Our next Gathering is February 1, 10am - 11am pst. Bring your paper and pen, a candle and a cuppa tea. Guided by Curate Shiloh Sophia, Kathleen Brigidina and NaaKwarley Amissah for an Earth Star ceremony, Group Healing, and Ancestral Wisdom with chances to be witnessed.
Transcript
We have seen a lot of strange things over the past decade from the highly curated dominant zeitgeist. I am advocating for a strange hope in these strange times.
First, some context, then the invitation to conscious choice. I am in a building where the roof is being worked on, and instead of trying to move to a quieter place, I’m choosing to just let it be there in the background as part of this experience. Because what we see on the outside of the building doesn’t show damage, but when you peel away the facade, something else is there. I know you know what I’m talking about.
Part of the plan of the dominant zeitgeist is for the common person to be overwhelmed, confused, and afraid. Eventually, we will be divided from our neighbors and perhaps family, and ultimately, from within ourselves. All of this happens without... Conscious choice. A gradual destruction of critical thinking has been introduced like a toxic drip system into our heart-brain connection.
Coherence is in full interrupt and we grasp for pattern in a world where the dizzying pattern is being engineered faster than we can comprehend reason faster for ourselves. We don’t have time to reason because the story just keeps changing. We don’t know why we believe what we do.
Even if we cannot demonstrate that belief that particular belief as a truth or identify a root system we trust that it arose from. We inherited a lot of narrative from a fabricated historical framework bent on control, not collaboration. Our consciousness is shaped by others, until we choose otherwise.
Our critical thinking, conscious selves being taken over is achieved through lots of big brother tactics, chief among them being us not being able to believe what we see due to the manipulation of image and language. We don’t have the kind of thinking, literally the neuroscientific patterning that it takes to grasp the level of manipulation that is being infiltrated throughout the very fabric itself of humanity in the minds of the people. It is hard to even imagine what we are seeing. And so we often reject the truth and fall for a spin.
We are grappling with impossible moving images like video that are telling divergent stories, and both of them are being served through the algorithm. We then use our time and energy to, quote, find the truth. And that is a challenge. And then, of course, the fact that it’s hard to find the truth and find a reputable source is, of course, intentional.
Our worldviews are shaped outside of us, and then they are inside of us. We are unaware of them. We didn’t create the worldview we have, and our parents barely knew about it or that they had a choice. We do not have the rigor yet to for the literal brain training to shape a conscious worldview, unless we’ve made that a study and a practice and lived it in real life. A conscious worldview must be chosen, curated, learned, and practiced, just like the development of any muscle. Most of us don’t know how we believe what we believe. Some is inherited, some is enforced, and some of it is personal choice, but it is largely based on who we sort of ended up being.
And this is why I’ve worked so long on the shaping of identity and reclamation of our chosen narrative since 2008 (Legend and Color of Woman) The manipulation through our mother tongue of image and language… We are an image and language and sound-based people. Therefore, we are able to be influenced by these creative frameworks turned into tactics, turned strategically against us. Plus, drawing on our weaknesses like a fear that we need to be protected, and of course we do, as well as introducing us versus them dynamics, divide and conquer, that we aren’t even aware that we’ve said yes to.
We don’t even know it. Suddenly we’re defending ourselves and we didn’t even know we had that image and language pattern already built into our psyche by culture, education, politics, religion, you name it.
But why am I calling it a zeitgeist? A zeitgeist, according to AI, is a ghost of a particular time. I’m calling it a ‘dominant zeitgeist’ to indicate that it is intentionally created to bring about a collective narrative that is about control. Zeitgeist is a German term meaning spirit of the time or ghost of the time, referring to the quote dominant, I mean it actually says dominant, intellectual, cultural, ethical, and political mood of ideas and feelings that characterize a particular historical era or generation. It’s the prevailing vibe or cultural climate seen in art, philosophy, fashion, societal trends, and often described as an invisible force shaping a period. Here’s why I’m using it. The zeitgeist is a tactic connected with generating a mood or a malaise.
It is one that was used by Nazi Germany to bring about their takeover, not as a singular event, but as a highly curated process over time, influencing the minds of the people with art, music, image, language, and music. The spirit to engineer an emotional response and sometimes even a spiritual one. And of course, one of a particular kind of nationhood or belonging, such that we would turn against others to the point of wishing for their death. I see some of this happening now. This is a takeover of consciousness when done well, such that we will fight for our lives without really knowing why.
In the movie The Matrix, Neo has to accept what he has shown, and his body cannot believe it, and so he vomits.
