If you walk around downtown San Francisco right near the X aka Twitter headquarters it’s a zombie apocalypse…It’s rough…you have to see it to believe it…
 You have to say, ‘What philosophy led to that outcome?’ And that philosophy was being piped to Earth. So, uh, you know, a philosophy that would ordinarily be quite niche and geographically constrained – so that the sort of fall out area would be limited – was effectively given an information weapon: An information technology weapon to propagate what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth. And the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end of civilization.”

Elon Musk, interview with Joe Rogan, Oct 31, 2023

Throughout history, a certain segment of the human population has always been psychotic. These are the people who abuse and traffic children, who murder and destroy just for fun. But where does this destructive impulse come from?

Musk, in the above quote, seems to think the cause is a mind virus that has been “piped to earth” and that it is a mindset that results in “the end of civilization.” This begs the question, What is evil? It also raises the question, What is a mind virus and where does it come from?

Introduction

In 1976 Richard Dawkins wrote a book titled The Selfish Gene in which he proposed the idea of a meme. Dawkins originally defined the meme as a way to explain how ideas – including irrational ones – spread. He said that a meme “conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” Interestingly, Dawkins himself described the meme (perhaps jokingly) as a mind virus.[1] The meme concept inspired an entirely new area of research called memetics, which tries to explain the transfer of cultural information. The basis for Dawkins’ meme idea is that ideas spread in a mimicry of Darwin’s natural selection process: some ideas are taken up by others and spread, but others die out.

Just as physicist Richard Feynman told us that physicists don’t know what energy is, we do not know how ideas spread, or, really, what an idea is. A materialist might say that an idea is just a specific series of electrochemical responses in the brain, but this is not helpful. A spiritualist might say that an idea is a thought form that originates within the consciousness of an individual. But then we go down the rabbit hole of cognitive science and philosophy, trying to define what consciousness is.

Ephemeral ideas like memes, consciousness, and ideas are not satisfactorily definable in scientific terms because science utterly denies the existence of consciousness separate from the brain (if you doubt this, ask Dawkins!) Let’s just say that ideas, whether irrational or not, spread within the collective consciousness of humanity.

The mind virus

Sociologists tell us that a certain percentage of the human population is anti-social. A cursory look at current events shows that wildly irrational ideas are being propagated throughout human society. For one small example, look at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new hiring policy. The FAA is the government agency that manages the airline industry.

From the New York Post:

The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”

The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”

“FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities,” by Emma Colton, Fox News, Published Jan. 14, 2024 at https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring-people-with-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/

These ideas are irrational and potentially destructive to the flying public. It is preposterous that such insane ideas could be accepted by an entire government agency. But apparently they have. It appears that no idea is too batshit crazy to be accepted by a group of human beings.

Dawkins’ explanation for the meme may provide the clue to an answer for how such stupidities can be accepted: Ideas are not “good” or “bad”, they are not “insane” or “beneficial”, they are simply accepted or rejected in a process that mirrors natural selection. However, natural selection operates on the idea that the most beneficial mutations eventually survive. So how could an insane idea like that of the FAA become accepted within the agency?

My guess is that it won’t be broadly accepted by society. Seriously, who wants doors to blow out in the middle of a flight, or planes to catch on fire, due to incompetence of “diversity” hires? However, it is a testament to free will and mass formation psychosis that it could gain acceptance in a large and critical government agency.

This could occur if there was, in fact, a mind virus in operation.  

So where does the mind virus originate? If Elon is correct and it is being “piped to earth,” then its origins are beyond the boundaries of our atmosphere. That is a wild, but not preposterous suggestion, considering that there may be other civilizations “out there” with exotic technology and who have an interest in the earth. My latest novel, The Intervention, explores this idea.

