My Book About Corona: The Full Text
COVID-1984: The Great Teacher
Dear Family,
I felt a call to open source the entire text of my book, COVID-1984: The Great Teacher, which I published in the summer of 2021.
The book captures a lot of my journey since the beginning of the ‘Age of Corona’ in early 2020.
Over time my view on what is happening has shifted a lot. Read my recent piece, ‘I Love You, COVID. Thank You.’, to get a sense of where I am at currently.
Even since writing the piece I just mentioned, though, my view has further evolved.
Right now I am just feeling a lot of love and compassion for everyone globally.
For everyone who is suffering, for everyone who is grieving lost loved ones, for everyone who is fighting in one way or another. For everyone.
This is such a massive portal and initiation we are currently going through collectively.
It increasingly feels like we are being pulled through the eye of a needle—being asked to surrender all that is less-aligned as we return to the remembrance of the Naked Love that we are.
My sense is that something truly mythical, seismic, and multi-dimensional is occurring. These feel like prophesied times.
I am deeply, deeply in Trust with all that is happening—perhaps more deeply in Trust than I have ever been.
None of this is random. This is a collective soul-initiation we have called in to catalyze a thrusting-off of all that is no longer serving us as a whole.
At present we can scarcely imagine what lies on the other side of this, yet from the depths of my Heart I can offer you my deeply-felt conviction that it is something of Unbelievable Beauty.
No matter who you are or where you find yourself in the midst of all this… My Heart goes out to you. I love you, I feel you, I witness you. You are strong. You have lived many, many lifetimes to prepare for this. Trust yourself. You’ve got this.
My Heart likewise goes out to the past versions of me who penned the following book. Corona punctured me deeply on many occasions and brought forth a lot of pain, anger, wrong-making, distrust, sadness, and fear. It helped me see, accept, integrate, and transmute a great portion of my shadow. It also activated and educated me in incredibly powerful ways. It is a great teacher, and I am grateful for it.
I offer the following text with the intention that it may assist you in your process of understanding what is presently happening on Earth. Though I no longer completely resonate with this text, I do believe it nonetheless contains a depth of wisdom and insight that will be useful for some of you. That is why I am sending it to you.
Thank you for reading and for your ongoing engagement with my work. I love you.
Love,
Jordan
COVID-1984: The Great Teacher
By Jordan Bates
Relax and Chill
What up, what up!
Thanks for joining me for this wild and wavy adventure of a text.
Presently it’s July of 2021.
This book contains various writings that came through me between March of 2020 and the present, though most of the words came through in 2020.
There’s a lot of stirring, fascinating, provocative, and mystical material here. To some parts I feel more connection than to others, but I’m including the whole of it.
At present I continue to feel above all in trust in what is happening.
At the same time, I also continue to feel that the collective response to C-19 is a phenomenon worth questioning deeply—especially within the larger context of life on Earth in the 2000s. I also feel that it is worthwhile to deeply question and challenge the dominant narratives around C-19.
I also continue to feel that C-19, like all of Life, is a Master Teacher. A powerful mirror revealing us to ourselves.
“I only know that I know nothing.”
Presently I’m in a season of life that could be described as “chillaxation-maximization.” I’m enjoying life, enjoying being as I am. Enjoying being “just a dude,” making art, playing poker, throwing the frisbee, and so on.
I hope this finds you relaxing, chilling, being as you are, playing, moving honestly with the music of life.
Love,
Jordan
The Way That Can Be Told…
“The way that can be told is not the Eternal Way.”
— Lao Tzu
“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”
— Terence McKenna
“Do not seek truth; only cease to cherish your opinions.”
— Seng-ts’an
“No belief is true.”
— Jed McKenna
Words are not Truth.
Words are frozen abstractions that fall utterly short of capturing Reality.
Mistaking words, beliefs, and concepts for Truth lies at the root of vast quantities of human suffering.
The best that words can do is gesture toward Truth.
In this book I have attempted to do that.
Yet make no mistake: These too are just words, not Truth.
These words came through me between 2020-2021, and some of them now resonate more than others, yet I’ve chosen to include all of them.
To be clear: I don’t believe my own stories about what is happening.
I do my best not to believe anything.
Take what is useful here, let go of what is not.
Do your own additional reading and research.
And most importantly:
Look deeply into your own direct experience to find out for yourself what is true.
Amen.
Total Trust
“The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity.”
— Jed McKenna
Let me begin by saying that I completely Trust Nature.
I completely Trust in what is presently happening on Earth.
At all times.
As far as I can see, all things are in Perfect Order.
Always.
Whatever your position on COVID-19, I love you.
I appreciate you.
I respect your right to your perspective.
My True Self knows that, "Whatever is, is right."
That there is nothing to fear.
That All is Well.
That it is Okay to Trust Nature.
It is Okay to Trust God.
Completely.
Always.
“All things are orchestrated for the Highest Good of the ALL, at all times. It is so.”
Shadows
“It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses- and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster’s body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature.”
— Carl Jung
“The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast. One is always inclined to lay the blame on external circumstances, but nothing could explode in us if it had not been there. As a matter of fact, we are constantly living on the edge of a volcano, and there is, so far as we know, no way of protecting ourselves from a possible outburst that will destroy everybody within reach. It is certainly a good thing to preach reason and common sense, but what if you have a lunatic asylum for an audience or a crowd in a collective frenzy? There is not much difference between them because the madman and the mob are both moved by impersonal, overwhelming forces.”
— Carl Jung
COVID-1984: The Great Teacher
In the year 2020 A.D., something quite strange happened on Planet Earth.
The dominant narrative states that a novel infectious disease, a ‘coronavirus’ called COVID-19, emerged and spread globally…
And was declared a pandemic.
In my eyes, here is what happened next:
Humanity underwent a collective spasm of fear, reactivity, and panic…
That resulted in the unwise imposition of widespread Orwellian ‘lockdown,’ ‘social distancing,’ and ‘quarantine’ protocols.
Quite rapidly, Life Fully Lived was sacrificed at the altar of ‘safety.’
Suddenly…
Hugging…
Kissing…
Touching…
Going outdoors…
Traveling…
Gathering in large numbers…
Being in public without wearing a face-cover…
And much more…
Became far more taboo throughout the world.
Global culture shifted dramatically toward a far more paranoid and dystopian ‘lockdown’ culture.
Thus, the term “COVID-1984,” a reference to Orwell’s great novel…
Emerged as a clever shorthand for post-COVID culture.
For many reasons, COVID-19(84) is one of the greatest teachers in recorded earthly history.
This book will articulate why this is the case.
Who Am I?
Well, that’s a deep question. : )
I am no one.
I am you.
I am everything.
I am nothing.
I am All.
I am Mystery.
I’m a chill, playful dude who likes to kick it, ask questions, and create stuff.
My beloved parents gave my body-mind the name Jordan Bates.
In my nearly 30 years of Earth-time I have come to realize that I am far more than my body-mind.
Infinitely more.
And so are you.
I find myself in a unique position to assess the COVID situation.
I’ll say more on this later, but for now let me say that…
I’ve spent the last 10 years de-conditioning and de-programming myself of most everything I ever learned.
I’ve undertaken a quest for truth that has led me to 33 countries and the far reaches of inner space.
As such, I happen to not fear death in the way most people do.
As far as I can see, what I truly am was never born and never dies.
I am the One Eternal Life.
And so are you.
And so is everything.
You Are God
God is the One Eternal Life.
You are God.
We are God.
We are the One Infinite Creator of All That Is.
There is nothing other than God.
Reality is a Single Unified Infinite Omnipotent Intelligence, and Thou Art That.
You are not a small, separate, isolated personality in a rapidly-expiring skin-sack; this is an illusion created through identification with mental constructs.
What You Really Are is the Deathless All-Permeating Power That Effortlessly Births Multiverses.
Separation is an illusion.
You are the Totality.
We are the Totality.
GOD is another word for the Totality.
As God, we have Created Everything we ever see and experience in this apparent world.
We are Creating every detail of the Dream we are presently Dreaming.
We can Dream whatever Dream we wish to Dream.
You have the Power to start Dreaming a different Dream anytime you wish.
Total Freedom is available Now.
Heaven is available Now.
And in every moment.
It is a Frequency.
It is a Choice.
A Choice to BE Joy, Love, Freedom.
When you ARE Joy, All you see is Joy.
When you ARE Love, All you see is Love.
When you ARE Freedom, All you see is Freedom.
A Brief Note on Choice
Note: Although the experience of Choice can be deeply empowering…
There is also a level of Freedom that goes deeper than Choice.
This is the level at which you see that Life choicelessly, effortlessly, spontaneously lives itself — “no maintenance required, no mistakes possible.”
When this is seen, profound relaxation occurs.
You see that ALL is WELL.
And you heave a Sacred Sigh of Relief.
For the purposes of this book, I am speaking as if Choice is really possible.
On a deeper level, the ALL simply IS as it IS.
If you or humanity at large “choose” to Dream a New Dream…
It would be more accurate to say that a New Dream spontaneously begins to Dream itself through you by Divine Grace…
Rather than “choosing” the New Dream, you’re more so “co-creatively allowing” the New Dream to emerge.
Yet paradoxically, the apparent experience of Choice, as I said, can be deeply, vitally empowering for human beings.
And who knows: Perhaps Choice, on one level, is real.
I once had an experience on Ayahuasca of apparently asking God directly whether it was “free will or determinism,” and God said, “It is both, it is neither, and it is far beyond those.”
So, I will speak in this book about Choice.
What Dream Do We Wish to Dream?
Together, humans are Dreaming a Collective Dream.
And again, we can Dream whatever Dream we wish to Dream.
And we can Choose a New Dream NOW, if we wish.
Presently, humanity is quite deep in forgetfulness of What We Truly Are.
Forgetfulness of our Truly Infinite God Nature.
Due to this forgetfulness, many millions of humans are presently experiencing this Earthly Dream as a Nightmare.
They are living in a Nightmare, not realizing it is their own Creation.
Our civilization is, on the whole, deeply asleep, unwise, and juvenile.
As such, it is entirely unsurprising that our civilization’s response to COVID-19 has been largely unwise, neurotic, reactive, freedom-sacrificing, and fear-driven.
This is precisely what one would expect from a species operating at our current level of Consciousness.
Remember: The ‘external’ world we see is nothing more than a faithful mirror of our level of Consciousness.
This is why the Great Sages can look upon even a war zone and see only Perfection.
Because they have realized Perfection within themselves.
In Truth ALL is Perfection.
ALL is unfolding precisely according to Plan.
At all times.
Forgetfulness and Remembrance are Dancing an Eternal Dance.
Without Forgetfulness, We would not Know the Divine Joy of Remembrance.
Forgetfulness is a Gift.
It allows us to Remember.
YOU are GOD and you have CHOSEN to Forget.
You’ve done this in order to Play a Most Legendary Game of Hide and Seek.
A Fractal, Multi-Dimensional, Hyper-Shakespearean Game of Hide and Seek Across Countless Lifetimes.
For millennia a great mass of humanity has chosen to Dream a Dream characterized by forgetfulness.
This has resulted in widespread separation, fear, competition, domination, exploitation, war, hatred, dogma, mindless conformity, violence, and enslavement.
So the question I must pose to mankind is this:
Do you wish to continue Dreaming this Dream?
If you knew you could Create any Reality you Choose, what sort of Dream would you Love to Dream?
Would it be a Dream characterized by…
Widespread fear and panic?
Mass-media brainwashing?
“Social distancing”?
House arrest culture?
No festivals or large gatherings?
Massive restrictions on global travel?
Gutted economies?
Fear of giving hugs?
Rampant censorship?
Laws making it illegal not to strap a diaper to your face every time you go outside?
For me at least, I can safely say: FUCK NO. :)
We’re far more Creative than this.
We can Dream a more Beautiful Dream.
What Dream would YOU Love to Dream?
Search within your Heart of Hearts and see what answers you find.
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[What follows, for the next few thousand words, is at times rant-like in nature. It was written circa ~Autumn of 2020. Some of it was written while channeling Anger energy. I’ve softened it, but I also feel it is powerful, so I have chosen not to entirely rewrite it but to include it in its rawness. Remember: Words are never Truth. Take what is useful, let go of the rest.]
I Do Not Consent.
Though I see only Divine Perfection in this Universe…
The time has come for me to Object.
On behalf of myself and the millions of others who feel in their Hearts that this is NOT the Greatest Dream humanity can Dream…
It is indicated for me now to say:
I do not consent to the ongoing unprecedented global lockdown.
I do not consent to the media's 24/7 fear propaganda campaign masquerading as 'news.'
I do not consent to the rollout of worldwide 'safety' measures and controls that dishonor individual sovereignty.
I do not consent to live in your fear-based Dream. I do not and will not live there.
Whew, that feels good to say. :)
To put one's truth out there boldly, without apology.
Now...
Let me tell you a story.
Witch Hunted in the Age of Corona
A few months ago, I shared a meme challenging the standard media narrative about COVID-19.
In return, I received a tsunami wave of backlash, anger, outrage, and vitriol.
Due to the cataclysm of witch-hunt-style feedback, I felt galvanized to write something longer to describe what I'm seeing.
So, let's start with a thesis and then unpack it:
Our present human civilization is deeply unwise.
We have forgotten Who We Truly Are.
As a result, we are lying to ourselves and manipulating ourselves on a mass scale.
Our deep fear of death is leading us to impose an (unconscious) agenda of global control.
We are trading Life Fully Lived for an illusion of ‘safety.’
All of this is actually the Perfect Catalyst for us to Remember Who We Truly Are.
Whew, once more, that feels good to say. :)
Before I get into more details of why I'm seeing this, let me say: I encourage you not to blindly believe me, or anyone.
On the deepest level, no words or beliefs are true, as they always reduce Infinite Reality.
Do your own research, look closely for yourself, investigate your cognitive dissonance, and most importantly:
FEEL DEEPLY in your gut, heart, and intuition, and ask yourself if something feels 'off' about this unprecedented global lockdown.
With that being said, here's what I'm seeing:
We're ~12 months into an unprecedented global lockdown.
Initially, most countries either mandated or forcefully recommended that people—even healthy, asymptomatic people—essentially put themselves on house arrest for months on end, eliminating all non-essential social behavior.
This ‘lockdown culture’ still remains in place in much or most of the world, 12 months later.
Initially, global travel ground to a halt: About 95% of countries locked their borders, massively restricting our freedom to move about our own planet.
Many of these restrictions are still in place. As an American, I am now limited to traveling to about ~10-20% of the countries I could once travel to. Australians are still literally barred from leaving their home country at all.
Economically, we initiated a veritable Second Great Depression via forced closures: On a planet where billions live paycheck to paycheck, we somehow decided it would be a good idea to press pause on entire economies for months on end. This has led to widespread economic devastation, widespread mental health deterioration, a widespread deepening of impoverishment, hunger, and even borderline starvation.
Heaps of events were cancelled. Our right to gather in large numbers was suddenly massively curtailed. Festivals and sizable community events basically disappeared. This is still largely the case.
We've now all been effectively conditioned into a new unprecedented chapter of global-cultural history: A chapter of worldwide 'lockdown culture,' of 'socially-distanced culture.'
When you make everyone terrified of hugs, handshakes, social events, and non-masked shopping, for months on end, things can't simply return to 'normal.'
Make no mistake: We've tacitly agreed to a more paranoid and unfree set of cultural norms that may last decades in many places. This thing has sunken into people's bones.
Then there's the mask thing: Untold millions have been convinced to wrap their face in flimsy strips of cloth.
Despite all of us knowing intuitively that this is inhibiting the flow of respiration and probably not really protecting anyone from jack shit, millions are now fighting tooth and nail for 'mask culture.'
For their right to wear a mask, to implicitly signal allegiance to the standard narrative, and to (unconsciously) contribute to ubiquitous social reinforcement of a widespread immune-system-compromising atmosphere of fear, stress, and danger. Cool.
And then there's that little thing about new laws being written:
Laws making masks mandatory.
Laws imposing curfews.
Laws restricting the size of gatherings, with massive fines for violators.
Laws in some countries that make it illegal for people to violate the 'quarantine' and 'social distancing' protocols.
Laws in some places making questionable, rapidly-created, minimally-tested vaccines mandatory.
Laws being proposed for increased surveillance, forced testing, privacy invasions, and contact tracing.
Murmurs of mass microchipping of people. And so on.
On a planet already ensnared by millions of idiotic and medieval laws to babysit us, this is just what we need... more laws!
Wonderful. Hah-hah-hah!
I'm smiling, really, I'm smiling.
Because you can't make this shit up—it's cinematically captivating.
Meanwhile, the mainstream 'news' media has been nothing but a firehose of limbic-system-hijacking fear-mongering—even more so than usual—for months on end.
PANIC. BE AFRAID. PANIC. BE AFRAID.
This is the subtext any time I've caught a glimpse of the draconian signals being blasted into the eyeballs and ear-holes of my fellow humans.
Bright red banners, sensationalist headlines, somber 'news'-casters, constant misdirection and misinformation, an emotional undertone of urgency and emergency: Tell-tale signs of propaganda.
And of course never a mention of true ways to build natural immunity: Sunlight, whole/organic foods, movement, breathwork, meditation, sincere self-work, raising one’s vibratory state, working with plant medicines, healing, awakening, and so on.
As if that weren't enough, Big Tech companies notably ramped up censorship during this time. Massively. Maybe you didn't notice.
Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and so on (the entities that have made the most money off of increased internet usage during lockdown): Shadow-banning and censoring the ever-living shit out of people.
And which types of people? Uncannily, it is precisely those people who are challenging the standard narrative about C-19.
What a curious coincidence! Lol. Sayonara, freedom of speech and honest expression!
Not only that, we've been convinced to begin viciously policing, censoring, and witch-hunting *each other*.
Someone is dissenting from the standard narrative? Better shame the ever-living shit out of 'em!
Hah-hah-hah!
This is rich, y'all, really.
