stillnessinthestorm--2020-10-18--Will I Survive? A Look at the Afterlife

Will I Survive? A Look at the Afterlife

( Gary Lachman ) What happens when we die ?
Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other , with “ Does God exist ?
” and “ What is the meaning of life ?
” coming in as close seconds .
All three , of course , are intertwined , but while the reality of the deity and the solution to life ’ s riddle may be grasped in the here and now , what happens when we give up the ghost seems to be something we can know only by doing just that .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know for certain what happens after death is by dying .
And while the attraction of that ultimate mystery is strong , the means of solving it appear , to most of us at least , somewhat less attractive .
But is it really the case that the answer to what happens after death lies beyond a threshold which , once crossed , can not be uncrossed ?
While messages from the dead fill folklore , myth , and séances , and religions around the world and through the ages have in different @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of an afterlife , many of us are nevertheless not entirely certain that anything awaits us beyond the grave – except perhaps annihilation , which is , of course , the standard modern view .
In recent times , however , assurances of a continuity of consciousness beyond the brain have come , not from the camp of religion , mysticism , or the occult , but from that of their often sworn enemy , science .
In 2001 a paper appeared in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet purporting to show evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or NDEs .
In “ Near-death experiences in survivors of cardiac arrest : a prospective study in the Netherlands , ” the Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel and his research team presented the results of a twenty-year long study of the strange experiences reported by patients who survived heart failure .
That these patients reported being aware of anything during cardiac arrest was strange enough .
The standard view is that when the heart and lungs stop so do the brain and consciousness .
What should have happened was that they experienced nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The patients Lommel studied reported that during the period of unconsciousness brought on by their seizure , they experienced some very remarkable things indeed .
Many recounted feelings of bliss and intense happiness ; many spoke of a bright white light , of a tunnel , of seeing deceased relatives and of going through a kind of “ life review , ” in which their entire lives , as the cliché goes , “ passed before their eyes.
” Many spoke of having an “ out-of-the-body experience , ” of seeing themselves and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point near the ceiling .
Many spoke of guides , angels and spirits , come to comfort them .
Many also assured Lommel that the experience was entirely beneficial , that it relieved them of their fear of death , that it had transformed them in some way , and that it gave them the certainty that the life we know here on earth is not the only one .
Lommel ’ s Lancet paper understandably caused an uproar , yet the research was impressive .
The statistics Lommel and his team provided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given to account for NDEs – from the mainstream scientific view – did not , at least in these cases , work .
Lommel studied some 562 survivors of cardiac arrest and he discovered that up to 18 % of them reported having had a NDE .
Of these , none could be chalked up to oxygen deficiency to the brain , the effects of drugs , or the other physiological or psychological reasons usually offered as a way of explaining the phenomenon .
Lommel and his team concluded the NDE was an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ argued in favour of some kind of ‘ post-death ’ survival .
Perhaps even more controversial , the findings also seemed to offer proof that consciousness can exist outside or even without the brain .
While most mainstream scientists will merely snort at the idea of an afterlife , they will positively bellow at the suggestion consciousness is anything more than a by-product of that three-pound mass of grey matter .
According to a number of prestigious neuroscientists and philosophers of mind – I talk about some of them in my book A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolutely , positively , 100 % produced by the brain .
Lommel was unrepentant and in 2007 he produced a book , Consciousness Beyond Life [ available from New Dawn , see page 79 ] , based on his paper , presenting his case studies in greater depth and bringing his research to a wider public .
The results were encouraging .
The book was a bestseller in the Netherlands , then repeated its success in Germany , the UK and the US .
Lommel has presented his ideas in interviews and videos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work has , of course , attracted criticism .
Yet his findings seem to stand and for the open-minded provide the kind of ‘ hard ’ evidence that scientists dismissive of any non-materialist accounts of consciousness demand , in order for them to consider changing their minds in any way about the matter .
Lommel was not the only medical practitioner to take NDEs seriously and to subject them to study .
Even more controversial than Lommel ’ s findings was the account by the American neurosurgeon Eben Alexander of his own NDE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ studying the brain and teaching others how to study it , at institutions such as the Harvard Medical School .
Like most of his colleagues , he accepted the dogma that the brain produces consciousness .
Then , in 2008 , a bacterial infection – a rare form of meningitis – had him in a coma for a week and taught him otherwise .
His chances of recovery were slim at best , and his family was advised that if he did survive , he would be little more than a vegetable : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yet on the seventh day under a ventilator Alexander opened his eyes and came to .
This was miracle enough .
But the story Alexander had to tell was even more remarkable .
The white light was there , and also beautiful melodies , angelic choirs , fantastic landscapes with strange plant life , waterfalls , crystal pools , and thousands of beings , dancing , and a girl who came to him on a butterfly wing .
During the week of his coma , when his brain shouldn ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ produced no consciousness at all – Alexander went on a journey to “ higher realms ” and eventually to what he calls the “ Core , ” a centre of reality “ filled with the infinite healing power of the all-loving deity , ” the source of everything .
He was privy to fundamental realities , for which “ God seemed too puny a little human word.
” He speaks of experiencing a “ higher dimensional multiverse ” and an “ oversphere ” and that his notions of time , space , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his coma he underwent a kind of spiritual evolution , from what he calls the “ Earthworm ’ s Eye View ” to the Core , many times , learning truths about the nature of existence and our part in it .
One truth was about the reality of the afterlife , knowledge of which Alexander has tried to pass on to his many readers in his bestselling books Proof of Heaven and Maps of Heaven .
Like Pim van Lommel , Alexander came to believe that human beings are much more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a by-product of the brain .
They disagree with the philosopher John Searle who argues that the brain produces consciousness as the liver does bile .
Consciousness , they argue , is not localised in or produced by the brain because consciousness itself is the ultimate reality , not the physical world – an insight echoed down the ages by mystics and visionaries , but which in recent times it seems some scientists are cottoning on to as well .
They see it as a way out of the cul-de-sac reached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem ’ in mainstream neuroscience : how does a neuron , a physical phenomenon , become a thought , a mental one ?
The answer is it doesn ’ t .
It ’ s the other way around .
Whatever we might think of Alexander ’ s account of the afterlife and his ideas about mankind ’ s spiritual evolution – he has since become a popular advocate of the union of science and spirituality with appearances on ‘ Oprah Winfrey ’ and other talk shows – the notion of a non-local consciousness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the cases Lommel studied and Alexander ’ s own , was that they reported vivid inner , transformative experience during a time when the brains involved should have been incapable of ‘ producing ’ anything .
If brains ‘ produce ’ consciousness , this should have been impossible , rather like a flashlight shining without the battery .
Some studies done in the 1960s suggest consciousness may not need much brains at all .
In 1965 John Lorber , a specialist in hydrocephalus – “ water on the brain ” – published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s .
In “ Hydranencephaly with Normal Development , ” published in Developmental Medicine and Child Psychology for December 1965 , Lorber presented several case studies in which people with little or no cerebral cortex functioned normally .
In one case the subject had an IQ of 126 and an honours degree in mathematics .
Two girls born in the 1960s had fluid where their cerebrums should have been , with no evidence of a cerebral cortex , yet both had perfectly normal intelligence .
Unlike ‘ The Wizard of Oz ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases Lorber studied seemed to get on perfectly well without a brain .
Such cases , though well documented , may push the believability barrier , but we need not resort to these extremes to argue the brain does not ‘ produce ’ consciousness .
In the late nineteenth century the philosopher Henri Bergson argued eloquently that , rather than produce consciousness , the brain served an eliminatory function , acting as a reducing valve , filtering reality and allowing only what was necessary for survival to reach conscious awareness .
Rather than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down to something manageable , otherwise we would be overwhelmed by reality ’ s complexity , a condition common to many mystics .
Aldous Huxley resorted to Bergson ’ s idea when , in The Doors of Perception , he tried to account for the effects of the drug mescaline on his consciousness .
