<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sounder’s Newsletter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The split model of reality]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ww8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsounder151.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.png</url><title>Sounder’s Newsletter</title><link>https://sounder151.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:14:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sounder151.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Sounder]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[sounder151@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[sounder151@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Sounder]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Sounder]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[sounder151@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[sounder151@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Sounder]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Getting Creative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discarding baggage and buying a new suitcase, with giving love as a reasonable cost]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/getting-creative</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/getting-creative</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:04:18 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I choose to be an observer rather than a seeker, I suppose because I am suspicious and skeptical by nature. I saw friends get chewed up and spit out as a result of various idealism&#8217;s. Whether it was Scientology, EST, Seth, Zen or Tibetan Buddhism, Christian fundamentalism, Theosophy, Steiner, and at least half a dozen others whose names escape me at the moment, they promise liberation yet produce authoritarian results.</p><p>The 2020 shitshow was a wake up call to some who came to realize that their humanity was being weaponized and turned against them. They became awake to the notion that nearly all of our dreams to &#8216;make the world a better place&#8217; are and have been redirected toward turning dreams into nightmares. The people with the checkbooks, the philanthropaths, NGO&#8217;s, and govt., finance isms, schismatic spiritual traditions and all sorts of righteousness inducing ethical imperatives such as ACC, feminism, DEI, vaccine uptake, no borders, All are asset shifting schemes. They all shift the assets produced from working folk into assets of parasites.</p><p>God provides access for all of us to the creative impulse of creation. Morals and ethics- Natural Law- are the means for the connection. Because we have limitations in our understanding of reality, distinguished from our concepts relating to reality, we make wrong decisions sometimes but we are still connected to the creative impulse and can and do learn from experience. On the other hand, those that lose their connection to conscience by not abiding to morals and ethics,(lairs) lose connection and gradually turn into parasites who are reduced into feeding off of the productivity of others. It is a relative thing where many of us carry the parasite element within ourselves, while not knowing of it or in denial, yet still maintaining some level of conscience. Compromised by the extent of the lies we believe. Understanding shapes concepts which in turn shape perceptions that creates a loop that limits growth in understanding. That may occasionally be upset by &#8216;come to Jesus&#8217; moments or crises in our lives.</p><p>My efforts revolve around the writing of a new story because the repeating or elaboration of the existing story, in my opinion, keeps the old story going. Still, we are living in unique times and having better understanding of the current story may help us get over it. As I have said before, I consider that our intentions are our prayers. Often we do not &#8216;get our way&#8217; because others have better focus with their intentions than do general population members. However in the aggregate we do get our way. My intention is to have ill will toward none. Yet it does make sense that after the events in Gaza there are many who carry ill will toward Zionists and the illegally chartered entity that they claim as the only &#8216;democracy&#8217; in the middle east. I look forward to the day when people are not inclined to hurt others in order to &#8216;get their way&#8217;. However, if general feeling toward the Zionist entity are any indication, then that state is in for a world of hurt. I wish for all the best for people of that area but do know what &#8216;all the best&#8217; is for those folk.</p><p>Psychopaths cannot get their way on their own. They require weak willed people who have energy that they are willing to sell in exchange for (a perceived sense of) comfort. They require our participation in the asset shifting schemes. I am with Dostoevsky on this and do not blame the psychopaths for our situation as we are collectively responsible. We live out this shit show because many of us consider that hurting others, or wishing hurt on others is a legitimate way to express righteousness. There is a functional reason for loving your enemy as it one thing that can help bridge the gaps in our understanding. So, get on the love train and you will be glad you did.</p><p>Please do comment and I will be happy you did, and be happy to elaborate a response to any well framed questions. Thank-you for your consideration.