Beautiful! ❤️ this is something I think about a lot with my kids as well. And it's so important to have them experience life rather than study ideas about life. To watch the bugs in the dirt rather than reading about someone else's idea about specific bugs. This is probably what detaches man and children from nature and reality.
Unfortunately here in sweden, homeschooling is illegal. So we are thinking about how to approach this or move abroad.
so sorry it's not legal in Sweden. It was not legal in Nebraska, USA until 1984. Eight men went to jail for homeschooling in 1983 and the mothers and children fled to another state because they were afraid the Child Protective Services would confiscate the children.
Wow, I just read an article on Sweden. This organization has been very helpful in the states for decades. Maybe it can be helpful for you. https://hslda.org/post/sweden
I certainly hope the best for you and your family!
Fortunately we still have a few legends here still :) http://askofamilycamp.info/#eng for instance who provides a space for families from all over the world who are homeschooling or interested in homeschooling and wants to meet other homeschooling families during a week ❤️
Confiscate? Don't you mean KIDNAP? And what is the PENALTY for kidnapping? DEATH. I had an instance take place when my children were younger that almost caused a dead cop and social worker because of their threats. And I may have died protecting my family but with my training "they" would have suffered way more causalities than just that cop and social worker. I was called a name many years ago that stuck. COURAGEOUS LION. Ever see what a LION will do to protect His pride?
In the USA where I lived it was "illegal" unless you followed certain protocol. Welllllll...my attitude was KMA and we homeschooled under the radar. I would suggest you move to an area of Sweden and that you keep low profile by never having your children in public during those hours designated for the brainwashing sessions and say the same thing we did to the "authorities". My attitude was always you screw with my family and you'll find out first hand what a S&W 500 magnum can do to your face.
As a victim of the 10th Plank Communist manifesto school system, yes, that is what it is in the USA and is supported by the 1st plank that forces you to pay for it every year in the RENT you pay on your home and "property." I and my wife homeschooled all four of our home birthed sons that never had a single vaccine in their lives, until the second youngest took the CONvid poison. And his personality changed within two months and here I am three years later cancelled by him for being one that insisted he not take that shot as well as not being happy with his live in cougar sex doll he is degrading himself being around and listening to her which is why he took the shot in the first place. After all, she has to be smarter than his own father.
We are the divergent among a population that are basically automatons run by the will of their controllers. I find my solace in my personal relation ship with my Creator. That is who has been directing my life from an early age with periods of rebellion on my part. But what son doesn't rebel against his own Father to some degree or other? Most people are just mediocre minded cowardly conformists because it's comfortable and simple. I'm not one of those people.
I love the reality that so many are waking up to where the world is due to the controllers behind the scene. Posts like this one by Erik are calling cards showing us that reality is not what we think it is. I could have written this myself and anyone who starts looking at my stack realizes that I am NOT an ordinary every day follower of consensus reality but rather one that will stick my finger in the eye of the "illuminated ones" represented on top of the pyramid on the "dollar" bill.
Another excellent article, and one that hits sorely close to home, as it's a pattern most "alternative" thinkers fall into.
We question the official narrative. We fall into the "alternative," a lot of which is nonsense. After grasping at straws, we grab onto a narrative construct to help us categorize the alternative. I was an "anarcho-capitalist" for a long time because it was a comfortable and pre-packaged worldview to help me (overly) simplify complex information streams.
But that, too, fell under its own weight eventually. Too too much incongruousness. Your LUCID method is very similar to Gene Odening's Trivium Method:
Both are invaluable tools for taking back your autonomy. As I'm sure others have noticed, we no longer argue with "normies," but the ostensible "alternative" crowd who've yet to realize they're already the forefront of the new Information Matrix.
Thank you, and yes - I think what your describing is something many of us has been through and many of us are still going through. I think there's been a while now where so many of us thought we had it all figured out, and we're slowly realizing that we've been mislead, mistaken or right out played just as much as the next. And that kind of creates a existential crises within us, that we are not as immune to manipulation as we thought.
But it's also a humbling experience that is the first step to finally seeing clearly and breaking out. We just need to get more people to realize this, faster.
The most encouraging aspect of the current information landscape is that the actual direction of humanity vs. idealistic partisanship are now so divergent that it presents a lot of opportunity for pointing it out.
But it requires that critical, "I was wrong" moment. Or moments. Which are hard.
Erik, that perfectly summarizes another thought I've had recently. After the thorough and effective brainwashing we Americans have received, the majority of people here will simply nod their heads when someone says "America is the greatest country in the world". So now when I hear that, I ask the speaker why they think that and what other countries they've lived in that enables them to make a comparison statement like that. They usually bark back with some variation on "well if you don't like it, where else would you want to live". To which I say, I never said I didn't like it, nor do I pretend to know enough about other countries to say I would or wouldn't rather live in any of them. But I do know that living here minimizes the chances of having a "Made in the USA" bomb land on my head. Cue the exploding head. All because I asked a simple question, LOL.
Excellent article, again! Although it is done every time, especially since 2020 the skeptics (that would be us) have been confronted with layer after layer of narrative, all designed to distract, waste time and lead to cul de sac's. I expect that is leading to more and more people slowly beginning to realize that every wall in their invisible prison has been constructed to prevent their thinking from really embracing reality
Thank you! Yes, that's why it's so important for us to move forward with flexibility and humility and be extra dicerning going forward - because the traps are everywhere and we need to hold eachother accountable, sane and clear sighted.
