Craig Hamilton One of the most important capacities we can access during this time of so much uncertainty is the ability to be comfortable in the unknown. You can hear more about this “Spiritual Survival Skill” in this excerpt from my Facebook LIVE event: Spiritual Survival Skills for a World in Chaos. You can watch to the full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_cO0…

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• Julio Vincent Gambuto

First, a primer: Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity. As in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit her.

Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how to “reopen” and move forward, very powerful forces will try to convince us all to get back to normal.

Billions of dollars will be spent on advertising, messaging and media content to make you feel comfortable again. It will come in traditional forms — a billboard here, commercials there — and in new-media forms, like memes.

In truth, you crave that feeling of normalcy. We want desperately to feel good again, to get back to the routines of life, to not lie in bed at night wondering how we’re going to afford our rent and bills, to not wake to an endless scroll of human tragedy on our phones, to have a cup of perfectly brewed coffee and simply leave the house for work. The need for comfort will be real, and it will be strong. And every brand in America will come to your rescue, dear consumer, to help take away that darkness and get life back to the way it was before the crisis. I urge you to be well aware of what is coming.

Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how to “reopen” and move forward, very powerful forces will try to convince us all to get back to normal … I urge you to be well aware of what is coming.

For the last century, the advertising industry has been centered around this cardinal principle: Find the consumer’s problem and fix it with your product. When the problem is practical and tactical, the solution is “as seen on TV” and available at Home Depot. Command strips and Magic Erasers will save me from having to repaint. Elfa shelving will get rid of the mess in my closet. The Ring will let me see who’s on the porch if I can’t take my eyes off Netflix.

But when the problem is emotional, the fix becomes a new staple in your life, and you become a lifelong loyalist. Coca-Cola makes you happy. A Mercedes makes you successful. Taking your family on a Royal Caribbean cruise makes you special.

Smart marketers know how to highlight what brands can do for you to make your life easier. But brilliant marketers know how to rewire your heart. And, make no mistake, the heart is what has been most traumatized this last month. We are, as a society, now vulnerable in a whole new way.

What the trauma has shown us, though, cannot be unseen.

A carless Los Angeles has clear blue skies. In a quiet New York, you can hear the birds chirp in the middle of Madison Avenue. Coyotes have been spotted on the Golden Gate Bridge. These are the postcard images of what the world might be like if we could find a way to have a less deadly daily effect on the planet.

What’s not fit for a postcard are the other scenes we have witnessed: a health care system that cannot provide basic protective equipment for its frontline; small businesses — and very large ones — that do not have enough cash to pay their rent or workers, sending over 16 million people to seek unemployment benefits; a government that has so severely damaged the credibility of our media that 328 million people don’t know who to listen to for basic facts that can save their lives.

The cat is out of the bag. We, as a nation, have deeply disturbing problems. You’re right. That’s not news. These are problems we ignore every day, not because we’re terrible people or because we don’t care, but because we don’t have time.

We are, as a society, now vulnerable in a whole new way. What the trauma has shown us, though, cannot be unseen.

The plain truth is that no matter our ethnicity, race, religion, gender or political party, as Americans we share this: We are busy. We’re out and about hustling to make our own lives work. We have goals to meet and meetings to attend and mortgages to pay — all while the phone is ringing and the laptop is pinging. And when we get home, Crate and Barrel and Louis Vuitton and Andy Cohen make us feel just good enough to get up the next day and do it all over again. It is very easy to close your eyes to a problem when you barely have enough time to close them to sleep.

The greatest misconception among us, which causes deep and painful social and political tension every day in this country, is that we somehow don’t care about each other. White people don’t care about the problems of black America. Men don’t care about women’s rights. Cops don’t care about the communities they serve. Humans don’t care about the environment. These things couldn’t be further from the truth. We do care. We just don’t have the time to do anything about it. Maybe that’s just me. But maybe it’s you, too.

Well, the treadmill you’ve been on for decades just stopped. Bam! And that feeling you have right now is the same as if you’d been thrown off your Peloton bike and onto the ground: What just happened?!

I hope you might consider this: What happened is incredible. It’s the greatest gift ever unwrapped. Not the deaths, not the virus, of course, but The Great Pause. It is, in a word, profound. Please don’t recoil from the bright light beaming through the window. I know it hurts your eyes. It hurts mine, too. But the curtain is wide open.

The crisis has given us a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see ourselves and our country in the plainest way. At no other time, ever in our lives, have we gotten the opportunity to see what would happen if the world simply stopped. Here it is. We’re in it. Stores are closed. Restaurants are empty. Streets and six-lane highways are barren. Even the surface of the planet is rumbling less (true story). And because it is rarer than rare, it has brought to light all of the beautiful and painful truths of how we live.

If we want to create a better country and a better world for our kids, and if we want to make sure we are even sustainable as a nation and as a democracy, we have to pay attention to how we feel right now. I cannot speak for you, but I imagine you feel like I do: devastated, depressed and heartbroken.

What a perfect time for Best Buy and H&M and Wal-Mart to help me feel normal again. If I could just have the new iPhone in my hand, if I could rest my feet on a pillow of new Nikes, if I could drink a venti vanilla latte, then this very dark feeling would go away.

From one citizen to another, I implore you: take a deep breath, ignore the deafening noise, and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life.

You think I’m kidding, that I’m being cute, that I’m denying the obvious benefits of having a roaring economy. You’re right. Our way of life is not without purpose. The economy is not, at its core, evil. Brands and their products create millions of jobs. Like people — and most anything in life — there are brands that are responsible and ethical, and there are others that are not. They are all part of a system that keeps us living long and strong. We have lifted more humans out of poverty through the power of economics than any other civilization in history. Yes, without a doubt, Americanism can be a force for good.

But, at the same time, its flaws have been laid bare for all to see. It doesn’t work for everyone. It’s responsible for great destruction. Its intentions have been perverted, and the protection it offers has disappeared. In fact, it’s been brought to its knees by one pangolin (we have reason to believe). We have got to do better and find a way toward a responsible free market.

Until then, get ready, my friends. What is about to be unleashed on American society will be the greatest campaign ever created to get you to feel normal again. It will come from brands, it will come from government, it will even come from each other, and it will come from the left and from the right. We will do anything, spend anything, believe anything, just so we can take away how horribly uncomfortable all of this feels. There will be an all-out blitz to make you believe you never saw what you saw.

The air wasn’t really cleaner; those images were photoshopped. The hospitals weren’t really a war zone; those stories were hyperbole. The numbers were not that high; the press is lying. You didn’t see people in masks standing in the rain risking their lives to vote. Not in America. You didn’t see the leader of the free world push an unproven miracle drug like a late-night infomercial salesman. That was a crisis update. You didn’t see homeless people dead on the street. You didn’t see inequality. You didn’t see indifference. You didn’t see utter failure of leadership and systems.

But you did. You are not crazy, my friends.

