Week by week, the forecasting model continues to tick over on its way to our inevitable Buffy-style season finalé. Consent and departure Face, don’t' find Longer story about what is and isn't going away This is 201 or 301 time magic… this is happening… which parts of it DO I participate in, which parts MUST I participate in, which parts WONT I participate in.
You say this will be the worst decade of our life, and I wonder on this.
If we’re already attuned to the changes on the way, and eager to be of service through this—in the way I feel some of us are innately wired for these changing times—perhaps worst isn’t the right word. Maybe it’s the most illuminating decade. Transformative. Maybe our fears of the future merely serve to keep us temporarily paralyzed, because if we can let them go and concentrate on resourcing ourselves properly, we’ll handle what comes to us just fine as those things arise... which likely will look nothing like the imagined fears we were concerned with.
And as those things happen, we’ll make it through. We will find the ways in which we can be innovative in the face of unique challenges we haven’t seen before. We’ll find new skills and latent talents we didn’t have use for before.
And perhaps this decade will be the worst for some, because… they didn’t see it coming? They were clinging to old ways of being that have been on their way out for some time? Collectively there will be great anguish, but I’d like to think individually there is hope and creative potential for sustaining ourselves through these times fueled by a sacred type of inner joy discovered when we feel useful and/or valued to those around us.
It will be the worst of decades, it will be the best of decades. Worst because of the chaos. Best because of the opportunities to build something better. This opportunity has not come around for a very long time, maybe ever.
When you are dying you either see demons tearing your life apart, or you see angels freeing you from the past.
. . . we'll have to stop extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate. . . before we can end any chaos 🤟🏿.
Our brothers and sisters are very different from us even though there are brothers and sisters. They still have it wrong and sometimes they wanna fight over it.
As long as we're extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate. . .we can't expect better to actually manifest 🤟🏿
Would be nice. . .but huemanity is too busy extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate.
The entire global militarized american security state funds and stands behind GOP, trump, biden, vance, musk etc and yet (well-intentioned but) ignorant & deceived conservatives actually believe they are fighting the elite and sticking it to the man by cheering for the biggest billionaire scum abusers of humanity. WAKE UP DECEIVED CONSERVATIVES!! See in the following links exactly who funds and who is behind your scum heros that you imagine are "freedom fighters who fight the deep state". WAKE UP!! Your billionaire heros ARE the deep state. You are being played so hard!! WAKE UP!!
Watch this to understand how the ruling class are deceiving you and having you think that your billionaire messiah is anti-establishment https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkgZtu_Q2Q
Literally funded and brought to where he is by the billionaire founder of US defence contractor Palantir “the engine on which the surveillance state runs”. This is your so called "anti deep-state" heros. WAKE UP DECEIVED CONSERVATIVES!! YOU ARE BEING PLAYED!! Your "patriotic" heros are funded by scum who don't just have ties to the deep state, THEY ARE THE DEEP STATE!!!
The massive level of censorship, deplatforming, shadow-banning, visibility-filteting and caging us in partisan echo-chambers on Musk's right-wing Zionist Twitter/X is astounding, and what's truly scary and unprecedentend is that it is all done under the banner of "freedom" and "fighting the elite"!!! Truly 1984 level of DoubleSpeak. And a blind misinformed army of millions upon millions are buying into this sick GREAT INVERSION conservative narrative (the successor to the Qanon narrative), worshiping the holy billionaire trinity of Musk/Trump/Tucker (and Shapiro) as "freedom fighters" and "anti-elite", while "God's chosen messiah" and his deep-state zionist billionaire buddies are ushered into the white house. Truly dystopian times..The GREAT CONSERVATIVE INVERSION (Qanon version 2.0) in full swing.. The biggest billionaire abusers of humanity, scum of the earth are worshipped by deceived conservatives as "pro-freedom anti-elite heros"!!! SICKENING!!