Just BRILLIANT! I was trying to express some of this in a conversation over dinner just last night. It was difficult because I was constantly being interrupted and confronted and couldn’t get my thoughts in line. This is perfect and I’ve shared it with those who were not letting me get my thoughts together. Thank you so very much.
Love it! It's not easy sharing deep thoughts during a dinner table I can tell you that from YEARS of trying to share what I consider profound insights or revelations - and you can't even get passed the first two sentences without interruption, push back and you loose your train of though get pulled into irrelevant side-topics or get stuck on details.
SUPER FRUSTRATING 😄 you just want to be able to present the idea - and then if you think it's wrong or stupid or whatever we can have that discussion but let me just lay it out first 😆
The funny thing is, this was the EXACT reason why I wrote The Triumph of Technocracy. I was talking with a friend and he didn't get it and I couldn't get the words out the way I wanted and I was like- fuck it- give me a couple of days and I'll write it for you as CLEARLY as I can - because I can't imagine you won't even consider it a possibility if I get to present rhe argument in a proper way.
In glad to be of service to help you express on paper what's going on in your mind :) ✊🔥
Thank you for this great article. The simple question I ask people has become "How do you know?" and very often it's enough to start people questioning their assertions.
Thank you! Yes! I do that too. Especially effective when i feel someone is way to certain about their position, even if i tend to agree with it - just because we need to approach things with a little more humility so we can communicate with more people and more people will be open to listening.
Thank you for a brilliant article deepening our knowledge and understanding of the Matrix.
I had come up with the term Mind Control Matrix, and proposed that it is used for Manufacturing Consensus, but the concepts of Consensus Reality and Perceptual Sovereignty really deepen this understanding. Are these two terms 'Consensus Reality' and "Perceptual Sovereignty" terms that you coined yourself - I'd like to know so that if I ever use them I can credit them to you.
Thank you! Yea it's definitely good to have these phrases that point to a model of how we can understand what is happening while also creating a framework and recognizable terminology I can use in future articles without needing to re-explain if you've read my previous work.
"Perceptual sovereignty" is a phrase I really liked the sound of - I'm a sucker for delicious words and it really fit what I was trying to explain.
"Consensus reality" is just how I've described it for a long time and I'm not sure where it originated or if it was just the straightforward way for me to say it.
Yes, you are right we definitely need a whole set of phases and terms to help construct models and frameworks of what we are facing.
I have created a whole new set along the way myself. Here's some you might like.
I define the ruling ideology that runs the world as the "Crown Monarchy Imperialism" - which dates back to Babylon, and has been carried forward to this day - and in fact the world is still ruled by the monarchy powers.
I argue that Communism is simply a rebranding of Crown Imperialism with a new religion of atheism to allow the psychopaths to rule, so it is a "Neo-Monarchy" as in fact are all the International Organizations like the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank etc., they are rebranded monarchies, and my strongest argument for that is that they have all been given immunity from everything - no investigations possible, no arrests possible, no trials for crimes against humanity possible, no taxation, and no visas needed - all of this granted by acts like the US Congress 1945 IOIA - International Organizations Immunity Act.
But the supreme monarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is still in place, and a worldwide empire, and the British monarchy still rules over the majority of the world through the British Commonwealth and their "special" Anglo-American relationship, and numerous other monarchies around Europe and the world all march in lockstep to the diktats of the agendas of the ruling monarchies-climate change, CBDCs, EVs, Green Energy, Net Zero, Pandemics, Digital everything etc.
I argue that the "Roman Imperial Empire" is the true hidden deep state worldwide, and it is through the Roman Imperial Aristocracy, especially the monarchies, bankers, and billionaires, that they keep control and push mankind in the directions that they want us be herded.
Crown Monarchy Imperialism and its totalitarian nature is exactly what Thomas Hobbes defined in his 1651 book Leviathan - it was just a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church, which was a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Empire, which was when the elites decided they'd had enough of the Republic and reverted to Crown Monarchy system of their ancestors in Babylon.
Ah, Erik, I am running off at the mouth - there is so much to talk about with regards to the Evil that Rules Humanity, that it's easy to do.
Great thought provoking. I have been walking in an "i don't know space" and "maybe everything I believe is wrong space" and now that space is expanding. The stepping stones I laid out keep shifting from their place. The roads are moving on the map. The signs I'm following like clouds are changing shape. What I think are solid structures could collapse. I walk the earthquake fault line, looking for the cracks. Lines from song I wrote in 2015
It is precisely this line of thinking that drives my own substack page.
The only difference between us is that I have been following an historical approach of tangible examples of how our understanding of the world has been deliberately shaped.
Such as how the Venetians promoted Galileo and Francis Bacon so that the views of Kepler would not dominate; and later how they actively intervened in the row between Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton so that Leibniz would not prevail. They sent the Abbe Antonio Conte deliberately to London in 1715 to deliberately befriend Newton.
No coincidence that left-brained thinking began to emerge more strongly from around this time (early C18t) as a result from around this time. Left-brained thinking is what helps the evil parasites.
Absolutely facinating! Love this to see and follow the threads on how the information matrix has been shaped and subverted during history. I'll definately check out your articles!
