1. Find a hobby that will get you out of the house and around people. Isolation is how they limit your thinking. Other people expose you to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives.

2. Now that you’re “woke” you need to come to terms with the fact that people wake up at their own pace. Just because you’ve seen the light doesn’t mean you can pull the wool from other’s eyes.

3. You need to curate a list of reliable sources. For me, I don’t really take any sensationalist science or astronomy news seriously until I hear established voices I’m familiar with talking about them. With politics its a little less straight forward, but the same principle applies.

4. Educate yourself. Learn about the mechanisms that these cycles operate on top of. Learn methods of critical thinking. Learn the scientific method, learn the basics of money over time, learn how stocks/mortgages/bonds/real-estate functions. If you know nothing about how the world actually works than you’ll never be able to discern a liar from a valid source.

5. Focus on building and contributing to your immediate community. It will help ground you in more ways than I can describe.

Interested in learning more about U.S. domestic policy? https://www.federalregister.gov/ Stay informed, stay aware. If you know the laws and policy they’re putting forward, you can do something about it.

Want to learn a bit more about international policy and events? https://news.un.org/en/

Here’s a take you are unlikely to encounter among establishment people:

Normally, people think only in the “other humans” category, when they think of “trust”.

That is like the 2D error that some people make, when fighting in 3D ( submarines, space-ships, etc: it is an actual trope )

Instead of thinking in 2D, think in 3D:

or 4D…

The difference between a disintegrating-corpse & a growing-organism isn’t the neutrons, the protons, or the electrons in it: they’re identical between the 2 bodies.

So, something is distorting the behavior of the electromagnetic-force, to make the chemical evolutions be consistently different, between the 2 bodies … & that difference can be called Spirit.

( xor you can call it the mixture of entanglement & probability-wave, if you like: the label is irrelevant, its reality must be acknowledged, by empiricists: the difference is measurable between the 2 bodies, & that measurable, consistent-difference MUST have a cause )

So, now add-in “down” & “up” dimensions…

Do you trust your pet megalodon ( or whatever kind of pet you have )?

Probably, right?

They aren’t viewing you as prey from the dimensions-of-human-evil, are they?

narcissism / machiavellianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / nihilism / sadism / systemic-dishonesty / displacement-of-objectivity / displacement-of-considered-reasoning

are all dimensions of human-evil. There may well be more, but those ones I’m now certain-of.

The psychology-profession only allows 3 ( The Dark Triad ), for the most part.

So, your pet is trustworthy because they’re your friend, & they’re simple, right?

There is an interesting truth in the book “Willpower” by Beaumeister…

Beaumeister identifies that the evidence demonstrates that people who are being crushed ( by addiction ) have to surrender-to-higher-power to wipe-out their enemy-of-their-life.

But Beaumeister doesn’t accept the evidence is true, because he does not accept that as true.

IOW, it’s ideological, for him.

Scientism rejects that, so those in Scientism reject that.

Scientism isn’t Science, however: as Feynman stated “if the experiment contradicts the theory, that proves the theory is wrong”.

Surrendering-to-higher-power WORKS, proveably.

So, is there anything which prevents greater-than-human spirit ( wisdom, intelligence, magnitude, spirituality ) from existing?

I don’t see anything that could do it…

ONCE one accepts that spirits are, THEN accepting that spirits can be diverse … makes sense, right?

So, why not rely-on universal LivingSpirit, itself?

I’m NOT talking about some religious entity.

I’m NOT talking about some ethnically or politically motivated force-of-nature.

I’m talking about a simple, all-pervading spirit which helps ones who surrender-to, & rely-on, it, its simple way.

Now here’s the thing:

Imagine a competition between narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopaths, vs universal-healing-Livingspirit…

Who would win?

Remember the war adage: “Whomever controls the SKY, commands the WAR.”?

All the problems I had trusting LivingSpirit, through the decades, seem to have been caused by the Abrahamic-religions’ imprinting of me with their assumptions & prejudices ( Mom was Catholic, & she got custody, thankfully )

Once I let go of the cultural-prejudices ( like G-D somehow being an insecure male bully, who was intolerant of my-validity ), then it became easier, & the more I rely on LivingSpirit, the easier everything gets…

That’s a simple experiment: it takes little effort, but some spirituality, & the patience to entrust a many-months or few-years process to show its true-nature…

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What is the difference in intent between human-evil & LivingSpirit?

human-evil wants power-over-others, concentration-of-all-wealth-&-privilege, others-being-only-puppets, exclusive-validity, etc…

LivingSpirit wants the living ( all of 'em ) to experience healing, tranquility, spiritual-grace, vitality, happiness, delight, learning, understanding, etc…

What is the difference in method between human-evil & LivingSpirit?

human-evil works opportunistically to undermine, to sabotage, to butcher, to shatter, to murder, LivingValidity, LivingWorth, LivingPotential, LivingOpportunity, LivingJustice, LivingTruth, etc…

( the variants VitalPotential might make more sense to you: I’m using Living- because it fits best for my mind … but you alter this so it fits your perceptions, see? : )

LivingSpirit simply offers, universally, & ones who learn how LivingSpirit works, & earn working-with LivingSpirit, gain more & more healing & release-from-crushing-suffering.