The mystical effects of the drug , Huxley believed , were due to its ‘ opening ’ the filters of the brain , allowing more consciousness than needed for mere survival to flood into awareness .
The fact that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alexander ’ s own , the brain was out of commission , seems to support the Bergson/Huxley thesis .
With the filters off , much more of Reality – what Huxley called “ Mind at Large ” – became available .
If the brain “ mutes ” reality , allowing , as Huxley said , only a “ thin trickle ” to enter consciousness , in the NDE the taps seem to be on full blast .
The analogy is apt as our kitchen taps do not ‘ produce ’ the water in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they stop it from running .
It ’ s already there in the pipes .
Some variant of Bergson ’ s idea is popular among ‘ alternative ’ scientists , such as the biologist Rupert Sheldrake who speaks of the brain acting as a kind of “ tuner , ” “ selecting ” different “ wavelengths ” of reality , rather as a radio works by cutting out all transmissions except the one you wish to hear , or as a television that picks up a broadcast but is not responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television ‘ produces ’ the programs they play .
They ‘ receive ’ them from the broadcaster , and Sheldrake and other scientists and philosophers like him , see the brain as a kind of inner TV , picking out different ‘ channels ’ , broadcast by – well , we ’ re not quite sure .
The general idea is that consciousness is the fundamental reality ; rather than being stuffed into the cramp confines of our skulls , it pervades the universe .
This is the “ panpsychism ” that philosopher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ philosophical footsteps of Bergson and his contemporary Alfred North Whitehead , who , in different ways , envisioned some version of Mind at Large .
Needless to say – or perhaps not – such an idea as an all-pervasive consciousness or mind is , of course , a staple part of many pre-modern worldviews .
Another who accepted the idea of Mind at Large was , oddly enough , an early investigator into NDEs , although in his aptly posthumous Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death ( 1903 ) , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afterlife , F.W.H .
Myers did not call them that .
Myers spoke of the “ subliminal mind , ” by which he meant something different than Freud ’ s “ unconscious , ” which Myers ’ coinage preceded by some years .
It was Huxley who in his foreword to Myers ’ classic compared his “ subliminal mind ” to an “ upstairs ” in the “ house of the soul , ” rather than Freud ’ s “ garbage-littered basement.
” This upstairs had some unusual characteristics and in the late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Society for Psychical Research devoted their lives to studying them .
Take , for example , the remarkable experience of Dr A. S. Wiltse who in 1889 “ died ” from typhoid fever .
Wiltse was pronounced dead but found himself “ waking up ” inside his body , and gradually being “ released ” from it .
He felt himself emerge from his body and found that he could walk away from it .
No one noticed him and , stranger still , he found that he could walk through people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rocks standing beneath storm clouds .
A voice told him that if he continued past them he would enter eternity but if desired he could return to life , a common choice in many modern NDEs .
He then “ woke up , ” four hours after being pronounced dead , and told of what he saw .
Myers ’ account of Dr Wiltse ’ s experience was preceded by an even earlier one .
In 1871 Albert Heim , a professor of geology , fell some seventy metres while climbing in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his fall , Heim experienced a panoramic “ life review , ” seeing his whole past “ take place in many images , as though on a stage at some distance from me.
” Like many who have experienced an NDE , he saw a “ heavenly light ” and was free from fear and anxiety .
Conflict was “ transmuted into love ” and he found himself moving “ painlessly and softly ” into a “ splendid blue heaven.
” Heim survived his fall but the experience so moved him that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by other climbers .
Forgotten for years , Heim ’ s work was re-discovered when what we might call the “ NDE and afterlife boom ” of the 1970s and 80s , in the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross , Raymond Moody , Kenneth Ring and others , brought it back to light .
Another fairly well-known account of a NDE is that of C. G. Jung , who , in 1944 , following a heart attack , found himself orbiting the earth and confronting a strange temple and Hindu floating in space .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Dr Wiltse when he found himself whisked back to earth , disappointed at the prospect of coming back to life .
Do Lommel and Alexander bring anything new to this study ?
Their scientific and medical credentials certainly bring new attention to it , although to be sure , not all of it is positive , and the claims and expertise of both have come under heavy scrutiny and criticism .
But part of what makes their and other studies convincing – at least to the open-minded – is the similarity between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on what happens when we die .
As Ptolemy Tompkins in The Modern Book of the Dead makes clear , there is much overlap between accounts of the afterlife found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead , to speak of only the two most famous earlier reports on the beyond .
And these two share much with recent investigations , such as the insights about the “ life between death and rebirth ” gleaned by the “ spiritual scientist ” Rudolf Steiner through his access @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instance , Steiner too makes the “ life review ” a central part of the process of dying , in preparation for reincarnation .
But , as Tompkins makes clear , there are also differences .
The Swedish scientist and religious philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg , who wrote much about the brain , journeyed to heaven , hell , and also to an intermediary realm he called the “ spirit world , ” not through a NDE but through inducing visionary states .
He gave his own “ proof ” of the higher spheres @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet his account is somewhat different from Eben Alexander ’ s , while both Swedenborg ’ s and Alexander ’ s differ considerably from Steiner ’ s .
Enough similarities exist among these accounts to suggest that in some way they and other voyagers were encountering different parts of the same inner landscape .
And if the ‘ proofs ’ of heaven we have glanced at here are at all reliable , it is one that , at some point , we all will have an opportunity to journey through , in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Awareness Project : Your Body .
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Your Truth .
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Gary Lachman was born in Bayonne , New Jersey , but has lived in London , England since 1996 .
A founding member of the rock group Blondie , he is now a full time writer with more than a dozen books to his name , on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness and the western esoteric tradition , to literature and suicide , and the history of popular culture .
Lachman writes frequently for many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and lectures on his work in the US , UK , and Europe .
His work has been translated into several languages .
His website is www.garylachman.co.uk .
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(Gary Lachman) What happens when we die? Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other, with “Does God exist?” and “What is the meaning of life?” coming in as close seconds. All three, of course, are intertwined, but while the reality of the deity and the solution to life’s riddle may be grasped in the here and now, what happens when we give up the ghost seems to be something we can know only by doing just that. It seems that the only way we can know for certain what happens after death is by dying. And while the attraction of that ultimate mystery is strong, the means of solving it appear, to most of us at least, somewhat less attractive.
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Source – Waking Times
by Gary Lachman, September 25th, 2020
But is it really the case that the answer to what happens after death lies beyond a threshold which, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed? While messages from the dead fill folklore, myth, and séances, and religions around the world and through the ages have in different ways assured their devotees of the reality of an afterlife, many of us are nevertheless not entirely certain that anything awaits us beyond the grave – except perhaps annihilation, which is, of course, the standard modern view. In recent times, however, assurances of a continuity of consciousness beyond the brain have come, not from the camp of religion, mysticism, or the occult, but from that of their often sworn enemy, science.
Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel
In 2001 a paper appeared in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet purporting to show evidence supporting the reality of Near-Death Experiences, or NDEs. In “Near-death experiences in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands,” the Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel and his research team presented the results of a twenty-year long study of the strange experiences reported by patients who survived heart failure. That these patients reported being aware of anything during cardiac arrest was strange enough. The standard view is that when the heart and lungs stop so do the brain and consciousness. What should have happened was that they experienced nothing at all. Nevertheless they did.
The patients Lommel studied reported that during the period of unconsciousness brought on by their seizure, they experienced some very remarkable things indeed. Many recounted feelings of bliss and intense happiness; many spoke of a bright white light, of a tunnel, of seeing deceased relatives and of going through a kind of “life review,” in which their entire lives, as the cliché goes, “passed before their eyes.” Many spoke of having an “out-of-the-body experience,” of seeing themselves and their nurses and doctors from some vantage point near the ceiling. Many spoke of guides, angels and spirits, come to comfort them. Many also assured Lommel that the experience was entirely beneficial, that it relieved them of their fear of death, that it had transformed them in some way, and that it gave them the certainty that the life we know here on earth is not the only one.