This is great. For that step 5 prioritize direct experience I think the McGilchrist master and emissary narrative is helpful. Understanding the basic neuroscience behind hemispheric differences explains why elevation of the right hemisphere with its specialization in direct experience is essential to escaping the matrix.
I’ve read a bit on that and I agree, haven’t read that particular work though so thanks for the recommendation, i love the title so i will add it to my list! :)
I have described my belief system as gooey. Somethings are stuck in there more than others but it has to be somewhat fluid once you realize how many things you thought were true are not.
The question I have wondered lately (maybe since the story on what’s beneath the great pyramids) is “is do the narrative shapers have an accurate history themselves. Are there keepers of ancient knowledge or history?”
That's a really interesting question. Do the people who distort our past have a true account of our actual past - or is our true past forever lost in time? Or is even our concept of our past more fluid, and stranger than we even could imagine?
Good effort and some great observations about our mental reality. This is a move into the right direction, but it is much simpler:
There is only the conscious experiencer and the content of conscious experience.
What we experience doesn't matter.
Only "who" experiences does.
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The only thing that is (the only thing that is not mind-based and therefore real) is the sense of "I Am". We know that we are.
Focusing our awareness on this sense of "I Am" (pure Beingness) will slowly or rapidly (for some) move us away from getting constantly entangled in "conscious experience" or "The Matrix".
The Matrix is the same as "conscious experience" and attaching to it.
We can't stop "the experiencing" because that is life itself happening.
But we can detach from it, ignore it, and focus on the "I Am", pure beingness instead.
In that state, the Matrix becomes irrelevant and true liberation is achieved on a very real, non-mental level.
This is old knowledge.
It is called Advaita Vedanta - non-dual spirituality - and must become the dominant form of spirituality if humanity wants to survive.
Yes, I am well aware of the I AM presence. :) However, one can still reference the experience which at least seem to be presenting itself in a consistent way - and the experience is not seperate from the I AM presence, since nothing can exist outside of it - so the experience from my perspective have meaning and purpose, a telos.
From my understanding that is what the I AM does. It fragments itself into a multiplicity and explore itself on the way back to wholeness - and the journey back is the I AM experiencing the vastness of itself.
So that is the absolute. Now, there is the relative plane - which is the human experience - and the human experience is basically an informational matrix. This matrix can be hijacked or influenced by other entities or beings, humans, physical, non-physical - whatever can transmit information to me basically.
I think we can just rest as the I AM presence, "ignoring" reality. But we don't have to. We can immerse ourselves in it, play with it, feel and experience it fully - all of it - the good, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
I think this is a common trap in non-dual spirituality - the idea that we should ignore reality and detach from it - like it were something bad.
I think this comes because for the ones still fully trapped in the experience, this is a first good step into learning that you can go in and out - you can be in the world but not of the world.
But many people think they need to only focus on the I am and devalue experience as lesser - but th experience comes from the I AM - it is there for a reason, it is your canvas to play grow and learn - you can rest fully as the I AM presence, yet be fully immersed in the reality and be a flawed human on a path to realizing itself at the same time - and close the gap between the human aspect and the devine aspect and grow as a conscious co-creator.
Now this play wouldn't be as thrilling or meaningful without the anti-you there to present itself as the resistance to push you towards growing beyond what you believe yourself capable of, or just as a thing that keeps you on your feet.
Decoding reality, align with it and becoming all that you are while letting go of all that is holding you back and all the things you are not - while being fully immersed in life and working on making it increasingly epic and taking on the adventures and challenges presented to you is what I am at least currently intending to do. Not always succeeding, but that is not the point - the point is the journey in itself.
Hi, I just wrote about six paragraphs and lost it all - lol- which I always take as a sign that I talk too much.
I agree with most you say here - thanks for clarifying.
Residing in the "I AM", however, when fully mastered, is not ignoring the relative information matrix at all.
It is just seeing as a play that has nothing to do with who "I Am", pure observing awareness still localized in that matrix as "identity". Nothing good or bad about the Matrix. It just is. No judgment.
The detachment and "trap" of non-duality you talk about is real, but only a necessary first step on the way.
It is a countermove, so to speak, to get us out of our permanent default mode, which is "experience only." So for a while, those people practising Advaita Vedanta look wooden, aloof, dead and not much fun, granted.
But eventually, everything comes together as you point out.
I lost you a little bit in the last two paragraphs, though, with the concept of anti-you and resistance. Also, I can't relate to "decoding reality" at all.
For me, when in that state, there is no "doer" left. Everything just happens. The body-mind is doing stuff, of course, experiencing stuff, gets excited, happy, sad, but the "I" is just at peace watching it all, motionless, still, unruffled, in love with the totality of it all.
I did the same 😄 I think that's just ourselves saying.. Try again and we get an opportunity to write things in perhaps a more consice or higher way. But honestly your comment realigned me and I haven't stopped writing since. So thank you.
For me, my experience of it however is a little bit different. The I is always there watching, motionless, still at peace.. In love with the totality of it all at all times? Not really - so I have probably some work to do there for sure to unblock that aspect - which I also assume is part of the game.
But there are definately no separation between the watcher and that which is being watched. I feel a complete sense of agency, but not a controlling kind of agency or an "I need to have thing my way" type of agency, but more of a silent mover through a reality construct fully immersed yet not attached.
