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An interesting post thank you.

One of the consequences of being raised in a powerful family is also never being corrected, at least not by the majority of people.

If everything you do is always praised, no matter how deranged, it is possible to lose sight of reality and become convinced that you really are as wonderful as everyone says.

Another problem is that nobody ever lets go of power already accumulated, they either try to maintain it as is, or they try to grow it.

But, of course, they will eventually reach a limit and come into conflict with the other powerful groups. Culminating in anger and insanity as they cannot all simultaneously have more wealth and power.

Someone has to endure the humiliation of loss, and this is especially true during periods of economic decline.

In the analogy of the parasites you've given, the parasites have grown so large that there isn't enough host to support them all. Then the parasitic empire attacks itself.

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The Mindwar paper is partially written around the strategy of the leaders attacking the minds of people in their own country. This is one of the reasons why the Fifth Generation Warfare conversation strikes me as a deliberate psyop---to keep people from honing in on the actual roots of planning.

One of the two authors of that paper was Satanist Michael Aquino. He stood trial for child sex abuse. He was also involved in the Remote Viewing program.

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One of the duties of a parent is to instill a sense of reality in the precious offspring, not amplify his entitlement. (Ask me how I know.)

I spent a couple of formative years among a group of the national elite at a reputable boarding school, but coming from a provincial professional family I failed to access the real kunlangeta opportunity, or their sisters.

The true old money is old property and gold, and they know how to survive and prosper through these inflections. Do you think Paris Hilton, for instance, is dependent on her entertainment income?

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Nov 8Liked by Mathew Crawford

Many people who do not have a personal connection to mind control/child abuse think it is some obscure thing that is constantly blown out of proportion. I grew up around many psychiatrists, psychologists etc. I realized early on that their main mission was to provide a label and excuse for things that should be overcome and to string one out in an unproductive way. Many of them where strange people and terrible parents. The history of covid vaccines the last few years has heavily revolved around the idea of demanding the passive acceptance of unwanted penetration. The conditioning of children to accept being held down and injected by adults in charge is an important precursor for future abuse. For decades now, they have tried to make a litmus test out of peoples willingness to take a flu shot that has never worked. One is expected to pretend that getting the flu injection is the same as being asked to drink a small glass of water. One thing that I hope the left will figure out from this election is to stop treating morality like it is an antiquated religious belief. Most people are moral. Most people would not become Diddy if given the opportunity. If a new change is completely radical, it might be wrong. The idea that stealing less than $100 was ok or it is ok to steal this much if your ancestors were wronged this much doesn't fly with people. Likewise, trying to get children to focus on sexuality at a very young age is frowned upon by the vast majority of people. I hope folks can figure this out and can stop trying to drag the lumpen proletariat into their manufactured new world. I also find it very interesting that we made it through this entire election with no one other than Kennedy mentioning the vaccine mandates.

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Nov 8Liked by Mathew Crawford

Fucking Hell Man! I am so down with your writing. Thank You! Three hundred and twelve days ago, I took my first adult step along the path of "re-engineering my own meta-perspective". Looking forward to hearing more on your thoughts regarding meta-immunology. The entire self vs. non-self concept appears way over due for debate.

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Thanks Mathew for this article on parenting, a main concern of mine as a Voluntaryist working for a peaceful world.

You and I, as do most who wonder what is the cause of human violence especially in families, study mind control and ideologies—from governments through religions to cults. These kinds of studies are important.

However, those collective causes are still “downstream”.

The most upstream you can go—the Fons et origo—of human violence is child abuse and neglect beginning with the Mother.

Indeed that is the title of Lloyd deMause’s (founder of Psychohistory) last book, “The Origin of War in Child Abuse”--here for all of his books to download free www.psychohistory.com

As a Voluntaryist and student of deMause, Attachment Theory, Affective Neuroscience (Jaak Panksepp, see in particular his CARE Brain), and Trauma I consider the only way Homo sapiens sapiens will earn their name and turn into voluntariens voluntariens is through peaceful parenting beginning with mothers.

