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Star Wars, ancient Tibet, and Jedi training

Star Wars, ancient Tibet, and Jedi training

by Jon Rappoport

December 16, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

Let’s start here: there are pre-conditions for the popularity of the Star Wars films. New previously unseen Space, huge amounts of it. Heroes in that space. The capacity to perform paranormal feats. A Force that feeds into that capacity. A battle between the light and dark aspects of the Force.

Yes, a director could take those pre-conditions and distort and strangle them in the making of a film, but without those elements the Star Wars movies wouldn’t exist at all.

Drilling down further—The Jedi, in whom the Force is naturally strong, undergo training. This factor pulses in the audience’s subconscious, because it makes a kind of sense. If an individual can perform paranormal feats and control them…he needs to learn how. He needs to go to school. He needs to practice, as an athlete does. Perhaps the paranormal isn’t just a child’s fantasy. Maybe it’s more than that. Suppose it is. Suppose these societies we live in, these civilizations, are built to exclude such possibilities. Suppose, in the glorification of technology, an omission has occurred—an intentional omission. Suppose a deadening “realism” is the arbitrary substitute for paranormal ability. Suppose this is a long con of immense obfuscation.

Read Dean Radin’s classic, The Conscious Universe: Radin presents a compelling case via a far-reaching analysis of paranormal laboratory experiments and their results.

When I first read his breakthrough book, I was floored. Far from merely recounting anecdotes of paranormal phenomena, Radin was proving that decades of well-formed and well-conducted published laboratory studies, in the areas of telepathy and psychokinesis, revealed that these human capabilities exist.

He had performed a staggering feat. He had shown the science was valid.

It remains for other branches of the scientific community to catch up, to admit their consensus about reality is provincial, distorted, and pathetically behind the times. They are now the Roman Church of old, denying Galileo and Bruno.

Two years ago, Radin spoke at a conference, Electric Universe, in New Mexico. He described his recent pilot study on time and precognition.

A small group of advanced meditators who use the “non-dual” technique, were tested. While meditating, they were subjected to random interruptions: a flash of light and a beeping sound. Measuring their brain activity, Radin found that significant brain changes occurred BEFORE the light flashes or the beeps.

A control group of non-meditators were tested in exactly the same way, but their brain measurements revealed NO such changes.

In other words, the brains of the meditators anticipated the timing of the unpredictable interruptions.

The future was registering now. This, of course, opens up another way of thinking about time.

Serial time, the idea that, in this continuum, we experience a smooth progression of moments, with the present becoming, so to speak, the future, is the conventional view. But suppose that is a grossly limiting and sketchy premise?

Suppose that, for those who can be aware of it, the future is bleeding into the present? It is making an impact “before it happens.”

If time is deeply rooted in perception, Dean Radin’s study indicates that this perception extends to the future. If people can register the impact of the future now, then our notions of time are up for grabs.

So are conventional concepts of cause and effect, which rely on chains of events moving like trains from the past to the present. We need to consider that causes can sit in the future and produce their effects in the present.

In which case, what is the future? It certainly is an expanded territory that extends beyond our normal notions of it.

In correspondence with me, Dean Radin offered further information about his study:

“All participants knew that they would receive a light flash, an audio tone [beep], both, or none. In one condition they didn’t know when these would occur or what type of stimulus. In another condition they knew when it would occur but not what. In all cases no one, including [the scientist] experiment[ers], knew what the next stimulus would be because we used a true random number generator to select it on the fly.

“The conclusion of the study was that the reported subjective experience of exceptional spaciousness, or timelessness, reported by some advanced meditators, appears to be objectively correct. That is, their subjective sense of ‘now’ appears to expand substantially, and our experiment indicates that this was not an illusion.”

I then asked Dr. Radin how closely correlated the light flashes and audio tones were to the brain changes in the meditators. His answer was stunning. The brain changes occurred 1.5 seconds before these interruptions. And the changes obviously occurred even though some of the meditators didn’t know when the interruptions were coming.

Radin’s remarks offer us a major point: these meditators were expanding their consciousness of the present moment, so that it included the future.

Such a framework of understanding travels far beyond modern ideas about the makeup and laws of the physical universe. It implies more than merely a holographic or pixel-based cosmos. It speaks to titanic capabilities on our part.

Of course, having sunk to a state in which we navigate in an amnesia about ourselves, we look at these ideas with skepticism. We pretend we are trapped in a container-continuum of space and time, as Einstein and others have fleshed it out.

Consider what could be the most astonishing extension of Dean Radin’s work: suppose that for those elements of the future that aren’t yet planned or on the drawing boards at all, people can still register their presence in advance. Then we would be talking about the human capacity to reach out into a vacuum, a nothing, and still “bring back” what is going to happen.

Back to Star Wars. Jedi undergo training to improve their ability to see into the immediate future, to know, in advance, what is about to happen seconds before it does—for example, in battle against an opponent. In this sense, that process mirrors what Radin has been researching and confirming. Is it any surprise that the movie audience feels a resonance with Jedi abilities? We are talking about more than just fantasy wish-fulfillment.

Another kind of training existed in early Tibet. Those “Jedi” utilized a method of visualization that, in its concept, challenges virtually all systems of spiritual practice. (Read John Blofeld’s wonderful book, The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet.) I’m talking about “deity visualization.”

The student is given a task: create in his mind, in every detail, the image of a specific “deity.” I believe these students were given a painting to study in this regard.

This was no brush-off exercise. The student, in isolation, had to create, all at once, with no missing parts, and sustain the entire (fully and extensively decorated) image. If he could accomplish this at all, it might take months, or even years.

If he achieved the goal, the deity would then naturally take on the persona of a counselor, guide, and friend. For the student, this would be a marvelous ongoing experience.

The teacher, watching the student closely, would determine when he was relying “too closely” on the guide. At that point, he would tell the student: “Get rid of the deity.”

This, it was said, was more difficult than creating it in the first place.

But if the student could achieve both the creation and destruction of the deity, he would then see, as John Blofeld puts it, that the universe is a product of mind.