I had for a longer period of time previously been more towards what you are describing - more in love, parked in the I am enjoying the perfection unfolding. But after, perhaps years of aiming to perfect that state something felt, a little off - and I was beginning to feel numb to reality - and even if I could at any moment induce a state of serene amazement at the wonder of it all, I was kind of bored with it - it was starting to feel like a trap.
So I decided to let go of my attachment to the I am state, and fully immerse myself in my human state - fully aware of my I am state but no longer a spectator of reality but a Player with a big P. Not attached to certain feeling states or aversion to certain emotions, but embracing it all - transmuting it consciously and becoming an alchemist - and learning to become a conscious creator. No longer settling to be the spectator of life, but the complete being with complete agency trying to align and perfect the connection and communication between the higher and the lower.
And my life has become so much more exciting, fun and loving and creating and this feels more aligned than ever.
What I mean by decoding is that now I see myself as the I am, playing the greatest and most epic co-creative virtual reality game ever, the game of duality. Of life and death, light and darkness, good and evil. And this game is filled with Easter eggs and sidequests and journeys and missions and it also have the opportunity to really join the larger game of battle for earth and it's just so fucking epic. And I am there, inside of my character - and in not only watching - I have been watching for far to long - sidelined myself thinking I needed to prefer the non-dual state - now that I think about it it might even be a conscious trap by the dark forces to get the most conscious of us to sideline ourselves from the game because "it's all perfect". It is perfect, because how can it not be? But the game is still happening, creation is always happening, you can either chose to watch it from the sidelined or join in the game. I am doesn't care which.
I AM doesn't need you to be the I AM all the time, I AM already is the I AM all the time. I AM needs you to be you, your human you - and play. Play not with a detached non-invested attitude, but play with your full heart - with the fill extent of your being - and see how fucking far you can go in one lifetime. Play to win. But win the I AM way. Become all that you can be from the potential that exists in this form, strive to the ideal because it's within your reach as the i am.
Grow, transmute, strategize, try fail, try again, and again and again, remember who you are, keep going, help people, dance, love, become angry, sad, feel itt deeply, don't get stuck in it but use it to further craft yourself into your ideal self, show the world how fucking epic it can become, form alliances and bring down the darkness and bring in an era of celebration and creation from a whole new higher place, then start to face new higher obstacles and challenges and continue the endless journey onward.
I'll leave it at that. Peace brother, and thanks again 🔥✊❤️
Thank you, I think I get it now. And I love it. I think you are right. I want to try that. Move towards that. I wonder if it has to do with dialing down the observer but not getting fully attached to the experieve either. Or maybe better, being fully in the experience without forgetting the big picture?
Beautiful! :) It's something we must balance within ourselves and i don't think there is a specific recipe - with that being said, this conversation has set me off to finish an article on the subject - so we'll see how i can tie it together and how it will be received. :)
Thank you for expressing this so well. As a teenager I studied journalism as I wanted to be that person investigating and telling the "truth". I very quickly recognised/learned that I'd only ever be telling an editor's version of the truth (or their paymaster). I didn't last long. So many things resonate with me in what you have written. We choose to feel "safe" within the confines constructed for us - or not.
I can relate to that story from my own teenage years studying journalism as well but switch over to graphic design once I got a glimpse of the profession and very quickly understood how little truth can actually even be written from within the system. Thanks for sharing!
" . . . the most effective chains aren't forged from iron, but from the beliefs you'd defend to the death without ever having examined them."
Bingo! I had my "a ha" moment in this regard a number of years ago while watching, of all things, a golf tournament. For a while after 9/11, the PGA Tour had a thing where one of the holes would have an American flag on the pin, instead of the normal flag which just shows the hole number. And they would have an active service member behind the green and all the players would shake the soldier's hand as they finished the hole and walked to the next tee. And media super tool Jim Nantz would spit out some syrupy tripe about the brave men and women who were "defending our freedoms" and it suddenly dawned on me: who the hell out there is actually a threat to my freedom? Nobody in Iraq or Afghanistan, where we were told that our men and women were fighting to defend us. As time passed, I realized the only threats to my freedom emanated from Washington, DC. So why have I been nodding my head to this garbage all my life? Because as Erik's piece lays out, I spent my first 50+ years of life being brainwashed without realizing it. But once I realized it . . . Katie bar the door. I don't believe anything anymore, LOL.
BTW at the time I wrote my book I didn't have an awareness of the evil parasites. I was more 'cock-up theory' than ' conspiracy theory'. My views changed after 2020 especially when I stumbled on the Venetian angle. So much then made sense because not everyone involved in the Matrix has evil intent. Some are just unwitting participants.
For the evil parasites you can see a long line going back to at least C4th Rome when they hit on the idea of using Christianity to control people's minds. Those Romans left Rome in C5th and went to Venice...
“to participate in reality’s unfolding rather than unconsciously consuming its representation “
Wow this is fantastic!! To directly experience life and living.
Homeschooling is my background so I ponder learning a lot.
Freedom is my passion so I notice the world of control!
One thought: if children are forced to study books and memorize bugs and plants, they often learn to hate nature because they are forced to remember.
Instead we went outside and noticed our world and experienced it directly. Then you discover reality. I cherished my many years with my 7 kids!
Beautiful! ❤️ this is something I think about a lot with my kids as well. And it's so important to have them experience life rather than study ideas about life. To watch the bugs in the dirt rather than reading about someone else's idea about specific bugs. This is probably what detaches man and children from nature and reality.