And so we are about to be gaslit in a truly unprecedented way. It starts with a check for $1,200. And it will be a one-two punch from big business and the White House. Both are about to band together to knock us unconscious again. It will be funded like no other operation in our lifetimes. It will be fast. It will be furious. And it will be overwhelming. The Great American Return to Normal is coming.

From one citizen to another, I implore you: take a deep breath, ignore the deafening noise, and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life. This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare and truly sacred (yes, sacred) opportunity to get rid of the noise and to only bring back what works for us, what makes our lives richer, what makes our kids happier, what makes us truly proud.

You are not crazy, my friends.

We care deeply about one another. That is clear. That can be seen in every supportive Facebook post, in every meal dropped off for a neighbor, in every Zoom birthday party. We are a good people. And as a good people, we want to define — on our own terms — what this country looks like in five, 10, 50 years. This is our chance to do that. And it’s the best chance we’ll ever get.

We can do that on a personal scale in our homes, in how we choose to spend our family time on nights and weekends, what we watch, what we listen to, what we eat, and what we choose to spend our dollars on and where. We can do it locally in our communities, in what organizations we support, what truths we tell and what events we attend. And we can do it nationally in our government, in which leaders we vote in and to whom we give power. If we want cleaner air, we can make it happen. If we want to protect our doctors and nurses from the next virus — and protect all Americans — we can make it happen. If we want our neighbors and friends to earn a dignified income, we can make that happen. If we want 29.7 million kids to be able to eat lunch if suddenly their school is closed, we can make that happen. And, yes, if we just want to live a simpler life, we can make that happen, too.

But only if we resist the massive gaslighting that is about to come. It’s on its way. Look out.

Julio Vincent Gambuto is a writer/director in NYC and LA. His latest film, “Team Marco,” is currently at film festivals worldwide. You can find out more about him and his work here. A version of this essay was originally posted on Medium.

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By Craig Hamilton (integralenlightenment.com)

What is the greatest obstacle to deep meditation? If you ask a thousand spiritual seekers that question, the vast majority of them will give you some version of the same answer. “It’s the mind. It’s my busy, relentless mind. I just have so many thoughts. And this seemingly endless stream of thoughts prevents me from really going deep in meditation.”

I don’t know exactly where this rumor got started. But somewhere along the way, nearly all of us learned that meditation is about having a “quiet mind,” or eliminating the stream of thoughts, or at least finding a way to focus our mind or make it more “spiritual.”

And as a result, nearly everyone meditating today is engaged in a misguided–and often exasperating–project of trying to find a way to do something about their active mind.

Some of us are trying to get our mind to be quiet. Others are trying to get it to produce more peaceful and spiritual thoughts. And others are trying to find somewhere to place our attention other than our mind–such as our body, or God or our higher self.

The idea that meditation is about having a “still” mind is possibly the most pervasive assumption about meditation. Countless people have become frustrated and given up on meditation because they were unable to quiet the mind.

But what if I told you the mind wasn’t an obstacle to meditation? What if the presence of thoughts had no impact on your ability to meditate at all?

I teach meditation in a spiritual context, which means that the ultimate goal of the practice is  the discovery of our true nature. It is a practice designed to open us to enlightened consciousness.

So, the question is: what does a quiet mind have to do with enlightened consciousness?

To answer this question, imagine what it would be like to go through your entire life without any thoughts. Now, take it a step further and imagine a world in which nobody was thinking anything at all. Ever.

It’s not a very inspiring picture, is it? If you take it far enough, you end up with the entire human race on intravenous feeding tubes lying there in a vegetative state. Not very enlightened, to say the least.

Now imagine an enlightened world–a world in which all human beings are awake to their higher nature, living in awakened consciousness. Clearly it’s not a world without thoughts. So is it a world in which everyone only thinks enlightened thoughts? Not exactly. And this brings us back to meditation.

Meditation is not about quieting the mind. Nor is it about training the mind to only think good or spiritual thoughts. Meditation, properly understood, is about transforming your relationship to the mind. It’s about cultivating the ability to disengage from the mind, to no longer identify with the mind, so that you can discern and discriminate which thoughts are worth listening to and acting on, and which ones aren’t.

What if you could learn how to not identify with your mind, to not compulsively engage with your thoughts? What if you could learn how, even when there are thoughts present, to not be lost in thoughts, to not mechanically follow the thought stream wherever it goes?

Our minds give us trouble because they are deeply conditioned to react in habitual and predictable ways based on past experiences. We’re all embedded in countless habits of mind that dictate much of our behavior.

Meditation has the potential to liberate you from the mind, which means that no matter how much thought is present, you’re not lost in it, you’re not compulsively believing it, you’re not at the effect of it, you’re not afraid of it.

Freedom from the mind means freedom in the face of the mind. It doesn’t mean freedom from having a mind. It means you are no longer enslaved to your conditioned mind.

So, next time you sit down to meditate, instead of trying to find a way to quiet your mind, simply make the decision to not engage with your mind. That means that when thoughts arise, even if they are very interesting thoughts, we choose not to give them our attention.

One of the things that will happen as you meditate in this way is that you’ll start to discover that you are not your thoughts, and that you are not even the generator of most of the thoughts you experience. Thoughts just arise spontaneously and somewhat mechanically without any volition on your part. They just keep surfacing; they keep arising on their own.

From this vantage point, you begin to see that there is a choice you have, which is to get interested in the content of the thought, to get involved in the thought–or to leave it alone.

As you continue with this practice, you eventually come upon a startling discovery–that the content of your mind doesn’t need to change in order for you to be able to meditate. In fact, the content of your mind doesn’t need to change for you to be awakened.

That’s because the mind is not the problem. Even having a very active mind is not a problem. In many ways, the power of this practice reveals itself more fully when you have an active mind because it’s in those moments that you can begin to discover directly that your true nature is already free, even when your mind is in chaos.

One of the primary insights of enlightenment is that nothing is an obstacle to your liberation. It doesn’t matter if you are in the midst of difficult circumstances, or are experiencing painful emotions, or have a very busy, active mind. You’re already free no matter what happens. Consciousness is not at the effect of what arises within it. Who and what you truly are is not governed by the content of your mind from one moment to the next.

If you had to have a quiet mind and a peaceful emotional state to be enlightened, I think it’s safe to say that nobody would have ever been enlightened in the history of the world. 

Why? Because we’re human animals with extremely complex brains and deep survival instincts, living active, engaged lives, swept up in a powerful cultural momentum. Our minds are active and reactive in ways that are beyond our control.

Spiritual liberation begins to dawn when you discover that your thoughts and feelings have no control over you, that you don’t have to believe or even listen to your mind. In that realization, an extraordinary experience of inner freedom begins to emerge out of seemingly nowhere and it changes everything.

This inner freedom brings with it numerous remarkable qualities, but it’s worth noting that one of the most noticeable transformations that occurs as we awaken is a profound shift in our way of knowing.