PS. For anyone not yet aware that trump and vance and musk and carlson (as well as biden and the corporate-capitalist fake-left liberals) are the very definition of pro-ruling class, pro-elite, pro-M.I.C, pro-genocide, pro-ZioNazis, pro-global capitalist militarized empire, pro-Big Pharma, pro-Big Agri, pro-Big Tech, pro-surveillance capitalism, pro-squeezing workers to death for billionaire sociopaths, pro-NeoConservatism, pro-war profiteering, pro-division of humanity along religious-ethnic lines and pitting us against each other to ensure eternal sectarian-tribalistic hatred and war that cements the position of right-wing billionaire manipulators at the top of the pyramid in every country as "protectors of the people" from "those evil monstrous other religion/ethnicity/ideology over there who want to hurt you, but don't worry, we're here to protect you from the evil enemies of the nation"), if you're still not aware of who these ruling-class manipulators are and still believe they are here to "fight the deep state for the little guy" (as the deceptive Qanon/MAGA conservative narrative would have you believd) , then you can see numerous evidence for what's mentioned here in the essays linked on my page, and I can also elaborate on this in much more detail if anyone's interested (as space for a comment here is finished)
Omg omg omg. Please consider posting this as a note here or ??? I've been saying much similar for a while now. I started to feel this in the 90s, some current running under everything. Every campaign, and so much of what we think of as government, but actually isn't. How many times can you shout WAKE UP?!
I like your passion but there is plenty of corruption that can be pointed out all over the place..Turn that passion to your Devine self and turn around and face all humanities God of creation and the scales will fall off your eyes the material realm is in chaos due to the corruption of the spiritual realm which doesn’t mix with it at all..What if we all already in Heaven or Hell right now while we are alive and the only thing it takes to realize it is to believe it’s so..Release yourself from the dungeon mentality of the material realm if you ever want to experience real freedom which can only come from the spiritual realm much love 🙏
What about the millions of LGBTQ, immigrants, elderly, folks with disabilities, and black and brown folks? Basically anyone who’s not a white middle aged Christian American? Lives are on the line here. People have already died. Families are at risk. Real risk. To ignore what’s happening and turn away doesn’t help them. How and when do they get a moment’s peace when they are literally under attack? How will sitting blindly tapped out on a microdose or meditating above the material world work when the American Gest@p0 decides you aren’t enough of whatever they deem is fit? We can envision a better world, but we also have a duty and responsibility to speak up and do something so others are allowed that same space and access. Building what comes after this time requires thought and visioning, yes—I am onboard for that, but there’s no true Interdependence or community when people turn away from the real harm that is happening and ignore their neighbors’ suffering.
I have been following your work for years, and i love what you do, but every now and then something shines with a particular clarity and honesty, and cuts through to the heart with every word - and this is one of those shiny moments. Thank you so much. So grateful you are holding up a lantern (and have been for some while now) in these times of change.
“You must ask. You must call in. That is literally your function. You are the conduit and the portal for these hyperdimensional connections. It is part of the natural functioning of a human to do that, in the same way it is part of the natural functioning of a nightingale to sing.” 🔥🕯️💪🏻
The truth is that we live in a world of artificial scarcity. It is also true that we live in a world of abundance. It is a matter of awareness and choice of perspective.
I took an environmental economics course where I had to do a final project. The title of mine was “Greening the Desert”. In researching this project I discovered that the Sahara desert was green about 7,000 years ago. At that time people were migrating into the region with herds of cattle, sheep and goats. They overgrazed it and killed it. For decades now people have been engaging in holistic grazing and farming practices that build topsoil and are reversing the desertification process. It is happening all over the world. People in the countries of the Sahel (the southern border of the Sahara) are regrowing the savanna and moving north. Similar projects are happening in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, China, Australia, Mexico, and the US. It is happening everywhere. The enemy knows about this but acts as if it is not happening. We don’t need their permission to build our own paradise gardens. The best thing about this is that you can do it on the most degraded land and within about 3-5 years you can have an oasis of rich topsoil with a thriving ecosystem.
