FINDING YOUR TRUTH

Resurrection or Rebirth

I suppose as Easter nears, the subject of resurrection is more prominent online. This post is and is not about that subject—specifically not Easter related or the Christian myth focused, but is more so about the concept and the psychology of resurrection and rebirth in general.

But before I start the comments on that subject, here is what I personally am experiencing: I was feeling particularly unsettled and anxious to get moving forward this morning to resume digging out from winter’s residual mess on the acreage, but fluctuating weather extremes here have been hindering my own progress for the past week. (That’s an understatement. We had a two-day blizzard the previous Sunday and Monday including 3-foot snow drifts across our drive and everywhere around us, with two Interstates crisscrossing the state having been closed for 24 hours during the blizzard, it was so bad. Then in the same week by that Saturday it hit 86 degrees and snow dissolved before your eyes with water puddling on the sidewalk. Unreal. Crossing the yard was like walking on a sponge. Now today, two days later, it is back to 28 degrees this Monday morning and I’m staring out my window at the last of the previous Monday’s snow still piled in the road ditch. Yeah. Iowa. Go figure.)

So back to resurrection and rebirth: While I’m still trying to hold my sanity between these ridiculous weather extremes, how much pasture and yard work is piling up here that I can’t get at, and T-ass trying to destroy the world as we know it, these posts appeared today for my consideration. First the James Hollis references with Jungian focus, and then the Lightworker descriptions for the energy worker attempting to salvage sense from senselessness but feeling the results of rampant collective chaos in our energy fields. You likely know what I’m talking about even if you aren’t energy sensitive. These collective energies are pretty awful right now. So if you are interested in the subject matter offered, I hope it helps to ease your mind. It is lengthy.

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“Rebirth (Course offered through the Jung Society)

In this two-class course, renowned Jungian analyst James Hollis explores the archetypal pattern of death and rebirth in the psyche. Drawing on Jung’s psychology, he shows how crises, imagination, myth, and ritual reveal the psyche’s drive toward renewal. The course helps you recognize these cycles in your own life and understand how psychological transformation unfolds.

In this two class course, James Hollis explores one of the most enduring themes in psychology and mythology: rebirth. Yet rebirth never comes without a death first. Something in us must end before something new can begin.

Drawing from Carl Jung’s essay Concerning Rebirth, Hollis reflects on the many ways this pattern appears in human life. We encounter it in psychological crises, in moments when our old identity no longer works, and in those periods when life asks us to let go of what once gave us stability. The ego naturally resists such passages, yet again and again growth requires the surrender of an earlier version of ourselves.

Hollis also explores the archetypal forms of rebirth that Jung described across cultures: reincarnation, resurrection, transformation, ritual renewal, and the recovery of lost parts of the soul. These images are not merely religious ideas. They express something fundamental about the psyche’s own process of renewal.

Along the way, Hollis reflects on complexes, imagination, cultural history, and the mysterious ways psychological energy moves through generations and societies. What appears as depression, disorientation, or loss of meaning may actually signal that an old worldview has exhausted itself and that a deeper life is seeking expression.

This course offers a thoughtful and humbling exploration of how the psyche grows through cycles of ending and renewal.
This program is being offered by the Jung Center of Houston and the Jung Platform. The original recording of this lecture took place at the Jung Center. The recording has been remastered. The lectures are available now.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

Understand psychological death and rebirth

Recognize life transitions as transformation

Explore Jung’s archetypal rebirth patterns

Reframe crisis as psychological renewal

Deepen insight into personal life passages

Course overview

Class 1 – The Archetypal Patterns of Rebirth

In this first class, James Hollis introduces the psychological meaning of rebirth and why every rebirth begins with a death. He explains how the psyche moves through many cycles of ending and renewal across a lifetime. Hollis then presents the five archetypal forms of rebirth identified by Jung (… such as reincarnation, resurrection, transformation, ritual renewal, and the recovery of lost parts of the soul. These images express fundamental aspects of the psyche’s own process of renewal. ), showing how cultures and religions have symbolized these transformations. Along the way, he reflects on how crises, depression, and loss of meaning often signal that an old identity has exhausted itself. The class invites us to see such passages not only as loss, but as the beginning of psychological transformation.

Class 2 – The Religious Imagination of the Psyche

In this second class, James Hollis explores how archetypal images of death and rebirth arise from the depths of the psyche. He reflects on the relationship between imagination, myth, and states such as psychosis, where powerful archetypal energies can overwhelm the ego. Hollis shows how myths, dreams, and cultural symbols express timeless patterns of psychological transformation. He also examines how rituals and religious images emerged to reconnect people with the mystery underlying life. The class concludes with a reflection on the recovery of lost parts of the soul and the enlargement of personality through psychological growth. “

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“Ascension Lightworkers

To The Ascension Light Worker Collective:

As ascension continues to unfold, it is natural to experience people falling away from your reality. This is not a loss in the way it may first feel, but a realignment at a soul level. You are no longer energetically available for connections that were built on unhealed wounds, unconscious patterns, or the need to replay past traumas.