This insight, not merely an intellectual conclusion, but an immediate knowing and experience, would enable the student to change, rearrange, and recreate physical space, time, and energy.

The early Tibetan school of the “paranormal” was undoubtedly the most original in the history of the planet. It also speaks to the idea that, through training, through the development of the faculty of imagination, the individual can regain and restore what was originally his, before socialization, indoctrination, and “realism” submerged his own power.

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The Star Wars films reinstate the concept of the advanced academy, where students actually train to enhance their inherent capacities. Therefore, the movies are more than spectacles. They firmly suggest that training, if it existed, would be the key to outdistancing the programmed and illusory dimensions of the world people believe they live in.

The films reawaken the idea of individual power—not as some bedraggled tag-end appendage going extinct as a result of “higher social evolution”, but as a primary alive and electric core that has been stepped on and rejected by engineers of a mass future, in which individuals are supposed to be numbers and units and ciphers in a dimmed-out gray utopia, for the sake of some misbegotten counterfeit of universal justice and equality—neither of which, when the veneer is peeled away, is just or equal.

There, for those who can see, is the illusion.

The reality is the individual, alive and awake with his amnesia stripped away, and his power intact. Again.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

The book you want to write: the life you want to invent

The book you want to write: the life you want to invent

by Jon Rappoport

November 25, 2015

(Jon has a new work of fiction at his other blog, Outside The Reality Machine. If you want to take a wild ride, read it.)

“No one will ever map out a formula for writing a book. The formulas that already exist, and there are many of them, are pale reflections of what occurs in the writing process. They ape, in a maniacal way, what a machine would do if you loaded it up with enough information. Writing taps into, and brings life. Formulas do not. There are mysteries that can only be penetrated by writing a book.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

I’ve had several clients who are writers. They decided they had a book in them. I’m talking about fiction—as I am in this article.

Tapping the keys for the first few sentences of Chapter One is a momentous event. That’s when you’re pushing the boat out from the shore.

As your imagination swings into gear, you become aware of the space that sits out there, the space you’re going to “fill and shape.”

The world has existed for a long time, but the book is a unique event. It’s the world plus one.

Of course, some people will never finish the work. They’ll bog down in details and plans and structure. They’ll convince themselves there is one prescribed way to do the job, and they’ll decide they just can’t produce that pattern.

Through direct instruction or the “shared wisdom” of writing teachers, they’ve bought a straitjacket. It fits, but it doesn’t fit the writer in them. That’s the sad joke. The straitjacket is for a person who isn’t a writer.

Of course, I’m not talking about spelling, grammar, or syntax. Kids are supposed to master those basics in junior high and high school.

It’s often said the best advice for a student is, “Write about what you know.” Ah yes. The pearl. Well, that certainly works if a person, in fact, wants to write about what he knows. But many other people really want to write about what they don’t know—or more precisely, what they haven’t imagined yet.

And even if you want to write about your life and past, you’re going to find out imagination is a major part of the process (*), because words and sentences and paragraphs don’t fit reality like a glove. Good writers can make you believe their words are exact replications of events, but that’s an illusion. That’s their brand of magic.

(*) [For more on using your imagination in creative writing, see my “A Writer’s Tutorial” in my audio collection Power Outside The Matrix.]

Even the old hard-boiled curmudgeon, Hemingway, was inventing something that looked like realism. He was hammering out sentences that conspired to produce that flat laconic effect. He had his own magic wand.

The ways imagination can operate—that’s what you want to discover and experience.

And hopefully, you’ll come to understand your imagination can move in unique currents.

Then you’ll have the engine and the fuel to start and finish a book.

It’s not a walk in the park; if that’s what you want, just take a walk in a park. Writing a book is the kind of commitment that expands your understanding of what a commitment is. It changes your life.

Fortunately, I had only one writing teacher during my 16 years as a student. He was a well-known poet and translator. He was a decent teacher because he didn’t hand out advice. He just let us work. I don’t recall him ever saying, “Write what you know.”

Good lines of writing stimulate creative adrenaline in the reader. They bypass the usual filters of perception. They awaken the reader to some X quality.

At that moment, he isn’t holding a book in his hands. He’s in an unforeseen space that blots out all other spaces.

Most beginning writers want to communicate big ideas. They conceive of these ideas as generalities. Then they spend page after page piling up more generalities like gooey layers of an ungainly cake. Looking at it sitting on the dinner table, no one is happy.

The solution to this problem isn’t merely substituting details, because details can also make an unfriendly tower.

A book isn’t a mechanical proposition.

When I was 11 years old, in 1949, I read a children’s book that took me away. It said, under the surface, “Do you want to be this? Do you want to be a writer?” Six years later, I said yes. Recently, I went back and read that book. I had to laugh, because I saw how much I had “supplied” to the author, how much I’d given him. I had been writing most of his work in my own mind. But that was all right. He brought me the first wave.

Do you want to write a book?

Don’t build a machine out of a thousand facts. You’ll find ways of folding in details in the caverns of your chapters.

You don’t really have a book in you. You have the capacity to invent a book.

If the prospect of inventing one doesn’t move you, either go on to another line of work or figure out how to find your imagination. You left it somewhere.

Which is like forgetting you’re going to get married. When you walk down the aisle, hopefully you’ll wake up when you say I DO.

If a person recovers his imagination, he can write a book. He can do lots of things. He can do anything.

Through a process no one will ever be able to fathom, he can work his way up the side of a wave while standing on the top, he can lug up and down the wave suitcases of details and sprinkle them where he wants to.

And he’ll write a book.

Over the years, I’ve made several lists of recommended books. This one is for stimulating imagination, and for illustrating vastly different ways of writing brilliantly. In no particular order:

A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS/David Lindsay

THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY/GK Chesterton

RETURN FROM THE STARS/Stanislaw Lem

STEPPENWOLF/Hermann Hesse

THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI/Henry Miller

COLLECTED POEMS/Dylan Thomas

TENDER BUTTONS/Gertrude Stein

MONA LISA OVERDRIVE/William Gibson

EINSTEIN’S DREAMS/Alan P Lightman

If you can read these nine books and say nothing new has entered your bloodstream, you need a serious engine overhaul.