Unfortunately here in sweden, homeschooling is illegal. So we are thinking about how to approach this or move abroad.
Thanks for sharing! ❤️
so sorry it's not legal in Sweden. It was not legal in Nebraska, USA until 1984. Eight men went to jail for homeschooling in 1983 and the mothers and children fled to another state because they were afraid the Child Protective Services would confiscate the children.
Wow, I just read an article on Sweden. This organization has been very helpful in the states for decades. Maybe it can be helpful for you. https://hslda.org/post/sweden
I certainly hope the best for you and your family!
Fortunately we still have a few legends here still :) http://askofamilycamp.info/#eng for instance who provides a space for families from all over the world who are homeschooling or interested in homeschooling and wants to meet other homeschooling families during a week ❤️
That camp sounds lovely!
Confiscate? Don't you mean KIDNAP? And what is the PENALTY for kidnapping? DEATH. I had an instance take place when my children were younger that almost caused a dead cop and social worker because of their threats. And I may have died protecting my family but with my training "they" would have suffered way more causalities than just that cop and social worker. I was called a name many years ago that stuck. COURAGEOUS LION. Ever see what a LION will do to protect His pride?
In the USA where I lived it was "illegal" unless you followed certain protocol. Welllllll...my attitude was KMA and we homeschooled under the radar. I would suggest you move to an area of Sweden and that you keep low profile by never having your children in public during those hours designated for the brainwashing sessions and say the same thing we did to the "authorities". My attitude was always you screw with my family and you'll find out first hand what a S&W 500 magnum can do to your face.
As a victim of the 10th Plank Communist manifesto school system, yes, that is what it is in the USA and is supported by the 1st plank that forces you to pay for it every year in the RENT you pay on your home and "property." I and my wife homeschooled all four of our home birthed sons that never had a single vaccine in their lives, until the second youngest took the CONvid poison. And his personality changed within two months and here I am three years later cancelled by him for being one that insisted he not take that shot as well as not being happy with his live in cougar sex doll he is degrading himself being around and listening to her which is why he took the shot in the first place. After all, she has to be smarter than his own father.
We are the divergent among a population that are basically automatons run by the will of their controllers. I find my solace in my personal relation ship with my Creator. That is who has been directing my life from an early age with periods of rebellion on my part. But what son doesn't rebel against his own Father to some degree or other? Most people are just mediocre minded cowardly conformists because it's comfortable and simple. I'm not one of those people.
I love the reality that so many are waking up to where the world is due to the controllers behind the scene. Posts like this one by Erik are calling cards showing us that reality is not what we think it is. I could have written this myself and anyone who starts looking at my stack realizes that I am NOT an ordinary every day follower of consensus reality but rather one that will stick my finger in the eye of the "illuminated ones" represented on top of the pyramid on the "dollar" bill.
Another excellent article, and one that hits sorely close to home, as it's a pattern most "alternative" thinkers fall into.
We question the official narrative. We fall into the "alternative," a lot of which is nonsense. After grasping at straws, we grab onto a narrative construct to help us categorize the alternative. I was an "anarcho-capitalist" for a long time because it was a comfortable and pre-packaged worldview to help me (overly) simplify complex information streams.
But that, too, fell under its own weight eventually. Too too much incongruousness. Your LUCID method is very similar to Gene Odening's Trivium Method:
https://www.triviumeducation.com/
Both are invaluable tools for taking back your autonomy. As I'm sure others have noticed, we no longer argue with "normies," but the ostensible "alternative" crowd who've yet to realize they're already the forefront of the new Information Matrix.
Thank you, and yes - I think what your describing is something many of us has been through and many of us are still going through. I think there's been a while now where so many of us thought we had it all figured out, and we're slowly realizing that we've been mislead, mistaken or right out played just as much as the next. And that kind of creates a existential crises within us, that we are not as immune to manipulation as we thought.
But it's also a humbling experience that is the first step to finally seeing clearly and breaking out. We just need to get more people to realize this, faster.
Thanks for sharing!
Humbling, indeed!
The most encouraging aspect of the current information landscape is that the actual direction of humanity vs. idealistic partisanship are now so divergent that it presents a lot of opportunity for pointing it out.
But it requires that critical, "I was wrong" moment. Or moments. Which are hard.
Everything is in plain sight if you choose to see.
It sure is. But like a fish in the ocean, it can be hard to realize you've been swimming in water unless you jump out of it and feel the air.
Erik, that perfectly summarizes another thought I've had recently. After the thorough and effective brainwashing we Americans have received, the majority of people here will simply nod their heads when someone says "America is the greatest country in the world". So now when I hear that, I ask the speaker why they think that and what other countries they've lived in that enables them to make a comparison statement like that. They usually bark back with some variation on "well if you don't like it, where else would you want to live". To which I say, I never said I didn't like it, nor do I pretend to know enough about other countries to say I would or wouldn't rather live in any of them. But I do know that living here minimizes the chances of having a "Made in the USA" bomb land on my head. Cue the exploding head. All because I asked a simple question, LOL.
America hasn't been the greatest country in the world for a LONG TIME.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk
Great clip, and so true.
Excellent article, again! Although it is done every time, especially since 2020 the skeptics (that would be us) have been confronted with layer after layer of narrative, all designed to distract, waste time and lead to cul de sac's. I expect that is leading to more and more people slowly beginning to realize that every wall in their invisible prison has been constructed to prevent their thinking from really embracing reality
Thank you! Yes, that's why it's so important for us to move forward with flexibility and humility and be extra dicerning going forward - because the traps are everywhere and we need to hold eachother accountable, sane and clear sighted.
