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The Broken Promise of "Pecked" as a Permanent State

11/30/2021

The demonic push to divide the people of the world into two camps - pecked and unpecked - with the ultimate aim of conquering the unpecked has become overt to the extreme.

I am not a big fan of divide and conquer tactics in general, but in terms of where we are in the spiritual war, I have reached a point where I welcome division over unity.

Having said that, it is becoming increasingly evident that the dichotomy between the pecked and unpecked is little more than fiction. Contrary to what the totalitarians promised, the state of being pecked is anything but permanent.

Many of those who complied with the peck believing it to be a one- (or two-) time deal are quickly discovering that pecked status is not a fixed condition.

Instead of being a safe harbor, the state of being pecked has become perilous odyssey - a veritable never-ending story of instability punctuated by arbitrary expiry dates and totalitarian whims.

Within this paradigm, a few months' time or a demonic snicker is all that separates the pecked from the unpecked. Sadly, in an effort to safeguard their coveted status, many of the pecked have degraded themselves to the level of junkies, forever on the lookout for the next hit in order to stay "safe".

Here's the deal: All pecked people are in constant jeopardy of being relegated back to the level of the unpecked, regardless of how many times they have complied. And this will not change as long as the pecked insist on being pecked.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The pecked can get off the merry-go-round and can put an end to the false dichotomy at any time. All it requires is acknowledgement and repentance.

After that, they can shift their focus to real security and permanence . . .

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Stronger Than the Devil

11/30/2021

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Those who have thus far refused to comply with the birdemic peck agenda have, in many ways, demonstrated that they are at least as strong as the devil.

Anyone who makes it through the next six months or so without succumbing to the peck will prove himself or herself to be stronger than the devil.

Most importantly, all who freely choose to follow Jesus into everlasting life - regardless of what happens here on earth - have already defeated the devil.

Now and forever.

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A Dark and Sad Christmas? I Beg to Differ.

11/28/2021

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I have no desire to write a post about the "true meaning of Christmas."

To begin with, the mere concept of "true meaning of Christmas" falsely frames the meaning of Christmas as something that can be easily obscured, buried, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood, or forgotten. This premise reveals nothing about the quality of Christmas, but it does reveal a great deal about the quality of our world.

Contrary to the countless trite and vapid stories, movies, television specials, sermons, homilies, and articles that have been dedicated to that moment of epiphany when the "true meaning of Christmas" suddenly breaks through the darkness, the mere fact that the "true meaning of Christmas" can be so easily lost, so conveniently misplaced is a testament to how much distance people have actually put between themselves and the Light of the World.

And what "true meaning of Christmas" did those countless trite and vapid stories, movies, television specials, sermons, homilies, and articles end up discovering?

Be nicer to people? It's not the gift, but the thought that counts? Christmas is a time to be selfless and altruistic? Christmas is a celebration of the universal love of man?

It's the first Sunday of Advent; Christians have begun preparations to celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus. At the same time, the side that opposes God and Creation have filled their media with stark warnings of a "dark and sad" Christmas.

Dark and sad Christmas? Is that even possible?

I beg to differ.

Despite what our Satanic overlords promulgate through their media, Christmas can never be dark and sad. On the contrary, the darker and sadder the external world becomes, the more joyous and brighter the awaited arrival of the Light of the World becomes.

How could it be otherwise?

John 8:12 - Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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The Financialization of Creation- A Big Part of the Current Totalitarian Assault Against God

11/27/2021

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Back in March 2020, which marked the beginning of the birdemic hysteria here in Hungary, I wrote a post in which I briefly recorded my initial observations concerning the appearance of the "lethal" birdemic bug in this part of the world.

I recently revisited that post and was struck by how I had concentrated primarily on the economic/financial implications of the rapidly unfolding "crisis". That doesn't mean I hadn't considered the spiritual backdrop of what was happening at that time or that I considered the spiritual backdrop to be less important, only that the potential economic/financial aspects of the birdemic response struck me as particularly protuberant.