This is why I teach Parent Effectiveness Training PET that uses neither rewards nor punishments for responsibly free, peaceful parenting.

A plug: PARENT EFFECTIVENESS TRAINING (PET) ONLINE STARTS 7PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2024 (New Zealand time)--PEACEFUL PARENTING FOR A PEACEFUL WORLD

https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/parent-effectiveness-training-pet

“The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care. The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars. The evolution of the psyche is first of all accomplished by removing terrible abuses of children and their resulting developmental distortions, allowing the psyche to produce historical novelty and achieve its own inherent human growth path. Culture evolves through the increase of love and freedom for children. Self-mastery must replace the mastery of others. Global suicide must not continue to be our goal. History is now a race between too slowly improving childrearing and too fast evolving destructive technology. The crucial task of future generations will be to raise loved children who grow up to be peaceful, rather than walking time bombs. Can we afford not to teach parenting? What more important task can we devote our resources to?” Lloyd deMause

Get free, stay free.

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Lloyd deMause put together a fascinating hypothesis. I suspect there is a lot of truth to it. Thanks for spreading awareness of this.

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On Lloyd's website are a great many articles and his books for free download.

Much to learn and the references are incredibly many and supportive of his thesis.

For me, the Origin of Violence IS authoritarian parental abuse or dissociative narcissistic neglect.

Thus the only way to have a genuine Everything Voluntary World with peaceful, Self-Authorized Individuals, is to have parents that make this happen because they are this themselves.

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No discipline is a horrible idea. It is a theosophical concept. We are watching in real time what no discipline looks like.

While these ideals and goals are all ones that are pleasant, they ignore current reality and the certainty of bad actors if you ever achieved them. If you successfully raise genuinely peaceful children, they will be a flock of sheep to the first wolf to come along.

What we are actually missing is the gene to push back on bad behaviour in real life. This requires some mental and physical strength.

What part of NZ do you live in?

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Interesting response, Mike.

I note below you appear to have had what could be termed a “traumatic” childhood that makes understandable your response.

We need to define what we mean by “discipline” but in this context it appears for you it means using your power as a parent to control your children through physical and verbal punishment (and usually reward too).

It seems you believe if you are “permissive” and do not “discipline” them using “sticks and carrots” they will turn out to be criminals (wolves) or victims (sheep).

I assume “bad behavior” for you as again for most parents is “misbehavior” that interfers with your meeting your needs and your only response is “discipline”.

If I asked you, as I do all parents in our first Parent Effectiveness Training Session (PET) session, "did you child misbehave today?" you would I assume say yes and give me some example such as leaving their toys scattered everywhere that persons can trip on.

I would ask you if your spouse or friends ever “misbehave” and you would probably say “No”. Then I would ask you who you use this term “misbehave” with and you would admit it is only with your pets and your children.

So we in PET would point out your children are humans not animals and need to be treated as such which means given freedom and then shown how to be responsible for it.

As Gordon Thomas who created PET wrote:

“Most parents and teachers are the victims of either-or thinking – either the adult must retain power or the child will assume it. They see but two choices: adult authority or dangerous permissiveness. The challenge of both of our courses has been to show parents and teachers that they have another choice, an alternative to either authoritarianism or permissiveness.”

“The advocates for greeter control of children are many; those who extol the virtues of obedience to authority have a loud voice. Have they already forgotten the Nazi extermination of European Jews carried out by German soldiers in the name of obedience to the authority of their superiors, and the horrible actions of American soldiers against Vietnamese citizens, and Reverend Jim Jones’ use of “duty to obey orders” to convince his cult members to destroy first their own children and finally themselves?

“The lesson that these crimes against humanity should teach us is that punitive discipline to bring about blind obedience to authority conditions people to view themselves solely as instruments for carrying out another person’s wishes, not as individuals responsible for their own actions.”

