By Caitlin Johnstone
June 15, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Everything keeps accelerating.
That seems to be
the trend here currently. Things don’t appear to
necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in
time, they’re just accelerating.
It’s all moving faster and faster. Major news events
are getting closer and closer together, people are
becoming
more and more aware of more and more important
dynamics they were previously asleep to, political
movements are suddenly picking up steam in a way many
analysts never expected to see in their lifetime, and
America’s previous revolutionary figurehead Bernie
Sanders has been left in the dust
wagging his finger at protesters not to push for the
total dismantling of the police state.
For whatever reason, the inertia seems to be falling
away from our species, for both our healthy impulses and
our unhealthy ones. Recent events like these protests
and the Covid-19 outbreak have seen more and more
consciousness drawn to the need for robust social safety
nets and the corrupt nature of the
police state which holds the US-centralized empire
together, but we’re also seeing
mountains of new police assaults and
new police killings,
pre-planned authoritarian measures being
pushed for, a
sudden increase in internet censorship and narrative
management, and possibly
even lynchings.
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Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
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It’s getting harder and harder to understand what’s
happening. My news feed is full of people arguing about
whether the American left has lost its mind and
whether groupthink in journalism is out of control,
my social media notifications are a
whole hodgepodge of
contradictory and
generally illogical theories about a shadowy cabal
being behind these protests and what they’re trying to
achieve, and people are either being honest about the
fact that they don’t know where this is all going or
they’re dishonestly pretending that they do. We seem to
be getting closer and closer to a point of narrative
white noise, where conventional means of understanding
the world just aren’t holding up anymore.
I don’t know where we’re headed, and I don’t pretend
to know. Here’s what I do know:
~ Things are changing, and these changes appear to be
happening at an accelerating rate.
~ Changes away from old patterns tend to make people
feel psychologically uncomfortable. Everyone should
definitely be prioritizing their psychological well
being at this point in history, because I’m pretty sure
it’s only going to get more unusual and confusing from
here on out.
~ The most distinctive feature of the last four years
has been expanding consciousness. Expanding
consciousness of media corruption, of DNC corruption, of
government corruption, of the excessive amount of power
wielded by the US presidency and the absurd esteem
people used to have for that position, of the abuse of
immigrants, of police militarization, of unhealed racial
wounds, etc. This is encouraging, because you can’t fix
something you haven’t made conscious. This is true of
our own unresolved psychological issues, and it’s true
of our unresolved collective issues as well. The first
step toward a healthy world is expanded consciousness.
~ About twelve years ago after a lot of inner work I
started experiencing these
strange energetic expulsions in the form of dry
heaves, coughing and burping which quickly freed me from
my old psychological conditioning patterns and began
moving me into a much healthier way of functioning. I
had no idea what was happening and couldn’t find
anything about this strange phenomenon in any
psychological or spiritual literature, or even anyone
talking about it online, but now I see it
talked about on Netflix specials and there’s
online chatter about it
everywhere. When I got with my husband, he started
doing it too. What is this phenomenon? How common is it
in our species? Where is it taking us? I don’t know, and
neither does science, but I know from my own experience
that it is definitely a thing. This is just one of many
hidden potentials our species has that our forecasts
simply haven’t accounted for.
~ If we are unpatterning, and if our unpatterning is
occurring at an accelerating rate, then it is reasonable
to believe that at a certain point it can occur so
rapidly and to such an extent that the old power
structures simply won’t be able to keep up with it.
These would be the same power structures which have been
psychologically brutalizing our species with a
constant barrage of propaganda to keep us consenting
to a system which robs ordinary people of their basic
needs while waging endless wars and giving more and more
wealth and power to nationless oligarchs. We may be
headed toward a point where they simply cannot do that
anymore.
~ This might just be what it looks like when a
species which quickly evolved the capacity for abstract
thought begins making the necessary adaptations to
survive in a world that can no longer accommodate its
self-destructive tendencies. Not because we thought it
would be a good idea in our clumsy thinky brains, but
because nature itself is steering us there.
All in all, I reckon we can win this thing. Not the
anti-policing protests necessarily; I don’t quite know
what will happen with those in the long run. I mean the
whole thing. Winning it all. Actually getting out from
underneath the bastards and beginning to function as a
healthy organism on this planet.
It certainly appears that something inside us has
ignited which wants to disrupt our trajectory toward
armageddon. Doesn’t mean we’ll succeed, but I absolutely
do believe we have the potential to move into a healthy
relationship with our minds, with each other, and with
our ecosystem. At least the forces of nature that we are
made of seem to think so.
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