The potentially negative economic/financial consequences of what the Establishment were doing in response to the birdemic in those first few months were too prominent to ignore. Moreover, they were difficult to comprehend because they flew in the face of the Establishment's System. Unable to fully grasp the essence of the birdemic response at that time, I simply referred to the Establishment's actions as "sabotage":

. . . after I arrived home I got to thinking about the economic implications of that little sign I had seen. The current global financial and economic system strikes me as sophisticated and complex, yet fragile and delicate. Everything depends on everything else. There appears to be very little margin for error. A small, seemingly insignificant problem could easily ripple across the whole network - become amplified and magnified. Set of a chain reaction. Topple dominoes.

So sophisticated and complex. Yet so fragile and delicate.

And the powers that be seem quite intent on bringing it down. Now. I couldn't tell you to what degree or for what duration, but the way the hysteria is spinning out of control indicates that this might be the start of something big . . .

. . . And against this backdrop, they have decided to terrorize and slowly shutdown the world. The consumption economy begins hemorrhaging the second consumers slow down. And consumers are being slowed down. By what? By something that shouldn't have even made the news. They are sabotaging the System they so painstakingly designed and profited from. The question is, to what end?

On one hand, I am making attempts to see the possible positive side of these rather baffling developments, but its hard to see a positive side when such blatant sabotage is clearly at play.

The purposive pursuit to end something usually indicates a desire to start something new. I feel no kinship for or affiliation to our current System. It is clearly an obstacle. A barrier. It needs to be dismantled and sent to the scrap yard in order for something better to emerge. But the dismantling I am seeing now will unlikely lead to anything better. More likely, it will lead to something worse.

It's been nearly two years since I recorded those observations. During that time, the population of the world has had to endure and continues to endure the cruel and oppressive machinations of the "none are safe until all are safe" global diktat, which has methodically removed practically all fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Concurrently, "real" global economies have been ravaged; the global middle class, decimated; the financial system, flooded with an unprecedented injections of credit and liquidity (all of which has ended up in the hands of the "investor" classes. Through it all, the Establishment has been tirelessly dismantling the old System to clear the way for a new one.

The sticking point of comprehension in the implicit aim of "system transition" is difficult to surmount. After all, why would the side opposed to God and Creation willingly seek to destroy the System they control, the very same System they have used to secure practically inconceivable amounts of wealth and influence?

Why would the forces of Satan foul the very same nest they had dedicated centuries to constructing and feathering? In simple logic, any act of sabotage against the System would be an act of sabotage against themselves. It simply doesn't add up; it doesn't make sense.

Making it add up and make sense necessitates the abandonment of conventional/industrial modes of thinking about business, money, investment, finance, economics, and - most significantly - nature.

Conventional/industrial economic systems are founded on the principles of extraction, processing, and production. Though this system recognized the intrinsic value within natural resources, real value or higher value could only be realized by extracting the intrinsic value and adding value to the resource via processing or production. Within this paradigm, a forest possessed a certain intrinsic value in its natural state, but its "real" value could only be realized if the trees could be used to produce goods and/or services that could be sold on the market.

Success within this industrial paradigm depends on ever-expanding markets and ever-expanding demand, which necessitated the fomentation of rampant consumerism through advertising and marketing. The more the System expanded, the richer the people running the System became. Still, it did not prove to be enough, and the industrial model was slowly usurped by the control and scam model of financialization in which the means of production were outsourced, leveraged, derivatized, and, ultimately, inflated to "create" new and unprecedented levels of "value".

So, why not keep the party going? For the simple reason that there is not much value left for the Establishment to "extract" from the current System. It has - to employ their own terminology - become "unsustainable." Far better to scrap the old System altogether and envision a new System in which the "intrinsic" value of the "assets" that comprise Creation are worth far more than the "extraction" potential within Creation could ever be. In other words, the "opportunity" in the new economy resides in asset expansion.