As we move through the process of ascension, our perception begins to shift in profound ways. We recognise that each person exists within their own level of consciousness and awareness, shaped by their experiences, conditioning, and capacity to perceive truth.

With this expanded awareness comes a deeper sense of acceptance, not in agreement with all behaviours, but in understanding the vast spectrum of human development. At the same time, there is a growing clarity in the collective about the presence of psychopathy on this planet, no longer hidden beneath social masks but becoming increasingly visible to those who recognise it.

This awareness doesn’t arise to instill fear, but for discernment, it calls us to remain grounded in our own integrity while recognising that not all individuals operate from empathy or higher awareness. In this realisation, ascension becomes less about judgment and more about clarity, compassion, and the ability to navigate reality with open eyes and a strong sense of inner trust.

Where once you may have attracted relationships that mirrored your pain for the purpose of learning, you are now being magnetically drawn toward those who resonate with your soul’s true essence and divine purpose.

These connections feel different. They are not based in chaos or survival, but in clarity, mutual growth, and authentic alignment. This powerful shift can feel both liberating and uncomfortable, as familiar dynamics dissolve to make space for something more genuine.

…Before anything can truly align, everything that is out of alignment must be revealed and released first. This can show up as emotional triggers, unexpected endings, or the crumbling of structures that once felt secure.

It is not a sign that you are off your path, but confirmation that your path is refining itself. Ascension asks for honesty, not comfort. It asks you to see clearly what no longer resonates, even when it is difficult to let go.

What may feel like disruption is, in reality, a powerful clearing, making space for what is authentic, aligned, and sustainable.

This is not a time of passive ease, but of conscious transformation, where the fire energy does not just illuminate your path, it totally reshapes it….

Spiritual ascension does not remove your humanity, if anything it deepens your awareness of it. You will still feel triggered at times, You will still respond from old wounds. You will still make mistakes and, at times, hurt others without intending to.

What changes is your consciousness. You begin to notice your reactions sooner. You pause, reflect, and take responsibility more quickly. You become willing to understand the lesson within the experience instead of avoiding it.

Ascension is not about becoming perfect. It is about becoming real and present. It is about seeing clearly, even when what you see is uncomfortable.

You are never failing because you are still imperfect. You are evolving because you recognise the imperfection and choose to grow through it.

This is the path of transformation, awareness, accountability, and continuous self development.

In loving and devoted Ascension service by Ascension Light Workers.”

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Sitting in the Dark

One of the hardest things for me to do is to follow the higher advice given me over a year ago when this mess first started—to simply “Wait and watch.”

Taming my own desires to make something happen, or to change the scenario, or to eliminate the problem is tough. Keeping my mouth shut, my mind silent and my hands from clenching into fists takes all I can do some days. I’m sure I’m not alone in that discomfort.

I want to offer advice here, or encouragement, or a pep talk on believing in yourself and your own abilities to do whatever you truly wish to do; but actually what most needs to be said and done right now are out of my hands and in the collective consciousness of our world to decipher and to react appropriately.

Then I ran across this image and quote from Zach Fisher and decided he is right. Just know that you’re not alone out there, and I’m sitting right here beside you feeling exactly what you are feeling but trying hard to hold my own frequency higher and higher to shift this world we all share, for the better.

And until that happens, we’ll just sit in the dark together.

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“Zachary Fisher ·

Sitting With Someone in the Dark

Lately I’ve been noticing something happening all around us. A lot of people are quietly slipping into the darkness of their own thoughts. You can see it in the way people talk… the heaviness in their words… the feeling that the world is closing in on them.

The truth is that not everyone needs a lecture about positivity. Not everyone needs to be told to ‘look on the bright side’ When someone is hurting, those words can feel empty.

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is simply sit with them in the dark.

To listen… without trying to fix them.

To be present… without judgment.

To remind them they are not alone… even if no solutions exist in that moment.

Real compassion isn’t forcing someone into the light. It’s having the courage to walk into the darkness with them and stay there until they remember their own way out.

We’re living in intense times right now. The pressure people are feeling internally is very real. Thoughts can spiral quickly if someone feels like they are carrying everything alone.

So check on your people. Sit with them. Listen to them. Your presence might be the one small light that helps them find their way back.

ZF ”

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Couple Quotes to Consider

“…You are the product of evolution’s long devotion. The descendant of stars, forged in cosmic fire, refined through time, and shaped into a nervous system that can feel, a mind that can imagine, and a heart that can love….“ (ZIAD)

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“May you walk as one who sees

not only the world before you,

but the hand that paints it into being.

May you follow the quiet signs,

the unnoticed brushstrokes,

the subtle shifts that whisper—

look closer, there is meaning here.

May your heart recognize the unseen artist,

the presence woven through all things—

not separate, not distant,

but moving through you,

as you, within you.

You are not wandering.

You are being guided.

The masterpiece is unfolding,

and you are both the canvas and the color.

So it is.”