Your book, the one you want to write—you have to find a way in. You have to find a way to speak. Your point of view has to be more than surgical, more than remote observation.

And this is where imagination comes into play.

How, for example, do you describe the wind on a lake when you were five years old? Do you try to recall every detail of its effects? Do you measure, in memory, the width of each ripple?

You think about what you were doing and feeling when you were sitting on the edge of the lake watching the ripples. You write about the “poetics” of the situation. And to make that happen, you invent.

Memory is just the beginning of the process.

Actually, even as you were living your life at five years old, you were imagining. You weren’t just seeing.

At any age, what you perceive, divorced from imagination, is almost nothing. It’s invisible.

As a writer, you need to grasp this. When you were five, perception and imagination mingled into a whole. Now, you’re conscious of something else. Your power of invention.

So invent.

Proliferate.

Then much, much later, edit.

When writers claim they have distilled a memory down to its essence, they’re selling you a bill of goods. It’s their amusing way of masking invention. There is no rock bottom.

Every culture has its creation myths. They purport to describe how the world came into existence. But they’re poems. They were launched out of the wellspring of imagination.

So imagine.

Create.

Improvise.

Making it up will catch far more reality in its net than trying to remember everything.

Yes, the past is real, but as a writer you’re not a devotee of perfect recall. You’re an explorer who has built his own ship and you’re riding it out on to seas you’re creating.

The superhighway of history tells a story of the unshackling of imagination.

By the second half the 20th century, it became clear to many people that imagination had become unhooked from ideologies, metaphysical clap-trap, the pretensions of psychology, and the juvenile materialistic philosophy coming out of science.

Finally, after centuries of work, imagination stood alone for all to see.

But few were ready to look.

Instead, they dove back into a jungle of spiritual symbology. They dove into a hodge-podge of resurrected ethnicity. They grasped at “revivals” of ancient cosmologies. They embraced futile and destructive fundamentalisms.

Nevertheless, IMAGINATION HAD EMERGED AS THE NORTH STAR.

It was apparent that many metaphysical meanderings which had occurred since the dawn of time were CREATIONS OF IMAGINATION, pure and simple.

So why not admit it?

Why not confess that imagination is there for the individual? Infinitely.

Well, people were still obsessed with wrapping the individual in various disguises: “the individual is just one atom in the super-atom of cosmic ding-dong.”

But there it was, imagination, the exposed gold centerpiece of alchemy. Finally. And people said, “Let’s go back to lead.”

But…no matter. Because the mystery is out in the open.

For those who can see it.

They will discover that every longing pointing to cosmos, illumination, enlightenment, transcendence is answered and fulfilled through imagination deployed.

This is a true spiritual tradition of planet Earth. It has been buried, repressed, sidetracked, and misidentified—but now here it is.

In a very real sense, it was always the goal. It was always the thing to be distilled out of the dross of history—and out of the rambling life of an individual.

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When my publisher, Bonnie Lange, gave me the green light to write The Secret Behind Secret Societies (**), I realized I would have a chance to explore this whole area.

(**) [The Secret Behind Secret Societies is included as a bonus (.pdf file) in my audio collections Exit From The Matrix and Power Outside The Matrix.]

The first part of my work was to strip imagination of useless and distracting accoutrement. The second part of my work was to show people its scope and range and power, and what can happen when you use it intensely, without limits. (***)

(***) [Both parts are presented in full detail in my audio collection Exit From The Matrix.]

And that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years with NoMoreFakeNews and OutsideTheRealityMachine, and what I continue to do, come hell or high water.

It pays homage to untold numbers of artists on this planet who have carried the torch, since the first cave man scratched the first drawing on the wall of a cave and declared: reality is not enough; I make reality.

That’s the secret. It was, then, and it is, now, for those of us willing to know it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Occult Man

Occult Man

by Jon Rappoport

November 20, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

The word “occult” is frequently associated with a secret society, and it is given a negative twist by pitting it against organized “clean” religion or “totally rational” science.

But the Latin root of the word comes from the verb, “to hide.” That’s all.

Occult Man means man who is hiding something. And it really means man who is hiding something from himself. What would that be?

Occult man is hiding his true nature from himself.

In order to discover what that true nature is, he would already need to be free from the belief that he owes his time, energy, and life to another person or an idea. He would need to be free from the self-debasing concept of spiritual debt—regardless of how fashionable it might be to incur (or pretend to incur) such a negative balance sheet.

Legion are those who invent these “debt scenarios” for themselves, and they rarely give them up, regardless of the consequences. They prefer to imagine they “win by losing.”

When Occult Man embarks on the journey to find his true nature, he enters a labyrinth. Sooner or later, he needs to realize the maze is composed of all possible answers to his self-inquiry. How to choose one answer above all others? How to discern?

Nevertheless, despite the difficulties, he will choose. He will clutch an answer, he will adopt it, and he will begin to live on that basis. He will say, “This is my true nature,” he will climb into that conveyance and drive it down the road.

After a certain period, he will see its limitations, he will experience first-hand the pressure of those restrictions, and he will look for a more inclusive answer to his inquiry.

As this process of accepting, testing, and rejecting answers continues, he will become aware that each solution to what-is-my-true-nature gives birth to a space that is defined—and his primary role is to fit himself into that space.

In the majority of cases, Occult Man eventually talks himself into accepting a space and learning how to adapt to his position in it. It is as if, all along, he has been asking himself, “What is my place?”

Relatively few people are prepared to admit this is a loaded question. They would rather adhere to one of thousands of “philosophies” which are determined to tell Occult Man what his place is.

According to this sort of guidance, Occult Man is supposed to take pride in finding that place.

For those who can avoid this end, there remains a less-defined path. “Where do I go? What do I do? What am I looking for?”

What about looking within? As interesting as this option may seem, and as rooted in tradition, what results does it confer?

Either Occult Man looks within and sees, disappointingly, spaces populated by random objects and ideas, or he presupposes what he is going to discover, and then discovers it. Needless to say, such sleight of hand isn’t the means for finding his true nature.

What now?