It's been quite sobering to realize how few people actually have the personal sovereignty and awareness of human history to notice the tell-tale signs of an upsurge of a vicious collective madness.
Take my word for it on this one: You do not want a world in which we shame and silence anyone who asks deep questions about 'official narratives.'
And oh yeah, we did all this *for what*?
FOR WHAT?!?!
For a virus that kills less than 1%(!!) OF THOSE WHO GET IT?!
For a virus that 99.9%(!!) of people HAVE NOT GOTTEN OR HAVE RECOVERED JUST FINE FROM?!
For a 'pandemic' that gives most people MILD OR UNNOTICEABLE SYMPTOMS?!
LOL!!
Are you laughing?!
Crying?!
Both?!
This is the punchline to the Orwellian joke.
We've consented to sacrifice countless rights, freedoms, and LIFE FULLY LIVED in exchange for so-called 'safety' from an over-hyped flu season that is unlikely to harm us.
LMFAO!!
I'm shrieking, rolling on the floor... this is too much.
Even the bloody (likely unreliable) official numbers say (as of early 2021) there have been about ~100 million cases globally, on a planet of 7 billion humans.
Do the math, y'all: That would mean 98.5% of humans HAVE NOT EVEN GOTTEN IT.
And of the 1.5% who have, ~99+% SURVIVE, most having mild or no symptoms.
The official numbers say there have been 2 million deaths, and my heart truly goes out to the affected families…
But this means that 99.97% of humans HAVE NOT DIED from Corona.
Not to mention that 60 MILLION PEOPLE DIE every single year on Earth, tens of millions of them from diseases, sicknesses, viruses and health conditions.
And THIS is the ultra-scary grim-reaper-approved hide-yo-kids-hide-yo-wife big-bad-wolf super-plague that is spreading like wildfire and necessitates the sudden imposition of an Orwellian global 'house arrest' culture?!?!?!
Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break.
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Do you feel nauseous yet?
Feel some energy rising in your body?
Maybe a murmuring of primal rage?
Good.
Don't ignore that.
That's your body telling you what it has felt all along, but which we've been deeply conditioned to ignore: That something is deeply OFF about all this.
You just know it.
In your gut.
In your heart.
That this is not Wisdom.
This is not Truth.
That you are being lied to.
That your fear of death, and your concern for your family and friends, is being played upon.
Wickedness: A Great Teacher
Make no mistake: There are wicked forces in this world.
There are forces in this world that do not have your best interest in mind.
That want you to fall in line and live in fear, to serve their agendas.
On the deepest level All Reality is Divine.
Even the darkest nightmares are God in drag, Great Teachers in disguise.
God, Our True Nature, appears in Our Reality as ‘wickedness’ to Remind Us of Our True Power.
To Remind Us of the pain of forgetfulness and the Divine Joy of Remembrance.
To Remind Us what we have hidden from ourselves in our collective shadow.
To Remind Us that We are the Sole Creators of Everything We See.
To Remind Us that We can Dream any Dream We Wish to Dream.
Darkness appears to amplify contrast, so that We may Remember What Lies Beyond Contrast.
So that We may Remember the One Light In Which Contrast Appears.
The Light of Pure Consciousness.
If We do not like the Dream we see reflected back to Us on the Divine Projection Screen of Consciousness…
We must look at Ourselves and ask, “Why have We Chosen to Dream this Dream? What are WE Being, if this is what the Divine Mirror of Reality is Mirroring Back to Us?”
A Great Master may find Her Self in a war zone and yet see nothing but Light-Consciousness-Bliss…
Because She has realized That is What She Is.
And so That is All She Sees.
In Truth, Light-Consciousness-Bliss is All That Is.
All of the shifting forms of apparent light and darkness in this world are appearing within the One Light of God-Consciousness.
God, Your True Nature, temporarily forgets Its Self in this world of appearances so as to play a Divine Game of Hide and Seek with Its Self.
Every moment, every event, every occurrence, every person, every experience, is actually God in disguise…
Giving you precisely what you need in order to Remember What You Are.
Once again, at this stage of human history, mankind is deep in forgetfulness and separation.
When One is deep in forgetfulness and separation, One creates a lot of apparent suffering for One’s Self.
This is Reality’s way of letting You know You are asleep.
All suffering is Reality letting You know You have forgotten Who You Are.
The more You Remember, the less You suffer.
This is one of the ways Reality Self-verifies the Truth realized by all the Great Sages of history.
Remembrance is Bliss.
Forgetfulness is Hell.
This is why COVID-1984 and all other forms of apparent darkness are Great Teachers:
They give Us an experience of hell to Remind Us of the Heaven Which Has No Opposite.
To remind Us that all dualistic appearances are coming and going within the One Non-Dual Heavenly Light Which Never Falls Away.
The Light of God.
In Truth the Light of God is the Only Thing There Is.
The Only Thing You Ever See.
Yet through a Cosmic Joke, a funny trick of perception, We deliberately hoodwink Our Self into seeing otherwise.
In Truth there is nothing to fear whatsoever.
All is Well and cannot be otherwise.
Yet, again, the deeper You fall into forgetfulness, the more Reality will appear hellish to You.
The apparent hellishness is intended to shake you Awake.
In Light of this Understanding, let’s take a look a Radically Honest Look at the apparent civilization we are Co-Manifesting in this Earthly Realm at this time.
Let's Get Radically Honest
From the day we are born, most of us are conditioned to begin giving away our power and our trust in ourselves.
We are forced through 'education' systems that do not teach us to honor and value our own innate genius, creativity, and curiosity…
But which actually crush these things in favor of forcing us to sit still, obey authority, do meaningless busywork for years, and believe that 'experts' already figured everything out.
All we are good for is memorizing the pre-ordained 'answers' in the textbooks and regurgitating them at the appropriate times.
Most of us are never told What We Truly Are: The One Eternal Life — rather, we are repeatedly told we are tiny, fragile, finite, separate, rapidly-expiring monkeys that need to be afraid in order to be safe and secure.
Do you see how this perfectly prepares us for a life spent not courageously following our Souls and doing what we Love…
But rather standing in line and doing meaningless busywork at a 'job' to serve someone else's agenda?
And now I'm actually crying…
Because this is the too-real tragic stuff most don't want to see.
Why do most modern humans dread Mondays?
Why do they hate their lives 5 days per week and get shit-faced drunk on weekends to forget it all?
Why do they constantly intoxicate themselves with video games, entertainment, drugs, and social media, so as not to spend a moment in silence and stillness reflecting on how they truly feel about the life they're living?
What would you call it when a person spends most of their life doing shit they don't want to do, taking orders from someone else, because they perceive no other choice?
I'd call it slavery.
Indentured servitude.
Yep.
From this perspective: Billions of people are slaves.
For many or most humans, this is a prison planet.
Due to our forgetfulness of What We Truly Are, this is the Dream we are Co-Creating on Earth.
Let's ask a few pointed questions to further illuminate our civilization’s sickness:
Why are we taught from birth not to listen to our own innate wisdom and intelligence, but instead to outsource it to priests, government officials, 'experts,' talking heads, newscasters, and 'academics'?
Why are we surrounded by super-addictive media and entertainment to numb ourselves so we'll just keep going through the motions?
Why does the trillion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry prescribe untold billions of pills to people each year—pills that we mostly don't even truly understand, that don't heal root causes, that disconnect us from ourselves, and that often create lifelong dependencies and lifelong customers?
Why is 95% of the 'food' in the grocery stores addictive, processed, pesticide-containing junk food that makes people sick and in need of preposterously expensive 'healthcare'?
For that matter, why were billions of people already fat, sick, and nearly dead, pre-COVID?
Why are hundreds of millions of men leaking colossal quantities of vitality, self-respect, and Life Force Energy through rampant porn usage and excessive desacralized masturbation?
Why are the most powerfully healing and consciousness-liberating medicines in the world—the entheogenic plant medicines cherished by indigenous peoples for millennia—almost universally illegal and demonized?
Why are we taught from early childhood to imagine our 'dream job,' as if a fucking 9-to-5 job is truly any Soul's Highest Dream?
Why are MILLIONS of people imprisoned in literal cages right now simply for attempting to self-medicate to cope with the pain and hopelessness of their enslavement?
Why, despite the technological leaps of the last century, have our automobiles barely changed and continue to run by burning dirty, finite oil, desecrating the Earth and padding billionaires' pockets?
Why do we find it almost impossible to shift our civilization's trajectory, despite the increasingly undeniable signs of its unsustainability, such as the destruction of ~70% of the Earth's forests, the acidification of oceans, the decline in air and soil quality, and the ongoing extinction of thousands of species?
Why is the mainstream news media entirely owned by the same handful of corporations, and why do all 'news' outlets constantly pump out content designed to spark fear, outrage, and division?
Why is all our personal data, our locations, and the events of our lives constantly being collected, tracked, mined for info, and sold to the highest bidder by Big Tech companies?
Why are we given two options when we 'vote' for our 'leader,' and why does the rigmarole one must go through to become one of those candidates virtually ensure that pure-hearted non-sociopaths have no chance?
Why does the CIA have a documented history of kidnapping, brainwashing, and experimenting on shitloads of citizens through MK-Ultra and other programs?
Why did billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, now shown to be one of the most prolific pedophiles and sex traffickers of all time, have deep connections with many of the most powerful political and financial figures in the world?
Why did Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other powerful actors run a fictional simulation of a novel coronavirus pandemic at 'Event 201' in 2019, just months before the emergence of the novel coronavirus?
Why do vaccines contain pesticides, and why are widespread vaccine injuries downplayed by mainstream society?
Why does the Federal Reserve, a private group of ultra-wealthy bankers, control the US economy and money supply?
Why do so many millions feel depressed, anxious, or suicidal, with their bodies literally crying out to them that something is deeply sick in this civilization?
Why do we constantly find ourselves in a state of polarized and exhausting division, fighting against one another over the latest politicized media-enflamed 'issue' rather than noticing that we are living in an intricately designed control system that is raping the Earth and creeping toward ever greater degrees of totalitarianism?
Why are war, rape, murder, abuse, and other forms of violence still so prevalent on Earth?
Why are virtually all of the most wise and awakened humans I know on Earth deeply questioning or vocally challenging the dominant Corona narrative?
Why?
Tell me.
I'm listening.
I could go on, but I think I've illustrated my point:
This civilization is sick, unwise, deep in forgetfulness.
Forgetfulness of Our True Nature has produced a world in which most people are unhealthy, unfree slaves, totally disconnected from their Souls and doing shit they don't want to do to pad someone else's pockets and preserve the ecocidal status quo.
THIS is the broader context in which the 'Coronapocalypse' erupted.
THIS is the shadowy shit most people do not want to look at.
And most people are simply inclined to blindly trust that the government and news media have their best interest in mind?
That Good Ol' Daddy Government is watching out for their 'safety'?
Are you kidding me?!
Look around.
This is not a civilization built on Universal Love and Wisdom.
It's a civilization built on separation, fear, scarcity, domination, and exploitation.
It's a civilization where politicians are bought and sold to the highest bidder.
Where Big Tech & Media companies use propaganda and censorship to shape public opinion to suit the agendas of a few slimy individuals in the shadows.
Where innocent children are slowly broken down and transformed into alcoholic work-horses slaving away for a pittance and hating their lives.
Where 'scientific studies' can be cooked up to support whatever hypothesis is politically convenient, for a pretty penny.
This shit is ROTTEN to the core.
And it's dying.
Its pathological and ecocidal ways are rapidly driving it off a cliff.
Earth has its own intelligence and immune system, and when a species lives out of harmony with Gaian law for too long, rest assured that a karmic roundhouse kick to the face is on the way.
Thankfully, and synchronistically, many of us are waking up to this reality and are beginning to devote ourselves to the project of alchemically transfiguring civilization.
Thanks to the Internet, it’s never been easier to escape the rat-race matrix, start a Soul-Aligned Business or find Soul-Aligned Projects to help with, and begin living your Soul-Joy-Truth to contribute to the birth of a New Earth.
A New Paradigm for humanity: An eco-harmonious, regenerative, decentralized, omni-compassionate civilization rooted in Unity Consciousness and Universal Love.
Those with the most power and money on this planet know this is happening.
And you can bet your ass many of them do not want it to happen.
Consciously or unconsciously, they want to preserve the status quo at all costs, to maintain their position.
Even if that means gradually imposing an Orwellian totalitarian control system to force people into obedience and cut them off from the voices of their own Hearts and Souls.
In China, surveillance is already ubiquitous, and everyone has a 'social credit score' that rises and falls based on whether one behaves in government-approved ways. Even pre-Corona, millions of Chinese were already barred from travel due to their 'social credit score' being too low.
In the US, we are not nearly as far away from this as you might think. We are indeed surveilled and tracked in myriad ways, and two million Americans presently find themselves locked in literal cages for violating the vast and confusing network of countless 'laws' that restrict our behavior.
Land of the Free?
American Dream?
Propagandistic bullshit.
It’s still possible to break Free and live your Dreams in the US, but first you’ve got to melt about 100 layers of deeply embedded programming and mental imprisonment.
Many, many keen observers have noticed the 'totalitarian tiptoe' that has crept up on our world over the past decades and centuries.
Often such people are dismissed as 'conspiracy theorists,' a term that was purportedly invented by the CIA as an ingenious ad hominem to smear and discredit independent researchers connecting too many dots.
Placed within this broader context, the C-19 'plandemic,' as many have called it, begins to look truly unsettling.
Ask yourself honestly, in your Heart of Hearts:
Have we been subjected to a global mass-media-fueled fear-propaganda campaign of galactic proportions?
Has the true danger of this virus been exaggerated massively to serve shadowy agendas?
Has humanity's deep fear of death been prodded at by those who understand that this is the best way to manipulate billions of people to fall in line and accept shocking new levels of totalitarian control?
Even if the virus was not planned, was it capitalized upon to create conditions of mass hysteria in which it would be easy to further erode humanity’s fundamental freedoms?
Even if an agenda of totalitarian control is not being consciously imposed, are we gradually sliding in that direction anyway, due to our culture’s deep forgetfulness, neurotic fear of death, and desperate desire to conquer, dominate, and control Nature?
Drop your mental stories and FEEL what your body and heart tell you about the answers to these questions.
I know: This shit is insane.
Like what the fuck.
Is this really happening.
Trust me, I felt in my gut from day one that something was truly 'off' about this thing.
My gut knew.
Yet I diligently spent a lot of time dwelling in Not Knowing, simply watching this all unfold and doing a lot of research.
(And on the deepest level I am still in Not Knowing, for I see that Reality is an Un-Pin-Down-Able Living Mystery that no ape-mind can possibly comprehend.)
Yet in my heart, in my gut, there was a growing sense that I did not come to this planet to tacitly consent to totalitarianism. My Soul loves Freedom.
Eventually I reached a point where I noticed I had become quite clear about my sense that:
Something deeply fucked up is happening.
This is not Wisdom.
This is not Truth.
I became clear to the point where I felt I would be out of integrity if I didn't start to speak up about what I'm seeing.
So within a few weeks of Corona emerging, I began dropping breadcrumbs across my various channels, and that process has now culminated in this book.
My Unique Position
I find myself in the strange position of being unusually well-equipped to see and feel deeply into this situation.
I've spent the last 10 years de-conditioning and de-programming myself of most everything I was ever taught.
Letting go of everything this civilization implanted in me to try to turn me into a slave.
Reclaiming my Power.
Re-owning my Genius, Creativity, Curiosity, and Highest Joy.
Following my Soul.
Prolifically Creating healing, liberating, and transformational experiences for myself and others, across many mediums.
Tasting Radical Freedom.
I quit my last day job in 2015 to follow my Soul full-time.
I spent years adventuring to 33 countries in this world, and to the Far Reaches of Inner Space.
Via entheogenic gnosis I've traveled through dimensions of experience few men can fathom, and I've communed with spiritual intelligences that make our funny monkey minds look like cute wind-up toys.
In deep meditations I've viscerally watched myself die over and over again, burning, dissolving, being beheaded, blowing away in the wind, only to realize more deeply That Which Remains when the psycho-physical organism dissolves.
On Ayahuasca I've watched my body vividly die and decompose; I've communicated with ancestors and deceased loved ones; I've been shown in pristine clarity that we are Immortal Souls simply choosing to forget our Truly Deathless Nature to play this earthly game; I've met God and know deeply that God is you, me, we, All That Is.
As a result of all this, I do not fear death in the way most people do. Nor do I fear much of anything, as the fear of death underlies most or all other fears. There is not much fear left in my system.
As such, I cannot be manipulated by the fear of death in the way most people can be.
And as a result of spending years exercising Radical Freedom, I am far more sensitive than most to the advancement of the 'totalitarian tiptoe.'
Because I know what Freedom means.
And I know what it is worth.
It is worth Everything.
For in Truth, Freedom is God.
Freedom is your Natural State.
Freedom is your Divine Birthright.
The Truest Freedom is available in every moment and cannot be taken from you.
This is an internal Freedom that allows one to transcend any circumstance and see Divine Perfection in all situations.
Yet on a relative human level, our external freedoms can be taken away, and they are being taken away.
As I hope I've demonstrated, this civilization was already deeply unfree pre-C-19, and now we're on a fast track to a Brave New World that would make Huxley barrel-roll in his grave.
Any being who is largely free of the fear of death will see clearly that we are presently making a 'deal with the devil': We are trading Life Fully Lived for false 'safety' measures that are wiping out our freedoms to move, assemble, show physical love, breathe uninhibitedly, and so on. This is a slippery slope to Hell.
Important and Challenging Questions About C-19
I wrote these in early May of 2020 and wanted to include them somewhere:
1. Does it seem ironic at all to speak of ‘prioritizing public health’ in a civilization that has systematically produced the sickest, most unwell, most obese, most addicted, most suicidal population of humans in history, and has raped the planet? And is it wise to trust said civilization’s default assumptions about the best ways to ‘prioritize public health’?
