In this incredibly important, 4-minute video, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticizes the Democratic Party elites for undermining the democratic process. He highlights the DNC’s plans to punish states where President Biden lost in 2020, which he believes could disenfranchise millions of voters. RFK Jr. expresses concerns over the DNC’s secretive strategies that could overshadow the popular vote. Reflecting on America’s democratic history, he urges citizens to sign this “Demand a Fair Vote” petition before the DNC’s pivotal vote on September 14th:

https://fairvote.kennedy24.com/

TRANSCRIPT (RFK Jr.)

In a real democracy, every citizen has the same prized possession: their vote. That vote gives you a say in whether you can earn a good living, whether your kids have access to decent schools, whether they’ll be sent to war, and whether they’ll get health care. When democracy crumbles, citizens become more like serfs. They labor under laws that are made by oligarchs and elites. They work two jobs for barely livable pay. They get taxed to fund Wall Street, wars, and bank bailouts. Your vote is your power, and right now the Democratic Party elites are trying to take it away from you.

At the order of President Biden, the DNC is punishing states where President Biden lost in 2020. He came in fourth, for example, in Iowa and finished last in New Hampshire. So, the DNC is trying to move those states out of their historic first slots and start instead with South Carolina, where President Biden finally won his first victory. What are you going to do about RFK Jr?

“I’m very, very proud of the president, and we’re going to get it done for him and Kamala Harris in this primary and again in the general election.” ~ DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison

Those changes violate state laws, so the legislatures can’t comply with the plan. But do you know who the real losers are? You are. You’re going to lose your right to vote in a free and fair election.

Based upon the DNC’s plan, if you live in the state of New Hampshire or Iowa, your vote just won’t count. And Georgia too, by the way. In that state, they want to kick anyone off the ballot if they campaign in New Hampshire. These crooked measures will disenfranchise millions of citizens. These people will be robbed of their votes just because the elites say so.

And it’s not only voters in a handful of states that the DNC is trying to silence; it’s every voter in every state. So how do they plan to do that?

Well, there’s another rule that the committee is drafting behind closed doors, and it’s similar to a trick that they used to kick Bernie Sanders out in 2016. They’re flooding the convention with party operatives with opaque names like PLEOs and automatic delegates whose job is to drown out the popular vote. Once the PLEOs and automatic delegates arrive at the Chicago convention next summer, the vote tallies all change, and the People’s Choice can be overturned in an instant. I could win two-thirds of the popular vote and still be denied the nomination.

That’s not democracy. That’s theater.

When I was growing up, this country was the democratic light of the world. We were the exemplar. We were the template for all the other nations on Earth. This is what democracy looked like. We did it better than anybody. Based on our example, dozens upon dozens of new democracies took root in every corner of the Earth. But when we deny citizens their right to vote, and when we rig the process in favor of insiders, then the flames of democracy flicker, and someday soon, it will go out.

The good news is that these rules don’t take effect until the DNC votes on them on September 14th. So let’s use our power while we still have it. It’s time to demand a fair primary process where every vote counts equally, and the candidate who gets the most votes wins the nomination. That’s the democracy we learned about at school. That’s the democracy that people around the world yearn for. That’s the democracy that we now have to fight to protect. Whomever you plan to vote for next year, now is the time to tell the DNC that you want democracy back in the Democratic Party. Add your name to the “Demand a Fair Vote” petition below:

https://fairvote.kennedy24.com/

Please use your voice while you still can.

I’m Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I appreciate your help.

“How easy is it for you to shift your belief system from ‘I totally believe in my government to ‘Oh My God! What’s going on?’  That’s exactly where I went in all of this.” – Albert N. Stubblebine III

At the time of the interview, Albert N. Stubblebine III was a retired Major General in the United States Army. (Sadly, Albert passed away on February 6, 2017.) He was the commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984.  In this compelling interview, Stubblemine reveals the following information (what he calls “dots”) about the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001:

• Stubblebine initially believed the official story regarding 9/11.
• Then, he saw the hole in the Pentagon. He can prove that the Pentagon was not hit by a Boeing 757. DOT.
• All of the sensors around the Pentagon were turned off except one. That one sensor captured an image of the object that hit the Pentagon.  It looked like a missile.  But, after he went public, the imagery was changed to look like a plane. DOT.
• The collapse of the twin towers was caused by controlled demolition – not the fuel from the airplane. DOT.
• Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the WTC complex, admitted that building 7, which was not hit by a plane and had only a small fire, was intentionally “pulled” – which is word used for controlled demolition.  DOT.
• All of the air defense systems around Washington DC were turned off that day. DOT.
• Also on 9/11, there was an exercise designed to mimic an attack on the towers by airplanes.  DOT.
• When you connect the DOTs, the picture says that what we were told by the media was not the real story.
• Stubblebine, visibly upset, describes how he felt when he realized the truth about his government after having a strong belief in his country since early childhood: “My belief system was so strong from age five when I could remember standing on a parade ground at attention with not anybody telling me to do that – at West Point.”

Below are some notes from the interview including a partial transcript. (Be sure to watch all the way to the end, where you can see the deep hurt on his face when he recalled the moment that he realized that his government, the government that he proudly served for over 30 years, was not what he thought was):

5:15 Stubblebine hears about the 9/11 attacks: “We’re at war.”

6:00 Stubblebine said there must have been intelligence information to know that an attack was coming and we didn’t see the signals.  Somebody missed it.

6:35 He initially believed that it was a terrorist attack done by other forces: “Not my government.”

7:45 Stubblebine then saw a photo of the Pentagon showing the hole in the Pentagon supposedly made by a Boeing 757.  “Something’s wrong. There is something wrong with this picture…”

8:30 “Well there was something wrong. And, so I analyzed it not just photographically, I did measurements… I checked the plane, the length of the nose, where the wings were… I took measurements of the Pentagon – the depth of the destruction in the Pentagon.”

9:05 “Conclusion: airplane did not make that hole.”

9:10” I went public at the time. I am the highest-ranking officer, I believe, that has ever gone public… The official story was not true.”

9:25 “I was very careful to not say what it was because I couldn’t prove it. I was careful to say that it was not the airplane that did that, because I can prove that it was not the airplane.”

9:45 “In the hole, however, was a turbine that looked like a turbine from the missile… I can’t prove that, I don’t know. But there was something there that did not look like the engine from an airplane, but did look like a turbine from a missile.”

10:10 “Later I saw another photograph taken by one of the sensors on the outside of the Pentagon. Now, all of the sensors had been turned off, which is kind of interesting – isn’t it? That day, why would all of the sensors around the Pentagon be turned off? That’s strange. I don’t care what the excuse is.  That’s strange. There happened to be one that apparently did not get turned off. And in that picture, coming in, flying into the Pentagon, you see this object, and it obviously hits the Pentagon.  When you look at it, it does NOT look like an airplane.  Sometime later, after I’d gone public, that imagery was changed. It got a new suit around it that now looked like an airplane. But, when you take the suit off, it looks more like a missile – not like an airplane.”

11:30 “Let me go back to the next very important piece of information.  The amount of energy to melt the girders – the steel in the tower – cannot be gotten to a melt point with the fuel that was in the airplane.  Not possible!  So, any melting did not occur as a result of the hit from the airplane.  Point. I call it dot. OK?  DOT.”

12:10 “When you look at the tower coming down, what you see at each floor is successive puffs of smoke: puff, puff, puff, puff… all the way down. Where are the puffs of smoke coming from? Well, they claim that they are from the collapsing floors… No. No. No. Those puffs of smoke are controlled demolitions. That’s exactly what they are because that’s exactly how they work. And so, the fact that the airplane hit, it did, it did not cause that collapse of the building.  The collapse of the building was caused by controlled demolition.”

13:05 “Fact: Building 7 – Silverberg, I believe is the name of the owner…” (his name is actually Larry Silverstein), “…was on a video and you could see Building 7.  And, there was a fire in Building 7, there’s no doubt about that. No airplane hit it.  I assume that the fire came from some debris, but I’m not even sure of that.  But, in the lower right-hand corner of the building was a fire – not a very big fire. It didn’t appear to be out of control. It certainly was in a small part of the building.  But, then he is heard on the video and he says Pull it.  Then, the building collapsed. What does pull it mean?  Let me tell you.  That’s the order for controlled demolition.  That is the phraseology that’s used for blowing up something.”

CLN Editorial note: Stubblebine got a little mixed up with his facts regarding the Silverstein video, which you can see here.  The video is a PBS interview with Silverstein that was shot sometime after 9/11.   The footage of Building 7 going down is historical footage, not live during the interview.  Nonetheless, Silverstein does say that he gave the order to “pull it.”

15:00 All of the air defense systems in that part of the country had been turned off that day.  All of the air defense systems had been turned off… Why would you turn off all of the air defense systems on that particular day unless you knew that something was going to happen? It’s a dot.  It’s information. But, it’s strange that everything got turned off that day.  DOT.”

15:50 There was an exercise that was designed for the air defense systems that was an attack on the towers by airplanes.  Isn’t that strange that we had an exercise that mimicked what really happened?  Strange that we had planned an exercise that was exactly what happened. And, at the same time, the air defense systems were turned off.  Don’t you find that strange? I find that really strange?  DOT.  Just a piece of information.

16:50 “But how does it correlate with everything else? So, you see the dots.  You have all of these dots. They’re just bits of information.  But, that’s exactly how the intelligence world works.  You get a bit of information here. A bit here, and a bit here. And, pretty soon you’ve got a picture. To me, what does the picture say?  The picture says that what we heard and were told in the newspapers, the media, was not the real story. There’s enough doubt in the official story where the story is absolutely not consistent with what happened. They paint a different picture than the one that was given to the media.”

17:45 “How easy is it for you to shift your belief system from ‘I totally believe in my government to ‘Oh My God! What’s going on?’  That’s exactly where I went in all of this. Because my belief system was so strong from age five when I could remember standing on a parade ground at attention with not anybody telling me to do that – at West Point. I did it because I wanted to do it – because I believed! And then going to the military academy and serving, defending…

18:30 The real story was, I have a question I guess. The real story to me is: who was the real enemy? Who participated in this? Who planned this attack? Why was it planned? Were the real terrorists the people in Arab clothing? Or, were the real people that planned this the people sitting in the authority in the White House?

Physical Evidence and Eyewitness Testimony That A Missile Hit The Pentagon – NOT a Boeing 757

The following physical evidence and eyewitness testimony is presented in detail below, most of which is video footage:

1. Analysis of the physical damage to the Pentagon and lack of debris. You can’t fit a 125 foot wide Boeing 757 into a hole 16 feet wide.  The theory that the plane vaporized is idiotic.  And, what happened to the wings that allegedly sheared off?  DOT
2. The official story of how the plane arrived at the Pentagon by making a 270 degree turn at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour is absurd.  A Boeing 757 could not possibly perform that maneuver according to experts.   DOT
3. AA Flight 77 was lost from radar as early as 8:56 a.m. and then allegedly reappeared 36 minutes later at 9:32 am. According to Danielle O’Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles International Airport, the plane that showed up on the radar was not Flight 77: “The speed, the maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that it was a military plane.”   DOT
4. No unknown aircraft are allowed within 50 miles of the Pentagon.  The Pentagon has its own anti-aircraft missiles that should have fired to protect the building. Only a military aircraft with a special IFF transponder (identifying it as a friend) would have been allowed to approach the Pentagon.   DOT
5. CNN reporter on the scene shortly after the impact saying that there was no evidence of a plane hitting the Pentagon.   DOT
6. Aerial footage showing no debris (confirming the report by the CNN reporter), plus more analysis showing the size of a Boeing 757 compared to the size of the hole in the Pentagon.  Recall also that the initial hole was only 16 feet wide and the CNN reporter said that the Pentagon structure did not collapse until about 45 minutes after impact.   DOT
7. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 9/11 Commission Member Timothy Roemer both saying that a MISSILE was used on the Pentagon.   DOT
8. Analysis of the Pentagon video footage of the alleged Boeing 757 (it certainly doesn’t look like a Boeing 757) hitting the Pentagon that concludes it was faked.   DOT
9. A leaked video showing a missile hitting the Pentagon.   DOT
10. Expert testimony that a high radiation reading near Pentagon indicated that a “depleted uranium warhead may have been used”  DOT
11. Two witnesses who were at the Pentagon who said there was no debris or jet fuel, and another witness who “was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane.” DOT
12. KEY POINT. Many people reported seeing a low-flying plane heading towards the Pentagon.  Thanks to a series of videotaped interviews with multiple witnesses by the Citizens Investigation Team, we find out that: (a) a plane did approach the Pentagon, but it was smaller than a Boeing 757, and it approached from a different angle than reported by the 9/11 commission; (b) the plane did not actually hit the Pentagon, but instead flew past the Pentagon at under 200 feet – immediately after the missile hit; (c) the downed flag poles at the Pentagon were staged, which was admitted by the taxi driver whose taxi was supposedly hit by one of the falling poles. DOT

Connecting the dots, a very clear picture emerges: (a) American Airlines Flight 77 (a Boeing 757) disappeared from radar and never re-appeared; (b) instead, a smaller military craft appeared on radar 36 minutes later that was capable of performing a difficult maneuver and could approach the Pentagon without being shot down; (c) a low-flying military craft approached the Pentagon but merely flew past the Pentagon immediately after the Pentagon was struck by a missile.

CNN Reporter: “There is NO Evidence of a Plane Having Crashed Anywhere Near the Pentagon”

Jamie Mcintyre, CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent at the time, was at the Pentagon shortly after it was hit. Here’s what he reported:

“From my close-up inspection, there is no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon… The only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, a fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse. Even though if you look at the pictures of the Pentagon you see that the floors have all collapsed, that didn’t happen immediately, it wasn’t until almost about forty-five minutes later that the structure was weakened enough that all of the floors collapsed.”

More Visual Evidence (Including Aerial Footage) Indicating That No Plane Hit the Pentagon on 9/11

In the video below, pay close attention to the aerial footage that begins at the 4:25 mark and especially the closeup shot at 4:50.  Where is the plane debris?  The footage shows exactly what McIntyre described: there was no plane debris.

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Leaked Footage of What Actually DID Hit the Pentagon

Undeniable Proof a Plane did NOT Hit the Pentagon on 9/11

(“National Security Alert – 9/11 Pentagon Event” originally released on 15 Jun 2009)

Citizen Investigation Team offers this compilation of independently verifiable evidence exposing the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon as a psychological black operation of deception. Consider this a non-violent call to action as everyone is encouraged to copy and distribute this conclusive evidence to media, political, and authority figures while first requesting, and then demanding a response. Inaction by authorities and media to this information amounts to a crime of obstruction of justice so it’s time they are held accountable. This is particularly the case as more innocents are slaughtered and additional billions of dollars are spent on a fraudulent “war on terror” perpetuated under any other name. Please visit CitizenInvestigationTeam.com for full resources and a step-by-step strategy as to how you can take action on this critical life or death information.

See ALL of the videos by the Citizen Investigation Team HERE.

