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Thanks for the reminders and the encouragement. Somewhere in the distant regions of our psychic past there remains a memory of that interconnected and respectful and sacred interdependence with Nature and all that is. Thanks for waking us up. And thanks for sharing The Rainmaker.

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And I - in return - thank you for your sharing of positive actions.

Reminders that maybe even today in these times - or maybe especially during these times - we become aware that "Somewhere in the distant regions of our psychic past there remains a memory of that interconnected and respectful and sacred interdependence with Nature and all that is."

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Jul 1Liked by KW NORTON

Great points about hunter gatherer societies. A great example of that can be seen in the Haudenosaunee (6 Nations/Iroquois) Confederacy, which is still the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. Clan mothers choose and can depose chiefs, who are men, while all decisions require consensus among the chiefs...all under the Great Law of Peace. These are concepts that seem foreign in a system that allows cold hard cash to make decisions instead. That's why the US government attempted to destroy or assimilate Native America. Those humanistic values, which had long been crushed across much of the world, were still alive and well in indigenous cultures on "Turtle Island", cultures that didn't even have a written language and hadn't invented the axel wheel - a good reminder that more technology isn't the key to a healthier society.

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Can you feel the change happening? As though we slip between the 2 lines (of many) that exist at any one moment?

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I do feel it happening. Good comment thanks!

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I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn’t seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.

The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination. The inventor of civilization – the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers – was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies – especially military hierarchies.

Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld – the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it.

During the past fifty or more years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task. All of the so called scandals that have come up, any one of which would have taken down an authentic administration, are just farces played out for the public, to distract them, to make them think that the democracy is still working.

https://www.courageouslion.us/p/problem-psychopathic-control-freaks

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Jun 30Liked by KW NORTON

His-story repeats because human emotions don't change. Or something to that effect. It's hard to take responsibility when our critical thinking skills have been dumbed down to the lowest levels. We have to unravel the cord wrapped around our neck but unfortunately, some people see this ligature as a lifeline of sorts. Aka we do what we're told. If we all just stopped; stop participating in their game, we might have a chance. But that's going to take coming off our comfy couches and giving up our so called luxuries and getting back to our basic spiritual values. I honestly don't know if people can do it. We've been literally corralled into a never ending cycle of working for meager wages that are just enough to keep us fed and provide us with mindless entertainment. What are we doing to feed our souls? I personally am over this vicious cycle and with a heavy heart, feel that the end is near. The end of "their" way of life at least and with every end, there comes a new beginning. I try to explain all this to my 14yo niece who says I'm crazy but she also said I'm the good kind of crazy lol. It's going to take the good kind of crazy to survive what's coming. I pray we all have a spontaneous awakening and that same niece will look back and realize her good-crazy aunt was right all along. May Our Creator have mercy on us all🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿

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These days often do feel like an end is near.

I am keeping the awareness alive that we can change and keeping that alive in my writing at least.

But do doubt at all these are exceedingly trying times.

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I saw a man come walking...his heart glowed like a flame. All the sheep began to run to him as he called each one by name. Then many others like him with hearts that glowed the same from the farms and fields they came. Written 33 years ago. By Don Francisco in his "Vision of the Valley". What I see happening is that the reign of the psychopaths is about to come to an end and we will have 1000 years of a world wide Kingdom of God that is going to happen because the word having been made flesh that dwells IN you at this very moment will become manifest in the world. What we are seeing is the end of the rule by PSYCHOPATHS coming to past. WE DON'T NEED THEM! Anarchy, based on NO RULERS is what is about to take place. We have rules, they are simple. DO NO HARM. DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. LOVE YOUR CREATOR WITH ALL YOUR HEART BODY AND SOUL. How much simpler can it BE??

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We all need to share visions such as this. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Here is a link to the absolutely awesome vision Don had. I was at a concert of his once in Pembroke Pines Florida back in that day and asked him how he came up with the lyrics and he said..."I HAD A VISION." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPHEXuPFPio

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Thank you for linking this.

More good stuff on paying attention to visions!

https://open.substack.com/pub/shamanshalley/p/the-rainmaker?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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we are in a constant state of change...I would argue, no we are not; nothing about mankind has changed accept the fashion he coats himself in that is it. We have never changed. We are not meant to change, other than the individual. We live in a constant state of argument; Christians against Satanists; nothing has ever changed...nothing...