Let's return to the example of a forest. In the old System, a forest left untouched possessed some intrinsic value, but that intrinsic value was invariably connected to its extractive potential in terms wealth creation. Thus, the full value of the forest as a wealth creation mechanism could only be realized through the exploitation of its resources for the purposes of industrial and societal utility. Within this framework, an untouched forest was rarely worth more than a utilized forest.

But what if this paradigm were flipped on its head? What if there were a way to make the untouched forest more valuable than the potential of its extracted resources?

Well, the Satanic elite have figured out a way to do exactly that. Under the guise of climate change protection, sustainability goals, and environmentalism, the Establishment are working to usher in a new System called "The Inclusive Economy" in which the intrinsic value of natural assets will be worth far more than the extractive potential of those natural assets could ever be worth. How much more? The illustration below provides a clear answer to that question:

The Establishment front operation spearheading this ultimate control and scam operation is called the Intrinsic Exchange Group, or IEG for short. What is this organization's role in the planned shift from a traditional economy to an inclusive economy? Well, according to their website, it includes the following:

IEG harnesses the very market forces that have intensified many social and environmental problems to instead create abundance, resilience and a compelling investment opportunity by including natural assets in the mainstream of the economy.

We are pioneering a new asset class based on natural assets and the mechanism to convert them to financial capital. These assets are essential, making life on Earth possible and enjoyable. They include biological systems that provide clean air, water, foods, medicines, a stable climate, human health and societal potential.

The potential of this asset class is immense. Nature’s economy is larger than our current industrial economy and we can tap this store of wealth and productivity to protect and grow nature and to transform our economy to one that is more equitable, resilient and sustainable. The IEG toolset connects our social values with economic and ecological realities.

Driving this mother-of-all control and scam operations is the Natural Asset Company, or NAC. The role of NAC will be to "unlock" and "capture" the 4 quadrillion dollars of intrinsic value locked in natural assets by providing "ecosystem services" and securitizing these services in the market place.

It goes without saying that the justifications for this model - protecting, restoring, and growing natural areas - all sound "good" on the surface, but it doesn't take much imagination to recognize the demonic underpinnings of what is being undertaken here. The vehicle for this unprecedented financialization of the natural world is the natural asset company, which works in the manner depicted below:

The following about NACs is from this article, which outlines what NACs endeavor to do:

With NACs, the NYSE and IEG are now putting the totality of nature up for sale. While they assert that doing so will “transform our economy to one that is more equitable, resilient and sustainable”, it’s clear that the coming “owners” of nature and natural processes will be the only real beneficiaries.

Per the IEG, NACs first begin with the identification of a natural asset, such as a forest or lake, which is then quantified using specific protocols. Such protocols have already been developed by related groups like the Capitals Coalition, which is partnered with several of IEG’s partners as well as the World Economic Forum and various coalitions of multinational corporations. Then, a NAC is created and the structure of the company decides who has the rights to that natural asset’s productivity as well as the rights to decide how that natural asset is managed and governed. Lastly, a NAC is “converted” into financial capital by launching an initial public offering on a stock exchange, like the NYSE. This last stage “generates capital to manage the natural asset” and the fluctuation of its price on the stock exchange “signals the value of its natural capital.”

However, the NAC and its employees, directors and owners are not necessarily the owners of the natural asset itself following this final step. Instead, as IEG notes, the NAC is merely the issuer while the potential buyers of the natural asset the NAC represents can include: institutional investors, private investors, individuals and institutions, corporations, sovereign wealth funds and multilateral development banks. Thus, asset management firms that essentially already own much of the world, like Blackrock, could thus become owners of soon-to-be monetized natural processes, natural resources and the very foundations of natural life itself.