The birth of awakened consciousness gives us access to a different kind of knowing than we can access through mere thinking alone. As we continue our practice of being free from the mind, we find that we begin to gain access to a new, holistic “wisdom capacity” that seems to come from beyond what we normally think of as “our mind.” This wellspring of spontaneously arising wisdom flows naturally and freely, meeting the needs of each moment with surprising accuracy and clarity.

At first, it almost seems like a supernatural ability. But over time, we realize that it is not so much supernatural as it is natural, organic and integrative. It includes our learned knowledge as well as things we never learned. It includes intuition, somatic or bodily knowing as well as “field knowing” or collective wisdom which organically integrates the perspectives of others.

It’s an integrative, holistic wisdom faculty which doesn’t reject thought. It transcends and includes it in a mysterious wider form of knowing that again and again demonstrates its reliability as a profound source of wisdom that we can relax into and trust to guide us.

A still mind is something we may experience in moments of meditation, but it’s not the ultimate goal, and if we become attached to it, it can even prevent us from discovering meditation’s true potential to catalyze spiritual awakening.

What is ultimately much more enlightening is learning how to let go of your mind regardless of how active it might be. By doing that, you discover the possibility of being free of your mind no matter what it’s doing, which is ultimately much more liberating than merely “shutting it up.”

The plague writers who predicted today

Survival, isolation, community and love are explored in these plausible, prescient books. Jane Ciabattari on the novels that tell us ‘we’ve been through this before and we’ve survived’.

• By Jane Ciabattari (bbc.com/culture)

14 April 2020

In uncertain – indeed, weird – times like these, as we increase our social isolation to ‘flatten the curve’, literature provides escape, relief, comfort and companionship. Less comfortingly, though, the appeal of pandemic fiction has also increased. Many pandemic titles read like guide books to today’s situation. And many such novels give a realistic chronological progression, from first signs through to the worst times, and the return of ‘normality’. They show us we’ve been through this before. We’ve survived.

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Daniel Defoe’s 1722 A Journal of the Plague Year, which chronicles the 1665 bubonic plague in London, gives an eerie play-by-play of events that recalls our own responses to the initial shock and voracious spread of the new virus.

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year chronicles the 1665 bubonic plague in London

Defoe begins in September 1664, when rumours circulate of the return of ‘pestilence’ to Holland. Next comes the first suspicious death in London, in December, and then, come spring, Defoe describes how death notices posted in local parishes have taken an ominous rise. By July, the City of London enforces new rules  –  rules now becoming routine in our 2020 shutdown, such as “that all public feasting, and particularly by the companies of this city, and dinners at taverns, ale-houses, and other places of common entertainment, be forborne till further order and allowance…”

Nothing, Defoe writes, “was more fatal to the inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people themselves, who, during the long notice or warning they had of the visitation, made no provision for it by laying in store of provisions, or of other necessaries, by which they might have lived retired and within their own houses, as I have observed others did, and who were in a great measure preserved by that caution…”

What could be more dramatic than taking a snapshot of a plague in progress?

By August, Defoe writes, the plague is “very violent and terrible”; by early September it reaches its worst, with “whole families, and indeed whole streets of families… swept away together.” By December, “the contagion was exhausted, and also the winter weather came on apace, and the air was clear and cold, with sharp frosts… most of those that had fallen sick recovered, and the health of the city began to return.” When at last the streets are repopulated, “people went along the streets giving God thanks for their deliverance.”

What could be more dramatic than taking a snapshot of a plague in progress, when tensions and emotions are heightened, and survival instincts kick in? The pandemic narrative is a natural for realistic novelists like Defoe, and later Albert Camus.  

The Plague by Albert Camus is full of parallels with today’s crisis

Camus’ The Plague, in which the city of Oran in Algeria is shut down for months as the plague decimates its people (as happened in Oran in the 19th Century), also abounds with parallels to today’s crisis. Local leaders are reluctant at first to acknowledge the early signs of the plague dying rats littering the streets. “Are our city fathers aware that the decaying bodies of these rodents constitute a grave danger to the population?” asks a columnist in the local newspaper. The book’s narrator Dr Bernard Rieux reflects the quiet heroism of medical workers. “I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing,” he says. In the end, there’s the lesson learned by the plague’s survivors: “They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”

The Spanish flu of 1918 reshaped the world, leading to the loss of 50 million people, on the heels of 10 million dead from World War One. Ironically, the dramatic global impact of the flu was overshadowed by the even more dramatic events of the war, which inspired countless novels. As people now practice ‘social distancing’ and communities around the globe withdraw into lockdown, Katherine Anne Porter’s description of the devastation created by the Spanish flu in her 1939 novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider feels familiar: “It’s as bad as anything can be… all the theatres and nearly all the shops and restaurants are closed, and the streets have been full of funerals all day and ambulances all night”, heroine Miranda’s friend Adam tells her shortly after she is diagnosed with influenza.

Porter portrays Miranda’s fevers and medicines, and weeks of illness and recovery, before she awakens to a new world reshaped by losses from the flu and from the war. Porter almost died from the plague of influenza herself. “I was in some strange way altered,” she told The Paris Review in a 1963 interview. “It took me a long time to go out and live in the world again. I was really ‘alienated’ in the pure sense.”

All too plausible

Twenty-first Century epidemics – Sars in 2002, Mers in 2012, Ebola in 2014 – have inspired novels about post-plague desolation and breakdown, deserted cities and devastated landscapes.

Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009) shows us a post-pandemic world with humans nearly extinct, most of the population wiped out 25 years before by the ‘Waterless Flood’ a virulent plague that “travelled through the air as if on wings, it burned through cities like fire”.

Author Margaret Atwood envisages a world devastated by a virus in her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood

Atwood captures the extreme isolation felt by the few survivors. Toby, a gardener, scans the horizon from her subsistence rooftop garden in a deserted spa. “There must be someone else left… she can’t be the only one on the planet. There must be others. But friends or foes? If she sees one, how to tell?” Ren, once a trapeze dancer – one of “the cleanest dirty girls in town” – is alive because she was in quarantine for a possible client-transmitted disease. She writes her name over and over. “You can forget who you are if you’re alone too much.”

Through flashbacks, Atwood elaborates on how the balance between the natural and human worlds was destroyed by bio-engineering sponsored by the ruling corporations, and how activists like Toby fought back. Always alert to the downside of science, Atwood bases her work on all-too-plausible premises, making The Year of the Flood terrifyingly prescient.

What makes pandemic fiction so engaging is that humans are joined together in the fight against an enemy that is not a human enemy. There are no ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’; the situation is more nuanced. Each character has an equal chance to survive or not. The range of individual responses to dire circumstances makes intriguing grist for the novelist – and the reader.

Chaucer’s irreverent Canterbury Tales is set against a backdrop of the Black Death

Ling Ma’s Severance (2018), which the author has described as an “apocalyptic office novel” with an immigrant backstory, is narrated by Candace Chen, a millennial who works at a Bible-publishing firm, and has her own blog. She is one of nine survivors who flee New York City during the fictitious 2011 Shen fever pandemic. Ma portrays the city after “the infrastructure had… collapsed, the Internet had caved into a sinkhole, the electrical grid had shut down.”

