocrats. Maybe I'm just losing hope.
Change comes from where we put our feelings, and hence our energies. Shift as often as possible to appreciate the beauties around you; listen to the quiet voice of what your heart wants for the world, and by these things we join this inner inherent energy of wholeness with others, influencing others not yet there, and world healing begins, we recovering from the wounds of personal and techno mental force rather than the Power of heart connection and care.
I listened to the fascinating TED interview with Michael Levin linked in Anomaloid's post above. Michael Levin's experiments prove the mailability of the bioelectric field (an innate intelligence) that creates fundamental change in an organism - which, IMO, at the human level is totally influenced by our beliefs & attitudes, thoughts & feelings and choices & decisions. A path of healing, positive & fundamental change is possible and is now showing up in these lab experiments - portending a potential future of dreams for those who are willing while in parallel an unfolding nightmare is spinning out of control. For each of us I think it will come down to a choice - which path?
beautifully expressed
Thank you if that was meant for me.
Wonderful! This also spoken of in the book, the Quantum Doctor by Amit Goswami, PhD, and googling him, his website. Our thoughts and feelings create from the quantum field, almost like a 3D printer, creating our lives. Thank you!
I agree that the quantum doctor idea is driving in the same direction.  I listened to a portion of that book a while back, but it didn't hold my attention for some reason.
Yes that is so. Now you can further understand why there is a hidden shadow hydra qabal that seeks to foment war and fear across the world's regions. What better way to keep thralls powerless than to make them fear, hate, and kill each for ultimately fruitless reasons?
I fear the same, and I believe Charles is acknowledging this in a sense, as giving up hope essentially hands the reins to the technocrats.
However, the important takeaway I get from this is that its essential we each hold this or a similar alternative vision of the future in order to sidestep what is coming down the technocratic/social pipeline.
Society seems to have been sort of been weaponized through lack of nuance, and if there is to remain any hope, there needs to be unwavering belief in not just the possibility, but the inevitability of an offramp, returning to that new (and ancient) conception of progress.
But Charles says he consults for the WEF..?
I took that as a bad joke, but if he is, then I'm hoping he is planning on smacking some sense into them. Metaphorically, of course. Or literally. Dealer's choice.
I kind of like to retain hope that those in the WEF may always be swayed to another perspective, despite the obvious alternative reality they seem to be living in. And I can't keep speculating on controlled opposition. So I'm okay with that hypothetical consultation, joke or not.
Many were involved in the WEF, including Putin and Tulsi. Not all of them will be on board with the depopulation agenda and technocratic tyranny via Slavery 4.0 however.
a joke!
They want us to feel hopeless and powerless—that’s how they win. But what they don’t realize is more and more people are awakening every day, and we are reaching a critical mass of resistance the puny cabal will not be able to overcome if we join together in mass noncompliance.
This Catherine Austin Fitts conversation with Mike Yeadon is realistic but also hopeful:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TEqKiW8svNy2/
Catherine, who understand what is occurring at the financial level possibly better than anyone else in the Resistance, is still optimistic, despite what she knows:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RMBD3oS40S23/
I love both CAF and Michael Yeadon. Thank you for sharing.
Mike Yeadon is a brave and brilliant being I feel honored to call my friend, and Catherine opened my eyes to the financial dimensions of this mass deception campaign and gave me a stratospheric view of what was occurring.
I love CAF.
Same! 💗
Hint; to me the “resistance” ( Truckers and Trumpists ie, those that are feeling powerless ) are in effect more dangerous than even Mr Global”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4
I believe that a simple exercise in comparing and contrasting the Truckers Movement to the Occupy Movement will show how these movements are actually the very antithesis of one another.
Firstly, the Occupy Movement originated out of a body of grassroots activism. And to such a degree the the even leftist social activist Chris Hedges didn’t see it coming. It was therefore an organic mobilization of souls that hold an elevated state of heart based unity consciousness. It is a non reactive state of consciousness that carries the same kind of social justice principles that are both timeless and universal. Interesting also that it happed in the earlier days of internet tunnel vision tribalism. It had no official partisan political agenda or leadership structure or financial support from Christian right wing oil and gas interests in Western Canada and the Us. In fact I believe those that choose to rally behind something like the truckers movement would not be drawn into, nor supply financial or any other support to Occupiers. That’s because although there was a small degree of overlap in both the spirit and intention of these protest movements, a mere scratch of the surface will reveal chasm of opposing ideological worldviews. Where the banner of the Truckers and anti vaxers is personal freedom from tyranny, the motivations of the Occupiers where social justice and responsible environmental stewardship. What I’m saying is the core of the Occupy Movement is the very same as The Black Civil Rights Movement, The Peace and Anti War Movements, The Back to the Land Movement of the 60’s, ect ect. And that these people have a vision of a world based on an entirety different set of values and worldview than what I have witnessed with The Truckers Movement here in Canada. I’m 60 years old and an old hand at this, I also witnessed first hand how these two started, and well as the the public display of their respective collective mentalities. But most importantly and unlike the Truckers, those in alignment with the social justice values of the Occupy Movement are not aligned with any form of tribalistic power seeking political populism.