Lommel’s Lancet paper understandably caused an uproar, yet the research was impressive. The statistics Lommel and his team provided seem to show that the usual explanations given to account for NDEs – from the mainstream scientific view – did not, at least in these cases, work. Lommel studied some 562 survivors of cardiac arrest and he discovered that up to 18% of them reported having had a NDE. Of these, none could be chalked up to oxygen deficiency to the brain, the effects of drugs, or the other physiological or psychological reasons usually offered as a way of explaining the phenomenon. Lommel and his team concluded the NDE was an actual, objective event and that it argued in favour of some kind of ‘post-death’ survival.
Perhaps even more controversial, the findings also seemed to offer proof that consciousness can exist outside or even without the brain. While most mainstream scientists will merely snort at the idea of an afterlife, they will positively bellow at the suggestion consciousness is anything more than a by-product of that three-pound mass of grey matter. According to a number of prestigious neuroscientists and philosophers of mind – I talk about some of them in my book A Secret History of Consciousness – consciousness is absolutely, positively, 100% produced by the brain.
Lommel was unrepentant and in 2007 he produced a book, Consciousness Beyond Life [available from New Dawn, see page 79], based on his paper, presenting his case studies in greater depth and bringing his research to a wider public. The results were encouraging. The book was a bestseller in the Netherlands, then repeated its success in Germany, the UK and the US. Lommel has presented his ideas in interviews and videos and on television. Lommel’s work has, of course, attracted criticism. Yet his findings seem to stand and for the open-minded provide the kind of ‘hard’ evidence that scientists dismissive of any non-materialist accounts of consciousness demand, in order for them to consider changing their minds in any way about the matter.
A Neurosurgeon Visits “Heaven”
Lommel was not the only medical practitioner to take NDEs seriously and to subject them to study. Even more controversial than Lommel’s findings was the account by the American neurosurgeon Eben Alexander of his own NDE. Alexander had twenty-five years’ experience studying the brain and teaching others how to study it, at institutions such as the Harvard Medical School. Like most of his colleagues, he accepted the dogma that the brain produces consciousness. Then, in 2008, a bacterial infection – a rare form of meningitis – had him in a coma for a week and taught him otherwise. His chances of recovery were slim at best, and his family was advised that if he did survive, he would be little more than a vegetable: the infection had caused irreparable brain damage. Yet on the seventh day under a ventilator Alexander opened his eyes and came to. This was miracle enough. But the story Alexander had to tell was even more remarkable.
The white light was there, and also beautiful melodies, angelic choirs, fantastic landscapes with strange plant life, waterfalls, crystal pools, and thousands of beings, dancing, and a girl who came to him on a butterfly wing. During the week of his coma, when his brain shouldn’t have produced the slightest hallucination – should have produced no consciousness at all – Alexander went on a journey to “higher realms” and eventually to what he calls the “Core,” a centre of reality “filled with the infinite healing power of the all-loving deity,” the source of everything. He was privy to fundamental realities, for which “God seemed too puny a little human word.” He speaks of experiencing a “higher dimensional multiverse” and an “oversphere” and that his notions of time, space, and everything else were radically changed. During his coma he underwent a kind of spiritual evolution, from what he calls the “Earthworm’s Eye View” to the Core, many times, learning truths about the nature of existence and our part in it. One truth was about the reality of the afterlife, knowledge of which Alexander has tried to pass on to his many readers in his bestselling books Proof of Heaven and Maps of Heaven.
Like Pim van Lommel, Alexander came to believe that human beings are much more than their physical bodies and consciousness is something more than a by-product of the brain. They disagree with the philosopher John Searle who argues that the brain produces consciousness as the liver does bile. Consciousness, they argue, is not localised in or produced by the brain because consciousness itself is the ultimate reality, not the physical world – an insight echoed down the ages by mystics and visionaries, but which in recent times it seems some scientists are cottoning on to as well. They see it as a way out of the cul-de-sac reached by trying to solve the ‘hard problem’ in mainstream neuroscience: how does a neuron, a physical phenomenon, become a thought, a mental one? The answer is it doesn’t. It’s the other way around. Filtering Reality Whatever we might think of Alexander’s account of the afterlife and his ideas about mankind’s spiritual evolution – he has since become a popular advocate of the union of science and spirituality with appearances on ‘Oprah Winfrey’ and other talk shows – the notion of a non-local consciousness has a history. What was remarkable about the cases Lommel studied and Alexander’s own, was that they reported vivid inner, transformative experience during a time when the brains involved should have been incapable of ‘producing’ anything. If brains ‘produce’ consciousness, this should have been impossible, rather like a flashlight shining without the battery. Some studies done in the 1960s suggest consciousness may not need much brains at all. In 1965 John Lorber, a specialist in hydrocephalus – “water on the brain” – published a paper as remarkable as Lommel’s. In “Hydranencephaly with Normal Development,” published in Developmental Medicine and Child Psychology for December 1965, Lorber presented several case studies in which people with little or no cerebral cortex functioned normally. In one case the subject had an IQ of 126 and an honours degree in mathematics. Two girls born in the 1960s had fluid where their cerebrums should have been, with no evidence of a cerebral cortex, yet both had perfectly normal intelligence. Unlike ‘The Wizard of Oz’s Scarecrow, they, and the other cases Lorber studied seemed to get on perfectly well without a brain. Such cases, though well documented, may push the believability barrier, but we need not resort to these extremes to argue the brain does not ‘produce’ consciousness. In the late nineteenth century the philosopher Henri Bergson argued eloquently that, rather than produce consciousness, the brain served an eliminatory function, acting as a reducing valve, filtering reality and allowing only what was necessary for survival to reach conscious awareness. Rather than produce consciousness, the brain edits it down to something manageable, otherwise we would be overwhelmed by reality’s complexity, a condition common to many mystics. Aldous Huxley resorted to Bergson’s idea when, in The Doors of Perception, he tried to account for the effects of the drug mescaline on his consciousness. The mystical effects of the drug, Huxley believed, were due to its ‘opening’ the filters of the brain, allowing more consciousness than needed for mere survival to flood into awareness. The fact that in the cases Lommel studied and in Alexander’s own, the brain was out of commission, seems to support the Bergson/Huxley thesis. With the filters off, much more of Reality – what Huxley called “Mind at Large” – became available. If the brain “mutes” reality, allowing, as Huxley said, only a “thin trickle” to enter consciousness, in the NDE the taps seem to be on full blast. The analogy is apt as our kitchen taps do not ‘produce’ the water in our sinks, but quite the opposite, they stop it from running. It’s already there in the pipes. Some variant of Bergson’s idea is popular among ‘alternative’ scientists, such as the biologist Rupert Sheldrake who speaks of the brain acting as a kind of “tuner,” “selecting” different “wavelengths” of reality, rather as a radio works by cutting out all transmissions except the one you wish to hear, or as a television that picks up a broadcast but is not responsible for it. Neither my radio nor my television ‘produces’ the programs they play. They ‘receive’ them from the broadcaster, and Sheldrake and other scientists and philosophers like him, see the brain as a kind of inner TV, picking out different ‘channels’, broadcast by – well, we’re not quite sure. The general idea is that consciousness is the fundamental reality; rather than being stuffed into the cramp confines of our skulls, it pervades the universe. This is the “panpsychism” that philosopher David Chalmers advocates, following in the philosophical footsteps of Bergson and his contemporary Alfred North Whitehead, who, in different ways, envisioned some version of Mind at Large. Needless to say – or perhaps not – such an idea as an all-pervasive consciousness or mind is, of course, a staple part of many pre-modern worldviews. Another who accepted the idea of Mind at Large was, oddly enough, an early investigator into NDEs, although in his aptly posthumous Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (1903), the first “scientific” study of the afterlife, F.W.H. Myers did not call them that. Myers spoke of the “subliminal mind,” by which he meant something different than Freud’s “unconscious,” which Myers’ coinage preceded by some years. It was Huxley who in his foreword to