Free Speech

Posted on November 11, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introductory Note

By free speech I don’t mean physical acts of public confrontation or violence. I’m talking about writing and saying stuff online or in books.

Should “Free Speech” be Abolished?

“Free Speech” is an abused term in our current Narrative War. Those who cite free speech usually mean, “Speech I agree with.”

Those on the Left and Right use “abuses” of free speech in an attempt to censor others from speaking their minds.

On the Left we might hear things like, “Nick Fuentes should not be able to say that Hitler is ‘awesome’ and that immigrants and ‘organized Jewry’ are conspiring to extinguish the white race.”  “Donald Trump should not be able to say that ‘We are going to kill people who run drugs into our country.’”  

On the Right we hear, “That newly elected mayor of New York is a communist and should be removed from office.” “Jay Jones should not be able to write that “Republican politicians and their children should be shot.”  

Yes they should. I am for completely unmitigated free speech because I want people to reveal their true selves. This helps me to track and categorize public figures.

I want to know what politicians and public figures really think. That will tell me what they will likely do when they actually get in office or in positions of influence.

The Narrative War created by social media has allowed people to express their true feelings. That’s a good thing.

As a result, the country is dividing itself into what I call Collectivists and Populists.

Collectivists are mainly liberals who are tired of the conflict and anger and hatred. These people want peace. The only way to get peace is to have agreement within society on what is and what is not acceptable speech. Collectivists agree that in order to avoid conflict, everyone should in general agree with each other.

But getting human beings born with free will to agree with each other is impossible. This is frustrating for Collectivists because they believe Populists are out of control and always speak their minds regardless how often they piss people off. This causes conflict in society, they argue, and it’s totally unnecessary.

Populists are people who believe in the freedom to do what they want without government interference. Donald J. Trump is the hero of many Populists precisely because he says whatever he wants. He is the prime perpetrator of free speech abuse, the Left argues. People on the Right admit cheerfully that Trump unmercifully trolls the press and left-liberals. (This is the source of Trump Derangement Syndrome, recognized by the APA’s Psychology Today.) Populists relentlessly meme the Left in mocking and insulting terms.

People like Trump encourage unlimited free speech that the Left considers to be the source of social conflict. The only option (they say) is rigid enforcement of ideas and conversation to a common standard. They call objectionable free speech “misinformation,” or “disinformation.”

Uh, no. It’s people identifying for everyone who they really are.

The Left gets frustrated because the First Amendment essentially bars censorship of free speech, which is why some lefties have called for its abolishment. It’s why lefties say they (the Democrats) are going to pack the Supreme Court when they win back the Senate. I applaud the person who said the quiet part out loud. That’s the power of free speech. It that in 2026 I can’t vote for a Democrat.

Conservatives have the same issue, particularly religious types, who want schools to teach the Bible, and ban Drag Queens and “gender identity.”

As far as free speech is concerned, the Hard Right is like the Hard Left, just with different agendas.

Free speech is a problem for both sides of the political debate. A problem is two opposing forces equally balancing each other. Neither side of the Problem is strong enough to overcome the other, so the problem persists. This causes immense frustration and anger for those with agendas who want to resolve problems their way.

And so the solution of choice on both sides is more censorship of ideas and speech.

The Common Denominator of Tyranny

Throughout history, tyranny has been exercised equally by Left and Right. Fascist dictators like Mussolini, Hitler, Franco in Spain, and military dictators in South America, Africa, and Asia are on the Right. Communist dictators like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot are on the Left. Both are totalitarian.

The true distinction in political philosophies is between tyranny and freedom.

One might conclude that the inevitable result of free speech is tyranny. But when we look a little deeper we see that the common denominator of tyranny is not free speech, but intolerance of other viewpoints.

What did C. S. Lewis say about this? “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

I would argue that almost all forms of tyranny are motivated by good intentions! “Good intentions” is used by both Left and Right to suppress free speech in pursuit of “good” agendas.

Free Speech is not Tyranny

The intolerance of the viewpoints of others automatically leads to conflict. Let’s not mis-assign this to free speech, which is a freedom.

It is the suppression of free speech that eventually leads to a dead, totalitarian society. Throughout history, when the animating spirit moves through and within a society or a movement, it expands and is inclusive and accepting of new ideas. Free speech is a necessary condition for a prosperous, vibrant society.

It would be nice if the consciousness of humanity was high enough so that everyone could tolerate the opinions of others. That would lead to a mental and emotional relaxation in the whole of society, for individuals would understand that expressing themselves was perfectly acceptable. Lest you object, it would also largely eliminate the violence of desperation. It would eliminate the urge to push the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and assert the validity of insanities such as, “men can have babies.” 

It would also eliminate the blockage on creatives, who would be free to express themselves more freely.

Guess what? This is exactly what is occurring in society today!

People are expressing themselves in the most bizarre ways because the blocks to free speech and action are dissolving.

This leads conservatives to bemoan the crazy state of affairs, and liberals to bemoan the violence they consider to be inevitable when free speech is not limited.

Is the social upheaval we are experiencing anarchy, or a social cleansing?

Personally, I see a positive future result. Humanity’s volatile nature means that when human consciousness begins to rise, the dark underbelly of the human condition gets exposed. And it’s appalling. When the light shines brighter and brighter, it uncovers the darkness. It appears that a lot of violence and hatred has to be blown off before the system evolves to a higher state. This is sad, but apparently it is necessary for humanity’s evolution to a higher state of human tolerance and consciousness.

Censoring speech merely delays the process of enlightenment. All issues facing humanity must be identified and debated worldwide. In my opinion, that is the true function of social media.

The Prigogene Effect

From the Big Picture view, we are in a chaotic period where society deals with the evil and the karma it has created over the past 6,000 years. All of that karma, I believe, is lodged within the collective consciousness of humanity (what I have called, in previous posts, the Human Thought Space).

In 1977, Ilya Prigogene received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering that systems which are far from equilibrium (far from balance) begin to self-organize. Prigogene showed how order can emerge from chaos in open systems, challenging the traditional view of the second law of thermodynamics that predicts chaos always leads to increasing disorder.

If Prigogene is correct, the current social chaos will eventually evolve to a stable social state. We are going to discover which political system wins out.

Absurdities and Free Speech

Having said all this, I do acknowledge that unlimited free speech leads to absurdities. Below I present an article by William M. Briggs, a mathematician and statistician. This article is a perfect example of what results when people express themselves without self-censorship. It would probably be considered objectionable by half the country. But one thing is certain: After reading this article you will know where William M. Briggs stands on social issues. Society, in my opinion, needs people like Briggs, Trump, and Jay Jones. People who express themselves fearlessly and let us know where they stand.

Cross Post

This link should work for you to see the original article on Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/wmbriggs/p/academics-debate-which-term-best?r=2ei9i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Academics Debate Which Term Best Describes Those Who Love (in that way) Their Pillows

WILLIAM M BRIGGS  (wmbriggs.substack.com)

NOV 10, 2025

Years ago we reported on a woman (fat, ugly) who wanted to “marry” “Sky Scream, a rollercoaster at Holiday Park in Hassloch, Germany.” She was in love with it, says one source. Well, women being fickle, you won’t be surprised to learn she dumped the rollercoaster and moved in, or rather with, “a large purple ride called Gravity in Foire aux Plaisirs, in Bordeaux, France”.

Pleasurable Gravity might be a good translation. And is sensible, given it appears the woman gained a lot of weight over the years. She claims to have conceived a baby with the ride. This may be how Tilt-a-Whirls come into the world.Upgrade to paid

If there can be pregnant men, we ought not to scoff at women who claim fairground rides impregnate them.

Insanity is a constant in man, and this report would be of no large interest, except that it has captured the attention of academics. As the source above says: “Gaëlle is an objectophile – a person attracted to inanimate objects.”

I have tried to explain many times that once we allowed the idea of “sexual orientations”, once you allow even the seemingly harmless distinction of “homosexual” and “heterosexual”, then any and all desires would eventually, and must, be labeled an “orientation”, and so come under the beady eyes of supportive researchers.

A cardinal sin in academia is offending crazy people. This explains the peer-reviewed article “Objectum Sexuality or Objectophilia” (pdf) in the International Journal of Advanced Studies in Sexology, arguing about which name best describes sexual attraction to fairground rides. Advanced studies alert!

It is worth quoting the Abstract:

“Loving Objects” a category of peoples that explores the formation of a newly named sexual orientation, also called objectum-sexuality (OS), are the one who openly declare their desire for objects, loving the objects not like a fetishism, like an amorous partner, even life partners. The fallow material examines some aspects regarding OS behaviour, how they interact in the online environment with the rest of the world, how they perceive sexual intimacy and what rights they demand, the fact that it represents a non-specific paraphilia and that it has links with autism and synaesthesia.

Ah, “rights”. Which logically imply duties. In this case, your duty, dear reader, to be an ally: “Lack of social acceptance for Objectum Sexuality relationships (marriage with objects) is the main problem”. Correct your non-acceptance, Anon.

If you don’t want to learn about “special pillows”, then do not click the link. The author also accuses Quasimodo of having the hots for the bells of Notre Dame. And why not? People who love fairground rides and church bells are in relationships that “are no less and no more of value than other romantic relationships.”

Like I said, academics want in on every new “orientation”, and admit it, as in this passage from an introduction on the subject in the book Silent Partners in Multicultural Education (page xii):

Yet an increasing number of researchers call for inanimates to be taken into account in research, moving away from anthropocentrism (where the human is at the center) and leading to “an object turn.”…Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO, or Triple O) gives objects their due.

At least it’s easy to see how they’ll fit “Triple O” on the sexual deviancy flag.

Here I must ask you to stomach a passage which I believe explains the true mind of a modern academic:

While objectophilia has clearly emerged in other fields of research, education, especially multicultural education, appears to be a bit reluctant to open up its doors to objects. Barad (2007) and Osberg & Biesta (2010) are exceptions in general education research. Karen Barad (2007), philosopher of science, applies her concept of agential realism to explain the complex web of interrelations and intra-activities among human and nonhuman beings in knowing and learning. Osberg and Biesta (2010) rely on centrifugal logic, or rhizomatic logic, according to Deleuze and Guattari (1987), of knowledge-forming processes that take place between humans and nonhuman material artifacts.

Once you have let yourself fall into the clutches of rhizomatic logic you are lost. Even letting yourself write in earnest “knowledge-forming processes” is the death of hope. Only a miracle will save you.

I leave you with this last paper on the subject in my unending plea to defund all universities: “Objects in Human Drag: The Queerness of Object-Oriented Ontologies“. The Triple-O.

This thesis explores the intersections between queer theory and object-oriented ontologies (OOOs) through examining three case studies of objects in human drag: (1) hats, purses and shoes; (2) mannequins; and (3) dildos. I argue that queer theory and OOOs are necessarily connected in that both offer philosophical strategies of resistance to hegemonic structures imposed by binary gender categories, compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory anthropocentrism.

If you will not defund, at least consider nuking universities from space.

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Lucid Dreams

Posted on October 16, 2025 by kjmaclean

sometimes dreams are realer than “real life”

Two nights ago I had a dream.

For the past year or so I have been engaged in a personal battle within myself. I’m almost 74 now, and I have been getting the feeling that I’ve done everything I came into this world to do, and that I better start preparing to depart this mortal coil.

This is not a good feeling. It’s accompanied by the emotions of hopelessness and helplessness. It hasn’t dominated my life but it’s uncomfortable.

My life is pretty good, actually. I have nothing to complain about. So where are these emotions coming from?

Some people would simply dismiss them and take a pharmaceutical drug to dull the senses. I almost did that. After months of this with no resolution I was about ready to ask my doctor for a prescription. Gimme a pill, doc!

Then something remarkable happened.

I always meditate while in bed. This happens sometimes just after I turn out the light. I meditate more often in the middle of the night after I wake up around 4a.m. I most often meditate a half-hour or so in the morning before I get out of bed.

Two nights ago I got a past-life memory; I don’t know what else to call it. It was accompanied by very strong emotions, and hazy visuals as well.

I was a member of an indigenous band of hunter-gatherers. In my group, when a person became too old to hunt or gather or fight, the custom was to take yourself away from the community. This was necessary because the group could not afford to feed an extra mouth. By necessity, a person who could no longer contribute to the survival of the group voluntarily went into the wilderness to die. It was either that or be forcibly exiled.

During this glimpse into my past (??) I understood immediately that this situation was the source of my feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. I was a single woman, and knew I wouldn’t last long on my own.

It’s difficult for me to emphasize how freeing this little dream was. It just slid into my consciousness, completely unrelated to my life, and blew those crummy emotions away. And it explained everything about my present situation.