Just BRILLIANT! I was trying to express some of this in a conversation over dinner just last night. It was difficult because I was constantly being interrupted and confronted and couldn’t get my thoughts in line. This is perfect and I’ve shared it with those who were not letting me get my thoughts together. Thank you so very much.
Love it! It's not easy sharing deep thoughts during a dinner table I can tell you that from YEARS of trying to share what I consider profound insights or revelations - and you can't even get passed the first two sentences without interruption, push back and you loose your train of though get pulled into irrelevant side-topics or get stuck on details.
SUPER FRUSTRATING 😄 you just want to be able to present the idea - and then if you think it's wrong or stupid or whatever we can have that discussion but let me just lay it out first 😆
The funny thing is, this was the EXACT reason why I wrote The Triumph of Technocracy. I was talking with a friend and he didn't get it and I couldn't get the words out the way I wanted and I was like- fuck it- give me a couple of days and I'll write it for you as CLEARLY as I can - because I can't imagine you won't even consider it a possibility if I get to present rhe argument in a proper way.
In glad to be of service to help you express on paper what's going on in your mind :) ✊🔥
Just after I read your piece I asked the universe to please give me an example of what you discussed and OMG this was the next article in my inbox:
https://open.substack.com/pub/stylman/p/the-corporate-veil?r=bb5t5&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for this great article. The simple question I ask people has become "How do you know?" and very often it's enough to start people questioning their assertions.
Thank you! Yes! I do that too. Especially effective when i feel someone is way to certain about their position, even if i tend to agree with it - just because we need to approach things with a little more humility so we can communicate with more people and more people will be open to listening.
My about me on Fakebook says this: I know that what I think I know, I don't know.
Hi Erik,
Thank you for a brilliant article deepening our knowledge and understanding of the Matrix.
I had come up with the term Mind Control Matrix, and proposed that it is used for Manufacturing Consensus, but the concepts of Consensus Reality and Perceptual Sovereignty really deepen this understanding. Are these two terms 'Consensus Reality' and "Perceptual Sovereignty" terms that you coined yourself - I'd like to know so that if I ever use them I can credit them to you.
Ivan M. Paton
Thank you! Yea it's definitely good to have these phrases that point to a model of how we can understand what is happening while also creating a framework and recognizable terminology I can use in future articles without needing to re-explain if you've read my previous work.
"Perceptual sovereignty" is a phrase I really liked the sound of - I'm a sucker for delicious words and it really fit what I was trying to explain.
"Consensus reality" is just how I've described it for a long time and I'm not sure where it originated or if it was just the straightforward way for me to say it.
Thanks for sharing
Yes, you are right we definitely need a whole set of phases and terms to help construct models and frameworks of what we are facing.
I have created a whole new set along the way myself. Here's some you might like.
I define the ruling ideology that runs the world as the "Crown Monarchy Imperialism" - which dates back to Babylon, and has been carried forward to this day - and in fact the world is still ruled by the monarchy powers.
I argue that Communism is simply a rebranding of Crown Imperialism with a new religion of atheism to allow the psychopaths to rule, so it is a "Neo-Monarchy" as in fact are all the International Organizations like the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank etc., they are rebranded monarchies, and my strongest argument for that is that they have all been given immunity from everything - no investigations possible, no arrests possible, no trials for crimes against humanity possible, no taxation, and no visas needed - all of this granted by acts like the US Congress 1945 IOIA - International Organizations Immunity Act.
But the supreme monarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is still in place, and a worldwide empire, and the British monarchy still rules over the majority of the world through the British Commonwealth and their "special" Anglo-American relationship, and numerous other monarchies around Europe and the world all march in lockstep to the diktats of the agendas of the ruling monarchies-climate change, CBDCs, EVs, Green Energy, Net Zero, Pandemics, Digital everything etc.
I argue that the "Roman Imperial Empire" is the true hidden deep state worldwide, and it is through the Roman Imperial Aristocracy, especially the monarchies, bankers, and billionaires, that they keep control and push mankind in the directions that they want us be herded.
Crown Monarchy Imperialism and its totalitarian nature is exactly what Thomas Hobbes defined in his 1651 book Leviathan - it was just a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church, which was a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Empire, which was when the elites decided they'd had enough of the Republic and reverted to Crown Monarchy system of their ancestors in Babylon.
Ah, Erik, I am running off at the mouth - there is so much to talk about with regards to the Evil that Rules Humanity, that it's easy to do.
Cheers
Great thought provoking. I have been walking in an "i don't know space" and "maybe everything I believe is wrong space" and now that space is expanding. The stepping stones I laid out keep shifting from their place. The roads are moving on the map. The signs I'm following like clouds are changing shape. What I think are solid structures could collapse. I walk the earthquake fault line, looking for the cracks. Lines from song I wrote in 2015
Beautiful, thank you! 😊❤️
@Erik. I agree with you.
It is precisely this line of thinking that drives my own substack page.
The only difference between us is that I have been following an historical approach of tangible examples of how our understanding of the world has been deliberately shaped.