Below are some of the key findings by the Citizen Investigation Team:

• We are shown images and animation of the path that the plane must have taken in order to knock over five light poles and damage the Pentagon in the manner that it did, which is the official story. The location of the downed light poles is important because it establishes the required location and trajectory of the plane down to the foot.
• Interviews with the first two witnesses (Edward Paik and Terry Morin), who were positioned on the south side of the Navy Annex (vantage point #1) as the plane flew over. Both Edward and Terry saw the plane fly directly over the Navy annex to the north of the “official” path.
• Of particular significance is the interview with Morin, an aviator and a program manager for SPARTA Inc at the Navy Annex. Initially, Morin was between the wings of the Navy annex, so he could only see the plane as it “flew over the top of me.” Morin than ran over to get a better view and watched the plane for 13-18 seconds. Morin, as an aviator, disputed the official report that the plane was flying 460 knots. Instead, Morin says that the plane was only flying at a speed of around 350 knots.
• Interviews with three witnesses who were at the CITGO gas station (vantage point #2) on 9/11 when a low-flying plane flew by.
• Robert Turcios, CITGO station employee, saw the plane on the north side of the station and initially thought the plane was going to crash onto the street between the station and the Pentagon, but saw the plane “lift and go up a little bit.” He did not see the plane hit the Pentagon.
• In addition, Pentagon Police officers Chadwick Brooks and William Lagasse each confirm that the low-flying plane flew by on the north side of the CITGO station.
• Morin and Lagasse independently draw a nearly identical, flight path lines showing an approach to the north of the CITGO station.
• Next, an interview with a witness who was located on the north side of the Navy Annex (vantage point # 3) on 9/11 is shown. William Middleton Sr., an Arlington Cemetery employee, said that he plane was coming straight down Southgate road on the north side of the Navy annex. Middleton also said that he could see the plane dropping in altitude and that it came so close to where he was standing that he could feel the heat from the plane. In addition, Middleton said that the plane was traveling at a “slow” rate of speed, corroborating what Terry Morin had said.
• After the interview with Middleton, interviews with Arlington Cemetery employees Darrell Stafford and Darius Prather, who was positioned at the Arlington Cemetery maintenance buildings (vantage point # 4) on 9/11 are shown. Both said that a plane was coming directly at them and that after barely clearing the Navy Annex building, the plane continued descending and at the same time was banking to the right. The banking of the plane to the right is irreconcilable with NTSB data, physical damage to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon security video.
• This video segment starts with an interview of another Arlington Cemetery employee, Donald Carter, who was also positioned at the Arlington Cemetery maintenance buildings (vantage point # 4) on 9/11. Carter’s testimony is similar to that of his co-workers, Stafford and Prather.
• Next, an interview with Sean Boger is shown. Boger, a heliport air traffic controller, was in the Pentagon heliport tower that is located directly in front of the Pentagon (vantage point # 5) on 9/11. Boger said: “I just happened to be looking out the window. And, as I was looking out the window, I could see a plane… The plane was coming directly at us… You know I fell to the ground and I covered my head.”
• Boger stated that he saw a plane come over the Navy Annex and bank right toward the Pentagon. Based on the amount of time he watched the plane after he first saw it, the plane was traveling significantly slower than 460 knots.
• From five vantage points, 13 eyewitnesses independently and unanimously confirm a north side approach. A drawing is shown depicting the paths drawn by the witnesses. The eyewitness testimony contradicts the official reports that are required to make the official story plausible.
• All of the eyewitnesses have worked in the area for many years and are therefore very familiar with the topology and landmarks. Since the release of their interviews in the public domain, all have been made aware of the implications yet stand by their stories as reported. None have claimed that their accounts have been misrepresented.
• Most of the witnesses could not see the alleged impact point due to the complex topography and landscape, and admit to running, dropping, or flinching for cover. This explains why they did not see the plane fly away and assumed that it had hit the Pentagon because of the explosion.
• The independent and unanimous placement of the plane on the north side and banking to the right amounts to proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the plane did fly away without hitting the building because the damage to the Pentagon required a south side approach.
• Although the witnesses presented so far did not see the plane fly away, some did (and are documented in the next video segment).
• Pentagon police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. saw the plane fly away immediately after the explosion. He was at the Pentagon south parking lot loading dock, only a few steps inside the building during the explosion. After hearing an explosion, he ran outside, looked up, and saw a plane flying around the south parking lot. Roosevelt describes seeing a commercial jet that was banking and flying away at less than 100 feet above the ground within 10 seconds after the explosion.
• Roosevelt could have only seen the same banking plane that all of the other witnesses reported seeing on the north side flight path.
• There is additional evidence that more people saw the plane continue past the Pentagon. Arlington National Cemetery employee Erik Dihle was officially recorded by the Center for Military History on December 13, 2001. Although he personally did not see the plane, he said the first thing that other people reported was that a bomb went off and that a jet flew by and kept on going:
• “A number of us were working building 123.  Right after the explosion… we got up and ran outside… Some people were yelling that a bomb had hit the Pentagon and a jet kept on going.”
• Multiple witnesses have testified to seeing a banking, low-flying plane approach the Pentagon from the north side of the former CITGO gas station. This means that the damaged light poles, of which one allegedly went through the windshield of a taxicab, had to have been staged. Although there are photos of a bent pole laying on the ground and a broken windshield, not a single photograph exists showing the 40-foot, 247-pound pole inside the cab.
• Taxi cab driver, Lloyde England, initially claimed that a silent stranger helped him remove the light pole from his car. A 247-pound light pole knocked over by a 90-ton Boeing 757 traveling 530 miles per hour certainly would have caused massive damage had it hit Lloyde’s taxi. However, the only visible damage to the taxi is the broken front windshield. Otherwise, the taxi was unscratched, which makes absolutely no sense.
• However, don’t forget that testimony from multiple witnesses has proven that none of the downed light poles could have been knocked over by the incoming plane. Therefore, the lack of damage to the taxi does make sense.
• After Lloyde was confronted with the information provided by the witnesses indicating a north side approach (and that therefore the downed light poles must have been staged), he had a very strange reaction. Lloyde then changed his story and refused to admit that his taxi was on the bridge next to the downed light pole, where it appears that photos of both Lloyde and the taxi were taken.
• Lloyde goes on to explain that history has nothing to do with the truth and that he was used by people who have money. He then essentially admits that the downed light pole was staged and pre-planned. But, he was cautious not to outright confess. He distanced himself from the planners while admitting that the staging was planned.

You Can’t Fit a Boeing 757 into Hole that is Only 16 Feet Wide

Watch this outstanding Italian documentary titled Zero: An Investigation into 9/11, which includes analysis by Stubblebine and addresses many of the serious problems with the official account of what happened at the Pentagon:

The discrepancies that are addressed in the above video include the following:

• There is no airplane debris visible anywhere in front of the Pentagon. Examples of what you would expect to see at a plane crash site are shown. Captain Russ Whittemberg, a pilot with over 30 years in military and civil aviation, said: “I have been at some accident investigation sites in the Air Force. And I have never come across any accident scene where there is no tell-tale evidence of the plane that crashed.”
• There is no evidence that either the airplane engines or the wings impacted the building. Instead, we are supposed to believe that the 38 meter (125 feet) wide Boeing 757 fit into a hole that is only 5 meters (16 feet) wide. We are supposed to believe that the wings folded up like those of a dragon fly and squeeze into the 5 meter wide hole.
• Major General Albert Stubblebine: “One of my experiences in the Army was being in charge of the Army’s Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence during the Cold War. I measured pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my job. I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in that hole’. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What’s going on?”
• One theory is that the Boeing 757 was vaporized due to the speed and the force of the crash. The engines are made of a titanium steel alloy that would not vaporize unless they hit a temperature of 3,286 degrees Centigrade. That did not happen. Plus, the engines would have caused significant damage upon impact. Yet, there is no indication that the engines impacted the Pentagon.
• After a period of time, various photos of airplane debris began to appear in newspapers and on the web did not appear in any photos shown in the days following the event.
• The Pentagon had numerous cameras that had complete and separate recordings of the incident. The FBI was immediately on the scene and confiscated many video tapes from the Pentagon and nearby buildings. Yet only four videos were released after 2006 when FOIA requests compelled them to release them. Only two showed any useful information. But most experts believe the white image in the videos is too small to be a 757.
• The story of how the plane arrived at the Pentagon is absurd – by making a 270 degree turn at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour.

AA Flight 77 Was Lost From Radar For 36 Minutes, Then a Smaller Military Plane Appeared On Radar That Was NOT AA Flight 77

Please continue watching the next segment of the documentary Zero: An Investigation into 9/11:

• According to the official account, the Pentagon was struck by AA Flight 77, under the control of al-Qaeda hijacker Hani Hanjour. Hanjour was known as “a terrible pilot,”  who could not even fly a small airplane.
• An experienced pilot with thousands of hours would probably require 10-20 attempts to pull off the maneuver that was performed with the Boeing 757 on its way to the Pentagon. “You just can’t do that with one of those big airplanes.” –Robin Hordon, flight controller and flight instructor
• AA Flight 77 was lost from radar as early as 8:56 a.m. and then allegedly reappeared 36 minutes later at 9:32 am. According to Danielle O’Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles International Airport, the plane that showed up on the radar was not Flight 77: “The speed, the maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that it was a military plane.”
• No unknown aircraft are allowed within 50 miles of the Pentagon.  The Pentagon has its own anti-aircraft missiles that should have fired to protect the building. Only a military aircraft with a special IFF transponder (identifying it as a friend) would be allowed to approach the Pentagon.
• The official report of the final half mile of Flight 77 before it allegedly hit the Pentagon is aerodynamically impossible. “I challenge any pilot, any pilot anywhere: give him a Boeing 757 and tell him to do 400 knots 20 feet above the ground for half a mile. CAN’T Do. It’s aerodynamically impossible.” – Nila Sagadevan, pilot and aeronautical engineer.
• The alleged hijackers had difficulty flying small aircraft, which means that there is a zero possibility that they could pull off an impossible maneuver on the first try.

Donald Rumsfeld said that a MISSILE was used to damage the Pentagon

If no plane hit the Pentagon, then what did? In an interview with Parade Magazine in October 2001 (of which a transcript was posted on the U.S. Department of Defense website, defense.gov), Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked “How did a war targeting civilians arrive on our homeland with seemingly no warning?” Rumsfeld replied:

“There were lots of warnings… It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it’s physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we’re talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them.” [1]

Note that Rumsfeld indicated that both a plane and a missile were used on the Pentagon, which matches up perfectly with the evidence presented in the video, Undeniable Proof a Plane did NOT Hit the Pentagon on 9/11.

Timothy Roemer, Former 9/11 Commission Member, said that the Pentagon was “pried open by a MISSILE”

In an interview in September 2006 with CNN’s Miles O’Brien, former 9/11 Commissioner member, Timothy Roemer, says that a missile caused the damage to the Pentagon and then quickly corrects himself to line up with the official story.

O’Brien: “At any point during this day were you just, in a very base way, afraid?”

Roemer: “There was — there were many times, Miles, that you were afraid. You were — you were worried, especially when I was standing in front of the Pentagon that night, seeing one of our fortresses pried open by a missile, an airplane, thinking about the number of people that probably died on the plane and on the ground…”

Click on the link below to see the above exchange between O’Brien and Roemer:

Expert claims that a high radiation reading near Pentagon indicates that a “depleted uranium warhead may have been used”

The missile hypothesis is supported by physical evidence. Dr. Janette Sherman, a well-respected radiation expert, used a Geiger counter to measure radiation levels from about 12 miles downwind of the Pentagon shortly after the attack on 9/11. Sherman reported that the Geiger counter reading was extremely high, 8-10 times greater than normal. [2]

Although Sherman’s findings are not conclusive, Dr. Leuren Moret, formerly a scientist at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, stated:

“I’m not an explosives or crash site expert, but I am highly knowledgeable in causes and effects related to nuclear radiation contamination. What happened at the Pentagon is highly suspicious, leading me to believe a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may have been used.” [3]

The missile theory was echoed by retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke, a PhD educational physics and former top military expert:

“When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile’s impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile. And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile.” [4]

Pentagon Employee Witness Says There Was No Plane on 9-11-2001

April Gallop and her child survived the ‘impact’ at the Pentagon. She was a Pentagon employee who was inside the building sitting at a computer when the explosion occurred.  After escaping through a hole in the Pentagon wall she waited on the grass near the road before being taken to the Hospital. She did not see any plane debris or experience any jet fuel or any other evidence of a plane crash.

USAF Witness: There was “a strange lack of visible debris…moments after impact”

Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force (retired) wrote that there was a lack of debris moments after impact. Kwiatkowski, who was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel employed at the Pentagon on 9/11, was a contributor to a book titled 9/11 and American Empire Intellectuals Speak Out, in which she wrote that there was “a strange lack of visible debris on the Pentagon lawn, where I stood only moments after the impact. . . . I saw . . . no airplane metal or cargo debris.” [5]

Another Pentagon Witness: I was convinced it was a missile.

Lon Rains, who was an Editor for Space News at the time, happened to be driving his car near the Pentagon when it was hit by a missile on 9/11. In an article titled Eyewitness: The Pentagon, published on June 30, 2005, Rains wrote:

“That morning, like many others, the traffic slowed to a crawl just in front of the Pentagon. With the Pentagon to the left of my van at about 10 o’clock on the dial of a clock, I glanced at my watch to see if I was going to be late for my appointment. At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane.” [6]

Conclusion: The Pentagon was hit by a MISSILE, not hit by a plane

The lack of any evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon, eyewitness testimony of a banking, north side approach, eyewitnesses who saw a low-flying “jet” fly past the Pentagon that “kept on going,” plus Lloyde’s confession that the downed light pole was preplanned and staged all provide ample evidence proving that a Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon, but instead a smaller “jet” merely flew past the Pentagon immediately after it was hit by a missile in order to appear as though a plane did the damage.

References

[1] Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine, News Transcript, October 12, 2001
https://web.archive.org/web/20041118063828/https://www.defense.gov/transcripts/2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html

[2] Greg Szymanski, Radiation Expert Claims High-Radiation Readings Near Pentagon After 9/11 Indicate Depleted Uranium Used; High-Ranking Army Officer Claims Missile Used at Pentagon, Not Commercial Airliner, August 18, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20060111183631/https://www.arcticbeacon.com/18-Aug-2005.html

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, USAF (ret), 9/11 and American Empire Intellectuals Speak Out, Edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, 2006

[6] Lon Rains, Eyewitness: The Pentagon, Space News, June 30, 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20060210130450/https://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html

This article presents all the proof you ever need to believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that the world we live in is NOT real. The experiences you have are real, but reality is an illusion (Maya).

(Note: In this article, I don’t delve into the simulation hypothesis proposed by Nick Bostrom in 2003, which is yet another way of postulating that reality is an illusion, because I do NOT believe that our world is a computer simulation.)

The mountain of evidence presented herein about the illusionary nature of reality can be challenging to believe, but it can also be liberating. If you accept that reality is an illusion, then you can know that you are not limited by the world of appearances. By recognizing that your true power comes from within and that external reality is a reflection of your inner state, you can choose to experience the world in a way that is fulfilling and meaningful to you. In addition, many mystical traditions argue that recognizing the illusory nature of existence is a crucial step toward liberation and enlightenment

On the other hand, individuals who do not realize the illusory nature of the self and the world are at a distinct disadvantage. They mistakenly think their lives are solely shaped by external events, underestimating the power they possess in shaping their reality. They overly invest in their societal roles and become ensnared in unnecessary distress. Constantly burdened by worries, fears, or avoidance, they don’t see that they hold the reins to their destiny, rather than being controlled by outside forces.

IMPORTANT: This perspective doesn’t mean we should disregard the world as meaningless, but rather that we should approach it with a sense of playfulness, flexibility, and deep interconnectedness.

This article presents perspectives regarding the illusionary nature of reality from scientific, philosophical, religious, mystical, and spiritual paradigms of thought. Here’s how the article is organized:

• Scientific proof that reality is an illusion
• An excerpt from “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda in which he talks about Maya (illusion) and the reason for suffering
• Beliefs from many different cultures throughout history regarding the illusionary nature of reality
• Quotes from numerous world-renowned individuals who said that our world is an illusion or a dream, created by consciousness.
• Highly influential channeled materials regarding the illusionary nature of reality
• The Mandela Effect

Scientific Proof that Reality is an Illusion

Quantum Entanglement

Quantum entanglement is one of the most mysterious and counterintuitive phenomena in quantum mechanics. When two quantum systems become entangled, measurements on one system seem to instantaneously affect the state of the other, regardless of the distance separating them. This “spooky action at a distance”, as Einstein famously called it, seemed to challenge the very foundations of physics.

Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) published a paper in 1935 suggesting that quantum mechanics is incomplete and that there might exist “hidden variables” that determine the outcomes of quantum measurements, but we just didn’t know about them. According to this view, if we could account for these hidden variables, then the strange behavior of entangled particles would have a more intuitive explanation.

To clarify the debate between the “hidden variables” interpretation and the standard quantum mechanics interpretation, physicist John Bell formulated a set of inequalities in 1964, now known as Bell’s inequalities.

Bell’s Inequality in Simple Terms:

Bell proposed a thought experiment involving two entangled particles sent in opposite directions to two different observers, often referred to as Alice and Bob. They measure the particles’ properties (like spin) along different orientations.

According to quantum mechanics, the results of these measurements will be correlated in a specific way because of the entanglement between the particles.