It was way too real to be fake. Sometimes I see a movie or a program, and it is like a seed that gets me dreaming along those lines. But this incident was completely removed from my life. It was like a gift from God.

It’s so easy in our materialist society to consciously dismiss “spiritual experiences” like this, but I could not dismiss the fact that the feelings that had been bothering me for almost a year were gone.

So yeah, I’m gonna take it!

Then, last night, I had another dream that confirmed the previous one, but this one was more positive.

Sometimes my dreams are so lucid they are realer than real life. This dream was one of those, even though it had no basis in “reality.”

I was walking along one of the academic neighborhoods in Ann Arbor. In one particular area the houses have no sidewalks and they are sort of squashed together in their own area. I went up a walkway and got tangled up where little paths led to, around, and into the properties of each other. I found myself going into the house of a famous professor of literature and was looking for a way out when the professor discovered me in his kitchen, looking for the front door. This is where it gets amazing, as dreams sometimes do.

I was embarrassed but apologized for entering his house. He smiled at me and said, “Well, you know, I’m the Holy Grail.”

Sounds nonsensical, but in the dream the professor was famous for his literary investigations into Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, so it made sense. He did shows on the local university channel that became very popular.

The professor approached me and twinkled at me, his eyes lighting up as if he had discovered a soul brother. Something I didn’t know was in me twinkled back. There was a feeling of lightness and a childlike innocence between us.

“I’m so glad I met you professor!” I said happily, and he grinned widely.

Something inside me had changed for the better, I could feel it. I have been getting more and more serious lately, and I felt I had re-connected with something I had lost.

“I’ll exit from the front door,” I said.  

He twinkled at me again and I walked down the front walkway that thankfully led to the street.

As I did that something amazing happened. I suddenly felt a rush of positive energy and my body felt as light as a feather, as if I was a kid again. Then the word “fairies” sounded in my consciousness and a little guy with a magic wand appeared in front of me. He waved his wand and sparkles of light surrounded me and I felt better than I have felt for a long time.

“Are you a fairy?” I asked.

He twinkled at me just as the professor had done, and disappeared. I felt myself getting more and more energized. I begin to run effortlessly down the street and then the dream ended.

These dreams convinced me again that a spiritual system exists on this planet that is designed to help anyone who is looking for answers from the higher plane, and who is open to spiritual experiences.

What’s bullshit isn’t spirituality or a person’s inherent connection to a higher realm of existence, but the horseshit we are fed day after day by grifters, psychopaths, political liars, narrative spinners, and “experts” who promote endless war, conflict, and the idea that a human being is nothing but a stimulus-response biological robot.

When I got up this morning, as usual, I checked out the news. But instead of getting angry at people who bring others down, I just gave them a little twinkle and spread some of that magic fairy dust toward them. It’s hard for me because I get so pissed-off at self-centered bullies who promote and grift off of human problems.  

But I don’t feel like preparing to depart anymore.

Maybe it was a miracle. We’ll see how long it lasts.

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Is there an Invisible Force behind History?

Posted on September 26, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

This article is another in a series that attempts to describe a spiritual system that goes far beyond the myopia of materialism. Today’s subject is the concept of historical forces.

Theories of history

History is the summary of what happened between human beings along the decades, centuries, and millennia. Is history random? That is to say, is the relationship between human beings mere coincidence, like the interactions of particles at the quantum level? Or are there meta-forces that take inputs and turn them into inevitable historical outputs?

One might logically choose the latter option. Human history is essentially a catalog of conflict and war over thousands of years, combined with intellectual advancement that has made war more and more deadly.

Joshua Horn, from Discerning History, summarizes what he calls the Theories of History:

(1) Random: “One popular idea today is that history is random – that the interaction of billions of humans and their choices with all the other natural factors in the world creates history with no discernible flow or path. This seems to be demonstrated by the fact that history often turns upon the smallest factors.”`

(2) The Great Man Theory: The world is changed by great persons with forceful personalities.

(3) The Great Forces Theory: This is the subject of this essay. “This idea suggests that the important men do not shape the forces and movements in history, but the forces and movements of history create the great men… The Great Forces theory takes many forms. Some say that history is driven by economics, or technology, or the struggle for human rights, or a hundred other factors.”

(4) Divine Providence. This theory suggests that history is controlled by God’s will, or that there is some kind of Divine Plan motivating human activity.

Google AI weighs in

I was curious to see if an AI would even recognize the concept of historical forces. Here is what Google AI said:

“Historical forces are the fundamental factors and powerful influences—like economic shifts, technological innovations, social movements, and political ideologies—that shape and drive change in human societies and the course of history. These forces, which include natural disasters, population shifts, and cultural encounters, are often complex, intertwined, and interact with each other to create long-term patterns, turning points, and continuities in human events.”

This is similar to (3) above. However, natural disasters, population shifts, and “cultural encounters” aren’t causes. Unless you think that the earth is a dead rock where events occur randomly, or that population shifts and cultural encounters “just happen.”

The AI comes closest to the truth, I believe, when it explains Cultural Forces: “The spread of ideas, religions, customs, and artistic developments that shape human thought and interaction.” However, this is a passive definition (“the spread of”)without mention of a cause.

The AI said that

“historical forces explain why events happen by identifying the underlying causes and influences that lead to certain outcomes. These forces rarely operate in isolation; they are deeply interwoven and influence each other, creating a complex web of causation. They contribute to shaping entire epochs, such as the Renaissance, or fundamental shifts in human civilization, like industrialization. While powerful, these forces are also influenced by the decisions of individuals and groups, who can sometimes become pivot points for historical change.”

Except for the last sentence in italics, historical forces are seen by AI as having an existence independent of human thought and action. And even then, it only reluctantly admits that individuals can “sometimes become pivot points for historical change.”

A meta-explanation

If there are historical forces in human history, what is their cause?

Let’s begin by acknowledging that we are discussing human history. Clearly, the cause of human history is human beings.

What is a human being?

The standard definition of a human being is a walking mass of protoplasm that responds to stimuli. Without belaboring the point, which I have made many times before, a human being must have a metaphysical component. Consciousness isn’t meat based, it is an animating principle that activates physical bodies. Obviously, when the animating principle leaves the body it dies and its constituent atoms return to the earth.

This concept is so absurdly simple and obvious, yet it is firmly rejected by science, medicine, politics, and authority figures in other fields.

Meat cannot think and it isn’t self-aware without the animating principle.

I would argue that “historical forces” is a meta-concept. Meta explanations must be used sometimes to explain causes that are beyond the boundaries of permitted thinking. The boundaries of permitted thinking are firmly established by regarding human beings as walking meat.

Within that framework of understanding, the conception that human consciousness has a meta-physical component cannot be accepted or even considered. Therefore, concepts such as “historical forces” – if they exist – can have no real causal explanation and are appropriately vague. That’s because they must avoid acknowledging anything beyond a purely materialist explanation for life.

Question: Could historical forces be generated by human beings in an invisible and self-reflexive manner? To respond properly to this question we must enter the meta realm.

Intellectual History

Intellectual history is the study of ideas and the thinkers who produce them. It defines ideas as the fundamental cause behind human events, and this makes sense.

This concept is expressed admirably by the authors Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot  in the preface to their book, The Shape of the New:

“Our principal theme – that ideas have made the world we live in and  still  direct  our  conceptions,  even  our  imagining,  of  it,  for  better and for ill—has been stated before, though in different form. Our principal effort, then, has been to illustrate and clarify this theme by looking at particular thinkers and their systems of thought. It is absolutely clear that in various ways and at various times these thinkers and their ideas have impacted the great majority of lives from the late 1700s until today and will continue to do so for a long time to come.”

What is an idea? An idea is a thought about something. When an idea gets strong enough it is placed into the physical universe – by publishing it or sending an email about it or giving a lecture about it. A blueprint, for example, represents ideas about how to build a house in physical form. But those ideas were created by the consciousness of a human being. And so they also exist in the Collective Consciousness.

The Human Thought Space (HTS) parallels the physical thought space. Consciousness is not tied exclusively to the physical, so every human being is interfacing with the HTS (and each other).

Group Consciousness and the Human Thought Space

In previous articles it was proposed that the human thought space (HTS) contains the thoughts of every human being in real time.  A thought is a tiny packet of subtle energy containing information. The human thought space would then act as an invisible but indirect “guiding hand” for human consciousness.

Consider also the idea that 8 billion physically incarnated souls have their counterpart in the non-physical area, or what has been called the “between lives” area. This means that all 8 billion non-physical personalities (souls) connected with planet earth form a group consciousness.

Even when incarnated on earth, this connection exists, because human consciousness interfaces with the higher realm of the non-physical.

This connection is non-existent for most humans: look at the pathetic state of the world for confirmation of that. For some there may be a slight awareness of it. For outliers in the 3 sigma range and beyond it may be very real indeed.

Obviously, a “ghost” or soul group consciousness can’t have very much effect in the physical universe. Well, not a direct physical effect. It would be like blowing on a mountain to remove the snow.

However, an 8 billion strong group consciousness would be strong in thought. For self-aware persons the collective consciousness could provide an overall direction in the idea space (HTS) for the evolution of consciousness.[1]

The spiritual system is a part of the spiritual battle on earth that has been ongoing for 200,000 years, ever since homo sapiens  appeared on the scene. It’s been the struggle of the self-aware for millennia against the low-consciousness deadheads who engage in conflict and war.

Anyone reading this has probably felt the hopelessness of changing the consciousness of humanity. The vast majority, it seems, have little or no understanding of their own spirituality. I’m pretty sure that this understanding is broadly necessary for any permanent positive change to occur in society. Human beings must understand what human consciousness is.

The dark forces are still strong on the planet. Look what happened to Charlie Kirk (video, if you can stand it, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltakvGyzfZs&rco=1 ).

(My browser automatically redirects away from this hyperlink, you have to type this in on YouTube.)

 I never followed the guy, but he offered an open mike to anyone who wanted to challenge his beliefs. What he got in return was a bullet in the neck. This is how the dark forces have operated throughout every civilization and group. They know nothing but hatred and the fear that spawns violence.  

The self-aware understand that every human being has a higher potential. These people try to discover their own personal Truth. They don’t get taken up in the War of Narratives and the false dichotomy and idiocy of “Left” and “Right.” They have the ability to see through the lies of politicized ScientismTM, “experts,” and “authorities,” which are just vehicles for human suppression.

Fortunately our psychopathic overlords are being forced into the open. Their actions are changing consciousness and forcing people to look within.

Call me crazy, but I believe the “forces of history” are finally working in our favor. Despite the desperate actions of the dark forces with their public executions, there is a growing spiritual recognition on the planet. Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I believe, will accelerate this trend.

Summary

The “forces of history” concept is an attempt to explain the direction of human activity throughout history.

There seems to be an almost independent and un-identifiable influence on history.

Because every human being has a non-physical component (the soul, if you will), human consciousness is an interface between the physical and the non-physical.

This non-physical component forms a group consciousness and acts as an indirect “guiding hand” to those physical humans who are sensitive enough to perceive it. The history of ideas that change the world is influenced indirectly by the group consciousness of humanity and the human thought space.

Certain individuals, such as Harvey (blood circulation) Copernicus (the sun is the center of the solar system, not the earth), Charles Darwin (evolution), Karl Marx (communism), Einstein (relativity), the various (but few) quantum physicists who discovered zero-point energy, and  Crick and Watson (DNA) – to name a few – have ideas that change the course of history. But these individuals have been the tiniest subset of the human population. The sensitive ones who can tap into the group consciousness of ideas, both positive and negative.

Every human being is connected to every other human being via the Human Thought Space.

The collection of 8 billion physically incarnated soul personalities is also a group consciousness that is connected by the worldnet messaging system. The physical group consciousness is a sort of subset of the soul group consciousness, for a human being is an incarnated soul personality.

Self-aware persons can, to a greater or lesser degree, become aware of their personal connection to the Group Soul consciousness.

Self-awareness helps a person to counteract the lies and propaganda in the Narrative War, and make some sense of this crazy world.

The dark forces are on the run. In their desperation they resort to intimidation, street violence, and public assassinations. Their time is almost over as their actions continue to wake people up.

[1] For those who don’t believe in anything spiritual, consider the collective consciousness as Peter Russell defined it: a global brain.

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The Collective Consciousness Part 3

Posted on September 9, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

In Part 2 of this series it was proposed that (1) thought is a creation of consciousness, and that it has an independent existence; (2) consciousness (self-awareness) is independent of physical bodies and so can access an etheric realm which I call the Human Thought Space; and (3) a thought is a vibration that also contains information. By “etheric realm” I mean that which is not measurable by scientific instruments.