A chastening read. I could do with some real world solutions for preparing financially for the future. Is this something you cover in your paid tiers? I'm not a magical practitioner but have found you through your links with the Secret Sun. Thanks.
This feels fatalist to me and I get what’s happening on a global scale. Seems to me we will see both worst and best of humanity and I want to focus on the creative part -
I feel you are correct but I can’t give in. Too important to humans who live here. We can’t become slaves to Elon and Putin and Trump. We would rather die. So NO, we won’t stop fighting back. Evil is evil and we will never accept it.
I was saying this about your team and having horrible anxiety alienating family and friends until I realized thats what the trolls and gaslighters want us to do. Its one big club. The author makes perfect sense. It youre not at least trying to change your lifestyle and relocalizing youre fighting your own demons. There will always be some new enemy or ally installed to piss you off or make empty promises. Do what thou wilt but harm none? I do admire your commitment to fighting.
Do you have more written, or to say, or other resources on the dismantling of the west? Is this a prophecy? Or Obvious because of seasons and cycles? Genuinely curious! Thank you
Thank you, Gordon. I have been reading you for years, but right now I am at a confluence of many writers (love Deborah Bird Rose and Val Plumwood, both of whom lived in Country) and thinkers who express ideas like this but not quite this (Dr Petra Bueskens, another Substacker, etc.) And just learned last week TPTB want to build a wastewater treatment plant that will discharge into the little creek nearby where I walk most days, because they're building a huge chip plant near me (oh goody, Fairy Godmother Intel, if you believe the collective delusion of many leaders here, especially property developers). The Columbus Ohio Metropolitan Library has no copies of any of Bayo Akomolafe's book, despite shrillingly telling us of its "solidarity with peoples of color." I will print this out, because I need to read it again. And I used to be in the peak oil movement 14 years ago, so I'm used to discussions on the apocalypse.
Oh thanks, Danway - I actually have a good relationship w local library staff, who do order me stuff from non-consortium libraries. But I think Columbus should have a copy of Akomolafe's book. Just coz he's not on the NYT bestseller list doesn't mean he has nothing to say.
The comment on relaxation. An aid to relaxation given our predicament is to find a way to be at peace with your own death, including the fact that you may not be living the lifespan you assumed you would.
In relation to the closing comment on grief - commentators-on, observers-of our predicament today, the ones who get that we're in the "big trouble" stage of our trajectory, when you examine what they write it occurs that we all fall indeed somewhere onto the spectrum of Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief in relation to this knowledge. Most commentators who are writing or podcasting on the subject are still in the bargaining stage, thinking we can strike a bargain with our fate, with entropy, with laws of thermodynamics. It makes for dull, highly redundant content at this stage of the game, and it's not useful because it doesn't reflect our reality. This essay you've written here is useful.
You say this will be the worst decade of our life, and I wonder on this.
If we’re already attuned to the changes on the way, and eager to be of service through this—in the way I feel some of us are innately wired for these changing times—perhaps worst isn’t the right word. Maybe it’s the most illuminating decade. Transformative. Maybe our fears of the future merely serve to keep us temporarily paralyzed, because if we can let them go and concentrate on resourcing ourselves properly, we’ll handle what comes to us just fine as those things arise... which likely will look nothing like the imagined fears we were concerned with.
And as those things happen, we’ll make it through. We will find the ways in which we can be innovative in the face of unique challenges we haven’t seen before. We’ll find new skills and latent talents we didn’t have use for before.
And perhaps this decade will be the worst for some, because… they didn’t see it coming? They were clinging to old ways of being that have been on their way out for some time? Collectively there will be great anguish, but I’d like to think individually there is hope and creative potential for sustaining ourselves through these times fueled by a sacred type of inner joy discovered when we feel useful and/or valued to those around us.
It will be the worst of decades, it will be the best of decades. Worst because of the chaos. Best because of the opportunities to build something better. This opportunity has not come around for a very long time, maybe ever.