I think you will find many of the tenets you praise about the Occupy movement were on full exhibit at the Freedom Convoy protests once you take the time to review the evidence.
Ok, I checked out your blog. First off, I’m no fan of Trudeau. I could see what he was years ago when he was an MP. I am not a “ pro vaccines”, I support the fundamental human right of bodily autonomy, I was against Trudeau’s entire reaction and his approach to dealing with the protestors. I’m under no illusions... I was an early member of Chris Martinsons site where over 12years ago I was introduced to people like Catherine Austin Fitts and Charles Eisenstein ect ect ect. But I also know why nearly all the highly original, highly intelligent and deeply concerned members at what is now Peak Prosperity left the site. It was because of what I am currently experiencing here. What is currently happened is if course nothing new. But what is new is this new breed of FB and internet warriors that have become professional masters in the realm of internet reality tunnel analysis. To me, your Letter to Trudeau is a perfect example of this. It is to write to oneself in a reality tunnel of others that do the same. Of course there is zero chance of Trudeau reading it. And even if he did he wouldn’t get past the first sentence. And it’s a personal insult to “ regular “ Canadians like myself who you seem to assume are sympathetic to someone like you that is clearly writing for a well educated group of elitist internet bloggers.Im a working class carpenter from Ottawa and many of my friends drive trucks for a living. My family are tradespersons and craftspeople and believe me none of them could even relate to someone you. It’s absolutely ridiculous that you would attempt to use people like us to your own advantage. To suggest that government has paid people to carry out stupid acts of vandalism and hate only shows your agenda of your manipulation of the message. It is trucks themselves with the F Trudeau signs and gargantuan tires ect that say it all. I’ve been working construction all my life and I know a bunch of idiots and babies when I see them.. Jeezers!
Apologies for taking so long to get back to you, John. In fact, it’s partly your fault ;-) You inspired me to prioritize my piece on the Canadian truckers, and it took a massive amount of time to slog through the hundreds of articles, videos, and eyewitness accounts I have been collecting since the beginning of this movement. Then I had to catch up on the backlog.
I’m glad to hear you’re not a fan of Trudeau and that you’ve seen through him for years. The fact that you support bodily autonomy is evidence that you did not fall prey to the mass hypnosis campaign. I’ve only watched one video with Chris Martenson so don’t have a strong opinion about him.
I agree that falling into a “reality tunnel” is a danger in Internet communities. I do find myself encountering a wide range of intellectually and socioeconomically diverse individuals at Substack, though, which I appreciate—you being one example.
Of course, I knew Trudeau wasn’t going to read my letter. To quote myself in another comment, “My letters are less for the overt recipients than for documenting their crimes, assembling the scientific evidence, and rallying the Resistance.”
I’m sorry you felt it was a personal insult to “regular” Canadians. That certainly wasn’t my intention. Indeed, my profile on the Canadian truckers is intended to celebrate precisely those regular Canadians who mustered the courage to stand up against tyranny.
May I ask, if I’m the elitist, why am I the one championing the working-class revolt against the oligarchy, while you appear to have been deceived by the tyranny-enabling media’s false depictions of the truckers and protesters?
It’s a shame you didn’t take the opportunity to go and see the protests firsthand. Everyone who did came away with an entirely different perspective and realized the propagandists had painted a completely distorted picture of the peaceful, loving, and harmonious atmosphere populated by individuals of every background all united in a joyous desire for freedom and practicing goodwill toward all. I did the next best thing to visiting in person, which is playing hundreds of videos documenting the entire experience over the course of the event to get a more accurate understanding of the reality on the ground.
If you are open-minded and interested in learning the truth about the truckers, my “Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian) collects hundreds of videos, articles, and eyewitness testimonies documenting the experience with as much breadth and depth as is possible in a single article.
I wish you well, John, and I hope you come to understand the bravery of the truckers the elitist-defending media wants you to revile because they are such a great threat to the power structure oppressing people worldwide.
Be careful what you wish for
“Power corrupts the few. Weakness corrupts the many. “ Eric Hoffer
I forgot to mention, that I do not believe the technocrats intentions are altruistic.
It would be foolish to believe so—although I think they have convinced themselves that they are saving the world by eliminating the useless eaters.
Ok. Maybe someone can help me with this. I’ve known about CAF for some time, and I mostly accept what she says. But the more I follow Bitchute and the other go to sites for her kind of perspective, the more I come across what seems to me to be Trump style Right Wing Trump Christian fascism. I know she is smart and cool headed, and I respect that, but the regular flippant laughter when dealing with deadly serious issues gives my cause for concern, Same goes for the Truckers Freedom Movement here in Canada. I’ve been at this for a while and it seems to have come down to trusting very few of even this crowd. But on the other hand, after 10 years finally being able to understand and fully accept Charles Eisensteins, Indigenous and other similar thinkers and peoples metaphysical worldview, makes me so happy I want to do happy cartwheels down the street.