Now we come to the threshold of a shift into another dimension of experience. Regardless of how long the journey has taken so far, now Occult Man begins to examine his very role as the searcher. The seeker. The discoverer.

Is the whole paradigm of question-inquirer-answer able to yield up the effect of finding his true nature?

And in parallel, can he harken back to some past tradition and say, “Well, my conundrum triggers answers put forth by this body of wisdom or that body of wisdom or this enlightened master…” Do these references give him what he wants?

At every turn, it seems as if he’s been looking for some sort of content or material or information that will unlock the door. Or perhaps he needs an experience that will shock his system into a new realm of perception.

All along, he has been searching for some kind of reality that is already there. A deeper reality, a more elevated reality. Concealed, out of view. Hidden.

Which is why he is Occult Man. Because of the way he has been proceeding.

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But suppose…there is no such hidden reality which is his true nature. Suppose that is the cosmic joke.

And suppose, instead, he is the maker of realities.

Suppose that is his true nature.

Suppose every system and traditional belief avoids putting the finger on his true nature.

Suppose he has no pre-defined place.

Suppose the shape and character of societies and civilizations on Earth flow from the inability of individuals to see their true nature?

There is much more to say about this subject, but I’ll leave it here for now—except to mention that everything I’ve authored in my collection, Exit From The Matrix, is designed to increase an individual’s power to make realities of his own choosing.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

The individual and his future

The individual and his future

by Jon Rappoport

November 18, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“It’s instructive to read what authors wrote about core values a hundred or two hundred years ago, because then you can appreciate what has happened to the culture of a nation. You can grasp the enormous influence of planned propaganda, which changes minds, builds new consensus, and exiles certain disruptive thinkers to the margins of society. You can see what has been painted over, with great intent, in order to promote tyranny that proclaims a greater good for all.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Here I present several statements about the individual, written in 19th century America. The authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and James Fenimore Cooper were prominent figures. Emerson, in his time, was the most famous.

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.” — James Fenimore Cooper

“The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of [by] formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man, and sacrificed uniformly the citizen to the State. The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual, for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau

“They [conformists] think society wiser than their soul, and know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world…Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members….Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist…. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can you imagine, today, any of these statements gaining traction in the public mind, much less the mainstream media?

Immediately, there would be virulent pushback, on the grounds that unfettered individualism equals brutal greed, equals (hated) capitalism, equals inhumane indifference to the plight of the less fortunate, equals callous disregard for the needs of the group.

The 19th-century men who wrote those assertions would be viewed with hostile suspicion, as potential criminals, as potential “anti-government” outliers who should go on a list. They might have terrorist tendencies.

Contemporary analysis of the individual goes much further than this.

Case in point: Peter Collero, of the department of sociology, Western Oregon University, has written a book titled: The Myth of Individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives:

“Most people today believe that an individual is a person with an independent and distinct identification. This, however, is a myth.”

Callero is claiming an absence of any uniqueness from person to person. He’s asserting there is no significant distinction between any two people. There aren’t two individuals to begin with. They’re a group.

This downgrading of the individual human spirit is remarkable, but it is not the exception. There are many, many people today who would agree (without comprehending what they are talking about) that the individual does not exist. They would agree because, to take the opposite position would set them on a path toward admitting that each individual has independent power—and thus they would violate a sacred proscription of political correctness.

These are the extreme conformists Emerson was referring to a century and a half ago.

Unable to partake in anything resembling clear thought, such people salute the flag of the Collective, blithely assuming it means “whatever is best for everyone.” Such questions as “who defines ‘best’” and “who engineers this outcome” are beyond their capacity to make distinctions. They rest their proud case in vagueness.

Without realizing it, they are tools of a program. They’re foot soldiers in a ceaseless campaign to promote collectivism (dictatorship from the top) under the guise of equality.

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Let me repeat one of Emerson’s statements: “The antidote to this abuse of [by] formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.” The corollary: If there is no widespread growth of individuals and their independent thoughts, actions, and moral consciousness, if they don’t widen their horizons and spheres of influence, then in the long run what check is there on government?

Demeaning the individual is, in fact, an intentional operation designed to keep government power intact and expand its range.

Consider this question: If all opposition to overbearing, intrusive, and illegitimate government were contained in organized groups, and if there were no independent “Emersonian” individuals, what would be the outcome?

In the long term, those groups would stagnate and fail in their missions. They would be co-opted by government. Eventually, all such groups would be viewed as “special needs” cases, requiring “intervention” to “help them.”

That is a future without promise, without reason, without imagination, without life-force.

That is why the individual remains vital; above, beyond, and through any blizzard of propaganda.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Journey into the unknown

Journey into the unknown

~a short story~

by Jon Rappoport

November 11, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

Citizen John Q Jones was flagged by NetSquid. Agents approached him outside his apartment and brought him into a small room at Inquiry Headquarters.

Jones sat in a small chair and waited. After an hour, a man in a suit walked in and sat down across from him.

“I’m Inquiry Specialist Washburn, Mr. Jones,” he said. “We’ve picked up some odd chatter from you.”

“Where?” Jones said.

Washburn: On your computer. You’re apparently writing an essay.

Jones: Something wrong with that?

Washburn: In it, you mention the word “unknown,”

Jones: Yes? So?

Washburn: The word, as you’re using it, doesn’t fit normal contexts.

Jones: How could it? Unknown means unknown.

Washburn: Yes, but the latest official definition pertains to “that which hasn’t yet been reduced to a precise reference, according to pre-established sociological parameters and algorithms.”

Jones: You lost me.

Washburn: Something can only be called unknown if it is “on the way to being known.”

Jones: That seems absurd.

Washburn: To you, perhaps. But that’s why you’re here. You must be aware that, these days, the very concept of a planned society involves the elimination of so-called imponderables.

Jones: Could you repeat that?

Washburn: The underlying principle of “the greatest good for the greatest number of people” must be adhered to. Therefore, when we see an event or an idea which falls into a gray area, which is vague, we try our best to clarify it, in order to decide whether it does, in fact, align with the underlying principle.

Jones: I must be missing something. I’m still in the dark.