2. Is death a ‘bad’ thing or is it a beautiful intrinsic part of Life, that allows the entire process to continue? Does our Essence die or is it deathless?
3. What is best for Gaia, for Earth? Does Gaia have an Intelligent Immune System that naturally checks and balances the earthly order, sometimes through events that wipe out disharmonious segments of earthly life? Can we trust Earth? Can we trust Nature?
4. Do we live in a culture that pathologically fears death and pathologically attempts to control/conquer Nature? If so, how are those pathologies showing up in our culture’s response to this pandemic, and to what dark/unfree places might those pathologies lead us, if taken to an extreme?
Diving Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole to Revolutionize Our Understanding of Sickness and Healing
The present Western medical paradigm certainly has many useful methods and understandings for which I am grateful…
But it has also been deeply corrupted by perverse financial incentives, fear, pathological 'rational' categorization tendencies, and reductive 'scientific' materialism.
Far from proven fact, the ‘Germ Theory' of disease has major holes and rests on unverified assumptions. The mainstream Western understanding of sickness and healing conveniently spreads fear and generates massive fortunes for a multi-trillion-dollar 'healthcare' industry. Overall, it is a woefully incomplete paradigm that we will one day view as laughably primitive and corrupted.
It almost completely overlooks the psycho-spiritual-energetic roots of most or all human 'illness,' as well as the way in which the body intelligently manifests 'illness' in an attempt to restore harmony to an out-of-balance system—not to mention the ways in which the Gaian Intelligence likely uses 'illness' to restore ecological harmony.
In the general discourse around C-19, almost no one notes the power of the human mind to create realities. If you convince someone they're in danger and are likely going to get very sick, don't be surprised when they do. If you convince millions of this, don't be surprised when millions get sick. Fear is the ultimate cancer.
This previous statement is supported by tens of thousands of case studies within the paradigm of German New Medicine—an alternate paradigm of medicine that is widely suppressed and discredited due to its potential to completely revolutionize medicine and dethrone the current ~multi-trillion-dollar Western Medical Industry.
Developed by the late Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, German New Medicine suggests and repeatedly demonstrates that the true root cause of all or most illness is psycho-spiritual-emotional conflict. Traumas, or 'conflict shocks,' jolt our system, creating emotional-energetic wounds and blockages.
When these shocks are processed and cleared by our systems, the body undergoes a physiological clearing process that mirrors the emotional-energetic clearing process, removing residual debris that is not useful. This is why most all of what we think of as 'sickness' is characterized by symptoms that are clearly various forms of expulsion: Vomiting, sweating, coughing, sneezing, overactive shitting, shaking, feverish 'burning away,' and so on. It's a purge, similar to what occurs while working with Ayahuasca or other plant medicines. German New Medicine tells us that symptoms of 'sickness' are actually positive signs that the body is intelligently engaged in a clearing and healing process, expelling what is not integrous.
If you feel an urge to reactively reject this, that's understandable. It runs contrary to most everything we've ever been taught about sickness and healing. Since childhood we've been indoctrinated into an ideology that views our bodies as dumb, easily broken machines in a hostile universe in which invisible micro-organisms are lurking all about and trying to kill us. German New Medicine turns this view on its head, suggesting instead that our bodies are perfectly intelligent organisms that know precisely what they are doing; that symptoms are signs of a healing process underway; and that it's okay to Trust Nature and Trust the Process. Interestingly, when one begins to view 'sickness' in this light—when one stops fearing and resisting and begins relaxing and trusting—'sickness' becomes far less prominent and far less of an ordeal in one's life.
"But what about all the people who die of sicknesses?!," you may reasonably ask. German New Medicine tells us that when one does not resolve one's traumas—one's psycho-emotional conflicts—they do not simply go away.
Rather, they become trapped within us, stewing and festering for years, becoming increasingly deeply entrenched and toxic to our systems. Eventually, this energy builds and builds and becomes too much, so the system has to attempt to resolve and clear it.
Yet, if the conflict has stewed and exacerbated for years or decades, the process required to clear and heal it may be so physiologically taxing that the physical organism actually dies during the process. Furthermore, the ubiquitous chemicals, toxins, additives, and pesticides in our food and environment, continuously poison our bodies, greatly reducing their naturally tremendous capacity for regeneration and healing.
Isolating, sedentary, and indoor modern lifestyles further contribute, creating a situation in which most people are “fat, sick, and nearly dead.” And finally, grim diagnoses from Western doctors tend to function as 'hexes,' deeply traumatizing people (dramatically worsening their psycho-emotional conflicts) and deeply implanting a belief that one has a 'terminal illness' and is destined to die soon. Never underestimate the power of the mind to turn a deep-rooted belief into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"But what about plagues and pandemics?!," you may reasonably inquire, as I did. "Surely these demonstrate the reality of infectious disease?" Not necessarily.
German New Medicine tells us that plagues and pandemics are actually the result of viral panic and fear. Typically, some group of people undergoes a major collective conflict shock, and many manifest nasty symptoms during the collective clearing and healing process.
This sudden widespread outbreak of symptoms is then mistaken for an infectious plague, and word rapidly spreads that there is a deadly plague on the loose. This gossip train of fear and panic creates a viral conflict shock, as thousands or millions of people become suddenly deeply afraid of an invisible killer. The fear then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it creates new, deep, mass conflict shocks that then manifest as physical symptoms during the clearing and healing process.
Yet, if people believe these symptoms are evidence of the 'deadly plague' and believe they're going to die—especially if they're already in poor health—they reinforce the conflict shock and perpetuate the clearing process, on and on, and it may become so physiologically intense that it actually kills them.
Interestingly, German New Medicine has discovered that death-fright conflict shocks produce pneumonia-like symptoms when the conflict is cleared. Recent evidence has shown that the majority of 'Black Plague' deaths were actually deaths from pneumonia-like symptoms, suggesting that the Black Plague was in fact one of the most viral death-fright conflict shocks and mass hysterias in history.
In light of this information, it's quite unsettling to consider our modern situation, in which the mass media has the power to rapidly convince billions of people that some sort of deadly plague is on the loose and that they should be very concerned. Combine this with a sudden imposition of traumatizing lockdown measures and global controls, and it's easy to imagine the epic scale of collective conflict shock that may result.
It's easy to see how a media-fueled mass hysteria about a 'killer virus' could quickly become a self-fulfilling prophecy, with millions manifesting pneumonia-like symptoms. Combine this with the understanding that C-19 testing is demonstrably super dubious; that the C-19 virus (or any other virus, for that matter) has never been isolated and demonstrated to be the source of sickness; and that the list of supposed C-19 symptoms keeps expanding (as the global lockdown situation is creating a diverse array of mass conflict shocks, each with its own unique clearing process), and a downright eerie picture begins to come into focus: A picture of a media-enflamed 'scamdemic' that is being fueled by people's ongoing hysteria, panic, stress, and fear.
When one begins to understand this earth-shattering re-frame, the totalitarian 'safety' measures—lockdown of borders, new laws, 'house arrest' culture, social distancing, ubiquitous masks, etc.—can then be seen in a radically different light: Far from assisting in 'flattening the curve,' these measures have actually massively amplified the collective conflict shock of C-19, rapidly creating an omnipresent sense that we've entered into a new chapter of modern history in which we must be more paranoid, stressed, cautious, concerned, and afraid.
Many people are so disconnected from their bodies and energetic systems that they will not notice the precipitous increase in stress and fear that has doubtlessly resulted from these totalitarian measures, but make no mistake: People have been far more on edge, paranoid, and hysterical in recent months than in the pre-C-19 world. This is self-evident to any honest observer. And these chronic 'lower' emotions are creating widespread ongoing conflict shocks, thereby manifesting more symptoms of 'illness.'
It’s also worth considering the Terrain Theory of Disease, the most prominent alternative to Germ Theory. Terrain Theory suggests that germs do play a role in the spread of disease, but that it is the host’s terrain or environment that determines whether certain germs ‘take hold’ and initiate their ‘sickness’ process. In other words, germs ‘take hold’ and initiate such a process if the body is already sick.
Seen through this lens, and realizing via German New Medicine that ‘sickness’ processes are actually purgative healing processes, we can begin to realize that germs and the ‘sicknesses’ they produce may actually be Helpers attempting to initiate a process that will eject diseased tissues from already-sick bodies and restore equilibrium. Astounding, no?!
Yet, as previously noted, if bodies are deeply sick, weak, and poisoned (as most modern humans are), the healing process initiated by a ‘sickness’ can be over-taxing and result in death. Based on my research, it’s also the case that exotic germs to which we are not symbiotically adapted are likely to initiate more intense reactions in our bodies; such reactions are still Nature’s attempts to restore equilibrium within the body, yet one is more likely to be over-taxed and die, due to the added intensity. This would help to explain phenomena such as ex-pat travelers getting terribly sick in foreign countries, or Native Americans dying en masse as a result of foreign colonizer germs (plus the massive conflict shock of a strange new violent bunch of monkeys appearing in large boats one day).
German New Medicine + Terrain Theory also help illuminate how Great Sages, Mystics, and humans generally who are living in a high vibratory state, are able to become largely immune to sickness or to transcend disease entirely. The more one has ‘cleared’ one’s system of all confusion, conflict, trauma, past life trauma, ancestral trauma, and so forth, the more one will find oneself in a state of Supreme Health, Vitality, and Well-Being the likes of which most people cannot fathom.
The more one has ‘cleared’ one’s physical system of toxins and poisons through eating whole high-frequency foods, receiving direct sunlight, doing cleanses, engaging in yoga + movement + meditation + breathwork, and working with plant medicines, the more one’s Body will be in a state of Supreme Health, devoid of diseased tissues.
And the more one has accessed and directly seen one’s Truly Eternal God Nature, the more one dissolves all fear and stress (which lower immunity), sees that death is an illusion, and lives in a state of Effortlessness and Total Trust, with a Knowing of one’s own Infinite Power. At exceptionally high levels of human Consciousness, Great Spiritual Masters are said to gain the ability to spontaneously heal all ailments and to Choose the moment of their own death.
My sense, at this stage, is that C-19 is a real virus / phenomenon that can manifest some extreme and unpleasant symptoms. Yet, I do not feel, as germ theorists do, that it’s akin to a ‘killer bug’ on the loose that might attack anyone at random. Synthesizing the insights of German New Medicine and Terrain Theory, I’m something like an ‘energetic terrain theorist,’ in that I feel ‘sickness’ (almost) always begins with wounds / blockages / conflict shocks / illusions / fears at the level of energy and consciousness that then manifest as diseased tissue in the psycho-physical organism. What we think of as ‘sickness’ is actually the body’s intelligent attempt to ‘clear’ stuck energy, diseased tissue, and whatever else may be non-useful.
I see mass hysteria and mass panic as likely triggers of collective conflict shocks that worsen, enflame, or catalyze viral sickness processes in human populations, especially if the population is already “fat, sick, and nearly dead.” As such, my sense is that media-enflamed panic and hysteria, plus the imposition of ‘lockdown culture,’ catalyzed a ‘perfect storm’ of a collective conflict shock, significantly worsening the detrimental health effects of the C-19 phenomenon.
Unsurprisingly, and as Terrain Theory would suggest, it seems mainly to be the already-sick, -unwell, and -infirm who have manifested the most extreme (lethal) cases of C-19. It’s also worth noting that some people may appear externally to be healthy while internally carrying a lot of wounding / trauma / blockages.
Ultimately, this read on the situation suggests that a wiser civilizational approach to C-19 would have been to vastly diminish fear-mongering media coverage, largely keep civilization and economies running normally, and encourage vulnerable or frightened populations to self-isolate. It also would be generally wise to mass-broadcast information on how to heal trauma, boost immunity, awaken spiritually, and live in a high vibratory state.
At the end of the day, though, as I’ve said, I entirely trust Nature and feel that our civilization’s reaction to C-19 was simply an inevitable mirror reflection of our current level of consciousness. At the deepest level, it was not ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ It simply was what it was, and is as it is, like all things. I am simply putting forth this picture of things because I am irresistibly drawn to do so, and in the hope of contributing to a deeper understanding of sickness and healing that may lead to the birth of a higher-synthesis healing paradigm that integrates the best of Western medicine with the best of all other healing paradigms — ancient, modern, indigenous, holistic, plant-based, spiritual-energetic, and so forth.
Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together
When we put all these pieces together, a revolutionary picture of our current earthly situation begins to emerge:
Our global civilization, for all its marvelous technologies and accomplishments, is sick.
Humanity at this time is largely unwise and fairly deep in a state of forgetfulness of Who We Truly Are.
As such, most people are enslaved, fat, sick, and/or nearly dead, spending their lives doing shit they don’t want to do to pad the pockets of a few mega-wealthy people at the top.
And on a macro-scale we are committing ecocide, raping our Earth, careening forth on a totally unsustainable trajectory.
COVID-1984 is a Mirror, a Wake-Up Call, a Great Teacher.
It’s revealing us to ourselves.
Our response to it reveals that we are neurotic, fear-driven, reactive, and naively willing to sacrifice fundamental freedoms and Life Fully Lived for a false sense of “safety” in a world that increasingly resembles an Orwellian 1984-esque control system.
When we look at the numbers, it’s clear that COVID-19 is not even such a dangerous threat.
And if German New Medicine + Terrain Theory are accurate, we can posit that most who are getting C-19 were already sick, and that C-19 may actually be Nature’s attempt to restore equilibrium in individual bodies and in the larger global ecosystem. We can also posit that the months-long 24/7 global media fear-propaganda campaign (plus lockdowns and control measures) has traumatized the populace and been a large contributor to C-19-like symptoms.
The Good News is: More and more people seem to be waking up.
C-19 itself has acted as a catalyst that has seemingly caused many people to ‘switch on,’ activate, and galvanize toward birthing a New Paradigm for humanity.
From here, it appears that humanity is presently being invited to undergo a Rebirth and Phase Shift to a higher-order civilization.
A decentralized, eco-harmonious, regenerative, omni-compassionate New Earth Civilization rooted in Unity Consciousness and Universal Love.
A world in which we live in harmony with Nature and in which more and more people are Free and Empowered to be in their Zone of Genius, do what makes them come Alive, and live their Highest Joy.
A world in which we remember that death is nothing to fear, but rather a beautiful aspect of Life. A world in which we remember that nothing ever truly dies.
Remember: Heaven is available Now.
In Truth it is the only Reality.
We have simply forgotten how to see It.
Forgotten that Heaven is What We Are.
The more people who begin to Remember This and BE IT, the more we will see our ‘external’ civilization organically shift to mirror back to us the Truth of What We Are Being.
Do I know for sure that this is going to happen?
That we are going to Remember Heaven on Earth and create a new civilization that reflects that?
No, I don’t.
It wouldn’t be nearly as cinematically juicy if I did. :)
The Truth is that What We Choose, Is What Will Be.
Remember: We are God.
We are Choosing and Creating All of This.
And we can Dream whatever Dream we wish to Dream.
And ultimately, whatever we Choose, It will All be Perfect.
Because It Always is and cannot be otherwise.
Earth’s entire history is a simple spark in the Infinite Bonfire of Being.
A nanosecond-long flash in the Limitless Pupil of the Eye of God.
This is all a Divine Theatrical Dream that we, God, Created, for the sake of Play and Entertainment.
At the end of the show, all the characters take off their masks, Remember they’re All the One Eternal God-Being, and have a beer and a laugh.
What We Truly Are is Utterly and Completely Beyond Harm.
Infinite.
Eternal.
Powerful Beyond Measure.
When you Remember this, you’ll have a good laugh.
The Cosmic Joke has many layers of juicy richness.
You are God.
You are Deathless.
You are Love.
Rejoice!
Hallelujah!
Glory Be!
Praise Be!
For this is the Greatest News one could possibly receive.
All is Well.
All is Well.
All is Well.
Thank Heavens.
And now, my fellow funny humans and Divine Creators, the only real question remaining is:
What sort of Dream would You Truly Love to Dream?
———
99.97% of Humans
[These words came through in February of 2021.]
1 year in: 99.97% of humans have *not* died from COVID. What are we sacrificing at the altar of 'safety'?
Billions of people live paycheck to paycheck on Earth. To pause entire economies for months on end is to wreak havoc on the mental and biological welfare of that great mass of people. Hunger rates are spiking.
We are creating a culture of isolation. Human beings, by and large, cannot thrive and be happy in isolation. Depression numbers are spiking.
Life Fully Lived—connected, loving, close, hug-filled, community-filled Life—is being sacrificed... There is no magic button we can press to reclaim it and undo this trauma... what is this worth to us?
~7.998 billion people have not died of Coronavirus... ~60 million humans die each year—tens of millions due to sicknesses... Death is a natural and inevitable aspect of life.
What are we sacrificing in the name of minimizing risk? Is life well-lived mostly about risk minimization?
My heart goes out to all affected in all ways. I am not putting forth a hard stance — I am asking questions that I feel are worth asking, and I am stating observations that I feel are worth stating. Ultimately I trust the flow of life.
With Love,
JB
Why C-19 is Real for Some and Not Real for Others
[These words came through while deep in the jungle for weeks on end working with Ayahuasca and Bufo alvarius in November of 2020. Much of what I say here deeply resonates. Some of what I say here no longer entirely resonates, but I find the piece sufficiently fascinating and stirring to include.]
All Possible Reality-Dreams Already Exist.
Yet some seem far more Real than others.
This is because as more Eyes Of God, more I AM Portals of the One God Consciousness, direct their Energy and Attention to a particular Reality-Dream, that Reality-Dream becomes more tangible, vivid, visceral.
That is why this Earthly Reality-Dream seems more Real than what we see in our dreams, fantasies, imagination:
Because many Eyes Of God are directing their Energy and Attention Here Now.
There are Infinite Reality-Dreams, all co-existing at the same time.
Each person is living in their own Reality-Dream.
Each person is Creating their own Reality-Dream moment to moment.
All Possible Reality-Dreams Already Exist.
You are the One God Consciousness hopping from Reality-Dream to Reality-Dream.
