Spiritual Awakening In A Time Of Material Collapse
The Material Crisis We Are In Is Planned, But Below The Surface, It's As Much A Spiritual Battle As A Material One. How Will We Respond?
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Frank Zappa
Last night, desperately seeking relief from the chaos of the current economic and systemic crisis, which, if the experts are to be believed, will soon affect all of us, I was thinking about Frank Zappa, certainly one of my favorite musicians and modern American composers.
His vastly complex musical compositions have been imprinted in my DNA over the decades, but the public misconception of a crazy rock star motivated only to sensationalize and outrage tends to dilute his invaluable contributions both in music and politics.
I’m talking about Zappa in the 80s, essentially putting his musical career on pause, and speaking out courageously and tirelessly against censorship and authoritarian tendencies, during an era when media appearances were rare and expensive, even for the famous.
I like to think FZ would have loved the fact that, finally, in 2025, the average person in the street can broadcast their opinions to a global audience after being excluded for decades.
A reminder to younger people that in the 1980s, There was no YouTube, social media, or relatively cheap technology to broadcast a message, even for the widely known, famous Zappa; you had to be not only well known, but invited on cable news, a nationally syndicated talk show, or local news. One thing that hasn’t changed: controversy = good ratings on television.
I submit to you that Zappa was a spiritual warrior who, despite his character flaws, (which I am not here to deny or defend), saw something happening to humanity and the American citizenry that alarmed him so deeply that he dropped the “freak” persona he had spent the past two decades establishing, cut his hair conservatively, and costumed himself in the camouflage of the very conservatives he was eviscerating on air for casually suggesting widespread censorship in art and music.
In multiple debates, Zappa took them head-on, not in his comfort zone, but in theirs: the advertising and ratings-dependent cable outlets where the debate parameters were so prejudiced and narrow that it was practically impossible to get your point across.
Referring to Zappa’s prophetic quote, we are undoubtedly at a juncture in History where, indeed, the illusion has become too expensive to maintain, the scenery is actively being dismantled (while the stage play is in progress, a comedy/tragedy that might be called “Trumplet”) and the tables and chairs are being moved to the wings of the stage: Our lives and jobs.
Over the last few days, it became abundantly clear to me that the current dismantling of America was always part of a larger SPIRITUAL battle across time.
I say this not as a rabid Bible thumper who has succumbed to a psychosis of sorts, but as an open-minded believer in the new concepts that are merging the spiritual and the scientific.
That is, we have always been under a spell within a false construct, in which we have surrendered our power as spiritual beings.
We believe in all that is false and run to comfort and security.
To the point: The spiritual war has gone on for eons, and is now accelerating, only now have we started to perceive that all our problems ultimately come from spiritual and material corruption and manipulation.
Ironically, as chaotic as things are becoming, without the chaos and its “agent,” (Trump) we would keep barreling down a path that requires us to ignore the obvious detrimental effects our presence on Earth has partially induced, extreme weather, heat, floods, depletion of natural “resources,” which is now becoming impossible to ignore as global systemic collapse is a hairs breadth away.
It is “we,” collectively and individually, that give credibility to the false narratives that corporations and governments have established to retain power, and it’s our responsibility to tear down the false constructs and build something new from scratch.
But first, we have to get through the chaos without surrendering our spiritual sovereignty.
How we react and navigate through it is critical.
It will take a massive amount of courage and community support, because, if power grids are so easily fallible, we will have to rely exclusively on each other to survive.
There is evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, and that we are at the end of a galactic cycle that is naturally occurring, evidenced by electromagnetic interference anomalies, happening NOW, in real time, and demonstrated by the recent failure of the electrical grid across entire countries in Europe.
Donald J Trump, the bringer of pure chaos, didn’t do this vast amount of damage to our lives and well-being in a short time alone; he is nowhere near clever enough. Trump is dangerous because he is implementing systems of control and catalyzing economic collapse at the behest of global capitalists. The Pavlovian shock and outrage, while valid and alarming, serve no purpose when it’s monetized and sold like energy drinks.
We have to take responsibility, morally and spiritually, that it is our collective acquiescence to those in true power that has brought us to this moment.
We are not victims.
BOTH branded political parties are wholesale purchased, perpetuate economic inequality, war, destruction, starvation, genocide, division, and chaos.
To quote the social commentator Shahid Bolsen, a man whose oration (available on YouTube) has helped ignite a spark in my consciousness on the truth of the world, that we are owned by global capitalists, and that the US is no longer valuable to them:
"The collapse of the United States, economically, socially, and morally, is not caused by an external enemy.
It's not the fault of China, it's not the fault of immigrants, it's not the fault of elections that didn't go your way, it's not the fault of just corrupt elites.
No, the collapse was philosophical.
It was spiritual.
It was civilizational.
The rot began at the root.
They built a civilization where the highest value is materialism, where worth was measured in consumption, where success meant accumulation, where GDP growth was more important than human dignity or societal well-being.
They mistook endless accumulation for life's purpose, and in so doing, they starved their own souls of meaning.
Their economy wasn't designed to sustain, it was designed to extract, it's a culture focused exclusively on short-termism:
The addiction to quarterly profits, election cycles, 24-hour news, the inability to think past next week, let alone the next generation, and everybody has to kiss the ring of the invisible hand of the market."
