CATTLE RUSTLERS AND HORSE THIEVES
Once we figure out that for our entire lives we have been manipulated, gaslighted, fooled and betrayed by the so called experts who operate the system which forms our civilizations where do we go from here?
Especially when we look back at the arc of history to observe that our ancestors were similarly affected back into generations as far as we care to look.
And believe me I have looked.
When I discovered that my own family - my own parents and their parents and so on were not only ignorant of their history but also fooled by a totally inaccurate narrative of what they thought they did know - I set out to find whatever truthful history I could find.
My grandfather was a descendant of a branch of a once powerful American family - born in the late 19th century into a branch so broken by the aftermath of the revolutionary war - so engrossed in sheer survival - that they knew next to nothing about their actual history or roots.
Several generations after the revolutionary war - my grandfather’s family had migrated from Virginia onto Kentucky and finally into Missouri.
By this time the family was impoverished - the consequences for most people of all wars - and lived on the Missouri frontier in a fashion like all impoverished people are forced to do.
My grandfather - a brilliant man who had wanted to become a doctor - was forced to quit school at thirteen to work in the coal mines.
Luckily for my own existence he broke free of the mines and made it to San Francisco where he met my grandmother - a strong and determined eighteen year old whose branch of a famous Boston family had migrated to live a hardscrabble life amidst the redwood wilderness of California’s rugged far North coast.
There was a rawboned strength and intelligence in these grandparents - a rugged determination to raise a family and to make the best of what little they had.
My grandfather overcame the legacy he carried in his own body through the tragedy of Coal Miner’s Lung and went on to raise a tremendous family with my grandmother.
He possessed a certain strength which is undeniable when it exists in us as humans - a strength not only of creative intellect and good natured intent - but a deeper strength which carry us through circumstances we feel ill prepared to handle.
We grandchildren - when asking our grandfather who our ancestors were - were told the following:
“Cattle rustlers and horse thieves.”
As it turned out my own research into our family history led to the same conclusions - although informed by a great deal of evidence that not only were they all of these - but on a scale my grandfather could simply not have imagined.
These ancestors were comprised of famous and infamous explorers, pirates, politicians, trail blazers of many kinds, scientists, mathematicians, warriors and plenty of politicians - pretty much fitting within my grandfathers definition.
As it turned out my grandfather’s ancestors were heavily represented at the various Constitutional Conventions of the 18th century and among the mercurial revolutionary minds of the founding ancestors.
And I can assure you that these ancestors were quite as ignorant of their own history as my grandfather was of his.
It is now written into history how very consumed with an interest in family history our Thomas Jefferson was and with modern research tools we can know how very ignorant Jefferson remained of the real story.
Jefferson’s family history - should he have been capable of knowing it - might have change the course of history.
THE NATURE OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
It is extraordinarily significant to arrive at a point on the cusp of history where we can see clearly how the game of systemic gaslighting and manipulation has taken place across all the generations which comprise our own history - and this is true regardless of who our ancestors were.
The game across all the generations was to keep certain elitist families safely in power and everybody else beholden to this.
And with the irony we would expect from such a situation most of the descendants of these “great” families suffered themselves from the effects of generations of ignorance and lies.
No one - not the elite - not the “great” families - not anyone - emerges unscathed from such a system - and none have.
The plain vanilla truth is that the lies, corruption and pure evil tortured energy in such a system leaves no one without significant and long lasting trauma.
It is impossible to live in a culture whose very history is revealed to be a lie without being traumatized by that system.
The system becomes to be so tortured - so poisoned by its own lies - that it taints everyone and everything it touches with this brush of corruption and rot.
For me at least we have arrived at a pivotal point where we can now see the truth of our history and begin to tell the truth of it to each other.
For only by understanding our history - the unvarnished truth of it - even though it cuts deep - can we heal from the wounds we have all suffered as a result of it.
In ways we may not all yet understand - because we simply cannot even begin to understand it until the real story has been told - we are going through a massive “coming to Jesus” moment where either we face - as a culture - as the collective culmination of all civilizations - not just Western civilizations - but literally all known civilizations of the past 12,000 years - the truth - or agree to collective suicide - or extinction.
Because facing the real truth of our history will take us well beyond the horizons and points of view we now accept as our present reality and will - if faced honestly - become a forcing house of change such as we have never seen in human history.
The current dystopian nightmare in which we find ourselves - this coup d’état which has taken over the world - is the culmination of millennia of lies we have been led to believe are the truth.
We are literally now being given a chance to heal ourselves and our cultures of the trauma we have suffered for countless generations - but as with all trauma survivors - we must go through the painful process of facing the nature of that trauma in all its ugly manifestations before we can even hope to be healed.
Many of us have begun the process of doing this in our own lives and now go through the process of healing ourselves through the only way I am aware of which offers a real promise of emerging from the other side of this kind of profound trauma - and that is through the healing of our severely wounded and traumatized consciousness.
We heal now from literally hundreds of generations of intergenerational trauma.
I have traced my own family history back to literally hundreds of generations - and in my own point of view I don’t see much difference between the traumatized existence of an ancestor living with the same lies and distortions of truth millennia ago and our own traumatized existence today.