Such as how the Venetians promoted Galileo and Francis Bacon so that the views of Kepler would not dominate; and later how they actively intervened in the row between Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton so that Leibniz would not prevail. They sent the Abbe Antonio Conte deliberately to London in 1715 to deliberately befriend Newton.
No coincidence that left-brained thinking began to emerge more strongly from around this time (early C18t) as a result from around this time. Left-brained thinking is what helps the evil parasites.
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The very fact that you were able to find this out should sound the alarm.
Absolutely facinating! Love this to see and follow the threads on how the information matrix has been shaped and subverted during history. I'll definately check out your articles!
This is great. For that step 5 prioritize direct experience I think the McGilchrist master and emissary narrative is helpful. Understanding the basic neuroscience behind hemispheric differences explains why elevation of the right hemisphere with its specialization in direct experience is essential to escaping the matrix.
I’ve read a bit on that and I agree, haven’t read that particular work though so thanks for the recommendation, i love the title so i will add it to my list! :)
I have described my belief system as gooey. Somethings are stuck in there more than others but it has to be somewhat fluid once you realize how many things you thought were true are not.
The question I have wondered lately (maybe since the story on what’s beneath the great pyramids) is “is do the narrative shapers have an accurate history themselves. Are there keepers of ancient knowledge or history?”
That's a really interesting question. Do the people who distort our past have a true account of our actual past - or is our true past forever lost in time? Or is even our concept of our past more fluid, and stranger than we even could imagine?
Good effort and some great observations about our mental reality. This is a move into the right direction, but it is much simpler:
There is only the conscious experiencer and the content of conscious experience.
What we experience doesn't matter.
Only "who" experiences does.
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The only thing that is (the only thing that is not mind-based and therefore real) is the sense of "I Am". We know that we are.
Focusing our awareness on this sense of "I Am" (pure Beingness) will slowly or rapidly (for some) move us away from getting constantly entangled in "conscious experience" or "The Matrix".
The Matrix is the same as "conscious experience" and attaching to it.
We can't stop "the experiencing" because that is life itself happening.
But we can detach from it, ignore it, and focus on the "I Am", pure beingness instead.
In that state, the Matrix becomes irrelevant and true liberation is achieved on a very real, non-mental level.
This is old knowledge.
It is called Advaita Vedanta - non-dual spirituality - and must become the dominant form of spirituality if humanity wants to survive.
Yes, I am well aware of the I AM presence. :) However, one can still reference the experience which at least seem to be presenting itself in a consistent way - and the experience is not seperate from the I AM presence, since nothing can exist outside of it - so the experience from my perspective have meaning and purpose, a telos.
From my understanding that is what the I AM does. It fragments itself into a multiplicity and explore itself on the way back to wholeness - and the journey back is the I AM experiencing the vastness of itself.
So that is the absolute. Now, there is the relative plane - which is the human experience - and the human experience is basically an informational matrix. This matrix can be hijacked or influenced by other entities or beings, humans, physical, non-physical - whatever can transmit information to me basically.
I think we can just rest as the I AM presence, "ignoring" reality. But we don't have to. We can immerse ourselves in it, play with it, feel and experience it fully - all of it - the good, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
I think this is a common trap in non-dual spirituality - the idea that we should ignore reality and detach from it - like it were something bad.
I think this comes because for the ones still fully trapped in the experience, this is a first good step into learning that you can go in and out - you can be in the world but not of the world.
But many people think they need to only focus on the I am and devalue experience as lesser - but th experience comes from the I AM - it is there for a reason, it is your canvas to play grow and learn - you can rest fully as the I AM presence, yet be fully immersed in the reality and be a flawed human on a path to realizing itself at the same time - and close the gap between the human aspect and the devine aspect and grow as a conscious co-creator.
Now this play wouldn't be as thrilling or meaningful without the anti-you there to present itself as the resistance to push you towards growing beyond what you believe yourself capable of, or just as a thing that keeps you on your feet.
Decoding reality, align with it and becoming all that you are while letting go of all that is holding you back and all the things you are not - while being fully immersed in life and working on making it increasingly epic and taking on the adventures and challenges presented to you is what I am at least currently intending to do. Not always succeeding, but that is not the point - the point is the journey in itself.
Much love<§
Hi, I just wrote about six paragraphs and lost it all - lol- which I always take as a sign that I talk too much.
I agree with most you say here - thanks for clarifying.
Residing in the "I AM", however, when fully mastered, is not ignoring the relative information matrix at all.
It is just seeing as a play that has nothing to do with who "I Am", pure observing awareness still localized in that matrix as "identity". Nothing good or bad about the Matrix. It just is. No judgment.
The detachment and "trap" of non-duality you talk about is real, but only a necessary first step on the way.
It is a countermove, so to speak, to get us out of our permanent default mode, which is "experience only." So for a while, those people practising Advaita Vedanta look wooden, aloof, dead and not much fun, granted.
But eventually, everything comes together as you point out.
I lost you a little bit in the last two paragraphs, though, with the concept of anti-you and resistance. Also, I can't relate to "decoding reality" at all.
For me, when in that state, there is no "doer" left. Everything just happens. The body-mind is doing stuff, of course, experiencing stuff, gets excited, happy, sad, but the "I" is just at peace watching it all, motionless, still, unruffled, in love with the totality of it all.
I did the same 😄 I think that's just ourselves saying.. Try again and we get an opportunity to write things in perhaps a more consice or higher way. But honestly your comment realigned me and I haven't stopped writing since. So thank you.