How will they chronicle the surge in community spirit, the countless heroes among us?

Candace joins a road trip toward a mall in a Chicago suburb, where the group plans to settle. They travel through a landscape inhabited by the “fevered,” who are “creatures of habit, mimicking old routines and gestures” until they die. Are the survivors randomly immune? Or “selected” by divine guidance? Candace discovers the trade-off for safety in numbers is strict allegiance to religious rules set by their leader Bob, an authoritarian former IT technician. It’s only a matter of time before she rebels.

Our own current situation is, of course, nowhere near as extreme as the one envisaged in Severance. Ling Ma explores a worst-case scenario that, thankfully, we are not facing. In her novel, she looks at what happens in her imagined world after the pandemic fades away. After the worst, who is in charge of rebuilding a community, a culture? Among a random group of survivors, the novel asks, who decides who has power? Who sets the guidelines for religious practice?  How do individuals retain agency?  

The narrative strands of Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven take place before, during, and after a fiercely contagious flu originating in the Republic of Georgia “exploded like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth”, wiping out 99 per cent of the global population. The pandemic begins the night an actor playing King Lear has a heart attack on stage. His wife is the author of science-fiction comic books set on a planet called Station Eleven that show up 20 years later, when a troupe of actors and musicians through “an archipelago of small towns”, performing Lear and Midsummer Night’s Dream in abandoned malls. Station Eleven carries echoes of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the prototypical irreverent 14th-Century storytelling cycle, set against the backdrop of the Black Death.

Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven looks at how the world is rebuilt after a virus has struck

Who and what determines art? Mandel asks. Does celebrity culture matter? How will we rebuild after the invisible virus lays siege? How will art and culture change? No doubt there are novels about our current circumstances in the works. How will the storytellers in the years to come portray this pandemic? How will they chronicle the surge in community spirit, the countless heroes among us? These are questions to be pondered as we increase our reading time, and prepare for the new world to emerge.   

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200413-what-can-we-learn-from-pandemic-fiction?fbclid=IwAR2SO6fVJx_aKjNQuGsI-hqZW9uKbSu-bz_3aa-gdoLCUGvqJRdoul5WiCk

April 15, 2020 (bentinomassaro.com)

I’ve seen many people in my community and beyond wonder what narrative to believe about what’s going on in the world at the moment, and how to navigate the confusion.

Should you believe the mainstream media/governmental narrative (sorry, but these two cannot be accurately mentioned as two separate entities at this time), or should you believe narratives such as those disseminated by Q-anon and its community, or should you commit to the timeline as proposed or suggested by David Icke, or the one described by Corey Goode and/or David Wilcock, Bashar, etc.?

People have also been asking me with greater frequency what my particular vision of Earth’s immediate and long-term future is. Which ‘facts’ do I believe are most accurate, and on which ‘facts’ should people base their choices?

This article does not aim to provide you with ‘what is true and what is false’ because, as you’ll see later on in this article, that is completely malleable. In a sense everything can be accurate or true, depending on the reality it is based in. Rather, I intend to give you the tools and understanding required to empower yourself, to help you choose for yourself, and to navigate times like these with great joy, love, inner clarity and excitement in your heart. After all, you are the creator of your own reality.

Brian Rose Steps Up

I saw a video by Brian Rose from LondonReal.tv on his Instagram, sharing how his latest interview with David Icke (on the topic of the corona virus being a potential, or at least partial, hoax used for purposes other than those disclosed to the people) had just been banned from YouTube. He was speaking with an energy I am familiar with. He was lit up. He was activated. He was channeling some of the Shiva archetype—embodying the sword of truth, the destroyer of (false) worlds and corrupt structures and energies, and the protector of the innocent. 

Brian seemed to embody a combination of being furious, excited, honored, baffled, compassionate, reasonable and determined. Life asked him to step up within himself (and for others) in a new way. I appreciated his courage, passion and the honesty present in the vibrational state of consciousness I could feel his words flowing from. 

Although his current circumstances make him perhaps somewhat adrenaline-filled—which can lead to a bias or a leaning into the warrior/savior archetype a bit too much—it is obvious that his care for the freedom and protection of all of you is sincere. He is dedicated to you and would do what is right by you if it came down to it. I have always enjoyed his open and honest approach to interviewing his guests, and now, witnessing the way he steps up to the task of taking on a leadership position, I hereby endorse him as someone you can trust in this regard, during this time where information needs to be selectively absorbed. At least at the time of writing this, and as far as I can tell without knowing him personally. 

I don’t typically endorse people publicly. However, since this article is partially inspired by his contributions, and given that we are in a time of need for more leaders with integrity toward the well-being and fair treatment of all, I think it’s worth pointing out those whose hearts and overall balanced approach we can trust. This doesn’t mean he or people like him who are stepping up to the plate are always right. What’s more important is that you can trust their integrity and honesty. 

A Note on Leadership Roles

Most people with a message don’t have the added challenge of feeling the responsibility of representing information in a balanced way to a mixed audience. For example, David Icke is a speaker on Brian’s show. David can just make statements, claims, take on a certain position or act in the play, and embody that in a single-pointed kind of way and share his conclusions, whereas Brian has taken on the honor/duty of not just representing one particular reality or source of information, but of allowing his viewers to choose for themselves, and only loosely guiding or suggesting how to digest the information that his followers are exposed to through his platform. 

In order to perform his duty properly, Brian and people who take on similar roles need to hold a balanced view of all the information they let through their platform, and they cannot just take on a biased or opinionated approach or perspective, even if that, at times, would be easier.

He has to juggle many people’s levels of readiness for different types of information, and I commend him for doing a consistent and sincerely good job at this. It’s not always easy on the nervous system representing the viewers and juggling mixed frequencies and roles. Especially not when you also feel you have a strong message of your own, and you need to combine both roles in harmony somehow.

As far as I can see (caveat: I have not watched that many of his interviews), he does so in a balanced and sincere way. In this regard, he would actually be a great news anchor or director of an honest, largely unbiased news delivery company.

This is what I think Brian is currently experiencing. He is making an exception to his otherwise less-positioned role, now that his interview was censored, and is becoming concerned with the silencing of free speech. He needs to take on a bias, a position about it, in order to inspire his audience into understanding something that is foundational to their benefit and freedom going forward. So in order to protect the overall balance of things, he needs to take on a position rather than remain open and balanced only.

So occasionally, even mostly unbiased leaders or ‘hosts’ are asked to take on a certain position or bias or ‘position of opposition’ in order to preserve the overall balance of otherwise free and largely unbiased information. Not many people can successfully do this, since most people live, breathe, think, assume and speak only from their own personal bubble of beliefs and preferences.