Nanosecond by nanosecond, you are literally ‘Quantum Leaping’ from Reality-Dream to Reality-Dream.
In Choosing to Play this Earthly Reality-Dream-Game, we’ve Collectively Agreed to enter a Sphere in which the Collective Reality-Dream appears to remain relatively stable moment to moment.
That is, the next nanosecond tends to look quite similar to the previous nanosecond.
Yet, if you look closely, you’ll see that the World of this nanosecond is actually vastly different from the World of this nanosecond.
From quarks to quasars, everything is constantly moving, shifting, rearranging itself in both obvious and infinitesimal, barely-noticeable ways.
Each nanosecond is actually its own Universe, its own Multi-Dimensional Omniverse.
Each nanosecond is its own Totally Unique Configuration of Nebulously Patterned God-Consciousness-Energy.
Its own Totally Unique Configuration of Love-Light-Bliss.
Each of these Divine Configurations already exists.
There is no time.
All of Creation is Already Here Now.
You are the One God Consciousness exploring Your Creation through many Eyes, many Portals.
Like frames of film passing through a Divine Projector, chk-chk-chk-chk-chk, the One God Consciousness is cycling through its Infinite Reality-Dreams, experiencing Every Imaginable Perspective, at an Infinite, Inconceivable Speed.
(Though simultaneously, It is Already Entirely Permeating Each Reality-Dream and has Already Entirely Experienced Every Reality-Dream.)
Each Reality-Dream is Comprised Of Nothing Other Than God Consciousness.
You are the One God Consciousness presently exploring and experiencing a certain type of Reality-Dream.
You are the One God Consciousness Playing a Sacred Game of Hide and Seek with Its Self.
You are the One God Consciousness Choosing to forget Its Self in a Reality-Dream of apparent personhood.
Through identification with an apparent body-mind structure appearing within Consciousness, You have temporarily tricked Your Self into believing that You are a finite, skin-encased, rapidly-expiring monkey.
In Truth You are the One Infinite Field of God Consciousness.
Everything you have ever seen, smelled, heard, tasted, touched, thought, felt, dreamt, imagined, or experienced— has been an appearance, an apparition, a Dream, within the One God Mind of All That Is.
And quite a Legendary Dream at that.
Your Life-Dream is Real in a certain sense.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form.
Dream is Reality, Reality is Dream.
Apparition is Actuality, Actuality is Apparition.
There is indeed an Omni-Textured Hyper-Radiant Energy Dancing Within God-Presence-Consciousness.
A Kaleidoscopic Conjuring Produced By Infinitely Intelligent God-Light.
A Divine Movie in which many apparent characters appear to live out Epic Stories.
What is not Real is the impression that You are nothing more than one of these apparent characters.
Or that these apparent characters are small, separate, finite beings, or helpless victims of a cursed, random, indifferent universe.
In Truth They are All “God in drag.”
In Truth They are All You.
In Truth They are All Deathless Divine Light.
In Truth They are All the One Infinite Creator of All That Is.
In Truth They are All Absolutely Free At All Times.
In Truth They are All Choosing and Creating Everything They Experience.
In Truth Everything happens for Them, not to Them.
In Truth there are No Mistakes, Misfortunes, Tragedies, or Accidents.
In Truth What They Are is Always Entirely Beyond Harm.
In Truth They Are All Loved Beyond Measure.
You Are Loved Beyond Measure.
You Are the One Indestructible Creator of All That Is.
All is Well.
All is Play.
All is Light.
Rejoice!
Enjoy the Show!
If you wish to Know this directly, look at your hands yet don’t focus on them; look past them.
Notice how they blur and become see-through?
This is not a mere optical illusion; it is a clue.
Things are not stable, static, or fixed, as they appear.
All is the One Clear Light, and It is Whatever We Make It.
Cease to identify as separate from Anything and Everything.
Identify only as the Totality.
See that You are the Total Field of God-Light.
The Total Field of Radiant Presence.
Meditate on death.
Vividly visualize your body-mind structure being incinerated, blown away, or chopped to pieces.
Find Out What Remains When It Is Gone.
Find out that Your True Presence-Awareness Persists.
Find out that Your True Presence-Awareness cannot be harmed.
Find out directly that You are Inviolable, Undisturbed Light.
You are the Still, Silent, Infinite Space of Pure Light in which the Entire Dance is Dancing Itself.
And You are the Eternal Dance.
You are Ageless Love.
Immortal Truth.
Yes, this body will pass away.
In Truth it passes away each moment, as one Reality-Dream fades and the next Reality-Dream arises.
What we call “death” is no different: One Configuration of Consciousness-Energy Melting Into Another Configuration of Consciousness-Energy.
You are the Deathless Consciousness-Energy.
You are Birthless Hyper-Intelligent Light.
You were not born and You cannot die.
Find out for Your Self, if you wish.
If you don’t wish to Know, don’t.
Life can be a lot of fun when you are imagining Your Self as a separate body-mind structure.
Yet this also inevitably leads to great suffering and despair.
Suffering and despair also have a Great Beauty, yet perhaps at some point you Decide you are tired of that Reality-Dream.
Or maybe you simply start to Yearn to Know the Truth with Your Whole Heart.
These are signs that it is time to Wake Up.
Time to Remember Who You Are.
Depending on Your Unique Energy and level of attachment to limited stories and beliefs about What You Are, Waking Up may be a painful and challenging process.
To Wake Up is to step into the Fiery Inferno of God-Light-Awareness and burn away all that is not the Purest Truth.
Yet Oh! My Brothers and Sisters, can there be a more Riveting Adventure, a more Jubilant Ecstasy?
A more Captivating Saga than the gradual or sudden Remembrance that YOU ARE GOD?!?!
It is Bliss, my Friends.
And it need not necessarily be painful and challenging.
“You can make it Easy, or You can make it Hard.”
It is precisely as painful and challenging as You make it.
After all, You Are God.
My guess is that one way or another, You’ll make it Epic and Humorous.
Because God Loves an Epic Legend and a Good Joke.
Just Remember: You Created All Possible Reality-Dreams.
They All Already Exist.
And You Are Choosing, moment to moment, which Dream to Visit.
If you truly wanted, You could literally teleport into a World made entirely of chocolate ice cream.
And sometimes Great Masters do depart this Realm soon after Waking Up.
Yet more often They seem to stick around for a while.
They tend to Remember that They Chose to visit this Earth Realm to Playfully Awaken other Beings.
To Playfully Awaken other aspects of the One God Consciousness that are Ready to Remember.
And to Play.
After all, this Earth Realm is Fun As Fuck.
A Sacred Blank Canvas on which to Paint Whatever We Dream.
A Divine Jungle Gym on which to Climb and Laugh and Love and Sing.
A Realm of Infinite Glorious Possibilities.
——
Here is something fascinating to notice:
Blobs of Textured Awareness-Presence-Light naturally flow to other similarly-vibrating blobs of Textured Awareness-Presence-Light.
In less-precise words: Beings Dancing A Similar Dance naturally find and gravitate to one another.
Like goes to Like.
This is why, when You start to Remember the Truth and Become Free, You easily find other Beings who are Remembering and Becoming Free.
Frequencies within a similar range are magnetic to one another.
And this is why, when you start truly embodying the Frequency of Your God Self, you effortlessly magnetize Everything Your God Self Truly Is:
Creativity, Flow, Playfulness, Abundance, Love, Effortlessness, Connection, Peace, Lightness, Wisdom, Joy, Excitement, Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Music, Magic.
What You Are Being Creates Your Reality.
What You Are Being Calls Forth Your Future.
——
So, why is COVID Real for some and not Real for others?
Remember: Every Possible Reality-Dream Already Exists.
Every Possible Timeline Already Exists.
In some of those Timelines there is COVID.
In some there is not.
You can actually Choose whether COVID is Real for You or not.
Yet every other I AM, every other function of the One God Consciousness, also gets to Choose.
In this Earth Realm we Choose to exist in a Collectively Co-Created Reality-Dream.
So I can Choose to be in a Timeline in which my Friends do not ‘die’ of COVID only so long as They Also Choose This For Themselves.
Each one is Free to Choose for His or Her Self.
“Why would anyone Choose to ‘die’?,” you may ask.
Again, what we call “death” is not Real.
The One God Consciousness is Immortal.
And You Are IT.
Eyes of God, I AM Consciousnesses, Functions of the One God Consciousness— may Choose to depart this Earthly Game for any number of reasons.
Perhaps it is time for Them to Play a New Game, or time to attend to countless possible mysterious items on the Cosmic To-Experience List, or time for Them to teach a powerful lesson to other Eyes of God within the Earth Realm, or all the above.
“Death,” after all, is a Master Teacher and Awakener.
And what we call “death” always arrives at the Perfect Moment.
All things arrive at the Perfect Moment.
No accidents or mistakes.
Ever.
It cannot be otherwise.
You are the One God.
All That Is.
And You are Omnipotent and Omniscient.
Congratulations.
I’m afraid I do not have a cookie or a free t-shirt to give You at this time.
Hah-hah-hah!!
What we call “sicknesses” are always Chosen.
In Truth there is no sickness.
God is Forever Vital, Well, Thriving.
Yet Eyes of God Choose Reality-Dreams of apparent sickness to learn certain lessons, or play certain games, or to move on to a new Reality-Dream.
What we call “sickness” is actually the apparent body intelligently attempting to heal itself through a purgative process.
Intelligently attempting to restore equilibrium to a disharmonized system.
The apparent body, like All Reality, is Infinitely Intelligent.
Sometimes the apparent body falls into states of such disequilibrium and disharmony that its attempts to re-harmonize itself take on such an intensity that the apparent body then apparently dies.
Of course, What It Truly Is, does not die and was never born.
And if it does appear to die, this was Chosen by Consciousness.
Disequilibrium and disharmony within the apparent body invariably originate within Consciousness.
In Truth there is no physicality, there is only God-Consciousness-Energy.
There is only Light.
Disequilibrium and disharmony in the apparent body arise as a result of forgetfulness of What We Truly Are.
Forgetfulness leads to the appearance of stuckness, coagulation, fear, and stress within the energetic body.
These conditions, left unresolved, then manifest as apparently ‘physical’ apparent ‘sickness’ when the apparent ‘body’ intelligently attempts to purge and clear the stuck, stagnant energy from the apparent system.
The apparent human body is remarkably intelligent.
It is astonishingly beautiful in its resourcefulness in wielding various mechanisms to clear away the tensions created by forgetfulness—by the illusion of separation.
Like the apparent Earth and other macro- or micro-organisms, it possesses an astounding capacity to re-harmonize and regenerate itself.
As Above, So Below.
You may ask: “What about the case of external pollutants causing sickness? Does that also originate in Consciousness?”
Yes, even in the case of apparently ‘external’ pollutants or toxic agents, One would only come into contact with such if this was first Chosen at the level of Consciousness.
And as One begins to Remember, One tends naturally to gravitate away from polluted or toxic environments or foods, and to move toward healthful, high-frequency environments, people, and foods.
And at Highly Advanced Levels of Remembrance One can simply Transfigure apparent ‘toxicity’ back into its Essence, which is Love-Light-Bliss.
If an Ascended Master Chose to come into contact with apparent COVID, he could simply transfigure it into Love-Light-Bliss, in a way similar to Jesus transmuting water into wine.
After all, the Essence of COVID is, of course, Love-Light-Bliss.
To be ‘transfigured’ into Love-Light-Bliss is, in Truth, simply to Remember What One Already Is, to Return Home.
So, in sum, as with Everything, COVID is not a threat, unless We make it one.
And, even if we Choose to make it into an apparent threat as part of a Game, we will soon Remember that it was not a true threat, for nothing can harm or threaten the God-Light of All That Is.
Amen.
Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
——
A Great Teacher
COVID-1984 is a Great Teacher.
One of the Greatest of the Modern World.
Who else could trigger the entire world?
Who else could hold up a Mirror for the entire world?
Pro-Reality
I am not “anti-vaccine.”
I am not ‘anti-‘ anything.
I am pro-Reality.
I am pro- You getting vaccinated if that is what you want.
I am pro- You wearing a mask if that is what you want.
Everyone is 100% free to choose.
Everyone is 100% free to create their own reality.
For me, they would have to physically restrain me to give me the vaccine. No thanks.
In my reality sickness always begins at the level of energy and consciousness.
Because conscious-energy is all there is.
The ‘physical’ is downstream of the non-physical.
The vaccine *may* help you not to manifest “C-19,” but if you are sick / blocked on an energetic level, and if you do not address it, it will simply manifest ‘physically’ in another form.
Why Won’t I Get a Vaccine?
Even as a child I intuitively knew I did not want them.
Sometimes they had to hold me down to give me injections.
I would run away and hide.
Over the years I’ve learned that vaccines often contain pesticides, heavy metals, and other toxins.
They are poisonous in subtle ways.
They sometimes cause diseases.
Many ‘vaccine injuries’ occur and are under-reported.
Yet these are not the most significant reasons I will not get a vaccine.
Most significantly my body simply tells me not to.
My intuition tells me not to.
My body-intuition tells me I do not need it.
A vaccine is not a solution to disease.
It may effectively block a particular physical manifestation of disease.
But disease has its roots at the level of energy and consciousness.
So if you block one physical manifestation but do not address the root, it will simply physically manifest in another form.
Maybe you avoid C-19, but you get cancer instead.
So you have to go down to the root.
And I know how to do this.
I have done this.
My system is quite clear.
If anything does manifest physically, I trust the process and am confident I can clear anything.
What we call ‘sickness’ does not happen randomly or by accident.
It’s always meaningful.
It’s actually the body’s intelligent attempt to clear the system and restore equilibrium.
Sickness always comes at the perfect time.
It always delivers the perfect lessons.
It is a great teacher.
Finding Peace
[This is a slightly edited version of a thing I wrote circa Autumn of 2020 that I wanted to include somewhere.]
Where's everyone at with the COVID stuff?
I'm presently in a place of quite deep Peace about it and Life in general, trusting What Is.
To me it seems overall that the collective reaction to COVID has been deeply unwise and people have been manipulated en masse.
Yet... I've realized: What else would one expect to happen?
Humanity is still collectively quite deep in Forgetfulness — we are, on the whole, not a wise species at this time.
So why would one anticipate anything other than a hyper-reactive, panic-driven, non-sovereign, liberty-sacricing, "monkey see monkey do" reaction from the great mass of people?
I don't mean to be harsh or personal here — I see everyone as doing the best they can in each moment at their current level of awareness.
And I don't see anyone as separate from me or fundamentally different from me — each person is me in another disguise... So, whatever anyone does that is unwise — that is also me doing that.
The other thing is...
"We never know what things are good for.”
The thinking mind can weave endless narratives about why our largely unwise global reaction is 'bad' yet...
One can also easily also tell compelling stories about how this giant glitch in the matrix has jolted many people to 'wake from their slumber,' start asking deeper questions, and start doing deeper inner work.
What appear to be 'crisis' events in human life are often looked back upon as moments of grace that resulted in awakening.
Ultimately there are infinite data points here and no story told by a single monkey mind can even come close to factoring one iota of the multi-dimensionality of this thing...
No story is true. No words are true. No belief is true. Ever. Across the board. Mental constructs are not Truth.
What it comes down to for me is: Do I trust Life? Do I trust God? Do I trust the Infinite Mind of All That Is?
Yes.
And I don't simply blindly trust...
I go deep in myself and see for myself that there is an Intelligence far greater than any monkey mind underlying, orchestrating, guiding all apparent events in this phenomenal realm.
We are not living life, Life is living us. And Life is Good. God is Good. Reality is Good — the Highest Good that has no opposite.
As such: “Whatever is, is right.”
Life is right.
Reality is right.
You can go to war against Reality if you like, but you'll always lose.
Or you can Befriend Reality, trust it, and work with whatever is arising.
I'm doing the latter, accepting that allllllll this COVID-1984 craziness is part of the Divinely Beautiful Master Plan.
And damn, it feels really nice to drop resistance and just Befriend Reality — whew.
And that doesn't mean to do nothing, mind you.
Do what is indicated for you (as if it were possible to do otherwise). ; )
I'm as engaged in Life and aligned as I've ever been, constantly creating healing / liberating / transformational artifacts and experiences for people...
Presently leading a mastermind for 20 other shamanic entrepreneurs and witnessing incredible shifts and level ups as beautiful souls dig deep to create potent transformational offerings to help people do the deep work...
Presently about to release a shamanically medicinal rap album called IOWASCA...
Enjoying sharing time and experiences with my wonderful family, friends, and girlfriend...
Doing my thing, surrendering to the Tao and flowing as indicated for me.
Working with Reality.
And Life is Beautiful as ever.
I respect those who align themselves with the mainstream COVID narrative.
I also respect those who feel called to wage war against COVID-1984 and protest and speak out.
To me though it seems an absolute energetic Tsunami Wave of Corona Hysteria swept this planet and any attempts by me to redirect the overall trajectory of that Wave would be like trying to empty the Ocean by scooping water with a glass jar.
We are now in a post-COVID world, plain and simple.
I'll keep dropping breadcrumbs as indicated but I don't find it wise to expend my energy getting sucked into a deeply polarized war consciousness and trying to fight a Tsunami Wave with a super soaker.
I'd rather keep playfully creating from my Soul and living more and more deeply in the New Earth and showing others how to live there (it is a frequency of Peace available NOW and only Now)...
And showing others how to birth businesses and Aligned Abundance for themselves from this New Earth frequency so we can ground this frequency in real world creations and free up more and more of us to devote 100% of our time, energy, and resources to our Highest Joy and True Soul Path.
That's what's indicated for me right now.
The only way to actually create a more beautiful world is for more and more of us to first learn how to live there NOW, within ourselves — True Wisdom is a Peace that transcends circumstances.
Who knows, maybe a sufficient number of humans start to tap into that Peace beyond form and death, such that we see a transformation to a wiser civilization on Earth in the coming decades and centuries…
Or maybe not.