Both the NYSE and IEG have marketed this new investment vehicle as being aimed at generating funds that will go back to conservation or sustainability efforts. However, on the IEG’s website, it notes that the goal is really endless profit from natural processes and ecosystems that were previously deemed to be part of “the commons”, i.e. the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. Per the IEG, “as the natural asset prospers, providing a steady or increasing flow of ecosystem services, the company’s equity should appreciate accordingly providing investment returns. Shareholders and investors in the company through secondary offers, can take profit by selling shares. These sales can be gauged to reflect the increase in capital value of the stock, roughly in-line with its profitability, creating cashflow based on the health of the company and its assets.”

Researcher and journalist Cory Morningstar has strongly disagreed with the approach being taken by NYSE/IEG and views NACs as a system that will only exacerbate the corporate predation of nature, despite claims to the contrary. Morningstar has described NACs as “Rockefeller et al. letting the markets dictate what in nature has value – and what does not. Yet, it’s not for capitalist institutions and global finance to decide what life has value. Ecosystems are not ‘assets.’ Biological communities exist for their own purposes, not ours.”

The ultimate goal of NACs is not sustainability or conservation – it is the financialization of nature, i.e. turning nature into a commodity that can be used to keep the current, corrupt Wall Street economy booming under the guise of protecting the environment and preventing its further degradation. Indeed, IEG makes this clear when they note that “the opportunity” of NACs lies not in their potential to improve environmental well-being or sustainability, but in the size of this new asset class, which they term “Nature’s Economy.”

Indeed, while the asset classes of the current economy are value at approximately $512 trillion, the asset classes unlocked by NACs are significantly larger at $4,000 trillion (i.e. $4 quadrillion). Thus, NACs open up a new feeding ground for predatory Wall Street banks and financial institutions that will allow them to not just dominate the human economy, but the entire natural world. In the world currently being constructed by these and related entities, where even freedom is being re-framed not as a right but “a service,” the natural processes on which life depends are similarly being re-framed as assets, which will have owners. Those “owners” will ultimately have the right, in this system, to dictate who gets access to clean water, to clean air, to nature itself and at what cost.

Under this model, my earlier example of a forest would become far more profitable by providing an ecosystem service like carbon storage than it ever could through logging. By my amateur estimation, this would immediately make the wood itself ten, twenty, or thirty times more valuable than it is now; so even if it were logged eventually to provide products for society, those products would become immediately unaffordable to nearly everyone but the elite. Same goes for food, or anything else for that matter.

More significantly, the natural asset framework also challenges the desirability of the traditional economy’s dependence on the expansion of everything, including the global population. Once the Establishment has expanded the asset class to unprecedented value independently of the traditional economic model, the traditional economic model itself becomes obsolete, as do the billions of workers and consumers the model sustains.

From a spiritual perspective, the declared ownership and financialization of natural processes such as the creation of oxygen ranks among the most unholy and nefarious assaults ever launched against God and Creation.

It also sheds light on the deeper motivations of the 2020 global totalitarian coup and its much-touted sustainable development goals, climate change initiatives, Great Reset, and the birdemic complete with all of its related tyrannical measures taken in the name of "health and safety."

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Just When You Thought It Was "Safe" To Go Back To "Normal"

11/26/2021

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Yesterday I noted that the global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe" was a sinister ruse to get people to submit to and commit to the lie behind our current health and safety totalitarianism.

I made the rather unoriginal argument that the powers behind the global diktat would work to ensure a permanent state of "none are safe" in order to keep everyone panicked, subjugated, and on board with the "all are safe" weapons of global enslavement and damnation currently being implemented all over the world.

Well, in the day since that post, our super friends at the WHO have met at the International Hall of Justice or wherever and have engaged in an emergency discussion over the newest birdemic mutant strain of concern - Megatron or Omniforce or whatever they've decided to name it.

Apparently, the new strain could be like five zillion times more catchy and deadly than the other birdemic strains they have released thus far. Experts say it is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and can leap over buildings in a single bound. It also comes in six cool colors, is low in carbohydrates, and can easily fit into most overhead stowage bins or under most beds for convenient storage.

