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Sep 6, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Mathew, - Our family has been considering our next move . . . We have been drawn to the "glorified backyard" preppers, as you describe them, but much prefer becoming part of a collective action movement to which you refer. Please elaborate!

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In meetings all week. Will hopefully have more direction soon.

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Mathew, when you get a moment please email me - jorjorwell@protonmail.com. I have something I would like to share that might be helpful.

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Sep 6, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

This is very interesting insight, and the link to John Taylor Gatto in the previous article is something hopefully everyone has looked into. I'd be punching above my weight saying anymore.

There's a more self-evident reason Herr Hitler had a theatrical background.

The Beer Hall Putch- mileswmathis.com/putsch.pdf

Hitler's Genealogy- mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf

Can you imagine, for once, taking at face value all those people who said "I had no idea anything untoward was going on"?

There's a Fascinating interview in The Guardian with a sweet 105 year old blind lady named Brunhilde Pomsel, Goebbel's secretary. "The only thing you can say about Goebbels is that he was an outstanding actor" she says. When you read these people's accounts without all the baggage and preconceptions, and just take their stories in, you may come out with an entirely different picture. Whether it's closer to the truth is for you to decide.

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Interesting.

I've seen more and more revisionist history as I've read. It is more and more clear that most of the narratives have long been faked.

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Nov 23, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Meditation is still largely seen in the West as a method of relaxation. True meditation/chan/dhyana is the investigation of one's true self. It's the science of consciousness that goes beyond the scope of materialistic sciences. Perhaps an event like a global pandemic and the subsequent lunacy will kickstart that process of self-investigation for some.

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Mar 22, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Officers from the Russian army visited selvarajan yesudian and Elizabeth haich in Budapest during the second World war, and took yoga classes etc. there and brought back a lot of knowhow in this field. We know the paranormal field and the like to be of very High interest for different kinds of gov. agencies. Dannion Brinkley gave talks at the NIH. Meditation is a very very wide field that can give you immense concentration powers and many other things. Knowing your self is the Ultimate goal. To those who succeed in the latter endeavour, all the rest (concentration power etc) are just powers on the Road that can be pitfalls that hinders you Road to the endgoal...

Just a little note to clarify for the uninitiated.....

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"We know the paranormal field and the like to be of very High interest for different kinds of gov. agencies."

I grew up in an outsourced wing of the Remote Viewing Project (via an organization called the Association for Research and Englightenment). I plan to write about that at some point.

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Really looking forward to that.

One of the places I visited in the US (after a vision quest in Arizona) was Edgar Cayce’s “bunker” in Virginia Beach (1997). I think the most interesting thing in the pandemic (from a symbolic perspective, and extremely suggestive) until now, is the “snake-thing” disclosed by Ardis...

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Well done!

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Thank you, Mathew. An insightful and urgent article needing widespread sharing! It's not often I read such clarity amid the noise. We truly need to deprogram, but those under its hypnosis are of course unable to see that and will defend it, some to the death. Such is the dilemma.

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Wow, superb piece. So much to think about. Many thanks.

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Sep 6, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Frederick the Great (Friedrich II) was the King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great). The King of Prussia, during the Napoleonic wars, was Friedrich Wilhelm III. He reigned from 1797 until his death in 1840. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia)

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I did not mean to imply Frederick the Great was there at Waterloo. But thank you.

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Sep 6, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

OK, thanks for the clarification, I simply misunderstood you.

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Or I did not write clearly at 4 AM, which is quite often the case.

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Excellent and inspirational, just when I needed it. Thank you, Mathew.

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Sep 6, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Minor glitch - since Frederick The Great died in 1786, he can't have been defeated by Napoleon.

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I did not mean to imply Frederick the Great was there at Waterloo. But thank you.

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Bravo! Insightful & intriguing. Especially "Can you imagine ..."

As someone from the Prussian region once wrote, “A shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages.”

Seems our current batch of tyrants admired the infamous fellow.

https://twitter.com/JorJorWell/status/1435049924081688576?s=20

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Thank you, Mathew. Per usual superb.

“ In 1763, by decree of Frederick the Great, all Prussian boys and girls aged 5 to 13 or 14 (presumably aside from the nobles whose children were mentored privately through classical training) …”

Curious, what was that classical system? Do you have suggestions to read up on the classical system, please?

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The only goal of "education systems" is to chain produce Today's Trained Dogs that will become Tomorrow's Useful Idiots.

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For people who knew injecting mystery fluid was a game of roulette, refusing the vax was a no brainer. I had the life experience. I came of age in the Frankfurt School era and had already gone through my own painful deprogramming. For some reason, this vax operation had Frankfurt School written all over it. I had been through public school, had eagerly anticipated college, and had believed 100% everything my college professors said, then it all fell apart. I am lucky to not be wearing my old hippy clothes, waiting for the revolution, and wandering the streets addicted to a drug. So... isn't there a Chinese saying that we have to know our enemies? Knowing them doesn't mean you win, but at least you can avoid being permanently disabled. A lot of the injured are angry at the refuseniks. I am very sorry for their injuries but it was as you said, all wrong in every way. The perpetrators are untouchable. Recently I have been thinking it's like the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus where it only ends after the stage is full of corpses. I still hope Ron De Santos is successful.

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Had a similar path. Bought into all the idealistic patriotic crap until it all unraveled. The first crack came when my almamater Texas A&M's promise, "Aggies will always help each other" got shattered. That made me question long held beliefs as they were challenged, leading to awareness that no, not just anyone can be (selected) as president. And down the red pill went, sending me deep into the rabbit hole of reality.

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This is why I was never bamboozled by any of Their bullshit.

Thank you Miss Johnson.

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“Self-guidance is punished by those who tell you they love you as they beat you. It's the worst form of gas lighting. The students stop thinking that thinking is for them as a matter of self-preservation---to avoid traumatic dissociation.” This explains so much that I am seeing! Thank you.

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“ After a defeat at the hands of Napoleon, Frederick doubled-down on his educational system as a means of producing the best soldier drones.”

Impressive considering Napoleon was 15 when Friedrich II died.

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