In either case, I rest easy knowing that Heaven is already and always here, for those with eyes to see it...
And that we will all see and remember It at the perfect moment...
And that beyond any notion of what is wise or unwise at the relative human level, there is a deeper Divine Wisdom guiding all this, at all times.
How do you know something should be happening?
Because it is happening.
As you start to see this, you heave a Sacred Sigh of Relief.
No mistakes, no accidents, no mere coincidences.
All is Perfect.
And if you don't see it this way at all, consider this simple experiment:
Simply begin attempting to Accept The Now as deeply as you can, drop all inner resistance and Befriend What Is.
If you are able to do this, you'll find you suffer far less in all situations.
This is one of Life's elegantly simple ways of confirming to you that What Is, is right.
When you resist It, you suffer.
When you accept It, embrace It, surrender to It completely... There is only Peace and Joy.
Life is gradually reminding all of us, with perfect pacing, that All is Well at all times and cannot be otherwise.
Life is gradually reminding all of us that we are the One Life, whose Essence is utterly indestructible, totally beyond harm, infinitely Peaceful.
Remember: No words are true, including these.
Stop believing words and Look Within to Know Thyself and find your own Truth, for yourself.
Meanwhile I'll be chillin’, riding the waves.
Love and Compassion for All — it may All be Perfect, but this human game we chose to play can feel damn painful and challenging at times...
I know that very well.
And I see you and respect your Strength.
Keep going, and look within...
It gets better.
Better than we can possibly imagine.
1luv,
JB
On COVID-19: No One Truly Knows What is Happening
[I wrote this in May of 2020 and wanted to share it somewhere.]
Regarding COVID: As I’ve said from the early days, no one truly knows what is happening. No one truly knows the ‘best’ course of action.
Yet I have seen an overwhelming herd of people simply unquestioningly pile onto the dominant narrative, and I have seen an emerging slippery slope toward a more unfree, paranoid, reactive, over-sterilized, ‘locked down’ culture. Who knows how far this slippery slope can go?
I’ve also intuitively felt and seen and sensed that something is ‘off’ about the way this whole thing has unfolded—that there is a lot more going on here than what meets the eye. Unlike much of our ‘rationality’/scientism-worshipping culture I cherish the signals of my intuition and endeavor to integrate them.
Thus, despite understanding the dominant line of reasoning, I began to see more of a memetic need for the propagation of counter-perspectives and the highlighting of the shadow sides and blindspots of the dominant view.
Counter-narratives are adaptive, useful; mass dogmatic investment in a single narrative has historically resulted in untold bloodshed.
Thus, I remain in a place of Not Knowing yet have begun sharing more of the counter-signals that seem valuable and under-recognized.
The vicious mass shaming of unorthodox perspectives that I have witnessed is one of the most concerning aspects of this whole situation.
People pretend to be open-minded until you trigger their fear of death, then they become slaves to whatever story gives them a false sense of security.
I remain overall optimistic about what is happening, seeing within this crisis a powerful Mirror, Wake Up Call, and Rite of Passage that is summoning humanity to see itself more clearly and birth the wise, regenerative, eco-harmonious civilization that is wanting to be born.
And as always, I trust Nature. From where I stand, everything is always Okay, always in Divine Order.
Sending Love and Strength to All.
Stay resilient, stay humble, stay vital.
Be who you truly are, play your part well, don’t forget to laugh.
“Do not seek truth; only cease to cherish your opinions.”
— Seng-ts’an
Coronavirus, Enlightenment, and the Planetary Transition
[This is a slightly edited version of the original short book I published freely online in late March of 2020. Go to refinethemind.com/coronavirus to read a version with links + links to two rap videos I made about C-19.]
“For the first time in human history, the entire world is focused on one problem.”
— Naval Ravikant
History is unfolding before our eyes.
For huge masses of people, Business-as-Usual has ground to a halt.
Many have lost their jobs.
Hospitals and medical systems are overwhelmed.
Grocery stores and supply chains have been disrupted.
Markets have taken a major hit.
Global travel has fallen off a cliff.
Millions of people are presently quarantined at home, by force or choice.
A great vortex of fear and panic has swept through the collective consciousness.
The whole world has just been reminded that reality can change overnight.
I think I speak for many when I say that this whole thing has been a sizable…
Mindfuck.
So what the hell is actually going on?!!?!
Great question.
In this essay, I intend to take you down something of a Psychedelic Wormhole…
To peel back the layers…
To penetrate deeply into the heart of what is happening on Earth at this time…
And to perhaps bring you closer to the Heart of Reality itself.
If that sounds agreeable, crack a beer or kombucha and cozy up in your armchair of choice…
It’s time to take a few Red Pills.
(And maybe a high dose of Vitamin C for good measure.)
Once Upon a Time on Planet Earth…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
— Charles Dickens
So, there we were.
The year was 2020 A.D.
We were humans.
Humming along in our mundanely futuristic utopian-dystopian civilization on Planet Earth…
When suddenly, a novel coronavirus is declared a global pandemic…
Soon after, ~650,000 cases are confirmed in ~186 countries, and over ~30,000 people die…
At first glance, the virus doesn’t look so intimidating.
After all, most cases (~80%) are mild, like a cold or flu…
~98-99+% of people recover just fine…
Most who die are elderly or already have other conditions.
However, the virus is said to have exponential potential, meaning it spreads rapidly and could feasibly infect hundreds of millions of people…
In which case even a ~1% fatality rate would send millions to their graves…
And if medical systems get overloaded, the death rate could be substantially higher…
So, much of the world goes into a state of quarantine to slow the spread of the virus and #flattenthecurve.
Many businesses close, loads of events are cancelled, and countless people start ‘social distancing,’ either voluntarily or by governmental dictate…
It’s like a Great Pause Button has been pressed on human civilization.
This is (the most popular interpretation of) our present reality.
Dwelling in Not Knowing
“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you’re probably full of shit.”
— Robert Anton Wilson
“Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realise that you are sick;
Then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A truly peculiar thing about the coronavirus (aka COVID-19) situation is that some of the wisest and most brilliant humans I know…
Wildly disagree about what is happening and what to do.
It’s astounding just how many spectacularly divergent narratives are floating around about what the hell is going on with COVID-19 and the panic surrounding it.
There’s something about this thing that is kind of like that viral optically-confounding ‘The Dress’ meme from a couple years ago…
Except it’s The Dress^100, resulting in a fractal-kaleidoscopic multi-dimensional Rorschach Test…
Notice how the mind desperately wants to assert a coherent story or position on what is happening…
The mind craves the (false) sense of security provided by a dogmatic position.
But dogma sabotages Openness, Attunement, Fluid Responsiveness to new data and ever-shifting reality.
So it feels important, right away, to say that most fundamentally, I Do Not Know what is going on.
Not only that, it seems to me that no story constructed by a human mind can possibly contain the full complexity of what is going on.
Not now, not ever.
As Lao Tzu put it: “The way that can be told is not the eternal Way.”
The territory that can be mapped is not the eternal Territory.
Infinitely wiggly Reality chuckles at our attempts to pin it down.
We’ll dig more deeply into these koans later on, but for now I can simply say:
If you’re looking for certainty, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Now is a good time to become comfortable dwelling in Not Knowing.
With that being said, let’s tell some (inevitably reductive) stories…
Realizing Civilization is a House of Cards
“We are playing the Game of Thrones, and winter is coming.”
— Jordan Hall
One of the most important things to realize about what is happening is that…
The COVID-19 crisis is not simply about a certain number of people getting sick and dying.
Because our world is so deeply interconnected.
Notice the disruption of…
The global economic system…
(Food) supply chain networks…
Medical/healthcare systems…
Media and sense-making systems…
Governmental systems…
Public services and city infrastructures…
Law-enforcement systems…
And many other systems/structures…
Notice how all of these are being disrupted and stress-tested by what is happening.
It’s vital to realize that all of these systems affect each other…
And that if any one of these systems substantially fails or breaks down…
This could cause a nasty Domino Effect, increasing the stress on all the other systems…
Leading to further disruption and further failures across the board…
Which leads to more stress…
Which leads to more failures…
To more stress…
To more failures…
Until…
Collapse.
Global Collapse.
Meaning…
A major breakdown of our present global infrastructure…
Leading to a sudden unstoppable decline in welfare for a sizable segment of the global populace…
Potentially leading to other undesirable large-scale scenarios (pandemonium, war, famine, etc.).
As a result of COVID-19, we’re already seeing what appears to be the beginning of a global economic recession, with the Dow Jones down ~30% and many people losing their jobs.
We’re seeing patterns of panic-buying leading to food shortages around the world.
We’re seeing hospitals overwhelmed by floods of people seeking treatment, leading to a need in some cases to decide who lives and who dies.
Such symptoms reveal the second-order civilization-stressing effects of COVID-19.
Coronavirus is waking many people up to the reality that our global systems are not nearly as sturdy as we like to believe.
In truth, they may well be a precarious House of Cards.
A House of Cards in a process of breaking down…
Jordan Hall certainly thinks so.
A luminous Santa Fe Institute intellect and co-founder of Neurohacker Collective, Hall has been tracking the ongoing Systemic “Meta-Crisis” for years.
He published a great piece a few days ago locating the COVID-19 crisis within the larger meta-crisis context.
Hall is far from alone in his observation of systemic fragility and breakdown…
Many brilliant people are seeing the same thing.
And with COVID-19’s obvious systemic effects, many more people are now waking up to this reality.
Realizing We Live in an Age of Global-Catastrophic Risk
“We are gaining the power of gods, but without the love and wisdom and care of gods, we’ll self-destruct.”
— Daniel Schmachtenberger
Ahem, in case you’re not already staring solemnly into the abyss…
Here’s another really wild thing to consider:
COVID-19 is a relatively minor pandemic.
On the grand scale of things, a ~1-2% fatality rate is not so high.
7.5+ billion humans will almost surely survive this.
Yet still this virus and the panic surrounding it are substantially stressing our global civilization.
It remains to be seen just how severe the fallout will be…
Now, imagine something with, oh, say, a 10, 20, or 50% fatality rate.
Far from unthinkable, this is well within the realm of what is possible…
You see, we are in an age of global-catastrophic risks.
We are now in an age in which ecological and refugee crises, bio-engineered pandemics, nuclear war, misaligned artificial intelligence, and runaway nanobot-replicators are no longer the substance of science-fiction…
Rather, these are (or are likely soon to be) real risks we face as a species.
As philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger often points out, we have gained the “power of gods” through technology…
And unless we can also summon the “love and wisdom and care of gods,” we’re likely to mishandle this power and hurt ourselves in a big way.
Pondering global-catastrophic risk in an age of exponential technology is what prompted Buckminster Fuller to declare:
“Either war is obsolete, or man is.”
A lot of smart/wise people are researching global-catastrophic risks, how to mitigate them, and how to become more anti-fragile as a global civilization to navigate the coming decades, centuries, millennia.
These risks are so gigantic that they’re difficult to wrap one’s head around…
But the COVID-19 crisis is causing their reality to sink in for more people.
In hindsight we may well view COVID-19 as a kind of ‘fire drill’ that allowed us to level up individually and systemically.
Combine the reality of systemic fragility and breakdown with increasingly realistic global-catastrophic risks, and a rather unsettling picture begins to emerge:
A pessimist might say: A House of Cards laced with dynamite.
Realizing We Don’t Really Wake Up Until Shit Hits the Fan
“[COVID-19] is something that panics us all because it feels like it’s something that all of us could suffer from, not just ‘those people.’”
— Teal Swan
We’re getting to the good news soon, I promise, but not just yet…
Another interesting thing about present-day Earth is that ~50-60 million humans die each year…
~10-15 million people, many of them children, die of poverty, starvation, and preventable disease…
Tens of millions more die of other diseases and health conditions…
About ~1 million kill themselves each year.
~Hundreds of millions are depressed or despairing at any given time.
Yet, usually we barely notice or talk about these large-scale realities.
We don’t collectively freak out at all.
So why is coronavirus different?
The simple answer: Humans are self-focused and tribe-focused.
We’re deeply evolutionarily wired to care about ourselves and the ~150 people closest to us.
This is not a “bad” thing and doesn’t make us “bad” people.
It is as it is.
But as a result, we tend not to wake up and really give a shit about our global situation until it affects us directly.
Until the Reaper knocks on our door, or the doors of our closest loved ones…
In the case of COVID-19, we’re told that it’s rapidly spread to 180+ countries.
People of every creed and color have died.
There is a collective sense that, “No one is safe from this. It could come for me and my family.”
Thus, everyone suddenly gives a shit.
We’re seeing what Vinay Gupta once called a “species-level panic response.”
Combine systemic fragility and breakdown with mounting global-catastrophic risks with the reality that we humans generally can’t be bothered to change our behavior till shit hits the fan and…
Yeah, you get the idea.
Waking Up to the Planetary Transition
“We are witnessing in our time the intensification of separation to its breaking point—the convergence of crises… that is birthing a new era. I call it the Age of Reunion.
— Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity
It would be easy to look at the situation I’ve outlined thus far and be like…
“ZOOOMMMGGGGG WTFFFF WE FUCKED UP AND WE’RE FUCKED AND GODDAMN GODDAMN HOW DID THIS HAPPEN WE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE WHERE DID IT ALL GO WROOONG AAARRRGGHHHH!!!——”
If you’re feeling a shade of this, take some Deep Abdominal Breaths, it’s going to be Okay.
Now, let me pose a few questions…
Simply allow these questions to melt into you, with an open heart and mind, to see how they feel…
What if the COVID-19 crisis is a Wake-Up Call?
What if it is a Mirror, helping us see our present situation more clearly?
What if it is an Initiatory Rite of Passage, helping us Become Who We Are, so we can navigate the waters ahead?
What if it has arrived at the Perfect Moment?
What if we are in a Living Intelligent Universe, where there are no mistakes and no accidents?
What if humanity is presently awakening from a millennia-long dream of Separation and entering an Age of Reunion in which we remember that we are all One?
What if our inherited systems and ways of being are based on a deep-rooted story of Separation?
What if these old structures, based on egoic separation, domination, and competition, are no longer sustainable, and are crumbling?
What if this is an essential process, clearing the way for a new story and a new global civilization to be born?
What if it is now time to birth anti-fragile, omni-win-win, decentralized, regenerative systems rooted in a story of Reunion and Interbeing?
What if we can Trust Completely in what is happening?
Perhaps pause here and simply allow those questions to land and marinate for a few moments.
“The Age of Reunion is… a return to the harmony and wholeness of the hunter-gatherer but at a higher level of organization and a higher level of consciousness. It does not reverse but rather integrates the entire course of separation, which we may begin to see as an adventure of self-discovery instead of a terrible blunder.”
— Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity
I’ve spent years researching, thinking, and writing about the huge transitions we’re presently experiencing, as well as the global-catastrophic risks we’re facing.
It seems to me that humanity is presently undergoing a major phase shift to a higher level of collective intelligence and wisdom, in order to restore harmony on Earth and flourish into the far future.
In his incredible book, The Ascent of Humanity, seer-philosopher Charles Eisenstein goes into tremendous detail to illustrate how an Age of Separation has nearly reached its logical conclusion, while signals abound that an Age of Reunion is being born.
While working with Ayahuasca, the entheogenic Amazonian plant medicine, I’ve had profound experiences of communing with vast Intelligences in Nature.
In states of gnosis, I’ve been shown that we are at a pivotal transition point in Earth’s history, and that after a long (yet nonetheless Divinely Perfect) bout of forgetfulness, our species is beginning to remember the Oneness and Interconnectedness of All That Is.
This remembrance will transform our world.
Old systems and ways of being based on egoic competition, domination, and separation, are no longer sustainable, and are crumbling.
This crumbling is a necessary part of the process.
Destruction breeds Creation.
On both an individual and collective level, old structures and patterns must break down in order to clear a space for what wishes to be born.
Naturally, breakdowns are frightening, and we tend to resist them.
Yet the sooner we Surrender to Nature and trust in what is being born…
The sooner we align with the Flow of what is happening, begin to feel the Power we need to make it through, and begin to see the Beauty of the metamorphosis we are undergoing.
Humanity, at this moment, is like a caterpillar in a cocoon, or like a fetus in the womb…
Many of us have been quite cozy for a long time, going about Business-as-Usual, not anticipating the seismic shifts on the horizon.
When an infant leaves the womb, it is an intense and confusing process, and yet on the other side of it, a gorgeous child is born.
We are in the midst of a similar process, and naturally, the breakdown of the old ways is not going to be a walk in the park.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride, and it’s highly likely that the COVID-19 crisis is but a taste of more turbulent waters ahead.
The Intelligence of Earth and of Nature, is giving us what is needed to wake up—to shift into a higher paradigm of consciousness.
It is Time to Be Who We Truly Are
For many, the COVID-19 crisis seems to be another signal, another message, in an ongoing communication.
It seems to say:
Yes, it is time to remember your True Power.
It is time to remember, embody, and be Who You Truly Are.
You are needed here now.
We need you Sovereign, Spacious, Present, Trusting, Loving, and Empowered now.
As Marshall McLuhan put it:
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.”
It’s time to activate our higher potentialities and become the Warriors, Magicians, Lovers, and Kings/Queens that we are.
Time to more fully activate the archetype of the Honorable, Anti-Fragile Samurai lying dormant within us…
It’s time to be the Resilient, Resourceful Leaders, Healers, and Innovators that we are, in order to steward Spaceship Earth through a Time of Great Transition.
And I know: This is a lot to take in.
It’s fucking intimidating.
There’s so much doubt, fear, inner smallness, and self-sabotage, to be released now…
So many layers of identity, distraction, and addiction to shed…
This shit ain’t easy.
But it is real.
And it is, might I add, epic.
If you were a Demigod on an out-of-balance planet within a crumbling civilization, what would you do?
You’d probably help save the fucking world.
This is our situation.
All of us.
