Did you feel it?
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Last week, the world ended and a new world arose. There were epicenters all over the place and the foundations of civilization cracked. Hyperbole? Hardly.
Let’s set up one of our Far Side metaphors first. Have you ever had the joy of watching a snake shed its skin? You can tell the time is coming when the skin gets dull looking and rough. It starts by rubbing its nose on a rock or stick until the face slays open like an umbrella in the wind. Over the next day or so, it wriggles and writhes until the old skin slides off in a heap and is abandoned to the past.
A civilization functions in much the same way as a snake shedding. At some point, it becomes dull and rough and colorless. Civilization begins rubbing on rough political, cultural and intellectual hard spots, in this case Woakism, ideological art and academic Divisive Epistemological Implosion (DEI). Soon, the face cracks open and peels away, and the civilization enters a period of wiggling its way out of the old System to reveal bright new colors and room to grow.
Of course, we must look at the situation with an historical view of time. Civilizations are living creatures, and they have lifespans and growth cycles, but on a scale of centuries rather than years. The last time the global civilization shed its skin was during the Renaissance and the subsequent Age of Discovery and the Enlightenment. The colors were bright and growth explosive.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, we started outgrowing our old skin. We had grown beyond the limits of the old civilization and global wars broke out as we reached the culmination of our socio-economic systems.
Desperate ideologies emerged that fought the inevitable changes. Ideologies like Marxism and Socialism sprang up that sought to preserve and repair the old pyramidal authoritarian hierarchies, but civilization was moving inexorably toward a philosophy of individualism that eschewed rigid prêt-à-porter structures. These movements were the necessary rough spots that our serpentine civilization needed to start the shedding process.
On a civilizational scale, this process seems to occur roughly every 500-600 years. The transition periods last approximately a century and a half. This is followed by an explosion of growth in all areas of society — art, trade, law, philosophy. It’s a time of exploration, as new eyes see new opportunities.
I can’t speak for snakes, but the shedding process is always painful for us humans. Humans fight change until the changes become the new normal. For those of us living through these eras, it can seem like the end of the world, and in a sense it is.
So, I hear you asking impatiently, what were the foundational shifts that occurred last week? Well…
The most powerful epicenter was in Beijing (sorry about the CNN link but the headline fit so well). The leader of the largest land mass and nuclear arsenal in the world held hands with the largest military industrial complex in the world, and they skipped happily into the new multi-polar world.
The second biggest temblor is still ongoing in the second largest industrial power, and India wraps up its elections and Modi appears to have won. It seems that India is moving toward protecting its cultural heritage against all invading forces, including Islam. This is the largest of the nationalistic waves sweeping the globe, along with Argentina, the Netherlands, Hungary, Indonesia, and now Slovakia.
The third major global shake-up occurred in a New York City courtroom, where the political witch hunt against the ruling party’s opponent crumbled in spectacular fashion, as the predicate for the alleged crime disintegrated in classic Perry Mason style. The vaunted American legal system’s corruption and weaponization was laid bare for everyone to get a whiff.
After three shocks of this magnitude, and the after-shocks yet to come, we can safely say that the monolithic globalist hegemon is done. Nationalism and cultural populism are the new forces that will carry civilization through the rest of the shedding process — at least through 2050 or so — when the new civilization will emerge in all its glory.
Talk about mixing metaphors.
The movement toward smaller power bases is just the beginning. It will continue until Enlightened Self-Government takes hold. We have the tools, but our minds are still catching up with our new capabilities. Humanity has lived under various forms of omnipotent centralized authority since the dawn of civilization. We are now entering a new phase in history, for which we have no precedent to guide us. It’s like inventing a new game and trying to figure out all the rules and permutations that apply.
Oh sure, it hurts like yanking off a bandage, though we seem determined to make the process as slow and painful as possible. Profound and fundamental change is scary and there’s a lot of mistakes to be made that will require backing up and trying again.
There is one big consolation in all this, we will emerge with soft, shiny, vibrant new skin that will give us room to grow.