When you are dying you either see demons tearing your life apart, or you see angels freeing you from the past.
Birth is pain.
Well said, I think humanity’s survival is going to depend on those who can move past the chaos to get proactive.
. . . we'll have to stop extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate. . . before we can end any chaos 🤟🏿.
No WE are not them. This is the problem.
Our brothers and sisters are very different from us even though there are brothers and sisters. They still have it wrong and sometimes they wanna fight over it.
I’m just hoping that it’s the end of times so these people can get their shit over with and we can move on from here.
We are them and they are us. We only move on together.
As long as we're extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate. . .we can't expect better to actually manifest 🤟🏿
See good vs evil CORRUPTION is not good or bad in the Eye of the beholder.
Write On!
Would be nice. . .but huemanity is too busy extorting each other for permission to share a planet NONE of us actually own through capitalism specifically real estate.
You're reminding me of attestations as to the bipolar "hell"/"glory" of war (the blade bullet bomb kind)
The entire global militarized american security state funds and stands behind GOP, trump, biden, vance, musk etc and yet (well-intentioned but) ignorant & deceived conservatives actually believe they are fighting the elite and sticking it to the man by cheering for the biggest billionaire scum abusers of humanity. WAKE UP DECEIVED CONSERVATIVES!! See in the following links exactly who funds and who is behind your scum heros that you imagine are "freedom fighters who fight the deep state". WAKE UP!! Your billionaire heros ARE the deep state. You are being played so hard!! WAKE UP!!
Watch this to understand how the ruling class are deceiving you and having you think that your billionaire messiah is anti-establishment https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkgZtu_Q2Q
Then see this full breakdown of who Vance actually is and who are the adrenochrome-drinking billionaire abusers that are funding him and have grooomed him for this moment https://miri.substack.com/p/america-the-movie-screenplay-by-jd?
And especially here https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/
And here
https://plagueonbothhouses.substack.com/p/friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
And here https://youtu.be/sGySygy0LWs?si=n6u28vsLzazo_gdS
Literally funded and brought to where he is by the billionaire founder of US defence contractor Palantir “the engine on which the surveillance state runs”. This is your so called "anti deep-state" heros. WAKE UP DECEIVED CONSERVATIVES!! YOU ARE BEING PLAYED!! Your "patriotic" heros are funded by scum who don't just have ties to the deep state, THEY ARE THE DEEP STATE!!!
WAKE UP!!
Trump’s record on the issues that could bring him into conflict with The System demonstrates that he is as much of a threat to the establishment as the tooth fairy. https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-class-is-no-more
And here, on how trump is fully and completely the elite https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/trump-minus-narrative-equals-bushbama-84a363947536
The massive level of censorship, deplatforming, shadow-banning, visibility-filteting and caging us in partisan echo-chambers on Musk's right-wing Zionist Twitter/X is astounding, and what's truly scary and unprecedentend is that it is all done under the banner of "freedom" and "fighting the elite"!!! Truly 1984 level of DoubleSpeak. And a blind misinformed army of millions upon millions are buying into this sick GREAT INVERSION conservative narrative (the successor to the Qanon narrative), worshiping the holy billionaire trinity of Musk/Trump/Tucker (and Shapiro) as "freedom fighters" and "anti-elite", while "God's chosen messiah" and his deep-state zionist billionaire buddies are ushered into the white house. Truly dystopian times..The GREAT CONSERVATIVE INVERSION (Qanon version 2.0) in full swing.. The biggest billionaire abusers of humanity, scum of the earth are worshipped by deceived conservatives as "pro-freedom anti-elite heros"!!! SICKENING!!