For me, my experience of it however is a little bit different. The I is always there watching, motionless, still at peace.. In love with the totality of it all at all times? Not really - so I have probably some work to do there for sure to unblock that aspect - which I also assume is part of the game.
But there are definately no separation between the watcher and that which is being watched. I feel a complete sense of agency, but not a controlling kind of agency or an "I need to have thing my way" type of agency, but more of a silent mover through a reality construct fully immersed yet not attached.
I had for a longer period of time previously been more towards what you are describing - more in love, parked in the I am enjoying the perfection unfolding. But after, perhaps years of aiming to perfect that state something felt, a little off - and I was beginning to feel numb to reality - and even if I could at any moment induce a state of serene amazement at the wonder of it all, I was kind of bored with it - it was starting to feel like a trap.
So I decided to let go of my attachment to the I am state, and fully immerse myself in my human state - fully aware of my I am state but no longer a spectator of reality but a Player with a big P. Not attached to certain feeling states or aversion to certain emotions, but embracing it all - transmuting it consciously and becoming an alchemist - and learning to become a conscious creator. No longer settling to be the spectator of life, but the complete being with complete agency trying to align and perfect the connection and communication between the higher and the lower.
And my life has become so much more exciting, fun and loving and creating and this feels more aligned than ever.
What I mean by decoding is that now I see myself as the I am, playing the greatest and most epic co-creative virtual reality game ever, the game of duality. Of life and death, light and darkness, good and evil. And this game is filled with Easter eggs and sidequests and journeys and missions and it also have the opportunity to really join the larger game of battle for earth and it's just so fucking epic. And I am there, inside of my character - and in not only watching - I have been watching for far to long - sidelined myself thinking I needed to prefer the non-dual state - now that I think about it it might even be a conscious trap by the dark forces to get the most conscious of us to sideline ourselves from the game because "it's all perfect". It is perfect, because how can it not be? But the game is still happening, creation is always happening, you can either chose to watch it from the sidelined or join in the game. I am doesn't care which.
I AM doesn't need you to be the I AM all the time, I AM already is the I AM all the time. I AM needs you to be you, your human you - and play. Play not with a detached non-invested attitude, but play with your full heart - with the fill extent of your being - and see how fucking far you can go in one lifetime. Play to win. But win the I AM way. Become all that you can be from the potential that exists in this form, strive to the ideal because it's within your reach as the i am.
Grow, transmute, strategize, try fail, try again, and again and again, remember who you are, keep going, help people, dance, love, become angry, sad, feel itt deeply, don't get stuck in it but use it to further craft yourself into your ideal self, show the world how fucking epic it can become, form alliances and bring down the darkness and bring in an era of celebration and creation from a whole new higher place, then start to face new higher obstacles and challenges and continue the endless journey onward.
I'll leave it at that. Peace brother, and thanks again 🔥✊❤️
Thank you, I think I get it now. And I love it. I think you are right. I want to try that. Move towards that. I wonder if it has to do with dialing down the observer but not getting fully attached to the experieve either. Or maybe better, being fully in the experience without forgetting the big picture?
Food for thought, thank you again. :-)
Beautiful! :) It's something we must balance within ourselves and i don't think there is a specific recipe - with that being said, this conversation has set me off to finish an article on the subject - so we'll see how i can tie it together and how it will be received. :)
Amazing work man!
Thank you Chris! ✊🔥
Thank you for expressing this so well. As a teenager I studied journalism as I wanted to be that person investigating and telling the "truth". I very quickly recognised/learned that I'd only ever be telling an editor's version of the truth (or their paymaster). I didn't last long. So many things resonate with me in what you have written. We choose to feel "safe" within the confines constructed for us - or not.
I can relate to that story from my own teenage years studying journalism as well but switch over to graphic design once I got a glimpse of the profession and very quickly understood how little truth can actually even be written from within the system. Thanks for sharing!
" . . . the most effective chains aren't forged from iron, but from the beliefs you'd defend to the death without ever having examined them."
Bingo! I had my "a ha" moment in this regard a number of years ago while watching, of all things, a golf tournament. For a while after 9/11, the PGA Tour had a thing where one of the holes would have an American flag on the pin, instead of the normal flag which just shows the hole number. And they would have an active service member behind the green and all the players would shake the soldier's hand as they finished the hole and walked to the next tee. And media super tool Jim Nantz would spit out some syrupy tripe about the brave men and women who were "defending our freedoms" and it suddenly dawned on me: who the hell out there is actually a threat to my freedom? Nobody in Iraq or Afghanistan, where we were told that our men and women were fighting to defend us. As time passed, I realized the only threats to my freedom emanated from Washington, DC. So why have I been nodding my head to this garbage all my life? Because as Erik's piece lays out, I spent my first 50+ years of life being brainwashed without realizing it. But once I realized it . . . Katie bar the door. I don't believe anything anymore, LOL.
BTW at the time I wrote my book I didn't have an awareness of the evil parasites. I was more 'cock-up theory' than ' conspiracy theory'. My views changed after 2020 especially when I stumbled on the Venetian angle. So much then made sense because not everyone involved in the Matrix has evil intent. Some are just unwitting participants.
For the evil parasites you can see a long line going back to at least C4th Rome when they hit on the idea of using Christianity to control people's minds. Those Romans left Rome in C5th and went to Venice...