(Rumi Loves Poetry Quotes)

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A Fan of Wisdom

Lee Harris was visiting with Tami Simon, founder of “Sounds True” in a special series: “Insights at the Edge;”and he was channeling for the “Zs” (his guides) who were elaborating about her and her efforts to enlighten others through her extensive online work. The “Zs”, through Lee, called her “a fan of Wisdom” –one who shares with others that enthusiasm for higher thought and awakened understanding.

(I’ll list the url if anyone is interested—it’s a short 11.5 minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bIjjue7pY .)

During the spiel the Zs, thru Lee, proclaim that “LOVE is a frequency field—it is an energy field that is not solely in your body—it is an energy field that exists on the planet—and when you are connecting into LOVE you are NEVER just connecting into yourself. On this planet, at this time, LOVE is the force that is most needed. …

“There are those here now who would rather see LOVE left behind. They prefer control, hierarchy—those are the old ways of Earth. And there are those who have been cast here at this time to be the figureheads of LOVE. (To hold that frequency—to share that frequency field with others.)…

“LOVE is a shared energy—often passing on from one to another in kind and thoughtful ways. LOVE is a flowing force, and it is a building force. You have no idea how the more you are willing to evaporate the old concept of what you thought REALITY was, and the more you are willing to allow in the NEW construct of your REALITY which is a reality and a life rooted more deeply in LOVE, then you are not only creating a different world for yourself, you are contributing to an entirely different frequency midpoint on Earth. At the moment the frequency midpoint on Earth is NOT LOVE, if you take all the average frequencies on Earth, as a society you are a little bit more into FEAR right now. Within the power of FEAR you are more powerless—that’s why those who currently control society prefer to keep you in FEAR.

“In the power of LOVE, you become more powerful. … “

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For all of us there is a tangible choice between LOVE and FEAR every minute of every day. And HATE is simply FEAR personified. HATE physically acts out our worst FEARs—makes them seem solid and forceful to protect us from feeling so vulnerable to others.

LOVE merely states the obvious—we have nothing to actually FEAR here; and LOVE is much easier to maintain with far fewer destructive residues to our internal systems and to our society.

I agree with the Z’s thoughts transcribed above, and like Tami Simon I am a ‘fan of wisdom’. Let’s all choose the LOVE FREQUENCY now and become powerful enough within ourselves to shift this world for the better very soon.

LOVE is the FREQUENCY I choose to hold. How about you?

The Past Is the Future’s Predictor—True or False?

Many believe that past actions are indicators of a similar future yet to be. I disagree. I think that the past only informs the present; while present actions portend the future. You have a choice every moment of every day to slip into past behavior repetitions or to shift into a new mode of being—a new way of seeing—a new capacity for thought. Our reality here in this dimension of existence is a choice. So let’s make better choices so we can have a better reality while we are still here.

I know it’s easy to get caught up in one man’s lunacy who seems to control most aspects of your functional life, but doing so won’t change your personal reality for the better. It will only drive you nuts—or MORE nuts. So let’s refocus on some esoteric knowledge from an astrologer/Chinese numerologist and an energy worker, pertaining to this period of time because I think they are on to a likely happening in the near and distant future. As an energy worker myself I can feel the energy shifting now to a higher level that initiates rapid physical change. And as the energy worker below states, it’s up to YOU to hold your own frequency higher to shift your world view in the NOW.

I agree with some of the assessments offered below (which I will bold), and am offering a couple individuals here as resources who predict a better tomorrow in the near future, if you are willing to intentionally make that future your own.

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“Diego E. Berman, PhD

NEPTUNE IN ARIES: WHEN THE DREAM LEARNS HOW TO MOVE THE 13-YEAR SHIFT REDEFINING COURAGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND HOW WE BEGIN AGAIN JANUARY 25, 2026

Dear friends, as Neptune today steps into Aries, the atmosphere changes texture. The misty, oceanic god of dreams leaves the boundless waters of Pisces and strikes flint with fire. This is not a quiet awakening—it’s ignition. For the next 13 years, collective imagination stops dissolving and starts moving. Ideals want bodies. Visions want action. Faith is no longer something we float in; it’s something we fight for, initiate, and dare to embody. Neptune in Aries asks a simple but confronting question: What are you willing to stand for once the dream demands courage?

On an individual level, this transit rewires how identity and purpose are felt. Old spiritual bypasses burn away. Sensitivity doesn’t disappear, but it sharpens into instinct. People feel compelled to act on their intuition rather than endlessly process it. There’s a rise of spiritual pioneers, self-led mystics, and creators who trust their inner fire more than external permission. Confusion gives way to urgency. The soul no longer wants to merge—it wants to finally begin.

Collectively, Neptune in Aries reshapes how movements are born. This is the end of passive dreaming and the beginning of belief-driven action. Ideologies become personal again. Causes ignite through individuals rather than institutions. We may see spiritual themes woven into activism, leadership, and even conflict, as humanity learns—sometimes clumsily—how to wield faith without fanaticism. The shadow here is illusion fused with aggression; the medicine is conscious courage. Truth will no longer be abstract. It will demand embodiment in the earthly plane.