PS. For anyone not yet aware that trump and vance and musk and carlson (as well as biden and the corporate-capitalist fake-left liberals) are the very definition of pro-ruling class, pro-elite, pro-M.I.C, pro-genocide, pro-ZioNazis, pro-global capitalist militarized empire, pro-Big Pharma, pro-Big Agri, pro-Big Tech, pro-surveillance capitalism, pro-squeezing workers to death for billionaire sociopaths, pro-NeoConservatism, pro-war profiteering, pro-division of humanity along religious-ethnic lines and pitting us against each other to ensure eternal sectarian-tribalistic hatred and war that cements the position of right-wing billionaire manipulators at the top of the pyramid in every country as "protectors of the people" from "those evil monstrous other religion/ethnicity/ideology over there who want to hurt you, but don't worry, we're here to protect you from the evil enemies of the nation"), if you're still not aware of who these ruling-class manipulators are and still believe they are here to "fight the deep state for the little guy" (as the deceptive Qanon/MAGA conservative narrative would have you believd) , then you can see numerous evidence for what's mentioned here in the essays linked on my page, and I can also elaborate on this in much more detail if anyone's interested (as space for a comment here is finished)
Omg omg omg. Please consider posting this as a note here or ??? I've been saying much similar for a while now. I started to feel this in the 90s, some current running under everything. Every campaign, and so much of what we think of as government, but actually isn't. How many times can you shout WAKE UP?!
Please feel free to copy and use any thing here. It is yours to use as you'd like ❤️
I like your passion but there is plenty of corruption that can be pointed out all over the place..Turn that passion to your Devine self and turn around and face all humanities God of creation and the scales will fall off your eyes the material realm is in chaos due to the corruption of the spiritual realm which doesn’t mix with it at all..What if we all already in Heaven or Hell right now while we are alive and the only thing it takes to realize it is to believe it’s so..Release yourself from the dungeon mentality of the material realm if you ever want to experience real freedom which can only come from the spiritual realm much love 🙏
This. The vibration of outrage is a distraction.
What about the millions of LGBTQ, immigrants, elderly, folks with disabilities, and black and brown folks? Basically anyone who’s not a white middle aged Christian American? Lives are on the line here. People have already died. Families are at risk. Real risk. To ignore what’s happening and turn away doesn’t help them. How and when do they get a moment’s peace when they are literally under attack? How will sitting blindly tapped out on a microdose or meditating above the material world work when the American Gest@p0 decides you aren’t enough of whatever they deem is fit? We can envision a better world, but we also have a duty and responsibility to speak up and do something so others are allowed that same space and access. Building what comes after this time requires thought and visioning, yes—I am onboard for that, but there’s no true Interdependence or community when people turn away from the real harm that is happening and ignore their neighbors’ suffering.
Interesting. Trump checks off all the boxes for antichrist. Tick tock…
I have been following your work for years, and i love what you do, but every now and then something shines with a particular clarity and honesty, and cuts through to the heart with every word - and this is one of those shiny moments. Thank you so much. So grateful you are holding up a lantern (and have been for some while now) in these times of change.
Came to say this, but Rebecca already said it beautifully.
“You must ask. You must call in. That is literally your function. You are the conduit and the portal for these hyperdimensional connections. It is part of the natural functioning of a human to do that, in the same way it is part of the natural functioning of a nightingale to sing.” 🔥🕯️💪🏻
I don't know what half of this means but the other half is correct.
I can connect the spiritual to the science. But we will need to make a new vocabulary. How they connect is very simple. We are making it complex.
Isn’t magic science of the spirit?
Isn’t science ultimately the search for the truth of the spirit? To find god? Are we not now coming full circle?
The truth is that we live in a world of artificial scarcity. It is also true that we live in a world of abundance. It is a matter of awareness and choice of perspective.
I took an environmental economics course where I had to do a final project. The title of mine was “Greening the Desert”. In researching this project I discovered that the Sahara desert was green about 7,000 years ago. At that time people were migrating into the region with herds of cattle, sheep and goats. They overgrazed it and killed it. For decades now people have been engaging in holistic grazing and farming practices that build topsoil and are reversing the desertification process. It is happening all over the world. People in the countries of the Sahel (the southern border of the Sahara) are regrowing the savanna and moving north. Similar projects are happening in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, China, Australia, Mexico, and the US. It is happening everywhere. The enemy knows about this but acts as if it is not happening. We don’t need their permission to build our own paradise gardens. The best thing about this is that you can do it on the most degraded land and within about 3-5 years you can have an oasis of rich topsoil with a thriving ecosystem.