Christian, yes—albeit one who challenged her pastor and lambasted the neocons in front of the congregation after the pastor had just praised George W. Bush, et al, so not the fundamentalist submissive kind, and certainly not “Trump style Right Wing Trump” or “fascist” (precisely what she’s fighting).
As far as the flippant laughter goes, humor is a sign of resilience. There is no question she views these issues as deadly serious or she wouldn’t be devoting her life to exposing and dismantling the democidal fraud being perpetrated on the world.
Have you watched her “Planet Lockdown” interviews?
https://rumble.com/vd15i1-planet-lockdown-catherine-austin-fitts-full-interview.html
https://rumble.com/vpt2uq-catherine-austin-fitts-2nd-full-interview-planet-lockdown.html
This Oval Media interview is good, too:
https://rumble.com/vq8lpy-financial-system-broken-catherine-austin-fitts-a-must-watch.html
Yes I’ve watched them. And I know her from Chris Martinsons site before it became Peak Prosperity. So my take on her has been pretty much in alignment with yours until I started to dig deeper into the Truckers and Anti Vac Movement here in Canada. That’s where the fascist comment comes from. Because once I started looking into to it, I started watching lots of Bitchute videos and it’s like they many of them are white right wing Christians. So I assume that is largely her her audience and clientele.
The Mr. Global thing confuses me also because I wonder how they intend to absorb China and South America and other non - western countries. Gotta wonder about investment banking also. But I agree that her background, experience and track record gives her lots of credibility. So I guess it’s just me getting feeling ready to give trying to understand all the crazy stuff... I gotta wonder if it is actually beyond me even after years of trying. Maybe the trouble is that I’m a Socialist Libertarian ( Occupy Movement), and most of the Bitchute followers seem to be Right Wing Libertarian. But we certainly agree on the trouble with Neo Cons.
Many technocrats, many intentions. Some controlled by dark forces, corrupted by the power they wield and the insatiable desire for more. Pure evil. Some altruist-eugenists perhaps have slightly less malign intentions and genuinely believe their interference is for the good of humankind.
I think we just need to reach a critical mass of people who understand the truth about the way the universe works. Hundredth monkey effect and all.
It's up to you and me and us two @Amking to decide what you and we don't believe, and what we do. Who decides what we believe?
I wonder if Harari is promoting here or warning? I get the sense he is not sure which way HE is fact wants to go....I can smell it deep in his psyche...
Interesting line of thought. Harari is an avid meditator. I first became aware of him on the Sam Harris podcast. Of course, Sam is another one who has turned out to be a major disappointment to me during the pandemic.
Joining you here my friend. Now that I've actually listened to him directly (opposed to just hearing others opinions) I feel into the same question. Perhaps he is mostly a good old fashioned smarty-pants who is getting swept into the great reset marketing matrix. Imagine that's a pretty seductive place to be. His invitation to meditation as an inoculation against propaganda is interesting. An invitation to "not get high on your own supply..." to global elite, perhaps? When I first discovered mindfulness meditation 15 years ago the first thing I did with it was become a better "business person"! It amped up my extractive power and gave me more agency in its deployment. T'aint the tools that make the carpenter... or the brushes that make the artist. Anyway, he's a fascinating character.
He is unapologetically promoting. No question.
Oh dear! The “hacks” provided by human intelligence so far has been pretty catastrophic. “Better sugar substance”= cancer, “better fat(olestra)”=diarrhea. “Better weed/pest control”=cancer, sterility etc
When humans can be modest enough to finally know that we really don’t know as much as we like to believe…when we can walk on this magical ground with grace and gratitude and HUMILITY…then we might be open to really receive the gifts awaiting us.
Yes, this is their ultimate grand plan, long term. Yet they are out of time and their game will be over.
He needs a nice dirt nap😊
Mother nature is and created the "best technology" there is. Through their Descartes lens, I know the technocrats like to believe their new stuff is so very "man made" genius and pure creation, but EVERY SINGLE piece of mod tech, is a pale reflection/mimic (and usually flawed) copy of mother natures technological perfection. We see flaw in her mechanisms that we must correct, simply because we dont recognise our own stupidity/ignorance of understanding her logic or vision. So we seek to correct. Like a 7yr old, who doesn't understand a problem as an adult does, but determines a solution, that can seem pure genius, depending on the perspective.
We have understood mothers tech, from the purely Descarte perspective. We used to understand it at a soul level from the wholistic perspective, but as our villages and tribes expanded, I think we grew outward focused and forgot our soul technology focus.
I love your ever hopeful style Charles, hold that tight, as I think darker days are coming and those of us will need it to help light our path to the dawn.
I agree with your alternative vision of our future 100%, but...
I'm uncomfortable that you chose the word "progress" to describe it.
"Progress" implies movement from some sort of bad-ness in the past to some sort of good-ness in the future. To use the word "progress" is to impose a mythological arrow of time pointing upward, and to claim the moral superiority of a particular vision or goal. "Progress" has no meaning until we have agreed upon the "bad" or "old" which we associate with negative concepts/emotions (violence, disharmony, anger, hatred, isolation) and the "good" or "new" which we associate with positive concepts/emotions (peace, harmony, love, community, etc.).