Washburn: Mr. Jones, I hope you’re not pretending to be confused. Society is an organization. Planning how it will operate depends on defining a series of “knowns.” When a so-called “unknown” enters the scene, we investigate it for possible problems.

Jones: Sounds pretty abstract.

Washburn: Not at all. Think of a game like chess. All the pieces have defined functions. If you suddenly introduced a new piece with new functions, the whole game would change. The State must guard against that.

Jones: But how does my mere mention of the word “unknown” pose a potential threat?

Washburn: It poses a threat because we don’t understand what you mean by it.

Jones: I might be throwing a monkey wrench into the smooth operation of a machine?

Washburn: I wouldn’t put it that way, but all right, yes.

Jones: So when I say “unknown,” I might be going outside your parameters. I might be referring to something outside the boundaries of the State.

Washburn: You might be, yes. That’s why we’re here. To inquire into this possibility. So why don’t you tell me, now, what you mean when you use the word “unknown.”

Jones: I mean that which hasn’t yet been created.

Washburn: Created by whom?

Jones: By anyone.

Washburn: By an individual?

Jones: Yes.

Washburn: That’s a Section 32 violation. What you call “creating” is done by groups, not individuals.

Jones: Since when?

Washburn: Since June 4th, 2051, when the President signed the new Budget bill into law. Section 32 specifies the psychological basis for innovation.

Jones: How can a law affect the way things are?

Washburn: That all depends on what the definition of “are” is.

Jones: In my essay, I give great attention to the fact that the individual has the power to invent something new and unprecedented, something no one could have predicted—something “unknown” before it came into being. I call this the prime factor.

Washburn: And you seem to be celebrating this notion.

Jones: It’s not a notion. It’s the way life works, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Washburn: Are you sure about that? Imagine what would happen if every person believed you, and took action based on that belief. We would have sheer chaos. Do you think the State would just stand by and watch such madness?

Jones: I think the State, such as it is now, would begin to undergo a great change.

Washburn: Yes, exactly. And that is why we can’t allow things to move in the direction you prescribe.

Jones: You should welcome the unknown.

Washburn: It would cripple every predictive model we have.

Jones: “The unknown is the greatest aspect of existence.” I wrote that.

Washburn: Where did you get such an idea?

Jones: I don’t think I got it from anywhere. One day it occurred to me. What is as yet unformed in the imagination is much greater than anything that has yet happened in our entire history. That was the idea.

Washburn: But you’re not referring to the collective imagination.

Jones: I don’t think the collective imagination exists. It’s a fairy tale. Imagination belongs to the individual.

Washburn: Do you realize the potential danger of these ideas?

Jones: No, I don’t.

Washburn: You define “unknown” as a potential that exists in the imagination.

Jones: I do.

Washburn: The State directs imagination, so it moves toward the achievement of prescribed goals.

Jones: Can I quote you on that?

Washburn: Please, don’t be frivolous. This is a serious matter. You could be charged with a crime.

Jones: Would I have my day in open court?

Washburn: For the class of felonies we’re discussing here, you would appear before a judge in a private chamber. He would interview you and pass sentence.

Jones: A guilty verdict is preordained?

Washburn: In a planned society, some offenses are obvious and irreversible. There is no need to argue the outcome.

Jones: So what do you want me to do?

Washburn: Recant your essay.

Jones: It isn’t even finished. I haven’t published any part of it.

Washburn: You have to make a sign of good faith.

Jones: Let me make this clear: I have faith in the imagination and creative force of the free individual.

Washburn: …There might be one way out of your problem.

Jones: What is it?

Washburn: Register with the State as a 501c non-profit church. At that point, your beliefs would be protected by the Constitution.

Jones: Really.

Washburn: Yes. Of course, you would have to say your core ideas come from God or The Universe or some other higher being whom you’re channeling.

Jones: I don’t like the sound of that.

Washburn: You would be granted a license as a minister of a religious organization.

Jones: I have no interest in becoming a minister.

Washburn: The State would monitor your operation closely. We would apply surveillance to determine what we call the Passivity Index, in your flock.

Jones: Meaning what?

Washburn: The thrust of your preaching must bring about a high level of surrender and passivity among your members.

Jones: But the whole idea of individual creative force moves in the opposite direction.

Washburn: I understand. However, when you combine that idea with God, gods, prophets, whatever, the overall effect should induce “passive enthusiasm.” In other words, people are inspired by your message but they don’t do anything about it.

Jones: I become an entertainer.

Washburn: You said it. I didn’t.

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Jones: You know, I used to teach at a university.

Washburn: Yes, Yale. We have your records. In your eighth year, during a small seminar, you used the word “she” six times. Your students protested against the offensive gender-based pronoun, which had been outlawed by the College Council. You wouldn’t back down.

Jones: I wrote a defense of my position for the College newspaper. Before that edition was printed or the essay could go online, the paper was shut down. Nevertheless, I was dragged into a student court and charged with “emotional hijacking.” I don’t even know what that means.

Washburn: The massive student protests across America, in those days, were a precursor to the bundle of heroic Equality laws passed by Congress. “Equal emotions, equal treatment.”

Jones: Another term whose meaning completely escapes me.

Washburn: You’re a chronic outlier, Mr. Jones. I’m offering you a way out of your mess. Join us. Be part of us. We’re the solution.

Jones: C9sr1574gt6789bd.

Washburn: Excuse me?

Jones: That’s a piece of verbal code. A colleague once passed it along to me. I’m betting you’re responding to it.

Washburn: What?

Jones: It eliminates oppositional speech in androids. Non-humans. Machines designed to look like humans.

Silence.

More silence.

More silence.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

The Cosmological News channel

The Cosmological News Channel

by Jon Rappoport

November 4, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“People are fascinated by ancient cultures and the shamans and magicians who practice in mysterious ways. But along with this fascination, there is a kind of aversion to The New, as if it must be irrevocably tainted, as if nothing new and as yet uncreated could possibly match what once was. This is not only false, it is a form of psychic surrender. The psyche shows no faith in itself or its inherent power. Part of my work is reversing that defeatism.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

Cosmologies are a dime a dozen.

Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Spinoza, Big Bang, String Theory, the Bible, Vedanta, Olympic gods, Egyptian gods, Norse myths, African creation stories…

Cosmology: a picture of the universe; a story about the origin of life; a tale about the connection between consciousness and the universe.

These cosmologies share a common trait. They purport to explain What Is. And they claim to do it at a “higher level.”

There is another thing about cosmology: people are magnetically attracted to it, because they want a story that will settle matters for them, give them final answers.

Poof. It’s done.

“The universe knows what I need, and it’ll give it to me when I’m ready. If something I want doesn’t happen, it wasn’t meant to be. Not yet.”

For many, many people, cosmology is permission to remain passive.

Of course, for those with great faith in a particular story, it can also provide an opportunity to go on the march and kill unbelievers.

Cosmology is a content provider. People want content. Cosmology is like the nightly news. “Fill up the empty spaces, please.”

Cosmology has a degrading effect on the individual when he uses it to stand in for what he might otherwise do, if left to his own devices and inner resources.

But how many people care about their inner resources?

Those who do, whoever they are, wherever they are: I’m speaking to them.

There is a fundamental twist in cosmology. It starts off by connecting the individual to wider, broader, deeper realities. But wait: these realities are not of his own making. They’re imported.

Sooner or later, the imports convey a hypnotic impact. “This is true, accept me, believe in me, there’s nothing else you need to do…”

So…what about the free and independent individual? And more importantly, what is freedom for?

However we might answer that last question, freedom is certainly tuned to the future. It is the basis for The New, whatever that might be.

The New. People have decidedly mixed reactions to that concept, which is uncharted. There no guarantees.

But the mind, consciousness, the psyche are not only looking for The New, they want to imagine it, invent it, create it.

That desire is inherent in the dynamic, electric, restless, wide-ranging, agile nature of consciousness.

Cut off that desire and watch what happens. Life will then organize itself into little compartments, and energy will leak away.

Creating The New is the lifeblood of the individual and individual consciousness.

This has nothing to do with cosmology.

With enough sustained creation and invention, however, the individual will come to his own cosmological ideas and answers, in a natural way.

Nikola Tesla: “Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early [imaginative] impulses, though not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies. Indeed, I feel now that had I understood and cultivated instead of suppressing them, I would have added substantial value to my bequest to the world. But not until I had attained manhood did I realize that I was an inventor.”

Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

The so-called “mysteries of genius” notwithstanding, every individual has something hidden away in his soul: an urge to create and project that creation out into the world.

There is no way to tell what will come of it, or what substance it contains, until imagination walks through the door, until the process begins, and gets underway…

No matter what circumstances he lives in, the individual wants to invent The New.

It is this desire, impulse, force that moves beyond any pre-set cosmology.

It is this impulse from which Tomorrow wants to be made.

It is this impulse which shuts down the Cosmological News Channel, and recognizes it for what it is: a second-hand metaphysical media outlet, owned and operated by the Reality Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of We Create, You Absorb, Inc.

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In 1961, decades before I started to work as a reporter, I was living in New York, I had just begun painting, and I was having conversations with an extraordinary healer, Richard Jenkins. (I write about Richard in my book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies — which is included as a bonus in my collections Exit From The Matrix and Power Outside The Matrix.)

One day, at my studio, I was asking him about a few Hindu creation myths. He looked at me strangely, and then he said something to this effect: Don’t you realize you’re doing your own creation stories? You’re here every day painting. What do you think that’s about? This isn’t ten thousand years ago. This is now. You’re making the future.

He was right. He was suggesting I wake up.

So many people are preoccupied with finding a cosmology in the past. They can root around forever, and still they won’t see the power they themselves have.

Any story you could invent about the cosmos would, in the long run, serve you better than accepting a burnished story someone else told 5000 years ago.

The essential quality of The New is that it is not yet created. It is beyond the reach of What Is Already Accepted, and it depends entirely on the individual and his imagination.

Beyond all programming.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

“Coming up after the break, more mind control. Stay with us.”

“Coming up after the break, more mind control. Stay with us.”

by Jon Rappoport

November 3, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“What is as yet uncreated in the imagination of The Individual is the most potent force in this or any other universe. And to make things even clearer, the failure to understand that fact constitutes the most potent form of mind control in existence.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

If an elite news anchor delivered the same “vital information” from a cheap motel room, with one camera, no field reporters, no graphics, no music, and if he wore street clothes instead of an expensive suit, who would believe him? Who would believe his information if they didn’t know who he was?

“I swear, I’m the national CBS news anchor. I swear it. I am.”

“Sure, pal. And I’m Cary Grant, after I’ve had a few drinks.”

Television News.

What does the viewer want?

The viewer wants Story. Beginning, middle, end.

It’s such a deep mind program, few people question it. “Why would I want anything else? That’s what a Story is. Beginning, middle, end. What else is there?”

However, it turns out that television news does not cover events in that fashion. Rarely is a story wrapped up. Rarely are things taken to a conclusion.

Rather, it is the news broadcast itself that is the story. It is the show that has a beginning, middle, and end. Six o’clock to 6:30. Eleven to 11:30.

This is quite an accomplishment. Networks make their own broadcasts the central story.

Viewer: “Well, tonight they covered about 10 different things. When I think about it, they left me hanging on at least eight of those. But I do know the news started at six and it ended at 6:30. That’s good. I got my daily fill.”

Every night: the illusion of beginning, middle, and end.

The role of the anchor is to impart the impression that everything he’s talking about is important. It doesn’t matter whether it is. It doesn’t matter whether a particular story is covered to a conclusion. It doesn’t matter in what order the little stories are presented. It doesn’t matter how many lies are embedded in the broadcast.

It only matters that the anchor can deliver the impression of importance.

Viewer: “I watched the news tonight. It was important.”

An interesting thing happened during the most recent Republican Presidential debate: the candidates turned against the network moderators (“anchors”). The candidates assailed the moderators for asking ridiculous questions. They broke the spell.

This was not supposed to happen.

Or was it?

The overall impression of the debate was chaos, as if the event were nothing more than a cheap argument in a bar.