Based on this positive impression I’ve had of Brian so far (and again, I have not watched a lot of his work), his Instagram video inspired me to check out his interview with David Icke. Brian seemed significantly more biased and inspired to be taking on a position and a leadership role in his Instagram video, potentially for good reasons—for the benefit-of-all. Also I personally am not buying the whole corona narrative as given to us by ‘authorities.’ And so my interest was piqued.

How To Navigate Information And Use Your Attention

I have yet to finish the last part of the two and a half hour interview with David Icke, which apparently contains the most positive or uplifting portion of the entire interview (somewhere in the last 20 minutes, or so I was told). I may check out the rest later, but for now, I want to respond to the urgent requests I feel in the hearts of many for clarity on how to navigate the information they are bombarded with, and how to most effectively utilize their free will and attention in these times in order to experience the best outcome and results.

What should you believe? Which reality is true? Whose voice should you follow or trust? Which future for humanity is most probable? Is it all set in stone or can we do something about it? Should you worry about what’s going on? Is the world’s lock-down, quarantine or mass-scale house arrest—for what statistically still seems to me to be a relatively harmless virus—an operation led by the white hats? Are major arrests of service-to-self oriented people in powerful positions taking place, using Covid-19 as the disguise or ruse needed to execute this global coup for the sake of humanity’s greater good? Or is it a further tightening of the noose by a cabal-ish group, or organization of groups, that is eager to take away as much of your individual power as possible? Are they, as David Icke refers to them, ‘the cult that runs the world’? Are your liberties being taken away? Should you act, rebel and fight, or sit down, accept and meditate? Should you fear and act (or not act), based in fear; or love and act (or not act), based in love? These are the types of questions I see popping up in people all around the world with great intensity.

Being a person with a following who has consciously shifted between several different timelines or probable versions of Earth over the past 10 years or so—shifting back and forth between them multiple times to get a taste of where each one is headed—I feel a duty to share a few understandings with those of lesser confidence in their own ability to choose their reality. Especially in the swirling time of chaos and different streams of information humanity finds itself in at the moment. I will attempt to give you a sense of how I would deal with this collective vibrational intersection if I were you.

A Swirling Vortex of Probabilities

From a vibrational, quantum mechanics, or consciousness-over-matter based perspective, we currently find ourselves in an amplified or unusually energized vibrational intersection point in space/time—a swirling vortex of probabilities, if you will. Nothing is certain and many different outcomes are probable/possible. How does one choose the most beneficial and aligned timeline or outcome?

In other words, a whole bunch of realities or paradigms that used to be entangled, seemingly static, linear, reliable, co-operative with one another, and co-existent within the same space/time reality are now being ripped apart from one another and have separated. Each of them is beginning to form its own experiential collective reality or timeline. Meaning, each of them is starting to stand on its own two feet, accumulating details, data, populous and collective agreements to further solidify as a complete, independent parallel reality.

If you are new to the concept of parallel realities, both from a spiritual as well as scientific point of view, you may find this article a bit too science-fictiony for your taste. I don’t blame you. However, it is my direct experience and conviction that there are many different, probable parallel realities for what most people currently believe is one solid, set reality or world. “It is the way it is, and something is either true or not true” is still a very popular understanding on this planet.

But what if there is no such thing as a solid, set reality? There is actually quite a bit of evidence, even in the scientific community, to suggest that the existence of parallel realities or universes is probable, and that consciousness has an effect on what manifests or appears as real and solid.

In addition to my perception that there are many parallel realities, it is also my experience that the world appears inside of consciousness, not the other way around, and that what we believe is ‘the world’ is actually a series of perceptions that lack an independent nature or reality.

Meaning, the world of form, shape, size, seeing, feeling, dimensions and experience or perception, has no basis other than consciousness—much like the dream world at night. The dream world has no basis other than mind, even though we experience it as if it exists independently from mind while we are dreaming. When we wake up, we realize that ‘the world’ we experienced in our dream state was just a series of perceptions or projections within mind, or consciousness, and that our minds were generating the entire experience of a body, a world, the senses, and the people we interacted with in our dream. But at the time of dreaming, it all presented itself as real, solid and ‘the way it really is’.

As a result of the view I hold—that the world exists as perception only and that it appears inside of, due to, and as dependent-on-consciousness—it naturally follows that the many levels of our consciousness, largely consisting of beliefs and agreements, will therefore dictate the perception (or as most call it, the ‘world’) we experience. In contrast, the more common view, the materialist’s view, is that the world is real, solid and set; that consciousness is born out of it and responds to ‘what is already independently and objectively real’.

Whether you lean more towards the matter-over-consciousness view of the world or the consciousness-over-matter view, I hope this article will empower you to feel more confident and clear regardless. Even if you don’t believe you are capable of shifting between parallel realities, you can still use this as a nice visualization to empower yourself during this time.

If you wish to gain a more precise understanding of how I see the nature of parallel realities, consciousness and perception, I recently released an hour-long talk on YouTube that takes you through it in a pretty deep and complete manner. Heads up—it contains some high-level teachings on the science of enlightenment and the deconstruction of our psychologically-produced experience of the world. So, take what resonates at this time and discard what does not. It is not a beginner’s talk.

Timeline Choices 

A few of the people I presently find myself quarantined with watched the Brian Rose and David Icke interview on LondonReal. And although I personally enjoyed the interview, I felt the potential wobbles in vibrational or spiritual alignment that such information can generate in the susceptible and sensitive viewer. So, I felt compelled to share some reminders about the nature of different timelines to balance out the somewhat negative implications suggested, or the picture painted, throughout the first hour and 40 minutes of the David Icke interview. 

This WhatsApp conversation (from April 8 2020) was in response to the David Icke interview on LondonReal: The Coronavirus Conspiracy: How Covid-19 Will Seize Your Rights & Destroy Our Economy.

See the video here while it’s still up: https://londonreal.tv/the-coronavirus-conspiracy-how-covid-19-will-seize-your-rights-destroy-our-economy-david-icke/

The piece written below is a combination of the original text as I wrote it to my local group of people, and added clarifications addressing the readers of this article more in general.

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Timeline choices! 

Regarding the interview of David Icke on LondonReal.tv, I think he shares good information overall, which will hopefully allow many people presently plugged into ‘the system’ in a sleepwalking condition to learn to think for themselves and wake up to their blind dependence on structures that are not always set up with the best of intentions. 

By example, the interview can teach you how to think for yourself. I do believe that the types of strategies Icke shared in this interview represent, to a degree, the deep state’s tactics and ruses in general, and I personally think he is on-point about a version of reality. However, the truth is that there are many timelines diverging from this station, or moment, or intersection in time/space.

This is how I would listen to David Icke’s information, and information of this type in general:

View it as a way to help you wake up to the type of thinking that has been going on behind the scenes—as a way to empower yourself to become less dependent or reliant upon the media and government—but without continuing to proliferate a negative vision into the future from now on.