Myers’ classic compared his “subliminal mind” to an “upstairs” in the “house of the soul,” rather than Freud’s “garbage-littered basement.” This upstairs had some unusual characteristics and in the late nineteenth century Myers and his fellows in the Society for Psychical Research devoted their lives to studying them. Take, for example, the remarkable experience of Dr A. S. Wiltse who in 1889 “died” from typhoid fever. Wiltse was pronounced dead but found himself “waking up” inside his body, and gradually being “released” from it. He felt himself emerge from his body and found that he could walk away from it. No one noticed him and, stranger still, he found that he could walk through people. Wiltse then found himself confronting huge rocks standing beneath storm clouds. A voice told him that if he continued past them he would enter eternity but if desired he could return to life, a common choice in many modern NDEs. He then “woke up,” four hours after being pronounced dead, and told of what he saw. Myers’ account of Dr Wiltse’s experience was preceded by an even earlier one. In 1871 Albert Heim, a professor of geology, fell some seventy metres while climbing in the Alps. During the few seconds of his fall, Heim experienced a panoramic “life review,” seeing his whole past “take place in many images, as though on a stage at some distance from me.” Like many who have experienced an NDE, he saw a “heavenly light” and was free from fear and anxiety. Conflict was “transmuted into love” and he found himself moving “painlessly and softly” into a “splendid blue heaven.” Heim survived his fall but the experience so moved him that he began to collect accounts of similar experiences by other climbers. Forgotten for years, Heim’s work was re-discovered when what we might call the “NDE and afterlife boom” of the 1970s and 80s, in the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring and others, brought it back to light. Another fairly well-known account of a NDE is that of C. G. Jung, who, in 1944, following a heart attack, found himself orbiting the earth and confronting a strange temple and Hindu floating in space. Jung was about to cross the threshold like Dr Wiltse when he found himself whisked back to earth, disappointed at the prospect of coming back to life. Do Lommel and Alexander bring anything new to this study? Their scientific and medical credentials certainly bring new attention to it, although to be sure, not all of it is positive, and the claims and expertise of both have come under heavy scrutiny and criticism. But part of what makes their and other studies convincing – at least to the open-minded – is the similarity between the accounts they study and older reports on what happens when we die. As Ptolemy Tompkins in The Modern Book of the Dead makes clear, there is much overlap between accounts of the afterlife found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, to speak of only the two most famous earlier reports on the beyond. And these two share much with recent investigations, such as the insights about the “life between death and rebirth” gleaned by the “spiritual scientist” Rudolf Steiner through his access to the “Akashic Record.” For instance, Steiner too makes the “life review” a central part of the process of dying, in preparation for reincarnation. But, as Tompkins makes clear, there are also differences. The Swedish scientist and religious philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, who wrote much about the brain, journeyed to heaven, hell, and also to an intermediary realm he called the “spirit world,” not through a NDE but through inducing visionary states. He gave his own “proof” of the higher spheres in his book Heaven and Hell, yet his account is somewhat different from Eben Alexander’s, while both Swedenborg’s and Alexander’s differ considerably from Steiner’s. Enough similarities exist among these accounts to suggest that in some way they and other voyagers were encountering different parts of the same inner landscape. And if the ‘proofs’ of heaven we have glanced at here are at all reliable, it is one that, at some point, we all will have an opportunity to journey through, in this life and the next.
About The Author
Gary Lachman
Gary Lachman was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, but has lived in London, England since 1996. A founding member of the rock group Blondie, he is now a full time writer with more than a dozen books to his name, on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness and the western esoteric tradition, to literature and suicide, and the history of popular culture. Lachman writes frequently for many journals in the US and UK, and lectures on his work in the US, UK, and Europe. His work has been translated into several languages. His website is www.garylachman.co.uk.
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-10-18--CLAIM: City of Seattle Paying Antifa Militants to Write F**k Police on BLM Mural

( Paul Joseph Watson ) The city of Seattle is literally paying Antifa militants to write “ f**k police ” and “ all cops are bastards ” ( ACAB ) on Black Lives Matter murals near the infamous CHOP zone , according to a far-left live streamer .
Related Riots Break Out Again In Seattle : Starbucks , Cops Attacked With ‘ Explosives , ’ Police Say ( Opens in a new browser tab ) Kitty Shackleford shared clips from the individual ’ s live stream which went out on Monday , which show the mural tagged with phrases like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” “ no good cops in a racist system , ” & “ abolish ICE ” .
“ The funniest thing about this is… the city of Seattle is paying me to do this , so it ’ s beautiful , you know what I ’ m saying , ” the live streamer says while laughing .
He also makes clear that BLM is “ coming for ” Mayor Jenny Durkan next , despite her literally overseeing financial aid to the agitators .
The mural is also tagged with the words “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the manifesto of Antifa terrorist Michael Reinoehl who murdered Trump supporter Aaron Danielson in cold blood in Portland in late August .
SDOT announced that it will maintaining the integrity of the mural , which deteriorates much faster than other surfaces , and that the total cost will remain unknown until the project is finished .
“ Imagine thinking you ’ re a revolutionary fighting the system when you ’ re getting paid by the system to take part in said “ revolution , ” writes Chris Menahan .
One fears for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the controlling authorities , not merely the rioters , are pro-Antifa .
As we highlighted yesterday , the likely next Mayor of Portland is also a vehement Antifa supporter and recently wore a skirt which championed the legacy of Chairman Mao , the Communist dictator who was responsible for the deaths of around 50 million people .
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(Paul Joseph Watson) The city of Seattle is literally paying Antifa militants to write “f**k police” and “all cops are bastards” (ACAB) on Black Lives Matter murals near the infamous CHOP zone, according to a far-left live streamer.
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by Paul Joseph Watson, October 7th, 2020
Kitty Shackleford shared clips from the individual’s live stream which went out on Monday, which show the mural tagged with phrases like “abolish capitalism,” “ACAB,” “no good cops in a racist system,” & “abolish ICE”.
Apparently the city of Seattle is paying artists, including this militant streamer to permanently restore the Black Lives Matter mural outside the CHOP zone. "ACAB," "no good cops in a racist system," & "abolish ICE" (among other things) are now officially endorsed by the city. / pic.twitter.com/XHFuspU0qf — Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) October 7, 2020
“The funniest thing about this is… the city of Seattle is paying me to do this, so it’s beautiful, you know what I’m saying,” the live streamer says while laughing.
He also makes clear that BLM is “coming for” Mayor Jenny Durkan next, despite her literally overseeing financial aid to the agitators.
The mural is also tagged with the words “100% Antifa,” a reference to the manifesto of Antifa terrorist Michael Reinoehl who murdered Trump supporter Aaron Danielson in cold blood in Portland in late August.
SDOT announced that it will maintaining the integrity of the mural, which deteriorates much faster than other surfaces, and that the total cost will remain unknown until the project is finished.
https://t.co/MtIUmwBYaU Site says SDOT has confirmed artists (VividMatterCollective) will be compensated, and it will not know the cost until the project is finished. Why is there a blank check for criminals to be writing these messages on the streets? / pic.twitter.com/qk4vdSsZmK — Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) October 7, 2020
Streamer seems to be pictured below working on the mural. How much is the city paying criminals to write this on the streets? Do they endorse the "ACAB" messages written on the mural? Seattle blog about the project:https://t.co/lcw6QyOOWc / pic.twitter.com/x6qhshHpNZ — Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) October 7, 2020
Another example of the "artist" Seattle has now endorsed. How much is the city of Seattle paying these "artists," to shit on our law enforcement, communities, and country / pic.twitter.com/3fKiZ5uuCv — Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) October 7, 2020
“Imagine thinking you’re a revolutionary fighting the system when you’re getting paid by the system to take part in said “revolution,” writes Chris Menahan.