Self-awareness that happens with: I was i once was lost and now I’m found and the amazing “coming to” song of amazing grace happens all true too rarely because the radicalization strategy has been shaped into our cultural narrative for hundreds of years. To question it or threaten it calls upon us to question our very identity and cultural nationhood at a root level. And we may not be sure where to turn if we’re brave enough to take that on and what we’ve been served up as the truth.
Where will we go from here? There are manipulated paradigms and organic ones that arise from the spirit of a people. And so Zeitgeist could be either organic or manipulated. And the one that we’re experiencing is fabricated across all cultural frames that operate in the United States to be one of domination, colonization, and oppression with an increase in this way of being with the, creation of the ”United States”. But oh, the benefits of saying yes to engaging with the system. How can you help it? I’ve been in business for over 30 years with the same work, same bank account. And yes, I participate in capitalism and try not to have it be extractive capitalism by the way that we run our organization as a series of projects guided by women’s families. And a collaboration of opinions on where to go next. I participate in order to continue with my service and to communicate.
Here’s why the shortened timeline of how we work with history makes this time hard to grasp. George Orwell points out in his book, 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future.” The future is being controlled in a big way right now. At an almost prophetic level. Prophecy is not just what may happen, but the foretelling of something that is being created to happen through the shaping of the language of the happening. It’s a warning. A prophecy is often a warning. So this is a different energy, an image, a ghost style image. You don’t really see it, but you know it’s there.
And it is operating at paranormal degrees based on what AI can create. So what we’re being shown, especially in video, isn’t necessarily what is so. And I know you know this.
They’re showing us what they plan to do and are doing, especially in Minneapolis and many other places. And they also are clear on how we’re going to behave in reaction. We’re doing just what they thought. They planned for it. They already knew our behaviors as activists and dissenters. And of course, there’s new things happening. But please know they are planning for our patterns of dissent as part of their plot. It’s a setup.
For most of my lifetime, and I’m 55, the past that has been being controlled by the dominant narrative has to do with things like what happened with the enslavement of African peoples and peoples from other nations. the stories of the takeover of indigenous land, the rosy-cheeked narrative of the founding fathers of the colonies, and the one mule and an acre, and the fabricated grandeur of the Declaration of Human Rights that was extended beyond the United States, now called an outdated document according to the UN, even though it is still the most printed document.
Or how about the preamble to the Constitution? Basically, the entire history of the United States over the past 500 to 600 years has been fabricated by the conquesting class. But it takes a long time to change children’s history books, or it used to. But now it’s happening without our known awareness in many cases.
What’s different now is that the past that they’re controlling is literally things that happened in 2020. So it’s just a six-year-old story. So it’s a much shorter timeline and barely gets to become actual history. especially if what actually happened is written out and erased in a short period of time and we’re told that it never happened or wasn’t what it was.
Like just erase DEI as if it never happened. Just remove the inclusion of women’s rights to choose as a ratification and part of the law that we get to vote. Just take back people’s right to marry who they choose. Make it null and void. These are rights-based topics dear to the hearts of those who desire to live in a world of freedom and freedom of voice and choice. But they are an exterior shift of something much more nefarious taking place underneath. And in fact, they want us to be distracted by these civil rights level fights. And that’s hard to grasp because it seems like the most important thing, race and gender and class and culture, but there’s something else. It’s more systemic and more nefarious.
Let’s explore how our own causes sometimes can distract us from seeing more of what’s happening. While the civil rights level of decision making matters so much to us about who we think we are and what we fought for in this country, they also can keep us distracted from the deeper processes which have allowed a handful of men to control a majority of people and wealth. We need to be able to look at both things on the surface of what tugs at our rights and what undermines us and what is also underneath that. Because what we’re seeing is not actually, it’s the iceberg theory. But what they’re trying to keep from us, whether that’s the release of the full Epstein files or the actual numbers on vaccine injuries or what’s inside of the vaccines or the taking of oil and land and capturing of another country’s Leadership, regardless of who that leader is, these appear huge and they’re still surface for what is going on inside the power structures. We keep thinking we’re getting closer and we are, but who knows what will happen even if we knew?