Sadly, rumor has it that none of the birdemic pecks presently in use can or will provide any protection against it. For all birdemic intents and purposes, this means everyone is basically back to being unpecked again.

Bummer.

But no one needs to worry because one illustrious peck manufacturer has already assured the world that his trustworthy company can have a totally untested and literally experimental but otherwise completely safe and effective peck in the arms of every global citizen in fewer than a 100 days.

To underscore the severity of this latest global threat, the Satanic elite dutifully tanked their rigged markets and exchanges, while the world media filled its articles and reports with lots of scary words like "scary."

Had enough?

Forget about trying to be safe. It's time to focus, I mean really focus, on being saved.

Moreover, it's time to put a stop to all of this. And that begins and ends in the spiritual.

The only way to be free from this terrible external evil is to be internally free for something that is far greater.

Let's focus our energies on being free for God from here on out. If we all do that and stick to doing that from this point forward, amazing things could happen.

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Shortages In Many Goods - Save One

11/26/2021

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Headlines about shortages and looming shortages in the West continue to persist in the mainstream. Headlines aside, I suspect many of us have also experienced some of these shortages first hand when visiting stores or looking for goods online.

I am neither an economist nor a supply chain expert, but my intuition informs me that shortages will probably increase in the coming weeks and months. They may even become a permanent feature of our continuing shift toward a totalitarian new normal (or utter chaos, take your pick).

Yet one product appears to be in endless supply in the West. What's more, this one product seems to be totally immune to all the increased demand, workforce issues, severed supply chains, delayed shipping, transport problems, and other factors that are supposedly causing the shortages of other goods in the West.

That product is the birdemic peck; and the abundance includes all of its associated paraphernalia.

There's no asparagus anywhere in continental Europe, but if you want a peck, you can get one on practically every street corner in the West. Heck, in some places, they'll go out of their way and bring the peck directly to your home - free of charge!

No matter how high the demand, no matter how broken the supply chains, the amount of available pecks never seems to decrease.

Funny how that works.

Maybe it's because the birdemic peck isn't really a "good" at all . . .

Note added: Asparagus might not be in short supply, but for some reason it's the first thing that sprang to mind.

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To Prevent People From Being Saved, The Totalitarians Will Ensure "Normal" Is Never "Safe"

11/25/2021

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I have addressed the "none are safe until all are safe" global diktat many times on this blog. As far as I'm concerned, the mantra provides a thorough encapsulation of everything we have experienced since the still largely unacknowledged 2020 global totalitarian coup.

For the first time in world history, Satanic forces have succeeded in incorporating practically everyone and everything into an intricately connected totalitarian System that is openly and vehemently opposed to God and Creation. That they managed to pull it off under the banner of world health and safety in response to a highly dubious global plague makes the coup all the more impressive.

At the same time, the successful Satanic coup of 2020 is also tragic and absurd. Tragic because the errant motivation to remain "safe and healthy" has unleashed seemingly endless waves of misery and destruction upon the world; and absurd because the rationale used to justify the waves of calamity and devastation in the name of health and safety blatantly defies all logic, reason, and common sense irrespective of the level of analysis applied.

Yet the tragedy and absurdity of everything we have experienced since 2020 should surprise no one. On the one hand, it lays bare the cruel and malicious motivations of those commanding the side against God and Creation. On the other hand, it is a testament to a world that has not only forgotten God and Creation, but is now conclusively committed to opposing God and Creation.

The tragedy and absurdity we are now experiencing will continue to deepen and darken for as long as this commitment is maintained. If the past nineteen months or so have revealed anything, it is this - without God, man is reduced to the level of a tragic and absurd thing that is at the mercy of other tragic and absurd things.

Without God, tragedy and absurdity mark the limits of what man can aspire to; and - as the events over the past nineteen months or so have exemplified - by turning away from God, modern man has become a veritable master of tragedy and absurdity, particularly when it comes to the current obsession with health and safety.