Stay aware and mindful of such organized ruses and tactics, and see through the mass media messaging and psychological manipulation that has been part and parcel of the media’s efforts for decades and is still going on today. Catch and see through the psychological warfare or tactics that are potentially/probably being deployed in our collective in an organized fashion, yet do not let that drop your frequency into one of despair, victimization or hopelessness. Nobody has power over your state of being and your ability to create, choose, feel and perceive. You are free.

It is important to combine mindfulness of such tactics with a strong feeling of not being impressed or intimidated by them. Rather, continue to feel the love for all and the freedom that you have to choose your own state of being, and generate a reality out of that preferred state of being. Gravitate toward people who are also attuned to a more positive view of reality and an optimistic outcome.

There is a radical vortex of probabilities opened up at the moment and it has many different extensions, ‘arms’, timelines or directions into which you can slingshot yourself.

To put it simplistically: there is a David Icke version of Earth from this window of time onwards. There is a Q-Anon timeline or version of Earth. There is a deep state version or timeline. There is a Bashar or ET timeline. There is a Bentinho Massaro timeline. Maybe there’s even an Elvis Presley or Bruce Lee timeline still available; try it out and let us know the vibrational coordinates when you find these! 😉

And so on and so forth. Ultimately, whatever you choose to align the majority of your consciousness to will become your manifested timeline. Again I know this sounds so unrealistic and delusional to many of you, but it’s the truth. You just haven’t comprehended the mechanics of Consciousness and Creation yet to have any real or conscious context for this.

Be Mindful And Deliberate In How You Process Information

Watch what you choose to proliferate into the future and be mindful of how you process information.

Do you take it all in as solid truth? Or do you hold it lightly, extracting learning and benefit from whatever information you come across, but not falling prey to becoming a blind follower of any particular stream of information? Are you able to stay true to the highest vision that your inner being is always communicating to you? 

I personally believe that David Icke’s view as expressed in this particular interview is a largely accurate representation or example of how things have operated on certain levels of our civilization up to this point, for the last few hundred or so years. By breaking down how ‘they’ think, he teaches you how to see through the psychological warfare tactics (mass hypnotism through media, government, food, education and entertainment) for yourself and how to be less dependent upon societal structures and media influence.

This is an important step for the sheep-like masses to begin to understand at this time. If you’re still skeptical of this and fear being ridiculed as a conspiracy theorist, you’ve got another thing coming. Better to wake up to the relative facts as soon as you can and begin to unplug yourself from the IV that you’ve willingly hooked yourself up to and start being hooked up to Source, your Soul, and your Calling.

In my opinion, we and our particular community are prepared and conscious beyond the basic mainstream level of awakening. We can choose a higher timeline without having to quantum leap as much as someone from the mainstream would have to in order to experience the same levels of bliss and unity consciousness in everyday life. It comes more effortlessly and automatically to us due to our deliberate work in consciousness over the years.

To illustrate the mechanics of parallel reality jumping a bit more: Consider someone whose consciousness is largely embedded in the mainstream consciousness, mainlined on what the government and media tells them is ‘reality’. They don’t question or wonder; they see the government and media like a 2-year-old child sees mommy and daddy. 

Let’s say they watch the David Icke interview and are just beginning to wake up to the possibility that this may be the way things have been running in our version of this planet for the past many decades or so, from behind the scenes. And let’s say they want to fully experience the timeline I believe our particular group and those like us are on track to experience—which is of a significantly higher vibratory or more light-dense nature than average. To do so, they would have to dismantle their beliefs in a radical, sudden fashion, release their allegiance or dependence upon all of their conditioned memories, and somehow quantum leap into faith in a reality that is still largely invisible or hypothetical to them. This is improbable.

In contrast, we have already been creating and preparing in this way. So, for people at a level of consciousness similar to our own, it’s just a matter of continuing to stay anchored in our vision, intuition and excitement, and thus, our overall vibration or state of being. This will continue to attract the timeline we are most excited to be a part of. And we don’t need complete blind faith in some unseen reality, because we have already generated many elements of experience that are commensurate with our preferred reality; therefore less faith in an invisible reality is needed to continue to live in it and manifest it. Because our reality is already partially visible and tangible to us.

Hence: Don’t get swooped up by the David Icke timeline, whatever that may be, if that is not one that feels fully aligned to you, even if you use his information to educate yourself on certain matters and extract positive learning from it. Just use it to boost your logic and awareness of some potential relative facts and ruses so you are not fooled to follow in line with the rest of the sheep.

But vibrationally, stay fully anchored in the version of reality that is based on your love-filled, exciting vision of the potential of this planet and its people.

The Breaking Apart of Timelines

Parallel timelines or versions of Earth are beginning to break apart. A vortex of probabilities is currently active, which is somewhat analogous to, or could be visualized as, the graphic below. Roughly.

Each extended arm from this central consensus reality represents a different timeline in the making. You could visualize, for example, the existence of a version of Earth in each arm of this swirling image.

Over time (pun not intended), each timeline becomes more precise, specific, and strictly its own beam of perception, or as most people would call it: a reality. It is messy at the onset, as you can see in the picture above, and there is lots of bleed through from perceptions rooted in the other arms or timelines, but it soon crystallizes into a precise and cohesive pattern (see image below). The mess we currently find ourselves in is the temporary chaos that occurs when shifting from one crystallized reality to another. 

My essential suggestion is: Choose/create the timeline you wish to be on and don’t be fooled by the appearance of there only being one reality. This is simply not the case. There are an infinite number of parallel realities, and several ‘main’ or ‘probable’ versions that the majority of our collective will split into. Your consciousness knows intrinsically how to shift realities; in fact it’s doing it all the time without you knowing about it.

The image above represents what the vortex of probabilities feels like/looks like now: messy, chaotic, unorganized and confusing. There is still some crossover between the different arms or timelines, as they have not yet fully crystallized themselves or separated themselves from each other. At least not to the point where one is no longer able to perceive the contents of another reality.

You can still perceive all kinds of realities around you, even though they are already essentially parallel to your own in terms of the vibration that they have their root in, and they aren’t quite reaching you at your core. Bashar describes this as being able to see a reality not fully commensurate with your own, but as if through a glass wall. You can see the manifestations of those alternate realities, but they don’t directly affect your experience. Like looking at an event through your window; an event that you can perceive but it is not happening inside of your own home.

This is kind of how I recommend you sift through the information and panic and chaos that you may read, see or hear about in this window of time. Remember and feel while you are perceiving certain things which you do not prefer and disagree with at a deep level, that just because you are perceiving some of the manifestations of such realities, that does not mean it’s actually the reality that you are on.

You are still free to choose elements of each of these visible, parallel timelines to see what you wish to manifest more fully for yourself; to determine which of the extending, crystallizing arms or timelines you wish to align to and become an observer of, or a participant in. This works more powerfully if you connect with like-minded souls who feel on a deep gut level that they are on a similar timeline and share the same intuitive vision for Earth as yourself. This will help anchor this vision into your reality in more visible ways sooner, and thus you need less reliance on your ability to have sheer faith in an invisible reality. It becomes easier to believe that what you feel in your heart of hearts is true or should be true, is indeed happening and manifesting.