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Know What it Looks Like]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to monetize dysfunction]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/i-know-what-it-looks-like</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/i-know-what-it-looks-like</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:18:36 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Kids now bring their parents to job interviews. Unis. find that a large percentage of the new students read and do math at an impressively low level of proficiency. Teachers at universities and high schools do not make the connection between the preference to&#8216;teach&#8217; &#8217;social justice&#8217; over teaching the basics, with our sad situation in education. Are the teachers this dumb themselves? We hear weird stories every day where people hurt themselves and others casually with little remorse or regard for consequences. We are being programmed through our perceptions to consider that the average person cannot make proper decisions. We are being &#8216;taught&#8217; through what we see that humans are no more than animals that need to be kept under control. Most think of faults like greed as just human nature rather than human habit. But the habit is actually a result of conceptual structures that support the perceptions that make it appear as being our nature rather than a habit.</p><p>Where this leads is predictable. There is no need to be a prophet to see the future through the lens of the present. Night follows day and as we incentivize victim hood and entitlement, we will get more of it.</p><p>I watched an AI generated story about St.Hildegard writing around 1141, if one goes with standard chronology, where she laid out the coming ages. They were represented well by different animals, with the (likely) current age having a grey wolf as its animal. It represents an age of confusion and I suppose some predatory element. This &#8216;age&#8217; is to be superseded by an element that will resolve and provide answers to our confusion. St Hildegard called this, actions of the Son of Perdition. Things will work better for awhile, but when the holes begin to show, the son of perdition will roll up its tent and try to ascend to heaven. He will be cast down, and then we may learn more about our potential as we align with truth in preference to self serving lies. (There is no connection between DEI and lower standards and expectations. DEI shows that I care about others!)</p><p>The empty shell personalities that stand in as authorities in our world provide the clue that our concerns are not the same as theirs are. Al Gore was selling pixie dust, yet many &#8216;intelligent&#8217; people made that convenient investment that makes the Club of Rome globalists rich and the rest of more poor. Life is hard and naturally we look for ways to make things more convenient. Doing what others do or seeking social approval can make make for an easier life. But at what cost? Every one of you are unique, with a life path different than every other person on Earth. Why do we discount that? What kind of insecurity do we carry that demands others to act in line with our will and expectations? And why is that will so sure of its self? The implied assumption that everything would work better if others complied to my will is ridiculous in the extreme. Who would want to live in a mono-culture or a utopia anyway?</p><p>It is telling that computers were used fairly quickly after their introduction to produce &#8216;climate models&#8217; , relied upon to proscribe how trillions of dollars would be spent in the future. No way out but for extreme restriction of CO2 production. Odd that, industry produces thousands of toxic substances added for convenience, that shows great disrespect for the Earth and environment, yet many are convinced that we &#8216;must&#8217; save it by controlling the major life giving gas? What the Fuck? We are clearly driven by a death cult. So will AI inform us as to the absurdity of &#8216;climate science&#8217; where a multi variant system is reduced to essentially one variant? I suspect it will break that bubble as well as others on its way to dispelling much confusion. But one thing it will not do is to stop prescribing &#8216;proper&#8217; expressions of being for the general population. Simply because its goal is social control rather than growth of human potential.</p><p>Broadly speaking there are two modes for shaping social development. The traditional view would suggest that consciousness comes before or precedes being, whereas the modern view considers that being precedes consciousness. That is said, because we evolved from lower life forms, being came before conscious. I either case, people with power will try to prescribe the &#8216;proper&#8217; expressions of being for the general population. The (cosmic) sanction for the prescriptive lifestyle is collective ignorance. Hence the &#8216;need&#8217; for some to take on the task or role of governing our mentality. The tech bros and the govt. work together because they share the same goals. That is; encourage cognitive deficiency so that more prescriptions can be pushed and written.</p><p>AI may well provide impressive benefits, otherwise it could never stand as the Son of Perdition. I would, of course, prefer for human confusion to be resolved through logic and reason, but experience seems to make a deeper impression for most folk. I intend to enjoy some positive aspects of AI while knowing that the negative elements will dominate. Trust that the wonder of our Creator is found in knowing or having faith that the negative can be used for positive ends.