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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

I appreciate your starting paragraph that sets the tone of respect for Mathew. I think both of you are genuinely curious and intelligent and willing to go into mucky waters that are uncomfortable and confusing and want to bring clarity. Debate is good, questions are good. We won't always find any definitive answers even with them (we don't know what we don't know) but we do our best.

Really tough to pin motives on other humans since we can't know their whole story. But when they take public roles, have clear influence and we grok something is 'off', it's hard to avoid.

We all bring our filters to everything we perceive. Traumas, biases, overarching narratives about the world and others come into it.

I don't know ultimately who Brand is. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, especially if I don't 'need' him to be this or that. Conflicting agendas with public personalities is no doubt part of the control matrix. Blurred lines and ongoing disappointment with where we've placed our faith, is a tactic. I think the Q movement in part was about that. I once had a comment exchange with CAF (early days of Q) and asked her (regarding Q) that if it was a psyop, why would they create an army of folks with greater awareness (because the drops did share good info) only to disappoint them in the end? She said because they will feel shame and humiliation from having been duped and so will do nothing in the end - which was the point. I think that's right.

All of the confusion of these times has the ability to defeat us - what's the point; it's too confusing - and it has the ability to steer us more deeply back into ourselves. Do we need external personalities to assert our own authority? Do I need an external anything to claim my own sovereignty and do what I know is right? I know what I know, and I know what is right - in the moment - in terms of my actions. And if I get something wrong, another moment appears in which I self-correct.

I honestly think that ultimately that turning back into ourselves as our own authorities is the great opportunity, even, necessity of these times.

The whole assumption and its many patterns in the world, of needed authorities to tell us what to think, how to feel, who to trust - that's what ultimately over. Personal sovereignty means nothing if we've not claiming inner authority. I author me. You author you. We don't have to agree.

Thanks.

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Wow!

Love this and I'm laughing at the bizarre synchronicities that bounced through it.

The funniest one may be yogic! Last month I looked for video guidance to resuscitate and refine 'pigeon pose' as recommended by Conspiracy Sarah to help with my uncomfortable hip. And randomly(?) of the dozen or so on the first page of YouTube was an Adriene of 12 years ago who showed up. I looked at several and settled on her video and shared it with Yoshiko. I just checked - yup that was the same Adriene you are referring to here.

Synchronicity number two aligns with your careful introduction and even definition to your 'disagreement' as being an important process of expanding clarity, understanding and, one hopes, movement towards seeing what is true. I was just making the same point referring to your comment in my essay part 2 as an 'argument' as defined by wiktionary 1, 2, & 3.

And I confessed to being surprised that MC appears to have been bamboozled in such a simple way as to associate rapists with yogis wanting to set up studios! Totally preposterous in a way that has the strong scratch and sniff smell of shadow projection. Jung points out that often times the shadow of a strong 'thinking-type', which by all appearance MC appears to be, can be accompanied by a shadow that projects really crazy illogical even superstitious stuff. The argument that women are more easily duped is ... well. Silly. My bil fell hook-line-and sinker for sex-cult John De Ruiter in Canada, whereas his wife (my sister) who was there at the same time took some expanded awareness from the cult-leader, who was charming and spoke spiritual truth as well as the malicious manipulations, and wasn't 'culted' at all. (Jasun writes about that exceptionally well in his book Dark Oasis: A Self-Made Messiah Unveiled.) Also, I have at least one male cousin deeply culted into that cult.

I like your *arguments* here: strong, reasoned and passionate. As you have elucidated them, MC's are weak, kind of hysterical in the old and derogatory meaning of irrationally woman-ish and outlandish. Another sign of shadow projection, of course, is that he has accused women of being what he himself has at that moment embodied by his own denigration of them with his facile argument.

An interesting break from my essay writing. Thank you.

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