From my perspective, we need to not just re-envision "progress" from its materialist technocratic form but to understand that the concept of "progress" is itself problematic. It prevents us from falling in love with the world, as it exists, in the present. It creates a moral dichotomy between the "good people" who believe in a particular trajectory of progress and the "bad people" who question or reject that vision. It shapes time as a line with a positive slope, rather than as a series of great cycles or an ever-weaving tapestry of unimaginable intricacy.
So by all means let us create a more peaceful, more harmonious world in which we acknowledge the wisdom of nature, the consciousness and intelligence of the universe, and the limits of our finite planet. But please let's not call it "progress".
You make a good point about the word progress. I'm not sure if it was always this way, but the modern connotation seems to be strongly toward everything in the past being bad. My personal opinion is that the main issue we are facing is from the worldview that espouses that life is inherently dangerous, especially nature, and it needs to be controlled and dominated. It is interesting that the left has aligned themselves with the globalists who take this perspective because it is completely anathema to the traditional Eco-environmentalist perspective of much of the left.
My own perspective is largely informed by my lifelong study of Taoism (starting over 40 years ago). I am not a Luddite and I'm not inherently concerned about advanced technology. I just think that advanced technology should enable us to harmonize with nature not control it. We will never know enough about all the moving parts to control any one part of nature without causing unforeseen consequences elsewhere. Antibiotic resistance anyone?
Man merging with machine can be seen as harmonizing with nature. All depends on perspective. There is nothing wrong with being a luddite tho
Wow, you tackled a big one head on.
Well expressed. . . my blood is thumping in my chest: this is a tough one for me.
The one piece I see missing is the acknowledgement of how bad bad is.
I truly believe the Old is dying, the New already born and all we see are the death throes of the end of a very sad age. . .
However, this has been a life and death struggle for the heart of humanity.
Scott Peck defined evil as "militant denial". The militant deniers march on destroying all that matters. This cannot be neutral. To deny truth is to align with destruction.
I was personally faced with the "heart of darkness" in the systems and hierarchy of my own world. I almost lost my mind, literally. When I had looked fully, accepted how bad it really was, I was able to take my energy away and walk on. Richard Rohr spoke of how at some point you must take your energy away from evil or it will take you. (my paraphrase)
Love has died in those who move forward, by denial of the wonder of Life.
They have no interest in the destroyed billions who have been twisted through their experimentation. Their goal is not healing and transformation. These "miserables" are simply the cost of progress, dust beneath their feet, an inconvenient reality that will soon be dealt with. Thankfully, I believe they misread the Deep Magic and are about to be surprised.
I agree with your description of where we head. . . my heart sings to the music of it!
I feel it wise to own the depth of terror from which we are being extracted.
Thank you, Charles for owning the challenge of discourse in these liminal days. . .
I am enriched.
Verlynn
This is the End of the 3rd Age of Man.
Ymarsakar, thank you, but I'm uninformed on this -What does that mean to you? this is the end of the 3rd age of man? Judy
This is the 3rd world wide human civilization seeded and grown. All the previous ones were destroyed for one reason or another. LosTech or Lost Technology, is a phenomenon known better in Japan than in the West.
As you have been guided to ask me this question, does this mean you are prepared for learning to elevate your spiritual strength? Oh well, that's not up for me to decide.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVRMm6i0kggMtjKecjF51t_0yp5ydPs8
As for examples of LosTech, the most accessible video documentation on this would be the various ancient megaliths of stone. The Pyramid of Giza being a stick out of place.
Don't we learn to create with heart, not just with the mind through duality? knowing what is not-love, helps us define love. Scott Peck, Richard Rohr and so many others, including our own fine Charles here, sincerely learn to create with love by knowing the 'not-love' that only the mind alone can produce, not the mind-heart combination to which we are in the process of evolving...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKvWZOFMPic She has a very good guide on how to co create/manifest observed outcomes and timelines.
Yes, Judy. . . I forgot to mention my own heart rending journey facing my own denial and darkness within. . . the Hope of extraction for any and all who turn to the Wonder, Light and Love that throbs around us. . . the Spring which is here. . . we have waited for this for generations of Winter!! I am so hopeful! (It might be a rough ride but we can know energetically where we are going together is worth whatever comes. . .) :D
Sounds like a similar journey ... we're getting closer to the more beautiful world ... our hearts can't not know it's energetically different this time around. Thank you for your loving and thoughtful reply. Have you read "Dark Night of the Soul" by Pamela Kribbe? The only way out is through ... been there done that too many times, but we did choose it, didn't we?
Every time I insist to my family that I'm still full of hope, my sisters say, "We know, Judy, bless your heart," in that condescending way one might indulge a child with an imaginary playmate, but I'm blessed anyway, and just laugh with joy.