Even the most superficial, materialistic conceptualizations of mortal life acknowledge that human health and safety are transitory. Though people may experience extended periods of both health and safety in their mortal lives, health and safety are not and can never be permanent states in mortal life (or else it wouldn't be called mortal life).

From an atheistic, materialistic perspective, the impermanence of health and safety reduces life to a cruel, meaningless injustice. From the perspective of spiritual learning, experiencing the impermanence of human health and safety constitutes a large portion of what we are meant to face and undertake in this world.

With this in mind, the manner in which a person chooses to think about, understand, and, ultimately, take on the unavoidable challenges of injury, sickness, danger, insecurity, aging, and, eventually, death reveals a great deal about the quality of spiritual learning a person undergoes in mortal life.

Those on the side of God and Creation should appreciate any and all experiences of health and safety in their mortal lives. Employing wisdom, prudence, and moderation, they should work, to the best of their abilities, to maintain both health and safety in their own lives, the lives of loved ones, and others in general.

Nonetheless, comprehending the nature and purpose of their mortal lives on earth, those on the side of God and Creation should never aim to make their own health and safety or the health and safety of loved ones or the world in general into supreme, all-encompassing goals for two simple reasons: the understanding that such goals are ultimately unachievable within the context of mortal life; and, more significantly, the understanding that the fanatical pursuit of such goals are in direct opposition to God's plan.

The purpose of mortal life is to be saved, not safe-d. Any Christian who prioritizes the latter over the former is on the wrong side of God and Creation - and that's exactly what "none are safe until all are safe" is aiming for.

No, this doesn't mean Christians should assume apathetic, fatalistic, careless, or reckless attitudes about health and safety during their mortal lives, but it does imply that Christians should approach health and safety as means rather than ends in mortal life for the obvious reason that health and safety are not and can never be "ends" in Christianity.

At its core, the Satanic global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe" is a demonic inversion of this eternal Christian truth.

Health and safety are both good as long as they align with God and Creation and help guide people toward salvation and theosis, but this good evaporates the very instant health and safety fall out of alignment with God and Creation.

Not too long ago, the mere idea of sacrificing one's own salvation or the salvation of loved ones in exchange for health and safety was unthinkable for most Christians. Now the opposite reigns. Too many Christians have gladly jeopardized their own salvation or the salvation of loved ones in exchange for the empty promise of health and safety in mortal life. Furthermore, by doing so, they have also severed all chances at theosis. And for what? For the assurance of things which, by their very nature, can never be fully maintained let alone guaranteed on earth?

That the global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe" has so seamlessly ensnared the atheistic masses is somewhat surprising, but comprehensible. That it has ensnared many Christians makes the tragedy and absurdity of "none are safe until all are safe" all the more absurd and tragic.

At its core, "none are safe until all are safe" is a blatant lie. The Satanic powers could never bring about a world in which all are safe, not even if they were sincerely motivated to do so; but rest assured, the Satanic powers are not in any way motivated to make the world safe - at least not in the conventional sense.

On the contrary, now that they have grabbed the reigns of the world, the demonically-possessed totalitarians and their lackeys will diligently work to ensure that no one is ever really safe or healthy.

Every action they have taken has had the opposite effect and will continue to have the opposite effect. Once they have exhausted the present "danger" of the birdemic, they will employ some other danger - in the form of climate change, inequity, financial crisis, food shortages, extreme social elements, etc. - from which they will feel compelled to shield and protect everyone in the world.

Thus, all who have willingly submitted to "none are safe until all are safe" will quickly discover that they will never be safe. Moreover, the longer they remain committed to the diktat, the more their health and safety will deteriorate. Most meaningfully, their desire to be "safe" may come at the expense of being "saved."

The only defense against "none are safe until all are safe" is the understanding that none are safe is the default setting of mortal life on earth.

Full stop.