This transit also marks a deeper shift in human consciousness. For years, humanity has been dissolving—old identities, timelines, and certainties melting away. Neptune in Aries reverses the tide: consciousness now begins to re-form. Not into what it was, but into something more self-directed. The next decade trains humanity to trust inner divine authority again, to reclaim spiritual sovereignty, and to remember that consciousness evolves not only through compassion, but through brave choice.

If you’re feeling more open, more sensitive, or like your energy needs a softer container right now, this is a day for holding — not pushing. The bioenergetic shielding activations are available for those who want to stay grounded, protected, and in their own field while these shifts settle. No force, no rush — just support, stability, and space to breathe.

All of this unfolds as 2026 opens a new nine-year cycle, amplifying the sense of initiation. This is a collective reset of intent. What begins now sets momentum through the mid-2030s. The tempo accelerates further with the arrival of the Fire Horse energy in February—fast, volatile, liberating, and impossible to restrain. The Horse doesn’t wait for consensus; it moves when it feels truth. Combined with Neptune in Aries, this year marks the start of a cycle where speed, instinct, and authenticity dominate.

Together, these forces signal a profound turning point. Humanity is learning to dream forward, not drift backward. The next several years are not about perfect clarity, but about brave movement through the unknown. Consciousness evolves through trial, initiation, and self-trust. The fire is lit now—not to destroy the dream, but to give it legs, a heartbeat, and the courage to run. Much love

WE ARE ONE ♡

Diego E. Berman ©2026

www.diegoberman.com”

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“Ascension Lightworkers

Ascension Message: You were told to Raise your Vibration. Here Is What They Missed. You cannot raise your vibration with a dysregulated nervous system. Much of the manifestation and ascension new age talk tells you to raise your vibration by thinking higher with more positive thoughts, feeling lighter emotions, and matching the frequency of what you desire. You are told to get into alignment, enter the vortex, and hold a higher state of consciousness.

What is rarely explained is how this actually happens. Vibration is not something you create with your mind alone. It is something your body generates based on the state of your nervous system.

If your nervous system is stuck in survival, your vibration is locked at that frequency. No amount of positive thinking can override it. This is not a belief system. It is physiology and physics.

Your heart generates an electromagnetic field that extends beyond your physical body. This field oscillates at different frequencies depending on your internal state. When you are calm, regulated, and coherent, your heart rhythm becomes regulated and ordered. In that state, the frequency of your electromagnetic field is measurably higher.

When you are stressed, anxious, or dysregulated, the heart rhythm becomes chaotic. The electromagnetic field loses coherence, and the frequency drops.

Your vibration is literally the electromagnetic frequency your body is broadcasting in this moment.

Raising your frequency: Not by forcing yourself to feel positive. Not by suppressing grief, anger, or fear. Not by pretending everything is fine while your body is holding tension and threat.

You raise your vibration by regulating your nervous system. You bring your body into coherence. You shift from a survival state into a safety state. You create the physiological conditions in which higher frequency states can naturally emerge.

This is why gratitude practices work for some people and not for others. When the nervous system is relatively regulated, the feeling of appreciation can create heart coherence. That coherence raises your measurable frequency. Gratitude works because the body is capable of receiving it.

But when the nervous system is deeply dysregulated and locked in chronic survival mode, forcing gratitude often creates more tension. You are trying to impose a high frequency emotion onto a low frequency physiological state. The body rejects it, not because gratitude is wrong, but because the foundation is not yet aligned.

It is like trying to play a symphony on an instrument that is out of tune. The notes are correct, but the sound is distorted because the system itself is not regulated.

Ascension is not about bypassing the body. It is about bringing the body into safety so higher states of consciousness can anchor here. Regulation comes before elevation. Safety comes before frequency. Embodiment is the doorway to ascension.

Signs Your Nervous System Is Healing and Regulating: You begin to move more slowly and deliberately. A regulated nervous system no longer lives in survival mode, so there is no constant urgency to rush, fidget, or fill every moment with constant activity and motion. Your body trusts time again. Slowness becomes a form of safety. Presence replaces pressure.

Your posture naturally changes. As stored tension releases, your shoulders soften, your jaw unclenches, and your spine finds its natural alignment. You are no longer bracing for impact. The body reflects an inner message: I am safe to inhabit myself. This is grounding, embodiment, and ascension expressed physically.

Your reactions become quieter and more spacious. You no longer snap, overexplain, defensively justify yourself, or panic-message for reassurance. Instead of reacting from the wound, you respond from regulation.

Emotional pauses appear. You feel your emotions fully, but they no longer trigger and control your behavior. You are learning to self-soothe rather than self-abandon.

You stop chasing external validation.

When the nervous system stabilizes, the need for constant reassurance dissolves. You no longer search outside yourself to confirm your worth, your intuition, or your decisions. Self-validation becomes natural. You trust your inner knowing. Approval loses its grip because your safety no longer depends on it.

Your voice becomes much calmer and more resonant. As the nervous system harmonizes, your vocal vibrations change. You speak more slowly, with steadiness and intention. There is less force, less proving, less noise.