One of the things that is happening, and we are noticing it, but seem to have a hard time changing it, is the removing of due process from decision making. The United States decision making ways are no longer applying. And that’s what they are counting on. And this is a move toward dictatorship. They are testing it out with their actions, seeing what will happen and how far they can go. The decision making branches of the U.S. government are not prepared for this level of dominant paradigm wartime action. Just like our consciousness is not prepared for it either. We just can’t believe it. If we were prepared, then the January 6th event would have changed the shape of all future actions of the United States, but we didn’t get the biggest memo of all from that event, or we did, but we didn’t know what to do quick enough and it get caught up in process and paperwork. If January 6th can stand and the people from that event can be let go and even work for the current establishment, anything goes.
They used January 6th as a testing ground and then got us to want to do things like that day, as if that’s somehow American. There’s a decay and an erosion of what we think of as democracy and how it operates. That’s the obvious part. This dominant agenda, though, has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican or what we think democracy was at one time but is no more because it cannot be managed in a timely way to stop dangerous actors and their tracks. Democracy in terms of party lines is a distraction on what’s actually taking place, which appears so far beyond the party lines.
Well, we get stuck there. We think this is about evil Democrats or evil Republicans. It just isn’t. Those are facades for the people beneath them, which are a smaller percentage of people. In the dominant culture that rules, there’s really only one party. The way that they are working, that party structure creates a deep divide, which is invented. And the concept of Christian ideals to uphold is just another smokescreen from the actual fire that’s taking place, a burning up fire. of the ideals that we were sold that we never actually had in the first place. The divide and conquer narrative was introduced and incentivized us toward a particular reality where we get to belong if we divide and conquer.
Most of the harmful things that are introduced over the past 500 years in terms of cultural narrative are about divide and conquer. They are complete fabrications and have no basis in the natural world. Racism, sexism, classism, all invented narratives with very real world impacts that have nothing to do with what’s actually true about people. We are in a cognitive entrenchment and we often do not know that we are. We say things, our stands, our beliefs, or beliefs that are passed on.
I have deep concerns for the narrative (and the actions)that are taking place in Minneapolis right now. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, yet I’m here to affirm something. We should be very, very concerned about what’s playing out in Minneapolis. This occurrence of what is happening is so strategic and the location too is not random.
This appears to be a testing ground for what’s going to happen if we allow this kind of brute approach to continue. I’m not saying I know how to stop it, but I know the first thing is personal awareness. I’m not coming with solutions for systems today. I’m inviting awareness about the dominant paradigm that we are not being offered a choice in, but there is a choice. It can be really hard to not rabbit hole right now, but it is important that we learn to share resources from people that we do trust.
They are using fear as a weapon and I am sounding a call to more avant-garde thinking. I have followed Renee Good’s story as closely as I followed George Floyd’s story. And what I’m seeing is mind-blowing in terms of the fabrications and the videos and the narratives and the spin. The oppressors want to inspire fear in the hearts of dissenters and in our bodies.
They know we’re going to resist and persist, and that’s all part of their plan. So, of course, rising up is encouraging, and, of course, all the people protesting is so beautiful to see the photos of people showing up. And we must each choose the way that is right for us, our activism. Activism, yet it’s all part of the master plan they have for how they’re going to justify a bigger crackdown and validate violence. I’m not saying not to show up. It means show up knowing our resistance is built into their plan, which changes how we are inside of the plan. I’m not sure how to say this:
Our current approach as activists is not avant-garde enough. We are playing right into their plans, making murderers into heroes and the victims into dissenters who break the law, and we are somehow anti-American.
The COVIDian era lockdown experiment connected us globally to caring for one another, but also demonstrated that one dominant narrative could actually spread and take over the world in a coordinated effort and then get the citizens to buy into it and back it up with their lives. I’m not a COVID denier. I’m just talking about how it all went down. What was spreading was not just the virus, but the dominant narrative they wanted us to believe. So many of us bought into it.
When we do take a stand, we’re pretty quickly attacked or silence or canceled within circles we thought we could speak out in. So there’s fear in our own community for speaking our truths. While speaking our truth is so important because we need to try them out, not just in our heads, but in actual circles, circles where other people are willing to hold space for more than one way of seeing things. We don’t have all the facts at all. And the ones we do have are confusing.
For those I work with, I usually share that the name of any religion we now know is one that is connected with dominance. We don’t know the names of pre-violent cultural frameworks, yet we know that war and weapons are young in the timeline of evolution of our species. It has not always been this way and will not always be this way.
We must hold strange hope in our hearts despite everything, not just a vision of some future utopian scene, but a cellular memory that knows there is another way and practices it as often as we can.
How shall we proceed?