I made these statements as an alternative to the accepted “wisdom” that consciousness and self-awareness originate in the brain, that the mind originates in the brain, and that thoughts originate in the brain.

I’m pretty sure this “expert” wisdom is a bunch of nonsense because no one has ever found any of these things in the brain, or anywhere else in the body for that matter.

These degraded ideas about what a human being is are important because they determine humanity’s conception of itself, and thus the design of human societies.

Scientific Orthodoxy vs. the Human Thought Space

Nevertheless, the three statements above do sound a bit fanciful, don’t they?

Well, many accepted scientific truths are just educated guesses that have become accepted as fact.

For example, an atom has never been directly observed; neither has a proton, a neutron, an electron, a quark, or a neutrino. Funny squiggles on photographic plates represent fundamental particles in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Dark energy and dark matter comprise 95% of the matter and energy in the universe, but no one has observed them or can define them accurately. They are, essentially, mathematical constructs used to explain galaxy rotation curves.

The Higgs field, which is supposed to permeate all of space, is theorized to be a fundamental field in the universe that mysteriously gives mass to elementary particles via equally mysterious Yukawa coupling constants. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN claimed in 2012 to have discovered the Higgs boson, which supposedly proves the existence of the Higgs field. But the Higgs field’s relationship to the physical universe is not at all clear.

Physicists, according to the Nobel winning Richard Feynman, don’t even know what energy is.

Much of physics itself – the science that defines what the universe is – remarkably resembles (dare we say it) an etheric realm.

Physicist David Bohm described this etheric realm as a universal potential, which he called the Implicate Order. According to Bohm, space, time, and particles are not separate entities at all, but projections or “unfoldings” of this deeper realm. The Implicate Order contains the potential for all of physical reality, as well as consciousness.

If Bohm is correct then the Human Thought Space isn’t such a kooky idea. And our ideas about consciousness and thought may be just as real as anything else at the quantum level.

Consciousness, the Etheric Realm, and the Material Realm

The HTS, we say, is filled with the thoughts of everyone on earth. These thoughts have a tiny bit of energy and so can impinge on the minds of human beings, because human consciousness exists both in the physical realm and in the etheric realm. In this concept, all minds are connected and we all influence each other.

The self-awareness that is you includes your awareness of your body and the physical universe, but isn’t limited to the body and the material world.

In other words, human consciousness performs a sort of “dual use” function: it can perceive the physical through the body’s senses, and also access the etheric realm.  

Consciousness, the HTS, and Independent Discoveries

Scientific discoveries often appear from more than one source at the same time.

The calculus, for example, was discovered independently at about the same time by Leibniz in Germany and Newton in England, back in the late 1600s. Many other examples are listed here.

Why is this? Dean Keith Simonton explains it this way:

Rather  than being the products of the individual mind, multiples [simultaneous discoveries] are said to prove that creative ideas are the effects of the zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. At a specific instant in the history of a domain, the time becomes ripe for a given idea. The idea is ‘in the air’ for anyone to pick, making its inception inevitable.

Ideas are “in the air” indeed! Zeitgeist is a word that suggests an etheric or spiritual origin.

Google AI says this:

The phenomenon of scientific breakthroughs being made independently and almost simultaneously by multiple scientists is known as “multiple discovery” or “simultaneous invention.” Sociologist Robert K. Merton considered this a common pattern in science, rather than a rare exception. It demonstrates that discoveries often arise from the collective knowledge and readiness of the scientific community, not just from individual genius.

The AI here uses “collective knowledge” to refer to the science in published papers, online videos and presentations, personal correspondence, or information received at conferences and networking events. But collective knowledge could also refer to the accessing of other thoughts or ideas in the HTS. This phenomenon can result in aha! moments, or hunches, or something that suddenly “occurs” to you, or “hits you.” These are ideas that “come out of nowhere,” or “out of the blue.”

I am thinking specifically of the famous event in 1843 in which Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, while crossing a bridge in Ireland, was suddenly struck by the idea of how to solve quaternions. Quaternions are mathematical structures used modernly in the display and interaction between objects in three-dimensional space. Hamilton scratched his solutions into the bridge. Those scribblings have been preserved, as far as I know, to this day.

Mere mortals can also access the HTS, and I’m sure almost all of those reading this paper have experienced something like what happened to Hamilton. We have certainly all had hunches or inspiration or negative thoughts without knowing where they came from.

With 8 billion humans interacting with the HTS every day, there’s no shortage of content!

What is the HTS and How Does it Work?

The Human Thought Space is postulated to be an envelope of consciousness, a space or realm where the thought energy of the species gathers. The HTS is part of the spiritual system on planet earth and is accessible to all human beings, even those who think it’s nonsense.

A physical analogy to the HTS would be the zero-point energy field or the aether, excitations of which are said by some physicists to comprise the visible matter and energy of the universe. Zero Point Energy appeared mathematically with the development of quantum mechanics early in the 20th century. Physicists such as Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, and Freidwart Winterberg (among others), have written extensively on the subject.

Accessing the information in the HTS would work similar to tuning into a radio or TV broadcast. The one consciously selected is the one that gets played. (In dreams, the mind is unfocused and so randomly samples what’s out there.)

In everyday life, the thoughts and life situations you resonate to access similar thoughts in the HTS. Therefore, whatever you are focused on or give your attention to begins to appear in your life, including people with a similar resonance to your own thoughts.

Whatever you resonate to, you get more of.  

This is the opposite of physical charges and Coulomb forces, where opposites (such as protons and electrons) attract.

HTS —> like attracts like. Compatible vibrations resonate to each other

Physical universe —> opposite charges attract

Because thoughts are vibrational, only matching vibrations are compatible. An angry person, for example, is not compatible with a cheerful person. Cheerful people avoid anger cases like the plague, and prefer to hang out with other cheerful persons. Similarly, the Dark hates the Light because the two vibrations are too far apart, and so are incompatible. This leads to a society where pockets of darkness and despair exist alongside areas of prosperity.

Reification

Hard-nosed skeptics, scientists, and medical people call ideas like the HTS, and non-physical consciousness, logical fallacies. They say we are committing the deadly sin of Reification. To reify means to assign reality to an abstract idea or concept, such as saying, “the soul inhabits the body.” The soul (or the HTS), they say, is an abstract concept and has no existence in reality.

The only problem with this argument is that – if you have enough self-awareness – you understand that the non-physical part of you does inhabit the body. There is no way to prove this scientifically or logically because it is entirely subjective. But there is very good news even for skeptics, scientists, and other materialists: Every single person on this earth will discover this “reified” truth in the moment after their body takes its last breath.

How do I know this? Lived wisdom. Intuition. Experiences during meditation. Again, these statements are entirely subjective and not provable scientifically. They can only be understood individually and personally.

Why should we care what skeptics and materialists think? Because, unfortunately, a primitive conception of humanity dominates public discourse and the practice of science, politics, economics, and medicine. These “expert” opinions – which are presented as facts that cannot be contradicted – are the foundation stones of our societies and our governing classes. So they have to be acknowledged because they are so widely held. But I think it’s important to propose something that raises the human being above the level of walking meat.

Consciousness as a Creator

If a conscious personality can create a thought, and a thought is a little packet of energy/vibration that contains information, where does that lead?

It leads to a spiritual system that is based on personal responsibility. This spiritual system scales up to the etheric realm and down to the material world. One might say it is scale invariant.

The conscious creation of individuals involves the HTS, and every person on earth. All minds are linked in the Collective Consciousness.

Doesn’t matter if you are unaware of its operation. The HTS operates to give back to you what you choose to focus on. Your mental orientation brings to you similar thoughts, and people who agree with them, into your life. In this way the spiritual system enforces personal responsibility for one’s life.

Aint nobody else thinking your thoughts.

Playing the victim doesn’t work because a victim always focuses on what they don’t want. And so they get more of what they don’t want. This self-reflexive process just reinforces their victim status (“You see? I told you my boss wouldn’t give me that promotion!”) This is the HTS’s way of saying: “Choose differently or you will keep getting the same old shit.”

The operation of the HTS always rewards those who focus intensely on anything, which is why self-centered psychopaths can have success, particularly when they organize into global institutions where they can hide their intentions. However, their success is also their downfall, for the rest of us eventually get to see what they are doing behind the scenes.

The primary difficulty as I see it is that the Collective Consciousness doesn’t understand how powerful it is, nor do we understand the power of our thought and intention.

Fortunately, today we are in a very unusual situation. For the first time in human history we have a true global civilization, with instant comms across the planet, and so many people that gaming the system is very, very difficult.

Metaphysics vs. Physical Reality

The ideas presented here are meta-physical, meaning they are not verifiable by measurement (yet). Nevertheless they are vital because no policy, politician, or system can save us at this point. The breakdown of our society in almost every area is too vast. The only solutions left involve the metaphysical, because the origins of our problems are metaphysical.

Humanity simply has a wrong-headed belief about what consciousness is, and what a human being is. If we can acknowledge the nonphysical origin of consciousness – which leads to the recognition of a human being’s higher potential – we can make it out of the morass our own primitive belief systems have created. Until we do that all of our “solutions” will be based on the same consciousness that created our problems in the first place.

Physical reality reflects the state of the human collective consciousness, because action follows thought.

Practical solutions, in other words, must have at least one foot in the metaphysical sea of human consciousness.

Presently the world is self-dividing into two camps: the materialist camp and the self-aware camp, with the vast middle occupied by “normies” who are beginning to see through the lies and the Narratives. This is a very positive development. Along with the “waking up” process will come a more meta-physical and positive orientation.

Note: if you are reading this you are definitely not a normie!

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At present the materialist camp are in positions of power in government and in the private sector. However, the materialists always use the same playbook: fear, lies, propaganda, and violence when necessary.

People are sick and tired of this playbook, and are beginning to recognize when it is employed.

My guess is that this can only lead to more and more people in the middle choosing the self-aware camp (the large arrow), as that which was hidden is exposed. Of course, some also choose the dark path (represented by the small arrow). Mass media always hypes the dark because darkness and chaos sells (and it is still unusual, even in our crazy society). The insane mass shooters, the carjackers, the knife-wielding lunatics, always get the headlines while the vast majority of us go about our business.

Consciousness Evolution

Consciousness evolution is aided by the HTS in a self-reflexive process. The self-aware in their millions provide the thoughts that nudge those who are looking for answers and beginning to see through the nonsense. This moves the Overton Window ever so slightly toward the Light every day. Momentum builds every day.

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This process is quiet and it is occurring invisibly, at the speed of thought. It cannot be stopped because the activity in the HTS cannot be silenced and is not even recognized by our current materialist overlords. In other words, the playbook of the meatheads can do nothing about the shifting of the Overton Window of human consciousness within the human thought space / collective consciousness.

And when that window shifts enough we will see a much different, and better, world.

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The Collective Consciousness, Part 2

Posted on August 19, 2025 by kjmaclean

The Human Thought Space

In an earlier post we discussed Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious, and postulated the existence of its opposite: The Collective Consciousness.

The Collective Consciousness, like Jung’s archetypes, is a product of the human mind, and both influence human behavior. The difference is that the Collective Consciousness consists of the conscious thought impulses of billions of human beings in real time.

It is a dynamic, ever-changing representation of the cognitive orientation of the human race on planet earth. And it is a snapshot, at any time t, of the condition or status of human consciousness because it is a collection of every thought in existence.

“You’re barmy,” the authorities and the experts say. “Everyone knows that thought impulses come from the brain, and so does consciousness. Thoughts are electrochemical reactions inside your skull and have no independent existence. We need practical solutions to problems, not new-age nonsense!”

This is the view of all scientific and medical authorities on the planet. But this materialist world view has led to the sad state of our societies, so there must be something wrong with it.

For “practical solutions” to work, they must be designed from a reorientation of our understanding of consciousness, and the relationship of thought to action.

Consciousness —> Thought —> Action

Spirit —> Mind —> Body  

Action follows thought. Thought precedes action. Try performing a task and give no thought to what you are doing. Undertaking even a trivial task mindlessly is likely to produce a big mess.

At the very least, thought is a directing force for human activity.

What Is a Thought?

I am defining a thought as a direct emanation or phenomenon of consciousness. Consciousness is defined as the personal self-awareness that is independent of the physical body, and survives after the body takes its last breath.

These definitions define consciousness, and thought, as entirely independent of the brain. They also endow consciousness with the ability to create, even if it is on a subtle level. This idea has important implications which I will go into in further articles.

