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Hi Tom,

I clicked over from Dr. Malones stack because while interested in these subjects, I cannot comment there without being a paid subscriber. Recent events have laid bare characteristics of long established structures. When young many years were spent trying to answer one question. What is the root source of societal and individual dysfunction? When the 'answer' was found, it was so simple I figured that other people, far more smart than I, would pick up on it and I could add my two cents to the mix. It never happened, in the meantime a 'training' system was developed to wean myself away from current ways of understanding things. I realized that the 'answer' could not easily gain traction because it refutes a false assumption held in common by both sides of societal divides. It is in the nature of a dominant narrative to span pretty much all communities. Even those who reject common beliefs speak in terms set by the dominant narrative. The false assumption is that the spiritual and the material are fundamentally different, the answer is to suggest they are the same thing. Basically, we miss out and do not recognize many ways that the subtle becomes gross. (Through ones heart connection to Source, for one way) In my opinion consciousness evolves collectively so I am a horizontalist, but am not confident of breaking the narrative wall that currently defines limits to consciousness, given that the self identity and egos of pretty much everybody has been created by this (pretty much unacknowledged) narrative.

Good luck in your efforts, but I will say, the gaslighting is thick and many good people still fall for the tricks.

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Thanks Sounder for your comment. My own spiritual path has brought me to the realization that in essence, I am not a thing (nothing). I am a verb, and the verb is love.

It seems to me that what we see on the outside is what is reflected from the inside. That is, we are either coming from the ego-mind, or from the heart (caring). This dichotomy that exists in everyone is mirrored throughout history. Unfortunately, those coming from the ego will kill to dominate others, while those coming from the heart, prefer only to kill in self-defense.

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Thanks for your response tom, I tend to not think of ego as the big problem. That honor goes to the ego thinking that essential nature should serve ego. Whereas, in my opinion, health will only be created when ego serves essential nature. Personally, I have strong ego, but also ways to (gently) humble it in doing internal work. (Admit when I am a fool) I also consider that there are many other ways to be a fool because of continual connections and implications that I miss because of an inherent ignorance, (that ego thinks it can cure with more information.) I am open with my opinions but am not invested in convincing others of the validity of those opinions, because frankly, nobody has has been convinced of much of anything by the words I tend to use. So for instance, when I wrote; 'Good luck in your efforts, but I will say, the gaslighting is thick and many good people still fall for the tricks', the implied reference was to your climate crisis concerns.

When you use the subtitle; Strategies for resisting totalitarianism and reversing the climate crises, you see it as expressing your commitment to fighting the good fight, while I see it as yet another dissonance production device because totalitarianism is needed to 'solve' the climate crisis. Maurice Strong was the first big CC pusher at the Club of Rome in 1972. He was CEO of (Rockefeller owned) Petro Canada when he was 25 years old. A made man. The scam is to condition people to consider that a world wide structure is needed to solve the 'big' problems. And to raise oil company profits by restricting supply. And to distract from big corps habit of poisoning the planet with their 'chemicals for profit' economic model. The effect is to capture the left into the globalist power camp. It is working, where good intentions have been weaponized to serve power. This is one reason that injection uptake was higher among the 'rebel' left compared to the 'conformist' right.

The question becomes; What is the appropriate response to these words? Will the response come from ego, or from the heart?

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