It’s a matter of choice.
You are one beautiful man, Gordon. Your writing is on fire.
A chastening read. I could do with some real world solutions for preparing financially for the future. Is this something you cover in your paid tiers? I'm not a magical practitioner but have found you through your links with the Secret Sun. Thanks.
There's a wealth magic course which covers it, but it is definitely in the context of actually doing magic.
I’m already tapping onto these frequencies without understanding why…where do I access the course?
>>not a magical practitioner
well, there's no time like the present to get started :)
This feels fatalist to me and I get what’s happening on a global scale. Seems to me we will see both worst and best of humanity and I want to focus on the creative part -
I feel you are correct but I can’t give in. Too important to humans who live here. We can’t become slaves to Elon and Putin and Trump. We would rather die. So NO, we won’t stop fighting back. Evil is evil and we will never accept it.
I was saying this about your team and having horrible anxiety alienating family and friends until I realized thats what the trolls and gaslighters want us to do. Its one big club. The author makes perfect sense. It youre not at least trying to change your lifestyle and relocalizing youre fighting your own demons. There will always be some new enemy or ally installed to piss you off or make empty promises. Do what thou wilt but harm none? I do admire your commitment to fighting.
I’m with you!
A lot of this is outside of my wheelhouse, so to speak. But it's a great post. This line in particular really caught me...
"The ‘payoff’ for living inside this system was getting to outsource the true cost of running it"
Do you have more written, or to say, or other resources on the dismantling of the west? Is this a prophecy? Or Obvious because of seasons and cycles? Genuinely curious! Thank you
My deep gratitude for this, Gordon.
Everything you've said has come true with a vengeance.
I'm grateful for the tools you have shared to help ride the storm.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci
Thank you, Gordon. I have been reading you for years, but right now I am at a confluence of many writers (love Deborah Bird Rose and Val Plumwood, both of whom lived in Country) and thinkers who express ideas like this but not quite this (Dr Petra Bueskens, another Substacker, etc.) And just learned last week TPTB want to build a wastewater treatment plant that will discharge into the little creek nearby where I walk most days, because they're building a huge chip plant near me (oh goody, Fairy Godmother Intel, if you believe the collective delusion of many leaders here, especially property developers). The Columbus Ohio Metropolitan Library has no copies of any of Bayo Akomolafe's book, despite shrillingly telling us of its "solidarity with peoples of color." I will print this out, because I need to read it again. And I used to be in the peak oil movement 14 years ago, so I'm used to discussions on the apocalypse.
https://search.worldcat.org/about
Oh thanks, Danway - I actually have a good relationship w local library staff, who do order me stuff from non-consortium libraries. But I think Columbus should have a copy of Akomolafe's book. Just coz he's not on the NYT bestseller list doesn't mean he has nothing to say.
Happy to find your words here on Substack, Gordon!
Bang-on. The McKenna quote - gold.
The comment on relaxation. An aid to relaxation given our predicament is to find a way to be at peace with your own death, including the fact that you may not be living the lifespan you assumed you would.
In relation to the closing comment on grief - commentators-on, observers-of our predicament today, the ones who get that we're in the "big trouble" stage of our trajectory, when you examine what they write it occurs that we all fall indeed somewhere onto the spectrum of Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief in relation to this knowledge. Most commentators who are writing or podcasting on the subject are still in the bargaining stage, thinking we can strike a bargain with our fate, with entropy, with laws of thermodynamics. It makes for dull, highly redundant content at this stage of the game, and it's not useful because it doesn't reflect our reality. This essay you've written here is useful.