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I was accused by some of my readers of being unpatriotic. I explained no, I am Quaker. Among the few things I can say we Quakers all stand for is opposition to war. Who would Jesus bomb?
Dear Friend and Reader:
I AM looking forward to the day when I can publish an article and not worry about losing subscribers or being told I am a “conspiracist” or “anti-science.” This is unusual feedback, given that the theme of my writing career has been covering unpopular, controversial, dangerous and taboo subjects, often involving the conduct of bureaucrats and so-called scientists.My well-developed field of speciality is scientific fraud. I started writing about this when I was 19 years old and have persisted through my career as an astrologer. There have been times when I raised money for my investigative reporting — always to cover scientific tests — from my readers, who were excited about what I might discover.
I’m cautious of declaring (in the words of that old rock song) “Everybody’s so different; I haven’t changed.” However, that may be true. That said, the world has never really been friendly to the idea that the government is collaborating with big corporations to poison us. But occasionally, it’s in vogue.
There were only two other times in my Planet Waves career when I was at odds with many of my readers. I’ll skip one and tell you about the discussion nobody but me remembers. Once upon a time, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice and company were about to invade Iraq, which had done nothing to the United States or its allies. In fact, Iraq was our ally just a few years earlier.
They made many nightly appearances on every network claiming that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, and was about to have the atomic bomb. I called foul.
I was accused by some of my readers of being unpatriotic. I explained no, I am Quaker. Among the few things I can say we Quakers all stand for is opposition to war. Who would Jesus bomb?
Speaking of, the one time I felt the most like the teacher Yeshoua was one afternoon when I was living on Vashon Island. This was around 2003 or so. A minister on the island was preaching war from the pulpit on Sunday; some of his parishioners told me. I saw him one day on the street and asked him about it. He was at least forthright in explaining that the wealthy members of his parish were in favor of attacking Iraq, therefore, he spun his sermons that way.
You may imagine the conversation that ensued.
Which war? The one being waged by tech and pharmaceutical giants on the civilian population, aided and abetted by government officials, astrologers, rock stars, the entity Abraham, and now, Papa Smurf of the American left, Noam Chomsky.
Here we are again. To relate to one’s audience these days (which means to not lose advertisers, not get fired, or have any clients), most places, you have to go along with the current war. Or, as one publisher explained to me last weekend, you must conceal your viewpoint from your readers and advertisers.
Which war? The one being waged by tech and pharmaceutical giants on the civilian population, aided and abetted by government officials, astrologers, rock stars, the entity Abraham, and now, Papa Smurf of the American left, Noam Chomsky. He recently said that vaccine hesitant people should be isolated. I’ve also heard Chomsky say that interning Japanese Americans (i.e., citizens of the United States) in concentration camps during World War II was the right thing to do. He may get his wish. Such camps are being built in Australia and Canada, and there is a law pending to do so in New York. Chomsky only pretends to understand the propaganda model of the news, otherwise he would not participate in it.
He only pretends to understand science. Otherwise, he would be talking about the infection fatality rate and the well-known problems with a scientific device to which most people have surrendered their lives.
None of these people, or more accurately, entities, can put three words together without telling as many lies. A month ago, C-Span video of Anthony Fauci surfaced, wherein America’s favorite doctor announced in late 2019 that the flu had to be rebranded as something as terrifying as cancer or AIDS (one minute audio).
From a marketing standpoint, he and other panelists on C-Span argued, the whole problem with the flu is that people think they get better (which is true). So we have to “put a gown on it” and disrupt everything so we can roll out the new mRNA next generation vaccines and achieve better than our current dismal 23% market saturation. [Listen to my program or watch the full video.]
Upon hearing me tell him about that, one of my neighbors, a wealthy real estate attorney I’ve known since around 2008, told me to get lost — to go away — and added that the chances of my assertion being true were “between zero and negative 10.” I guess pandas can fly after all.
Anyone with five minutes of spiritual study or the least modicum of what used to be called common sense knows you cannot wage war on an emotion. But it’s easy to terrify people, especially for someone who can broadcast on every channel at once.
My original title for this essay came from investigative reporter Celia Farber, who correctly said the other night that we are living through the deification of terror. Twenty years ago, it was the supposed enemy: we were waging the war on terror. Remember that? Today it is a god, to whom we must make sacrifices (including human sacrifice).
Anyone with five minutes of spiritual study or the least modicum of what used to be called common sense knows you cannot wage war on an emotion. But it’s easy to terrify people, especially for someone who can broadcast on every channel at once. What our society did, though, was bomb poor people in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the process our society killed countless combatants and civilians, and suffered casualties to hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women. (Now we learn that the Veterans Administration is about to deny health benefits to those former service members who do not get injected.)