The cheesy display was promoted by moderator questions. Absurd questions. “Tell us your biggest weakness, in thirty seconds.” That was the first question of the night. Apparently, the moderators were trying to revive encounter groups of the 1970s, or were fronting for Chinese-style self-criticism campaigns.

And then the candidates were asked to discuss problems connected with burgeoning fantasy football betting sites. I’m surprised nothing came up about deflated footballs or who favored the Broncos over the Packers.

It was either a major display of idiocy and incompetence, or an effort by the CNBC people to cast all the Republican candidates in a decidedly unfavorable light.

Something else is happening, as well. With the rise of alt. news sites on the Web, enormous bottom-up pressure is building, and mainstream news is feeling the effects. Their con game isn’t working so well anymore. So they’re grasping at straws, any straws, trying to hold on to their audience. Their financial bottom lines are sinking. They’re decades-long hypnosis program is falling apart.

For example, untold millions of people now know that the upcoming climate summit in Paris is going to be the occasion for forcing global energy cutbacks—but of course the major media aren’t covering this with any vigor. Neither are they covering exactly how Obama intends to eliminate Congress’ role in approving such an international agreement.

The television viewer is expected to sit still for the mind programming of the news. But that egg is showing cracks.

However, the viewer still has a vested interest in fake network news. It allows him to do: nothing. In other words, if he knew how absurd and insane the news really was, he would feel an unbidden urge to take action—and then he would really feel lost.

Why? Because he would see himself as just one person up against the gigantic machine, system, establishment.

What I’ve pointing out in one fashion or another for the last several years is: THIS IS A FALSE CONSTRUCT.

It’s not “one person up against the whole system.”

It’s one person who has yet to deploy his imagination.

What?

That’s right.

This is something to ponder deeply. A human being has no idea what he is capable of as long as he is cut off from his own imagination. And, being cut off from his own (unlimited) imagination is THE DEEPEST FORM OF MIND CONTROL ON THE PLANET.

I repeat: a single human being has no idea what he is capable of, when he is cut off from his own imagination. He has no idea what he is capable of creating.

He will, instead, see himself, like a tiny cipher, arrayed against the power of The State and its allies.

He will not be able to see things any other way.

Thus, he will prefer to accept whatever lies the news dispenses, in order to maintain the fantasy that things are basically all right and under control.

This deplorable situation also applies to many people who have seen through lies and false realities and recognize something about how the planet is being run:

They see themselves as very, very small, when it comes to “confronting the powers-that-be.” They too have not connected with their own imaginations; and they too would disparage any attempt to encourage that connection.

So be it.

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But there are others who conceive of their own creative power far differently. They may not have embarked on that road, but they sense it is without limits. They want whatever that is.

It turns out there are many such people all over the world.

There are thousands and thousands of ways of outflanking the powers-that-be. They exist, in a form of potentiality, in the imaginations of individuals. There is no list. No one can predict what can be imagined and created.

This is the opportunity.

This is the difference between today and tomorrow.

This is the potential of the endless cascade, against which the masters who desire unlimited rule would stand no chance.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Your vision, your voice

Your vision, your voice

by Jon Rappoport

October 28, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“What will you do tomorrow with your life that is different from what you’re doing today? Suppose you’re a revolutionary in terms of your own life? What would that mean?” (Notes for Exit From The Matrix, Jon Rappoport)

In the wake of my last several articles (see here and here), I’ve received interesting correspondence from readers who are launching, or planning to launch, exciting and adventurous enterprises.

I always favor individuals and their creative and original efforts, projected with great energy.

The inspired individual has electricity in his hands. He’s a dynamo. He has a new idea. He isn’t primarily seeking balance. He’s achieving a new level of action and insight.

When you wake up in the middle of the night with a galvanizing idea ringing in your head, you’ve dissolved a pattern that was holding energy in place, keeping it in check.

The new adventure, the new enterprise that inspires—these happenings take you out on to a higher plateau, from which you see a larger vista.

Which is your vision.

And then there is the matter of expressing the vision, giving voice to it. This is projected energy, coming from you. You’re the center.

This is how it’s meant to be. How would anyone else except you be the center?

When you’re a creator, your whole action is to make your vision into fact in the world.

What voice do you give to your vision? How do you express it?

With a few “well-chosen words?” Why? The stage is open, the stage is yours. Why hold back?

There is power in a voice.

A voice can change reality.

When your voice becomes your VOICE, you connect with something oceanic that rips away false separations and false systems and false ideas.

We pretend to be small. We pretend to be whispering. We pretend to have such limited power.

We pretend.

We pretend that some overriding system or structure supersedes our own voices.

As you expand your own voice, and as you express what you truly want to express, you are cutting away layers of stagnant consciousness.

Your voice:

An open door to greater power, greater aliveness, greater empathy, greater self, greater engagement, greater connection, greater wholeness.

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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” —Martha Graham

“I am among those who are preached to, and who listen…But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.” —Haniel Long

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.” —Henry Miller

Waiting in silence for a voice to show up will lead to more waiting. Why postpone the dawn?

As natural as it is to breathe, to walk, to look around, it is that natural to have a vision and express it. We may live in an unnatural society, but that doesn’t mean we have to succumb to it. This is not about meeting standards. It’s about crossing the line.

All children know that to make a line with chalk on the sidewalk means you’re going jump over it.

This is what the world is for.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

All work is Art

All work is Art

by Jon Rappoport

October 28, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“Why does the world have to be the way it is? It doesn’t. There is no rule about that. Nor is there is a rule that says a person’s life has to be what it already is. Daring to shoot for the stars is more real than anything around you. The dedicated artists who went all out, who were more reckless by far than their contemporaries—they are more important than all the prophets who ever lived.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

It may be petty work. It may be boring work, repetitive work. In that case, it is petty, boring, repetitive Art.

All work, even when assigned to the letter by a boss, is invented by the person doing it, whether he knows it or not, whether he admits it or not.

All invention is some kind of Art.

It rises up and causes a conflagration, or it sits there like a dead afternoon in a cellar, but it’s Art.