Relating Thought to Physics

Even if thoughts have an independent existence, one individual’s thoughts may indeed have no influence on anyone but themselves. But the thoughts of 8 billion people may be enormously powerful. In the Collective Consciousness framework, a human thought has energy and exists within a postulated planetary envelope of subtle energy, which I call the Human Thought Space (HTS). The HTS can be thought of as the esoteric equivalent of an electromagnetic field, generated by the collective consciousness of billions of human beings.  

The Human Thought Space is an esoteric representation of humanity’s conception of itself and the world.

A magnetic field surrounds a permanent magnet or a coil when electricity is run through it (called an electromagnet). A magnetic field can be altered when in the presence of another magnetic field, when the flux or field lines of the fields interact with each other.

Moreover, thoughts can be positive (“I love animals”), neutral (“2 + 2 = 4”), or negative (“People are stupid”). In a sense, thoughts have a tiny bit of positive or negative charge, just like the atom with its protons, neutrons, and electrons.[1]

In physics, a quantum is the smallest discrete unit of energy, or a physical quantity that cannot be divided further. A thought can be considered as a quantum, or perhaps more accurately as the esoteric equivalent of a photon. A photon is a unit (quantum) of light and has energy, yet it has zero mass. A thought quantum is not only a unit of light energy, but a unit of information. In this way, the Human Thought Space is composed of quanta of subtle energy and information.

Thoughts are little packets of subtle energy and information created by conscious human beings

Nikola Tesla said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” Tesla believed that the universe, including all matter and consciousness, operates on these principles. Those are also the principles of the HTS. Just like physical objects, each thought quanta or packet has a unique vibration.

The MerKaBa and Halos

In a previous article we also talked about the MerKaBa, the ancient Egyptian concept of a field of subtle energy that surrounds the human body and all living things.

Human Energy Field

Artist’s conception of the MerKaBa, or the human energy field, that surrounds a living body. The MerKaBa is composed of chi, or life force energy, sometimes referred to as subtle energy.

Subtle energy is sometimes called a halo in artistic renderings of holy persons and angelic beings. Living things may also include planets, stars, and galaxies.[2]

You can either believe the universe is alive or dead. I prefer to think that everything in the universe is alive at some level.

Artist’s impression of the Milky Way embedded in a spherical halo that astronomers and physicists call “dark matter” (shown in blue).[3] Just like thought, or a MerKaBa, “dark matter” has existence but cannot be directly measured. (Image credit: ESO/L Calçada.). From Cern Courier, “The Milky Way’s dark matter halo reappears,” at https://cerncourier.com/a/the-milky-ways-dark-matter-halo-reappears/ See end note 3.

“Yeah yeah yeah,” you say, “so what? Thought is ephemeral, it has no affect on anything.”

But what if it does?

The saying “As above, so below” is a pithy summary of the Platonic principle that physical objects have a higher form in an esoteric, but unseen, level of reality. Plato described this concept in his Allegory of the Cave over 2,000 years ago.[4]

 What if the continuous interaction of thought from billions of human beings is perceived as a sort of background vibe in daily life, and sometimes even consciously (“hold it, something just occurred to me.”)

In this way, the thoughts of all human beings can affect the individual human being’s thoughts about anything.[5] Intuition may just be the reading of the thoughts of others in the HTS. (There is a lot more to this, which will be the subject of further articles.)

In the Human Thought Space all individuals are linked. The HTS also interacts with the planet as well, for the planet is a living entity. If earth was just an inanimate rock it could not sustain billions of life forms and the living ecosystems that support them.

HTS As an Alternative to the Materialist Paradigm

An overview of human societies today (particularly in the United States) shows a trend toward financial and social collapse. Many of our big cities are a mess of drugs and crime. There is a new “active shooter” practically every week. Public education is a massive failure, creating millions of “graduates” who can barely read and write. Entire sectors of the once-tolerant American culture are now mired in hatred and contention, fueled by propaganda from mass media and on social media.

I have heard countless explanations for the craziness from many social commentators. Most of them blame some other group or individual, or “the left” or “right-wing extremists.” These explanations are just part of the many and varied PsyOps being run on the American people. The latest is the “new and improved” Global Governance system. [6]

Events today make little sense because our social and scientific systems are based in materialism, which only recognizes profit, power, and self-interest.

A materialist regards human beings as units of production, or useless eaters, or blobs of protoplasm to be counted and organized for some agenda. This orientation squashes the higher spiritual aspirations and potential of human beings.

The Collective Consciousness a non-materialist framework (and orientation) for viewing life from a larger perspective. This is necessary because approaching intractable human problems on a planetary scale calls for a restructuring of our fundamental beliefs: What does it mean to be human? What are the beliefs that humanity has about itself? What are humans capable of if their higher potential is recognized and supported?

A redefinition of “human nature” is necessary now because the materialist paradigm is crushing human potential and crashing our societies in all areas. Materialism has been tried for 6,000 years and has failed. Let’s give it a decent burial and embrace a higher understanding.

How Might the HTS Work?

What would happen in our Human Thought Space if billions of people decided that they are sick and tired of endless war, poverty, and injustice?

Billions of people would be cohering (aligning) their thoughts around concepts like “I want something better,” and “We want to live in prosperous and peaceful times,” and “We don’t want any more war!”

Of course these thoughts would co-exist with others on the hate side of the spectrum. But if the balance of energy in the HTS goes from more Dark than Light to more Light than Dark, a powerful positive resonance will be created that can escape the gravitational field of dark energy and flow freely in human consciousness. This resonance toward the Light would ignite a change in consciousness energy and gradually alter the collective Overton Window toward more positive outcomes.

This may occur slowly at first, but gather momentum as a snowball when it rolls downhill.

Quanta and Thought

How does the HTS affect individuals, human systems, and human organizations on the planet?

Well, since HTS quanta have energy, it is possible for them to impinge on human minds.  These packets or quanta might be negative or positive, but if the preponderance of collective human thought is now leaning toward the Light, a resonance toward the positive gradually builds up.

The Shift and the Law of Unintended Consequences

By the Shift I mean the evolution of human consciousness out of the Darkness and into the Light. On a planet of free will that has been mired in the Dark for millennia, I don’t think it’s possible for a positive orientation to quickly dislodge a negative orientation. The dark energy is still strong. Therefore, the Law of Unintended Consequences comes into play.  

When the light starts to penetrate the darkness created by 6,000 years of human karma, social chaos results. That which has been largely hidden – pedophilia, human trafficking, drug running, arms trafficking, and corruption in all its forms – becomes exposed. Rocks under which the perps and their networks have been hidden are turned over, and their activities are forced out into the open. People begin to lose their minds as this stuff gets splashed all over mass media.

The defenses of the Dark rely on chaos, lies, and the fear that begets violence. Fear and violence are and have been the primary weapons of the Dark for millennia. It’s a playbook that never changes because the Dark is incapable of the transparency and honesty that breeds creativity. The Dark must rely on propaganda, subterfuge, and lies. Above all it cannot abide the light and the exposure it brings to their activities.

The Shift in human consciousness is therefore a very messy business and we are in it now.

The Consciousness Shift

What happens to individuals, systems, and groups that are based in greed, conflict, and selfishness when positive light/thought quanta begin to impinge on their consciousness?

Well, what happens when you try to help a mad dog? What happens to you when you are in a really bad mood and somebody comes up to you smiling and telling you how great life is? More than likely that person gets a big FU.

Dark energy is incompatible with the Light. The Dark fears and hates the Light. The story of the scorpion and the frog illustrates this idea very well.

The good news is that only areas where the energy is predominately Dark will experience the negative. That area also includes an individual’s personal space.

And so the earth is a hodgepodge of violent, degraded areas and calmer and prosperous areas. The Dark, of course, sees these areas and wants to burn them down and destroy them.

That’s planet earth circa 2025. The good news is that this social insanity is occurring precisely because the Light is penetrating through the lies and fear-based subterfuge of the Dark.

Who’s to Blame for all this Madness?

The conscious evolution process is very powerful and the results are very visible, but its origin is esoteric. And so there is no one person or group to blame for what we experience collectively. What human societies are experiencing won’t be cured by more guns or more anti-gun laws, different politicians in charge, more socialism or more capitalism, or different “systems” or “policies.”

It is not possible to solve problems by using solutions that come from the same consciousness that created the problem. Humanity is ready now for solutions that go far beyond the status quo. We need new ideas, not the same ones that have created 6,000 years of war and conflict.

The Collective Consciousness and the Human Thought Space are epi-phenomenon. Which means that human consciousness is evolving in a way that cannot be explained by science, medicine, or religion.

This process is ongoing and involves every individual on the planet, because we all contribute to the HTS in every moment. It is a silent process that yet manifests itself in the physical universe, in every moment.

The end result?

That’s up to us, to every individual who thinks, resolves, and decides.

End Notes

[1] The difference is that Coulomb forces (the forces between atomic particles), although tiny, have been measured.  Some day, a proper experiment might be devised to test whether a thought exists and can be measured.  

[2] The ancients understood that the stars and planets are alive. Aristotle wrote:

“We tend to think of the Stars as mere bodies or items arranged in order, quite without soul or Life. We ought rather to regard them as possessed of Life and activity, for the consequences of this will not seem unreasonable.” 

— Aristotle, De Caelo II xii 292a, in Scott Ogburn, “NCBDS-Platonic-Solids-Paper-Ogburn DOC,”  at academia.edu. https://www.academia.edu/5176009/NCBDS_Platonic_Solids_Paper_Ogburn_DOC?email_work_card=view-paper

[3] Dark Matter is a made-up concept  used to explain galaxy rotation curves that don’t fit current cosmological/astronomical theory. It is a perfect example of something esoteric that has existence but cannot be measured or seen. Call it what you wanna, “dark energy” or “subtle energy”! Dark matter is one step toward acknowledging that galaxies (like human beings) might be living entities with subtle energy halos.

[4] In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the [cave] wall are not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life. This last sentence describes what is happening today in the Information War for the souls and minds of humanity.

[5] Analogous to Mach’s Principle in physics, which states that an object’s resistance to motion is influenced by all of the other masses in the universe. (Physicists have some pretty big ideas!)

[6] For an in-depth explanation of the Global Governance system PsyOp, check out the escapekey substack at escapekey.substack.com

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The GENIUS Act

Posted on August 5, 2025 by kjmaclean

The U.S. government is embracing cryptocurrency

Introduction to GENIUS Payment Stablecoins

On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act legislation into law. GENIUS is a major piece of legislation; the first major U.S. federal legislation regulating stablecoins. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency tied to assets like the U.S. dollar.

GENIUS establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, including authorized federal and State payment stablecoin regulators and payment stablecoin issuers.

Payment stablecoins are digital assets used for payments or settlements, and are required by GENIUS to have a stable value by maintaining “at least” a 1-to-1 ratio with the value of the dollar. (The Act says little about non-payment stablecoins – stablecoins issued and bought to hold for investment purposes by private investors – other than in Section 14, where the Treasury “shall carry out a study of non-payment stablecoins.”)

Regulatory Framework of GENIUS

The regulatory framework of GENIUS revolves around payment stablecoin regulators at the federal and State levels. These regulators oversee federal payment stablecoin issuers. Separate regulators oversee payment stablecoin issuers in all 50 States. Regulators also oversee all foreign payment stablecoin issuers. Yes, foreign payment stablescoins are allowed, as long as their issuers are approved by federal regulators.

The Stablecoin Certification Review Committee certifies all payment stablecoin applications. The Chair of the Federal Reserve Board is a member of the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee. So the Fed has a big say about who becomes an issuer of GENIUS payment stablecoins.

Approved issuers of payment stablecoins are required by Section 4 (a) (1) A of the GENIUS Act to back their stablecoins 100% with high-quality liquid assets. These assets must be U.S. dollars (cash or cash equivalents held in insured depository institutions), U.S. Treasury securities (e.g., Treasury bills, notes, or bonds), or other low-risk, highly liquid assets approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), such as U.S. government-backed securities.

So, the intent of GENIUS is to create cryptocurrency in the form of payment stablecoins tied to U.S. government securities. Currently, the Treasury auctions off U.S. Treasury securities to fund the government. But this funding mechanism can’t keep up with massive government overspending. So a major new source of funding for the U.S. government is needed.

GENIUS serves as a major new funding source for the U.S. government. That is why foreign payment stablecoins are allowed: it’s a way for other countries to fund our debt.

No one knows whether payment stablecoins will find favor with investors but if they do in a big way, it’s going to create a very large regulatory regime, and a large bureaucracy to go with it. All 50 states can have their own stablecoin issuers and there are separate stablecoin regulators for the states. This in addition to primary federal payment stablecoin regulators and issuers, which also oversee foreign payment stablecoins.