If local hidden variables were responsible for the outcomes of these measurements, then the results would have certain statistical properties (based on the idea that the outcomes are predetermined and not influenced by the measurement settings). Bell was able to derive an inequality — Bell’s inequality — that must be satisfied if local hidden variables are the correct description of reality.

Nobel Prize Winning Tests Results:

A series of experiments, starting with those conducted by Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger tested Bell’s inequalities – for which each was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. They did this by measuring entangled particles, like photons, under various conditions.

The results of these experiments have consistently violated Bell’s inequalities, supporting the predictions of quantum mechanics and suggesting that local hidden variables cannot explain the behavior of entangled particles.

The data gathered by Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger demonstrated that the universe is “non-local”, meaning that entangled particles can affect each other instantaneously regardless of distance – effectively proving quantum physics’ claim and contradicting Einstein’s theory. As such, these experiments demonstrated that since particles (the building blocks of the universe) aren’t real in the traditional sense, the universe itself isn’t real.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to watch this awesome video by Archana Raghuram for much more about the experiments that proved reality is an illusion, PLUS a discussion on the convergence of quantum physics and Vedanta, and how the philosophical framework of Vedanta reconciles the paradox of quantum physics by highlighting the non-dual nature of reality and the inseparability of the observer and the observed:

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Proving the Universe Is Not Real | Where Quantum Physics Meets Vedanta

The Double Slit Experiment

The Double Slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in quantum mechanics, showcasing the wave-particle duality of particles and the surprising role of observation in determining their behavior.

The Basic Experiment:

1. Setup: Imagine a barrier with two parallel slits. Behind this barrier is a detection screen. If we shoot particles (like electrons) at the barrier, some will pass through the slits and hit the detection screen.
2. Wave-like behavior (Interference pattern): When both slits are open, and we are not observing which slit the particle goes through, an interference pattern emerges on the detection screen. This pattern is akin to what one would expect if waves were going through both slits, interfering constructively in some places (leading to bright bands) and destructively in others (leading to dark bands). This suggests that particles, in the absence of measurement, behave like waves.
3. Measurement (Observer) Introduced: When a detector is placed at the slits to determine which slit the particle goes through, the interference pattern vanishes, and two bands appear on the screen. This implies the act of observing or measuring which slit the particle goes through collapses its wave-like nature to behave like a particle.

The double slit experiment has been interpreted by many physicists as evidence that reality is an illusion. This is because the way we experience the world depends on how we observe it. Watch this absolutely brilliant explanation of the double slit experiment by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (and be sure to watch the mind-blowing ending):

For much more on this topic, watch this fascinating video in which Archana Raghuram delves into the question of what exactly an observer is and how the behavior of particles is connected to the action of an ‘observer.’ She brilliantly explains it with a simple and relatable, everyday analogy:

Through the Quantum Looking Glass: How Consciousness Creates Our Reality

Here are some additional findings of quantum mechanics that have been interpreted as evidence of the illusionary nature of reality:

• The uncertainty principle: The uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of a particle with perfect accuracy. This suggests that the world is not made up of point particles, but rather of waves of probability.
• The Many Worlds Interpretation: The Many Worlds Interpretation is a proposed interpretation of quantum mechanics that states that every possible outcome of a quantum event occurs in a separate universe. This suggests that there is no single, objective reality, but rather a multiverse of possible realities.

These are just a few of the findings of quantum physics that have been interpreted as evidence of the illusionary nature of reality. These findings have forced us to rethink our understanding of the nature of reality.

Excerpt from the “Autobiography of a Yogi” about Maya and the Reason for Suffering

Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of “Autobiography of a Yogi,” was a Hindu monk and guru who believed that reality is an illusion. He wrote about this in his book, saying that the world of appearances is not real, but is instead a projection of our own minds.

Yogananda’s views on the nature of reality are based on the Hindu concept of Maya, a Sanskrit word that means “illusion” or “unreality.” In Hindu philosophy, Maya is the power of God to create the world of appearances. The world of appearances is not real in itself but is a projection of Brahman, the ultimate reality.

Below is an excerpt about Yogananda’s personal experience with Maya and what he found out about the  reason for suffering from Chapter 30 of the “Autobiography of a Yogi”:

Ch. 30: The Law of Miracles

The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of Maya, the principle of relativity and duality. God, the Sole Life, is an Absolute Unity; He cannot appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation except under a false or unreal veil. That cosmic illusion is Maya. Every great scientific discovery of modern times has served as a confirmation of this simple pronouncement of the rishis…

Just as the motion-picture images appear to be real, but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture, temporarily true to five sense perceptions as the scenes are cast on the screen of man’s consciousness by the infinite creative beam.

A cinema audience can look up and see that all screen images are appearing through the instrumentality of one imageless beam of light. The colorful universal drama is similarly issuing from the single white light of a Cosmic Source. With inconceivable ingenuity God is staging entertainment for His human children, making them actors as well as audiences in His planetary theater.

One day I entered a motion picture house to view a newsreel of the European battlefields. World War I was still being waged in the West; the newsreel recorded the carnage with such realism that I left the theater with a troubled heart.

“Lord,” I prayed, “why dost Thou permit such suffering?”

To my intense surprise, an instant answer came in the form of a vision of the actual European battlefields. The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel.

“Look intently!” A gentle voice spoke to my inner consciousness. “You will see that these scenes now being enacted in France are nothing but a play of chiaroscuro [light and dark]. They are the cosmic motion picture, as real and as unreal as the theater newsreel you have just seen—a play within a play.”

My heart was still not comforted. The divine voice went on: “Creation is light and shadow both, else no picture is possible. The good and evil of Maya must ever alternate in supremacy. If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever seek another? Without suffering he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken his eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom! The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more is fired at him than a blank cartridge. My sons are the children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion.”

Although I had read scriptural accounts of Maya, they had not given me the deep insight that came with the personal visions and their accompanying words of consolation. One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture, and that not in it, but beyond it, lies his own reality.

Cultural Beliefs About the Illusionary Nature of Reality

The beliefs listed below provide a glimpse into the different ways that the illusionary nature of reality has been understood and interpreted by different cultures and traditions throughout history.

The Kybalion in Western Esotericism:

The Kybalion is a book about the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus that was published in 1908 by the Yogi Publication Society in Chicago, Illinois. It teaches that the universe is governed by these seven Hermetic principles:

1. The Principle of Mentalism
2. The Principle of Correspondence
3. The Principle of Vibration
4. The Principle of Polarity
5. The Principle of Rhythm
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect
7. The Principle of Gender

The Principle of Mentalism states: “The All is Mind; The Universe is Mental.” According to this principle, everything that exists, every phenomenon we experience, and every nuance of reality originates from a singular, universal mind – often referred to as “The All” in Hermetic teachings. If everything is a manifestation of this one Mind, then what we perceive as “reality” is just a mental construct or a thought within this universal consciousness.

To draw an analogy, think of a dream. When you’re dreaming, the events, places, and people within the dream feel real. But upon waking, you recognize that the dream was an illusion, a creation of your mind. The Principle of Mentalism suggests something similar about our reality: it might feel and seem real to us but in the grand scheme of “The All,” it’s a mental construct, making our perceived reality illusionary.

The Principle of Correspondence is encapsulated in the phrase: “As above, so below; as below, so above.” It speaks to the idea that there’s a correspondence or similarity between the different planes of existence, whether they be physical, mental, or spiritual. This concept implies that patterns observed on one plane can be found reflected in others, indicating a deeper universal order or structure. This means that there is a correspondence between the microcosm (the individual) and the macrocosm (the universe).

If the events and circumstances on our physical plane (the “below”) are merely reflections or manifestations of patterns from higher planes (the “above”), then our reality is not the primary or originating reality. Instead, it’s a derivative or secondary manifestation of those higher realities. The physical reality we observe could be seen as a shadow or reflection of more profound truths.

A useful analogy can be found in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In it, prisoners chained in a cave see only the shadows cast on a wall by objects behind them. For the prisoners, those shadows are their reality. However, those shadows are mere reflections of the actual objects and, beyond the cave, the world outside. Similarly, the Principle of Correspondence suggests that our physical reality might just be a “shadow” or reflection of something deeper and more profound, making it potentially illusionary in comparison.

The Principle of Vibration states, “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.” This principle posits that motion is a fundamental characteristic of everything in the universe, from the tiniest particles to the largest galaxies. Everything is in a state of constant vibration, albeit at different frequencies.

Our senses interpret different frequencies of vibrations as different phenomena. For example, our eyes interpret certain frequencies of electromagnetic vibrations as light and color, while our ears interpret vibrational frequencies in air as sound. This suggests that what we perceive is not the object or phenomenon itself but our interpretation of its vibrational frequency.

At an atomic and subatomic level, particles are in constant motion, vibrating at specific frequencies. What we perceive as solid objects are essentially spaces filled with rapidly moving particles. This means that the apparent solidity and stability of matter is an illusion created by our limited perceptual abilities.

In essence, the Principle of Vibration underscores the idea that the tangible and concrete reality we perceive is but a snapshot of various vibrational states. The true nature of reality is more fluid, dynamic, and interconnected than our limited senses might suggest, leading to the notion that our fixed perception of reality is illusionary.

Advaita Vedanta Tradition in Hindu Philosophy:

Advaita Vedanta is a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy that teaches us that the world of appearances is Maya, which means “illusion” or “unreality,” and that the external world is an extension of our own consciousness. In this view, our minds serve as both the artists and the canvas, painting the tapestry of existence. Below is a brief overview:

• Core Concept: “Advaita” means “not two” in Sanskrit. The fundamental premise of Advaita Vedanta is that there is only one ultimate reality, Brahman, and everything else (the world, individual souls) is an illusion. This perspective solves the paradox of quantum physics by suggesting that the observer’s consciousness is not separate from the reality being observed.
• Brahman: The ultimate reality or universal spirit. Brahman is the eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this universe.
• Atman: Refers to the individual soul or self. Advaita posits that Atman is not separate from Brahman but is, in fact, the same as Brahman.
• Maya: The concept of Maya is central to the idea that reality is an illusion. Maya is often translated as “illusion”, but it can also mean “unreality” or “magic”. In Advaita Vedanta, the world we perceive through our senses is said to be Maya – an illusion – because it is transient and ever-changing, while Brahman is eternal and unchanging.
• Realization: The ultimate goal in Advaita Vedanta is self-realization or enlightenment, where one realizes the oneness of Atman and Brahman. This realization dispels the illusion created by Maya and one perceives the true nature of reality.
• Historical Perspective: Advaita Vedanta has ancient roots in the Upanishads, but its most famous proponent was Adi Shankaracharya (Adi Shankara) in the early 8th century CE. He traveled across India, engaging in philosophical debates, and established the non-dualistic interpretation of the scriptures.

The Sufi Tradition in Islam:

The Sufi tradition is a mystical tradition of Islam that teaches that the goal of life is to achieve fana, or annihilation of the ego, and baqa, or subsistence in God. The Sufi tradition teaches that the world of appearances is an illusion or a veil and that the only reality is God. Here’s a brief overview:

• Core Concept: Sufism focuses on the inward search, emphasizing personal experience and direct knowledge of God (Allah) through love, purification of the soul, and deep introspection.
• Love and Devotion: Sufis are known for their intense love and devotion to God. This is often expressed through poetry, music, and dance, like the famous “whirling dervishes” of the Mevlevi order.
• The World as a Veil: In Sufi teachings, the material world is considered a veil that hides the ultimate reality of God. Sufism suggests that the material world is a temporary and lesser reality compared to the eternal truth of God.
• Concept of Unity: Sufism teaches the idea of “Tawhid” or the oneness of God. While this concept is fundamental to all of Islam, Sufis emphasize experiential and mystical understanding of this oneness, often described in terms of lover and Beloved, with the lover seeking union with the Divine.
• Path to God: The Sufi journey involves various stages (Maqamat) and states (Ahwal) that aspirants pass through in their quest for God. These involve rigorous spiritual exercises, meditations, and ethical practices.
• Historical Perspective: Sufism has been a significant part of Islamic tradition since its early days, with various Sufi orders and brotherhoods emerging over time. Notable Sufis like Rumi, Hafez, and Al-Ghazali have enriched Islamic thought with their writings and teachings.

Dzogchen School of Tibetan Buddhism:

Dzogchen, often translated as “Great Perfection,” is a school of Tibetan Buddhism that teaches that the ultimate nature of reality is rigpa, or pure awareness. Rigpa is said to be beyond all concepts and dualities, including the distinction between subject and object. Here’s a brief overview:

• Core Concept: Dzogchen points to the natural, intrinsic state of all beings. This state is complete and perfect as it is, and Dzogchen teachings aim to directly introduce practitioners to this inherent nature.
• Nature of Mind: In Dzogchen, emphasis is placed on recognizing the “nature of mind” or “rigpa,” which is the pure, undeluded awareness that is ever-present but often obscured by dualistic thoughts and emotional turmoil.
• Dream-Like Reality: Dzogchen teachings often use the term “dream-like” or “illusion-like” to describe the nature of phenomena. While phenomena appear and can be experienced, they lack inherent, independent existence. In this way, they are like illusions or dreams: apparent but devoid of true, solid reality.
• Historical Perspective: The Dzogchen teachings are believed to originate from primordial Buddha Samantabhadra and have been transmitted through a lineage of realized masters. They are contained within tantras and texts which form the core of Dzogchen teachings.

The Kabbalah in Judaism:

The Kabbalah is a mystical tradition of Judaism that teaches that the world of appearances is a reflection of the divine.  Here’s a brief overview and its perspective on the nature of reality:

The Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism:

The “Bhagavad Gita” is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Indian epic Mahabharata. It’s a dialogue between the prince Arjuna and the god Krishna, who serves as his charioteer. Here’s a brief overview and its perspective on reality:

• Core Concept: The “Gita” addresses the moral and philosophical dilemmas faced by Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Krishna provides guidance on duty (dharma), righteousness, and the paths to spiritual realization.
• Maya (Illusion): In the “Gita,” the material world is often described as being under the influence of “maya,” which can be understood as illusion or ignorance. Maya causes souls to become entangled in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, making them forget their true, divine nature.
• Reality and Illusion: While the physical world is real in one sense, it’s also transient and ever-changing, which contrasts with the eternal and unchanging nature of the soul (Atman) and the Ultimate Reality (Brahman).
• Paths to Realization: The “Gita” outlines various paths (yogas) like Bhakti (devotion), Jnana (knowledge), and Karma (selfless action) to transcend the influence of Maya and realize one’s true self and relationship with the divine.

The Native American concept of the dream world:

The understanding of dreams and the dream world varies across Native American tribes, as there are hundreds of distinct tribes with their own beliefs and traditions. However, there are some shared or common ideas among many tribes:

• Dream World’s Significance: For many Native American cultures, dreams are not just random occurrences during sleep but are deeply meaningful. They can offer guidance, foretell events, or serve as encounters with spirits or ancestors.
• Reality and Illusion: Many tribes hold that the dream world and the waking world are interconnected realms of experience, neither being more “real” or “illusory” than the other. In this worldview, dreams can be as consequential as waking experiences and are sometimes seen as being more real than the world of waking reality. Some tribes see dreams as an opportunity to travel to other realms, interact with spirits, or receive messages from the Creator or ancestors.
• Dream Catchers: One well-known symbol associated with dreams in Native American culture is the dream catcher, originally from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. Hung above the bed, it’s believed to filter dreams, allowing only good dreams to pass through, while trapping negative dreams or energies.
• Guidance and Healing: Dreams can be a source of guidance. Tribal shamans or medicine people might interpret dreams to diagnose illnesses, find lost objects, or predict events. Some tribes believe dreams offer insights into one’s path in life or lessons to be learned.

Solipsism:

Solipsism is an ancient philosophical concept that only the self exists. Solipsists believe that the world and other people are simply a creation of the mind.  Solipsism doesn’t have a single originator or a specific date of origin. Instead, its roots can be found in various philosophical traditions and discussions about the nature of knowledge, reality, and the self. Here are some key points regarding its development:

1. Ancient Philosophy: While the term “solipsism” itself wasn’t used in ancient times, certain aspects of solipsism can be traced back to ancient philosophical discussions. For instance, some interpretations of certain Pre-Socratic philosophers.
2. Modern Development: The explicit formulation of solipsism is more of a modern philosophical development. It often emerges in discussions about epistemology (the study of knowledge) in response to challenges of establishing certain knowledge of the external world. René Descartes, with his method of radical doubt, comes close by emphasizing the certainty of the thinking self (“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am”).