There are endless reasons for exercising great caution in what one invents, but they are all a robot’s reasons. They infuse a sense of monotony. They are reasons for enlisting as a card-carrying member of Society. Sooner or later, the member’s hopeful expectations are broken.

He can spend the rest of his life picking up the pieces and trying to put them back together, or he can move on with a new idea that has fire in it.

If he does the latter, he enters a new territory, a new world. It has no mandatory language, no tired meanings. He becomes a different kind of soul. He becomes more of what he actually is. He flies, he crashes and burns, he flies again, and so on, because he is learning a species of knowledge that has no standard text.

If just one person does this, the world is not completely lost. If enough people do this, the planetary egg cracks, and something new emerges.

There is no cosmic rescue operation descending from the outside. That is a dud floated by persons who are too lazy and incurious to discover a flame within themselves.

Yes, I’m talking metaphysics here, in a way, but not the kind that has a structure and an organized tradition and a renowned reputation and a “perfect master.” This metaphysics is the moment that can be taken by anyone; seized, held, felt, expressed, projected, flown-with as an instrument of navigation into spaces unknown and uncharted—but always on the cusp of recognition and always longed-for.

This is not normal or average perception. This is not a matter of translating something realer than real into “citizen-language” for the masses. This is not a laboratory exercise. This is not a subject for those who cling to a brand of fully intentional ignorance and wear it like a badge, while drowning, bit by bit, in their own boredom.

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This is not the pretense of knowing only what everyone else knows and balking at something that carries the air of mystery with it. This is not agreeing with the extraordinary possibilities of life and then sitting back and watching the days pass.

This is not a treatment, a drug, a prescription, a solution to a specific problem. This is not mechanical.

This is not a staged effort to point the finger of blame at someone, in order to remain quiescent and passive and gray.

This is jumping into space with the idea of creating something and creating it with great intensity.

This is Art.

This isn’t the mind reacting to established patterns or recognizing familiar patterns. A machine can do that work far better than the human mind.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Projecting the future: 10,000 years from now

Projecting the future: 10,000 years from now

by Jon Rappoport

October 25, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“When in the course of human events, the tide turns, it turns for the individual, not the group. It turns in favor of the creative force, which is present in every human, not in the collective.” (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

I recommend this: write a long detailed piece on what the future will look like 10,000 years from now.

No one-liners. No quick hitters. No summaries.

10,000 years is a sufficiently long period for many changes and revolutions to occur. What may look like “the defeat of human civilization,” if that is an element of your scenario, would only embrace a relatively short span. What comes after that? And after that?

I refuse to accept the proposition that current trends imply a permanent end to human life on the planet.

I have always been exceedingly optimistic about the human race, not as a species, not as a group, but as individuals, after all is said and done.

No matter what befalls us, somewhere along the line, no matter how long it takes, the individual will re-emerge as the primary force—because, at the core, the individual is creative. He is not merely a parrot responding to his own conditioning.

When I encounter dire predictions about human fate, I view them in terms of the next few decades, or the next hundred years or so. They are short-term. Fear is not the proper response—because time is long, very long.

So-called futurists are focused on the relatively short run, in part because their careers demand it. No one wants to fund a study on what the world will look like 10 or 20 thousand years from now.

Take the vaunted “Singularity” speculation, for example: human brains hooked up to a super-computer, downloading “the very best and truest information” applicable to any situation or problem. As shot through with holes as this hypothesis is, suppose it comes true, on a planet-wide basis. How long do you suppose the implementation would last, before massive rebellion occurs? Fifty years? A hundred? The mere blink of an eye.

I see no form of slavery, or even biological damage, as irreversible. Somewhere along the line, the human being would be restored. Contrary to guilt-and-blame doctrines, the human is made of towering potential. Nothing in his composition precludes a grand awakening to what he can imagine, do, create, invent.

And that is the whole point. That is what separates us from our beloved pets and the wild creatures that roam the forests. We are not, as the grim (or “loving”) Gaia devotees tell us, one facet of all-inclusive Nature. This is a current fad. Our experience and history on this world should disabuse us of the politically correct Gaian hypothesis.

And another thing. Because some individuals have chosen to wreak havoc, there is no reason to indict all of us on that basis, or paint us as a “species” whose urges will doom us forever.

No individual equals another individual. That underlying “equality” assumption, a heinous piece of philosophical propaganda, is false.

Each one of us is different, unique. There is no predicting how an individual will turn out, given enough time.

And time we have. Endless amounts of it. Like it or not.

Which is not an excuse to do nothing. Far from it. The here and now are vital, and how we act to change and revolutionize the current state of affairs means a great deal. But it is fatuous to believe there is a deadline beyond which nothing matters.

Deadlines are for provincial religionists and naysayers who actually want an end, look forward to an end, and believe they need an end to human existence.

Fearful as they may pretend to be, they delight in the idea that a curtain will fall and mark the finale of the human drama. They have blotted out so much of what they are, this is all they are left with; this perverse dream.

Let them have it. It’s another blink of the eye of time.

I look forward, and I see the dawn of the Age of the Artist. Against all odds, he will rise up with a power that cannot be defeated. He will make new worlds. Many, many such artists will give birth to a multiverse, open and vital; not one utopia, not one heaven.

Any one configuration can be overthrown, but when thousands or millions of creators launch, on Earth, their deepest desires, side by side, not as a cooperative enterprise, but as distinct works of art, with the capacity to install Reality, as real as real can possibly be, then we have a new kind of world.

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The central egg cracks. The central consensus explodes. The placid steady-state nightmare of unity disintegrates, and Difference emerges.

This cracking is the ages-long human fear. This is what societies have been fighting against for centuries. And looking around, you can see what we have to show for it:

Paved wall-to-wall spiritual and mental and emotional and creative conformity. Sameness.

As if this is a longed-for destination.

But, so? If this is the apex of collective invention to this point, it will only last so long, before it rots away. Before the whole notion of the collective is seen for what it is: a secret society of fear.

The individual has yet to stand to his full height. But he can. And I believe he will.

Until that day, I salute what you are, in your core, as I salute what I am, in mine.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.