Important Points Regarding the GENIUS Act and Their Implications

· Section 4 (e) (1) and (2) of the GENIUS Act makes clear that

(1) “Payment stablecoins shall not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, guaranteed by the United States Government, subject to deposit insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or subject to share insurance by the National Credit Union Administration.” And (2) “It shall be unlawful to represent that payment stablecoins are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, guaranteed by the United States Government, or subject to Federal deposit insurance or Federal share insurance.”

The U.S. dollar, and bank accounts, are. All accounts at a Federal Reserve depository institution  are insured and guaranteed by the FDIC up to $250,000.

The GENIUS Act describes digital assets as follows: “The term ‘digital asset’ means any digital representation of value that is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger.”

The dollar is a fiat currency – currency not backed by tangible assets like gold or silver – BUT it is backed by the “full faith and credit of the United States,” so in effect it does have value, whereas the payment stablecoin is essentially a token that serves as a representation of value. In other words, your payment stablecoins are tied directly to the dollar but are not insured as is the dollar. Caveat empor.

·  In Section 5, under the heading FAILURE TO RENDER A DECISION it says,

“If a primary Federal payment stablecoin regulator fails to render a decision on a complete application within the time period specified in paragraph (1) [120 days] the application shall be deemed approved.”

This is an invitation for fraud. If our wickedly efficient government doesn’t respond within 120 days to an application to issue payment stablecoins, any dodgy applicant is automatically approved!We just gotta hope the GENIUS bureaucracy is efficient and honest at the federal level and in all 50 states (joke).

· To be fair, in order for a payment stablecoin issuer to receive certification the Federal stablecoin regulator must ensure that the applicant fulfills all the criteria to issue payment stablecoins. Moreover, GENIUS requires that issuers implement money laundering procedures to “prevent the permitted payment stablecoin issuer from facilitating money laundering, in particular, facilitating money laundering for cartels and organizations designated as foreign terrorist organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the financing of terrorist activities, consistent with the requirements of this Act.”

The above sounds great on paper, but I remember the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, in which investors lost billions; the $70 billion Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme; the subprime mortgage scandal; the failure of Lehman Bros. which helped to kicked off the 2008 recession, and the Goldman Sachs financial fraud (to name a few).

Government regulators don’t always do their jobs.

· A State approved payment stablecoin issuer supervised by a State regulator is allowed to issue payment stablecoins to the value limit of $10,000,000,000 (10 billion dollars). Above that level, the issuer must either cease issuing payment stablecoins or “transition to the Federal regulatory framework of the primary Federal payment stablecoin regulator…” associated with the institution (Federal Reserve, FDIC, Comptroller of the Currency, National Credit Union Association, etc.).

· There is a $100,000 fine per day for domestic stablecoin issuers each time they violate the terms outlined in GENIUS. For foreign stablecoin issuers, the fine is $1,000,000 per day, until the Secretary of the Treasury deems that the stablecoin issuer is compliant.

This provision may be enough to discourage fraudsters from illegal activities, as long as it is actually enforced.

· Section 17 makes clear that “payment stablecoins are not securities or commodities and permitted payment stablecoin issuers are not investment companies.”

CBDCs and Other Issues

(a) Critics of GENIUS describe the Act as the thin edge of the wedge toward establishing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). CBDC’s are digital currencies issued and overseen by a central bank: in the US, the Federal Reserve. If all money is in the form of a CBDC, there is no individually owned money. If you have digital CBDC money in a bank or invested, it’s not really yours, it’s the Federal Reserve’s. Your life savings can go to zero simply by a government declaration.

This is important because  

(b)  A CBDC issued and backed by the Federal Reserve is designed for use by the general public (individuals and businesses) for everyday transactions. GENIUS payment stablecoins are also designed for use by the general public for everyday transactions. CDBCs are digital assets and payment stablecoins are also defined as digital assets in Section 2 (22).

Section 2, (27) of the GENIUS Act states specifically that the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee contains a Chair of the Federal Reserve Board as a member.  Section 7 of the Act makes it clear that the Federal Reserve Board (or the Comptroller of the Currency) may, under “exigent circumstances,” initiate enforcement actions against any State qualified stablecoin issuer. In other words, the U.S. central bank is the eminence gres (the power behind the throne) of GENIUS payment stablecoins.

(c)  One of the fondest wishes of those who promote CBDCs is to abolish cash. What good is a CBDC if individuals can still use Federal Reserve Notes to pay outside the system? The purpose of a central bank digital currency is to quash individual financial independence and establish complete central control of the money supply.

Fortunately, GENIUS specifies that the reserves payment stablecoin issuers must use to back their stablecoins include “United States coins and currency (including Federal Reserve notes) or money standing to the credit of an account with a Federal Reserve Bank.” This provision would seem to ensure the continuance of cash.

Private sector CBDC?

Because of (a), (b), and (c) above, and because the public is aware of the dangers of CBDCs, Congress passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act and it became law on July 17, 2025. It prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC without congressional approval. I’m no lawyer, but the language in the Anti-CBDC Act is specific about not allowing CDBCs.  

Nevertheless, GENIUS promotes dollar-backed digital stablecoins as a private-sector alternative to a government CBDC, requiring issuers to hold dollar or Treasury reserves. This is a sneaky way to strengthen dollar-based digital finance without formally creating a U.S. CBDC. But perhaps I am just paranoid.

Issuers, Sellers, and Buyers 

All Issuers of payment stablecoins must be approved by authorized federal or State payment stablecoin regulators. Issuers are private companies who actually create the stablecoin. Issuers, of course, control the databases and ledgers for their coins.  

Major sellers of stablecoins are likely to be the big investment banks, such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank, etc.  These are the “too big to fail” banks that get bailed out every time they make bad decisions, as in the case of  the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023.[1]

Buyers can be institutions, other banks, and you and me.

What happens if Chase and Citibank get asked by the feds to cancel the coins you purchased from them? We know that the previous administration’s FBI demanded that social media outlets like Twitter (now X) and You Tube ban thousands of posts and even shut down entire accounts. And they did.

You might be a domestic violent extremist, such as a mom who attends local school board meetings and objects to local educational priorities. Or you might be a fascist who objects to having tampons placed in men’s bathrooms, or who objects to men who pretend to be women competing against girls in sporting activities. Or – gasp! – you might even be a believer in QAnon!!! (whatever that is).

Lest you think I am exaggerating (I am!), here is the text in Section 2, (16) Lawful Order:

“(16) LAWFUL ORDER.—The term “lawful order” means any final and valid writ, process, order, rule, decree, command, or other requirement issued or promulgated under Federal law, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or by an authorized Federal agency pursuant to its statutory authority, that—

(A) requires a person to seize, freeze, burn, or prevent the transfer of payment stablecoins issued by the person;

(B) specifies the payment stablecoins or accounts subject to blocking with reasonable particularity; and

(C) is subject to judicial or administrative review or appeal as provided by law.”

(In the Act, “person” is defined in Section 2 (24) as follows: “The term  ‘person’ means an individual, partnership, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, cooperative organization, or other business entity, incorporated or unincorporated.”

“I’m sorry sir, we have been ordered to seize your payment stablecoins,”  or, “I’m sorry ma’am, there is a hold payment freeze on your payment stablecoins.” This is precisely what the Federal Reserve can do in a fully implemented CBDC digital asset system.

There are two ways to interpret anything of course: positive or negative, but the integrity of government programs is always in question.

Consequences

(1)

What happens when big banks issue (or sell) stablecoins and then mismanage them? This resembles the age-old practice of governments who shave coins that are supposed to be a certain weight of metal, as a way to raise money. Stablecoins that do not mirror the value of the dollar one-to-one may lose their value.

Government regulators have always caved-in to the private banks, particularly the ones who participate in the auctioning of U.S. Treasuries. These “way too big to fail” banks help the federal government fund itself (when it isn’t printing trillions of inflationary dollars, that is).

Here’s a nice little “out” for stablecoin issuers in the legislation:

“(22) PAYMENT STABLECOIN.—The term “payment stablecoin”—

(A) means a digital asset— …

(ii) the issuer of which— …

(II) represents that such issuer will maintain, or create the reasonable expectation that it will maintain, a stable value relative to the value of a fixed amount of monetary value.”

Why is the clause in bold inserted? What does “reasonable expectation” mean? “Hey we tried, but your stablecoin has just lost 20% of its value against the dollar. Sorry about that!”

Welp, I guess the writers and signers of this Act expect a little hanky-panky with stablecoins.

To be fair, a provision exists in  the Act to prevent fraud and misrepresentation: Section 4 (a) 10 C says,

“CONSULTATION.—The primary Federal payment stablecoin regulators may consult with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to determine best practices for determining audit oversight and to detect fraud, material misstatements, and other financial misrepresentations that could mislead permitted payment stablecoin holders.”

This is pretty vague language however.

As an aside, check out the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s list of bank failures since October 2000. It’s a very long list that spans 58 pages and hundreds of banks.

Entrusting banks to issue “stablecoins” seems like a shaky proposition to me. But desperate times require desperate measures I guess, with a mismanaged federal government that is $37 Trillion in debt.

(2)

Most important, the GENIUS Act creates many, many more potential buyers of U.S. securities, ensuring that the federal government remains fully funded.

You might be wondering, whatever happened to DEFUNDING the government? Why are we making this massive grifting operation even bigger? That’s the question people who voted for Trump – many of whom were harassed and debanked for speaking out – are asking.

BRICS and the Chinese Communist Party

(1). The more positive side of GENIUS involves actions against the de-dollarization effort of the BRICS countries, and the economic and political competition with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP, since the issuance of Unrestricted Warfare, their manual of war against the US,  has been working for almost 30 years to wreck the dollar, interfere in U.S. elections and U.S. markets, and restrict access to rare earth metals vital to industry and technology applications.

The CCP holds about $816 billion in U.S. debt. If the CCP decides to dump their holdings it could adversely affect the U.S. economy and markets.

Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt as of this writing (August 2025) is approaching $37 trillion. Last year the interest on the national debt was over $1.1 TRILLION, over $200 billion more than the budget for the entire Defense Department! Decades of mismanagement, myopia, and deficit spending by the incompetents in Congress have finally hit home. The interest on the national debt will increase every year unless there is a massive cut in spending, OR a massive increase in government funding.

My guess is that Trump understands this and is hoping GENIUS will fund the government’s massive interest payments on its borrowed money.

(2). Whatever threatens the dollar also threatens the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, which is still the primary currency for global transactions. The status of the dollar has allowed the US to print a massive amount of debt, which allows us to maintain our middle class lifestyle (or whatever is left of it). A middle class is the lifeblood of any successful industrial society.

Therefore, if the dollar’s special status is compromised, we can kiss our middle class lifestyle goodbye. President Trump was very aware that Congress cannot stop its massive deficit spending when he supported GENIUS to provide more funding for the federal government.

(3) Foreign payment stablecoins are allowed because they must all back their coins with dollars or U.S. government securities. It’s a way of getting other countries to help fund the massive ,debt the US has incurred, some of which has come from our huge trade deficits with the rest of the world over the last several decades. Renegotiating one-on-one tariff deals serves not only to bypass the globalist/CCP-controlled World Trade Organization, but to also rebalance the large imbalance in tariffs other countries impose on U.S. products.

So there you have it.

Final Thoughts

The financial math shows that the federal government is now past the point of no return. The only two choices left to prevent financial collapse are to radically truncate this government, or to massively fund it. DOGE discovered that reducing government spending and grifting off the government is impossible.

How impactful will GENIUS be? It all depends on how many payment stablecoins are issued and bought.

One thing is certain: GENIUS is the opposite of hard money backed by gold and silver. It’s a celebration and promotion of crypto and fiat currency: the U.S. dollar. In that sense it is a brilliant strategy by Trump to get the whole world backing our currency and economy, and financially supporting the U.S. government. Whether the latter will turn out to be a good thing or not is uncertain in my mind.

Some people will buy payment stablecoins to help support the government, and some will buy because stablecoins are cryptocurrency, and crypto is cool. Financial institutions and traders will likely find a way to create a market and trade these things.

If GENIUS takes off, it’s going to be a Wild Wild West scenario out there, so do your due diligence. Of course, GENIUS might never take off at all, and turn out to be a fart in the wind.

[1] The mismanaged SVB had over $200 billion in assets, all of which were guaranteed by the FDIC, even though 89% of the accounts were over the $250,000 insured limit.

Guaranteed by the FDIC means that taxpayer funds (or money printing magic) were used to bail out these wealthy silicon valley depositor.

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What Can We Do?