Judy, your line " our hearts can't not know it's energetically different this time around" thrilled me. Somehow to have you put it in words helps me not feel alone in the knowing.
The first essay I read by Charles spoke of his sense of this moment in history as an incomplete awareness glimpsed for his whole life and suddenly it looms large (my synopsis). It hit me like, "See! I'm not loony!" :D
Thanks for sharing your joy, with another one out of the dark night of her soul!
Verlynn
I'm fully convinced that it is more productive as well as more honest to approach every person as a full human soul with needs and desires and dreams like our own.
But some things the Billionaires do are easier to understand and sympathize with than others. What about false flag terrorism? Bioweapons labs devoted to engineering natural viruses to make them more lethal? Designing vaccines to release the spike protein, which is the toxic payload of the COVID bioweapon? Suppressing early treatments that effectively treat COVID?
Do we take at face value the many simulation events in which Gates and the WEF have planned out scenarios for dealing with a hypothetical Coronavirus that mutated to increase human infectivity? Or do we believe that the COVID virus was deliberately released?
The stories that "Everyone is doing the best they can" and "I would do the same if I were in their circumstances" are important and beneficial stories. They are effective antidotes for the polarization that divides us. But they are only stories, and there are facts they cannot explain.
I see it like a household that has a daughter that charges incest/rape at the house head. This has the likelyhood of destroying the family relationship, but if true, then it needs to go through that disclosure process. However, what if it was only partially true? What if it was an enemy of the family that raped the daughter and then reprogrammed her memories so that the therapist would extract false memories?
So the polarization that divides us is the beginning of an awareness that those who we thought had humanity's interests at heart, do not. This has unsettling consequences for our economic, political, and social order.
Eisenstein is worried about a real and well known phenomenon. Evil likes to do evil things, and then blame the good guys for them. Humanity, in a fit of rage and pain, then go out and kill some kulaks for it. The cycle of violence continues unabated, generation after generation of blood feuds. All based on a lie. The kulaks did not cause the problems. The Soviet Union Bolsheviks were the problem.
This methodology is also detected in Ukraine and in the USA. Why do Leftists always project their own shadow faults unto their enemies, often domestic? It is the same type of shadow projection as the military industrial complex, except they project it externally to foreign enemies.
The only kind of healing that I have seen people do is spiritual and in disclosing the real hard truths.
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-12-01-that-we-might-be-one-the-story-of-the-dutch-potato-project?lang=eng
Full disclosure=Revelation=Apocalypse must come first, and it already has in 2020.
Scientism or positivism is a philosophy, or some may call it religious belief, that holds that the scientific method of understanding the world yields optimal outcomes (whatever those might be). What we are witnessing today may be the denouement -- or some might say last hurrah --of scientism. As countless science fiction movies and stories beginning with Mary Shelley in the nineteenth century have revealed to us, the final common pathway of scientism is a technologic nightmare. The road to hell indeed is paved with good intentions. When one becomes too wedded to one's self-constructed path towards "progress" one is able to justify all kinds of horrors, including those such as the Nazi atrocities committed by Mengele and his cohorts. Thus, depopulation, promoting toxic medical products, destroying fertility and chem trails are horrible crimes that it is beyond the scope of many of our imaginations could possibly be connected with any benign intentions. Most of us are not in a position of power high enough to corrupt our minds sufficiently to justify such crimes in the name of some supposed higher goal. That such crimes might be conceived in the name of good is testimony to the corruptive effects of wealth and power. Insanity might be a better word than corruption to describe the effluents of the minds of the rich and powerful. The corruptive influences of wealth and power could go a long way towards explaining the tendency to demonize the people who develop these plans. While demonization may be an oversimplification of their motives, the fact remains that their actions are immoral and evil. They have become untethered from morality in the name of morality. In short, they have lost perspective. This of course assumes benign intentions in the first place. The situation is likely to be far more complex than this, with different players having different kinds of motivations, some more based on maximizing profits for their companies, some more based on power, some based on ego, and some based on more superficially benevolent motivations. Some may be even based on friendship or loyalty rather to other globalists or powerful people or organizations. However, the diversity of motivations does not in anyway undo the immorality of the projects conceived by these individuals, or exonerate those individuals. Justin Trudeau, for example, may be acting in fealty to the WEF, or to benefit Canadians, but it doesn't justify shutting down people's bank accounts, trampling protestors with a horse (although I acknowledge he didn't directly order this himself) or jailing protestors (this was done on his direct orders). The human tendency to disconnect from morality when given power is one our Founding Fathers of the United States attempted to regulate in the Constitution, by creating a "more perfect union." This union certainly has a long way to go to approach perfection, and it is now sorely in need of improvement, to reign in the unbridled powers of government, NGO's and big corporations.
Dramas like to focus on tech gone wrong, but we see less about the enormous amounts of tech gone right, which has produced the amazing prosperity enjoyed by those who choose to use it. A healthier society would focus more on what works instead of obsessing about what doesn't.