Or, alternatively, perhaps “mind viruses” originate within the collective consciousness of humanity. Let’s say that human thought persists, and that every thought is a little quantum, or packet, that finds its way into the human ThoughtSpace that surrounds the earth, and that others can pick up on these thoughts. Jung postulated an idea that vaguely resembles this conception when he described the collective unconscious, a collection of archetypes (thought or symbolic imagery) that are present in the individual unconscious. Here, though, we expand the idea to a collective consciousness, a dynamical thought-based system that evolves and changes in every moment. In this conception, memes/ideas that find favor are consciously accepted and spread. If they become widespread enough they may survive from generation to generation and become archetypes, and part of the human system of belief.

Evil

Evil is intentional, malicious harm. Intentional harm comes from conscious decision-making. Therefore, anyone who commits evil does so “with malice and forethought.” I don’t mean crimes of passion, where an impulse is acted upon.

The Mexican Drug cartels, for example, are evil. They knowingly traffic in and abuse human beings and children for money. They murder others who get in their way. Those who do this act intentionally and can be treated accordingly.

The impulsive killer may be, as defense lawyers say, only temporarily insane; blinded in the moment by emotion, as opposed to the murderer, who is acting knowingly and intentionally. However, a person who commits a violent, impulsive act must have been thinking along those lines prior to commission of the act, entraining his or her thoughts in that direction. When sane people get angry they don’t act upon those violent impulses, unless they have been quietly in that “mindset” for quite some time.

Conclusion

Individuals have free choice to accept or reject memes. Mind viruses are just collections or patterns of thought, and everyone has the ability to control their own thinking.

Mind viruses or no, ultimately every human being is responsible for their actions. To deny that truth leads to the sort of victim/violent/irrational society we live in today, and an FAA that knowingly hires people with severe intellectual, psychiatric, or emotional problems.

A society whose institutions do not practice responsibility and integrity is a dead society. Individuals who do not practice this will go down the tubes.

What can be done? Consciously practice responsibility, personal integrity, and hang out with others who do the same. It is not anyone’s duty to waste their time reforming persons who engage in victimhood and prey on the good nature of others. As the Great Awakening proceeds it is creating a rising tide that will lift all boats and expose the grifters and the criminals.

[1] See, “What’s in a Meme?”, Feb 4, 2014, from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science at https://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/whats-in-a-meme/

The pace of human events is moving faster than it ever has in the 6,000 year history of the human race. With 8 billion on the planet contributing to the collective consciousness in the human thought space, human thought/intent has the power to push the Overton Window of allowed action further and further toward positive outcomes.

As I see it there are two ways to look at the deteriorating world situation:

1) The Dark is ascendant. In 6,000 years of human evolution we really haven’t raised human consciousness at all. The development of the modern economy and modern political systems have reached their ultimate evolutionary (dead) end, because human nature never changes: anarchy and the collapse of civilization are upon us.

Those who hold this point of view can be excused, for much of the evidence “on the ground” points to this.

2) The Dark is ascendant because the human family has decided to move beyond the old order and the old consciousness. This is creating a surge of light in the collective consciousness that is exposing the Dark and their actors. The Light is now so powerful that the Dark has to come out into the open and organize to save themselves and the dark economy they have created. So, that which was always present but hidden is being exposed. The human race is on a new track of evolution.

The fate of humanity rests upon the forces generated by these two belief systems.

The second option is not available in the awareness of materialists and Transhumanists. This is what the Great Awakening is all about. Unfortunately, human beings don’t change unless conditions “on the ground” and in their personal lives become bad enough. The contrast between the current collapsing situation in politics, economics, finance, and in social institutions that lack integrity, and the desire of people to lead creative, prosperous, and comfortable lives, is a forcing people to consider more positive alternatives. This is leading toward a trend upward in human thinking overall.

In other words, the exposure of the Dark is a forcing function causing greater individual awareness and a greater push toward the Light.