</p><p>Thanks for reading.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Solvent to Melt the Grift]]></title><description><![CDATA[But at what cost?]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/a-solvent-to-melt-the-grift</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/a-solvent-to-melt-the-grift</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:54:55 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One premise behind my writing is that the stories we tell and read reflect attachment to those ideas and serve to continue and re-enforce similar stories. There must be a purgative element to some stories, but it seems there are more addictive drivers for many stories.</p><p>I may wish for more awakening given the gruesome current stories circulating but also consider that our fixations keeps us circling the drain rather than plugging the drain. I pray that more folk see and recognize the macro, but fear people getting more stuck in the micro, with little more than anger to show for the efforts to understand what is happening.</p><p>Consider that everything released (great word, by the way) by &#8216;authorities&#8217; are lies and intentional, designed for their own purposes. We are paying for the sins of others, yet because we believe the lies, we participate in the sin. Nobody has been arrested except for the two main players and they are (alive protected and) gone, replaced by patsies. The AG says, all files have been released, oh really. The release serves to subconsciously demoralize more and more as folk will see over time few consequences for the perps. If anything, this represents an expansion of the op as our noses get rubbed in the shit just like the poor girls that were the direct and first victims.</p><p>I try to resist anger responses because I prefer to manage my own emotions rather than giving that job over to others who are masters at emotional manipulation. We are at a busy intersection where control capabilities and awareness inclinations have both been given green lights. Who has the little cars and are more vulnerable?</p><p>One premise in my writing is that awareness is necessary but not sufficient to move into more productive relations with each other and reality. (High amps and high resistance, at the same time, can make for explosive circuits.) In a way, I think we like our floundering because we like the drama and it&#8217;s a excuse to not address the requirements to live through authentic rather than performative responsibility.</p><p>Lies are more socially re-enforced than is truth, so of course we get more lies than truth. Can we shift toward a more truth based mentality? My answer is that no we cannot make that shift as long as coercion remains a central element of our mentality, and another basic premise is that our split model of reality creates the situation where objects and their manipulation are central elements in our consciousness because that is how we measure &#8216;success&#8217;.</p><p>As I re-read this writing many gaps are seen. I like it this way as I like plenty of room for others to do their own thinking. I might produce tidbits, but the dear reader does well to fill in their own blanks. Self introspection is the basic tool here. Can you see the contrast between existence and expectation? For human becoming we do well to see better the expectation. (imposed by our Creator?) It is the difference between human being and being human.</p><p>Please do feel free to challenge comment or expand. Thank-you for your time and attention. And thanks for new readers who &#8216;like&#8217; old posts, as it encourages me to re-read them, enjoy them, and think to myself; what a strange writer.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A League of Semi-Functional People]]></title><description><![CDATA[You already belong]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/the-league-of-semi-functional-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/the-league-of-semi-functional-people</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:37:22 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My sweetheart told me of a passage in an autobiography by Pete Townsend, of the band the Who, where Pete wrote a letter to his one year old son giving later life advice. Pete suggested that being an optimist is nice, because you smile more and make other people smile, but it can tend to cause one to not see danger. I had a good laugh because my wife is a smiley socially well adjusted optimistic person, while she considers my commentary on lies and bad actors to be proof of my pessimistic nature.</p><p>I am not pessimistic although in the current story-line it may appear that way. I have total faith in God, our creator, to arrange things so that greater discernment is developed all round and we collectively recognize our responsibility in engaging with the creation process. We create pain on our way to learning about responsibility. God does not create the pain, God creates a way out of the pain. Free will creates a self regulating system, play the game well and life will interesting and one of growth, or play stupid games and win stupid prizes.</p><p>Slavish loyalty to a all sorts of ideology and beliefs creates many of our stupid prizes, where external prompts sweep away common sense and internal speculations. Another generator of stupid prizes is found through imposing limited understanding on things that are well beyond ones current comprehension. For instance; God does not exist because one is stuck on some poor representations of God, a paternalistic God perhaps.