Obsession is by definition, pathologic. The point is that the higher we go, the farther we can fall. With great power comes great responsibility. The last 2 decades have arguably been the greatest efflorescence of Western civilization. Without responsibility our current culture has also come one of the greatest dangers to Western civilization. The great advances of civilization coming from technology may or may not be worth the price. Who is doing the calculus? Is anyone even interested in doing the calculus?
Some think advances are desirable, others think they're undesirable. In either case they're inevitable. Doesn't matter what any individual, or even large majorities, thinks about it. Invention is often a solitary endeavor, at most the product of a few. Once invented, it is up to each of us to adopt it or not, but not to prohibit it. Creation can't be uncreated.
Some think advances are desirable and undesirable both at the same time. I believe that they are indeed inevitable as you say. However, it would be worthwhile to be prudent enough not to implement an invention prior to adequate safety testing. The old idea, whatever you can do you should do has now been proven false by nuclear bombs and now, in my opinion, mRNA injections. However, the creative process, if piloted skillfully and avoiding the Scylla of natural destruction and the Charybdis if self-destruction, can lead to wonderful things. We certainly could use some wonderful creations in today's world of mass destruction of lives and the social fabric.
There are many wonderful creations. The creations we dislike are usually wonderful creations that were misused after they were invented. Nukes are a good example, producing cheap, plentiful energy throughout the world. A hammer can build a house or murder your neighbor. People are as creative about destruction as they are about construction. The inventions aren't the problem.
"No technology is inevitable." This is a hugely important point -- I fear that most people do not share this view. Creating systemic environments that allow for people to regain the helm in building tools in service to all humans strikes me as a key challenge in this moment.
In fact many technologists like Kurzweil et al. would claim that in 2022 we have already crossed the threshold of the singularity, past which we are subject to the will of our technologic creations. Considering the manipulability of the consumer amygdala, the growing surveillance of each wallet with eyes, and the mounting predictive intelligence of the AIs, this is not a perspective to take lightly. What the proponents of this perspective often fail to recognize, however, is the sovereignty we retain at the root of our souls. Whether or not the computing power and predictive intelligence of the AI-driven info-attention-economy continues to soar without bound, at any point in that inevitable, meteoric conquest of humanity by our robot offspring, we can each and all make the choice to stop and sit and breathe and know ourself.
The end is in sight. The AI prophet agenda has already failed, but they are going for stalemate in chess.
Agreed - our ability to tap into the truth of our soul and use that as a bulwark against the attempted takeover of our attention and our mind is key. I am concerned about how few people even understand that a takeover is happening.
Perhaps, as the pendulum swings, we will see that reclaiming sovereignty and sharing bliss can be as or more contagious as forfeiting our willpower to the totalitarian state for a ramshackle tall tale about impending disease and doom.
"A New Conception of Progress" you speak to this so beautifully and articulately, as you always express yourself this way.
And it is wonderful to write this down. But... it is not new.
Many live this way and always have. With beautiful connection and beautiful respect.
Stopping to see and wonder is always good and necessary.
There are many on both 'sides' of this present day insanity who live this way.
And I see how important it is to strive towards compassion and understanding of others. But be careful you are not seeing through a distorted lens because you so desperately want to see the good.
All peoples struggle with their shadows, their internalized messages of worthlessness. (maybe not all, I can't know)
For some those shadows take the stage.
Sometimes people do bad things to other people with ill intent. Sometimes people are not integrated or able to stand in integrity.
We are complicated beautiful beasts and we can do great harm intentionally because we move from a place of hubris.
Ah Charles, undoubtedly your best piece of writing yet!
Thank you for pouring the balm of sanity over what is becoming an increasingly polarised world, as we seek villains for our discontent everywhere, except within ourselves.
As for your last 10 points, whatever happened to Keep it Simple? I believe a better world is one where we can pursue peace, liberty and happiness. Peace and liberty are inter-related and largely bring about happiness. And I think they can be achieved in the following order:
1. Pure and present observation of "what is", followed by a complete acceptance of it. This defines our frame of reference within which we live. Without sitting still and observing Nature and the rush of humanity we cannot see who and where we fit in the big picture. Accepting "what is" means understanding we cannot change the picture, but we can change how we react to it.
2. Dedication to a simplification of life. Use less of everything, and make do with less stuff. This lets in more room / time for the true pleasures of life, which are family, friends and fun. This self-reinforcing philosophy on its own will lead to the downfall of our current destructive way of life, and the building of a more sustainable, healthier and happier life for all.
3. Slow down and help people. Charity, like its sister mercy, blesses those who give as well as those who receive. The African concept of "Ubuntu", when lived without expectation of personal reward, means that helping others should be our default mode. "I am, because you are". To get there we need to first build "Sisonke", which is the bridge of human togetherness that spans our differences.
Right on! Only minutes ago I encountered a similar trinity from Teilhard de Chardin:
"First, Divine Omnipotence: we create and shape ourselves through the process of evolution: how can we suppose, or fear, that we will arbitrarily interfere with the very means whereby we fulfill our purpose?