One thing is certain: the pace of human events has reached a chaotic state, and will eventually cause the planet to settle into a particular outcome. In quantum mechanics a system may have a very large number of potential outcomes because the system can be in many different potential states at the same time. However, when the system resolves it will result in only one of the many potential outcomes. One doesn’t know how a quantum mechanical system “decides” on what outcome is chosen. However, some physicists have suggested that the consciousness of the observer is a factor in how these physical systems resolve. Fortunately, human consciousness is not mechanical! The self-awareness of human consciousness means that collectively, we can decide which of the many potential outcomes of the human system on earth is most desired.

The goal of the materialists and the Transhumanists is to convince individuals that their dystopian agenda is inevitable. They are looking to create a mechanical response to events, not a creative one. Because every human being has free will, individuals can choose not to submit to this mechanical/dehumanizing view of themselves. More and more people are rejecting the Dark view of humanity and the world.

What’s in Store for 2024?

My prediction for 2024 is that both beliefs systems will track within the Overton Window of current events.

1) With millions of migrants flooding into the US, social chaos can only markedly increase, because these migrants have no clue about norms and culture in the US (other than what they have seen in Hollywood movies, or in TV programs). This increases the opportunity for what Catherine Herridge of CBS News calls a “black swan” event, or perhaps many of them. With government spending creating over $2 trillion deficits every year, operatives from many other countries in the US from the migrant invasion, and government surveillance of the population at absurd levels, the potential for greater conflict and social unrest is inevitable.

2)  However, 1) causes more and more people to wake up. It’s inevitable! That is because the seed of Light always exists within the Dark, otherwise it would be dead. So we are going to see more acts of destruction and insanity, coupled with a massive push for positive change, side-by-side, until the system resolves. How long that will take is anyone’s guess, but 2024 is going to be the most exciting year in human history!

The Great Awakening

I can’t even come close to how James Howard Kunstler describes the way current events are unfolding:

We are waking to the stupefying criminality of public life, to the immersive obvious bullshit of people in charge who don’t deserve your respect or compliance. How they got into these positions is only another feature of that totalistic criminality. What was hidden in plain sight will be revealed to those suffering mere hysterical blindness.”

James Howard Kusntler, “The Great Clarification,” Jan 1. 2024

In other words, there is no reason to submit to the dystopian nightmare that is the agenda of the materialists/Transhumanists. Their philosophy is an evolutionary dead-end and will be rejected by all sane persons.

Even in today’s crazy world, the nutjobs are vastly outnumbered by more and more people who are looking within and seeking a better life for themselves and all humanity.

Ultimately, the Great Awakening is all about individuals in a deteriorating society discovering their personal connection to God, and creating a better world.

The brilliant social commentator Mathias Desmet explains why our society is divided into two conflicting and angry camps, and what we can do about it

In this blog I have tried to express the idea that until humanity understands that human consciousness is intimately connected to the Creative Source, we will as a species continue to struggle and resolve problems through conflict and war. In a speech to the Romanian Parliament in November, the brilliant social commentator Mathis Desmet outlines the psychology of conflict in the most eloquent and understandable fashion.

Desmet explains how our modern, materialistic (“rational”) and technological society is becoming totalitarian. It begins when a society becomes fragmented as ours has after the pandemic and the lockdowns and the forced vaccinations. People lose contact with one another, sitting at home in their houses and apartments, wearing masks and not talking to each other in person for fear of becoming infected. The fear of viruses and other biological agents causes fear to spread rapidly throughout society, promoted by a mass media and politicians and “scientists” who push narratives (propaganda) designed to manipulate people.

Large groups of people (“liberals, “conservatives,” “Trump lovers,” “Trump haters,” “pro-vaccine,” “anti-vaccine,” etc., in order to escape their enforced loneliness and their fear, form into camps of differing beliefs. But these camps consist of lonely individuals who embrace a narrative in an attempt to dispel the fear and separation they feel, without genuinely connecting to each other.

These social factions are not personally and physically connected to each other but only to the belief system of the group. This does not dispel loneliness. And so large groups of people can be much more easily manipulated by narratives and propaganda, which sets one group of people against another. In this way society becomes rigidly divided and hatred flourishes.