Your words carry weight because they are aligned. This is coherence between body, heart, and consciousness. Your voice becomes a means of truth rather than defense.

Healing the nervous system is not just recovery. It is remembrance. It is the body learning that it is safe to ascend without leaving itself behind.

In loving and devoted ascension service

By Ascension LightWorkers.”

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Thank You Matt

For some strange reason reading this post from Matt Moberg (actual painter of the above image) tamed my intense inner agitation and reminded me of a William Carlos Williams poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”:

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams – 1883 – 1963

“ so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens “

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Took me awhile to decipher my subconscious reference, but I think I have it. How we carry our tasks and burdens depends on our vehicle of choice. The angry REDs Matt refers to below for the task carrier above, the WHITE (House) chickens providing both sustenance and manure to haul, giving reason for the red wheelbarrow’s necessity.

Interpretation: How you carry your own dissatisfactions with life in general are your business. No problem there. Mine have been reassigned to WCW’s “Red Wheelbarrow” for the duration of this presidency’s manure hauling.

“Matt Moberg

I started this painting over lunch today, when I could feel my inner addict trolls start breaking too many dishes in the kitchen. The canvas is where I go to see if I’m still standing on anything solid or just throwing fists in mid-air.

It was clarifying in there,

the way a mirror is clarifying when you stop rushing past it.

I’ve been running too fast, sleeping too little.

I hadn’t registered the extent of my own anger,

and the fear underwriting it,

until stillness called my bluff and I had no rebuttal prepared.

Given the moment, and the smell of tear gas from this morning still reaching from my clothes, my impulse was indictment.

To grab ivory black, crimson red, and be the 17th person in your feed today to remind you that no matter what FIFA or Tom Emmer or your aunt from Fargo insists on Facebook, this really is who he is:

an angry old man,

loyal to harm,

allergic to repair,

and unwilling to begin again.

I don’t recant that assessment, I wouldn’t have written it out if I did.

But I noticed something else become apparent as I was in there: The cruelty of Donald J. Trump and his lapdogs was starting to dictate my colors, and I’ve seen this story before.

I’ve seen in myself how opposition, if unattended,

can quickly become apprenticeship.

How easy it is to absorb the posture of the thing you resist.

Its efficiency. Its belief that ends absolve means.

Its preferred emotional climate.

Without knowing it, you start to believe that matching the heat is the same thing as challenging its logic.

It isn’t though. And I don’t want that education.

I don’t want my body to learn it.

I don’t want my boys to inherit it as muscle memory.

I don’t want my city to confuse fear-fed revenge with our future.

So I put the black down and stopped weaponizing the paint.

I left the blood where it belonged.

I picked up pink. Yellow. An orange that wasn’t interested in winning.

I worked it over for an hour and made something imperfect that I’ll bring out to the trash in a little bit,

accepting that not everything needs to be saved

to know that it was faithful.

Before I do though, there’s one thing I want to say —

not as a manifesto, not as a brand position, not as content —

but as a small plea offered while fear is still doing what fear does best:

Do not let his ugliness recruit you.

Do not let it train your hands in destruction when they already know how to create.

Build something beautiful.

Make it stubborn and angry and Good.

Anger is real, justified—and still formative. Listen to it.

Give all your heart without losing any of your head.

Hold the fire without losing the wheel.

Do it again tomorrow. Next week too.

He won’t be around forever. None of them ever are.

And when he’s gone, what we will need is not better arguments or more devastating dunks, but evidence —

living, breathing, ordinary evidence —

that cruelty is not contagious,

that some of us have refused

and will continue to refuse the faster chemistry of retribution

and choose again and again the slower less cinematic work of repair.

Until then, this is me recommitting — awkwardly, inconsistently —to staying human. To choosing color over corrosion.

To trying, badly and often, to participate in the world we are still, improbably, hoping to make.

See you in the streets, fam.

MM “

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Life Inside the Asylum

Dear Outside World,

I feel the need to share our group experience from living here inside the Asylum. My fellow inmates (excuse me, ‘patients’) are in various states of dissociation, disassociation, and distress—commonly called the ‘3-D’s’ here. Most stumble and mumble about their days saying thing like: ‘I can’t believe we are living through this,” or “When will this lunacy end?”

I try to remain the unaffected observer to it all, but yet, I do live here, too. So ‘good luck’ to me on that front.

Overall most inmates/patients are reasonably non-threatening and more naturally self-consumed; but there is one particular, overbearing, beached-whale-looking oaf who tries to play ‘King of the Loonies’ and creates all sorts of chaos and havoc for the rest of us in here.

We call him T-ass (TASS). Since he has no real friends, they can’t be relied on to come up with a better name for him, which is fine. He’s okay with it, and too self-absorbed to realize the moniker is not complimentary. He assumes it means ‘Takes All Stuff Superiorly’ or something to that effect. As I said, thinking is NOT his strong suit.

TASS lumbers about the building and grounds stealing our food, our blankets, our place in line, our pictures from home, and unfortunately, our underwear. He does so saying something to the effect of: “Jeffery said I could have them all,” before grabbing what he wants, then pinching the attendant on duty on the way out of the room. The men attendants don’t much appreciate it, and the women avoid him completely often threatening him with pocket-tasers.