To continue this visualization-analogy, the image below is what the vortex of spun-out realities will feel/look like in a few years to a couple of decades from now. Each version of Earth is fully established in its own trajectory or orbit, having accumulated its own details, information, agreements, parameters, participants (observers, entities), and so forth.

This becomes established to the degree that other parallel realities will begin to fade out of your view and everything you perceive will be commensurate with—a match to—your chosen vibratory state or level of consciousness:

If you compare this image with the previous one, you will see how the arms which experienced a lot of bleed through from other realities and therefore were not very clearly defined in their own shape, are now beams of their own; clearly distinct and separate from the other timelines.

Trains Departing From The Train Station — Analogy

Another way to visualize this, which I am borrowing from Bashar, is the idea of several trains departing from a train station, slowly accelerating on their own tracks.

Their tracks are initially close to one another and the trains are slow-moving, so you are able to see the people in the other trains and get a sense of what they are experiencing. You can even hop off of your current train and run over to another train if it seems more aligned to your desires.

But as your chosen train continues to accelerate along its own track or timeline, the other trains become more and more difficult to perceive, and you quickly lose the ability to easily jump out and run over to the other trains. At a certain point, you no longer even see other trains around you, and you become fully focused on the reality inside of your current train.

In a sense, each timeline will initially seem to be represented or led by a leader or leadership of sorts, simply because that is still how people choose to digest their information and manifest their collective realities at this time.

That’s why I loosely say there is a Bashar timeline, a David Icke timeline, a mainstream media timeline, etc. It’s symbolic rather than literal. It’s not that these individuals will be at the head of such realities or that they own or dictate in any way, shape or form these realities for others. Rather, they are the most visible representatives for the particular timeline they are attuned to, and are therefore passionately describing it (typically because they believe it’s the only true reality and feel compelled to inform others who don’t seem to be aware of what they think is ‘the reality’).

Some messengers are exceptions in that they have a conscious awareness of the fact that there are many parallel realities, and what they are proposing is simply for the benefit of those listening—without believing that the reality they are promoting is the only reality.

And so, when you listen to such a representative, you are unconsciously and to a degree consciously aligning to their vision of Earth, and you will anchor more fully into the timeline they perceive and are headed into. This is why it is so important to choose what you expose yourself to. And this is why media has been such a powerful agent in shaping our collective reality, using the inherent co-creative powers of human consciousness by feeding it ‘what is true’ and ‘what is acceptable versus what is to be avoided or ridiculed.’

Once you have mastered your ability to digest information according to your own free will and chosen vibratory state, it is important that you minimize exposing your senses to information that is heavily biased toward a certain reality that your heart does not desire; because you will unconsciously align all your co-creative powers toward that type of reality. You will in effect be working using all your energy to create a reality in accordance with someone else’s vision of Earth, without knowing it and without getting paid for it :-).

So you see, the media uses you. And you have been accepting it full heartedly; otherwise you wouldn’t have done it. Now use your creative powers to join like-hearted people in their conviction in a beautiful version of Earth, an enlightened version of humanity. Unplug from the livestock feeder you have become so dependent and trusting on, learn how to stand on your own psychological and spiritual feet, meditate, and attune yourself completely and radically to a higher vision that lives in the hearts of many human beings; they are calling for it, and you can join them, show them, lead them, and strengthen the creation of such a timeline.

All Beliefs Are True

You see, ultimately all of these representatives will be proven right to a large degree in their own predictions if they continue to hang on to their perception of reality. Which does not mean that contradicting predictions made by other thought leaders or representatives were not also accurate even when these events did not seem to happen in another timeline.

Such is the nature of universal free will, the law of attraction and the existence of parallel realities or timelines. All beliefs are relatively speaking, at least to some degree, true or accurate and they will prove themselves true in some way shape or form. So it’s not about what is true or false, but rather it is about what you prefer over what you don’t prefer. What you wish to feed energy and what you wish to starve out of your experience.

It’s also a testament to the infinite creative capacity of our Infinite Creator, or Existence as it operates through our channels of consciousness and produces such perceptions, or ‘experiential realities.’ All is allowed. You Create Your Own Reality.

Again, none of these thought leaders own any of these paradigms, but their narratives are activating the innate co-creative powers inherent in mankind’s consciousness. Thus, people will follow the reality stream/timeline they are most aligned to, and will eventually manifest a fully ‘independent’ parallel version of reality commensurate with their expectations and vibratory state of being.

I personally don’t completely resonate with David Icke’s subliminal projection of the future, based on what I saw so far, although I do appreciate his willingness to inform and awaken people from their dependence on less-than-ideal leaders. To wake people up to their sleepy complacency and how they are being used by their own free will, seemingly against their own free will (we have agreed to stay asleep and dependent). This is the first step in awakening for many people currently still hooked up to the live stock feeder, or IV, provided by your loving media and governments or shadow governmental projects and organizations.

The picture of reality and the future expectation that this interview almost inevitably paints feels much heavier or negative than my own foreseen timeline of Earth, and mainly for this reason, I caution viewers to be aware of how they choose what to believe. I still generally recommend watching the interview, but with a disclaimer, which is basically this article. And this same disclaimer applies to everything you watch, I’m just using this excellent, albeit somewhat negatively focused interview.

All this being said, I haven’t seen the last hour of the interview yet, so my assesment may not be 100% fair or complete, as I have heard that this last part is much more in harmony with what people like myself have been sensing and creating or aligning to.

So without having seen it, I would suggest that if you do watch the interview, you watch it all the way through to the end to make sure you end on the positive, uplifting note and vision—and keep in mind and stay aware of everything I have shared here.

Be aware of how you digest and process the information, and of when you choose to believe something or paint a picture in your mind of a potential future. If it is negative, shift it to a positive conviction and image. Reconnect to your heart.

Each arm or timeline of this outwards spiraling vortex is created kind of like this:

The white bird signifies a thought-leader representing a particular narrative or version of Earth and its potential, and the followers are those agreeing to that reality by aligning to the thought leader’s information and view—and effectively co-creating that narrative.

Jumping Timelines or Parallel Realities

Someone in the group asked the question: Can we jump between timelines?

We currently do this all the time in unseen ways, because some of the realities are still close enough to one another that we have the ability to ‘bump into’ them or see them as if from a distance. If we become too engaged or focused on these perspectives, we will move closer and closer to that reality (law of attraction will draw it to us), and our perception of these events and narratives will begin to feel closer and closer to our actual direct experience. Like inviting an event or stranger into your home, rather than looking them jog by on the street outside your window.