Then, withdrawal: Divinity awaits us when the evolutionary process is complete: to rise above the World, therefore, does not mean to despise or reject it, but to pass through it and sublime it.
Finally, charity: our love expresses and crowns the basic affinity which, from the beginnings of Time and Space, has drawn together and concentrated the spiritualisable elements of the Universe."
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“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
The idea of a creator God is silly and illogical, but if there were one who hated me irremediably i can't think of anything worse than that. Enlighten us :)
The WEF/Davos crowd want to create/hack/engineer a new race of beings which they are already completely enamored of. It's about as creepy as it gets. We see things being created all the time so there's nothing illogical or silly about it. The Judeo-Christian mythos has given us your scenario with the added caveat that there are those whom this creator deems salvageable. When we look at how flimsy one's identity is these days, and the silly and illogical need to come up with better ways to protect it, these ancient mythologies begin to make perfect sense. In other words, it isn't you who is hated irredeemably, but the idiotic fabricated identities which we all come up with and cherish more than life itself.
Things are created automatically due to conditions. The Davos gents do what they do because those desires arose in them due to conditions. Same would apply to a creator God.
I agree however that I'd like to avoid being a Davos robot up until I fully wake up from the dream of existence.
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I recognise the first part of your description of the technocratic view of progress from the 1990s, when I was teaching bioethics as part of a philosophy course. Back then, among both the public and experts, the prevailing view went something like: 'Our technological abilities are increasing very fast, possible ahead of our values. Developments such as human cloning have the potential for good or for evil; it depends how we use them'. In the intervening years, that sense of perspective seems to have been lost - with the rise of the internet, the more cautionary voices were drowned by by those celebrating digital utopianism and a sort of 'it's here - we must'.
Anyway, my problem comes with your latter presentations of the technocratic mission. Here, it seems to me to be inherently controlling, anti-pluralistic and consequently, against human flourishing. I think this, as just I've just written in my own piece on here, is because its become political perfectionism - a kind of utopian drive which is so obsessive that its adherents feel anything is justified to realise their dream. So in that sense, its main actors are doing wrong. They are not listening. They are not considering other perspectives. They are, in Hannah Arendt's terms, 'refusing to share the world'.
BUT/AND these political forces aren't exclusively a property of certain evil individuals and here I think you're right about the foolishness of trying to pin all the blame on certain villains. What would be more fruitful - and I what i think we used to do in British society much more until the last decade or two - is ask the broader questions about actions, policies which are in turn underpinned by values. Then the particular political figures become much less important, just the latest executives and experts who are part of the whole, as they should be.
So, one problem is degradation of values. Values are best disseminated by the education system, which has clearly failed for several generations. Save the education system to save civilization.
I was given four months to live two years ago after being diagnosed with a acute high risk form of blood cancer. Although I was advised to “ let nature take its course” I took the treatment instead. So new stem cells, new immune system and DNA.
I also took the Covid vaccines afterwards.
I came very close today death from a blood infection after my heavy chemo that was used to destroy my old immune system.
Although I didn’t die, experienced what people commonly hear about spiritual near death experience. It was then that I came to understand things I could never before have imagined to be true.
I actually took the Covid vaccines in a show of solidarity with all the medical professionals that cared for me during the darkest hours of my life.
So I decided to take them for a reason that will likely seem irrational to you. I took them in as a display of my love for those who cared for me and my fellow cancer patients at the blood cancer clinic.
I also value our system of socialized Medicare in Canada. I believe that I wouldn’t have made it in the US. That’s because I’m not financially well off.
Perspective is everything I believe.
For me everything boils down to intentions.
And I don’t believe that we even experience the world as it is, rather I believe we experience it as we are. Although I was given a poor prognosis, I’m certain that I am cured. I’m also certain that the vaccines cannot harm me. And I know this from what I learned on the other side.
And I trust my intuition.
Yes, John Lemieux! I too have been to the other side. And I too accepted vaccines when my family and friends felt afraid, in the gentle certainty that vaccines cannot harm me (for I am not my body), but that fear harms us all as it throws a filthy rug over the love we came here to share.
I'm sorry but anger is a productive emotion.
You didn't lose your job because of these fascists, comfortable with your stay at home job. You don't know the stress and trauma of losing your job to these pieces of crap corrupt people. It's easy for you to act high and mighty because you are not a casualty...
Without anger, people will just follow the herd and keep following this corrupt system.
No, not anger at the individuals but anger at everyone that serves this corrupt fascist (state corporate) system.
History shows that nothing changes until people are angry and fight evil.
https://expressiveegg.org/2021/07/03/the-myth-of-reform/
Agreed that anger is a natural and potentially useful emotion. Appreciate that you refer to the lucid and endearing Darren Allen. But, being angry and fighting evil have ended up nowhere many times in the past. Thousands of veterans of various wars have found out that their fighting has been in vain. Philip K. Dick commented “To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire.” And, while Ben Franklin's "What begins in anger, ends in shame" may sound wishy-washy, in my eyes it's a description of many turns of events observed by me in my own life. Back to Allen's article : an alternative to reforms doesn't have to be a revolution or war. It can be in leaving the system and developing a parallel way of life that will potentially act like a life raft when the system collapses.