Me, I’m just trying to get by until my time is up here. I work jigsaw puzzles daily in the community hall, and I have a stack of books from the Asylum library to read in my room. Most of the pages are still in them.

We aren’t allowed community television anymore since the content began to incite group hysteria. Two days of pulling out hair and stripping off clothes led to our TV privileges being removed. Massive bald spots on shaking heads and naked inmates/patients were not conducive to public viewing so the administration, in their infinite wisdom, decided we don’t need the press any longer—they only report the bad stuff here. And WHO wants to hear that?

The last news reporter who tried to do a fluff piece on ‘asylum life’ unfortunately asked TASS why he kept taking all ours and our neighbors personal items and valuables, and he said, “To create world peace,” which though humorous to many, did not play well on the public airwaves. The next day the head psychiatrist said we were on lock down for the ‘foreseeable future’ until our visions of reality shifted to more healthy press releases, or ‘world peace’ actually broke out.

For those of you still on the outside, I just want to assure you that we the inmates/patients of the asylum are on fast-track to reassoicating, retraining, and reeducation—the 3-R’s, as it was described to us. Those treatments were so effective in China’s less-appreciative populations that our administration adopted the practices for us as well.

In closing, here’s wishing the best to those of you who are still out there; meaning, you are NOT in here with us. If you would like to see us in person, I can also assure you that we are still allowed visitors if you are white, wealthy, and world-dominating. Or as the admittance staff commonly refers to them: the 3-W’s.

Your friend, always and forever, or as long as my sanity holds,

Inmate/patient #649351.

Return of the Light for 2025

December 21^st marks the shortest daylight hours and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere; and this Winter Solstice does indeed feel epochal and ominous.

What lies ahead for us as the Light returns? Could it portend a better day, or weeks or years? Could it be worse? (Sorry. Little joke on my part, because it can always be worse.)

I was sitting back yesterday assessing our current state of insanity and wondering what the next year beginning January 1^st might slap onto our plates for consumption; then decided it was best to not go there, and instead just hold the highest thoughts and energies, hoping for the best for all of us.

Then this morning I received this email—one of dozens from more spiritual sites, and thought it was worth sharing with you since self-realization, self-reflection, and self-growth are key components for making the most of your time in this dimension of existence. Perhaps the suggested questions below are worth considering for those who do self-assessments and reflections this time of year.

So I’m just passing them along from AskTheo:

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“…One of the themes THEO returns to again and again is the importance of rhythm. They teach us that growth doesn’t happen in a straight line and that periods of pause often serve a deeper intelligence.
If you’ve been hard on yourself lately; if you’ve measured your year by what didn’t happen fast enough, or what you didn’t do “perfectly”…
… let this day be a permission slip.
The Solstice carries a simple message: nothing is wrong.

What feels like stillness is often preparation.
What feels like uncertainty is often re-orientation.
THEO invites you to soften your relationship with time today.
Instead of asking What should I be doing next?, you might gently ask:

Where have I grown that I haven’t acknowledged?

What am I ready to release so I can feel lighter?

What part of me is asking to be met with more compassion?

What kind of energy do I want to carry forward as the light returns?

You don’t need a dramatic transformation to begin again. Sometimes the most powerful shift is simply choosing to be kinder to yourself… and allowing your own inner light to shine.

From AskTHEO – on 2025-12-21 …”

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‘Feeling Concerned’ Is An Understatement

I resist commenting on political antics as much as possible, but this post captured the genuine concern most of us share. It is real. It is happening. And it is just a matter of time before it can no longer be ignored by those around him.

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“Oregon’s Bay Area is feeling concerned. ·

D____ T____ has always been a fabulist, but his remarks today at a White House Christmas reception carried him into new and unsettling terrain. For nearly an hour he careened between tragedies, tariffs, grandchildren, golf pros, and grievances, his usual mixtape of self-affirmation and imaginary math. The greatest hits landed with their usual thud: $18 trillion in investment, elections “too big to rig,” and factories materializing by the thousands because CEOs simply cannot bear to pay tariffs. We’ve seen this show before.

Then the speech veered off the cliff and into a strange, cinematic realm that bore none of the familiar hallmarks of political spin and all the fingerprints of memory breakdown. T____ launched into a sprawling jungle epic involving a White House doctor, the Obama daughters, a Peruvian viper, and a miracle recovery that allegedly took two years and three sets of last rites. And he delivered it with the earnestness of a man who believed every word he was saying.

Even by T___’s standards, it was bizarre. The story sprawled across minutes of uninterrupted monologue, growing stranger with each beat. There was a trip to Peru, a deadly jungle viper that supposedly kills “28,000 a year,” a bite that knocked the doctor unconscious “immediately,” a frantic call to Ronny Jackson (because of course), the reading of last rites not once but three separate times, and a miraculous recovery that took “two years.” T____ added the flourish that the doctor wrote a book about the ordeal, one that “sold two copies” until T____ posted about it on Tru__ Soc_l, instantly transforming it into “the number one bestselling book” with “100,000 copies sold in one day.” He repeated that number with the conviction of a man who believes he can manifest reality by insisting on it loudly enough.