One fears for the future of cities like Seattle given that the controlling authorities, not merely the rioters, are pro-Antifa.
As we highlighted yesterday, the likely next Mayor of Portland is also a vehement Antifa supporter and recently wore a skirt which championed the legacy of Chairman Mao, the Communist dictator who was responsible for the deaths of around 50 million people.
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-10-18--Airports Begin Testing ‘COVID Passport’ That Will Record Whether Someone Has Been Vaccinated Before

Airports Begin Testing ‘COVID Passport’ That Will Record Whether Someone Has Been Vaccinated Before Travel

( Paul Joseph Watson ) Passengers on United Airlines and Cathay Pacific traveling out of Heathrow Airport will begin testing a new ‘ COVID passport ’ that in the future will check if someone has been vaccinated before they travel .
Related Stunning Aerial Video of Iceland ’ s Green Volcano Can Soothe Your Lockdown Stress The technology is called CommonPass and will let people travel without being quarantined if they download an app to their phone which contains a negative COVID test or a vaccine certificate .
“ The phone software is a digital health pass which can hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ someone has been vaccinated in future in a way designed to satisfy various governments ’ different regulations , ” reports the Daily Mail .
Overseen by the Commons Project Foundation , part of the World Economic Forum , the pass works by having flyers upload their COVID test or vaccination certificate to the app which then generates a QR code that can be scanned by airline staff and border officials .
“ Without the ability to trust COVID-19 tests – and eventually vaccine records – across international borders , many countries will feel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandatory quarantines for as long as the pandemic persists , ” said Dr Bradley Perkins , chief medical officer of The Commons Project .
The issue of whether people who refuse to take a coronavirus inoculation will be refused international or even internal travel is likely to come to fore as the world moves closer to a COVID-19 vaccine .
As we highlighted last month , British Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to use the military to ship the vaccines across the country and set up regional distribution hubs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ database to track progress and issue the vaccination certificates.
” The MP said the vaccination certificates “ will probably have to be internationally recognized in order to allow travel , international travel.
” Earlier this year , the Mayor of Nice also called for citizens to be required to carry “ health passports ” if they wish to travel , while Germany is also considering mandating “ coronavirus immunity cards ” that would allow those who have developed antibodies to COVID-19 to have more freedom than the as-yet uninfected .
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(Paul Joseph Watson) Passengers on United Airlines and Cathay Pacific traveling out of Heathrow Airport will begin testing a new ‘COVID passport’ that in the future will check if someone has been vaccinated before they travel.
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by Paul Joseph Watson, October 7th, 2020
The technology is called CommonPass and will let people travel without being quarantined if they download an app to their phone which contains a negative COVID test or a vaccine certificate.
“The phone software is a digital health pass which can hold a certified COVID-19 test status or show someone has been vaccinated in future in a way designed to satisfy various governments’ different regulations,” reports the Daily Mail.
Overseen by the Commons Project Foundation, part of the World Economic Forum, the pass works by having flyers upload their COVID test or vaccination certificate to the app which then generates a QR code that can be scanned by airline staff and border officials.
“Without the ability to trust COVID-19 tests – and eventually vaccine records – across international borders, many countries will feel compelled to retain full travel bans and mandatory quarantines for as long as the pandemic persists,” said Dr Bradley Perkins, chief medical officer of The Commons Project.
The issue of whether people who refuse to take a coronavirus inoculation will be refused international or even internal travel is likely to come to fore as the world moves closer to a COVID-19 vaccine.
As we highlighted last month, British Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to use the military to ship the vaccines across the country and set up regional distribution hubs as well as developing a “national database to track progress and issue the vaccination certificates.”
The MP said the vaccination certificates “will probably have to be internationally recognized in order to allow travel, international travel.”
Earlier this year, the Mayor of Nice also called for citizens to be required to carry “health passports” if they wish to travel, while Germany is also considering mandating “coronavirus immunity cards” that would allow those who have developed antibodies to COVID-19 to have more freedom than the as-yet uninfected.
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The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-10-18--The Covidian Cult: Mass Conformity to a Psychotic Official Narrative

( Staff Writer ) One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative .
Not a regular official narrative , like the “ Cold War ” or the “ War on Terror ” narratives .
Related Author of Dystopian Classics Predicted Face Masks to Enforce Conformity 70 Years Ago ( Opens in a new browser tab ) Post A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts .
Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples , but the phenomenon is better observed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Numerous examples will spring to mind : the Manson family , Jim Jones ’ People ’ s Temple , the Church of Scientology , Heavens Gate , etc.
, each with its own psychotic official narrative : Helter Skelter , Christian Communism , Xenu and the Galactic Confederacy , and so on .
Looking in from the dominant culture ( or back through time in the case of the Nazis ) , the delusional nature of these official narratives is glaringly obvious to most rational people .
What many people fail to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prey to them ( whether individual cult members or entire totalitarian societies ) such narratives do not register as psychotic .
On the contrary , they feel entirely normal .
Everything in their social “ reality ” reifies and reaffirms the narrative , and anything that challenges or contradicts it is perceived as an existential threat .
These narratives are invariably paranoid , portraying the cult as threatened or persecuted by an evil enemy or antagonistic force which only unquestioning conformity to the cult ’ s ideology can save its members from .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is mainstream culture , body thetans , counter-revolutionaries , Jews , or a virus .
The point is not the identity of the enemy .
The point is the atmosphere of paranoia and hysteria the official narrative generates , which keeps the cult members ( or the society ) compliant .
In addition to being paranoid , these narratives are often internally inconsistent , illogical , and … well , just completely ridiculous .
This does not weaken them , as one might suspect .
Actually , it increases their power , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reconcile their inconsistency and irrationality , and in many cases utter absurdity , in order to remain in good standing with the cult .
Such reconciliation is of course impossible , and causes the cult members ’ minds to short circuit and abandon any semblance of critical thinking , which is precisely what the cult leader wants .
Moreover , cult leaders will often radically change these narratives for no apparent reason , forcing their cult members to abruptly forswear ( and often even denounce as “ heresy ” ) the beliefs they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and behave as if they had never believed them , which causes their minds to further short circuit , until they eventually give up even trying to think rationally , and just mindlessly parrot whatever nonsensical gibberish the cult leader fills their heads with .
Also , the cult leader ’ s nonsensical gibberish is not as nonsensical as it may seem at first .
Most of us , upon encountering such gibberish , assume that the cult leader is trying to communicate , and that something is very wrong with his brain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to communicate .
He is trying to disorient and control the listener ’ s mind .
Listen to Charlie Manson “ rapping.
” Not just to what he says , but how he says it .
Note how he sprinkles bits of truth into his stream of free-associated nonsense , and his repetitive use of thought-terminating clichés , described by Robert J. Lifton as follows : “ The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché .
The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easily memorized and easily expressed .
They become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.
” — Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism : A Study of “ Brainwashing ” in China , 1961 If all this sounds familiar , good .
Because the same techniques that most cult leaders use to control the minds of the members of their cults are used by totalitarian systems to control the minds of entire societies : Milieu Control , Loaded Language , Sacred Science , Demand for Purity , and other standard mind-control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much any society , just as anyone can fall prey to a cult , given the right set of circumstances .
It is happening to most of our societies right now .
An official narrative is being implemented .
A totalitarian official narrative .
A totally psychotic official narrative , no less delusional than that of the Nazis , or the Manson family , or any other cult .
Most people can not see that it is happening , for the simple reason that it is happening to them .
They are literally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind is extremely resilient and inventive when it is pushed past its limits .
Ask anyone who has struggled with psychosis or has taken too much LSD .
We do not recognize when we are going insane .