Posted on July 25, 2025 by kjmaclean

Sorting through the lies

We live in an era where almost everything posted on MSM is either an outright lie, gaslighting, or a dangle to direct the public’s attention away from a more important issue.

For example, the DOJ has released the files on Martin Luther King, which has salacious info about the civil rights activist, and info that the King family knows full well that James Earl Ray didn’t kill MLK. Files on the JFK assassination have also been released (but there are still many files that are being hidden).

The latest dangle involves the release of 8-year-old information about the RussiaGate hoax. This info is so dated, I remember reading about it in 2017 and 2018. It’s old news but is being promoted to Trump’s base as “breakthrough news.” Trump posts an AI video on Truth Social – a meme basically – that shows Obama being arrested by the FBI and handcuffed on his knees before Trump in the Oval Office. It’s more gaslighting.

What isn’t being released? The Epstein files, which hopefully contain information on child molesters, child murderers, and pedophiles. First it was, “we’re preparing to release the files.” Then it was, “The release is coming soon.” Then it was, “The files aren’t going to be released.” There is no list of pedos, folks. Move on, nothing to see here.

Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House) just adjourned Congress one week early. Our hard-working representatives are taking a 5-week vacation, hoping that people forget about Epstein and his pedos. Well, I’m not going to forget.

In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, two fire chiefs were recently murdered. Two years ago, four students at the U. of Idaho were murdered. The student deaths are blamed on a “lone gunman” (Bryan Kohberger) who just got four consecutive life sentences. Only problem is that although one of the students was stabbed 50 times and another 20 times, no trace of Kohberger’s DNA was found at the scene, or on his clothing or his person! Welp, that doesn’t bother the authorities.

The fire chiefs were supposedly murdered by an iterant young “lone gunman” (Wess Roley) who drove around the area in a white van. Nobody mentions the white van and the Sheriff out there won’t say what happened to it. (Wasn’t there also a white van at the Butler, PA Trump assassination attempt? No one knows what happened to it, either!)

Isn’t it remarkable how many “lone gunmen” there have been? From the murder of JFK and RFK and Malcolm X and MLK in the 60s, to the Oklahoma City bombing (Timothy McVeigh), to the UnaBomber, to Crooks shooting Trump in 2024 – and dozens more in between – the scenario is always a loner lunatic. It’s an amazing coincidence. Apparently, America  breeds these crazies like flies, and the murders are all completely isolated incidents. Why, the very idea that state-sponsored terrorism is being used against the American people is just a far-right conspiracy theory! But it keeps happening.

 Independent investigators on the ground in Coeur d’Alene speculate that Wess Roley was killed by a Special Forces nutjob who himself urdered his three daughters, threw a young guy off a bridge, and also murdered a schoolteacher. (Amazing!!! Another lone gunman to kill the first lone gunman! Kinda reminds me of lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and his lone gunman assassin, Jack Ruby.) The Sheriff out there, who was trained by Mossad in Israel, has withheld evidence and is covering for someone or some organization. The FBI does nothing. (For the source of these claims about events in Idaho – which have not been confirmed but for which a lot of evidence exists – see George Webb’s substack. A good summary of the evidence as of July 24th is at https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/sometimes-victims-fight-back-the)

Seriously folks, you can’t make this stuff up. Reality is often far more bizarre than fiction.

In LA, you’ll recall, Pacific Palisades was burned to the ground earlier this year. A huge  reservoir nearby was empty of water so firefighters had nothing to put the fire out with.  It was known for months that the reservoir needed to be filled. None of the politicians/officials responsible have been indicted or arrested. Now, I’ve read, the area is going to be used for low-income housing. “Low-income housing” is terminology for the homeless and illegal immigrants.

I’ve noticed that the internet is being rigidly censored. Search engines hardly ever return alternative sources of information on my searches anymore. Yesterday I tried to search for the late great Christopher Story, an investigative journalist who wrote a blog (World Reports) I used to read. He died in 2007. I remember reading in one of his reports that he discovered a document in the British Museum that was retrieved when the allies entered Berlin during WW 2. In it some Nazi official had written, “We will build the Fourth Reich on the ruins of the United States.” When I searched for “Christopher Story worldreports.org” all I got was CNN, NBC News, Washington Post, and U.S. News and World Reports. The standard, “approved” news.

When I searched for the quote, I got back my own comment on a substack! Just as in the book 1984, Mr. Story has been memory holed out of existence by Big Brother. And so are other inconvenient truths the globalist techno-fascists don’t want you to read.

Our internet more resembles the one in China than one in a free society.

I have also noticed that Google will not return the website URLs for controversial writers like Dana Wigington or Elizabeth Nickson. Another form of online censorship.

So how do you find the truth underneath all of the lies?

Well, one solution is to simply ignore current events. That way you aren’t subject to propaganda and lies. That’s a good way to go, particularly if you are living a life you love. Who needs the distraction?

If you are like me, however, you are far too curious to do that. You want to know who is behind the stupidity and criminality.

After 60 years of following current events, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get to the truth is to use your intuition and find the sites and the blogs and the stacks (and the books) that are still publishing serious investigative journalism. I had to look hard for these.

I have found personally that a lot of good, alternative information comes from writers on substack.com.  In all my internet searches I have never seen a search engine return anything from a substack (another remarkable coincidence!). My DuckDuckGo search engine is now Google, the home of orthodoxy and the status quo.

Below is a list of some sources I subscribe to, but it’s not a complete list. I don’t vouch for the veracity of any of them, because no one is right all the time. They are just sources of information. Personal discernment is vital in uncovering the truth.

  • georgewebb.substack.com (current events. George is a citizen journalist with a team of volunteer investigative citizen journalists from the US, Canada, and Europe. The Idaho articles are essentially intelligence reports)
  • Dr. Meryl Nass (medical doctor)
  • Dr. Toby Rogers (UTobian substack)
  • Jeffrey Prather (intelligence reports. jeffreyprather.com, go to Watch Past Episodes)
  • A Midwestern Doctor (Practicing physician. Medical information)
  • Ashton Forbes (MH 370 disappearance and physics)
  • Bob Greenyer (frontier physics, LENR (low energy nuclear reactions))
  • Matt Taibbi (taibbi@substack.com)
  • James Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck blog at kunstler.com)
  • Whitney Webb
  • Badlands News Media (Trump apologists, but great geopolitical analysis by GhostOfBasedPatrickHenry)
  • Solari.com (The brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts)
  • Mike Benz (former State Department employee. On X)
  • Sam Faddis (ex- CIA analyst. Take everything he says with a grain of salt, because once CIA, always CIA. Sometimes he has some good takes)
  • Sasha Latypova at sashalatypova@substack.com (Big Pharma exec for 25 years. Info on vaccines and the federal health bureaucracy. Pulls no punches!)
  • Elizabeth Nickson (Welcome to Absurdistan blog at https://elizabethnickson.substack.com) Maybe the best writer of them all.
  • Dana Wigington (the truth about weather weaponry and climate change)
  • Alex Berenson (disaffected former science reporter from the New York Times)
  • Eugyppius (American intellectual living in Germany. Writes hilarious reports on the nutty politics in Germany) https://www.eugyppius.com/
  • Unbekoming Book Reviews (alternative opinions on science, medicine, and treatment. unbekoming.substack.com)
  • Dr. Robert Malone (some good stuff but he comes from the bowels of the military bioweapons programs. Helped develop mRNA technology)
  • Dr. Steven Greer (info on UFOs and the hidden special access programs)

I used to think that Americans were pretty dumb and would believe anything. But I don’t think that anymore. The activities of the Dark Side are waking people up.

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The Collective Consciousness

Posted on July 14, 2025 by kjmaclean

Introduction

I have never understood why our medical and scientific establishment is so narrowly focused on materialist explanations for consciousness and the human psyche. Perhaps it has something to do with the “prove it!” mentality of the scientific method. This is understandable, but I believe such a narrow definition of consciousness has led us down a path that has squashed human potential both individually and collectively.

The unconscious and the subconscious are emphasized in psychology and psychotherapy. Medicine is strictly materialist, and even a suggestion otherwise (such as Bruce Lipton’s theory of epigenetics) draws harsh criticism from “authorities.”

Carl Gustav Jung and the Collective Unconscious

Fifty years ago I was intrigued when I discovered the renowned Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and his book, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Jung suggested that all human beings are connected via an inherited psychic space. Jung said that this psychic space contains archetypes that influence our individual experiences and shape our understanding of the world. This sounded good to me.

Archetypes are universal symbols and primordial images that influence human behavior and thought across cultures and throughout history.

Here is a brief AI summary of some of these archetypes:

The Hero: Represents courage, overcoming obstacles, and achieving goals.

The Shadow: Represents the hidden, often negative, aspects of the personality.

The Anima/Animus: Represents the feminine side in men and the masculine side in women.

The Wise Old Man/Woman: Represents wisdom, guidance, and spiritual insight.

The Trickster: Represents chaos, deception, and challenging the status quo.

Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious is fascinating because it describes symbols and concepts common to everyone throughout history. According to Jung the personal unconscious is individual, but the collective unconscious provides a deeper, shared unconscious that every human being shares.

Jung expanded on Freud’s conception of the individual subconscious mind and applied it collectively to humanity as a whole.

But why is the unconscious mind the connecting link of the psyche?

Emphasis on the subconscious and the unconscious suggests that our understanding of consciousness and the mind is limited.

Unfortunately, neither neuroscientists nor psychologists have satisfactorily defined these terms. What is generally accepted is that consciousness comes from neurons firing in the brain. The mind, somehow and mysteriously, also exists in the brain. But no one has ever been able to discover in what part of the brain mind and consciousness exist.

Collective Consciousness

French sociologist Emile Durkheim defined collective consciousness as the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes that provide a unifying force within society. However, Durkheim, and others, see collective consciousness merely as people’s shared understanding of existing social norms. 

Durkheim wrote:

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or common consciousness

In my opinion this definition is a step forward from Freud and Jung, because it proposes that a collective consciousness exists and has “a life of its own.” This implies that it is a living, dynamical system that is constantly changing.

A Different Tack

Authorities have taught that the subconscious and the unconscious are parts of the mind we cannot reach, even though it has tremendous power to, at unpredictable times, overwhelm our conscious mind and strongly influence our actions (“crimes of passion.”) Huh? The subconscious mind can reach the conscious mind but the conscious mind can know nothing about the subconscious? There is something wrong with this idea.

In law, a person is said to be not guilty of murder because he or she was temporarily insane at the time: the subconscious/unconscious mind rears up from some undefined area and makes us do things. A society of individuals that defines its own mind as something that cannot be inspected and controlled is going to have problems!

The collective unconscious/subconscious mind paradigm, to its credit, is an attempt to explain man’s irrationality toward itself. But perhaps our materialist conception of the human mind creates a bias toward anti-social and dehumanizing thinking and actions.

Rather than define a collective unconscious, it makes more sense to me to define a collective consciousness, but in a more enhanced way than Durkheim did.  Perhaps there is really no subconscious or unconscious at all; perhaps what passes for the subconscious is part of a collective consciousness.

Physics and the zero-point energy / Aether

Let’s step away from psychology and psychotherapy for a moment and discuss the physical counterpart to the unconscious/subconscious mind.

During the development of quantum mechanics in the first half of the 20th century, it was discovered that even at temperatures of absolute zero – where there should be absolutely no movement and everything should be dead – there is still energy. This energy, often called zero-point energy (ZPE), is said to come from quantum vacuum fluctuations at the very smallest scale, and is a sort of counterpart to the subconscious of the human psyche. When physicists tried to calculate this energy they discovered that it was practically infinite.

Underlying the physical universe we experience at the macro level is a substrate of energy within the fabric of space that is completely in equilibrium. The good news is that we are slowly learning to access this quantum substrate, because it can be scaled up to our level of reality.

“Quantum vacuum fluctuation” is really a misnomer because it implies that space is entirely empty. The discovery of zero-point energy shows that space is not empty but contains an invisible substrate of energy, or an aether. In his paper “Ground state of hydrogen as a zero-point fluctuation state,” physicist Hal Puthoff shows that atomic structure itself is dependent on zero-point energy. Otherwise, why don’t the electrons, which have negative charge, collapse into the nucleus that contains positively charged protons? There must be a source of energy that keeps the electrons moving around the nucleus.

Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman is said to have stated that there was enough energy within a coffee cup to boil the world’s oceans.

So the aether turns out to actually exist.

The Consciousness Field

I prefer to think of the aether not as “quantum fluctuations” but as a consciousness field.

The aether (zero-point energy) fills space and is present everywhere in the universe. This means that every particle, everywhere in the cosmos, is linked, and implies that consciousness is also connected everywhere in the universe.