The Mahayana Sutras in Buddhism:

The Mahayana Sutras are a collection of Buddhist texts that teach the Mahayana path to enlightenment. The Mahayana Sutras teach that the world of appearances is like a dream or illusion, introduce the concept of emptiness, and often describe reality as being like a dream or illusion, aiming to help practitioners see beyond superficial perceptions and cultivate a deeper understanding of the nature of existence. It’s generally accepted that most of the Mahayana Sutras were composed between the 1st century BCE and the 5th century CE. Here’s a brief overview:

The Tao Te Ching in Taoism:

The “Tao Te Ching” is an ancient Chinese text attributed to the sage Laozi and is foundational to Taoism. It teaches that the world of appearances is a manifestation of the Tao or the Way, which is the underlying reality of the universe. Here’s a brief overview:

Quotes About the Illusionary Nature of Reality

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force that brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” ~ Max Planck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness… Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” ~ Max Planck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918

“There is no place in this new kind of physics for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.” ~ Albert Einstein, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921

“Everything that we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real.” ~ Niels Bohr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ~ Werner Heisenberg, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.

“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness of the observer. The very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of consciousness is the ultimate reality.” – Eugene Wigner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.

“If I say that electrons behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” ~ Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

“The universe is a hologram.” ~ David Bohm (a prominent theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the fields of quantum mechanics, philosophy, and the nature of consciousness), Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ~ Unknown (Note: this quote is often attributed to Einstein, but there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote this.)

“Consciousness is not a spectator of the quantum world, but a participant in bringing it into being.” ~ John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the fields of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and nuclear physics.

“There is no out there, out there.” ~ John Archibald Wheeler

“There’s a billion to one chance we’re living in base reality.” ~ Elon Musk

“The world is a dream, and we are the dreamers.” – Carl Jung

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream

“The world is but a shadow, and the life of a man but a dream.” – Hindu scripture, The Upanishads

“The world is an illusion, and we are the creators of that illusion.” – Buddha

“The world is Maya, an illusion. It is not real.” – Hindu scripture, The Bhagavad Gita

“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously.” – Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“The world is a mirror, and we see in it what we are.” – Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“You have this strange feeling of being a puppet, of having your strings pulled by environment, social pressures, etc., or of being driven along a course which is called ‘the causality of nature’ according to laws which human beings can’t resist. And that, too, is Maya.” ~ Alan Watts

“There are vibrations of many different universes right here, right now. We’re just not in tune with them. There are probably other parallel universes in our living room–this is modern physics. This is the modern interpretation of quantum theory, that many worlds represent reality.” ~ Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, Professor and Best-selling Author

Quotes by Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana Maharshi was a Hindu sage who lived in India from 1879 to 1950. He is considered one of the most important figures in modern Hinduism. Maharshi taught that the world of appearances is an illusion and that the only reality is the Self. Here are some quotes from Maharshi indicating that reality is an illusion:

• “The world is like a dream. It is not real.“
• “Q. Is there no difference between waking and a dream? A. Waking is long and dream is short; other than that there is no difference.” (from the book “Who Am I”)
• “The world is a projection of the mind. It is not outside of you.“
• “When you see the Self, you see that the world is an illusion.”
• “The Self is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
• “The world is not what it seems. It is a play of maya.”

The concept of Maya is central to Maharshi’s teachings. Maya is a Sanskrit word that means “illusion” or “unreality.” In Hindu philosophy, Maya is the power of God to create the world of appearances. The world of appearances is not real in itself but is a projection of Brahman, the ultimate reality.

Channeled Materials

The Seth Material by Jane Roberts

The Seth Material is a collection of books and audio recordings that were channeled by Jane Roberts from a non-physical entity named Seth. Seth presented a variety of ideas about the nature of reality, including the idea that reality is an illusion.

One of the ways that Seth put forth the idea of reality as an illusion was by comparing the world of appearances to a hologram. A hologram is a three-dimensional image that is created by shining a laser through a photographic plate. The image appears to be solid and real, but it is actually just a projection of light. Seth suggested that the world of appearances is like a hologram, in that it is a projection of our own consciousness.

Here are some specific quotes from the Seth Material that put forth the idea of reality as an illusion:

• “The world is a hologram, a projection of your own consciousness.”
• “There is no such thing as time or space. They are illusions.”
• “You are all one, and the world is an illusion of separation.”
• “You are not limited by the world of appearances. You can create your own reality.
• “The world of appearances is a projection of your own consciousness.”
• “You create your own reality through your thoughts and beliefs.”
• “You create your reality. There is no other rule.”

The “Law of One”

The “Law of One,” also known as the “Ra Material,” is a series of channeled texts that are attributed to an entity called “Ra.” According to the materials, Ra is a collective consciousness or group of beings from a higher density or dimension who communicated through a process of channeling with a woman named Carla Rueckert in the 1980s.

The Law of One indicates that reality is an illusion in a number of ways. Here are some specific quotes from the Law of One material about the illusionary nature of reality:

• “Reality is created by thought. What you think, you become.“
• “The world of appearances is a projection of the One. It is not ultimately real.”
• “We are all creators. We can choose to create a reality that is loving, peaceful, and harmonious.”
• “The illusion of separation is the root of all pain and suffering.”

The Law of One materials are a complex and challenging work, but they can be a valuable source of insights into the nature of reality.

A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is a spiritual text that teaches that the world of appearances is an illusion. The Course states that the only reality is God, and that the world of appearances is a projection of our own minds.

The Course uses a number of different metaphors to describe the world of appearances as an illusion. One metaphor is that the world of appearances is like a dream. When we dream, we experience things that are not real, but they seem real to us while we are dreaming. The Course says that the world of appearances is like a dream, in that it is not real, but it seems real to us because of our beliefs.

Another metaphor that the Course uses is that the world of appearances is like a hologram. A hologram is a three-dimensional image that is created by shining a laser through a photographic plate. The image appears to be solid and real, but it is actually just a projection of light. The Course says that the world of appearances is like a hologram, in that it is a projection of our own minds.

Here are some specific quotes from the Course in Miracles that put forth the idea of reality as an illusion:

• “The world you see is not the world that is.”
• “The world of appearances is a projection of your own mind.”
• “You create your own reality through your thoughts and beliefs.”
• “You are not limited by the world of appearances. You can create your own reality.”

Bashar – Channeled by Darryl Anka

Bashar is a popular channeled entity, channeled by Darryl Anka. Here are a few quotes about the illusionary nature of reality attributed to Bashar:

• “Always remember, there is no ‘out there.’ There is only you. Physical reality is an illusion, a mirror, a reflection. You can use it as a tool, in some senses, to reflect what is going on within you: what your beliefs are, what your thoughts are, what your emotions are, what your attitudes are, and what your definitions are.”
• “The universe is a mirror that reflects back to you the energy you project.”
• “You are a multidimensional being experiencing a limited physical reality for expansion and growth.“
• “Your personality is really nothing more than a window or a prism through which your consciousness creates the experience called physical reality.”
  Now, that experience is, of course, actually only taking place within you.
• “Everyone you experience in your reality was created by you to interact with as a reflection of you. So they exist in their own right, but the only ones you actually interact with in physical reality are the reflections you’ve created to experience in your reality.“
• “You exist in a holographic universe, where each part contains the whole within it.”
• “Even though you may think, as we have said, that you are ALL sharing one particular reality, you are not. You are creating your own version, your own simulation through agreements, telepathically connected agreements with each other, to create what appears to be the same reality. But each of you is creating your own. And many of you now are beginning to realize, as your society continues forward, that there are many individuals who are choosing different expressions of reality that are not necessarily in alignment with the kind of experience that you prefer to have on your planet. Or again, more precisely, on your planets, because there are multiple versions of the Earth simultaneously coexisting here. And the idea is that now the splitting prism has moved forward enough that there is starting to be in between all of these different parallel realities, a kind of borderline, a kind of barrier. You can liken it to the idea, as we have said, of a glass wall. You can see through it to the other realities, to the people that are not necessarily choosing things that are vibrationally compatible with the kind of reality experience you prefer. But that doesn’t mean that they can affect you because they can no longer really reach you with their vibration – except by your choice to mirror or mimic what you’re seeing on the other side of the glass. But there is no other effect than that. Your choice to believe that you must be affected by them is you creating that effect in your reality, your discrete parallel reality. So as you move forward, recognizing that each of you is in your own reality, literally, and that you can make more and more agreements with those who are more vibrationally compatible with what you prefer – to (again) continue to generate simulations of these realities for yourselves that do harmonize with those that are vibrationally compatible with you, and dis-harmonize or become more discoherent with those that are not vibrationally compatible with what you prefer – the split becomes wider and wider. The walls of glass become, in essence, thicker and thicker and thicker.” ~ from Navigating the Splitting Prism of Parallel Realities

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large number of people remember something in a way that contradicts the current reality. The term was coined by Fiona Broome after she discovered that she, along with many other people, remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. However, Nelson Mandela was actually released from prison in 1990 and passed away in 2013.

Some of the most popular examples include:

• Berenstain Bears vs. Berenstein Bears: Many people remember the popular children’s book series as being spelled “Berenstein Bears” with an “e”, but it’s now spelled “Berenstain Bears” with an “a”.
• “Luke, I am your father”: This famous line from Star Wars is often quoted this way, but the line now is “No, I am your father.”
• Location of New Zealand: Some people remember New Zealand as being located to the northeast of Australia, rather than to the southeast.
• “Febreze” vs. “Febreeze”: The popular air freshener is actually spelled “Febreze” with one “e”, but many people recall it as “Febreeze” with two “e”s.
• The Monopoly Man: Many remember the Monopoly game’s mascot, Rich Uncle Pennybags, wearing a monocle, but now he doesn’t.
• “Mirror, mirror on the wall.” Many people remember the line from Disney’s 1937 animated film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” However, the line in the movie is now “Magic mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all?”

For much more about the Mandela Effect, see:

What’s the Meaning of the Mandela Effect?

Mandela Effect, Afterlife, Timelines and the Simulation

How to Interpret Mandela Effects

By Geralyn Ritter

Time heals all wounds is a common saying that is full of hope. Whether you just lost a loved one, ended a relationship, or are recovering from trauma, that phrase is likely to be said to you by someone in your life. The phrase is hopeful, but is it really true? Here, we will examine the “time heals all wounds” cliche, how true or untrue it is, and time’s role in the healing process.

So, will time heal all wounds?

When someone is going through a hard time, they are likely to be told that time heals all wounds by at least one person in their life. They are offering hope that, eventually, they will get past this and feel better. The hope is that when someone has had enough time away from the event, the pain will fade, and they will heal. The problem is that time alone is not a magical healing aid. If time was all that someone needed to heal, then everyone who experiences emotional pain will eventually heal and be fine.

Time is an important ingredient in the healing process, as it gives us time to distance ourselves and look at things neutrally. However, time alone is not going to heal wounds.

Why isn’t time enough?

Time lets you distance yourself from the issue and process it. However, time on its own is not going to address the cause of the emotional pain. Sometimes, it can get a lot worse before it gets better. After someone gets past the initial shock of the event, time can cause the old memories to stir and re-emerge and even cause fresh wounds. Weeks or months later, the reality of the event that caused the emotional pain can set in, making your distress worse.

Even in the long run, time may not improve distress for someone. They can become stuck in their distress for a lot of reasons. They may not want to accept the reality of the cause of their distress because the feelings linked to it are too overwhelming. The intensity of the circumstances might be too traumatic for them to process the distress. They may not have a safe space to process their emotions, making them unable to begin the healing process.

Time Moves Slowly When You Hurt

The way we experience the flow of time is subjective. When you are sitting in a hospital injured, time feels like it slows down. When you have a migraine and are waiting for medication to kick in and make it feel better, seconds can feel like hours. The same thing happens when you are in emotional pain. The days can just bleed together, the distress weighing you down.

Trauma is Timeless

Trauma can literally change your brain. Trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can lead to flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive images and thoughts. Your brain can feel like the traumatic event is happening right now, even though it happened years ago. Recovering from trauma is a long and difficult process that often requires the help of a therapist.

So, what does heal wounds?

In order to heal from an emotional wound, you need to acknowledge that time alone is not the magic solution. When you have a cut on your arm, it can heal over time, but if you clean and bandage it first, it can heal better. An emotional wound is not a cut that will just heal on its own eventually. These require that we acknowledge them and work to heal them; emotional pain is complex. We have to put in work to heal, and the first part of that is acknowledging the wounds and knowing that you need to put in the work.

Ignoring and suppressing emotional wounds will not make the pain go away. It just turns into anxiety, pain, and anger. If you do not have a support system in place that can help you heal, consider seeking out a therapist or group therapy setting so you have somewhere to safely explore your feelings and work on healing.

Final Thoughts

Time might make your wounds feel less raw, but that is not going to cure the pain on its own. It is important to stay patient with yourself in the process and not blame yourself if it takes time. Healing is not a destination, it is a journey, and it can take time to complete your journey. Everyone heals at their own pace, and you cannot compare someone else’s healing journey with your own.

About the Author

Geralyn Ritter is an accomplished corporate senior executive, miracle survivor of the 2015 Amtrak train derailment, and author of Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing. Geralyn is the executive vice president at Organon & Co., a new Fortune 500 healthcare company dedicated to the health of women.

Sometimes we feel unsettled as we receive signs or signals that startle or surprise us.  These messages might be a sign that we’re receiving information from a higher level of ourselves that are exactly what we need at this time.

I’ve recently received some remarkable messages in the form of truly unique experiences. This month, in late June and early July 2023, something happened when I was in my home, alone. It happened on more than one occasion, and it got my full attention each and every time.

My House Rang like a Bell

The first time my house rang like a bell, I was working quietly on my computer in my living room, with no sound or music playing of any kind. I was alone in the house, and heard a sound that I can best describe as something large having struck the eastern side of my house, at which point the house rang like a bell. The sound of initial impact was a bit like a dull thud, as if something large, solid, and perhaps padded had “thumped” some part of the house along the eastern wall.  On an emotional/feeling level, this impact left me with the intuitive sense that some kind of clapper had struck the house with the intent that it ring like a bell.  The actual sound to my ears was a dull thump or thud, with subsequent rippling sound waves.

Intrigued by this experience, I wanted to learn if such things had been noted as having occurred anywhere before.  I ran several internet searches, in hopes that I might find some other similar reports.  I conducted one such internet search in the wee hours of the late night/early morning one time, and found something along the lines of this in a Bible passage.  I remember reading that it said something about a building ringing like a bell as being an indication for people to wake up and pay attention, and rise up into the fullness of their being–as their best selves.  I realized the hour was late, and vowed to study this matter further in the morning–but when I looked the next day, there was no trace of any buildings that “rang like a bell,” and I could not find the information I’d previously found.  Apparently, there had been a reality shift, as I’m still unable to find anything along the lines of what happened for me.

My intuitive response to this series of incidents–because this happened several times over the course of a couple of weeks–is that some higher level of consciousness was getting my attention.  The net effect was a feeling of the importance of paying attention and getting ready, much like hearing a bell rung as a signal to get ready for something–to get back on track, and do the things I’m here to do.  I took this message as a personal message for me to get back to a project that had been sidelined for a while, when I was dealing with a chronic illness situation that began in January 2020, and cleared up so the worst is now over.

This message to wake up and pay attention feels to me like a reminder that we can learn from plants, animals, plants, and the Earth with levels of information accessible to us that is much deeper than what appears on the surface.  We human beings are still coming into the fullness of our abilities, and each time we collectively face a crisis on the planet, we are given an opportunity to remember and access more of who we truly are at a deep level.

I have found sources mentioning celestial bodies (the Earth and the Moon) ringing like bells, but no houses or structures:

The Moon Rang like a Bell
On November 20, 1969, Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon’s surface; NASA reported that the Moon rang ‘like a bell’ for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell.

