A Global Jonestown
Are World Leaders Turning Planet Earth into a Suicide Cult? They Will Try, but We Will Win the Future for Love, Life, Truth, and Beauty
“Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth?”— Buckminster Fuller
Yes… if we have the courage to fight for Mother Earth AND to disobey those who want to use Her and us as sacrifice to an international power and money cult.
Cults have been around for a long time. The terms can be quite generic and refer to simply a non-conventional challenge or alternative to orthodox religion. Christianity started as a cult, until it gained enough adherents and eventually the backing of leaders to become an institution. The same could probably be said of all the world’s major religions.
However, there is a connotatively negative understanding of the word as the unhealthy, agency-destroying establishment of a “community” under a charismatic leader that demands strict obedience to that person as a kind of god. Such was the case in Jonestown, Guyana, a community named after the Pentecostal cult leader and “apostolic socialist”, Jim Jones who presided over the mass murder-suicide of 909 members. Most members unknowingly drank cyanide laced Kool-Aid (hence the origin of the term “drinking the Kool-Aid”), including 276 children. Jones was also found dead by gunshot wound to the head.
Presently we are in what appears to be a global cult that in every way fits the negative definition described above. World leaders, bureaucrats, and technocrats of lock-stock given themselves over to creating fear, division, loathing, illness, war, and obedience to gain control over people, money, and power rather than courage, unity, love, health, peace, and personal sovereignty. The good news is that we do not have to agree to committing planetary murder-suicide. We can “flip the script” through non-violent civil disobedience, creativity, and collaboration if we have but the will and the faith.
The first step is to wake up!
Currently we are being demanded to sacrifice our bodies, our families, our freedoms, our health, our money, our nations, and a lasting and successful future for the human race. “Global health” is tailored to creating chronically ill people who can pay trillions of pharmaceuticals for the rest of their lives. “Defense” has become nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar war industry bound and determined to aggressively destabilize countries and sabotage, rather than ensure, the possibility of peace.
Everywhere you turn you see predation, parasitism, and deceit as if these were unalterable primal aspects of our human condition. Distraction and censorship replace truth. Reality has been inverted. Global media megaphones now condemn uncomfortable truths as misinformation and disinformation, while parroting and repeating provably dangerous lies. In every quarter you are being if not misled, then distracted by computer algorithms designed to reinforce you addictions, conceits, and preferences. Convenience has become its own god, asking you to forfeit your very identity in the form of chip-based digital IDs and even cyber-linked digital money.
Yes, we must gain the courage, conviction, and commitment to say in a chorus or rising, “Enough is enough.” However, we must also be able to learn why we have been so vulnerable to these top-down sedative bromides. What have we learned about ourselves from these lockdowns… and our society? What can we live without, and what can we NOT live without. Let our hearts and minds awaken to this indispensable curiosity and drive.
The next step is to unplug.
Similar to a romantic relationship where your mate has been cheating on you, talking crap about you to others, and treating you like an object to be used, there is presently no “compromise” to be made with the “system”. When it’s character is being revealed in such clear, unmistakable, and IRREVERSIBLE terms, there only one option: Leave the relationship! Now this doesn’t mean being a Luddite and leaving all technology behind and going into open tax rebellion. (These have their own consequences.) It DOES mean unplugging from any notion and time-suck that has you devoting even an ounce of your trust or commitment to it’s self-serving distraction and outright deception. There is really NOTHING to be gained from mainstream news, “science,” medicine, social media, politics, parties, academia. They are all on the take in a race to a prostituted bottom. The ONLY possible benefit to keep in touch at all is to learn their techniques and tricks.
Instead, why not rescue and remove ourselves from their toxic prescriptions and their propaganda blast radius. Walk in nature. Listen to high-frequency classical music or audio downloads. (My current one is David Hawkins’s Letting Go.) Living simply, sanely, and cleanly is job one in the midst of the madness. People are cutting their cable TV. I no longer listen to any mainstream outlet, and I have my stable of reliable non-mainstream, independent sources on the internet to keep me apprised, both of the hijinks and outrageousness of corporate-controlled information, but of viable, truthful, and inspirational alternatives. Hawkins is right. You have to raise your own consciousness, care, and frequency, congregate with others face-to-face who are doing the same, and then endeavoring to act from that place NOT so much to “change the world” and to inflect it, refract it through a different prism and transform our own awareness and connection.
The third step is to develop coalitions and unity across ideological lines.
I am heartened to see the barriers continuing to fall between conservatives, liberals, progressives, and libertarians, gay and straight, middle, working, and poor classes, and so forth as we are all being treated as fodder for concentrated wealth and control by a globally arrogant super-minority who seems intent on making us “own nothing and be happy” (including ceding ownership over our own bodies, health, wealth, and homes).
There was a time when one could actually sell out and work for “the man” as a corporate drone and get his or her gold watch and retirement pension after 30 years of being a drone. NOW the Davos-crowd and other towers of conceit have sold EVEN THAT devil’s bargain down the river. Now they defund pensions, downsize and load the extra work on to remaining employees without a pay raise, and generally treat people as “deplorables”. There IS NO devil’s bargain left, no cognitive split! This global wrecking crew, of which I speak, wants it ALL— all the control, all the money, all the power, all the benefits. Now that the social contract is irredeemably broken, we have the freedom to walk away and leave THEM behind without apology or anger. Our eyes are on a new horizon that can only be appreciated by those wiling to creatively transform the world rather than demonically exploit it.
The penultimate step is to create a new heaven and a new earth together. The ultimate will reveal itself.