The consciousness field concept unites Eastern philosophy and spirituality with Western science.

The Collective Consciousness – A Different Take

What might the enhanced collective consciousness space look like?

Jung defined archetypes that have an energy or existence of their own. In the collective consciousness paradigm, the consciousness field is composed of thought impulses. These thoughts are themselves alive because they constantly proceed from the minds of living beings. Here, “mind” and “consciousness” are attributes of awareness that do not depend on physical bodies.

All 8 billion of us contribute to humanity’s consciousness field, which we can imagine surrounds the earth as a field of subtle energy, analogous to the atmosphere.

Several years ago I made a short YouTube movie that attempts to describe this concept. You can see it here.

Implications of the Consciousness Field Concept

Traditional materialist explanations for consciousness and mind require that they come forth from material objects like the brain. It is odd to me that an esoteric or spiritual definition of consciousness is so rigidly and even angrily rejected by the “authorities.” 

The consciousness field is a dynamic, ever-changing space composed of thought forms from living beings. It substitutes consciousness for unconsciousness.

Materialist definitions of awareness and the human psyche have led to the insane world we live in today. So our conception of human consciousness must be wrong-headed.

Ultimately, consciousness is non-physical in the sense that it is independent of physical bodies, as we have discussed in previous posts. To understand this idea more fully, meditate on or investigate this question: “What happens after I take my last breath?”

I made another short movie that attempts to explain how consciousness might have an existence independent of physical matter and energy. You can see it here.

In the human consciousness field the collective consciousness is constantly changing and morphing, depending on the thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and conclusions of human beings in real time. The planetary thought space links all human beings together. Each individual affects everyone else as thought impulses impinge upon our consciousness. We are all connected in a conscious manner.

Concluding Thoughts

I thought Jung made a good stab at explaining human behavior, but his theory is still materialistic. The collective unconscious is said not to be developed individually but is passed down genetically, just like physical traits.

In physics and cosmology, materialist reasoning require us to say that the universe came into existence as a result of physical interactions. Some cosmologists are fond of the Big Bang theory, where all of the universe’s matter and energy came forth from an undefined singularity. But then, where did the singularity come from? This leads us into endless philosophical rabbit holes where causation always comes from events that are logically prior.

Moreover, science knows that it cannot explain why 95% of the matter and energy in the universe is missing. Made-up terms like “dark matter” and “dark energy” are coined and then accepted as fact to substitute for a lack of understanding.

Dark energy and matter can be explained by an aether, but that concept horrifies physicists because it has been accepted for so long that space is empty. It would contradict long-held and cherished theories about the universe.

 In medicine we have to come up with something better than the “Human beings are meat bodies” paradigm. In psychology and psychotherapy, the subconscious mind and the collective unconscious, similar to dark energy and matter, are just placeholders for a lack of comprehension.

We need satisfactory answer to questions such as “What is consciousness?” and “What is the mind?” These answers can only come, in my opinion, from a paradigm that unites a non-material consciousness with the physical world.

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Retrocausality, Time, and the Mandela Effect

Posted on June 13, 2025 by kjmaclean

Retrocausality

Physicists are an ingenious lot.

They have designed experiments with two entangled photons which show that the measurement of one of the photons later in time can change the status of another photon that has already been recorded. This curious result suggests that future events can influence past events. It turns the notion of causality – that a cause always precedes an effect – on its head.

Physicists have called this phenomenon retrocausality. It suggests that the arrow of time might not always go forward from the present into the future, but that a future event can influence a past event.

For old-timers like me, this idea is explosive. Retrocausality suggests that decisions made now about past events can change how those past events played out.

Let’s take the Cuban Missile Crisis for example, an event that traumatized millions of people in the Western world (I lived through that period). Could a decision by a large enough group of people actually change how events unfolded in 1962? It’s a wild suggestion, and leads me to think about the Mandela Effect.

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is where large groups of people remember events one way, when it is “actually” another way. For example, many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in 1980, when he was actually released in 1990. (For more examples, ask Grok 3 to explain the Mandela Effect.)

Wild theories explaining the Mandela Effect have been proposed, from individuals or groups shifting between parallel realities where historical facts differ; to time travelers (future humans) changing the past, which leaves residual memories of the “original” timeline; to the Simulation Hypothesis, which states that physical reality is really a universal computer simulation, a la The Matrix, where the “code” of our universe changes, misaligning actual memories with the new state of affairs.

Let’s add Retrocausality to these theories. Unlike the others, it is an interpretation of reality that has been established by experiment.

The point is that our simplistic view of the universe may ignore a much more complicated actuality, which may include wild physics concepts like retrocausality and nonlocality.

Retrocausality and Nonlocality Explained

Let’s look at a physics experiment devised by physicist John G. Cramer that explains his interpretation of retrocausality and nonlocality.

An experiment is designed such that a signal is sent by an emitter to a target known as an “absorber.” After the absorber receives the signal it sends a signal backwards in time to the emitter, letting it know that it has received the signal. This completes the communication, which Cramer calls a “transaction.” The two events – the sending of the signal and the retrocausal return of the signal – can occur such that the emitter receives the return signal before the emitter sends it, or, the two events can occur simultaneously. Theoretically, the emitter (the signal source) and the absorber (the target) could be light years away, if you had a spaceship capable of placing the absorber that far distant.

The ability to simultaneously send and receive information across vast distances faster than the speed of light is called nonlocality. Einstein and his physicist buddies objected strongly to this concept (Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,”) but it has since been accepted.

Retrocausality implies that in order for simultaneous communication to occur across long distances, for every forward-moving signal in time there is a corresponding signal that moves backward in time.[1] This is remarkable, and suggests to me that the light we see from a star one million light years away may not be from a million years ago, but in real time. This is crazy because light cannot, by definition, travel faster than it propagates. However, nonlocality says that information can go faster than the speed of light.[2]

A Practical Example of Retrocausality

In the diagram above, the emitter is at NASA on earth, and the absorber is the Mars Rover.

If such a retrocausal communication system could be implemented, NASA could move the Mars Rover in real time, instead of waiting around for several minutes for a signal to get from earth to Mars, and another time lag for the signal from the Rover to get back to earth. If you have ever worked on a slow computer you know how frustrating waiting for a response can be.

This introduces a metaphysical question.

A Metaphysical Explanation: The “Now” Moment

The Now moment is a state of consciousness that is beyond time. It’s a state of consciousness because it transcends the physical universe. If you have ever reached the Now moment of consciousness (even for a few seconds) it feels perfect, you feel wise beyond belief, you feel like you can do anything, there’s no pressure, time disappears. You are in the zone and it feels great.

Let’s take this idea to its ultimate evolution. What happens time-wise after a person takes their last breath and moves out of the body and into the between-lives area? Here, there is no time at all and so no linear progression, or arrow, of time from past to present to future. “Past,” “present,” and “future” are rolled into a seamless whole.

In that case, would it be possible to know the future with certainty?

I will leave that answer to the reader, but we do know that every decision we make always affects the future. If the past, present, and future exist simultaneously in the “now,” then a decision in the Now moment would also affect the past. This has interesting implications for health and healing, and for clearing away past traumatic incidents of the past that affect a person in the present.

It also has implications for the consciousness of humanity as a whole. By reaching the Now moment in meditation an individual may be able to lift or clear past trauma that is causing mental or emotional pain in the present. Could doing this with large groups help to clear trauma from humanity’s historical time track as well?

 Referring back to our physics principle of retrocausality, the clearing of past trauma from the Now moment (the present) is equivalent to the backwards-in-time signal sent by the absorber back to the emitter.

History Repeats Itself

Students of history note that history has repeated itself over and over down the centuries. Well, humanity’s level of consciousness hasn’t changed much throughout history, and so events have always remained within the same box of beliefs and expectations. Einstein spoke to this when he said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same consciousness that created the problem.”  The key to history (and anything else) is consciousness.

Keeping the idea that ‘history always repeats itself’ in the collective consciousness places it into our future timeline and makes “the same old crap” a tragic, self-fulfilling prophecy.

Political commentators and news organizations use this conception in their Narratives. They talk about the return of fascism, or a possible Civil War in our country, if events don’t go in the “correct” direction. This is a form of propaganda called manufacturing consent. If you can get enough people to believe something, the probability increases that it can happen. That’s the function of the MSM.

The ‘history always repeats itself’ narrative is a self-fulfilling prophecy, not some inevitable law of human evolution. What is feared is created, and placed on the future time track.

I prefer to think in more metaphysical terms: that human consciousness is now on a new, fresh time track without historical trauma or impediments.

Physics Merging with Metaphysics

Over the past several decades there has been a subtle merging of metaphysics with physics. Retrocausality and non-locality – implausible metaphysical ideas – are taken seriously enough for hard-nosed physicists to devise theories and design experiments around them. Physicist David Bohm explained how the universe works with an Implicate Order, an underlying but invisible strata that contains all of the programming for universal laws. This is a metaphysical concept.

Ideas that were once considered to be in the realm of science fiction have become reality.

Here is a quote from Ben Rich, who was the head engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works, a private defense contractor associated with advanced, exotic technology in our hidden special access programs:

“We have things in the Nevada desert that you and the best minds in the world  won’t even be able to conceive that we have for 30 or 40 years, and won’t be made public for another 50.”

— Ben Rich to Kelly Johnson, before Ben Rich died in 1989. 

Ben Rich said this 36 years ago. How far have we advanced since then?

Perhaps the merging of physics and metaphysics has already led to exotic technology that stretches the imagination.

Conclusion

Retrocausality and nonlocality are metaphysical concepts firmly grounded in science. Physics and metaphysics are beginning to merge. That ongoing process will eventually lead to massive breakthroughs and new inventions, and it also counters the blatant politicization of science in medicine, climate science, and the social sciences.

We don’t have to remain stuck in the old ideas of the past. History doesn’t have to repeat itself. Perhaps it’s time to move outside the restricting box of current reality and embrace ideas that promote a better world.

[1] For those interested¸ see John G. Crane’s presentation called the Quantum Handshake, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6tfgF_UUM

[2] The zero-point energy field exists everywhere in space, from one end of the universe to the other. Some physicists suggest that every point in space and time is connected.

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Guest Post by Dr. Toby Rogers: Vaccines are the Cause of Autism

Posted on June 4, 2025 by kjmaclean

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The paradox of autism causation studies

We already know beyond a reasonable doubt what’s causing autism but mainstream science will never “know” in the conventional way because of the political economy of the autism epidemic

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TOBY ROGERS

JUN 03, 2025

(Editor’s note: this is yet another look at autism causation studies. We’re in such a strange moment. The stakes could not be higher and yet, as I explain below, the available studies are flawed and unlikely to get better. I don’t believe that the presence of a few reformers inside the administration changes this calculus much at all. I think we are much better taking matters into our own hands.)

The paradox of autism causation studies is that we already know beyond a reasonable doubt what’s causing autism but mainstream science will never “know” in the conventional way because of economic and political factors surrounding the autism epidemic.

Let’s start with the first half of that sentence:

I. We already know

Eyewitness testimony is foundational to our criminal justice system and relied upon by judges and juries every day to administer justice. In Neil v. Biggers (1972) the U.S. Supreme Court outlined five factors for evaluating reliability of eyewitness testimony: opportunity to view, degree of attention, accuracy of description, level of certainty, and time between crime and identification. That testimony can then be corroborated by documentary evidence and additional witnesses.

Parental testimony about autistic regression is at the highest end of the range in every case. Parents are with the child 24/7, the degree of attention could not possibly be higher, the parents know more details about the child’s life than anyone, they are certain about what they saw, and they generally know right away when something is wrong. In a sane society, the following testimony would be sufficient:

Your honor, my baby was perfectly healthy and meeting all of his developmental milestones. We went to a child “well baby” visit, my child got 4 shots. Over the next several days my child was with me 24 hours a day. He had a high fever, seizures, vomited, and screamed at a high pitch. We went to the emergency room, they ran a bunch of tests, but they couldn’t help us. Since then the child no longer speaks, makes eye contact, or has any social skills. The child now has a diagnosis of autism.

The judge and jury can verify any of these facts by examining before and after video; reviewing medical records; and interviewing other family members, care givers, etc. These are relatively straightforward cases. A child was developing normally, they experienced an acute toxic exposure at a child “well baby” visit, and the child regressed. This happens in up to 88% of autism cases. When this testimony is then repeated tens of thousands of times by moms across the country, it’s clear that we are in the midst of a major crisis.