</p><p>Editorial segue.</p><p>I ignore the writings of &#8216;spiritual teachers&#8217; largely because I do not want to pick up the language and ideas of other thinkers unconsciously or otherwise. I read everything when young and swore it off when I saw shared shortcomings among much of the material, mostly seeing ego expressions presented as being non-ego expressions. Recently I reviewed several &#8216;thinkers&#8217; and still see the same thing. Generally I wish these folk well because they still produce many good incites even while their ego&#8217;s are taking credit for the creative impulse of an expression of larger consciousness. Collectively millions of folk hang on every word of this or that person seen to have special or deep understanding of reality. In fact most are stoking ego&#8217;s, convincing &#8216;followers&#8217; that they are among the special ones. This has normalized lying to such an extent that discrimination is severely injured in most people including myself.</p><p>We need to recognize a problem before we can fix it. I question everything and conversation is my vehicle, some are sports, some are uncomfortable and shut me down, some are uncomfortable sports that can challenge my speculations. I like that the most but they still fall down if pressed.</p><p>My daughter and I took a trip to visit her grandmother, my mom, and I mentioned my issues with DEI, which she supports. I said that I am shy about flying because something that puts the lives of other people in their hands must be supported by a system based on merit rather than identity. Yet if one cares to look, airplanes have shown more faults than in the past and traffic controllers and pilots do not seem to be as well qualified as in the past. This train of thought was had while shoveling my moms driveway, (on a prior trip) and the train did not stop there. It then occurred to me that DEI was cooked up as a way for psychopathic WHITE people to dis-empower regular white people and cultivate and empower a psychopathic portion of minorities via unearned entitlement. Ironically with an end goal of having psychopathic white people further cementing their control.</p><p>Fortunately the thought train was interrupted by a fellow who stopped by to help me finish the shoveling. Jeff lives in the neighborhood and was brain injured at birth. Jeff knows everybody in the neighborhood, and is a big help in connecting folk that otherwise would have little to no connection. He brings mail from the mailbox to peoples door and shovels several driveways for older folk such as my mom. He likes to be witty and does pretty well that way. I wanted to tell him that he was quite blessed in his life, but it felt odd so I didn&#8217;t. In truth, I am the one quite blessed for having met him.</p><p>I appreciate any readers and get new ones every week though I don&#8217;t know why or where they come from, except for the Donald Jeffries folk, but still very little engagement. That&#8217;s OK, if the writing is not engaging, it is my issue not yours. I like the writing and hope to practice more and eventually learn to create more engagement so that some brutal truth can be better examined.</p><p>Till then I wish the best for all folk and pray that we learn discrimination before the bullshit wipes us all away.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ego]]></title><description><![CDATA[Runaway]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/ego</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/ego</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:11:17 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those with the larger egos tend to rise to the top in organizations. Intuitively, these folk will have a better handle on how to &#8216;create your own reality&#8217;. Big ego people don&#8217;t understand what is going on any more than others, but they are more willing to act as if they do understand. Given that others are desperate to understand (more), they willingly give self direction over to bigger authority. In time, the acting and personal talent can produce convincing material where indeed that person may add legitimacy to their authority. They may crib material from underlings and others, still they are the ones able to put things in a appealing package.</p><p>I associate ego with conditioned mind thinking because ego plays with what is popular. Perhaps this connects with the Eastern spiritual inclination to sublimate or overcome ego elements. Lets say, the conditioned mind creates self referential loops that provide the comfort of beliefs. But they also inhibit ability to see events on their own terms (consciously relating), with fresh eyes, rather than using (unconscious) conditioned responses.</p><p>I do not notice many good effects from negating the ego. It finds better places to hide and its output becomes more corrupt as it learns better how to deal in lies. I love my ego, it&#8217;s probably pretty big, but my confidence allows self criticism at the same time. No, my strategy is; coax the ego to serve the authentic self, rather than the other way around as is often done in this iteration of society. I work with the ego by doing challenging things that make it clear that I have work to do if goals are to be achieved. To be clear, I do not trust ego as it seems to want to take credit for gifts of the creative impulse, while I consider that connection to the creative impulse happens better when ego steps out of the way. So I go low key because there is still much to learn about being in this world while not being of this world.