I don’t know about you but I really miss beauty. Beauty along with curiosity is a great indicator for the truly civilized, intelligent, and heartfelt society. What do we have now?: Really ugly men (in more ways than one) wearing wigs, claiming to be women, barging in to ransack women’s rights. Pedophiles trying to pass themselves off as an “alternative,” protected class of victims. Corporate grifters larding themselves with trillions in prosecution-free profits and bonuses, after cratering the world economy. “Science” that produces both lies and death in place of the Hippocratic Oath. The self-appointed heroes are trans-parent frauds (Dr. Fauci and the Fake-she’s— sounds like a really horrible rock band). I miss love as the binding emotion that allows us to appreciate each other, even when we disagree. I miss truth…Boy do I miss truth amid the junk-food orgy that passes itself off as the officially sanctioned narrative.
Lets create our own narrative, and our own world, based in Love, Life, Truth, and Beauty. Let us accept no substitutes or charlatans. Let us heed the truthful and the kind-hearted. Let us exalt the courageous and the compassionate. Let us be free to be our highest, and elevate our lowest. Let us call out the vicious pretenders and support the truly virtuous who have a track record of being truthful and fighting for what is good and just (I am looking at you RFK Jr!).
Shared positive principles, values, and practices that can cut across cultural lines
On the practical, local level let’s get to know each other as human beings and advocate for each other across ideological lines. Yes, I do want the sufferings and needs of the Trump supporter to be recognized and for them to be happy and fulfilled! They are my sisters and brothers, who are beaten down by the same people attempting to beat me down. It is time to say, “Hell, no!” to attempts to divide. It’s time to say, “Heavens, yes!” to organizing around inviolable shared principles.
Freedom is the most central practical value— freedom of speech, religion, arms, assembly, etc. Without it we have nothing.
It is interesting to note that the commitments of Donald Trump in his speeches and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are eerily similar in many ways (even though their actual commitment to these can be debated). First and foremost for both of them is freedom— Freedom to speak without censorship, freedom to assemble, freedom to worship as one chooses, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom for surveillance of citizens. Perhaps they make compelling leaders because both Trump and RFK Jr. have been victimized by an insular perpetual (in)security state that sees their contrarian independence as threats to their cozy status quo.
Local and personal sovereignty is critical. We must have choices over our own governance and our own bodies.
Unelected bureaucrats with ginned-up “emergency powers” are a menace and should be reined in completely. The best way to do this, however, is non-violent community civil disobedience. Let them issue their edicts, proclamations, and demands, and let us say, “NO!”. No, we will not stay away from our church services, lock up our kids, or (and I have changed on this) give up our guns. Thanks to the Deep State’s hubris, virtually every single conspiracy theory has basically come true!
When it gets this ridiculous, the adults in the room (that’s us, by the way) have to assert our authority. We will not accept any more claims by the Establishment to being the “steady hand.” Remember when people wanted to return to an administratively competent “normal” by getting Joe “dead cat bounce” Biden in. What did he do? He proceeded to have an even more dangerous and incompetent administration then Trump—where vaccine mandates were imposed right when the CDC confirmed that vaccines don’t stop transmission. Pete Buttigieg may be the most offensively incompetent Secretary of Transportation ever to occupy the seat (see Palestine, OH, airline cancellations, and shipping dock disasters all completely “handled” by action-free glib words). Biden’s diversity hires (white men wearing dresses) seemed to be a more important qualification than the candidate’s ability to do the actual job.
I used to support Medicare for All, until I contemplated that this program could be used as a federal cudgel to force people to do the wishes of the government. I now support, nationally-funded but locally administered medical care. The same with schools. They should not be indoctrination centers for top-down ideologies, but reflect and develop local values and needs amid the reality and accessibility of global information networks.
Desire difference— heterogeneity vs homogenization
If we are going to be truly (and not tokenly) “diverse”, then that means diversity of viewpoints! We are looking in the wrong place for solidarity and community! It is ORIGINALITY, not similarity which boosts learning and life. We have been so programmed to view difference as a threat (and allow ourselves to be emotionally manipulated as a result), that we have missed the plain fact that an interesting life is based in engaging difference POSITIVELY. “I don’t want you to be just like me! I want you to be originally and authentically you!” I personally believe each of us has a unique genius, and I want more than anything for you to offer and develop that genius and enjoyment. If this genius and enjoyment is embodied by country music line dancing, then have at it! The world is made better and safer by the deeper loves, passions, talents, and joys of people being celebrated and embraced.
Decentralization and regionalization of economic production and self-sufficiency
If there is one thing that Covid taught us (and there are many), it is that we cannot rely upon global supply chains to meet our basic needs. Let’s make concerted efforts to develop civil corps on local levels both for community prosperity and economic security. It is high time we network our resources as the local and community levels, much like the nation did during WWII when it came to collecting scrap iron and rubber. Let’s clean our storage units and share! Let’s develop our own supply lines from farm to table and from local resources to local crafts and guilds people. Let us have more community social events where we enjoy and appreciate one another as living, feeling, spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional human beings!
What is your suggestion? Write one in the comment section!
On a related note, you may not have seen this essay on how organized religions can lose the idea of freedom....via their leadership...https://ritona.substack.com/p/what-a-mormon-musical-taught-me-about
I quite enjoy your articles, Zeus, but this is one of your better ones!
I studied and followed Dr. Hawkins for years and eventually walked away from his cult. I'd suggest looking at Scott Jeffrey's book Power vs Truth, Peering Behind the Teachings of Dr. David Hawkins. I'd certainly never recommend him.