Bombing “towel heads” and “sand niggers” (and waving flags and putting yellow ribbons around trees and calling potatoes Freedom Fries) was at the time justified by many things, none of which were called hatred. Among them: those animals make women cover their faces!
The United States has an odd way of becoming its enemy. Now, everywhere I look, I see people covering their faces and expecting others to do so.
China used to be our enemy: last time I checked, it and the U.S. have thousands of those ICBMs pointed at one another; we can make civilization go bye-bye in 20 minutes. Now, we are adopting every measure of social control that the Chinese have used to manipulate and dehumanize their population for many years.
After World War II, the United States imported 1,600 Nazi rocket scientists, who designed the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program that rigged the world with hydrogen bombs. Then, those same engineers moved on to nuclear power.
The most famous among them, Wernher von Braun, a former major in the SS, designed the Saturn V rocket said to have taken people to the Moon [read my analysis here]. It did not stop there. The primary Nazi strategy was to merge the government and the most powerful industrial corporations, and to round up and kill off any undesirables and dissidents (often claiming they had a disease).
China used to be our enemy: last time I checked, it and the U.S. have thousands of those ICBMs pointed at one another; we can make civilization go bye-bye in 20 minutes. Now, we are adopting every measure of social control that the Chinese have used to manipulate and dehumanize their population for many years.
Many Americans are, today, begging to be tracked, traced, biometrically stalked, socially distanced, isolated, masked, socially ranked, disinfected, inspected, injected and green-passed into eternal bliss and everlasting freedom. And many believe — as does one of the most venerated philosophers of our day — that everyone else should be locked in their house, or isolated in a camp if they won’t stay home. Food is allegedly only for those who comply.
We now live in times when if you have faith in the body’s ability to heal, you are a conspiracy theorist. If you read the ingredients on packages, you are allegedly anti-science.
It is easy to miss that the most pressing spiritual issue of our day is the impact of digital technology on our society, and our individual lives. I don’t mean people being dumbed-down by Twitter, or kids having their attention span reduced to five seconds flat.
I mean we are being driven out of our bodies and our senses, by which I further mean being driven to insane behavior and delusion. I will again quote Eric McLuhan, son of Marshall and father of my friend Andrew:
“The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.”
If Eric McLuhan had been talking about LSD, we would know what he meant. Everyone knows that stuff can warp your perception of your body, making you think you have eyes behind your head, or whatever. You might have some difficulty telling what is real from what is not, or where you begin and where someone ends. He is talking about being driven insane by digital conditions — individuals and society.
It’s a little harder to understand that he is warning about digital technology turning us into phantoms of ourselves (on a good day), or robots (the rest of the time). Neither are capable of expressing love and respect, or feelings, though those are the things that make us human in the humane sense of the word.
We now live in times when if you have faith in the body’s ability to heal, you are a conspiracy theorist. If you read the ingredients on packages, you are allegedly anti-science. Someone who looks at the data can be called stupid and disrespectful. If you want to take care of your children, you can be called antisocial.
Since none of us has ever been right all the time — and since pharmaceutical companies and big tech have an atrocious track record of abuse of our trust — we might consider a collective ratcheting down of the utter arrogance that has now become acceptable, even compulsory behavior.
More than half the people reading this article have read countless self-help books and accept some form of the idea that love and fear cannot mutually coexist. You have gone to workshops and most likely eat organic food. You have no doubt espoused the belief that we must accept others for who they are, and not be afraid of differences.
It’s time to stop pretending and start living this truth, if indeed it is true.
Such does not include, “you must believe my delusions,” or, “I am terrified and therefore you must do what I say.” I will point out again that we went from “flatten the curve for two weeks” to “you cannot work without this injection you may disapprove of or be allergic to.”
It does include, “I respect your choices and your right to exist in society” (or in our family, or school). It does include, “You raise your children, and I raise mine.” It does include accepting that there is risk everywhere in life, including when you walk out the door and cross the street. In fact every medical procedure or preparation, no matter now “minor,” has a risk.
Since none of us has ever been right all the time — and since pharmaceutical companies and big tech have an atrocious track record of abuse of our trust — we might consider a collective ratcheting down of the utter arrogance that has now become acceptable, even compulsory behavior.
There are a lot — a whole lot — of people expressing very strong views, who have done very little reading, whom I have never heard utter “I might be wrong,” or, “Yes, I looked more closely and changed my mind about that.”
I will end with a few words from A Course in Miracles.
“Your Godlike mind can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will be part of it, but through the ego you can hear and teach and learn what is not true. You have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. You cannot teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in yourself because you are sharing it. Every lesson you teach you are learning.”
Faithfully,