Not a single element of this tale exists in the real world. The doctor is untraceable. The viper’s annual kill count would exceed many small wars. There is no record of Malia or Sasha Obama bushwhacking through a Peruvian jungle under Secret Service protection. And if a book about a near-fatal presidential medical incident had suddenly sold 100,000 copies in a day, the publishing industry would have noticed. Reddit threads have formed around fact-checking the story.

What makes this moment more than just another T____ exaggeration is how he told it, and why it felt so unnervingly familiar. Because we’ve heard this story before, just not as nonfiction. It is, beat for beat, the skeleton of the poem he used to recite at rallies: “The Snake.” In that fable, a trusting woman takes in a wounded serpent that ultimately bites her, prompting its sneering confession: “You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.” A simple parable, delivered with the sing-song cadence he slides into.

But this time, the parable wasn’t framed as a parable. It was reframed as autobiographical history.

He took the metaphor and recast it as an event. He inserted himself into the narrative as both witness and savior. He collapsed the distinction between performance and memory, turning an old stump-speech bit into something he now “remembers” as having happened within his administration. The boundaries dissolved. And it’s that dissolution, not the snake, not the jungle, that should alarm us.

This type of conflation, the collapse of metaphor into memory, is not a quirk. It is a recognizable cognitive pattern, one often documented in frontotemporal dementia, where patients begin blending stories they’ve told with events they’ve lived, losing the ability to separate performed narratives from personal experience. They draw on familiar scripts because the scripts are easier to retrieve than actual memories. And the more emotionally charged the script, the more likely it is to be repurposed as truth.

T___ has always lied, but he used to lie intentionally. He lied to dominate, to distract, to humiliate, to win. Dare I say, he lied with strategy. This was different because there was no political purpose to an imaginary viper in Peru. No strategic benefit to placing the Obama daughters in a National Geographic episode. No reason to spend precious podium time recounting fangs, venom, unconsciousness, resurrection, and book sales. This was the kind of story that emerges not because it’s useful, but because the storyteller’s internal filing system has lost its tabs.

He looked pale, unsteady, gripping the podium with both hands, drifting through a hallucinated adventure as though it were briefing-room fact. The people around him watched politely because what else can they do? They can’t tell him it didn’t happen, they have to wait for the moment to pass and hope the next improvised myth isn’t worse.

T____’s snake poem once served as his warning about other people’s treachery. Now, in its mutated form, it reads like a warning about his own mind. The snake he should fear isn’t coiled in the jungles of Peru; it’s coiled somewhere much closer, winding through the spaces where memory, fantasy, grievance, and mythology have begun to fuse, quietly, steadily, and now, unmistakably, in public view. If he ever revisits that MRI he bragged about “acing,” he may find the serpent sitting right there on the scan, coiled up patiently, waiting for the next story he can no longer tell apart from reality.

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You Are the BOSS of Your Reality

We are all just filaments of light penetrating the darkness surrounding us. I think Nicky Hamid states it poetically below how to use your light strand’s ability to shift your reality from darkness to illumined clarity:

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“While the world of human affairs appears to be going to ‘hell’ in an unstoppable downslide, you are simultaneously experiencing another reality as it rises to the surface within and about you.

As you are waking up, more and more you are discovering that Life in the Human ‘lane’ is a game: A game of distractions—outer distractions that have limited your growth and expansion.

So you go within and discover that there is limitless potential for what is possible to experience. There are limitless opportunities to know Love and Joy and to realize more and more expanded versions of yourself. Limitless opportunities to discover and experience More of who you are.

So when you get ‘stuck’, in pain. feel hurt, down or blocked, it is never really about what is ‘out there’.

It is in fact that you are not seeing the opportunity to make a move to the ‘higher ground’ within yourself. The door appears closed. Locked, or there is not even a door to be seen anywhere.

But there Is ALWAYS a door and you must dive deeper (higher) within to see it.

There is ALWAYS opportunity and to see it you must reach into the higher LIGHT of You. SOUL you are always Knows opportunity. It is why you Knew you could make it through whatever you set yourself before you came here to your earth life.

Freewill, in Truth, is your capacity to make the choice of Higher LIGHT that you are.

And so it is your fears that provoke you to seek for distractions that keep you from looking for your doors of opportunity into experiencing more of who you are. Fear is your Prime distractor. It is what drives what we call ‘ego’.

And this is profound………It is your projected sense of fear that creates ‘ego’.

So Precious Souls, Your opportunity in your Remembering is simply always to turn around from your fears, and ‘walk’ to a higher vantage point, even if you have to pretend for a while, and LOOK for the Highest LIGHT within You.

And then the Magic and Miracles happen.

Your whole reality Shifts each time you take your next opportunity to choose Love over fear.

Look for them……….they are ALWAYS there.

And you always have this choice. No one or nothing can take it away from you.