Within this framework of understanding, health and safety are acknowledged for what they are in mortal life - as means rather than ends. Once health and safety are acknowledged as means instead of ends, they cease to be weapons of temptation, terror, and subjugation and become tools for spiritual learning.

Once freed from the demonic inversion of "none are safe until all are safe", Christians can once again focus on the true "end" of mortal life, which is following Jesus to life everlasting.

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The Narrative Has Already Collapsed; We Just Don't See It

11/23/2021

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I get the sense many of us are waiting for the big narrative implosion - that Götterdammerung supernova that will occur when the fiery ball of lies can no longer withstand the pressure of truth and, thus, begin to cave in on itself like an imploding star.

I imagine many of us wake up and scan the headlines looking for signs of a much needed and sorely overdue disintegration of the unholy collection of stories that has enslaved the world.

Every now and then we perceive a spark that could send the whole shabby affair up in flames. We wait breathlessly for the spark to catch, for the waves of fire it will surely ignite in an endless sea of minds and hearts.

And we lower our heads in disappointment when the spark grows cold or is dutifully extinguished by the determined heel of some storyteller's boot.

Yet the next day we awaken with renewed hope. Perhaps today will be the day. Or tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. On bad days, we question the Will of God and wonder why He allows the travesty to drag on, seemingly endlessly. He could bring an end it all in a blink of an eye . . . why doesn't He? We lower our eyes to the headlines once more and continue searching for sparks.

And through all of this we miss the obvious - the narrative has already collapsed. Perhaps not at the collective level, perhaps not en masse, but certainly at the level of the individual - within the hearts of individuals scattered throughout the world. In this sense, God has already brought an end to it all and often in the blink of an eye.

From the seemingly narrow confines of our individual lives, the collapsed narrative seems trivial, almost meaningless. Our personal awareness does not appear to affect anything, let alone exert any force on the ever expanding ball of superheated lies engulfing the world.

Rather than provide reprieve, the collapsed narrative becomes a burden. It drives us into proverbial self-exile and distances us from others. We find it increasingly impossible to play along, and we find it even harder to find people with whom we can share truth.

At times, we might even wish we could go back to believing the narrative again, but we know we cannot. We cannot un-see what we have seen. We cannot un-think what we are thinking. We cannot un-discern what we have discerned.

So with a sigh, we return to headlines and concentrate our hopes on the next spark we detect. Surely, this will be it, we whisper the moment a much-awaited glint catches our eye. This will be the thing that brings it all down. It is too undeniable. Too true. Too real. Even the blind will see it. Even the brainless will understand . . .

What we don't get is that we don't need the blind to see it or the brainless to understand it. We don't need something to bring it all down because the very fact we don't believe it has already brought it all down.

The narrative is not Reality, it is merely an eclipse of Reality. A shadow cast over Reality does not negate Reality, nor does it replace Reality anymore than the shadow of the moon replaces the sun during a solar eclipse. The sun appears obliterated, but it remains behind the moon, shining brightly despite everything.

When the narrative collapses within us individually, not only are we are able to see the sun behind the shadow, but we become a little sun on the opposite side of the shadow shining up through the murk.

We become beacons of light - pinpoints of Reality poking holes in the narrative shroud. To those who oppose God and Creation, each tiny hole in the narrative is a sun unto itself, and it burns through all the lies and deceits. Each pinpoint is a painful reminder that Reality is still there behind it all, despite everything. Even worse, it is a painful reminder that Reality is still there in front of it all because a single individual grounded in Reality contains the entirety of Reality within himself or herself.

And one day Reality will break through once and for all, but this is no less significant than Reality breaking through once and for one today.

Note added: I apologize for the mixed metaphors; I wrote this during an inspired whim.

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He Neglected to Mention The Fourth Possibility

11/22/2021

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I don't think we are anywhere near peak Siege when it comes to Operation Delta Force, but some of the oratory the demonically-possessed on the side against God and Creation have been spouting lately certain qualifies as peak-Siege rhetoric in my book.