However, we live in a society where our economy is based on enslaving children through chronic illness to enrich the ruling class. The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act combined with the wrongly decided Omnibus Autism Proceedings and the wrongly decided Supreme Court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC turned off the Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury for the vaccine injured. Wide swaths of society have been brainwashed by carrots (the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry and the soon to be trillion dollar autism industry), sticks (exile, banishment, and blacklisting for anyone who questions the narrative), and the most expensive and sustained propaganda campaign in history, to think that this is normal and okay.

Unfortunately, trying to achieve justice in connection with vaccine injury in the U.S. means going up against the medical mafia that runs all aspects of society — the courts, the political system, the regulatory system, the media, the medical system, the scientific system, Wall Street, academia, etc. And they tilt the playing field and the evidentiary standards to protect their interests.

However, as free, sovereign, and sane people we need not accept the edicts of an insane society. We can simply acknowledge that “I saw with my own eyes what happened” is sufficient to establish causation with regards to vaccine injury.

As I explained in my last article, we also have a FOIA document and a whistleblower at CDC, two vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies from Gallagher & Goodman (2008 & 2010), a vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study from Hooker & Miller (2021), and three vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies from Anthony Mawson (2017A, 2017B, & 2025) all showing that vaccines cause autism.

The mainstream medical community will likely never accept any studies that don’t originate from within their own ranks. They engage in circular reasoning by refusing to study the question and then they claim that no valid studies exist. But again, as sane people we need not accept their excuses and instead can simply acknowledge that we have already proved beyond any reasonable doubt that vaccines cause autism.

Now let’s look at the second half of that introductory sentence:

II. Mainstream science will likely never “know” in the conventional way what causes autism

Any honest philosopher of science will tell you that establishing causation is a thorny epistemological problem. Many fine books are written on the problem of causation and the deeper you go, the less you know. We live in a universe with an infinite number of variables. One cannot control for them all so there is always the possibility of confounding. Quantum mechanics establishes (for now) that uncertainty is built into the fabric of the universe. In physics the “laws” thought to govern large objects do not align with the “laws” thought to govern subatomic particles so there is clearly something that we’re missing in our understanding of the properties of matter. And then even if one could figure out all that, we might still be missing additional dimensions of reality that we cannot see or measure.

Given that unsolvable epistemological problem, but also with the need to proceed with our lives nonetheless, scientists have developed proxy measures that get us somewhat closer to establishing our best guess at causation (even though we will never be 100% certain).

The Bradford Hill Criteria are probably the most famous steps for establishing causation. From Grok:

The Bradford Hill criteria are a set of nine principles used to assess whether an observed association between an exposure and an outcome is likely to be causal. Proposed by Sir Austin Bradford Hill in 1965, they are widely used in epidemiology to evaluate evidence for causation, particularly when randomized controlled trials are impractical or unethical. Below is a concise overview of each criterion:

  1. Strength of association: A strong association (e.g., a high relative risk or odds ratio) between exposure and outcome is more likely to indicate causation.
  2. Consistency: The association is observed repeatedly across different populations, settings, and studies.
  3. Specificity: The exposure is linked to a specific outcome or disease, with minimal association to other outcomes.
  4. Temporality: The exposure must precede the outcome.
  5. Biological gradient (dose-response relationship): The risk of the outcome increases with higher levels or duration of exposure.
  6. Plausibility: The association is biologically or mechanistically plausible, based on existing knowledge.
  7. Coherence: The association aligns with broader knowledge about the disease, such as laboratory findings or historical trends.
  8. Experiment: Experimental or quasi-experimental evidence, such as randomized trials or natural experiments, supports the association.
  9. Analogy: Similar exposures causing similar outcomes provide supporting evidence.

The original 1965 article on which this is based is somewhat more chatty.

The Bradford Hill Criteria is just one of many causal criteria systems including:

1. U.S. Surgeon General’s Criteria (1964 and later)

  • U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (1964). Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

3. Rothman’s Sufficient-Component Cause Model (1976)

  • Rothman, K. J. (1976). “Causes.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 104(6), 587–592.

3. Henle-Koch Postulates (adapted for epidemiology)

  • Evans, A. S. (1976). “Causation and Disease: The Henle-Koch Postulates Revisited.” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 49(2), 175–195.

4. Susser’s Causal Criteria (1986, 1991)

  • Susser, M. (1991). “What is a Cause and How Do We Know One? A Grammar for Pragmatic Epidemiology.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 133(7), 635–648.

5. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Framework

  • IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. General methodology described in the Preamble (2019).

6. Modern Causal Inference Methods

  • Directed Acyclic Graphs:
    • Pearl, J. (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press.
  • Propensity Score Matching:
    • Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). “The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Inference.” Biometrika, 70(1), 41–55.

7. Weight of Evidence Approach

  • EPA Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment:
    • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2005). Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment.
  • WHO Framework:
    • WHO (2021) Human Health Risk Assessment Toolkit: Chemical Hazards, second edition.

I would add Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) as another causal criteria system. There are over one hundred EBM hierarchies and dozens of EBM services that one can subscribe to that will summarize the latest studies via an EBM framework.

The point being — if one wanted to establish scientific causation in the conventional way in connection with autism, one would need a very large data set that included upwards of 1,000 variables for each person: race, sex, gestational weight, birth weight, age of the mom, age of the dad, all underlying conditions, region, all pre-pregnancy exposures, all exposures in utero, all exposures in infancy, each vaccine would be its own variable, the timing and order of the vaccines would be another variable, you’d need dummy variables for things that you missed, and a placeholder variable for a natural error rate in the calculations. And then you’d run a series of regressions to control for each different factor to see the relative contribution of each.

And it’s pretty clear from the data that we already have that what you would see is a series of escalating risk tiers:

  • Lowest risk: No vaccines, no birth drugs, normal gestation period, and no infant formula (exclusively breastfed), and the lowest level of exposures to pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, and EMF (so perhaps Amish, Mennonite, or off-grid) — we should expect to see an autism rate of less than 1 in 10,000 children (consistent with the first autism prevalence study, Treffert, 1970).
  • Low risk: No vaccines but one is exposed to urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, and other pharmaceuticals — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 715 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • Moderate risk: An alternative vaccine schedule, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, and other pharmaceuticals — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 440 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • High risk: CDC vaccine schedule, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, SSRIs, & Tylenol — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 31 (consistent with Thomas & Margulis, 2016).
  • Highest risk: CDC vaccine schedule, birth drugs, c-section, premature birth, infant formula, urban air pollution, plastics, fire retardants, pesticides, EMF, SSRIs, & Tylenol — we should expect to see an autism rate of about 1 in 21 or even as high as 1 in 10 (which is what we are already starting to see in Black and Hispanic boys in aggressive vaccine mandates states including California and New Jersey).

I’ll eat my hat if this isn’t right but from everything we can see right now, this appears to be what’s happening.

  1. Genes only confer a slight risk of autism.
  2. Pollution, plastics, and pesticides set a somewhat higher base rate.
  3. Any vaccines at all increase autism risk.
  4. The more vaccines the higher the autism risk.
  5. And then all of the ubiquitous toxic chemicals + birth drugs + c-sections + premature birth + infant formula (no breastfeeding) + the CDC vaccine schedule, and the autism rate goes through the roof.

Now here’s where the story gets really weird. We basically had the comprehensive 1,000 variable study that I just described, but then-NIH Director Francis Collins killed it in 2014. From my thesis:

The failure of the National Children’s Study

As the autism rate increased dramatically in the United States in the 1990s, many leading public health figures called for comprehensive research into possible environmental causes. In 1998, the President’s [Clinton] Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children recommended a National Children’s Study (NCS) and authorizing legislation was included in the Children’s Health Act of 2000 (Landrigan et al., 2006).

The act called for a prospective cohort study that would track 100,000 children from shortly after conception through age 21 (Landrigan et al., 2006). The act called for “a complete assessment of the physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial environmental influences on children’s well-being; data collection to evaluate “environmental influences and outcomes on diverse populations of children, which may include the consideration of prenatal exposures;” and consideration of “health disparities among children, which may include the consideration of prenatal exposures” (H.R. 4365, 2000). In other words, Congress funded exactly the sort of comprehensive epidemiological study that would enable scientists to identify the possible environmental causes of autism.

But the study never got off the ground. The NCS spent from 2001 to 2007 consulting with a range of experts and advisory committees on questions of study design. In 2007, Congress appropriated funding for a pilot called the Vanguard Study (Kaiser, 2014). In 2009, the NIH began enrolling 5,000 mother-infant pairs in 40 academic centers across the United States (Kaiser, 2014).

The original director, Peter Scheidt was ousted in 2009 for “misleading Congress about the true cost of the study” (Tozzi & Wayne, 2014). In 2012, the NIH dropped the 40 academic centers and turned the study subjects over to private contractors (Kaiser, 2014). In 2014, after spending fourteen years and more than $1.3 billion on the study that was still in the pilot phase, Francis Collins, director of the NIH, killed the study altogether (Collins, 2014).

Following the cancellation of the project, Collins and others made statements about continuing the research in some form using less expensive methods (Collins, 2014), but such promises have not come to fruition. During the fourteen years that the NCS spent unsuccessfully trying to launch the study, the autism rate increased nearly five fold from 1 in 250 to 1 in 59 (CDC, 2018).

It would be easy to blame bureaucratic incompetence for the failure of this project. But Francis Collins, who led the NIH from 2009 to 2016 (and was reappointed as head of NIH in 2017 by President Trump), previously led the Human Genome Project — so he had experience shepherding complex multibillion dollar projects to completion.

Francis Collins and the autism industry took all of the money for the study, produced nothing, and then shut down the study altogether. If it had been successful (at identifying causes of autism) spending several billion dollars on the NCS would have been a bargain, given that autism already cost the U.S. $268 billion per year by 2015.

Presumably the reason Francis Collins shut down the study is that he knew what they would find and that threatened the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry and the growing autism industry.

Now, more than a decade later, the chances that HHS Secretary Kennedy will be able to push through a new conventional study and do it in the six months that he’s publicly promised are essentially zero. The pharmaceutical industry is stronger and richer than ever before, the autism industry is bigger and more powerful than ever before, and there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who are complicit in the largest crime in human history who don’t want to go to jail.

We are living in a crime scene. Practically speaking, one could conduct a study to satisfy the Bradford Hill Criteria or any other system of causation to prove that vaccines cause autism and other intellectual disabilities (in fact, this has already been done, see Bjelogrlic, 2025). Politically speaking, the mainstream scientific community will never arrive at this answer themselves because of their own complicity and culpability.

III. The conundrum

All of the data we have on autism are flawed. The mainstream vaccine studies don’t have a control group. The gene studies are based entirely on spurious correlation. The mainstream environmental studies fail to control for vaccines lest the researchers get blacklisted. And the alternative studies are small and underpowered. Nearly every study published since the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act has a financial conflict of interest. Quite literally we have conflicted, poorly-designed studies from the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry vs. testimony from moms and dads and alternative studies funded by a parents of vaccine injured children.

That’s the data we have to solve an epidemic so large and expensive that it will cause the collapse of the developed world in our lifetime. And the data will not get any better in our lifetime either because the pharmaceutical industry and the autism industry are so large, rich, and powerful that they can prevent any new research from being conducted (and if it is somehow conducted they can find ways to kill the study as they did with the National Children’s Study or manipulate the analysis or block the release of the findings).

But the reason I bring all of this up is that this realization sets us free. There’s a particular moment in soccer, often late in the game on a counterattack, when a striker has to make a split-second decision to press the attack or wait for additional midfielders to join the play. A teammate who has a better view of the playing field will sometimes yell out, “What you see!” It conveys a lot of information with just three words. It means that no additional help is coming and the best opportunity you have is to make the play with what you see in front of you. I think that’s what we have to do with autism as well.

We know what’s causing autism. We should not wait for a double blind RCT because a double blind RCT is never coming given the political economy of autism. Instead we should trust each other in community against the predatory forces of global monopoly capitalism that are trying to enslave and kill us. We must return to the wisdom of parents and trusting each other if we are to survive this toxic pharmacological assault on humanity.

So we avoid vaccines. Yep, all of them (unless you’re in the third world and want to take BCG to reduce the risk of tuberculosis). Of course we avoid other toxicants too. We warn others, one at a time. We slowly back away from the genocidal culture that did this to us and we build our own parallel society and our own self-sufficient communities. Mainstream society is dying and will collapse completely on its current trajectory. So we step off that path and chart our own better course. That’s the work of the next 50 years.

Blessings to the warriors. 🙌

Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏

Huzzah for everyone building the parallel society our hearts know is possible. ✊

In the comments, please let me know what’s on your mind.

As always, I welcome any corrections.

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Here is the link to the complete article on Dr. Toby’s substack: https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-autism-causation-studies?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

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