Shahid Bolsen
Community Sovereignty in the Age of Collapse
Last night, I saw, probably for the first time, how this current moment has multiple dimensions. For lack of a better description, it unfolded like a diagram in download form. I can sympathize if, at this point, you’re thinking I’ve lost my marbles.
This is not intended to be a digression into the Bible, end times prophecies, and fear-mongering, but a marriage of the practical and the miraculous. People ARE waking up. As Neuro Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman theorizes in the video above, “space time is doomed” and our perceived reality constructs are now manipulated as control devices to keep us, collectively and as individuals, in an open-air prison.
A spiritual war has re-ignited.
There is no more horrific example than the current genocide in Gaza, which is a microversion of the larger macro plan for the world population, as you will see in the video below.
It was no less than revelatory and astounding to me that one of the most conservative figures of the past 30 years, a woman named Catherine Austin Fitts, an investment banker, who also served in the ultra-conservative George H W Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, would be the spiritual warrior, (much like Zappa) to pull back the curtains in the theater, move the chairs and expose the brick wall.
Fitts says that it took her years to figure out that in serving corrupt government entities that attacked her finanical security and harassed her family and threatend their interests, that she was a “patsy” (her words) and likened her awakening to the moment in the Stanley Kubrick film “Eyes Wide Shut” when Tom Cruise’s character haplessly walks into the rituals of a powerful cabal of dangerous people, some of whom he knows personally.
After that, everything changed forever.
This interview should be watched in its entirety, but if you don’t have the time, I’ll highlight the most revelatory aspects.
Our economy has been based on fraud and theft, and extortion at least since World War Two. All Central Banks exist to serve a stateless entity that is above any law or authority in the entire world, the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. 63 of the most powerful banks in the world are shareholders. BIS has sovereign immunity, meaning that no one, no state or government entity has the legal authority to move against it. The BIS can not only move money secretly, but if, as Fitts theorizes, an individual wanted to simply move money stolen from the US government (and you, the taxpayer), it can park the money on balance sheets in multiple locations that aren’t subject to law, authority, or audit.
The question is asked: Are we approaching an extinction event? Is the true cause of all the alarming, rapidly changing severe weather due to solar activity and Galactic cycles?
Why are the billionaire capitalists investing all that capital into space? Minerals and asteroid mining? Fitts proposes that there is a plan to establish a complete control and monitoring grid for global capital via satellite. If anyone wanted to make the next logical leap, they might see Elon Musk’s ineffective, clownish DOGE as a ruse. This is solely my opinion, but the real intent could be illegal theft of private data and banking information of the entire US population. America no longer serves the best interests of global capitalists, as Shahid Bolson has spoken about in numerous commentaries. The decision has been made to gut the American economy and strip any assets, leaving the population to chaos and their own devices. If this seems like a paranoid, far-fetched vision, I would suggest that all one has to do is look at the current situation in Gaza. America has consumed more than it has produced for decades, and global capital demands producers.
Where are the missing trillions, alluded to by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld? Fitts, again, a rational, very conservative Christian, believes there is evidence that the US government, which is owned and run by a criminal, corrupt billionaire class, has been siphoning taxpayer money to construct underground and sub-oceanic bases, all interlinked by a transportation system. These bases were constructed based on knowledge of a relatively imminent extinction event, and it is only the billionaire class and the government that will benefit.
The Global Depopulation Plan Is Being Implemented (Quoting Fitts) “If you want to move people to a much lower economic footprint, let alone do it on a shocking basis, having complete control is obviously very convenient.”
I do believe that, somehow, a veil is thinning, and we are now in a moment in time to realize our true potential and reason for being.
As a final thought, and hopefully an antidote to the fear, I wanted to offer this Reddit post as evidence of the daily increase in consciousness that we are undergoing.
Here’s hoping for collective revelations and a return to our best nature.
It will be a battle worth fighting.
“Just wanted to share my experience from the other day. I was lying outside in the sunlight and I could feel the warmth of the sun all over my body. Suddenly, I began to experience a deep connection with the light of the sun. I understood that the sun was the Eye of Source (God), and I was seeing flashes in my mind’s eye of various stars, Solar gods, Serapis with his beautiful beard, father gods, shining masculinity and warmth, and strong love.
I understood that our consciousness below is reflected by consciousness above, and inside of us we also have a central star. An inner star.
An inner Christ.
Yeshua/Jesus Christ. Apollo. Dionysus. Serapis. Father and Son in One Sun. The Midnight Sun, Aion Plutonius. Resurrection.
So much of it made sense. How our solar system is like a cell, with the sun as its nucleus. I felt deeply connected to the natural world around me. I felt love from the sky and love within.
And I slowly began to understand that Christ is a force, an energy wave permeating the entire universe. We are a part of its consciousness. Salvation. Birth, death, rebirth. Freedom from the cycle. True Love. Not disregarding the world, but seeing True Reality. The Kingdom of God, and all of the gods and spirits that are a part of the Eternal Consciousness.
Self and no-self, United. As above, so below. It all made so much sense to me.
Now it all feels like a distant dream and I can’t use language properly to convey what I experienced. But I feel like Christ is so much more than what mainstream Christianity presents him as. It’s so easy to say “son of God, he is also God” but understanding what that means…and how it’s reflected by Hercules, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes, and so many others. Mithras. Orion. Humans. Us. You. Me.
Sorry to get esoteric and vague. I just wish I knew what to do next.”