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As for snakes shedding skin... 42 years ago I was climbing Mt. McGregor in the North Cascade Mountains in Washington State. The trail was a foot wide, maybe. A sheer cliff went up to to my left and down to my right. The rock in the cliff was crumbling off in my hand. Not a confidence builder.
As I climbed the cliff trail I came up to a nook in the cliff at eye level. On this nook was a rattlesnake. I damn near fell off the cliff.
Then I looked closer and some bastard comedian had coiled a shed rattlesnake skin and put it there. Of course, I left the snake skin there for the next Happy Hiker.
Hi Bernard, that was beautiful.....I've had Corn Snakes and watched them shed,....even helped when they needed it. Very nice Analogy. I very much hope you are right!
Clif said "Did you feel it?" too. So are a lot of others,.....Jean Claude, from Beyond Mystic,.....Janine reading the Tarot.
But clif's new post about TIME DWELLERS really made me look differently at what's been going on now for the last 8 years....at least. And it sure looks like the elites are still firmly in control to me!
I think they are the ones creating the Psyop that makes Trump into a Savior of Humanity.
I watch all the people cheering Trump as he arrives to give his Pep Talk in the Bronx,.....I think the elite have intentionally destroyed the Country (using old Biden) to drive everyone towards Trump. To make him look really, really good.
First they let him win in 2016,......they let him make America great for 4 years,.....we even had something they called "Energy Independence" for the first time in our nation's history. Why? I don't know. We have always had plenty of OIL. (not a fossil fuel by the way,.....a self renewing ABIOTIC).
They persecuted him for 4 years to make him into a Martyr. "The poor man. It's no wonder he didn't drain the SWAMP or FIX Health care,.....he was so busy being attacked! He didn't have time!" We all felt sorry for him,.....we made excuses for his failures. We were proud of him for nothing throwing in the towel and just walking away from all the Persecutions.
But that isn't working for me now, when the shots are killing millions and disabling Billions, he is still bragging about the shots? It makes no sense. Just like his allowing FAUCI to refuse to let any one have HCQ which Trump knew very well worked fine, because Dr. Zelenko put him on it! He talked for 8 minutes about how well it had worked for him and that everyone should have the chance to try it. He even wrote up an EO for it! Which FAUCI vetoed immediately. Of course. The FDA would not give him a EUA for FAUCI's Bioweapon with HCQ able to cure someone in 2 weeks! I know it works because I took the Horse Paste myself! It was amazing, I was so sick,....just sitting staring into space,....and after the first dose I was like a new human! 12 hours and I was almost back to normal. Ivermectin works very well on any cold or flu.
If Trump had STOOD up to Fauci, 600,000 people might still be alive, the Economy would be fine and he would have been President again in 2020. Why did he choose that path? The path to Destruction and INVASION of our Nation?
He is a Zionist? He works for Israel? He certainly supports Israel despite the insane Genocide they are doing in Palestine. He agreed that we should send $95 Billion of our MONEY to Israel and Ukraine (New Jerusalem).
What happened? Did they threaten him and his family? Did they tell him they'd assassinate him if he didn't play along? I don't get it!
WHY? Why would he have not stood firm and told FAUCI to STAND DOWN. He was the President!
I think he is just another Psyop for the people on the Right, the conservatives and Patriots. Just like Biden is the Psyop for people on the left, the commies and trannies and Kennedy is the Psyop for people in the middle. All controlled by the Top Psyop run by the very top of the Cabal of elites. The 1% who already own everything and still want to take the last scraps from the 99%!
Trump is going to win in 2024,....because the global elite Mafia want him to. He will be the Gentle Monarch,......I think that he is just working for them to bring in a kinder and more gentle New World Order. And ok, that's not so horrible,.....I suppose. We all live is this PSYOP any way....but why destroy our Country first?
Is that just about covering the crashing the globalists Debt/TAX banking Scheme?
Why do you think Trump chose the Path he did?????????? Is he really FOR the PEOPLE? OR is he just a different part of the Psyop that's the elite are using to put their Global DOMINION into place?
I blame all these thought on Clif,.....if he hadn't talked about Longer Lived folks.....and how different their perspective might be,.....I wouldn't be here!
Mandy in Michigan.