When reality falls apart completely , the mind will create a delusional narrative , which appears just as “ real ” as our normal reality , because even a delusion is better than the stark raving terror of utter chaos .
This is what totalitarians and cult leaders count on , and exploit to implant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why actual initiation rituals ( as opposed to purely symbolic rituals ) begin by attacking the subject ’ s mind with terror , pain , physical exhaustion , psychedelic drugs , or some other means of obliterating the subject ’ s perception of reality .
Once that is achieved , and the subject ’ s mind starts desperately trying to construct a new narrative to make sense out of the cognitive chaos and psychological trauma it is undergoing , it is relatively easy to “ guide ” that process and implant whatever narrative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your homework .
And this is why so many people — people who are able to easily recognize totalitarianism in cults and foreign countries — can not perceive the totalitarianism that is taking shape now , right in front of their faces ( or , rather , right inside their minds ) .
Nor can they perceive the delusional nature of the official “ Covid-19 ” narrative , no more than those in Nazi Germany were able to perceive how completely delusional their official “ master race ” narrative was .
Such people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been successfully initiated into a cult , which is essentially what totalitarianism is , albeit on a societal scale .
Their initiation into the Covidian Cult began in January , when the medical authorities and corporate media turned on The Fear with projections of hundreds of millions of deaths and fake photos of people dropping dead in the streets .
[ By the way , have you seen any people dropping dead in the streets since this alleged pandemic started , anywhere in the world except for China ?
Because that cheap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into submission , yet now we know that ’ s not how SARS-COV-2 works .
Those people were clearly faking it , so “ cui bono ” – who benefits ?
Don ’ t hold your breath to hear these hard question being asked on TV , because that would be yet another thing to invalidate the “ pandemic ” narrative . ]
The psychological conditioning has continued for months .
The global masses have been subjected to a constant stream of propaganda , manufactured hysteria , wild speculation , conflicting directives , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects .
Lockdowns .
Emergency field hospitals and morgues .
The singing-dancing NHS staff .
Death trucks .
Overflowing ICUs .
Dead Covid babies .
Manipulated statistics .
Goon squads .
Masks .
And all the rest of it .
Eight months later , here we are .
The Head of the Health Emergencies Program at the WHO has basically confirmed an IFR of 0.14 % , approximately the same as the seasonal flu .
And here are the latest survival rate estimates from the Center for Disease Control : The “ science @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increasing number of doctors and medical experts are breaking ranks and explaining how the current mass hysteria over “ cases ” ( which now includes perfectly healthy people ) is essentially meaningless propaganda , for example , in this segment on ARD , one of the big mainstream German TV channels .
And then there is the existence of Sweden , and other countries which are not playing ball with the official Covid-19 narrative , which makes a mockery of the ongoing hysteria .
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(Staff Writer) One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the “Cold War” or the “War on Terror” narratives.
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by Staff Writer, Ovtober 17th, 2020
A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts.
Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better observed in cults and other sub-cultural societal groups.
Numerous examples will spring to mind: the Manson family, Jim Jones’ People’s Temple, the Church of Scientology, Heavens Gate, etc., each with its own psychotic official narrative: Helter Skelter, Christian Communism, Xenu and the Galactic Confederacy, and so on.
Looking in from the dominant culture (or back through time in the case of the Nazis), the delusional nature of these official narratives is glaringly obvious to most rational people.
What many people fail to understand is that to those who fall prey to them (whether individual cult members or entire totalitarian societies) such narratives do not register as psychotic. On the contrary, they feel entirely normal.
Everything in their social “reality” reifies and reaffirms the narrative, and anything that challenges or contradicts it is perceived as an existential threat.
These narratives are invariably paranoid, portraying the cult as threatened or persecuted by an evil enemy or antagonistic force which only unquestioning conformity to the cult’s ideology can save its members from.
It makes little difference whether this antagonist is mainstream culture, body thetans, counter-revolutionaries, Jews, or a virus.
The point is not the identity of the enemy. The point is the atmosphere of paranoia and hysteria the official narrative generates, which keeps the cult members (or the society) compliant.
In addition to being paranoid, these narratives are often internally inconsistent, illogical, and … well, just completely ridiculous. This does not weaken them, as one might suspect.
Actually, it increases their power, as it forces their adherents to attempt to reconcile their inconsistency and irrationality, and in many cases utter absurdity, in order to remain in good standing with the cult.
Such reconciliation is of course impossible, and causes the cult members’ minds to short circuit and abandon any semblance of critical thinking, which is precisely what the cult leader wants.
Moreover, cult leaders will often radically change these narratives for no apparent reason, forcing their cult members to abruptly forswear (and often even denounce as “heresy”) the beliefs they had previously been forced to profess, and behave as if they had never believed them, which causes their minds to further short circuit, until they eventually give up even trying to think rationally, and just mindlessly parrot whatever nonsensical gibberish the cult leader fills their heads with.
Also, the cult leader’s nonsensical gibberish is not as nonsensical as it may seem at first. Most of us, upon encountering such gibberish, assume that the cult leader is trying to communicate, and that something is very wrong with his brain.
The cult leader isn’t trying to communicate. He is trying to disorient and control the listener’s mind. Listen to Charlie Manson “rapping.” Not just to what he says, but how he says it.
Note how he sprinkles bits of truth into his stream of free-associated nonsense, and his repetitive use of thought-terminating clichés, described by Robert J. Lifton as follows:
“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly selective, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. They become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.” — Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China, 1961
If all this sounds familiar, good. Because the same techniques that most cult leaders use to control the minds of the members of their cults are used by totalitarian systems to control the minds of entire societies: Milieu Control, Loaded Language, Sacred Science, Demand for Purity, and other standard mind-control techniques.
It can happen to pretty much any society, just as anyone can fall prey to a cult, given the right set of circumstances.
It is happening to most of our societies right now. An official narrative is being implemented. A totalitarian official narrative.
A totally psychotic official narrative, no less delusional than that of the Nazis, or the Manson family, or any other cult.
Most people cannot see that it is happening, for the simple reason that it is happening to them. They are literally unable to recognize it. The human mind is extremely resilient and inventive when it is pushed past its limits.
Ask anyone who has struggled with psychosis or has taken too much LSD. We do not recognize when we are going insane.
When reality falls apart completely, the mind will create a delusional narrative, which appears just as “real” as our normal reality, because even a delusion is better than the stark raving terror of utter chaos.
This is what totalitarians and cult leaders count on, and exploit to implant their narratives in our minds, and why actual initiation rituals (as opposed to purely symbolic rituals) begin by attacking the subject’s mind with terror, pain, physical exhaustion, psychedelic drugs, or some other means of obliterating the subject’s perception of reality.
Once that is achieved, and the subject’s mind starts desperately trying to construct a new narrative to make sense out of the cognitive chaos and psychological trauma it is undergoing, it is relatively easy to “guide” that process and implant whatever narrative you want, assuming you have done your homework.
And this is why so many people — people who are able to easily recognize totalitarianism in cults and foreign countries — cannot perceive the totalitarianism that is taking shape now, right in front of their faces (or, rather, right inside their minds).
Nor can they perceive the delusional nature of the official “Covid-19” narrative, no more than those in Nazi Germany were able to perceive how completely delusional their official “master race” narrative was.
Such people are neither ignorant nor stupid. They have been successfully initiated into a cult, which is essentially what totalitarianism is, albeit on a societal scale.
Their initiation into the Covidian Cult began in January, when the medical authorities and corporate media turned on The Fear with projections of hundreds of millions of deaths and fake photos of people dropping dead in the streets.
[By the way, have you seen any people dropping dead in the streets since this alleged pandemic started, anywhere in the world except for China? Because that cheap theatre is what got the world spooked into submission, yet now we know that’s not how SARS-COV-2 works. Those people were clearly faking it, so “cui bono” – who benefits? Don’t hold your breath to hear these hard question being asked on TV, because that would be yet another thing to invalidate the “pandemic” narrative.]