I hope you will read the entire essay here?

How We Are Crippling Our Children with Discipline

https://www.gordontraining.com/parenting/crippling-children-discipline/

If a parent or considering becoming one, I hope you will join our PET course starting this coming Sunday

https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/parent-effectiveness-training-pet

Towards peaceful parenting for a peaceful world.

I live in Auckland.

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"I note below you appear to have had what could be termed a “traumatic” childhood". I was tortured by trained professionals: starvation training, ritualized extreme violence, dosed with LSD, psychological role playing exercises by PHD's, social isolation and trauma bonding training, intense ritualized spirituality (including one of the examples you gave above).

I am aware that discipline has the potential to go off the rails. I'm also very aware that you are promoting a theosophical view of child rearing.

" would ask you if your spouse or friends ever “misbehave” and you would probably say “No”. Then I would ask you who you use this term “misbehave” with and you would admit it is only with your pets and your children." I am not doubting you get these responses but this cuts to the heart of the issue. Adults behave badly constantly and don't get any pushback. Your world view promotes this. I know exactly how children with no boundaries grow up. They are awful people and struggle to bond with partners.

There is a simple intellectual rule that anything that needs the Nazis as proof of an argument is wrong. You are confusing discipline with blind obedience. What you are promoting is the literal conditions blind obedience is created from. In the West your ideology is the dominant belief. Children without mental strength are putty in the hands of social engineering. It provides them clarity which kids love. When your friendly school teacher suggests chemical castration in response to you having a bad day and when you get home your parents say "well, how do you feel about that?" the result is likely a win for the pharma companies.

"Do what thou wilt" is literal Satanism for those religiously inclined.

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I think your history of trauma is behind your reply.

You have misunderstood my words and Gordon's (if you read the essay) and your imputing PET's position on discipline as akin to theosophy and making children "putty in the hands of social engineering" expresses your traumatized mind rather than what Gordon and I are saying.

I would end our dialogue with the hope that we can agree upon upholding the Non-Aggression Principle of never using first physical force except to save a life.

I wish you peace and kindness and will reply no more.

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Classic social engineering reply. Anyone with an intellect is happy to debate their position. Weak minds that try to influence others for money can only present "this is the truth".

I'm sure you are well aware that what you are selling comes from theosophy . If you don't, that lack of awareness speaks for itself.

If you don't understand that there is evil in this world, or you turn your eyes from it, you are a tool of evil. Delivering children that believe consequences don't exist into the world is awful for them and for the society they enter with this mindset.

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Staggering article!

I knew on a number of occasions that those assigned as my parents were deciding if killing me was practical or not. This was not as crazy as it may sound: the cult I grew up in is known to have killed people. My uncle was murdered (suicided) in such a suspicious way that his death was publicaly reopened as an investigation three decades after he died. Two of my brothers committed passive suicide: extreme risk taking behaviour that has death as the only likely result.

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I'm sorry to hear that about your family.

Which cult did you grow up in?

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It is called The Family.

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Oh, did you tell me a little about this already? In New Zealand, tied to the Australian group?

Are there any links where I can read about it?

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Disney made a show about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clearing_(TV_series)

The wikipedia story is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Australian_New_Age_group)

There are books and documentaries as well. All of this information is designed more to hide than illuminate. The groups motto is "Unseen, Unheard, Unknown". The people that surrounded me did that.

Assange came from this world.

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I just read a little bit about the cult “The Family”. It was awful.

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Nov 14Liked by Mathew Crawford

Hi Mathew,

Very interesting read as always. I just read your take on the Trump assassination attempt and, as always, you made me doubt reality 😅.

I struggle with the idea that even Trump and those close to him are part of the theater. The part that I find hard to swallow is the implication of really holding that belief. It would mean that we are screwed because there's no way to overthrow the kind of force that is running these worldwide theater.