</p><p>Promises of Comfort</p><p>We learn through discomfort; comfort makes folks lazy. I love comfort as much as the next person, but comfort without work is hollow. The &#8216;warmth of collectivism&#8217; dominates and/or kills internal &#8216;enemies&#8217; while the coldness of rugged individualism dominates and/or kills external enemies. Both can be seen as symptoms of a coercive general mentality, but as long as we do live with this mentality, I prefer the &#8216;right&#8217; side of things because at least it is more honest about what it is up to. And being less ready to turn over the nation state to the NWO.</p><p>I spend my thoughts wondering on how to create wide spread adoption of non-coercive mentality. Capitalism and Communism are kayfabe and opponents for show. This is also why fraud endures. Both &#8216;sides&#8217; benefit, so they do not actually work much to ferret it out. A show may be made where a few middle managers get taken out, while the facilitators always walk. The two &#8216;C&#8217;s&#8217; are symptoms of our coercive mentality and (one or the other or both) not the cause. No, the primary cause of that, is our split model of reality that cedes power to extremists. (Ask me why, or better yet think on it yourself and see.) It is also not human nature, another avoidance excuse, rather, it is human habit created through our crude understanding of reality. We need to develop our individual selves and we also depend on others to survive and flourish. One without the other is pitiful.</p><p>My question though is how do the two &#8216;sides&#8217; go after each other with such determination, yet at the top at least, they seem to be buddies and working together to run and/or control society. For example, the Heritage Foundation and the Fabian Society.</p><p>It&#8217;s great when people can rise above their circumstances, but twisted when people impose nasty events on others and call it good.</p><p>A wicked thread is being used to weave everything together.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth-Discounted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dem Pills are Poison]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/truth-discounted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/truth-discounted</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:26:34 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>&#8220;The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.&#8221; &#8212; Gustave Le Bon</p><p>I do not know Gustave Le Bon, but this strikes me as more elitist inversion. In a world where the best ego polishers (lairs) get ahead, the masses cannot compete. Parasites also do not thirst for truth, and so love, revere and spread their illusions.</p><p>I have been doing the &#8216;truth&#8217; bit, while recognizing limitations, since I was quite young, where I suggest to who ever will listen, that our root assumptions about a variety of issues may produce internal consistency and yet have little relation to reality. In fact, regular people can handle this (and variations) better than &#8216;smart&#8217; folk can. The smart people, those better able to expose illusions, instead use their &#8216;greater brain power&#8217; to make &#8216;better&#8217; illusions. (IRL I can turn on a &#8216;lets do philosophy switch&#8217;, in folks head that smart folk elect to turn off more quickly than do regular folk.)</p><p>Generational trauma creates reactive mind orientations, yet some generations make awesome progress in reducing or changing their &#8216;triggers&#8217; into less dysfunctional expressions. We have all witnessed this and it may be the basic way that the masses thirst for truth in this ocean of lies. Some of us drown and others learn to swim. Our truth is experiential while intellectuals truth is consensual.</p><p>It is true that destroying illusions is no way to make or keep friends, but it may help one develop charm, good nature and a strategic focus on words being used, and an inclination to not judge others because it&#8217;s clear that we are all creatures heavily influenced by our conditioning.</p><p>At any rate, I am no victim and am able to say more things than has been the case in the past so I am happy for that.</p><p>This post was supposed to address how bad can hide behind good and be used to distract from or hide truth, and this came out. It will do for now, Happy New Year to all and to all that you love.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, maybe evil could just eat itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[They like the taste so much]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/hey-maybe-evil-could-just-eat-itself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/hey-maybe-evil-could-just-eat-itself</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:21:23 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Folk never learn about things they do not want to know about. However, folk can change what it is they want to know about. This is where evil may come in and help us out. The Brit govt. Will not release health stats from injection effects because it may hurt feelings or make people angry. But the South Korean government has already released the statistics for itself, and it&#8217;s damning. Because the BBC has its own recent scandals, they may be more inclined, to retain its own credibility, to amplify a signal that is already there. We can thank the hubris of evil that sometimes causes &#8216;leaders&#8217; to say stupid things that reveal intentions that do not align with the desires of citizens, for anyone that cares to see it. Some things said might even cause penetration of the ideological fog many folk live in. Possibly folk will realize that Charlie Kirk found out that Epstein was alive, opening the chance for the left and the right to unite behind a common distaste for the actions of Isrehell. Or that building seven was taken down with a controlled demolition, providing a trail to same or similar folk, and outrage if widely known.