Eyes open, ears open, heart open to seeing truth and discernment, taking appropriate actions, asking ourselves, am I in my body? What is it that I’m seeing? Can I trust the source? Do I need to slow down and tend to myself? Do I need to be a rebel of slowness? Where are the sacred and safe spaces I can learn to speak my truth? What is my truth? Self-awareness is always the beginning. And of course, meditate, take walks, read, breathe, reach out, draw, paint, dance, study, and pray with all of our hearts and practice intentional creativity. The call of the world, the collective humming of need does lead to personal soul work. That’s why my entire focus this year is devoted to the development of intuitive gifts, spiritual transmissions, and group healings in the circles that I serve especially Path of Mystics and the Cura Council Ceremonies and Group Healings.
I don’t know how I’m going to show up in all the other spaces, but I’m here for the great adventure of I love this quote by Marshall McLuhan. “Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be all too happy to abdicate in favor of his image because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
If we are an image and language based beings, Then how is image and language being used to manipulate us? Everywhere. The entire internet. Internet is image and language based. Honestly, that’s why I choose the making of intuitive art as one of the most powerful tools of revolution within and in the world around us. So inside of us and around us. Image and language becoming accountable to that within ourselves. The way that the dominant beings are using image and language to fabricate the dominant zeitgeist and therefore shapes the mind of the people, We end up having no choice but to engage with it.
We find ourselves in a new place without understanding how we even got here. It’s a collective amnesia. When we question if we even consented, paperwork is provided that demonstrates that we clicked the box with our consent because we didn’t read all the fine print. We can exit by conscious choice.
We will still be impacted by it, but our consciousness won’t live there anymore. My sacred assignment so far is to create experiences whereby our consciousness is liberated from the colonization frameworks. Yet, in order to drive a car or get insurance or participate at all, we have to click the box. It’s a setup, but knowing it’s a setup and the gig is rigged can help provide some observational distance so that we can step back and take a look and choose to rescue ourselves first, and then we can choose how to engage with the inevitableness. I always say that pain is inevitable, but pleasure is chosen.
When speaking of the rescuing of consciousness and worldview, you may think that what I’m suggesting is energy and mind, therefore doesn’t have real life implications. You mean Shiloh, like the world is going to go on around me and I’m going to take my conscious out of the world and somehow that’s going to change my life and somehow I’m going to do all of this without bypassing and still be motivated to do the activism that matters. Yes, that is what I’m talking about. Yes, it can change everything about how you experience your life right in the middle of the mess we’re in.
Yes, you will still be motivated to care. No, you will not be as easily drawn in by the narrative and spin out. No, you will not be manipulated in the same way. Bob Marley tells us emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. Let’s free our minds.
When you consciously engage with your oppressor from an awareness perspective, the dynamic changes. This may or not mean putting yourself in physical engagement. I’m speaking about how you think, which shapes all the decisions that you make. The victim oppressor spin. Renee Good’s last words and the last words that were spoken to her are serving as a strange medicine. She said, look, dude, I’m not mad at you. And he called her a f*cking bitch. They are showing us a tear in the basic fabric of us versus them.
How many times have women said words like that to deescalate the person, the man with the weapon? When my mother and I were robbed at knife point, I heard her say as she looked into his eyes: It doesn’t have to be this way.
I saw his eyes flicker. She gave him her purse and he ran. You could say we are both victim and oppressor, and indeed, we are. Yet at the level that most of us are living, we are not the ones poisoning water and modifying food and releasing higher and higher frequencies of EMFs and organizing dominant policy change under the cover of night and making decisions to take over other people’s countries. We are not. We.
We are not we the people here in the U.S.
When we begin to have an experience of our consciousness as both sovereign in our worldview, like within ourselves, and yet united with others in care, there’s a strange hope that begins to emerge. It just bubbles up. I’m thinking of you with love along the red thread of space and place and time.
I can at least say I feel I’ve been training for these times and I am here for us. Yet nothing could prepare a person for this level of enforced scarcity, sanctioned violence, prophetic systemic oppression, and radicalization of the hearts and minds of a people who believed we were living in a free country.
I’m not a scholar, not an expert, not a leader. I’m an artist, a poet, and a fellow passenger on Spaceship Earth. I’m in love with creation and holding a strange hope for the world I remember in my stardust bones.
With stardust with paint under my fingernails.
Shiloh Sophia
In the worlds of Gloria Anzaldúa, the Chicana writer and activist.
“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truth-sayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues on fire. This is Curate Shiloh Sophia for the Cura Council. I am broadcasting from within the Stardust lineage and the teachings of intergenerational intentional creativity.”