The only thing that keeps nagging me is Christianity. I'm a life-long atheist, but I've come across some historical arguments that I'm finding really hard to debunk. The interesting thing is that the story the Bible fits the worlwide theater you point to in your writings and its end goal.

I would love to read your thoughts about the arguments for Christianity. Have you the read The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel? Incredible book, and he was an atheist by the way.

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I have not read Strobel.

Whatever the story of the Bible, I think that it is being used as part of a large scale psyop. In fact, I think that's often been the case in history when groups were brought to panic or ecstacy in anticipation of a second coming.

I think that these plans are compartmentalized, so there are mostly sincere people fooled along the way. I plan to explain more in future articles.

Are we screwed? Not if we fix education.

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Thanks for replying! Oh, you have to read Strobel. He is an Ivy League trained lawyer and was a famous investigative journalist. His wife converted, and he set out to debunk Christianity. He ended up converting because of the weight of the evidence. The book is basically all of his interviews with top scholars that led him to his conversion.

You are a great researcher. I would love to read your take on this if you ever get a chance.

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A tiny wedge that could be inserted into the corrupt machinery.

I would be very happy if Trump were to inadvertently call on you to help with that job or in clarifying the task he seems to have taken on with getting the federal government out of the education system. Perhaps you could advise a state education system (ore all of them) on where to start given your positive track record in the past. I would be pleased with that and a speech Trump made recently seems to indicate that his public message is in favour of change.

Kennedy has a web page somewhere that is calling for new blood to provide medical and health guidance and is taking suggestions and votes. Connecting through that or some other means to the Kennedy team might find a similar initiative in the education reforms and you could do there what Kennedy has said he will do for the pharma lobby.

All that happens in politics is probably not a coincidence yet I am still hoping that Kennedy is sincere and Trump is at least on the side of the people.

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Ok 8 need to read a few more times. But 8t seems these cluster b personalities are growing at an exponential rate and I don't think it's all organic.

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It would be great to hear more about Esalen instructor Daniel Schmactenberger.

He is increasingly more influential, yet it's difficult to find material that would help me understand his thinking and background in a more cautious way.

Daniel's material and speaking is very dense for a layperson, and it makes it harder to step back and really get what he's trying to say (and not say).

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I would like to know more about him as well.

I have been fascinated by his breath of knowledge, ability to articulate, and his seeming down-to-earth way of expressing himself.

I can not figure out what are his solutions to the multipolar traps he describes.

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This is a thread people with curiousity can pull at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Vanderlip

This is a classic Theosophy story. People like their Forrest Gump stories and this one has it all. What is missing from the wikipedia article is that he funded Technocracy Incorporated. Elon Musks grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a leader of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada. As we are heading into the world imagineered by this group, knowing the people and history matters.

The story is simple: random manual laborer rapidly leaves that world and into top levels of political power, is lucky enough to help build the Federal Reserve due to a chance ticket on a train, introduces a major Theosophical education system to the US, becomes an international power broker and personally creates one of the creepiest residential enclaves in the United States.

Everything is a family business. This leads to absurdities too large for brains to understand: Napoleon Bonaparte's family members built the FBI. It's just the way it works.

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Dr A. True Ott - Brilliant Expose of Mormons & .....

https://odysee.com/@Ken_Adachi:c/Nov-1-2024:6

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I think in the notes is the link to Red Symphony - that document, for me, provided some pieces of the puzzle that were missing. However i don't think "They" ever intended to install Trotsky (They could have taken out Stalin and replaced him with Their choice at any time). I think the purpose of the interrogation (which was probably arranged by Them) was to enlighten Stalin as to who the puppet master was and to encourage the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact (signed after this interrogation). England with its "duty" to protect Poland - declared war on Germany but not the USSR. PM Churchill was controlled by a group called the Focus which answered to "They". The ultimate purpose was to destroy Germany - which the Morgenthau plan did (eliminate 1/3 of civilian population after the war, reeducation, removal of industry) - Morgenthau also was involved in the New Deal, he worked for Them as did FDR. The other purposes were to break the British Empire - which was done, install the Zionist state, create the UN for the goal of one world government where the League of Nations had failed.