I've been feeling anger more deeply than ever. And one of my teachers related that anger is easier to feel than sadness. So I sit with my anger now, and I realize often that I am hiding sadness beneath it. It is important, indeed necessary, to recognize the energy of anger, and the motivating power. But perhaps if we can hold more space for each others' sadness, we will be able to direct that fierce energy, that rage and fury as I feel it, toward healing the conditions and systems that make us sad.
Anger is used to go from fear to courage, which can take a significant amount of time for those under captivity and stockholme syndrome.
And beware, please, of the way those values can be hijacked and manipulated. This statement, with all its truth and beauty and wisdom, would sound suspicious now, sadly, from the official narrative or someone I didn't already trust. "Now is the time to turn the technologies of control toward a new purpose: to serve life and beauty on earth. That starts with healing the damage we have done." - Yes, of course yes. However the Digital IDs will be sold as ways to be inclusive, to help each other belong. Connecting things with carbon footprint, and ability to see the carbon footprint of businesses, will be sold as ways to heal the damage done to Earth's life support systems. . .
As other things, horribly dangerous things, were pushed as ways to protect each other. And on the threads of compassion, so many lives were destroyed from these injections. And the hate / division from believing them.
How sad to need to be skeptical about things that talk about inclusion and healing and earth, and love. . . and diversity and regeneration ...
(Please don't misunderstand, I'm not questioning Charles' integrity when he says those things, but because they *Are* such expressions of authentic being and honest attempts to heal .. and are so obviously needed in these times ..
they are the cords,
like compassion,
inclusion,
connection,
equity ...
On which all sorts of things may attach,
to be allowed in,
even welcomed, celebrated,
demanded.
Some of those things (like digital IDs .. everyone's human Right, they say),
can lock us
forever
into a grid of being controlled.
Reclaim, live, and love what makes us human,
and always be skeptical,
of technology that claims to have solutions ...
Stay Sovereign 💞
Your best column yet, Charles. How might the mass of humanity evolve toward a very different worldview? And how does this new order of things police the sociopaths among us, eager to take advantage of altruism? Can this be done without primary human organization being tribal in level, so that what everyone does is highly visible to others? In principle, what to do to improve ecologies is not as difficult as reforming human behavior and beliefs in practice.
This essay is wonderful, and wonderfully timed, Charles, thank you. Yesterday I read a story from Wendell Berry's book The Wild Birds, entitled "It Wasn't Me". It was about exactly this New Story. Here's an excerpt: "It's no use to want to make it on your own, because you can't. Oh, Glad Pettit deals in a kind of property you can put in your pocket. Or he thinks he does. But when you quit living in the price and start living in the place, you're in a different line of succession." I know you've quoted from Berry in some of your books, and I often wonder how deeply you feel connected to his work and writings. He was featured in The New Yorker last month, and has a new collection of writings coming out. In my wildest dreams, you, Wendell, Marilynn Robinson and maybe Robin Wall-Kimmerer would all get together and just take over the world and tell us what to do! Just kidding.
I also often wonder about your relationship with Owen Barfield. I know you did that excellent course with Orland Bishop, and I remember you saying in that course that you had read the beginnings of some Steiner books. I'm reading Barfield in a much more focused way these days, and I am finding a lot more clarity on Steiner's thought through reading Barfield. In particular, I wonder if you've given thought to the "adversaries," named Ahriman and Lucifer in Steiner's (and Barfield’s) writings. So, rather than one triumphant narrative of progress, there are in fact, two, both of which need to be held in check by the human being who can go deeper into conscious relationship. Here is an excerpt from Unanscestral Voice by Barfield that I'm reading right now: "The aim of Lucifer is to conserve the past too long; to maintain, in the present, conditions that rightly obtained in the past, but should now be superseded. He adores tradition. In particular, he seeks to maintain the permeation of the mind by the “given”, the physical, the instinctive warmth, which men bring with them from the past and must indeed use, but which should no longer permeate, or at least not involuntarily, their mental powers. . . . The aim of Ahriman is to anticipate the future, precociously: to bring about, long before their appointed time, conditions which, if all goes well, will rightly obtain in the future, but which can only appear in the present as a wicked caricature. In pursuit of this aim he will persuade you, if he can, to eradicate the past instead of transforming it. He abhors tradition. History is his bane. He operates, in the present age, principally in the field of mind, leaving the feelings for Lucifer to exploit. He freezes. His purpose is to destroy everything in human thinking which depends on a certain warmth, to replace wonder by sophistication, courtesy by vulgarity, understanding by calculation, imagination by statistics.” Anyway, all of this is to say I’m excited by the synchronicity between what I’m studying, and what you are writing about. Cheers, Brother Charles.
Thank you for this Brian, I was wondering and thinking exactly the same (re Steiner). I am very happy that more and more people from all world-views and none are synchronising around cool concepts and thoughts such as Charles and yourself. ….Hopeful!