Except from the POV of scale - and the scale of the trauma today is so vast and so encompassing of the entire planet that we face now the culmination of all those millennia of lies.
And we live as a part of a towering teetering house of cards which threatens to collapse of its own weight at any moment - and in that collapse sweep all of us - and all future generations with it - in a virtual planetary orgy of death and destruction such as we have never known.
We have arrived at the pivotal point where either we face the trauma and heal from it or we perish.
The enemies of this transition of consciousness remain what the familiar trip wires of spiritual change - or of a meaningful change of consciousness - have always been.
Just as the famous spiritual avatar of Western culture - Jesus Christ - faced in his own journey toward enlightenment - we also face them.
Fear, doubt, pain and anger serve as trip wires to distract us and dissuade us from the achievements of spirit and consciousness as they have always done.
It is no less a painful cross for us to bear than it was for Jesus himself.
And his teachings impart this knowledge at every turn.
But if we can surmount these trip wires to heal and prevail - how sweet the victory and how sublime the rewards.
There are many who seek to keep us in darkness and gaslight us into being seduced back into the darkness - but on this one I am certain that it is the light bearers - the truth seekers - the angels we can see we are surrounded by - once we open our eyes - who will win this battle and inherit the earth.
Despite our efforts many will fail to overcome these well known spiritual tripwires and will cling like drowning man and women to the old narratives of lies meant to keep us all trapped.
We will simply not be capable of helping those so weakened they are unable to be strong enough to save themselves.
Satanic forces are very hard at work seeking to throw down those trip wires and keep us from prevailing.
It is now most certainly up to us.
No one is coming to save any of us other than ourselves.
Be the change we wish to see in the world - it is the only way to put the Christ consciousness back into the world and to heal ourselves from this trauma.
It will require us to fix a farseeing and rather steely eyed gaze on the goals we are seeking to achieve and to quietly observe the tactics of our spiritual enemies as they so obviously seek to destroy us.
This is it - this is the promise of the centuries and the fulfillment of the many prophecies which have foretold of this time and place in history.
We have been given the opportunity and the inspiration and the instructions.
Take it away Star Seeds and Light Bearers - light those candles which are so preferable to cursing this darkness.
The great historian Kenneth M. Clark saw this clearly and spoke about these spiritual enemies he glimpsed through the glass darkly to the cultural and political and spiritual components of civilization.
Despite his genius and perceptions the view he provided still did not give a clear enough view to us moderns of the fundamental spirituality which must underwrite any truly great and true sustainable civilization.
We as inheritors of the great chain of being anew with each succeeding generation must suffer the consequences of not being able to comprehend the full import of our troubled history.
And we are most often kept from really beginning to comprehend either ourselves or the trauma we have suffered as either individuals or as a culture until very late in our lives.
But we now stand literally holding our children’s futures in our hands.
And if we shrug - as Atlas did - the repercussions could be dire for us all.
Should we actually imagine that a civilization becomes the sum of its parts - and that those parts are indeed each of us?
We are each the links in the chain which forms the double stranded helix of the DNA which, in turn, forms the scaffolding of ourselves and of our civilizations.
And the civilizations may only be as strong and flexible and mercurial and effective as the very weakest link.
We are each those links in this great chain of being.
Descendants of cattle rustlers and horse thieves but still left holding this bag.
Thank you, KW, not just for this essay but all of them.
Inspirational, is simply what they are!
It's easy to get caught up on one point or another, but we need to think more broadly than that.
Todays society is all about instant gratification, but tomorrow is about delaying that gratification for a bigger target.
Again, thank you.
-Edwin
As with any trauma, the first step toward healing is the determination to make lemonade out of lemons. Second step is taking full responsibility for our lives. The third step is to stop looking in the rear view mirror and look forward to a brighter future. There is absolutely nothing we can do about what has already been done and if we spend too much time looking at the past we miss the opportunities to improve that are right in front of us. Give yourself time to grieve, give yourself time to be angry, spend about 10 seconds in denial and then begin building a momentum toward optimism and gratitude. Momentum is a great concept. There is a momentum in existence that can possibly keep us from going over the cliff into Totalitarianism Rule. All these divided fringes of good intent are missing a key component and that is momentum. Fracturing does not build momentum. Feeling disillusioned, a victim to a corporatists fascist global cabal using Marxist tactics, goes nowhere. Attacking the only momentum, calling it controlled opposition, is as much a destructive tactic as anything out there. If being an intellectual means you fall for any new alluring concept that sounds ahead of the curve, but does nothing to move the ball forward should be scrapped, in my opinion. What we need now is a populist, freedom loving momentum today because we don’t have the luxury of picking apart the past, present or future. Once we interrupt this Global Cabal momentum, then we can go back to picking at scabs, tweaking and debating to our hearts content. Right now we are in the fight of our lives with a gun pointed at our heads, is this really the time to pursue “intellectual honesty” about our “questionable” past? Our talents are needed, all hands on deck are needed, unification, not perfection, are needed. If we don’t understand this we lose something very pressure, a country built by survivors who stole a few horses, but with grit and determination, a strength that defies all odds, the good, the bad, the ugly, a Country that, at least in my opinion, is worth saving, despite nearly being destroyed by lies, corruption and greed.