The Earth rang like a Bell
Earthquakes have been known to ring the Earth like a bell:

On November 11, 2018, seismic sensors registered that the Earth rang like a bell, and pinpointed seismic origins near an island between Madagascar and Africa. And then as far away as Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and Hawaii–on the opposite side of the world.  Nobody knows what it was.  “I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it,” National Geographic reports Columbia University seismologist Göran Ekström said, “It doesn’t mean that, in the end, the cause of them is that exotic.”

On December 26, 2004, the world “rang like a bell” after the magnitude 9.0 Sumatra earthquake. Shock waves circled the world several times a day, possibly for days, Clive Collins, a scientist with Geoscience Australia, said, “Some pass right through the world, others travel around it, on the surface,” he said. “They get to to the other side but they won’t stop–they keep traveling. They just get smaller and smaller.” Surface waves traveled “fairly slowly, probably three or four kilometers a second. Because they are very low frequency waves you can’t feel them.”

Others hit the Earth’s mantle or its molten iron core and bounced back. The result was that the Earth reverberated like a bell, or a water-filled balloon.

Reading Signs when unsettled

Sometimes when we receive synchronicity, signs, and signals when feeling unsettled, we are receiving gifts of great value and significance.  While visiting People’s Crossing (previously known as Settler’s Park) in Boulder, Colorado, I felt the rocks are kinds of signs, too.  They feel like encouragement to, “Keep going, you’re almost there,” whether people were moving from the plains to the mountains, or coming down from the mountains to the plains.

Receiving such reminders can help us rise above the stress of feeling unsettled, as we remember that through stillness meditation, we can access a sense of feeling a connection with the eternal, the infinite, the absolute.  Through such expanded awareness and wisdom of what matters most that is ever-lasting, we can regain a sense of calm, and inner peace and joy as we restore a sense of connection to the internal divinity that is our essential core nature.

And when we remember to ask my favorite question, “How good can it get?” we can also come back from meditation with insights and inspiration we can immediately utilize to find greater enjoyment in our daily lives.

You can watch the companion video to this blog here:

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Sinéad O’Connor (1966 -2023) – Photo by Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CLN Editor Notes:

“Sinéad always spoke out against injustice. Sometimes she didn’t say something perfectly. Sometimes her message wasn’t always heard. But she never stopped trying. And I think that’s really the key takeaway: is that she never, ever, ever stopped trying. And, it’s not enough for us to now say that she was a brave warrior. We have to be brave warriors, and we have to have those conversations that she tried to spark from the very beginning of her career.” ~ Allyson McCabe, author of “Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters”

The passing of a public figure has never before moved me to tears, but I sobbed when I heard that Sinéad O’Connor had died at the age of 56. I didn’t really know a whole lot about her other than her amazing voice, her mega-hit song, her shaved head, and her appearance on Saturday Night Live in which she tore up a photo of the pope. Still, I had this powerful feeling in my heart that an absolutely incredible human being had died and left a huge void. So, I decided to take a deep dive and find out as much as I could about her, some of which I share below.

In my research, I discovered that from the very beginning of Sinéad’s career up until her final public appearance, this quote from Allyson McCabe was spot on: “Sinéad always spoke out against injustice.” When she was presented with the inaugural award for Classic Irish Album at the RTÉ Choice Music Awards in March of this year, Sinéad said: “I dedicate this to each and every member of Ireland’s refugee community… You’re very welcome in Ireland. I love you very much and I wish you happiness.” Much of the world treats refugees as undesirable problems. Not Sinéad. She knows that they deserve love and happiness – just like every other person on the planet.  See HERE.

And here’s a great example from early in Sinéad’s career in which she not only reveals a horrible injustice (the cause of the great famine in Ireland during the years 1845-1852), but she also offers a brilliant solution on how the Irish people can heal their collective trauma. (Note that the worst year of the period was 1847, known as “Black ’47” – which Sinéad refers to in her absolutely brilliant song). Watch and appreciate this amazing woman:

As a result, some are now calling Sinéad a prophet – and I totally agree. Here’s the best video on YouTube that I found about Sinéad’s life and why she mattered: “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church. The above quote by Allyson McCabe is taken from this video, which is hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Rather than tell you about it, I highly suggest that you watch for yourself.

This video, which includes an interview with Una Mullally, a columnist for the Irish Times in Dublin, is also outstanding: Why Sinéad O’Connor’s Legacy Is Deeper Than Her Music. Una said:

“I think Sinéad O’Connor goes beyond music. As you say, she’s more of a cultural figure. She looms very large in the Irish psyche in terms of her activism, her politics, and her actions. And so, the loss is being felt really profoundly. It’s almost as though it’s a large political figure or even a spiritual figure who’s been lost. So, there have been vigils and gatherings, and people are extraordinarily upset. I don’t think I could really think of another person that this has happened within my lifetime.”

Sinéad’s most famous act of revealing injustice was when she took a mind-blowingly bold stance against child abuse in the Catholic Church on live television. On October 3, 1992, without regard to the impact on her career, she sang a cappella the song “War” (a song by Bob Marley that emphasizes social justice, racial equality, and global peace) live on SNL before millions of TV viewers.

But Sinéad didn’t sing “War” as it was written. Instead, she modified the song’s lyrics to serve as a protest against the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. She replaced mentions of “racism” with “child abuse” and “apartheid” with “in the Church. At the end of the song, Sinéad emphatically sang these lyrics that she added:

Children!
Children!
Fight!
We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.

She then held up a photo of Pope John Paul II, tore it into pieces, and exclaimed: “Fight the real enemy!” (Watch HERE).

It took tremendous courage for Sinéad to do that. And she was widely ridiculed for it – by the press, celebs like Madonna and Joe Pesci, and of course, Catholic Church leaders – including Cardinal Bernard Law who was later exposed as being involved in the cover-up of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Boston (as depicted in the 2015 academy award winning film “Spotlight”). He resigned as Archbishop of Boston in 2002 due to the scandal.

Many members of the Catholic Church were outraged. In New York City, protesters transported a 30-ton steamroller to the Rockefeller Center and then proceeded to pulverize her cassette tapes.

Two weeks after her SNL performance, the audience attempted to boo Sinéad off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert. But she stood tall amidst the loud booing for over 2 minutes before finally waving off the musicians, signaling that she no longer was going to sing the Bob Dylan song that she was scheduled to sing.  Instead, she again sang the song “War” a cappella to drive home her message. Watch her incredible bravery HERE. Kris Kristofferson, who introduced and supported Sinéad at the concert with a hug and words of encouragement (“Don’t let the bastards get you down”), gave one of the best tributes to her with the release of his song Sister Sinéad“, which appeared on his 2009 album titled “Closer to the Bone.” Be sure to check it out. Here’s my favorite lyric:

It’s askin’ for trouble to stick out your neck
In terms of a target a big silhouette
But some candles flicker and some candles fade
And some burn as true as my sister Sinéad

History has proven that Sinéad’s criticisms of the church were spot on. Just hours after her death was announced, an American group named Catholics for Choice called her a prophetic heroine “unafraid to demand justice for victims of clerical sexual abuse, challenge patriarchy, and speak truth to power — even when her voice was a lonely one and it cost her dearly to do so.”

Be sure to read this outstanding article about, among other things, how Sinéad’s traumatic real-life experiences led to her courageous stance on the SNL stage and throughout her entire life: “Sinead O’Connor Condemned Church Abuse Early. America Didn’t Listen.”

Do yourself a favor and WATCH THIS absolutely wonderful 2-minute video that was posted in 2017, in which another famous Irish singer, Imelda May, describes the first time she met Sinéad and what an incredibly kind and sensitive soul Sinéad was. Imelda also noted that it was Sinéad’s idea for the two of them to sing a duet together, of which Imelda fondly recalled: “I think that’s probably one of the most heartfelt songs I’ve ever performed with somebody, for sure. The two of us, it’s just magic for me.” So now, you really must watch THIS fabulous duet that Imelda spoke about, titled “Every Night About This Time.”

THIS LIVE PERFORMANCE wonderfully captures the beauty and purity of Sinead’s voice as she sings a capella an incredibly beautiful song that she wrote titled “In This Heart” (which was featured on the hit series “Peaky Blinders” – see HERE). Also, be sure to listen to Sinéad’s most recently published recording HERE. After hearing Sinéad sing this hauntingly beautiful, 90-second theme song for Outlander titled “The Skye Boat Song,” a friend of mine observed: “She conveys so much emotion in her voice. Whatever the message, it’s always more than words if she sings it!”

To get a feeling for just how beloved Sinéad is in her home country, watch this 2-minute video titled “She was fierce in the best sort of way: Dubliners turn out to pay tribute to Sinéad O’Connor“. My favorite quote from the video (in addition to the one in the video’s title) is: “I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much for a stranger, but I think she held bits of generations of this nation in her heart. She was saying things before we could say them.”

Finally, watch THIS touching video clip from Sinéad’s funeral in the Irish town of Bray where thousands of adoring fans flocked to pay their respects. Several residents who had the good fortune to meet her are interviewed.

Thank you, Sinéad, for being a shining beacon of transformation and a heartfelt inspiration to all of us. May your music eternally resonate, uplifting us to stand up and voice our truths against injustice, and celebrate our true selves. This music video, in which you remind us to love ourselves, depicts how I will remember you – a radiant light, overflowing with love, joy, and wisdom:

RIP beautiful soul. I am really glad that you are reunited with your beloved son.

Sinéad O’Connor: A Troubled Soul With Immense Talent and Unbowed Spirit

Written by: Adam Behr, Newcastle University

Few artists have straddled the boundaries between acclaim, controversy and public affection as effectively as Sinéad O’Connor who died yesterday at the age of 56.

Her status as a household name belied a comparatively brief commercial peak in the early 1990s, thanks to her mesmerizing interpretation of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U. But she was never in any danger of being relegated to being a one-hit-wonder.

O’Connor’s life and career were characterized by irregularity and a sense of being at odds with her surroundings. Her childhood was fraught. After her parents separated when she was young, O’Connor lived mostly with her mother, who she claimed was abusive, and involved her in shoplifting and fraudulent charity collecting.

Truancy and crime led to a spell in the Catholic church-run Grianán Training Centre, a harsh rehabilitation centre associated with the infamous Magdalene Laundries. Although traumatic, the center provided her with an entry into music when a teacher asked her to sing at a wedding, which led to encounters with musicians who encouraged her to write lyrics and pursue the guitar.

Adversity infused her music with a punk spirit, an oppositional attitude that was writ large throughout the rest of her career. By the time her mother died in a car crash when O’Connor was 18 years old, the singer was well on her way. She had dropped out of school and formed a band called Ton Ton Macoute – with typically spiky attitude – a name derived from a mythical Haitian bogeyman, and also the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier’s feared secret police.

A distinctive template as a singer-songwriter

Having captured the attention of former U2 label boss Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, and collaborated with The Edge on a song for the film Captive, her solo career began in grand style with The Lion and the Cobra in 1987. A gold record in the UK, US, Canada and the Netherlands – featuring the Top 40 single Mandinka – it marked out her image and distinctive voice, clear and pure, but never demure.

Her trademark cropped hair and forthright bearing set her apart from prevailing female singer-songwriters. Shunning both overtly sexualized imagery and quirky hippie-chick vibes, O’Connor’s aesthetic was blunt and raw, although the clarity of her voice gave it commercial traction.

This reached a pinnacle on her next album, 1990’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – a multi-platinum worldwide number one that featured her best-known recording, Nothing Compares 2 U which she made completely her own. Propelled by a stark video in unflinching close-up, tears running down her face, it made her an international star. But O’Connor’s predilection for musical exploration, political confrontation and emotional honesty meant that her mainstream career quickly self-combusted.

Despite the success of her early recordings, she took a counter-intuitive turn on her next album, 1992’s Am I Not Your Girl?, which featured lush versions of jazz standards. While her voice was more than up to the task of interpreting the classics she had grown up with, the departure from her previous work saw a critical and commercial step down from the trailblazing success of her previous album. More significantly, she used her promotional activity in America to showcase her status as a protest singer rather than a pop star.

Given the centrality of her personal, and musical, voice to her career, it’s perhaps apt that two of her most notable live performances are both a cappella and confrontational. An appearance on TV show Saturday Night Live in October 1992 saw her drop the planned performances of standards from the album and replace them with a version of Bob Marley’s War. She wanted to re-tool it as a protest against child abuse in the Catholic church, and the cover-up that followed. The change of song was agreed by the show’s producers.

What they hadn’t planned on was for O’Connor to tear up a picture of the Pope at the denouement of the performance. The subsequent furor was swift and intense. O’Connor was vilified in the press, and the NBC network received over 4,000 complaints. Two weeks later, at a star-studded tribute to Bob Dylan, she was booed by the crowd and stopped the band to shout another rendition of War before leaving the stage in tears, comforted by Kris Kristofferson.

Watch Sinéad’s compassionate response when asked: “How were you treated when you said ‘Fight the real enemy’ and you ripped up the picture of the pope? How were you treated after?”:

Unbowed and iconic

Even if her career never quite acquired equilibrium, O’Connor the artist remained unbowed and exploratory. Taking lessons in Italian bel canto singing, her subsequent seven albums tacked across genres – reggae, hip-hop, rock, soul, and folk – placing her voice at the centre of original material and distinctive interpretations of an eclectic range of artists from Curtis Mayfield to Kurt Cobain.

Her later releases were stronger on critical acclaim than commercial clout, and her well-publicized mental health difficulties led to hiatuses in her music. Ever the controversialist, she continued to weigh in on points of principle, such as her critique of Miley Cyrus over the sexualized video for Wrecking Ball, and the subsequent public spat.

Despite these gaps, and the personal tragedies like her son’s suicide in 2022, O’Connor’s fierce adherence to her principles of self-expression saw her win considerable public affection. She was, of course, vindicated over her accusations of abuse in the Catholic church. But her uneven approach to public life – announcements of retirement followed by retractions, a spell as a “priest” followed by her conversion to Islam (she went by the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat from 2019) – did little to dim her appeal in the long term.

Ultimately despite her difficulties, or even because of them, she exemplified what it was to be an icon. Her visual distinctiveness, determination and refusal to meet the mainstream halfway mean that her instantly recognisable voice cut through the shifts and uncertainty of her personal life and public debate. In the end, nothing quite compares to her.

Adam Behr, Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University

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Source: London Real

In this video, David Icke discusses the existence of aliens and their manipulation of human society “for eons.” He highlights recent hearings on Capitol Hill where witnesses confirmed the presence of non-human forces visiting Earth. Icke questions the motives behind the recent shift in attitude and suggests that this is likely part of a plan to create a fake alien invasion in order to transform society by taking more freedoms away. Icke cites Werner Von Braun, who warned decades ago about the coming “fake alien invasion.” Icke warns against blindly trusting authority figures and billionaire leaders.

Source: Charles Eisenstein

In this interview with Derek Loudermilk, Charles Eisenstein delves into the interconnectedness of nature, the limitations of human knowledge, and the importance of embracing alternative ways of understanding the world. Charles calls for a shift in how humans perceive and interact with the world, advocating for greater openness to the interconnectedness of nature, acknowledging the limitations of human knowledge, and embracing alternative ways of understanding that can guide meaningful actions toward planetary healing.

Watch the complete interview HERE.

TRANSCRIPT

Derek:

You have lots of fun analogies, but I like this, like thinking of a person almost as like a light particle that can sort of choose its own path because it reduces the weight it reduces the mass of our choices to some extent, I want to share a little story that came up for me that I was reminded of when I was starting to think about the story of interbeing. And, also in Bali, we were talking earlier about – about being in Bali. I went up to the highlands there in the – it’s actually right at the edge of the botanic garden, where the sort of place where nobody can get to because the jungle is so dense.

There’s a tree: it’s 800, a thousand years old. And I had my first sort of magical experience touching the tree. And my Consciousness was projected to another part of the world. And what was expressed to me was this tree was like Hey, I’m worried about this forest in China that’s becoming a desert, and I think you need to look at your own relationship with nature. And I was almost given a mission by this magical tree to bring more people into nature – that it was like you need to remember that you are also nature.

Charles: Yes

Derek:

But the simple fact that a tree on this continent was worried about trees on a different continent – it was like I’m not worried about this jungle because we have all the water we need and like nobody comes here,. But it was like, this other place has me feeling sad. And I was like, first, the fact that a tree is communicating with me this way was unique to me. But then also the sense of like that time and space didn’t matter to the concern expressed here:

Charles:

Yeah like all the stuff, all this philosophy we’re talking about – interbeing, separation, and so forth – it pales in importance compared to the kind of experience you’re talking about right now.