The psychological conditioning has continued for months. The global masses have been subjected to a constant stream of propaganda, manufactured hysteria, wild speculation, conflicting directives, exaggerations, lies, and tawdry theatrical effects. Lockdowns.
Emergency field hospitals and morgues. The singing-dancing NHS staff. Death trucks. Overflowing ICUs. Dead Covid babies. Manipulated statistics. Goon squads. Masks. And all the rest of it.
Eight months later, here we are. The Head of the Health Emergencies Program at the WHO has basically confirmed an IFR of 0.14%, approximately the same as the seasonal flu.
And here are the latest survival rate estimates from the Center for Disease Control:
Age 0-19 … 99.997%
Age 20-49 … 99.98%
Age 50-69 … 99.5%
Age 70+ … 94.6%
The “science” argument is officially over. An increasing number of doctors and medical experts are breaking ranks and explaining how the current mass hysteria over “cases” (which now includes perfectly healthy people) is essentially meaningless propaganda, for example, in this segment on ARD, one of the big mainstream German TV channels.
And then there is the existence of Sweden, and other countries which are not playing ball with the official Covid-19 narrative, which makes a mockery of the ongoing hysteria.
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
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( Staff Writer ) Newly obtained emails from a Hunter Biden business partner lay out in detail how the Vice President ’ s son and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to arrange private meetings for potential foreign clients and investors at the highest levels in the White House .
Related Pelosi Family Ties , Running California Like a Game of Thrones ( Opens in a new browser tab ) These never-before-revealed emails outline how a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials managed to secure a private , off-the-books meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden ’ s business associates also discussed developing relations with what one called “ China Inc. ” as part of a “ new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.
” These emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails being released by the New York Post .
These and more explosive never-before-revealed emails were provided to Schweizer by Bevan Cooney , a one-time Hunter Biden and Devon Archer business associate .
Cooney is currently in prison serving a sentence for his involvement in a 2016 bond fraud investment scheme .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after becoming familiar with the revelations in his 2018 book Secret Empires .
Cooney explained that he believes he was the “ fall guy ” for the fraud scheme and that Archer and Hunter Biden had avoided responsibility .
Archer , who was also convicted in the case , saw a federal judge vacate his conviction .
But an appellate court overturned the lower court judge ’ s ruling , reinstating Archer ’ s conviction in the case .
Cooney , their associate who is currently serving a prison sentence on his conviction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Schweizer through investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand .
From prison , Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization , his email account name , and password to his Gmail account to retrieve these emails .
He authorized , in writing , the publication of these emails— notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter ’ s trading on his father ’ s influence .
The emails offer a unique window into just how the Biden universe conducted business during the Obama-Biden Administration .
These associates sought to trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and access to , his father and the Obama-Biden White House in order to generate business .
For instance , on November 5 , 2011 , one of Archer ’ s business contacts forwarded him an email teasing an opportunity to gain “ potentially outstanding new clients ” by helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials .
The group was the China Entrepreneur Club ( CEC ) and the delegation included Chinese billionaires , Chinese Communist Party loyalists , and at least one “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its benign name , CEC has been called “ a second foreign ministry ” for the People ’ s Republic of China—a communist government that closely controls most businesses in its country .
CEC was established in 2006 by a group of businessmen and Chinese government diplomats .
CEC ’ s leadership boasts numerous senior members of the Chinese Communist Party , including Wang Zhongyu ( “ vice chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the Party group ” ) , Ma Weihua ( director of multiple Chinese Communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( member of the Chinese Communist Party and representative of the 16th National Congress ) , among others .
“ I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day , ” an intermediary named Mohamed A. Khashoggi wrote on behalf of the CEC to an associate of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer .
“ A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff ’ s office and John Kerry would be great , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been a major red flag : “ Not sure if one has to be registered to do this.
” Presumably , Khashoggi meant a registered lobbyist under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ( FARA ) .
Khashoggi believed the trip presented “ a soft diplomacy play that could be very effective ” and would give Hunter Biden ’ s business partners “ good access to [ the Chinese ] for any deal in the future.
” Indeed , the email boasted of CEC ’ s wealthy membership : CEC ’ s current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Liu Chuanzhi , Chairman of the CEC , Legend Holdings and Lenovo Group ; Wu Jinglian , Zhang Weiying , and Zhou Qiren , China ’ s esteemed economists ; Wu Jianmin , respected diplomat ; Long Yongtu , representative of China ’ s globalization ; Wang Shi ( Vanke ) ; Ma Weihua ( China Merchants Bank ) ; Jack Ma ( Alibaba Group ) ; Guo Guangchang ( Fosun Group ) ; Wang Jianlin , ( Wanda Group ) ; Niu Gensheng ( LAONIU Foundation ) ; Li Shufu ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Corporation ) ; Feng Lun ( Vantone ) and etc .
The gross income of the CEC members ’ companies allegedly “ totaled more than RMB 1.5 trillion , together accounting for roughly 4 % of China ’ s GDP.
” The overture to Hunter Biden ’ s associates described the Chinese CEC members variously as “ industrial elites , ” “ highly influential , ” and among “ the most important private sector individuals in China today.
” Before contacting Hunter Biden ’ s associates , the CEC had been trying to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to no avail .
“ From the DC side as you will see below they [ CEC ] have written letters to several members of the administration and others and have so far not had a strong reaction.
” “ This is China Inc , ” wrote Khashoggi in the email , referring to the delegation of Chinese billionaires .
“ Biggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House , and have a senior US politician , or senior member of Obama ’ s administration , give them a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ help , we would be extremely grateful , ” Khashoggi emphasized .
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the Chinese Communist Party-connected industrial elites within ten days .
The original Oct. 19 , 2011 , email from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears — a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s — who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on Nov. 5 , 2011 .
Time was short , as Khashoggi ’ s original email @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in DC on Nov. 14 , 2011 .
Fears told Archer to “ reach out ” to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businesspersons and officials into the Obama White House , adding it would be “ perfect for ” Archer to also “ attend ” with them and then “ get guys for the potash deal.
” The same day Fears sent Khashoggi ’ s message to him , Archer took the email from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had lined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overture , Archer received a followup email asking how a meeting with CEC ’ s representative went .
The email closed with “ Do me a favor and ask Hunter [ Biden ] to call me — I ’ ve tried reaching him a couple of times.
” Archer responded , “ Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket… .
The meeting with [ CEC representative ] was good .
“ Seems like there is a lot to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a fit for the current Potash private placement but he ’ s a good strategic relationship as the mine develops .
Definitely have a drink with Mohammed and let him know how impressed I was with his whole deal.
” One minute later , Archer sent a follow-up email , “ Couldn ’ t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks.
” On the day of the meeting , November 14 , 2011 , Cooney emailed Fears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guys all taken care of in DC.
” The Obama-Biden Administration archives reveal that this Chinese delegation did indeed visit the White House on November 14 , 2011 , and enjoyed high-level access .
The delegation included approximately thirty members , according to White House visitor logs .
But those records also obscure perhaps the most important item for the Chinese delegation : a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden himself .
The visitor logs list Jeff Zients , the deputy director of Obama ’ s Office of Management and Budget ( OMB @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CEC delegation .
Obama had tasked Zients with restructuring and ultimately consolidating the various export-import agencies under the Commerce Department—an effort in which the Chinese delegation would have a keen interest .
A trip itinerary posted by the CEC also confirms the delegation met with Obama ’ s then-recently-confirmed Commerce Secretary John Bryson .
Curiously , the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden .
But the Vice President ’ s off-the-books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC .
In an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biographies , CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011 and boasts of the Washington establishment figures that CEC met with .
The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden .
The relationships established during that visit may have benefited Hunter Biden and Devon Archer down the road .