It is time to focus on building a New Paradigm for humanity.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller
Coronavirus is a Rite of Passage, Sacred Mirror, and Wake-Up Call
The COVID-19 crisis, far from being an anomaly, is simply another manifestation of this planetary transition…
Coronavirus is a Rite of Passage.
An Initiation.
A Wake-Up Call.
A Sacred Mirror.
In a world that has largely forgotten about initiatory rituals and rites of passage, Nature is providing one, on a mass scale, to catalyze evolution.
It is showing us to ourselves.
It is bringing all our unresolved emotional-energetic gunk to the surface.
It is showing us where we’re at and what we’re made of, on an individual and collective level.
So the question is: Who are we?
Are we cowards who will shrink in the face of our situation and “go gentle into that good night”?
Or are we Heroes who will rise to the occasion, summon hidden Powers, and “rage, rage against the dying of the Light”?
My money is on the latter.
Trusting the Unfolding Process
Like most people, I found the onset of this situation disorienting.
Many emotions—everything from primal fear, to premature grief, to a peculiar excitement—moved through my system in the first days.
The whole thing has felt surreal and difficult to make sense of.
A few days ago, though, I had a powerful realization.
I reconnected with the Space beyond the stories of my thinking mind—the Space of Pure Awareness—and the message was clear.
I wrote:
When I let go of all the words and stories of the mind…
My Soul tells me to Trust Completely in what is happening.
Disease and death appear dark and foreboding to humans.
To the All, to God, they are as waves crashing or flowers withering, so new wonders can form.
Disease and death are nothing new — perennial as an Iowa winter snowfall.
One day we are all going to die.
In deep entheogenic meditations, Life has shown me that death is nothing to fear…
That it always comes at the perfect moment…
That it is simply a transition to the next adventure…
And that ultimately death is an illusion, as our True Essence is infinite and eternal.
It is okay to Trust the Process.
It is okay to Trust the Wisdom of Nature.
What appears to us as pandemonium may appear to Earth as the birth pangs preceding a Beautiful Newness.
What appears as darkness may later be recognized as the moment before a marvelous sunrise.
Trust.
Trust the Process.
Allow it.
Practice Spaciousness and Non-Resistance.
If you feel overwhelmed, log off, slow down, meditate.
Whatever is arising, let it come up, feel it as fully as you can, see what it has to teach.
Take deep breaths, from your abdomen, far down, even below your belly button.
Breathe with your entire body.
Begin to accept and trust in what is happening.
From this place, you will have more Clarity and Sovereignty to then respond skillfully to reality.
Disease, death, and global transitions are nothing new.
Rather, they’re ‘par for the course’ on this planet and natural as a winter snowfall.
They’re essential aspects of an Infinite Process of which we are all a part.
There is an Intelligence in this Earth and in Nature itself that is immeasurably greater than that of the conscious monkey mind.
This Intelligence is within your own Consciousness, found in the silence of meditation, beyond the words and stories of the thinking mind.
Begin learning to quiet your mind to access this non-linear field of Intelligence.
As you do, you’ll begin to realize that there is nothing to fear.
Fear is not “bad” or “wrong”; it has its usefulness, though it also has its corrosiveness.
If fear arises, go into it, notice it as simply another energetic texture, feel it fully in your body to release it, and see what it has to teach.
Gradually, if you rediscover how to listen to your inner sense, your intuition, your body, your heart, the Wisdom beyond the thinking mind…
You’ll dissolve your fear and come into a place of increasing Trust, Power, Clarity, and Sovereignty.
This is what is required of us, in order to navigate the waters ahead.
We are being summoned, individually and collectively, to level up.
Trust the Process.
“There are heights of the soul viewed from which even tragedy ceases to work its tragic effect, and if we gathered all the sorrow of the world into one sorrow, who could dare to decide if a glance at it would necessarily seduce and compel us to pity and thus to a doubling of that sorrow?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What Can We Do Right Now?
It may be that the COVID-19 crisis is a Sleeping Giant, and that we are not prepared for what is coming.
Already it is stress-testing our global-civilizational infrastructure, and already we are feeling and seeing the shockwave of this event on many levels.
Yet, even if this thing ends up being far less destructive than the worst projections, it is still wise to err on the side of prudence and do what we can to slow the spread of the virus, until we better understand what we’re dealing with.
Sober preparedness makes sense right now.
For me, for now, this roughly means:
[In ~May of 2020 I added the following update here: (Update: As of ~mid-April 2020 my intuition began to tell me that it would be optimal to largely end all mandatory lockdowns, encourage vulnerable populations to be cautious, and shift back to a state of letting individuals choose their course. My sense was that the costs of the lockdown were outweighing the benefits.)]
Stay home.
Encourage loved ones to stay home.
Take care of yourself to boost immunity.
Sleep well.
Eat well.
Wash hands often.
Meditate.
Be mindful of social media (over-)use.
Be mindful of where I am placing attention in general.
And so on.
Beyond that, perhaps the most important thing to do is:
Start training.
Sun Tzu put it nicely: “It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
For a long time, many of us have been in a walled garden, humming along, unaware how good we have it, blissfully ignorant of the emerging planetary transition.
Thanks to COVID-19, that is no longer the case.
After this event, far fewer people will be able to ignore what is happening on this planet.
When it really begins to sink in that more disruptions are on the horizon, one naturally begins to prepare and train.
This will mean something different to every individual; here are some ideas:
1. Educate yourself. Activate as a Student of Nature.
Plutarch said, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Kindle the fire. However possible. Reactivate your childhood curiosity and follow it till you turn to bone dust. Rediscover the intrinsic motivation to learn, learn about whatever interests you, and let this impulse reshape your life.
Now is a good time to learn about the COVID-19 crisis and the broader civilizational context in which it is emerging. Later in this article I will include a list of the best links to learn more and make sense of what is happening. For now, this list I compiled of ’25 Podcast Episodes That Taught Me More Than My Entire Formal Education’ is a good place to begin understanding the present historical moment.
2. Cultivate vibrant psycho-spiritual-physical Vitality and Well-Being.
Eat micronutrient-rich foods: Nuts, berries, vegetables, good-quality meat. Exercise. Do yoga. Meditate. Dance. Sing. Get as much sunlight as you can. Take vitamin C, zinc, turmeric, black elderberry extract, and other immune-system boosters. Wash your hands, try not to touch your face. Practice the Letting Go technique. Follow Jiro Taylor for a lot of great inspiration on cultivating vibrant health during this pivotal time.
3. Start thinking about the fundamentals of survival.
I’ve done a decent bit of homework in the area of survivalism, but I’m overdue on doing a lot more. I do not intend to do this from an energy of fear, but from an energy of curiosity and proactive skill-acquisition. I foresee myself undertaking more wilderness survival training and learning more about self-reliance and various ‘prepper’/survivalist methodologies in the coming times. For now, here’s a free 78-item prepper checklist to get the wheels turning. I also highly recommend this lecture by Jamie Wheal for more great ideas and insights.
4. Identify your Highest Joy. Share your Sacred Gifts. Do what makes you come Alive.
There is a peculiar way in which Life equips us with precisely the Gifts and Passions we will need to play our particular role in its Infinitely Unfurling Dance. I have noticed that what you are meant to be doing in this world will not deaden you within; rather, it will make you come Alive.
Carl Jung wrote, “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” Begin identifying what brings you to Life, where you are naturally skilled, and invest deeply in these areas. For me, these areas are: Writing, creating, self-healing and liberation, rapping, speaking, making videos/courses, teaching/coaching/mentoring, learning, exploring.
5. Learn useful skills.
(Online) entrepreneurship. Martial arts. Cooking. Building/fixing things. Creating things. Basic medical skills. Growing food. Writing. Branding and marketing. Survivalism. Self-defense. Non-violent communication. Remaining calm in intense situations. Self-healing. And so on. With the Internet you can teach yourself virtually anything; see NoExcuseList.com.
6. Identify who/what you love most in this world and organize your life around those top priorities.
Coronavirus is an opportunity to get our priorities in order. It reminds us that tomorrow is never promised. Who and what do you love most in this world? Is your life centered around those people and things? If not, now is a good time to re-center it. Now is a good moment to start spending more quality time with loved ones.
7. Undertake a journey of internal healing, evolution, and liberation.
Read The Power of Now, When Things Fall Apart, and Letting Go. Start practicing meditation and the Letting Go Technique. Learn to hold space for whatever arises in your experience; learn to feel fully whatever you’re feeling. Do shadow work. Develop sovereignty. Learn about the archetypes of the mature masculine and feminine. Understand and utilize Ken Wilber’s framework: Wake Up. Grow Up. Clean Up. Show Up.
Once more: Meditate. Find the Wordless Silence beyond the thinking mind in which All is Peace and all “problems” are seen to be mental creations. See that things simply are as they are. This is the key to non-resistance, holding space for whatever arises, holding space for others, and flowing with life.
These are a few ideas.
Take what is useful and resonant; let go of the rest.
Ultimately you know best what you are being called to do at this time.
It is time to begin learning how to listen to the Voice of Truth in your own Heart and Soul above all others.
Place no one on a pedestal. Learn from all; follow none.
Ultimately I intuit and trust that all are doing their best in their present paradigm of awareness, in every moment, and that everything is always in its proper place.
A final note on training:
If you train for something and use it, good. You were prepared.
If you train for something and don’t use it, good. You still reaped the rewards and joys of training.
Going Meta and Self-Deconstructing: Poking Holes in My Own Narratives
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, you’re missing the best joke of all.”
— Ed Latimore
All right, now let’s get a bit weird and meta.
I like what I’ve written so far.
It resonates deeply with me; at one point while writing I even burst into tears due to a surge of pathos.
But does it have its blindspots and limitations?
Inevitably, yes. Absolutely.
Recall what I said at the beginning about how no map can contain the Territory…
I’ve been writing this piece for several days, and I’m finding it difficult to finish because I am continually updating my maps and stories as new data comes in.
Also, my deep in-touch-ness with the Infinite Space beyond all stories, maps and positionalities constantly reminds me of the insufficiency of all narratives, now and always.
Thus I hold all these narratives very loosely as lenses, as potentially useful frames, archetypal orienting mechanisms, sense-making apparatuses.
I still feel compelled to publish this essay, as I suspect it will help some people feel less alone in their thought process and make sense of what’s happening, while also rendering others less dogmatically certain about what is happening.
So, what are some of the limitations of what I’ve written?
What are my core unresolved questions about what I’ve presented?
What alternate considerations have I not yet mentioned?
In short:
1. Overall I make it all sound a little too neat-and-tidy. The true complexity of what is happening on Earth in 2020 (and always) boggles the mind and is far beyond the conscious comprehension of any individual ape-brain, including those of the experts and scientists.
2. In re-reading what I’ve written I sense how a certain frequency of fear shaped some of my mental sense-making / narrativizing (over the years). Perhaps there is a way to wisely integrate both fear and trust here, but I am wary of spreading fear, as there already seems to be more than enough of that to go around. I know that in my body, mind, and soul, when I am on a frequency of Trust, I feel deeply aligned with Truth Beyond Description, the Infinite Intelligent Mystery that transcends all human maps.
3. What I’ve presented has been shaped strongly by the general ‘Game B’ sphere—a group of (online) sense-makers of which Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jordan Hall are prominent figureheads. Game B’s blindspots may be an excessive (potentially self-fulfilling-prophecy-fueling) fixation on worst-case collapse/global-catastrophic scenarios; an overemphasis on the conscious, linear, ‘rational’ mind; and perhaps a tendency to operate more from a frequency of fear than trust. The Game B sphere is far from immune to human bias, and I’m wary of a certain trap of blowing this thing out of proportion early on because it fits nicely into reality-tunnels that are fixated on catastrophic risk/global collapse, and then that out-of-proportion narrativizing becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy as fear/trauma spreads and people start to panic or manifest/amplify symptoms due to the power of mind/belief.
4. Elaborating on the previous point, I have a deep sense that our ‘external’ reality is nothing more than a faithful mirror of our ‘internal’ reality. On a profound and deep level, we create our reality. Thus, if you whip up billions of people into a panic about a pandemic, overwhelmed hospitals, and global catastrophe, you should not underestimate the power of that collective fear and belief to manifest or amplify the very worst-case scenarios you mass-broadcasted. The same could be said of overly fixating on various possible global catastrophes.
5. Related question: Are the second-order civilization-stressing effects of COVID-19 coming more from COVID-19 itself or from the mass-lockdown reaction, (unconscious) fear/panic-mongering, total disruption of the status quo, and urging billions of people to feel and believe we are experiencing a life-or-death global catastrophe?
6. Regarding the virus itself and the response to it, my narrative has thus far seemed generally aligned with the mainstream narrative / line of reasoning. Yet, the mainstream narrative is the same one that has resulted in a massive unprecedented global lockdown, which has sewn seeds of panic and hysteria (which are traumatic) in millions of people. Who can truly assess the infinite unforeseen implications and consequences of these sweeping global decisions? Who can truly say that the long-term psychological, physical, spiritual, biological, and economic consequences of these decisions will be “better” than if we had acted far less dramatically, or taken some other course, such as focusing on instructing the elderly, those with symptoms, and those with pre-existing conditions to self-isolate? Can you? I surely can’t.
7. Extending the previous point: This virus, this infinitesimal piece of genetic code, is out there now, along with billions of other viruses and microorganisms that we’re constantly swimming in. Are we all now supposed to ‘socially distance’ and ‘self-quarantine’ indefinitely, for fear of becoming ‘super-spreaders’? How long do we keep this up? Who can say what the long-term consequences of this sudden traumatic dissolution of normalcy will be, and who can know how much more severe those consequences become, the longer we continue this ‘rational’ practice of hiding at home?
8. There’s a certain dystopian flavor to what is happening in the response to COVID-19: Suddenly governments are flexing a rather authoritarian muscle to impose mass lockdowns, huge numbers of people are unquestioningly obeying these dictates (and not questioning whether they may be sacrificing rights and freedoms in the process), and huge numbers of people are shaming anyone who questions that this is definitely the best course of action. Something feels off—something-something related to dogmatic groupthink, madness of crowds, ideological possession. It’s sinking in more deeply for me that the fear of death is the ultimate access point for mass manipulation, and that huge numbers of people, when infected with fear, will simply rapidly and unquestioningly obey external authorities. I’m unsettled by this state of affairs and thus not convinced that the best thing for me to be doing is vocally supporting the dominant ‘quarantine everyone for a long time’ narrative.
Note: I am still socially distancing in a common-sense way, and of course, many are socially distancing and taking precautions to try to #flattenthecurve and save lives. Yet still, what has unfolded has demonstrated to me how fear can be used to mass-manipulate people.
9. In recent years I’ve gone back to first principles to look deeply at the nature of health, healing, sickness, and biology. Research and experiences with entheogenic plant medicine have led me to perceive tremendous holes, blindspots, and dysfunctions in the current materialist orthodoxy of Western medicine. It is beyond the scope of this article to dig deeply into this, but suffice to say that I have fundamental doubts about our understanding of sickness and healing. My present sense is that most or all sicknesses have a deep psycho-spiritual root, that chronic fear/stress cause much/most sickness, that on some level we choose/create our sicknesses, and that ‘sickness’ itself may (often) be a misnomer for our body’s intelligent attempt to heal itself of some deep bio-psycho-spiritual conflict/trauma. To go deeper, watch this video, read this, and read this tweet-storm of mine.
10. There are a lot of valid questions arising about how official COVID-19 statistics are being generated, the reliability of the testing procedure, and how the statistics might be misleading. For instance, Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Amesh Adalja has pointed out that ‘severity bias’ is a huge factor in the numbers: That is, only the more severe cases are tending to seek medical treatment or testing; we have no idea how many millions of cases there may be that are mild or asymptomatic, which would drastically reduce the fatality rate. We don’t know the denominator. Adalja himself estimated that the fatality rate is 0.1-0.6%, far lower than many numbers being thrown around. This only scratches the surface of such questions but indicates the nature of the problem.
11. Naturally there are tons of ‘conspiracy theories’ about what is happening. Current popular ‘rationalist’ orthodoxy urges us to basically flat-out dismiss ‘conspiracy theorists.’ Yet when you look into something historical like, say, MK-ULTRA, it becomes clear that sometimes there actually are giant fucked up behind-the-scenes operations conducted by powerful people and thus it doesn’t make sense to blindly trust the global elite. Personally I can’t quite shake a certain subtle feeling that this whole COVID-19 panic has been on some level orchestrated or at least enflamed for complex hidden purposes by nefarious actors—anyone else? Whoever made this meme knows what I’m talking about.
12. Are we experiencing a Great Transition from an Age of Separation to an Age of Reunion and a phase shift to a higher level of collective wisdom? Quite possibly. Yet I see that this too is just one reality-tunnel, one narrative, and inevitably reductive. Now, humanity needs story and mythology to orient itself in the world, and as such I think this story of a Phase Shift and Great Transition is about as good as it gets when it comes to a unifying mythos that helps us make sense of where we’ve been, where we’re at, and where we’re going in the 21st century. Yet, if you want to drill all the way down, make no mistake: It too is another story.
13. Tens of millions of people die on Earth each year from disease. As of March 28, official numbers say ~30,000 have died from COVID-19 (and most of these people had one or more other sicknesses). Yet the fear-permeated shockwave and/or mass lockdowns of COVID-19 have affected billions. Is this out of proportion? Not knowing the true number of COVID-19 cases, we really have no idea how fatal it is. Yes, there are anecdotes of hospitals being overwhelmed; what percentage of earthly hospitals are presently not overwhelmed—98%? What percentage of earthly hospitals are overwhelmed normally at any given time? I’m seeing an over-reliance on anecdotes from doctors at the most overwhelmed hospitals and not enough sober analysis of numbers.
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This list is not comprehensive, but it provides a good general synthesis of some of the key potential blindspots, limitations, alternative considerations, and unanswered questions swirling around in my mind.
It is a highly useful exercise to poke holes in your own narratives, to realize what they leave out and overlook, and thus to develop greater philosophical humility.