What about “conspiracy”? If they’re competing-against-each-other, or are opponents, they must conspire against each-other, right?

Well, not quite…

human-evil does conspire, but much of that is simply unconscious-conspiracy/convention! Prejudice is a perfect example of that.

The convention of prejudice does the conspiring, so therefore legalism can “judge” that prejudice didn’t conspire…

LivingSpirit? well, it seems all-pervading, so it feels what all lives truly-need, & simply flows in ways that work toward healing/uprighting all lives…

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I experienced the sentience-state Bodhichitta, once, some years ago…

that let me experience something more similar-to LivingSpirit’s sentience, for a second or 2…

LivingSpirit would walk right into a demon’s face, being total-compassion for the deranged-life that was making harm in all possible ways, … out of concern for that-life…

( & the demon would be powerless to harm the Bodhichitta-one because of how total/pure that kind-of-mind is: that demon would HATE being subject to such seeing-through-everything compassion )

It’s really hard to map that kind of sentience onto human-experience, because it’s sooo total, & pure.

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Anyways, all of this is simply to say that I’ve given-up trusting ( being close to/with ) anybody, human or animal, because of the prejudice I’ve been, AND been-subjected-to, & that’s fine with me.

I’ve got relationship with LivingSpirit, to the degree that I can muster, & I trust LivingSpirit.

& that is wonderfully healing.

& seeing how creatures of all kinds & sizes, including insects, are just trying to live their lives & make their lives better according to their feelings, same as humans, … one ends-up having compassion for lives more-universally, which itself is healing…

Letting-go of the involvement-torque, the political-motivation, is healing…

Letting-go of humankind, embracing pure-spirit-itself, can be sooo freeing & healing.

Wishing you your healing, & just identifying that yes, continuums/souls do evolve, even when it looks from human timescale like that never happens, they do.

All the Abrahamic-religion stuff about “forever” … doesn’t match the evidence: ALL of G-D’s children ( souls ) “return home”.

Without exception.

Some are more “wayward” than others, but none get discarded, as the Abrahamic-religions proclaimed nearly-all did.

That is what destroyed the Abrahamic-religions for me: I discovered that some deep-trance memories were from my soul’s other kinds of lives, & that my soul didn’t care about individual-deaths… that took years to adapt-to…

& every time my fundamental-assumptions got smashed by evidence, I had to adapt/evolve again…

& now … I just roll-with-it, evolving.

Universe’s rules are universal, not ethnic/political/local/machiavellianist.

It does its thing, & souls … get caught in lives … & eventually get the hang of their-own kind’s growing-up.

Trust higher-evolution, though: trust your own Soul’s higher-truth, & that can be freeing/liberating.

There’s no rule that says “only other-humans” can be whom/what you trust, is there?

Trust the universal origin-of-all-healing, whatever your label/name for it is, & it’ll lift your “wings” into your sky, more, in concordance with your skill & your meaning-it.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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Welcome to the Internet. Hopefully, I read as a good person. I am not a bot.

I lived as a young adult through Bush II. 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Halliburton, Blackwater, and loads of corruption. It was tough to trust anything then. The goal was pure profit.

Apparently, Dubya was the warm-up presidency for this shit.

First, let me share a clip from Margin Call, 2011.

As long as the prevailing mode has been capital, there has been speculation. As long as there has been speculation, there have been lying liars who exploit the system.

The last few pump and dump bubbles he mentioned (1987, 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2008) are all market crashes I can remember. The market is a casino. Crashes since '08 include 2010 (Flash Crash), 2015 (sell-off), 2018 (cryptocrash), 2020 (Covid), 2022 (Ukraine War), and 2025 (tariffs).

These were once “once in a lifetime” events.

Second, everything in the world is designed to generate more:

• self-serving, self-centered, selfish

• short-term-focused

• extroverted, charismatic, vain

• action-oriented

• thoughtless

psychopaths and sociopaths. This ethos runs things because of profit motives, monopolies on the exercise of violence, and the development of contemporary morés rooted in exploitation, expropriation, and (deemed) externalities of colonialism. Identifying some humans as “the other” makes much more inhumanity possible.

So, I’m here to tell you, it’s real alright. What you’re feeling is real. What you’re feeling against is real. We are immersed in it. Algorithms are doing their best to lock it in.

Finally, what to do and who to trust.

Establish your own moral center. Decide what matters to you. Find those who are telling the most truth, especially when tested. Demogogues fall apart under examination. Lies fall apart when questioned. The unchallenged authority is no authority at all. Get the receipts; find primary sources as often as possible. Seek those who share at great personal cost.

For me, it started with Star Trek. Then, hip-hop. Then, journalists I could trust. Even films that challenge prevailing narratives. I read a lot of books from many perspectives.

20 years later, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Henry A. Giroux, Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, and Noam Chomsky have never wavered. Films like The Insider, Erin Brockovich, and The Corporation light a fire in me. I’m rewatched David Simon and Barry Levinson’s Homicide: Life on the Street and, hilariously, Murphy Brown.

Challenge the prevailing narratives. You’re not alone.