The only talks about “Saving the World” that I take seriously anymore are from Terence McKenna and the people in his orbit. I’ve been let down far too often by contemporary thinking by contemporary ‘thinkers'. So I stick to the old ways, before most people’s brains were scrambled by propaganda, “the horrors,” microplastics, fluoride and all the other amenities of our modern civilized world.
But in order to appreciate the old ways you must send yourself to the past, before the reality altering era that has transpired since then. So much has changed that these talks don’t even translate to our world. I don’t watch them looking for answers to our problems as I once did. I watch them to be reminded.
9/11, Covid, The Patriot Act, the intentional destruction of the Middle East, Silicon Valleys worship of Moloch, Jeffrey Epstein, the unearthing of the vast international sex/slave trade sponsored and subsidized by the governments of the world, chemtrails, surveillance, the malicious evolution of propaganda and so on for pages and pages and pages. It seemed to have the double effect of traumatizing us into an utterly delusional stupor while also burying the world that once was. The world that could remind us of how things should be. So that not only would we lose our minds, we would also have no way of getting them back.
Listening to the three of them in the video above, is like looking into an alternate reality. It makes our predicament all the more haunting. 1993 was so much more hopeful for those who anticipated the next great movement toward genuine human progress; with time to reason, and think, and philosophize about what the world could look like if we gave it the chance. I wonder what people like Terence McKenna would say now. Not only did none of his (very reasonable) dreams come true, but a nightmare he could’ve never imagined took its place.
It’s like the devil literally stepped in to destroy all of our hopes and dreams.
The solutions they put forth in this talk as well as many others, were absolutely brilliant and reasonable and would have been effective in a reasonable world bound by certain historically consistent rules. Though, since then, the board has changed so dramatically, its as if we are playing a completely different cosmic game. As if, the entire simulation was swapped out from an adventure RPG to a first person horror shooter.
I wonder if Terence was right about Timewave Theory. That it did happen and none of us noticed. But, instead of us meeting the transcendental object at the end of time, someone else got in the way of its completion. Maybe CERN being turned on around the same time as his prophesized “end date” really did have something to do with it, and the memes and intuitive quasi-schizoid urges to say “CERN ended the world in 2012” is more than just a joke, but instead some unconscious scream within us that has a deeper wisdom than our conscious awareness. Like Tiny Rick singing everyone a song about dying in a vat and begging for someone to help him.
I’m not sure we are in regular reality anymore. I don’t know when exactly it might have happened, but all the rules are different now. The world we live in now doesn’t seem to be a possible product of the world we lived in then. I become more suspicious by the day. As things make less sense, people become more unreasonable and the entire thing feels increasingly like a poorly written movie with god-awful actors performing on poorly lit sets.
Listening to Terence, as much joy as it always brings me, reminds me that there is something very wrong. That something is too wrong. It doesn’t add up, the problems don’t appear to be solvable. Most days it quite literally feels like a maze with no openings on either end. All of our power and imaginations and ingenuity fall short of even parsing out the situation, let alone identifying the problem, let alone solving it.
As Ralph asks in reference to the revolutionary movements of the past, “What was the trigger?” What was the match strike that lit the flame of the Renaissance? Or the hippie movement? I’m not talking about the compounding variables that developed its momentum. I’m talking about the push, the break, the first sheet of snow cracked loose in the avalanche.
Even that thing, the very fundamental concept of a trigger to an organic revolution seems impossible in our world. We are playing by completely different rules that none of us know. The more I get my head clear the more far away I feel from all of it, and the less translatable any of it is. The one thing that might bring about some epiphany to save us is the thing that estranges me from the whole process of the system and any passion I have for bringing it down.
I wonder if the battle is truly our own at this point. Maybe that is how the rules changed. Maybe there is no collective saving of anything. Maybe you can only save yourself.
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I didn't watch the clip you shared here, yet. I'd like to. But before I watch, I'll respond to something you wrote, and I'll give my 2cents: you wrote 'I wonder if the battle is truly our own at this point.'
Well, my view is... Yes. It is. It always has and it always will be. Ultimately, you are the only person who can make peace with and for yourself. Every moment we choose how we will respond (to some thing/some one). Every moment we choose what we will or will not do. What we will or will not say. What we will or will not think. What rabbit holes we will or will not tunnel into. Stay in the light, friend. Stay in the light! Do not despair. Despite the darkness, there always has been- and always will be- light. There are still good people doing good things. Great things, even. There are still people fighting for the good. Every day. In small ways and in big ways. You're among them. Take heart! Your fight is not in vain!
I resonate so hard with this. And I agree. You can only save yourself because you’re all that is. There’s nobody but yourself to save, and you cannot save anybody else so you might as well just go ahead and age yourself. And I like to think that if everyone started doing that… well I like to think that we are. Maybe not in this lifetime, but that each conscious action has that energetic propulsion that could just sway the odds enough to have a cascading effect that makes a difference. And maybe it doesn’t. Because the rules are, in fact, very VERY wrong. Something is wrong. And everybody feels it. But that’s how the rubber band works, that’s how every fairytale we’ve been taught to believe is just a fairytale works - the harder you pull back the rubber band, the faster it flies in the other direction. The rules are not in our favor, but if there’s one thing I know - no matter what game you play, when you start “collecting” bad guys, it usually means the level is getting harder, because you’re getting closer to what really matters. What is truly valuable. So in true universal equilibrium, there’s going to be an equal and opposite resistance to your equal and opposite need to keep going in the direction that you are. Nobody said it’s gonna feel good, but more often than not, the right decision won’t. Some people say I live in toxic positivity or delusion, but is it really toxic if I can simultaneously accept what’s happening in reality, I just CHOOSE to put a positive spin on it? I used to believe it would sway the odds for sure that way, now I’m not so sure… better to stay believing than to die feeling shitty imo, now THAT would make me go crazy for sure.