What you described is, in a way. I always call it a medicine story. It reveals just how little we know about how this world actually works. If you ask somebody, how do we fix it, are they drawing on the kind of knowledge that that tree represents? Do they have that way of understanding what’s happening…

Like, how does that tree, first, for one thing, how does it communicate with you? How does it know what’s happening in China? There’s like a whole other intelligence network that operates on this Earth that is almost entirely invisible, not to human beings, but invisible to human beings who have been acculturated to the reductionistic force-based causality of modern science, and the built environment, the economic environment that goes along with it. And the technological environment, the screens, for example. All that stuff.

We become very perceptive in a certain way, our minds, our cognition, develop to a high degree in a certain way. And in that tunnel vision, we lose touch with so many other capacities that we can then rediscover as a gift from other species or even from other human beings who have not been so acculturated.

This maybe goes back to the Einstein quote, you know. If we’re going to transform, if we’re going to be part of a planetary transformation and healing, we have to access those other capacities: the things that are not valued or even acknowledged to exist in the world story that we’ve grown up in.

We have to learn how, it’s not only learning how to communicate with trees. We have to do it. We already actually know how. You can take the, you know, most urbanized noob out into the rainforest, and they can have a mystical experience like that. This is an innate human capacity. The key to it is to accept that it is possible. Once you accept that it is possible, then you’re going to try.

Like, I get information by watching and listening to geese.

They fly – there’s a lot of them here in Rhode Island. They fly overhead all the time and they’re honking. You know? But, now, why are they honking so much as they’re flying?

The Darwinian, reductionistic evolutionary, biologists would be like well, okay, why are they wasting all that energy? Flying is pretty tiring. Are they signaling dominance? Like, what are they doing? You know?

Other interpretations do not occur to that mind: that they are channeling the joy of life and they cannot hardly even contain it; that they love the sound of their voice and they love listening to each other. Like, there are so many things that we just don’t think of, and nor do we suspect that the pattern of their calls transmits information about where they have been and what they have heard and seen – that they are interwoven into the tapestry of all being.

So, you can listen to geese and observe geese and you will learn something about the world that you probably could not find out on the internet. You can watch fish in a pool. I mean, anything in nature. You can look at the waves on the shore and you will know something. Now, you might not be able to put it into words, but you will receive information and it might be like your experience with that tree.

You received information that made you know what to do. It transmitted: this is mine to do. Now, in this case, maybe your rational mind could have made sense of it. Well, forests are important, carbon sinks and we got to, you know, whatever.

Like your mind can make sense, but come on! That’s not what was happening. That was your mind’s justification of it, but that’s not where the information came from. That’s what we have to listen to. Why?

Because we have no freaking clue about how this world actually works or how to fix it. We cannot rely on the legacy knowledge systems that we’re operating in mostly right now.

We have to go to those other places. And it doesn’t mean that you, all of a sudden become inactive, and you’re spending all your time watching geese. It’s the contrary. You become more decisive and you can’t even explain it to anybody else. Why am I now going to China, or why am I now doing this thing?

You can’t necessarily explain it, because the terms of explanation are foreign to that way of thinking. The only explanation you could be, you could say: go spend a couple of hours watching, geese and you’ll understand.

That’s not an explanation. It’s an induction into a field of knowledge.

 

Finding Your Voice
“In life, finding a voice
is speaking and living the truth.
Each of you is an original.
Each of you has a distinctive voice.
When you find it,
your story will be told.
You will be heard.”
—John Grisham

When I was growing up in a small suburb of Sacramento, California, I sometimes enjoyed listening to a radio station broadcast by my young cousin, David, sending a signal that didn’t go very far, but we could hear him, because he lived just down the street. David’s radio station was a small one, and sometimes the volume and clarity would come and go, but it was such a joy to hear him truly in his element! When David grew up, he became a radio broadcaster with KFI, a Los Angeles radio station. David currently works in broadcasting as an advisor and consultant for radio and TV media personalities, and he is grateful for his roots and mentors along the way. This past week, David shared six life tips that made a positive difference for him in broadcasting and in life. I find these tips brilliant for helping us be more fully and authentically engaged in life, and more fully appreciated when we speak with others:

(1) A small room can be a wide world; embrace it.
I love this tip, because it reminds me of the value of truly finding and feeling the blessings right here, right now. Sometimes we may feel impatient to be somewhere we wish we were. Other times we may feel delayed or slowed down.  The secret that great meditators know is that we carry infinite eternity inside of ourselves, and this can make a wide world anywhere at all.  Feeling genuine ecstasy in whatever confinement we may be experiencing can be the secret to activating, tremendous gratitude, which boosts our energy, and facilitates miraculous Quantum Jumps.

(2) Authentic never goes out of style.
Integrity with regard to being who we truly are is a priceless quality. Many people can see through to the core of what others are thinking and feeling, such that a lack of authenticity can be felt by others, and is seldom appreciated. Being genuine can better facilitate trust, respect, and cooperation with others.

(3) People can hear a smile without seeing it.
Genuine interest, passion, and enthusiasm are contagious, and inspirational! Most of what we communicate to others is conveyed beyond mere words, and it comes through in things like: tone of voice, pauses and silences, and mood. We have the ability to share blessings of positivity, optimism, faith, and love through cultivating these qualities in meditation and/or prayer, and sharing them through our presence.

(4) In life your microphone is always on; act accordingly.
This tip seems extremely important in the day and age when pretty much anything we say or do might be recorded somehow, and might show up at some surprising future moment to be displayed to a larger audience. For these reasons, it’s good advice to act and speak as kindly toward others as possible.

(5) The secret to effective public speaking is to feel like you’re talking to one person at a time.
This is a wonderful suggestion when giving formal talks and presentations, but it’s also excellent advice in informal conversations, too. It’s easier to feel relaxed when talking to just one person, which helps to ensure better connections.

(6) It’s what’s between the music that counts, in radio, and in life.
Quite often in life, the truly most magical, memorable treasured moments occur without having been planned, scheduled, and choreographed. The most precious moments often happen in the inbetween spaces—in the rests between doing, talking, and thinking. In these beautiful moments, we can treasure the blessings of nature, and love.

 

If you’re wondering what our upcoming live, in-person International Mandela Effect Conference in Branford, Connecticut, for this coming Labor Day weekend: IMEC 2023: Decoding the Matrix will be like, we created a short video for people considering attending. Christopher Anatra, Jerry Hicks, Shane Robinson, and I share what we love so much about our live, in-person conference, and why we think you’ll love to join us, if you can. It’s a great time to get your tickets, if you’re thinking about joining us at this event!

I invite you to explore some truly amazing reality shifts that have been reported over the past twenty plus years and posted at RealityShifters. Any time you’d like to remind yourself of some of the remarkable changes we’ve witnessed, I welcome you to browse through a few issues, and fall more deeply and fully in love with the wonder and magic of life!

• Love always,
  Cynthia Sue Larson
  email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com

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• In This Issue:

  (1) Spiritual Life Coaching
  (2) Intriguing Events, Articles, Interviews, & Films
  (3) Your Reality Shift Stories
  (4) Mail Bag, Questions, and Answers
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Cynthia Sue Larson MBA, author, speaker, and spiritual life coach

(1) Spiritual Life Coaching

Could you benefit from help facing a challenging issue in your life? Would you like clarity regarding an important decision? Could you use some help shifting your reality? Are you curious to know your divine gifts? Are you ready to feel energized? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you can benefit from Spiritual Life Coaching with Cynthia!
Contact Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com to set up a life-enhancing telephone consultation today.
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• “If there is one thing I can be grateful for
  it is that I trusted my intuition
  and made contact with you–
  and from that the gift of connecting to myself
  (and other people) again!”
  — Susan

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(2) Intriguing Events, Articles, Interviews, & Films

 

Dowsing Mt. Diablo Leylines
in the spirit of Hamish Miller
28 Jun 2023
12 minutes
Thank you for joining us on our exceptionally fun journey and maiden dowsing voyage, with Melinda driving, Cynthia holding the dowsing rods, and our canine friend, Zubin, supervising, then sleeping. What wasn’t recorded on our home video was our impromptu singing of “Can’t Take My Eyes off of You.” “You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you… I love you baby…” at the top of our voices, making up the lyrics as we went along, since we didn’t really know the lyrics. Melinda had heard the song the day before on a street corner played by a Mariachi band in San Francisco. The next morning, Cynthia and Melinda met for breakfast before the journey up Mt. Diablo, and both heard the exact same song playing again when visiting the lady’s room separately. Our sing-along on the way to the entrance to the park set the joyful tone for our adventure! We chose this destination since we felt drawn to exploring the intersection, or node, as it’s called, at the top of Mt. Diablo State Park, where according to Rory Duff’s structure of leylines, there are four intersecting category 4 lines. These lines intersect just above the parking area of Mt. Diablo State Park in Walnut Creek, California USA. With Hamish Miller as our inspiration, we took off up the road that coils around and up the mountain, crisscrossing back and forth over the intersecting energy lines that converge at the peak, and setting the intention that you who are watching could feel what we are feeling and join us in this process of discovery on this amazing dowsing journey. The closer we got to the top of Mount Diablo, the more energy pressure we began to feel, especially in the head area. We noticed that the lines were expanding, because the rods indicated a very wide and open posture as we drove through the leylines and on up to the convergence point as given to us by geobiologist Rory Duff and his exceptional research. And thanks to the expanding Emperor Dragon lines, during the solstices and equinoxes, when all these energy lines converge including these nodal points, it makes it much easier for people to become a part of this beautiful new world process we are in. You can read more about Leylines, energy currents and Emperor Dragon lines on Rory’s website https://roryduff.com. By the way there are no Emperor Dragon Lines on Mt. Diablo. Our terminology might be a bit different for Vortexes, Energy lines and leylines. We did the best we could with our explanation and understanding while having a jolly good time. At one point while driving and crisscrossing these lines, we picked up a bit of a different energy and the dowsing rods indicated that by spinning instead of the usual crossing or opening. That could be called a vortex. At 3,000 ft above sea level, we stood in the center of where the 4 lines crossed creating a 4th level node. It was windy and chilly, and the energy was wonderful. The activity of the rods changed yet again with both spinning in the same direction, clockwise. The they began pulsing as in turning, stopping, turning, stopping. While meditating on the lines there was a sense that one of the lines needed a bit of clearing and reconnecting work, so we went into meditation to see what was needed. After the clearing and connecting meditation there was a new sense that these nodes are helping us as the ‘Eyes’ of creation for the new world, and that they are points that assist us humans in tapping into the inspiration available for us to usher in this “new world.” Surrendering, accepting and trusting that there is a collaboration in the works allows us to explore a genuine sense of prosperity for all, that is sustainable and that can continue to build in a wonderfully positive way. The ‘eyes of creation’ is a co-collaborative process that we can all participate in.

 

Cynthia Sue Larson
talks about quantum jumps
1 Jul 2023
2 minutes
This is an excerpt from an interview with Cynthia Sue Larson on the Catherine Plano podcast.

 

IMEC Open Tables:
Shifty History
28 Jun 2023
3 hours, 8 minutes
What do long-concealed hidden ruins, strange national flag salutes, super-powered ancient electric cars, and an apparent change to a historic crash site have in common? These are some of the newest and strangest Mandela Effects that have come to our attention this month.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RVSVXycQN_0?feature=share

 

Quantum Leaps
and Infinite Possibilities
with Cynthia Sue Larson
21 Jun 2023
1 hour, 9 minutes
enjoyed a wonderful recent conversation with Catherine on the Catherine Plano Podcast. Episode 341: Quantum Leaps and Infinite Possibilities with Cynthia Sue Larson

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(3) Your Reality Shift Stories

 

Tiffany’s Miraculous Healing
Tara
Salem, Oregon, USA

I will preface this by saying that I know, undoubtedly, this happened due to everything I’ve been learning from you. Because I applied your wisdom to the situation and the outcome was truly miraculous, I don’t think the outcome would have been the same had I not known something like this was possible. I believe in healing but this was different—everything was telling me she was gone for good and yet she’s here today and completely healthy. So here’s the story. Several months ago my neighbors moved away and left behind their cat, she is an orange tabby and her name is Tiffany. She needed a place to call home and would come by looking for food. Being the animal lover that I am, I couldn’t say no to her and eventually she claimed her new home here. She is an outside cat and loves hunting and climbing trees. She is very smart and tough yet also loving and sweet. I trust her to be outside, it always seems like she knows what she’s doing and has always been able to take care of herself just fine. Also, she always comes home to eat on time, morning and night. So I’ve never worried about her. Until one day recently she did not come home to eat her dinner, which was rare for her. I was a little worried but I assumed everything was fine and she would be back by morning. Well she was not back at her normal morning time. This had me pretty concerned but I remained optimistic. It was just before noon now and I was sitting outside listening to some videos as I do and I saw her sort of crawl out from underneath the deck of the porch where I was sitting. She was not acting right. She was basically crawling, acting very sporadically and could barely walk or stand. I did not know what on earth had happened to her. My dad had walked out and saw her and actually was so upset he just said “I can’t deal with this” and went back inside. It was very upsetting to see. At that moment in time it really did seem as if she had only come to say goodbye and had crawled off into the bushes to make her passing. This was really how it seemed and my dad thought she was gone forever. A day went by and he told me he had tried to look for her, in his words he wanted to give her a proper burial at least, but could not find her anywhere. During this time I wasn’t quite allowing myself to go there mentally. I had been listening to a lot of Cynthia’s videos and remembered her story about Ashes, a cat that had passed away, who she later found alive again in her reality. I decided to assume that all things are possible, and that since I hadn’t even fully accepted that Tiffany was gone, since I didn’t even fully know what was wrong or what had happened, I would remain open to the possibility of her being okay and returning, even though everything suggested against it, perhaps I could shift into that reality. A few days later, I was in my room, laying in meditation, when I hear my dad come running in the house and knocking on my door yelling “Tiffany is back, she’s alive!” I got up and went outside, and sure enough, there she was. He let me know she had actually been up on the roof, which I find extremely interesting, given the condition she was in. But that’s what caught his attention and how he knew she was back. She had somehow managed to get up there, and had now jumped back down, and he knew she was under the porch now. We were shaking treats, and calling for her, trying to get her to come out. She still wasn’t acting like she normally does. I could tell something was wrong, but at least I knew she was alive. I was thinking, “Wow, well this is progress. And if she can come back and get up on the roof after all this, maybe I really can shift to the reality where she is healed completely—” (It was so bizarre to me that she was able to get on the roof at this point; I intuitively knew something different and miraculous was going on, and that kept me inspired.) She finally came out when I was calling her, but she was so weak from not eating for a few days, and from whatever had happened, which I still was unsure (was she hit by a car? Was she attacked? Had she ate something bad?) She just kept falling over, laying down, and closing her eyes. She would eat one piece of food at a time, as I put it out for her. She did not have the strength to even lift her head or drink water from her bowl. I just kept sticking with my original thought process that somehow everything would be okay, and she would be fine. Though It really seemed like she could have died in that moment had I not decided to pick her up and rehabilitate her in a small cage. After I decided to do that, it seemed like she knew I was trying to help her. I was slowly able to get her to drink water from a straw, and gradually she was able to lift her head up and eat from her food bowl. She seemed to gain a little strength back each day. But each day presented new concerns, such as if her back end was messed up, would she be able to go to the bathroom? Would she be able to walk again? Did she have internal damage that I couldn’t see? (Keep in mind, I did not have the resources to take her to a vet, so healing her/ shifting to the reality where she healed was the only option.) With each passing day, the concerns went slowly away as she continued to improve, get better, and do everything normally. I just kept saying, “She gets better and better each day.” And she did, literally. She went from not even being able to walk, to her old ways of jumping up and climbing on things. She still struggled a bit; at this point I was pretty sure what had happened was that she had nerve damage from being hit by a vehicle, but that’s still a guess. A guess based on being able to feel her legs shaking by her rear where a cat has many nerves. (This was still very concerning, as I didn’t know if the damage was permanent or could be healed, yet I kept going.) I would put a little collar on her tied to a leash, and let her try to walk around with it on. She would, and once again she would improve a little more each day. It’s almost as if she knew I was helping her. She acted so sweet towards me, and would keep licking my hands, brushing up against my legs, and laying at my feet and meowing, as if to say, “Thank you.” After about two weeks of her healing from her “therapy” and resting in the cage, and gaining back her strength, and improving each day, she was really walking almost perfectly now! She actually started running so fast while she was on the leash that the collar broke, and I had to catch her! I guess that means she’s feeling much better now and back to her normal, healthy ways. My dad says he believes in miracles now, as he really thought she was gone, and now she is alive and well again. This experience happened at such an interesting time in my life, when I’m learning about how it is possible to shift into a more desirable reality, it really showed me and taught me experientially that truly anything is possible that I believe. There is so much to learn in this wonderful universe, yet I will forever know that no matter how things appear or seem, it really can work out miraculously, for the highest good of all. More and more, I seem to find myself asking , “How good can it get?” And every area of my life, and the lives of those around me seems to continue improving. Blessings to Cynthia for all she does and to everyone who reads. 