Prof. Desmet expresses this idea so clearly in his speech, which I will quote from here:

These two evolutions, the emergence of an elite that uses propaganda and a lonely population, reinforce each other. The lonely state is exactly the state in which a population is vulnerable [to] propaganda. In this way, a new kind of masses or crowds emerged throughout the last two centuries: the so-called lonely masses.

“People fall prey to mass formation to escape a pervasive feeling of loneliness and disconnectedness, induced by the rationalization of the world and the ensuing industrialization of the world and the excessive use of technology. They merge together in fanatic mass behavior because this seems to free them from their lonely, atomized state.

“And that is exactly the big illusion of mass formation: belonging to a mass doesn’t liberate a human being from its lonely state. Not at all. A mass is a group that is formed, not because individuals connect to each other, but because each individual separately is connected to a collective ideal. The longer a mass formation exists, the more solidarity they feel for the collective and the less solidarity and love they feel for other individuals. That’s exactly why in the end stage of mass formation and totalitarianism, every individual reports every other individual to the collective, or to the state, if they think that other individual is not loyal enough to the state. And in the end, the unthinkable happens, with mothers reporting their children to the state and children their parents.”

This is brilliantly stated. Combine mass formation, propaganda, and a lonely population with a materialist, technocratic elite bent on creating a “smart” society, the ultimate dystopian nightmare is created: technological Collectivism, a brain-dead, materialist society where individuals are so afraid of death that they deny the immortality of their own souls. Such a society must collapse, for it is the precise opposite of the Truth that a human being is not just a collection of atoms, but an incarnated, immortal soul having a temporary physical experience. The denial of human consciousness causes separation and then disassociation, which leads to depression and mass formation, and ultimately, the collapse of civilization.

Desmet proposes a solution that never occurred to me (geniuses have great insight): something he calls the Art of Sincere Speech:

Propaganda induced mass formation is a fake, symptomatic solution for loneliness. And the real solution lies in the Art of Sincere Speech. My next book, which I am writing now, is all about the psychology of Truth. Truth, by definition, from a psychological point of view, is resonating speech, it is speech which connects people, from core to core, from soul to soul, speech that penetrates through the veil of appearances, through the ideal images we hide behind, the imaginary shells we seek refuge in, and reconnects the shivering and disconnected soul of one human being to that of another human being.

“Here we observe something crucial: sincere speech is the real cure for loneliness – it reconnects people. As such, it takes away the root cause of the major symptom of our rationalist culture – mass formation and totalitarianism…..

“…And at the same time, sincere speech also inhibits this symptom in a more straightforward way… At every moment we chose to speak out in a sincere way, no matter where this happens, in a newspaper or a television interview, but equally well in the presence of only one other person at the kitchen table or in the supermarket, we help to cure society from the disease of totalitarianism.

“Each and every one who speaks a sincere word and succeeds in truly connecting as a human being to another human being, in particular a human being with a different opinion, deserves to be mentioned in the books of history, much more than a president or a minister who engages in propaganda and fails to show the courage to speak sincerely.”

In order to practice sincere speech we have to look into our own souls and go beyond the propaganda and the belief systems a propagandized society has infected us with. It takes courage to do this.

Make no mistake: evil exists in this world. We are in a spiritual war for the souls, hearts, and minds of humanity. The technocrats want to reduce the population and create a soulless, neural chipped and vaxxed society of collectivized zombie robots. This goal is clearly psychotic and anti-human, which shows us what we are dealing with.

However, the Light of the human soul (denied by materialists, Transhumanists, and technocrats) is far, far greater and more powerful than the darkness of technocratic fascism, for it connects us with the energy of the Divine, the One Consciousness that created and maintains the universe.  

Mathias Desmet’s speech can be found here:https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/my-speech-in-the-parliament-of-romania