For instance, take the current health minister of Germany who claims that:

"By the end of this winter everyone in Germany will either be pecked, recovered, or dead."

That's chilling stuff, that.

Of course, these sorts of sentiments are not restricted to Germany, but appear to be catching on all over the West.

Well, if I may be so bold, I would like to add a fourth, unmentioned possibility to the health minister's list:

By the end of this winter many in the world will be pecked; some, recovered; some dead; but a few will be triumphant.

More significantly, spiritually triumphant.

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Co-Creation Is Far More Than Cooperation With God

11/21/2021

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Most Christians view cooperation with God marks as the pinnacle of religious life. The impetus behind the motivation is simple and clear - if align myself with God and His commandments, then I will be "operating" in the manner God wants me to operate in the world. By following his laws and commandments, I demonstrate my willingness to co-operate with him and will be aptly rewarded in heaven.

Is there anything wrong with this religious aim or overall view of religious life? No, but it does reveal a rather limited and perhaps somewhat outworn understanding of what religious life encompasses and what religious life has the potential to be.

On the plus side, "mere" cooperation with God is a form of spiritualized consciousness and it does acknowledge the absolute necessity of the human working together with the Divine (unlike atheism which posits that humans are basically sole operators who are either operating with, operating on, or being on operated on other sole operators in a purely material world in which all of the operations are chalked up as little more than random energy events that lack all sense of fundamental meaning or purpose).

The shortcoming of "mere" cooperation with God is it does not address the full potential of Christian consciousness, and it sidesteps the further development of religious consciousness in which the pinnacle of religious life will be something far greater than "mere" cooperation with God.

Nikolai Berdyaev divided the development of Christian consciousness into three stages (or epochs): one in which the existence of sin is revealed, another in which redemption from sin is made available through the willing acceptance of Christ, and a third in which humans recognize and embrace their potential to become divinized co-creators of reality.

All three stages involve co-operation with God, but the manner of the co-operation differs according to the consciousness that delineates the stage. The first two stages - characterized by the Scriptures, religious laws, doctrines, ceremonies, churchgoing, religious hierarchies, priests - exist and are evident in both the past and the present, mostly through externalized forms. Thus, cooperation with God in the first two stages is mostly about aligning the internal and subjective nature of the individual with the external and "objective" nature of God. Revelation in the first two stages comes from up high and has to be externally received before it can be internalized.

The emergence of the third stage, which Berdyaev refers to as "the epoch of religious creativity", requires a new form of consciousness, one capable of transcending the external formalism of the other two stages. This new form of consciousness will understand that revelation can no longer be expected from up high, but that it must emerge from within man. In this sense, the consciousness of religious co-creativity will not look to God for a revelation, but will understand that God is looking for a revelation within man.

Part of this revelation entails loosening our grip on conventional notions of "mere" cooperation with God as a pinnacle of religious life. Yes, co-operation with God is crucial, but the co-operation must move beyond traditional frameworks of humility and obedience of a "fallen" creature and extend into the unknown and, more significantly, the unknowable - the very essence of freedom and creativity.

Religious creativity is a step beyond mere co-operation via formalism for the simple reason that it transforms the core dynamics of divine-human revelation, interaction, and co-operation. Co-operation will no longer simply be a matter of obeying and following the external forms of the Divine, but will be inspired instead by the internal Divine within man yearning to co-operate via creation with the internal Divine that is God in order to add something qualitatively new to reality, something God could not have qualitatively added to reality on His own.

To sum up, co-creation is a form of cooperation with God, but it is far more than "mere" cooperation with God in that it transcends conventional frameworks of divine-human cooperation. The essence of creativity will not be revealed externally by God, but must instead be revealed internally by man. Once this internal self-revelation occurs, a new form of divine-human co-operation will begin - one that will not only mark the real pinnacle of religious life, but also set the stage for the continued development (and fulfillment) of Christian consciousness.

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