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fantastic article. much needed. we live in a very sick society, and too many people are caught up in it without even knowing and its getting worse. This includes those who commit these horrible acts of abuse and murder. I am hoping that people are able to see through the fog soon like me. are you still updating your original plandemonium graph? I saw that you created a new one and its good too. Close to the top, I see you have a box with the title black nobility, which has an article linked to something written by frances leader.

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make sure to take some time to make some money trading this cycle.

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That assumes the cyclic nature continues. With the Finance Blob and possibly U.S. government setting a new tone, it may not be worth the capital gains to get out and back in.

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what "in" and "out" means to different people is constantly fascinating to me, at a technical level its a constantly shifting landscape.... I am "out" in Colombia I guess - but I built a company to be "in". its not a cash out, I'm capitalizing a business isn't finance funny. Its pretty easy for a company to get a binance account, I'm sure there will be a US equivalent one day haha. I turned some NFT chickens into 3 hectares of land last time, hopefully can do something noteably click-worthy again, even if the "cycle" turns out to be a bust. https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@ecoinstant/how-splinterlands-participation-led-to-real-life-improvements-for-me-and-my-wife

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Do you have a link to the ARE summer camp lawsuit? I can look it up on Pacer if you don't.

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"committing to a costly and risky path of separation from the body of the largely infected society". Do you feel like you are there? Assuming you are one person and not a team (if we have the shared background that question mark will make sense to you) I'm sensing a half in/half out vibe to what is happening.

"The problem is that they're precommitted to the lie. Even if they somehow find their way through the maze to a path of self-reflection that would allow for them to turn that around, they are financially connected to the body Moloch whom they serve first or face starvation. Since the parent cannot handle the failure, the only option that remains in their world is to rid themselves of the children." I know the whole article is something of a fable, but taking those words literally, the parents WANT to torture. Yes they are weak and rely on the system for food, housing and social status, but at their core they enjoy the torture. The weak love inflicting pain. Legitimate strength has no need to inflict pain: they know they can do this at will.

What it comes back to for me is "what are you going to do about it?". I've asked this to people who popularize the ideas we believe we organically hold. They visibly freak out and wont talk to me anymore.

The next five years are unlikely to be theory. We seem to be experiencing a real hinge. Technology wont save anyone, intelligence created money wont save anyone, old pharma wont save anyone. I may be wrong, I'm always early, but I think some people need to get the obvious path to the other side or they will drown.

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"The weak love inflicting pain."

Most of the time, they're just looking to offload their own trauma to anyone weaker. The eugenicists then use the reaction to blame them for being on the bottom of the abuse hierarchy.

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"Most of the time, they're just looking to offload their own trauma to anyone weaker." Exactly. Weak people, by definition, bully those that are weaker. Their preference is to outsource their violence. Plenty of "good" people support bombing civilians in a literal cage in the Middle East. I have employed a large number of what are now senior IDF special forces. I can assure you they enjoy what they do.

Christians go to church and pray for them to torture others. Do they know the specifics? No. But when soldiers that rape civilians to death get promoted as heroes in Israeli media we can pretend we don't know all we want. We do know and are making a choice that somehow this is complicated.

Abuse relies on our consent. I had an over the top encounter towards the end of the covid era. Screaming, threats of violence, filming, threats of arrest due to a mistaken view that I was trying to not wear a face covering in an outdoor recreation space. Due to how over the top it was, I did refuse until everyone physically backed away. After it was over, a "conservative" came up to me and said "man, that was messed up. I fully support you". This person said nothing during the encounter.

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"all Liars shall have their part in the lake which Burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Revelation 21:8. KJV.

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