Due to the somewhat unique nature of timelines splitting up during the ascension or ‘energization window’ in which I believe our solar system presently finds itself, these realities will move further and further apart from one another, as if ripped apart, over the course of months, years, etc. It will become more and more difficult to see the effects or manifestations of the other timelines, just like you are presently unaware of timelines that are already too far removed from your own vibratory state of consciousness and what you expect to see as ‘real’. There are an infinite number of events and realities currently co-existing in the eternal Now, of which you are not at all aware because you are attuned to the vibration and manifestation that you perceive and expect to see.

So effectively, the ability to unconsciously, or non-deliberately, jump significantly distinct timelines will become less and less probable, simply because you are becoming more and more slung into the orbit of a reality commensurate with your consciousness’ expectations. Evidence of other options will begin to disappear from view more and more.

A few years from now, for example, a significant, conscious leap, backed with great conviction and a large dose of faith in something invisible would be needed to shift the version of the Earth one is experiencing as their own. 

The less the elements or manifestations of a parallel reality are perceivable to you, the less data you have to consciously choose from, and so you’d need a leap of faith in the invisible potential of a reality of your preference in order to make a significantly distinct parallel timeline visible to you.

This is possible, but since most people are always focused on their circumstances (and one’s consciousness and vibration takes on the shape of what one is looking at and has already manifested), they therefore repeat similar patterns for a long time and change comes slowly. They have not yet discovered the ability to truly turn their attention within, realize the power and freedom of their own consciousness, and shift their awareness into an altogether different timelines in a more deliberate way. 

As a result of not knowing this ability very well, a quantum leap between very distinct parallel versions of Earth past this ‘energization window’ or intersection of opportunity, is not probable for most. Unless they begin to train themselves in the ways of consciousness directly.

And thus, this window of timelines splitting apart is most valuable, since you are still given many elements from different timelines, almost like colors on a painter’s palette, to choose from and to decide which reality your true inner being or heart prefers. Right now it’s still relatively easy to choose between them because several of the main, or most probable, timelines are still visible to you in your current timeline. But that window is quite rapidly closing. 

From a vibrational perspective, in my opinion this year represents a closing of a certain range of probable options of sorts. Our collective is effectively splitting up into different collectives, each with their own distinct manifest reality.

Choosing now is important and should be done with as much joy and belief in one’s own capacity to do so as possible. I have announced or predicted this window several times over the past five years, and I hope those who listened already began making their choices a while ago, so that the present state of affairs is not as confusing to them as it is to most, and the ability to shift and choose comes easily.

But to the fully conscious and trained adept of the power of consciousness, quantum leaping is ever possible and one is less dependent upon the timeline one finds oneself surrounded by. In truth, one is never stuck in any particular reality; one only chooses to stay there.

Notice When You Are Feeling Heavy — Meditate and Have Faith Instead

Not to out anyone personally, but here is a good example for everyone to learn from: I have felt from a person in our group (name withheld) the tendency to worry about the state of the world, and when he exposes himself to information like this interview, or the Q-Anon material, it slows down his vibration. He starts researching all kinds of information, but with a sense of neediness or hope for solutions within an already chosen, essentially self-generated problem-drenched timeline. This is a liability of sorts, and an unconscious or only partially conscious—and still somewhat disempowered—approach to choosing one’s preferred timeline and vibrating in correspondence with it. 

And others in the group do this too in their own ways. They lose their own ground or high-level playing field because they are exposed to negative information. They then generate the heavy sense that there is one ‘real’ reality out there to which they are a slave or victim to, inside of which one has to ‘cope’ and ‘figure things out’. You can tell when you are doing this by the way you feel when you consider ‘reality.’ Do you feel excited about the reality you believe is out there? If not, your heart and soul is messaging you that you are not focused on the ideal timeline or reality for your journey. If you feel depressed thinking about the world, it means you believe there is a solid, single version of the world out there, and that you are forced to align to its reality.

This makes you feel heavy, because it’s not true or aligned to what’s possible for you. Instead, meditate, detach from the believe in one solid reality, and begin to trust in your heart’s vision and excitement for the fact that everything is possible and that there are many, infinite, beautiful parallel timelines of Earth that you can begin to shift into by having faith in your gut feeling of their existence. Stay focused on what your heart truly prefers, and you will begin to see evidence of it manifest more and more.

But you see, worrying about the state of the world means you’ve already chosen that world as your own! So who are you blaming or trying to fight? You are fighting only with what you have already chosen; you are fighting yourself, your own choice. Ultimately, there is no enemy to your free will. Not ultimately. I know it seems this way in so many regards, but it is ultimately all by choice. Even unconsciousness in many ways is a choice.

Those anchored in such timelines will see this approach as delusional, precisely because they believe the world is a real, fixed, solid reality. But the enlightened ones know there is no such thing. It is all a sequence of self-chosen illusions or a series of perceptions within consciousness. And the perceptions always change when the entity changes their state of consciousness, their convictions, their beliefs, and especially when they begin to consciously and deliberately utilize the powers innate in their very own awareness.

And so it requires a decent level of enlightenment to be able to be informed by something like the David Icke interview—which I feel excited about personally and think it’s great information overall as far as it can go—and yet not believe in the world this informs you about or suggests is real. This is a paradox that requires a certain level of mastery over one’s own consciousness and free will in order to do effectively, and since most people don’t have this mastery yet, I feel the desire to remind you of the principles I have laid out in this message, so you can be selective with what streams of information you expose yourself to.

The key is to take what truly resonates, acknowledge but leave out of your home that which does not resonate with your heart, and add what is uniquely your own desire and intuition, and begin to radiate from that place of vision and conviction. All else will follow suit.

Stay powerful within your own beingness. Stay alert and do not be distracted by smoke and mirrors of other realities and other agendas. Keep your heart wide-open and full of love and faith, even while staying alert to not falling prey to misinformation, deceit, or deployed ruses.

This is your right, your power and your freedom. I hope you all choose to align your vibrations to the vision of Earth that resonates most deeply for you. Believe in the version of Earth you want to grow old in, and that you would want to bring your children into. In fact, focus on the version of Earth you would want to see for all living beings!

All that we perceive as being ‘manifested’ or ‘real’ is vibrationally chosen first. Choose the highest for everyone by tuning your own attention to this inner reality first. This is how all things are created in the first place, so why not be the creator instead of a slave or consumer by your own choice?

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Remember: Meditate. Silence all information frequently, and turn your consciousness within. Begin to listen to the preferred reality and timeline that your Inner Being or Higher Self is ever guiding you toward. Pay less attention to what others say, and more attention to what your Inner Being is whispering into your heart on a second to second basis. Its vision and power never abandons you. You just need to learn to become quiet and listen more frequently.

I hope this helps, my friends. My condition-free love is ever with you, being beamed toward you. Your own infinite potential radiates into your consciousnesses from within like an inexhaustible sun of endless love, light and benefit. May you turn more frequently within, silence all external and mental information, and receive directly the guidance and clarity that is already available within your ever-present, true Self. 

Bentinho Massaro

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