What this process has reaffirmed for me is the vital importance of connecting to and dwelling in the Wordless Silent Space of Pure Neutral Awareness that lies beyond all stories of the chattering monkey mind. Therein one finds a Peace that no mental story can possibly provide.
At the same time, stories, models, and maps serve a pragmatic function in the world, allowing us to orient ourselves and make decisions about how to respond to certain situations.
Thus in this essay I’m giving you an (at times koan-esque) map of some of the key models, narratives, feelings, senses, perceptions, and considerations that are factoring into my sense of what is happening.
It’s important to note that much of what I am expressing in this essay has arisen from the intuition—what David Hawkins called a “knowingness”; what Osho called the “inner sense”—of the body, heart, and of Consciousness itself, which I consider a far older and more powerful form of intelligence than that of the conscious, reasoning mind. Reason has also played an essential part, but for me intuition, feeling, sensing, flowing, meditating, mystical/entheogenic gnosis, and direct seeing are more primary. The latter capacities constitute my most fundamental Compass for navigating this world.
Many-Dimensional Mystical-Metaphysical Weirdness
“No belief is true.”
— Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
— Alan Wilson Watts
Well, we’ve already gotten into the non-truth of all stories of the mind, so may as well dig even deeper and become even more esoterically unintelligible…
“No belief is true,” Jed McKenna observes.
All beliefs are reductive mental stories that help us create something humanly intelligible out of fractal-kaleidoscopically many-dimensional reality. This includes all ‘scientific’ and ‘expert’ beliefs.
We do not see Reality as it is, we see it as we are. We see a faithful reflection of our beliefs, stories, biology, values, traumas, indoctrination, conditioning, and so on.
Reality is a Sacred Rorschach Test.
On a deep, deep level, we are creating and choosing our reality constantly, through what we are being and believing. Reality is simply constantly showing us What We Are, individually and collectively, though most can’t see this.
Example: A broken-down car situation would appear completely different to someone who is primarily on the frequency of a depressed victim VS an enlightened sage on a frequency of Silent Peace. The same event would for the first person appear as a terrible crisis confirming one’s bad fortune, while for the latter it might be a funny or fascinating occurrence; it would be seen to be simply as it is.
Another example: A disease sweeping a planet and killing a small percentage of the hyper-dominant species on the planet appears to many members of said species as an awful life-shattering tragedy. To the Biospheric Intelligence of the planet it may appear as a beautiful cleansing process or release, in which the planet is re-aligning / re-harmonizing itself.
Final example: Coronavirus appears as a frightening threat to most humans. For some who have done deep spiritual work and exist at a high frequency, there is no fear; there is trust in the intelligence of the body, even in the healing/clearing purposes of ‘sickness.’ I would go as far as to say that I suspect many high-level sages are basically invulnerable to coronavirus and all disease, if they wish to be. A wise man once told me: “A true shaman is one who chooses the moment of his own death.” Yet most humans are not in this reality-tunnel and have not begun to wrap their minds around our True Power, and thus the ‘coronavirus is contagious and deadly’ narrative is true for them.
Reality is far less fixed and far more multi-dimensional than we commonly realize. My present sense of the human world looks less like a rock with billions of people on it and more like a fractal-labyrinthine conglomeration of billions of partially-overlapping self-created universes, with the area of greatest overlap being our consensus reality.
In some of these self-created universes, vastly more is possible than is possible in the consensus reality, due to the shedding of limiting beliefs and deeper remembrance of our Truly Infinitely Powerful Nature. With my own eyes I’ve seen miracles in this world that most would consider impossible, so I’ll say this: Never underestimate how deep the rabbit hole goes.
“Since we all create our habitual reality-tunnels, either consciously and intelligently or unconsciously and mechanically, I prefer to create for each hour the happiest, funniest, and most romantic reality-tunnel consistent with the signals my brain apprehends. I feel sorry for people who persistently organize experience into sad, dreary and hopeless reality-tunnels, and try to show them how to break the bad habit, but I don’t feel any masochistic duty to share their misery.”
— Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I
It’s possible to choose between different frequencies or reality-tunnels, through attention, intention, action, and ritual, if one has realized sufficient depth of Awareness.
We each live in a universe of our own creation. We are so powerful that we create our own universe, but most of us have forgotten this.
Fascinatingly and beautifully, again, our self-created universes apparently overlap with countless other self-created universes, and somehow these innumerable universes are co-existing and melting into one another in an Unfathomable Fractal-Labyrinthine Dance within what we might call a Most Legendary Dream in the Mind of the ALL.
Reality ultimately transcends all binary categories, including ‘subjective’ and ‘objective.’
When you plunge sufficiently deeply into the Silence beyond your ‘self’ and all its stories, you begin to realize there is only One Consciousness in all existence, containing this manifest world of form, and extending infinitely far beyond it as the Unmanifest.
Awareness is all there is. When you go beyond mind, you discover Mind, or no-mind, a Space of Formless Impartial Awareness in which all things arise and fall away.
This Light of Consciousness, this Space of Awareness, is the fundamental substrate underlying all of our self-created universes. This is the Light shining through the eyes of every being you will ever encounter: The Light of the Sun of the All-Mind, your True Nature.
“All judgment is self-judgment.” All hatred is self-hatred. You cannot meet a being who is not You in another disguise. (Yes, including Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, etc.) Your True Essence is the same as All That Is.
Thus, to become truly Whole is to integrate all of existence—to remember that none of it is separate from you. This is the next-level-deep Shadow Integration Work that most people have not done and have no idea of.
Most people don’t actually want to deeply remember their Truest Identity. They’re enjoying Maya—the veil of illusion, the world of apparently separate objects, what Jed McKenna calls “the amusement park”—too much. It’s quite a rip-roaring theatrical spectacle to create a world of Good VS Bad, Us VS Them, Good Guys VS Bad Guys, Right VS Wrong, and so on. It’s a damn lot of fun. It’s highly dramatic and emotionally charged. You forget that “all the world’s a stage,” you identify completely with your illusory character (who consists of all the stories you tell your ‘self,’ with ‘self’ also being one of the stories), and you go on all sorts of wild adventures trying to avoid pain, find pleasure, defeat the villain, save the princess, find the treasure, and so on.
“The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
— Seng-ts’an
Meanwhile, the All is constantly in a state of Perfection. We only choose to see otherwise because we wish to—because we have chosen on a deep level to explore the possibilities of forgetfulness, of the illusion of separation. We are God, the All-Mind, playing a Divine Game of Hide and Seek with itself, as the ancient Hindu myth says.
If humanity is indeed phase-shifting, we are moving out of a phase of hiding/forgetfulness and into a gradual remembrance of Unity Consciousness, in which all is seen to be the One. In this Space one sees no enemies and thus creates no war. Only in Unity Consciousness can lasting Peace be realized on Earth, if Peace is a dream we wish to choose at some point.
“Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Some humans wake up within the amusement park, within the dream, within the Divine Game of Hide and Seek. Then they are “in the world but not of the world.” Their physical form persists in the world of apparently separate objects, yet they see that this is all a Dream, a Game, and that fundamentally nothing can ever be wrong, regardless of ‘external’ appearances. There is nothing to fear, including the energetic texture we call ‘fear.’ This is not an intellectual realization but a direct seeing that occurs in the Silence beyond all words, stories, significations, meanings of the mind. The Absolute is trans-meaningful, beyond all meanings.
Buddha, Jesus Christ, Hermes Trismegistus, Krishna, Muhammad, Ramana Maharshi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta Maharaj, David Hawkins, Peter Brown, U.G. Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Jed McKenna, Adyashanti, Byron Katie, Richard Sylvester, Osho, Pema Chodron, Mooji, Rumi, Alan Watts, Chogyam Trungpa, and so on: These are a few examples of individuals who crossed the threshold into non-dual (not-two) realization, Unity Consciousness, enlightenment, within and beyond which reside innumerable additional thresholds of realization, innumerable layers to peel back in order to more fully and directly know the Silent Depths of the Ocean.
“We are all on The Path—and the road leads upward ever, with frequent resting places.”
— The Kybalion
We are all on The Path, always. And it extends on infinitely beyond this lifetime, through endless upward-spiraling cycles—of forgetfulness and remembering, sickness and healing, delusion and enlightenment—always leading back to God, to Who We Truly Are. As we remember Who We Are, death is seen to be an illusion, a magic trick, a poof! into another form, another adventure of the One Self that is you and I and All.
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj
And yet “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Our Truest Nature is not merely the formless Absolute that lies beyond this phenomenal world, it is both. Thus many great teachers did not simply leave this world or meditate in a cave till death, but integrated the heart, felt compassion for all, and heeded a Sacred Call to generously give of their Gifts, for the upliftment and liberation of all beings. They remained grounded here on Earth, attuned to the happenings here, and honorably chose to assist mankind. This is the archetypal bodhisattva, a realized being of great inner nobility who elects to remain incarnated to compassionately assist all beings.
And so it goes, on and on, infinitely, eternally…
Hallelujah, Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Trans-Narrative Phenomenological Space-Holding
In a marvelous podcast with Sayer Ji and Charles Eisenstein called Beyond the Coronavirus, there’s a wonderful moment in which the two discuss a kind of trans-narrative practice of Charles’ of holding space for many possible narratives / reality-tunnels:
Charles Eisenstein: So here’s a narrative. And these other narratives… And the standard narrative too. And minor variations on the standard narrative… So, I like to hold them, and see who I become as I inhabit those narratives, and how I see the world. Do I feel helpless? Do I feel activated? Do I feel defeated? Do I feel despair? What view of human nature does it induce in me to hold these different narratives?
Sayer Ji: You remind me of Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass, where he says, “I contain multitudes.” It’s sort of an orientation to experience, or being, or being human… which is one of the modes you’re talking about: We can potentially inhabit all these different narratives and feel them. I really appreciate that. Because there is always latent within each thought-form an entire dimension, a whole world of feeling… I like what you’re talking about, it’s kind of phenomenological.
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As a microcosm, if you’re able to hold multiple perspectives, and not only just tolerate them but feel them out and see who you are… I want to know more about that honestly. Where does that come from? When did you come to that?
Charles Eisenstein: … Usually I only go deep into that territory in small groups, or maybe I just haven’t fully developed it yet. It’s hard for the modern mind to grasp that reality isn’t an objective thing outside of ourselves that can be verified or rejected through an impartial process of matching theories to evidence. You know, that, “Reality, it’s out there. I can believe one thing and you can believe another thing, but only one of us is right. Or none of us is right. But we can’t both be right, if we’re in contradiction.”
What if we don’t have to synthesize all the narratives we encounter into one cohesive whole?
What if we don’t have to assume that there is one ‘correct’ or ‘objective’ reality-tunnel?
What if we can be the Space in which the narratives dance and intermingle, choosing to empathically occupy various reality-tunnels as we please, to find out how we feel and who we become within wildly different reality-tunnels?
What if we can discover that we have enough Space to contain all the possible narratives, and we can allow them all to be as they are, without clinging to any of them or pushing any of them away?
What if we notice that the character we’re playing will still need some kind of narrative/reality-tunnel to orient in the world, but that we do not need to identify with this narrative/reality-tunnel either—that it can likewise be yet another of the innumerable narratives for which we are holding Space?
What Charles Eisenstein is pointing at here seems to me to be a fundamentally non-dual capacity that most humans have forgotten: The recognition of the Space of Unmoving Impartial Awareness that transcends and includes all the stories of the mind.
Within this trans-narrative exploration, one can then determine which narratives/reality-tunnels resonate with one’s Soul, bring one to Life, activate one’s higher potentialities, and feel enjoyable to live within.
Are all narratives / reality-tunnels created equally?
On the deepest level, yes, nothing is ‘better than’ anything else. All reality-tunnels are true within their own context. Yet, it seems that some individual reality-tunnels overlap more fully/deeply with our collective reality, the sum of all our earthly self-created universes—what Don Miguel Ruiz calls “the Dream of the Planet.”
Some are more tuned in/responsive to what is happening in the collective. Thus some narratives / reality-tunnels appear to be more pragmatically useful or accurate than others, when it comes to making sense, taking action, making decisions, or determining how to address certain apparent ‘problems.’ Different reality-tunnels have unique features and unique bugs; this appears to render some more valuable than others (and on a relative level, it probably does).
This is only an appearance, though, as ultimately no being or story or atom or elephant in Absolute Reality is more or less essential than any other. All are essential expressions of the All, fulfilling their unique essential role in the Dance of Being. No mistakes, no accidents.
Top 25 Links to Make Sense of COVID-19
“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”
— Terence McKenna
In the spirit of trans-narrative exploration, I am presently holding space for all narratives about COVID-19, one of which is my own constantly shifting map/narrative/synthesis.
I’ve personally explored many wildly different narratives about COVID-19, and here I’ve prepared for you a smorgasbord of links for trans-narrative exploration.
Note: It’s good to be deliberate about how you learn about this thing.
Aimlessly scrolling social media for hours is likely to corrode your sovereignty and sense-making capacity. Use social media very prudently during this time (and in general).
I recommend spending very little time aimlessly scrolling feeds but rather checking the pages/profiles/sites of individual creators/thinkers who are especially strong at sense-making.
Also, don’t be too quick to latch onto a story or position about what is happening, including the story I’m putting forth here.
Again: I don’t believe my own story.
I hold it loosely as one ever-refining map that inevitably cannot contain the Territory of Reality.
The mind desperately wants to cling to a story or position to create a false sense of control and security.
However, dogma sabotages responsiveness.
By dwelling comfortably in a space of Not Knowing, both now and in general, you remain open to new information and can continually refine your maps and approaches.
All right, with that being said, here are the links I find most useful for understanding what is happening, while also holding space for many different perspectives.
Treat this as a buffet of rabbit holes and pursue the ones that seem most likely to challenge or add nuance to your current map. Do beware of info-overload; take a step back from researching COVID-19 if you’re at capacity.
Again, take what is useful and resonant; let go of the rest.
And don’t fall into the trap of dismissing a given thinker simply because you disagree with one of their points.
Here we go:
1. Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now by Thomas Pueyo
This Medium essay is widely lauded as one of the best synopses of what is happening. It went viral, amassing 40+ million views so far, due to its comprehensive synthesis of a large amount of data and research on the COVID-19 situation. It’s easy to understand and provides a wealth of helpful insight and information. I also highly recommend reading the follow-up.
2. Beyond the Coronavirus — with Charles Eisenstein and Sayer Ji
If I could choose just one conversation for the world to listen to, to supplement their current understanding of what is happening, it might be this one. This is a high-frequency, paradigm-shifting conversation that will likely challenge your views and help you see that reality is un-pin-down-able. It expanded and opened doors in my understanding of health, biology, sickness, healing/medicine, science/scientism, metaphysics/ontology, and epistemology.
I also maximally recommend Eisenstein’s essay, ‘The Coronation’—one of the most useful and inspired pieces published since the genesis of this whole thing.
3. Early Thoughts on a Pandemic — with Sam Harris and Amesh Adalja
One of the most enlightening pieces I’ve found on coronavirus. In this podcast, Sam Harris interviews Amesh Adalja, an epidemiologist (disease/pandemic expert) from Johns Hopkins. Highly illuminating for me was Adalja’s assertion that the death rate for those who get coronavirus is likely 0.6% or less, far lower than a lot of other numbers being thrown around. Still, though, if the virus spreads exponentially, even a 0.6% death rate could kill millions globally. Adalja also asserts that the panic around coronavirus could be much more destructive than the virus itself. It’s really worth your time to listen to this.
4. Situational Assessment: Right Now by Jordan Hall
I already linked this fantastic piece a couple times at the beginning of this article. It’s the best synopsis I’m aware of that looks at COVID-19 in the context of the larger Systemic Meta-Crisis we’re experiencing. Jordan Hall, a katana-sharp seer, has been tracking the meta-crisis for years. If you want to understand the larger systemic implications of COVID-19, read this. I also highly recommend following Jordan Hall on Facebook for ongoing updates, as well as joining the Game B sense-making community on Facebook (co-birthed by Hall).
In my estimation, Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the greatest sense-makers and visionaries of our age. In this interview with Rebel Wisdom, he lays out one of the world’s most nuanced high-level accounts of what is happening. His Facebook posts, like this one and this one, have been excellent ongoing high-signal reflections on what is happening. I also recommend this thread he started for considering alternative narratives on what is happening. ‘Mind Viruses During a Pandemic‘ is another great short article he wrote on the various fallacies and cognitive biases that are clouding people’s discernment when it comes to making sense of COVID-19. I highly recommend following Daniel Schmachtenberger on Facebook.
6. Processing the Grief of COVID-19 by Mike Gilliland
Mike Gilliland of the Future Thinkers is a brilliant, clear-seeing, high-sovereignty thinker who is worth paying attention to. Here he writes an important piece reflecting on the emotional effects of the crisis and how to deal with them. I highly recommend following Mike Gilliland on Facebook and Twitter, joining the Future Thinkers Facebook group and Discord community, and checking out the Future Thinkers’ courses on shadow work, sovereignty, and personal evolution.
7. COVID-19: The Basics You Need to Know by Euvie Ivanova
Euvie Ivanova of the Future Thinkers, like her husband Mike Gilliland, is a razor-sharp, high-sovereignty thinker/seer who is worth paying attention to. Here she writes an excellent short piece succinctly outlining the most fundamental need-to-know information about COVID-19. I highly recommend following Euvie Ivanova on Facebook and Twitter, joining the Future Thinkers Facebook group and Discord community, and checking out the Future Thinkers’ courses on shadow work, sovereignty, and personal evolution.
8. A Message to Help Dispel Fear by Kelly Brogan
Now for a curveball. Warning: This video will likely challenge your cherished beliefs. Kelly Brogan is an unorthodox, renegade psychiatrist whose worldview was turned upside down when she discovered German New Medicine, the body of work of the late Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. I don’t presently align entirely with Kelly’s map here (as evidenced by some of my suggestions in this post), but I find a lot of what she says deeply resonant, and I encourage you to watch this with a wide open mind and let it marinate for a while.