Note from Cynthia: Thank you for sharing this beautiful miraculous healing experience with your amazing tabby cat, Tiffany!  Thank goodness you were there for Tiffany, to look after her so lovingly, with consistently positive expectations that most certainly made a tremendous difference in her miraculous recovery.  I’ve heard of a doctor who notices huge improvements for his patients when he asks them to rate their comfort level (rather than pain level) on a scale of one to ten, and they recover more quickly, with less need for further medications or procedures. It seems clear to me that thanks to your heartfelt and pure positive healing intentions, Tiffany knew in each and every moment that you believed in her full and complete recovery, helping to ensure such positive miraculous results. 

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Blue Riband product and ads no longer exist
Vivek
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

This reality shift has been haunting me for years. Around 1990 there used to be a full page advertisement in all premium magazines of India. The popular model, Malvika Tiwari, is reclining on a boat in an ocean with a bottle of blue riband lime cordial, her boyfriend is on other end of boat. Now I can’t find either the ad or the product. The product Blue Riband lime cordial was supposed to be a surrogate ad for Blue Riband gin. Blue Riband Gin is still being made, and later Blue Riband Duet that had lime cordial, that was added to the company’s products. But Blue Riband lime cordial has disappeared from the face of Earth, and with it, the beautiful ad. I know about a product Duet that was introduced later on—but, at best, Duet is a residue from across the veil. Alcohol ads were never allowed in India, and Blue Riband lime cordial was a surrogate ad. And now even surrogate ads are not allowed. Thanks for your interest; for me this is one of the biggest challenges to sanity.

Note from Cynthia: Thank you for sharing this news that Blue Riband lime cordial has disappeared, together with its beautiful advertisement image. Thank you so much for sharing with me some of the background that makes this Mandela Effect so amazing and impressive, such that people assume that probably people are mistakenly confusing Blue Riband lime cordial with the product Duet, which arrived later on. 

 

Changes to “Aman” movie
Vivek
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

As fantastic as Blue Riband lime cordial is, there is one that tops it. In fact, I would say these two are the greatest enigmas of my life. By extreme stretch of circumstances, Blue Riband might have been removed from circulation, though possibility is almost nil, the one I am going to tell is out of this earth. The 1967 movie, Aman, starring Rajendra Kumar, had a scene at the end in which three ladies were engaged in animated conversation. One of the ladies, played by actress Lalita Pawar, mother of Rajendra Kumar in movie, said a certain thing to her potential daughter-in-law, the third lady was daughter-in-law’s mother. The ensuing dialogue is so sensational, that it’s a scriptwriter’s dream. And now the last 20 minutes of the movie have totally changed. The three ladies are not in reckoning at all. And the great Lalita Pawar is not even in the star cast. I last saw the movie in 2010 with my associate, on a television local channel. The dialogue was so sensational, that my associate jumped up with excitement. In fact it is worth a fortune. Rajendra Kumar died in 1999, and Lalita Pawar in 1998; the heroine of the movie, played by Saira Banu, is alive, now aged 78 years. There never was an alternate ending; in any case in 1967 there never was the culture of alternate endings. My associate still quotes that sensational dialogue that no longer exists on Earth. Try to investigate the movie; the incidence is a game changer in the world of high strangeness. I remember very well the quote; I am giving you the translation. The situation is that the hero, Rajendra Kumar, was doing his philanthropic work as a doctor, alleviating atomic bomb survivors of their suffering. In the course of his work, the doctor becomes blind. His mother, played by actress Lalita Pawar, along with his betrothed girl and her mother, arrive in Japan. The colleagues of Rajendra Kumar tell the ladies that he can recover his sight if someone donates their eyes. Lalita Pawar stares at the girl saying, “Daughter-in-law, in Mahabharata Gandhari spent her whole life blind-folded, in sympathy for her blind husband.” The girl, getting the cue that her would-be mother-in-law was alluding that she donate her eyes, snorted, “Those were decadent times when people were blind of senses,” and walks away in a huff. In the original Hindi, the statement itself is so sensationally funny that it can sell for $10,000. The rest of the 20 minutes of now-missing dialogue had a totally different storyline than the current version. Mahabharata, as you would know, is the holy epic of Hindu religion, along with Ramayana, the other epic. 

Note from Cynthia: Wow!  Thank you for sharing the change you noticed in the 1967 movie, “Aman,” starring Rajendra Kumar, where the memorable dialogue completely changed, and the actress Lalita Pawar is no longer even in the film!  How amazing that your associate still quotes the sensational dialogue that apparently, never existed. This missing dialogue that you remember used to include the memorable actress, Lalita Pawar, truly is extraordinary and memorable.  I’ve never heard of anything like it, and the fact that you and your associate both recall it so clearly indicates there has been quite a change to this movie.  What a fascinating conversation this missing dialogue inspires.  I wonder if perhaps it’s gone missing partly because some movie viewers found it to be distasteful or disrespectful?  I witnessed a change to one of my books where I’d written something about my salad talking to me that was frequently offending many readers, and now my book has changed, and there is no copy of it containing the previously offensive material. This is such an important Mandela Effect—thank you so much for sharing this with me!

Airbus now launched a decade earlier
Vivek
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Here is one anchor memory that you may have an idea of. I remember Airbus was launched in 1982 as against the current history saying 1972. At the time of the Airbus launch, my father discussed it, while reading the newspaper. And we had rented that house in 1978. So no chance of 1972. 

Note from Cynthia: Thank you for sharing your memory that the aviation company Airbus got its start in 1982, and not 1972.  I did travel in the early 1970s, and don’t recall flying on an Airbus in those years; it does seem like the first I really heard about this company was in the 1980s.  Fascinating!

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(4) Mail Bag, Questions, and Answers

Dear Cynthia,
Thank you, Cynthia. I need my positive energy because the Canadian wildfires have now started in Quebec and I have relatives living there. When the world seems to be falling apart, we truly need all the positive energy we can get.
—Mike

Dear Mike,
You are so very welcome. Thank you for doing your best to feel loving connection to the world. I am certain that when we feel loving kindness toward the Earth and one another, our focused intentions can bring miraculous healing quantum jumps.
love,
—Cynthia

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Dear Cynthia,
Thank you for this beautiful message. It is a good reminder of the power of remaining mindful of visions we have. My “dreams” most often are for processing undercurrents, while the matri comes in awake, by now showing codes in ways that are undeniable. I wish you a lovely day – oh, just noticed that it is 06/06 🙂
—Teresa

Dear Teresa,
Thank you for letting me know you appreciate this newsletter.  How wonderful that you have dreams for processing undercurrents–possibly doing quite a bit to smooth the way for positive outcomes.
Wishing you and yours all the best, with much love,
—Cynthia

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Dear Cynthia,
I saw in your newsletter that one of your readers thought you used to say “how does it get better than this?” I thought you used to say this too! And I could have sworn that I saw you on Michael Sandler’s show on youtube, and you used the phrase then. In fact, I’ve seen his show since then, and he says it regularly. I thought he got this from you! Except I believe he says “any better” instead of just better. Do you have any recollection of this?
—Autumn

Dear Autumn,
I’m not sure when I began ending all my YouTube videos with, “How good can it get?” but I can find evidence I was doing that often enough back in 2014 that one interview I did with Tazz and Paula was given that name:
https://archive.org/details/podcast_the-tazz-paula-show_cynthia-sue-larson-how-good_1000333423049
I do remember having been a guest on Michael Sandler’s show, and having been pleasantly surprised at the time to learn his catchphrase is so similar to mine!  I’ve only known Sandler to say, “How can it get any better than this?” or something to that effect.  I don’t know the story on when MIchael Sandler began saying what he says, but I’ve only ever said the shortest version, “How good can it get” which for myself also quietly becomes a mantra of “How good can I get” and also “How God can I get.”  Those modifications fit better with the short version I remember always having said, but don’t seem quite so adaptable to the other versions.
lots of love and blessings,
—Cynthia

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Hi, Cynthia,
I listened to your interview on the Gaia podcast today at work (so fascinating, by the way!) As you were telling the story about the rose, I thought to myself, “Oh, I’ve heard this story before. But wait, didn’t she just say it was within 24hrs?” So I rewound it and that is what you said! It seems like way too unique of a story to happen to 2 different people, but I remember hearing it before. I checked the date the podcast came out, and it said Tuesday, so I wouldn’t have heard it there on Gaia. Maybe interview was held in editing for a long time and you did different interview including that story in the meantime? This is what I remember from the person’s story: Two friends in a cafe, go to take a photo, rose appears out of nowhere. The woman decides to take the rose home, planning to save or dry it. She carefully packed it in her bag, but when she got home or to the next hotel it was gone. Really gone, not in the bag where she was certain she put it. Then weeks or months later, it showed up in the same bag again! Was this your story? Did your rose disappear and reappear? Did I hear it somewhere else? Or could it be a Mandela effect itself? If I’m wrong, I probably sound like a crazy person. But my thoughts kept going back to it. And I’m so excited, interested, and confused, I just had to ask, especially considering the topic of the interview! I’ve had some random mystical experiences, saw in my mind’s eye what was happening outside one time, felt myself break through a barrier of manifestation (once by accident! :-), etc, but it always happens when I least expect it, ha! I haven’t yet learned how to do it at will, but I think I’m on the right path. I’m excited to check out your books! Anyway, thanks for listening/reading. And thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Aloha,
—Kari

Dearest Kari,
Thanks so much for writing to me about my experience with the rose! Yes, you are remembering the full story of that rose–the one that first appeared fresh and fragrant out of thin air that night I was having dinner with a friend in Boulder, Colorado at the Dushanbe tea house—and then it vanished when had so carefully planned to bring it home to California—only to reappear at the bottom of my most frequently used purse. That’s where I’d last seen it (fresh and beautiful) and then some time later–may weeks later–it reappeared perfectly fine, uncrushed, at the bottom of that purse that I’d been tossing things into regularly for weeks! It appeared the day I was interviewed by Candace Craw Goldman, and I was so astonished that day!
With love and thanks and blessings,
—Cynthia

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Dear Cynthia,
This attachment reminded me of your train dream, I can’t stop thinking about it. I loved reading it so much. You are sooo inspiring. I love all your content Cynthia. Most importantly I trust you!
Peace and all good things,
—Julie

Dear Julie,
Thank you for your kind words and good wishes–much appreciated. And thank you so very much for this lovely visual–I love it! And yes, it exactly fits the dream I shared!
With love and thanks and blessings,
—Cynthia

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Good morning Cynthia.
Good morning Cynthia. My grandson and I are enjoying your Karen Kimball book. We wondered if this story is from your life? Did these things happen to you? My grandson would really like it if there was a movie made from the book. Any plans for a Karen Kimball series?
Lots of Love your way,
—Shirley

Dear Shirley,
Thank you so much for your message, and I’m delighted to hear that you’re enjoying my book, “Karen Kimball and the Dream Weaver’s Web”! Yes, several similar things happened to me as some aspects of the story.  When I wrote this book, I wanted to cover some of the real life magic that we can experience in our lives. I may write another book about Karen Kimball’s continuing adventures, and appreciate your taking an interest.  I’d love a movie made from this book, too! I wrote a song, Karen Kimball’s song, “It’s All Right,” that you might enjoy:

lots of love and thanks,
—Cynthia

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In chapter 30 of “The Autobiography of a Yogi” (see an excerpt below plus a video of the entire chapter 30 being read aloud), Paramahansa Yogananda says that the world is an illusion (Maya) and suggests that the universe is like a motion picture that is projected onto the screen of man’s consciousness. In addition, he says that just as a cinema audience can see that all screen images are appearing through one imageless beam of light, the colorful universal drama is similarly issuing from the single white light of a Cosmic Source.

In Hindu philosophy, the term Maya is a Sanskrit word that can be translated as “illusion” or “deception.” However, the concept of Maya is not limited to Hinduism. Similar ideas can be found in other philosophical and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, although the interpretations and explanations vary.

Regarding the reason for suffering, Yogananda says that the good and evil of Maya must both exist because without suffering humans would not be motivated to seek a higher reality beyond the physical world.

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At the end of the chapter, Yogananda shares several powerful personal experiences that demonstrate the illusionary nature of reality, including an experience where he saw his body as a cosmic beam of light and realized that the essence of all “physical” objects is light.

Overall, Yogananda’s exploration of the nature of reality in this chapter is a thought-provoking reflection on the illusory nature of the physical world and the importance of spiritual wisdom in understanding the true nature of existence.

Excerpt from “Autobiography of a Yogi”, Ch. 30: The Law of Miracles

The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of Maya, the principle of relativity and duality. God, the Sole Life, is an Absolute Unity; He cannot appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation except under a false or unreal veil. That cosmic illusion is Maya. Every great scientific discovery of modern times has served as a confirmation of this simple pronouncement of the rishis…

To surmount Maya was the task assigned to the human race by the millennial prophets. To rise above the duality of creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived of as man’s highest goal…

The lifelike images of the motion picture illustrate many truths concerning creation. The Cosmic Director has written His own plays and assembled tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark booth of eternity, He pours His creative beam through the films of successive ages, and the pictures are thrown on the screen of space.

Just as the motion-picture images appear to be real, but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture, temporarily true to five sense perceptions as the scenes are cast on the screen of man’s consciousness by the infinite creative beam.

A cinema audience can look up and see that all screen images are appearing through the instrumentality of one imageless beam of light. The colorful universal drama is similarly issuing from the single white light of a Cosmic Source. With inconceivable ingenuity God is staging entertainment for His human children, making them actors as well as audiences in His planetary theater.

One day I entered a motion picture house to view a newsreel of the European battlefields. World War I was still being waged in the West; the newsreel recorded the carnage with such realism that I left the theater with a troubled heart.

“Lord,” I prayed, “why dost Thou permit such suffering?”

To my intense surprise, an instant answer came in the form of a vision of the actual European battlefields. The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel.

“Look intently!” A gentle voice spoke to my inner consciousness. “You will see that these scenes now being enacted in France are nothing but a play of chiaroscuro. They are the cosmic motion picture, as real and as unreal as the theater newsreel you have just seen—a play within a play.”

My heart was still not comforted. The divine voice went on: “Creation is light and shadow both, else no picture is possible. The good and evil of Maya must ever alternate in supremacy. If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever seek another? Without suffering he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken his eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom! The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more is fired at him than a blank cartridge. My sons are the children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion.”

Although I had read scriptural accounts of Maya, they had not given me the deep insight that came with the personal visions and their accompanying words of consolation. One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture, and that not in it, but beyond it, lies his own reality.

As I finished writing this chapter, I sat on my bed in the lotus posture. My room was dimly lit by two shaded lamps. Lifting my gaze, I noticed that the ceiling was dotted with small mustard-colored lights, scintillating and quivering with a radium-like luster. Myriads of penciled rays, like sheets of rain, gathered into a transparent shaft and poured silently upon me.

At once my physical body lost its grossness and became metamorphosed into astral texture. I felt a floating sensation as, barely touching the bed, the weightless body shifted slightly and alternately to left and right. I looked around the room; the furniture and walls were as usual, but the little mass of light had so multiplied that the ceiling was invisible. I was wonder-struck.

“This is the cosmic motion picture mechanism.” A voice spoke as though from within the light. “Shedding its beam on the white screen of your bed sheets, it is producing the picture of your body. Behold, your form is nothing but light!”