You are the Creator of what you allow in your expanding Field of Being.

I So Love You.

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PS: Remember there are so many ways your subconscious has used to distract and maintain your ego control: Apprehension, self-doubt, confusion, over-analysis, procrastination, value judgments, etc, etc,……all are based on fear. All prevent you from moving to ‘Higher ground’. But it is so easy to choose otherwise when you realize who is truly the ‘boss’. Nicky Hamid “

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That’s YOU! YOU are the boss of your reality.

What Is Civilization?

(Pardon me for reusing this graphic above (from “It’s Been Strange”), but it is so amazing and pertains to the questions below, that I couldn’t find a better one.)

The questions continue: What is the difference between a ‘civilized’ society and an ‘uncivilized’ one?

How can you tell the difference?

How do individuals function together in a society?

What responsibility do we have to establish and maintain a group dynamic that leans toward a civilized society?

In what situations are “WE” more important than “ME,” and how do I feel about that?

So many questions, and so few real answers. I find that most answer attempts are merely ideal/wishful speculations, and of course they only lead to more questions.

Here’s a good question pertinent to today’s world environment: What are the differences comparing a monarchy, an autocracy, and a democracy? How about an oligarchy—what does that entail? Who does it involve? Where does it lead? Who benefits most in each situation?

Where are we on the “civilized world” spectrum?

How about the “unified-world spectrum?” Where are ‘WE’ in that thought?

If evolution is the inevitable process of all LIFE on the planet, where are WE on the evolution scale? And for that matter, WHO and WHAT constitute the ‘WE’ in that consideration? Is it only human-focused, or is it all living matter-focused, or is it Earth-focused since She is our sole base of operation in this plane of existence?

And speaking of “plane of existence” what about the other planes of existence beyond this one that we call home for the time being? I know they exist. I’ve seen them. I’ve been there in them. How does “evolution” apply to them as well?

You know, in times of chaos you think about these things—all of them.

So is there a purpose to ‘chaos?’

There is a purpose to everything. You just have to find it.

NOT Okay

In today’s world there is a whole lot of “NOT Okay!” out there; and at present that is to be expected.

It would be MORE concerning if people were unaffected by the sheer insanity and extensive brutality of the today’s world leadership. To be clear here: You are normal. They are not. That is an important fact to consider before flogging yourself for how dismally you are handling the news, or even your personal daily affairs. There is a lot occurring all around you to be ‘NOT okay’ about, isn’t there?

Recognize and accept that fact; and then learn how to let the severity of your emotional overload go—let go of all the trauma, all the grief, all the stupidity, all the senseless carnage and ghoulish glee over how others are being dehumanized and even exterminated. YES! This is really happening. YES, it is beyond horrible. And YES it looks amazingly similar to a previous regime of the 1930’s who imprisoned millions and eliminated them from the face of the earth while people stood around and let it all happen, didn’t they?

Well, many did blindly accept it; but some people didn’t. Fortunately for all of us in today’s world the ‘DIDN’T ACCEPT IT’s won out last time. But it took years and serious effort to change that world for the better back then.

The RIGHT NOW of what YOU are feeling is what I am more concerned with, to the point of saying that HOW you handle the constant churning chaos and flagrant madness around you is important to your own health and welfare.

There are things that you can do about this ‘Nutsville’ situation, and things that you can’t do about it. Acknowledging that this insanity everywhere all around us is NOT OKAY, is a good starting point.

Just keep this in mind: YOU are okay. The people who currently run the world, are not. That is your starting line. How you move forward from this point on is up to you, but I’d start by making some serious changes in leadership at the earliest possible election.

Secondly, I’d strategize how I could take back greater control of my own life if I was sitting back stewing and fretting about how the world was going to hell before me. There are things you CAN control, and that starts with putting your feet on the floor when you first get out of bed in the morning.

What you do from that point onward is entirely up to YOU! How you think about your own life and the world around you, is ALSO entirely up to you. You are not impotent and powerless—you have great power—use it daily. Everything you think, everything you say, everything you do ALL has great power to it.

Everything you buy, everything you support, everything you participate in ALL has power that you can exert.

YOU ARE OKAY! THOSE IN POWER POSITIONS AROUND THE WORLD, ARE NOT.

Do not let their constant media blitz and psycho-babble tell you otherwise. They may call this mayhem NORMAL. But normal for whom? Normal for the psych-ward of Belleview? It is NOT normal for a civilized society, nor do you ever want it to be so.

So as you try to get your head around the cacophony of your daily existence in this world, keep telling yourself this: “I AM OKAY. What is happening all around me is NOT okay. And I will work daily to make this a better world for myself and for all others, because what is currently happening worldwide everywhere is NOT OKAY by me.”

As the image above states, it is OK not to be OK, and yes, we do need to be patient and trust that times will improve; but in my opinion, they are more likely to improve when you take an active role in the course of your life and trust in not only the Universe or God, but also trust your own knowing of what you want your world to look and act like; then do your best to make it that kind of world for everyone in it.

YOU have the power. Use it.