I first learned of German New Medicine from one of the greatest healers/teachers I’ve ever met. Based on her explanations and my own research, I see German New Medicine as containing profound insights into the nature of health, sickness, and healing that massively undermine many fundamental assumptions of modern Western Medicine. I highly recommend exploring more of Kelly Brogan’s work; this essay is a good starting point.
“Too much civilization makes sick animals.”
— Carl Jung
9. Resilience in Time of Crisis — with Jamie Wheal, David Fuller, et al.
I highly recommend following Rebel Wisdom, a sense-making/filmmaking outlet that has rapidly become one of my favorites online. They’re already producing a lot of great coverage of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, including this film with the ultra-lucid Jamie Wheal, as well as this one on sense-making coronavirus, and others.
10. Coronavirus: Do Not Fear the Bogeyman by Bruce Lipton
Bruce Lipton is a widely-admired renegade biologist whose work seems to keep finding its way to me, via people I trust. Here he lays out a fascinating perspective on coronavirus, noting that the fear of the disease may be more deadly than the disease itself, and that stress is responsible for up to 90% of illness.
11. Claim Your Birthright to be a Wild Being Thriving on Earth by Jiro Taylor
I love Jiro Taylor: A lucid seer and katana-sharp intellect, he has his fingers to the pulse of the zeitgeist and has been dropping deeply resonant truth-bombs consistently since I first found his work ~1-2 years ago. All his recent Facebook updates about coronavirus are worth reading: Start with this one, this one, this one, and this one. I also recommend joining his Facebook group, FlowTribe. Also, definitely watch this other amazing high-frequency video he dropped a couple days ago.
12. Stay Conscious. Stay Sovereign. by Juliet Tang
Juliet Tang has rapidly become one of the humans I’m paying the most attention to. She is a deeply embodied, highly intuitive entrepreneur and psychonaut who is truly in tune with this moment in our planetary history. Her main focus is on mentoring conscious, mission-driven entrepreneurs to step into their power and level up their businesses and impact, so a lot of her content focuses on that dimension of who she is. This powerful post, though, is purely about remembering our power and sovereignty during these uncertain times. I highly recommend following her on Facebook. I also recommend watching this podcast she and I recorded on how to stay Sovereign during these times of great change.
13. A Channeled Message From the Coronavirus by Jeff Vander Clute
This beautiful short read is purportedly a channeled message from the coronavirus itself. In recent years I’ve read and listened to a lot of channeled messages and have found in many of them profound and useful insights. So whether or not you ‘believe in’ channeled messages, it’s worth reading this with an open mind and heart to see if it resonates.
14. About the Coronavirus — An Ascended Master’s Perspective by Adamus Saint-Germain
When someone sent me this link, I had not heard of Adamus Saint-Germain, and I do not know if he is an ascended master. In any case, this is another fascinating mystical take on the potential higher purposes of the COVID-19 crisis. Worth a listen.
15. Coronavirus: The Real Risks and Human Biases Behind the Panic by Mark Manson
Mark Manson is a sharp thinker and a generally funny, good dude. I’ve followed his work for years. Here he wrote a great analysis of the fundamentals of COVID-19 and some of the human biases at play in our response to it.
16. How Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg sees the current Corona pandemic
This punchy 10-minute video succinctly presents some key questions and considerations that challenge the standard view on what coronavirus is and how we should respond to it. Excellent food for thought. To go deeper, check out: 26 Questions to Ask About Coronavirus and 12 Experts Who Question the Coronavirus Panic. And if you’d like to go super deep down the psychedelic-occult-coronavirus-skepticism rabbit hole, read Corona Fear Virus and the Forces of Illness.
17. Message from White Eagle, Hopi indigenous on 03/16/2020
This is a powerful short read from a Hopi indigenous tribesman on understanding these times of Great Transition and how one can either “fall into a hole” now, or “step through a portal.”
18. Finding the Middle Way When a Global Pandemic Strikes by HighExistence
Three of the wisest and smartest humans I know—Jon Brooks, Eric Brown, and Mike Slavin—sit down and have a great conversation about COVID-19, spirituality, and other topics.
19. Note to the World: This Virus Could Save the Planet by Samuel Austin
Sam Austin, another wise and razor-sharp friend, is the founder of Live Learn Evolve (highly recommended) and wrote a great piece on the world-saving opportunity presented by this Great Disruption of normalcy.
20. Coronavirus Infographic Pack by Information is Beautiful
This is a great set of infographics that nicely capture a lot of the fundamental official data about COVID-19.
21. Humanity’s Phase Shift — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
Shifting now into the deeper context around COVID-19, this 30-minute podcast is a stunningly lucid download from Daniel Schmachtenberger on where we stand as a species and why we must ‘phase shift’ to a higher level of collective wisdom to meet our present challenges. It’s time to birth a regenerative, anti-fragile, omni-win-win global civilization.
22. 25 Podcast Episodes That Taught Me More Than My Entire Formal Education
For more deep context to understand the present global transition, of which COVID-19 is one puzzle piece, here is a list I compiled of 25 of the most illuminating and educational podcast episodes I’ve ever found. Including more from: Rebel Wisdom, Future Thinkers, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, and Sam Harris, as well as Charles Eisenstein, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle, David Hawkins, Ken Wilber, and Dennis McKenna.
23. Jordan Hall Explains Why Humanity Might Be on the Verge of Global Collapse
Here’s a piece I wrote in which I introduced Jordan Hall’s framework for understanding our present situation and excerpted a long passage from one of his interviews with the Future Thinkers. And here’s one more piece I wrote—The Ultimatum of the 21st Century: Why Humanity Must Level Up or Self-Destruct—to articulate our present global situation. Both of these pieces contain long lists of links for going further down the “save the world” rabbit hole.
24. Collective Sensemaking in an Age of Existential Risk — with Jamie Wheal
Previously a members-only lecture, Rebel Wisdom just made this one public yesterday, and goddamn, it is a humdinger. Amazingly insightful, humorous, eloquent, pragmatic, and more relevant than ever now, in light of COVID-19.
25. Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards by Nick Bostrom
If you’d like to take an ocean-deep dive into the domain of understanding global-catastrophic risks, Nick Bostrom is probably the most canonical, comprehensive thinker on the subject. This paper will pry your eyes open to the way in which we are truly “playing with fire” at this high-tech moment in human history.
Bonus: In mid and late 2020 I made two rap videos addressing C-19. Find those here and here.
Thank You For Being Here
“Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Whew, all right, ~11,000 words later and we’ve arrived at the near-end of this monster.
Thanks for coming along for the ride.
One thing seems clear: We’re living through a Major Disruption of Business-as-Usual—or a “major liminal event,” as Jordan Hall called it.
This is jarring, though it is also ripe soil for testing our global Resilience, stepping into our Power and Sovereignty, and finding the many other hidden opportunities that undoubtedly exist within this transition.
Destruction breeds Creation.
Rather than giving in to panic or floating away in spiritual bypassing, it’s time to integrate these polarities and find the Middle Way of Sovereignty.
What we are witnessing feels like some sort of quantum leap to a new paradigm.
The pace of change is dizzying and many people are getting sick with it.
There’s nothing to hold onto, and there’s no floor either, so we fall…
Or we swan dive gracefully…
Through the Abyss.
Always it is this way, but usually we don’t notice, spending our lives hiding from the realities of groundlessness and impermanence.
Until something un-ignorable comes along and smacks us awake.
That is what is happening now.
When I drop back from all the human stories and infinitely-reductive mental maps…
When I drop back into the Silence beyond all this monkey-mind chatter…
I feel the presence of God, of an Infinite Intelligence in Nature that dwarfs the conscious monkey mind as an Ocean dwarfs a puddle.
And when I feel that Presence, I know that all is unfolding precisely as it needs to be, now and in every moment, here and forevermore.
And when I channel that frequency, dropping all the stories of the mind, I feel a Trust and Strength and Universal Love in my system that no mental story has ever given me.
A Trust and Strength and Love that will allow me to do whatever I need to do, in my context, in the coming times.
Above all, for me, transmitting that frequency to others is what feels most important at this time.
I am not presently afraid of what is happening.
I am surrendered to it and trusting the wisdom of Nature.
We have been living in a Time of Great Transition for many decades.
This truth is now much more apparent to the great mass of humanity.
I feel Strong, Sovereign, Adaptive, In Flow, ready for whatever comes.
Thank you all for being here and holding space for me, for each other, and for yourselves, as we navigate this odd chapter of human history, in this ever-surprising Dance of Life.
Sending a lot of Love to everyone.
We will make it through this, and we will learn a hell of a lot in the process.
———
The New Earth Constitution
[It seems fitting here to include this document that also came through in the jungle in November of 2020 while working with Ayahuasca and Bufo.]
We hereby declare the arrival of the New Earth.
A new Global Continent where All Beings are welcome.
It is time to dissolve the prevailing laws and structures on this planet…
And redesign a full-stack civilization from the ground up.
From First Principles.
The existing bramble of laws encircling this planet has become an absurd labyrinth of linguistic masturbation.
These millions of laws do not serve us.
They babysit us.
These are relics of worlds past.
Libraries of chicken scratch penned primarily by long-dead men in wigs.
Do we truly wish to encircle ourselves in these proverbial barbed wire fences?
Balderdash.
The time has come to redesign the DNA of civilization.
The deep code.
To erect a civilization rooted in Universal Love and Unity Consciousness.
Rooted in the recognition that ALL Is ONE.
The entire Multiverse is One Indivisible Unity.
We are all aspects of the One Cosmic Super-Organism.
It is time to deeply realize this.
And it is time to re-envision education, healthcare, food systems, cities, politics, governance, religion, ‘drug’ policy, justice systems, business, money, parenting, relating, and so forth, in light of this Realization.
We hereby put forth the following Guiding Principles to assist in this exciting endeavor:
1. We are ALL God. There is only One Being in All Existence, and You Are It. We are akin to waves on the One Ocean. God is All-Encompassing, All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Omnipresent, Infinitely Intelligent. Your Essential Identity as One with the Creator can be discovered directly, experientially, by closely observing Your Reality.
2. Everything is Alive. The entire Multiverse is a Living Conscious Organism. All Life is Sacred. It is wise to treat All Beings as Your Self in another disguise, for in Truth this is what Everything Is: YOU.
3. The Giver is the True Receiver. Everything You give from a pure place, comes back to You many times over. This is how the Cosmos functions.
4. Abundance is Infinite. Scarcity is an illusion. Notice how an Entire Cosmos has appeared for You for nothing at all. You did nothing to earn it. Where did it come from? It simply appeared. This is Free Energy. This is Infinite Abundance. This is Your Birthright. Universal Abundance is not only within reach; it is the Law, and we will realize it as a Living Reality when our collective Consciousness crosses certain key thresholds — when we sufficiently Remember What We Truly Are.
5. Wisdom in Action is to never dominate or impose one’s will on another aspect of Creation unless utterly necessary. For example, hunting, killing, and eating a deer to feed one’s family, with an Energy of Reverence and Respect for the Sacred Life of the deer, and with recognition that You will also one day return to the Earth as well, is karmically auspicious. Whereas hunting or harming an animal or another human being for mere carnal pleasure is karmically inauspicious and corrosive to One’s Soul. It feels Beautiful to live among those embodying Wisdom in Action; the Heart knows it is a more Truthful Reflection of What We Are.
6. Simple dualities such as “Right VS Wrong,” “Good VS Evil,” “Us VS Them,” “For VS Against,” and so forth, are transcended as We Remember What We Are. It is seen that All Beings are doing the best They can, moment to moment, at Their current level of Awareness. What has been called “evil” is simply Forgetfulness of What We Truly Are. The most Forgetful among us are Those most in need of Our Unconditional Love — to help Them Remember that They Are Love. It is time to stop being ‘against’ anything or making others ‘wrong’; in doing so One gives fuel to that which One opposes. “What You resist, persists.” It is time instead to See No Enemies and assist in guiding the Forgetful toward the Direct Remembrance and Realization that All They Ever See Is Themselves. When it is seen directly that We Are All One, Universal Love blossoms effortlessly and moralistic rules become obsolete.
7. Children are born in the Recognition of Oneness. It is through cultural conditioning and programming that we train them to see themselves as separate individuals. This delusion of separation is at the root of all our apparent ‘global issues.’ It is time to stop brainwashing our children into a matrix of confusion. It is time to teach them from the earliest age to Look Directly At Their Own Experience, to Directly See And Know The Presence Of Their Truly Infinite God-Nature — to Directly Realize The Undeniable Truth Of Oneness. If all children were taught to see this, the world would rapidly shift toward a far more Beautiful Expression of What We Are. In addition, children can be encouraged to Follow Their Excitement And Curiosity, as these are the Divine Signals showing Them where Their Deepest Gifts and Purpose reside.
8. The fear of death has been used to brainwash and control the great mass of humanity for far too long. It is time to Remember that what we call “death” is a mere movement of curtains, a parlor trick. Nothing truly dies. What Is Real lasts forever. Our True Being, Consciousness, Intelligence, is forever and always beyond harm. We are Deathless Creators within the Body of the One Eternal Creator. We are the One Infinite Creator. Death is nothing to fear. Like all other events, it arrives at the Perfect Moment. It is simply a transition to the next stage of the Endless Adventure, the Never-Ending Dance.
9. Direct Realization of Our Truly Indivisible, Eternal God-Nature is the Antidote to all of humanity’s apparent troubles. Any remotely Wise civilization would prioritize this above all else. Entheogenic plant medicines, (death) meditation, contemplation, and direct self-inquiry constitute the most Direct Path to God-Realization. The following books are among the most useful to read for modern humans seeking to realize the Already-Always-Present Enlightenment that is Our True Nature:
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch
- When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
- Letting Go by David Hawkins
- Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie
- The Way of Liberation by Adyashanti
- Courage by Osho
- Spiritual Warfare by Jed McKenna
- Super Accelerated Living by Bentinho Massaro
- Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
- Dirty Enlightenment by Peter Brown
- I Hope You Die Soon by Richard Sylvester
- Sayings by Paramahansa Yogananda
- White Fire by Mooji
- Discovery of the Presence of God by David Hawkins
- The Astounding Nature of Experience by Peter Brown
- I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Theory of Everything by Jed McKenna
- The Kybalion by Three Initiates
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Amen.
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Conclusion
Okay, wow, awesome, you made it!
If you’ve come this far, thank you for navigating the mind-bending labyrinth that is this text.
I’m typing these words now in February of 2021. It probably makes sense to say a final word about where I presently stand on everything.
First, I’ll re-print these words from earlier in the book, which were also written just today:
“My sense, at this stage, is that C-19 is a real virus / phenomenon that can manifest some extreme and unpleasant symptoms. Yet, I do not feel, as germ theorists do, that it’s akin to a ‘killer bug’ on the loose that might attack anyone at random. Synthesizing the insights of German New Medicine and Terrain Theory, I’m something like an ‘energetic terrain theorist,’ in that I feel ‘sickness’ (almost) always begins with wounds / blockages / conflict shocks / illusions / fears at the level of energy and consciousness that then manifest as diseased tissue in the psycho-physical organism. What we think of as ‘sickness’ is actually the body’s intelligent attempt to ‘clear’ stuck energy, diseased tissue, and whatever else may be non-useful.
I see mass hysteria and mass panic as likely triggers of collective conflict shocks that worsen, enflame, or catalyze viral sickness processes in human populations, especially if the population is already “fat, sick, and nearly dead.” As such, my sense is that media-enflamed panic and hysteria, plus the imposition of ‘lockdown culture,’ catalyzed a ‘perfect storm’ of a collective conflict shock, significantly worsening the detrimental health effects of the C-19 phenomenon.
Unsurprisingly, and as Terrain Theory would suggest, it seems mainly to be the already-sick, -unwell, and -infirm who have manifested the most extreme (lethal) cases of C-19. It’s also worth noting that some people may appear externally to be healthy while internally carrying a lot of wounding / trauma / blockages.
Ultimately, this read on the situation suggests that a wiser civilizational approach to C-19 would have been to vastly diminish fear-mongering media coverage, largely keep civilization and economies running normally, and encourage vulnerable or frightened populations to self-isolate. It also would be generally wise to mass-broadcast information on how to heal trauma, boost immunity, awaken spiritually, and live in a high vibratory state.
At the end of the day, though, as I’ve said, I entirely trust Nature and feel that our civilization’s reaction to C-19 was simply an inevitable mirror reflection of our current level of consciousness. At the deepest level, it was not ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ It simply was what it was, and is as it is, like all things. I am simply putting forth this picture of things because I am irresistibly drawn to do so, and in the hope of contributing to a deeper understanding of sickness and healing that may lead to the birth of a higher-synthesis healing paradigm that integrates the best of Western medicine with the best of all other healing paradigms — ancient, modern, indigenous, holistic, plant-based, spiritual-energetic, and so forth.”
On an even deeper level, to me, at this stage, Reality appears to be an entirely indefinable, mysterious, unsayable Happening.
All attempts to accurately pin it down, say what it is, or compress it into structures or concepts that make it seem linear and comprehensible, are doomed to utterly fail.
Yet, wonder of wonders, although one can never say what Reality is, one can intimately know Reality, for one is Reality.
Through intimately feeling and directly observing the texture of experience, one discovers an ever-deepening, non-conceptual knowing of Being.
Of Reality, Nature, Tao, God, the Absolute — choose your pointer.
Being itself seems to playfully unfurl and reveal itself as one comes into direct relation with it.
In essence, It seems to recognize Its Self through one’s eyes…
Revealing itself as a Single Unified Totality…
Entirely permeated with Awareness and Intelligence…
Effortlessly, choicelessly, spontaneously dancing its dance…
Entirely in harmony with itself, entirely free, full, whole, and at peace…
It smiles at you.
It lets you know that you are It.
It lets you know that you can entirely trust It.
And that’s about the size of it.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, God.
Amen.
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