I gazed at my arms and moved them back and forth, yet could not feel their weight. An ecstatic joy overwhelmed me. This cosmic stem of light, blossoming as my body, seemed a divine replica of the light beams streaming out of the projection booth in a cinema house and manifesting as pictures on the screen.

For a long time, I experienced this motion picture of my body in the dimly lighted theater of my own bedroom. Despite the many visions I have had, none was ever more singular. As my illusion of a solid body was completely dissipated, and my realization deepened that the essence of all objects is light, I looked up to the throbbing stream of lifetrons and spoke entreatingly.

“Divine Light, please withdraw this, my humble bodily picture, into Thyself, even as Elijah was drawn up to heaven by a flame.”

This prayer was evidently startling; the beam disappeared. My body resumed its normal weight and sank on the bed; the swarm of dazzling ceiling lights flickered and vanished. My time to leave this earth had apparently not arrived.

“Besides,” I thought philosophically, “the prophet Elijah might well be displeased at my presumption!”

Author: Greg Hammer, MD

A favorite quote from one of my heroes, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the creator of the “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)” course is:  “Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmentally.” [1] This could also be considered the definition of happiness, which is the one goal that each of the 8 billion of us on this planet share. It is clear that happiness exists in the only moment we ever truly experience – the present moment.

We also recognize that judgment often clouds our experience with our biases and preconceptions. Judgment prevents us from seeing and experiencing the world as it truly is. Learning to let go of our judgment is one of the keys to happiness.[2] It is easy to understand that to be happy we should shift our focus to the present moment and be less judgmental – but why does Dr. Kabat-Zinn include the phrase, “on purpose?”

Our brains have become hard-wired over tens of thousands of years to include networks that are no longer adaptive. For example, we all have a negativity bias. We tend to forget the positive and focus on the negative. We may notice an ache or pain as we awaken in the morning – that becomes the center of our attention as we begin our day. We rarely wake up and marvel at the amazing complexity of the human body, grateful that (almost) everything is working well.

It has been said that 80% of our thoughts are negative and only 20% are positive. I have worked with trainees in anesthesiology or critical care medicine who provided flawless care for a complex patient in the operating room or intensive care unit; perhaps they needed my help for one difficult procedure in a small child but did everything else skillfully. We debrief at the end of the day and I praise them for the excellent job they did, including the procedures they performed well.

As they prepare for bed that night, do they feel satisfaction at the terrific job they did at the hospital that day? Unfortunately, they all too often obsess over the one task for which they needed assistance. This is typical of our negativity bias. We all think this way. Even the most accomplished film stars, doctors, and business executives suffer from the “impostor syndrome” of negative self-judgment.

Another way our brains are wired that appears to veil our happiness is our obsession with the past and future. While it is adaptive to consider our past joyful moments and even our mistakes, to the extent that we learn from them and do not keep repeating them, we also have a tendency to overthink the past. Our negativity bias can invoke shame, regret, low self-esteem, and often depression.

Likewise, our hyperfixation on the future is also rooted in negativity. We catastrophize. We think of the worst things that can happen, even though they almost never do. These ideations lead to fear and anxiety. Perhaps our brains evolved this way 50-100,000 years ago during a time when our forebears sat in their caves wondering whether a saber-toothed tiger was lingering just outside.  Perhaps this genetic inclination towards hypervigilance was adaptive back then for the sake of survival and genetic evolution, but today we are stuck with those thought patterns, which are no longer beneficial for most of us living in relative safety.

So how do we cope with these adverse ways of thinking that distract us from the peace and joy taking place in our present moment? It takes a plan – it requires purposefulness. It calls for our often hidden power of intention.

The good news is that our brains have a magical quality called neuroplasticity. We have the ability to actually change the way our brains are wired for the better. We can redirect our thoughts toward the present moment and prioritize a more optimistic and positive outlook. In order to do so, however, we need a plan. We have to be intentional. Without purposefulness, we will inevitably lapse into to our old ways of thinking – gloomy and distracted.

Let’s have a look at one practice that can be done in as little as 3 minutes a day that is proven to gradually reprogram the way we think and experience. The GAIN practice embraces mindful breathing and contemplative meditation.

It is logical to think, “Of course, I am breathing all day and all night – why do I need to be intentional about breathing?” The answer is simple – we can go days without taking a deep, lung-opening breath. Chronic stress causes tension in the breathing muscles in our chest and abdomen. Our breaths may be shallow and constrained for days on end. This causes the tiny air sacs in our lungs, called alveoli, to collapse – especially those at the bottom portion of our lungs. This condition is called atelectasis, and it limits the amount of oxygen that we extract from the air, leaving our brains and other organs deprived of optimal oxygen supply.

In fact, slow, deep, intentional breathing has another benefit – it activates our parasympathetic nervous system. This is the part of our nervous system that keeps the sympathetic nervous system, responsible for the “fight or flight” response, in check. Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, through purposeful, slow, deep, breathing lowers the amount of adrenaline and cortisol in our bodies. This causes our heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar to drop to healthier levels. All this takes is tapping into our power of intention.

Many people think that meditation means sitting perfectly still for a half hour or more while banishing all thoughts from our brains. This is not true! The GAIN meditation not only takes as little as 3 minutes, but encourages us to focus on a self-guided tour of essential thoughts. The 4 elements represented by the acronym GAIN are Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention, and Nonjudgment.² Why these 4 components? Because they are the essence of happiness. These 4 ingredients are embodied by almost all religious and philosophical traditions – for good reason.

Let’s have a look at the GAIN practice. We begin by opening the blinds upon awakening each morning, letting in the natural light. We find a comfortable place to sit and close our eyes. To augment the meditation, we may initiate soothing sounds with a gong or singing bowl – or perhaps several that resonate in harmony. We focus on the breath, inhaling through the nose to a slow count of 3, pausing to a count of 3, and exhaling to a count of 4. We breathe into our abdomen, pause, and let the breath go without effort.

We begin to contemplate that for which we experience Gratitude – our relative health (perhaps not perfect, but it sure could be worse), safety and warmth of our home, our loving relationships with friends and family. We connect these positive thoughts with our breathing.

We transition to Acceptance, acknowledging that pain is as much an intrinsic part of our experience as joy. We focus on a painful or uncomfortable experience – perhaps the loss of a loved one or precious friendship. We bring this pain closer and closer. We imagine opening our chest and our heart, bringing this pain closer and embracing and nurturing it with our heart.

We discover that the pain is not as bad as we imagined, and that we can live with it. We then concentrate on our Intention. We might focus on our present sensations – the pressure of the chair against our body, the softness of the air we breathe, the tingling sensation on the bottom of our feet. We stay there for 5 or 10 seconds, linking this present moment with our breath. We may gradually lengthen this “present sensation” experience each day by a few seconds, training our minds to be right here right now.

One baby step at a time. We confirm our Intention of being more positive and more present throughout the day. Finally, we contemplate Nonjudgment. We might picture a beautiful NASA image of the Earth apparently suspended in space. We recognize that the earth is simply a planet – it is neither good nor bad. It is simply the planet that it is. It is only logical, then, to acknowledge that we are just human beings – we, too, are neither good nor bad. We are simply the human beings that we are.

We silently pronounce, “I am neither good nor bad. There is no judgment. I am simply the person that I am. ” We may then repeat “I am, I am….” as we link this phrase to the slow, deep breath we enjoy. We then slowly open our eyes – we are ready to go out into the world. We may complete the GAIN meditation by sounding the gong or singing bowl once more.

Something remarkable happens as we embrace this GAIN process. Increasingly, a light bulb illuminates within us when we are being ungrateful, resisting, lacking purpose and sinking into our old habits, or judging others or ourselves. We recognize the old thought patterns, have a bit of a laugh to ourselves, and re-focus on Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention, and Nonjudgment.

Embracing the GAIN practice represents our purposefulness to gradually re-wire our brains. This will happen if we sit each morning and focus our intention on the breath and these 4 essential elements. We will experience the benefits almost immediately. Perhaps we are driving to work after our morning meditation and another driver on our right moves into our lane without using their turn signal; we begin to form judgments about this person and a light bulb goes off reminding us of our intention to be nonjudgmental. We smile to ourselves – we actually get a little hit of dopamine, creating a pleasant sensation rather than a negative one.

All it takes is a plan to employ our power of intention.

References

[1] Jon Kabat-Zinn: Defining Mindfulness. https://www.mindful.org/jon-kabat-zinn-defining-mindfulness

[2] The 4 pillars of happiness represented by the acronym, GAIN, are Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention, and Nonjudgment. http://gain-withoutpain.com/

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Drawing inspiration from his uncle’s (JFK’s) landmark 1963 address at American University, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers a speech of monumental significance. RFK  Jr. talks passionately about how the US must prioritize peace and diplomacy in order to heal the country and establish “not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”

Watch JFK’s absolutely brilliant peace speech:

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NOTE 1: RFK Jr.’s speech begins at 11:30 into the video.

NOTE 2: You can read the transcript and listen to JFK’s 1963 speech HERE.

NOTE 3: Be sure to watch more great videos by Team Kennedy HERE.

Tips to Reach Your Next Level of Greatness 

(Systems vs. Goals: How to Make Them Work Together)

By Dr. Dravon James

Are you a goal setter?  Do you set health goals, relationship goals, career goals?  Do you stick to your goals?  Do you hang in there until you hit the mark? Well, if you were raised anything like me, you grew up hearing about the importance of setting goals. But did you know that most goal setters never achieve their desired goal?  According to an article in Reliable Plant, “Why People Fail to Achieve Their Goals,” only thirty percent of people who set their goals actually achieve them. Does this mean goals are useless?  Should we abandon the practice of goal setting? The answer to both questions is no, but…

Goals tell us where we want to be and what we want to achieve. Goal setting is important, but goal setting alone won’t generate high levels of success. Goals let us know what direction we want to go in, but systems carve out the pathway. There are several systems you can use, but I like the following 3-point system for setting and achieving goals. First, connect emotionally to the outcome during the goal setting process. Second, imagine the person you will be in the future once you achieve your goals and the habits you have formed. Finally, set yourself on the path of creating those habits.

Feeling the Goal

When you set a goal, is it fun? Is it uplifting? Does it make you feel excited? Oftentimes, people set their goals around the things they do not like about themselves. That’s not fun, it’s not uplifting, and it sure doesn’t get you excited. The journey to achieve your goal will inevitably have its ups and downs. For every few steps you take forward, you will inevitably experience a step back. During these times, you want to have an emotional connection with your goal that keeps you on your path. Goal setting is your opportunity to envision yourself in your ideal situation, your next level of greatness. This is your time to create, within your imagination, the health, wealth, and relationships of your dreams. You transform into a magician with a magic wand that gives you the power to conjure the world you want to live in. I encourage you to really embrace goal setting and experience it from a place of feeling instead of thought. The possibility of achieving your goals may be a little nerve-wracking, but you can turn those nerves into excitement. You’ll notice yourself smiling more and more as you begin to occupy the metaphorical space of your newly realized goal. It’s a wonderful privilege to feel happy and fulfilled.

Remember this step is critical.  If you do not feel excited and you’re not energized by your goal, stop this process, and start again.  Begin by asking, “why am I setting this goal?” Should I change the goal? Am I setting too many goals? Start small with just one goal and build yourself up from there. Remember your goals are supposed to be personal. Your success rate improves when you set goals that are rooted in positivity. Once you’ve realized your goal, you can use start to envision yourself achieving it. Imagine how you will feel and what you will do once you’ve achieved your goal. You’re going to smile, maybe you’ll dance or pump your fist in the air! Imagine yourself doing that right now and once you’ve practiced manifesting that feeling of success and fulfillment, you’ll be ready to bring it to fruition. You can write it or speak it into existence like this: “My goal is to become five pounds lighter.”

Creating Your Identity

Once you have written your simple goal statement, it’s time to imagine the person you’re going to become. Start to shape the identity of the person you will be when you’ve claimed the object of your desires. The more detail you can add in this stage the better. Let’s continue with our example goal of becoming five pounds lighter. In the previous step you described how you would feel when you achieved the goal.  Now you’re going to describe the habits of a person who is at your desired weight. What is this person’s day like? Bring as much detail into this creation phase as possible.  What time will this person get up in the morning? How much water do they consume throughout the day? What kinds of food do they refuel their body with? Do they have an exercise regimen that they enjoy? How do they manage stress? How many hours of sleep do they get?

As you create the identity of the person who is at your desired weight, your focus will switch from goal orientation to action orientation. The transformation in your thought process will be automatic and appear effortless. Just like the magician with the magic wand, you’ve revealed the secrets of how to achieve your desired goals. These habits, if selected properly, will lead you to success.

Implementing the Habits

Now you’ve done a lot of work. You’ve identified your goal and you’ve described the habits that you will need in order to reach your next level of greatness. Now, it’s time to implement the habits. The implementation phase is exciting because you get to move into physical action.

Habits are the engine of your life. Most of the actions you take during the day are second nature – even breathing. You want to develop positive, conscious, habits that move you consistently and meaningfully toward your goal. When you wake up in the morning – don’t think. Have your workout clothes already laid out for yourself. Know what your exercise routine is for the day. Know what you are going to have for breakfast. Have a plan for how you are going to drink enough water during the day. Have alarms set on your phone to help regulate your life – without thinking – when to get up, when to exercise, when to eat, when to go to bed. If you wake up and think about whether you want to exercise – or whether you feel like exercising – the battle is half lost. Instead, plan to win the battle before it even begins.

Getting Started

This simple approach has been successful for many of my clients over the years. With commitment and a system, you can be successful. It’s important to note that my clients had someone to work with as they implemented this system – let’s call it a fourth step. They had someone to share the journey with them. I strongly encourage you to use this system to gain the success you desire, but get an accountability partner, a friend, a coach – someone who can share this journey with you.

A true partner makes your successes feel even better and your setbacks feel more manageable. They can celebrate with you, motivate you, pick you up, and guide you so you don’t get off course.

I’ve written a lot about the Law of Attraction, you can catch up on some of those blogs here:

LOA – Aligning with How You Are Feeling, LOA – Are You an Accident Waiting to Happen?, LOA – Baby Steps That Snowball! and LOA: Getting Ready to Manifest the Best Life Possible!

A Quick Recap

In this blog I’d like to share some tips on the process of letting go or surrendering your goals/desires/intended manifestations. This is a vital part of the whole manifestation package.

Let’s quickly run through the first four steps:

1. 1. The thought. A desire pops into your head.

1. 1. The asking. You ask for said desire.

1. 1. The action. You take as much inspired action as you can take towards said desire.

1. 1. The feeling. You truly feel into the emotions of having said desire. You live as if you already have it.

Now, the fifth step is surrendering your desire to the Universe. But that’s easier said than done, right? Especially if you’re as impatient as I am. It’s the one step that trips most of us up. And yet it is the most vital piece of the wholesome, fuzzy puzzle.

No Need to Figure Out How

I’ve recently really got my head around the fact that it’s not your job to figure out the “how” of what you’ve asked for. It just isn’t. Our brain doesn’t have the capacity to work it out, it doesn’t have the vision that the higher mind has to get you what you want.

You will strain your backside off trying in vain to figure out how you are going to get said desire.

Stop trying to figure out how your manifestation will come to you.

Just stop.

Not your job. Not within your capacity. Capiche!

Save yourself and your backside a lot of grief and do what IS in your capacity to do…

You can affirm one or all of the following to get you into that good feeling place where you KNOW what you’ve asked for is coming:

1. 1. The Universe is on my side and has my back. I believe I am Divinely supported.
   2. Things always work out much better than I can imagine. I believe in a Divine higher power that has a Divine higher view of how to orchestrate without limitation.
   3. Miracles happen all the time. I believe in Divine intervention beyond what I can conceive.
   4. I’m always exactly where I need to be, exactly when I need to be. I believe in Divine timing and Divine placement.

These affirmations will help you to let go of the anxiety, doubt, impatience, timing and semantics associated with your desire.

Read related article: How to Tame the ‘Monkey Mind’

Try ’em out! Let me know if it works for you in the comment section below. Which affirmation do you like best?  

Written by Cherie Roe Dirksen

Cherie is a self-empowerment author, multi-media artist and musician living in the Klein Karoo, South Africa.