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So going from a system based on the divine right of kings (monarchy) to a system based on a "representative" system isn't a change? Going from a system that is obviously collective to a system based on the individual isn't a change? Sure some things don't change, like "Christians against Satanists" but much does change. One thing that hasn't changed is allowing ourselves to have "leaders" that are typically ALWAYS in most cases PSYCHOPATHS with no empathy towards their fellow man. Using this as an example...would YOU send a drone to kill some teenage kid who's dad had been deemed a "terrorist" by your point of view and be able to sleep that night? (Obama) Would YOU send a drone to kill some well liked General in a country who never invaded or did any harm to your country and be able to sleep at night? (Trump) Would YOU deploy in a foreign country as an obvious INVADER as a SNIPER and shoot kids and women who are defending against you as an invader and consider what you are doing is RIGHT? (Chris Kyle) Would you send weapons to be used against innocent women and children in one country against another as if it was your business? (Chairman Xiden)

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I COPY AND PASTE: nothing about mankind has changed accept the fashion he(crown) coats (shelters) himself in; you believe that a system created to hide who's in power changed something??? Please explain. For example: Americans own nothing, accept paper; the king owns all the land; the country is owned and then people fight for pieces, in case that is unfamiliar to you; aka Canada is merely a Colony, that I here the US is also; to keep up the fashion of descent, believing we had a choice. If it was not so, the country would not be run as it is; divided. Psychopaths are hired by psychopaths to ensure all gets done and no emotion barriers to worry about. And yes those acts are either ordered to a person, believing they are doing the right thing, or done by the sickness themselves. But how does any of that reality, bring forth your words of connecting me to it with, "would you" come from. Just so you are sure, "I would not".

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I'm going to have to agree to disagree. The definition of the word "change" seems to be the issue here. We have the internet vs radio, vs nothing but the pony express which before that was nothing. We have supersonic jets vs nothing that flew. Change is everywhere. Including the way governments operate. You can stunt your own thinking with there really is no change if you so desire. I don't see it. American's own nothing. Really? So who is it that is going to come and take my property and claim ownership? Yes, if I do not pay them "property taxes" they may do so, but I have the choice of shooting all of their enforcers that I can before they steal my home. And I may die in the process...so fucking what? At least I will have been fighting for real freedom and who knows? Maybe that would be the catalyst to take homes off of the 1st plank of the communist manifesto. My job as a writer and researcher is to get people to realize what change has occurred has been for the worse. Not for the better. I think that the way government was laid out in the Constitution was very limited but they have devolved away from it into a totalitarian communistic system. I suspect you and I are pretty close to the same thinking in the end result. All the ISMS's bad. Anarchy...good as long as mankind will follow the precepts. NO RULERS. Rules are simple. DO NO HARM. Basically the common law. That which is written on your heart. That is UNLESS you're a psychopath.

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IMHO - that is an illusion - something we are led to believe by those who run our civilizations.

If you are referring to so called civilization - you are correct - it never really changes the reasons for its own existence.

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Why is that? Apparently the reason is that civilizations, as we know them, are largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, ourselves included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are mentally wired to lie, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, kill, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse in order to establish their own sense of security and superiority through domination. The first tribal leader who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers – was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in social hierarchies – especially within military organizations. Think about all of the tyrannical regimes just in the past 100 years. Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, Hitler and I could even go back a bit farther and say Lincoln.

Behind the obvious insanity of current history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths working overtime to preserve their tyrannical positions of power. And as their power becomes more threatened, the psychopaths grow ever more desperate. We are currently witnessing the deification of the deep state over world – the overlapping criminal syndicates that work above ordinary society and law just as the underworld that lurks below us.

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Yes, I haven't changed my original opinion on studying civilization that the system is the problem.

The system has built in safeguards to keep the psychopathic agenda in place - for it to continue being psychopathic.

Sound crazy? Because it is

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Thanks for reading and restacking!

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Our evolution now runs contrary to plant Earth's. Guess who wins, eventually we have a choice, leave, live in harmony with nature and each other, and/or die.

The future is in the sky, space, but it looks farther away than ever. Marxism does that to you.

The great filter, Marxism, that's where everybody is, aren't.

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Well said.

Guess I could have written a shorter one!

If brevity is the soul of wit I am in trouble!

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