Two years later , they famously helped to form the Chinese government funded Bohai Harvest RST ( BHR ) investment fund .
One of BHR ’ s first major portfolio investments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Didi Dache—now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi , the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club ( CEC ) and the founder of Legend Holdings — the parent company of Lenovo , one of the world ’ s largest computer companies .
Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House .
His daughter was the President of Didi .
Liu has long been involved in CCP politics , including serving as a representative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11th sessions of the National People ’ s Congress of the PRC and as a representative to the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party .
Liu was the Vice Chairman of the 8th and 9th Executive Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce ( ACFIC ) , an organization known to be affiliated with the Chinese United Front .
The Biden campaign has not responded to a request for comment on this story .
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With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand , the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper .
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These never-before-revealed emails outline how a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials managed to secure a private, off-the-books meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
In a 2011 email, Hunter Biden’s business associates also discussed developing relations with what one called “China Inc.” as part of a “new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.”
These emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails being released by the New York Post.
These and more explosive never-before-revealed emails were provided to Schweizer by Bevan Cooney, a one-time Hunter Biden and Devon Archer business associate.
Cooney is currently in prison serving a sentence for his involvement in a 2016 bond fraud investment scheme.
In 2019, Cooney reached out to Schweizer after becoming familiar with the revelations in his 2018 book Secret Empires.
Cooney explained that he believes he was the “fall guy” for the fraud scheme and that Archer and Hunter Biden had avoided responsibility.
Archer, who was also convicted in the case, saw a federal judge vacate his conviction. But an appellate court overturned the lower court judge’s ruling, reinstating Archer’s conviction in the case.
Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner, awaits sentencing.
Cooney, their associate who is currently serving a prison sentence on his conviction in the matter, later reestablished contact with Schweizer through investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand.
From prison, Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name, and password to his Gmail account to retrieve these emails.
He authorized, in writing, the publication of these emails— notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter’s trading on his father’s influence.
The emails offer a unique window into just how the Biden universe conducted business during the Obama-Biden Administration.
These associates sought to trade on Hunter Biden’s relationship with, and access to, his father and the Obama-Biden White House in order to generate business.
For instance, on November 5, 2011, one of Archer’s business contacts forwarded him an email teasing an opportunity to gain “potentially outstanding new clients” by helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials.
The group was the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the delegation included Chinese billionaires, Chinese Communist Party loyalists, and at least one “respected diplomat” from Beijing.
Despite its benign name, CEC has been called “a second foreign ministry” for the People’s Republic of China—a communist government that closely controls most businesses in its country.
CEC was established in 2006 by a group of businessmen and Chinese government diplomats.
Re China Entrepreneurs Club… by Breitbart News
CEC’s leadership boasts numerous senior members of the Chinese Communist Party, including Wang Zhongyu (“vice chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the Party group”), Ma Weihua (director of multiple Chinese Communist Party offices), and Jiang Xipei (member of the Chinese Communist Party and representative of the 16th National Congress), among others.
“I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,” an intermediary named Mohamed A. Khashoggi wrote on behalf of the CEC to an associate of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer.
“A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff’s office and John Kerry would be great,” Khashoggi said before including what should have been a major red flag: “Not sure if one has to be registered to do this.”
Presumably, Khashoggi meant a registered lobbyist under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Khashoggi believed the trip presented “a soft diplomacy play that could be very effective” and would give Hunter Biden’s business partners “good access to [the Chinese] for any deal in the future.”
Indeed, the email boasted of CEC’s wealthy membership:
CEC’s current membership includes 50 preeminent figures such as: Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman of the CEC, Legend Holdings and Lenovo Group; Wu Jinglian, Zhang Weiying, and Zhou Qiren, China’s esteemed economists; Wu Jianmin, respected diplomat; Long Yongtu, representative of China’s globalization; Wang Shi (Vanke); Ma Weihua (China Merchants Bank); Jack Ma (Alibaba Group); Guo Guangchang (Fosun Group); Wang Jianlin, (Wanda Group); Niu Gensheng (LAONIU Foundation); Li Shufu (Geely); Li Dongsheng (TCL Corporation); Feng Lun (Vantone) and etc.
The gross income of the CEC members’ companies allegedly “totaled more than RMB 1.5 trillion, together accounting for roughly 4% of China’s GDP.”
The overture to Hunter Biden’s associates described the Chinese CEC members variously as “industrial elites,” “highly influential,” and among “the most important private sector individuals in China today.”
Before contacting Hunter Biden’s associates, the CEC had been trying to get meetings with top Obama-Biden administration officials to no avail.
“From the DC side as you will see below they [CEC] have written letters to several members of the administration and others and have so far not had a strong reaction.”
“This is China Inc,” wrote Khashoggi in the email, referring to the delegation of Chinese billionaires.
“Biggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House, and have a senior US politician, or senior member of Obama’s administration, give them a tour… If your friend in DC can help, we would be extremely grateful,” Khashoggi emphasized.
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the Chinese Communist Party-connected industrial elites within ten days .
The original Oct. 19, 2011, email from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears — a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s — who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on Nov. 5, 2011.
Time was short, as Khashoggi’s original email noted that the Chinese delegation would be in DC on Nov. 14, 2011.
Fears told Archer to “reach out” to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businesspersons and officials into the Obama White House, adding it would be “perfect for” Archer to also “attend” with them and then “get guys for the potash deal.”
The same day Fears sent Khashoggi’s message to him, Archer took the email from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had lined up.
Six days after the initial overture, Archer received a followup email asking how a meeting with CEC’s representative went.
The email closed with “Do me a favor and ask Hunter [Biden] to call me — I’ve tried reaching him a couple of times.”
Archer responded, “Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket…. The meeting with [CEC representative] was good.
“Seems like there is a lot to do together down the line. Probably not a fit for the current Potash private placement but he’s a good strategic relationship as the mine develops. Definitely have a drink with Mohammed and let him know how impressed I was with his whole deal.”
One minute later, Archer sent a follow-up email, “Couldn’t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks.”
On the day of the meeting, November 14, 2011, Cooney emailed Fears to confirm that Archer “got the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.”
The Obama-Biden Administration archives reveal that this Chinese delegation did indeed visit the White House on November 14, 2011, and enjoyed high-level access.
The delegation included approximately thirty members, according to White House visitor logs. But those records also obscure perhaps the most important item for the Chinese delegation: a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden himself.
The visitor logs list Jeff Zients, the deputy director of Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as the host of the CEC delegation.
Obama had tasked Zients with restructuring and ultimately consolidating the various export-import agencies under the Commerce Department—an effort in which the Chinese delegation would have a keen interest.
A trip itinerary posted by the CEC also confirms the delegation met with Obama’s then-recently-confirmed Commerce Secretary John Bryson.
Curiously, the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. But the Vice President’s off-the-books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC.
In an obscure document listing the CEC members’ biographies, CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011 and boasts of the Washington establishment figures that CEC met with. The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden.
The relationships established during that visit may have benefited Hunter Biden and Devon Archer down the road. Two years later, they famously helped to form the Chinese government funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund.
One of BHR’s first major portfolio investments was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache—now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi, the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings — the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest computer companies.
Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House. His daughter was the President of Didi.
Liu has long been involved in CCP politics, including serving as a representative to the 9th, 10th, and 11th sessions of the National People’s Congress of the PRC and as a representative to the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Liu was the Vice Chairman of the 8th and 9th Executive Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), an organization known to be affiliated with the Chinese United Front.
The Biden campaign has not responded to a request for comment on this story.
This is a developing story.
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
Stillness in the Storm Editor’s note: Did you find a spelling error or grammar mistake? Send an email to corrections@stillnessinthestorm.com, with the error and suggested correction, along with the headline and url. Do you think this article needs an update? Or do you just have some feedback? Send us an email at sitsshow@gmail.com. Thank you for reading.
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