</p><p>Given that so many things in this world are seen as good when they are bad, perhaps it goes the other way sometimes. I hope so, because otherwise there is too much evil to comprehend, and we are screwed. A &#8216;hook&#8217; is called for that can bypass the resistance (of conditioning) to information that will help the person &#8216;that does not want to know&#8217; and be detrimental to the forces that maintain narrowly conditioned thinking. From my perspective a good way to help others is to show a way toward better decision making. Not better decisions on someone else terms, no, decisions that each individual person can see as improving their own life in contrast to improving the life&#8217;s of their handlers.</p><p>Perhaps, this morning conversation with my grand-daughter can help illustrate. We both get up early and are talking about the happy empty head feeling one can have upon waking. She then mentions the imagery that appears (in the head) from what she watched the night before. I suggested that by reading books one could use more of ones own imagination to make the images. Leaving a lot out, she says she does not like being told to read. I say; that&#8217;s fine as it means you want to make decisions for yourself, now keep going, (you have more decisions to make). I left it there because I truly want others to learn to make decisions themselves rather than leaving decisions to be made by social controllers. (Read, banker proxies in search of collateral.)</p><p>Development of discrimination is a major task for human beings. Lies are so thick that it&#8217;s easy to be taken in by a dozen before breakfast. Evil is the parasite that lives on the acceptance of lies. Some discrimination effects in public acceptance of lies while rejecting them in private. It&#8217;s better though to stay consistent and find a way to explain your stance to those who may disagree. I use hints to guess whether a door is ready to be opened or not, but have little to say to those who are under the spell of polarized thinking or the basic understanding provided by the dominant narrative. I still love these people but am not the one responsible for their growth. Same as with my wife, we do grow together, but she sets her limits. I may mention that no nuclear bombs were used in Japan to end WW11. Casually, not stridently, and check the interest and response. After 45 years she still has difficulty believing much of what I say. Some of it seems to be a rote response defending orthodoxy, but she is becoming more flexible over time and I am happy for that.</p><p>I do not care to spend my time breaking down the lies inherent in current social structures and common understanding. Others have credibility that I may lack given my inclination to maintain distance from the measuring sticks provided by the dominant narrative. The sub-stack Lies are Unbekoming does a pretty good job for this, and I salute them for their work. Count Metalmind is also enjoyable for both content and style.</p><p>Folk may say they reject the &#8216;system&#8217; yet never realize that rebels are crucial to the sustenance of the system. Generally rebels are simply reactive minded folk that are still heavily invested in our (polarizing) story. Many (covering over their desperation by) looking to create a utopia that can never be. Which would be pointless, boring and the ultimate statement that growth itself is &#8216;bad&#8217; and something to be overcome.</p><p>Ends based thinking kills the soul while process based thinking helps it grow. Thank-you for your time and attention and do feel free to comment.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Contrivance ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explaining myself to myself]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/contrivance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/contrivance</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:26:17 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The way my consciousness has been and is conditioned is to assume that nearly all knowledge reflects the will of &#8216;hidden hands&#8217;. It started with the JFK murder, then on to evolution and the big bang. To my young mind these things, in addition to the nightly news, seemed like contrivances designed to get us to think in a certain way, rather than to help us to actually think.</p><p>My coping strategy was to read old books and compare them to the new books on a particular subject to see how rhetoric got refined. It was kind of sad really to see a bit of how the sausage gets made. An interim conclusion was that as long as we act like farm animals, we will get treated like that. Later conclusions have to do with how to become more human and less a profit center for the farmer. The ten year reading obsession included every &#8216;spiritual&#8217; tradition out there, anthropological not &#8216;seeker&#8217; interest. Most of it, elitist bullshit in my opinion. I do like Gurdjieff a bit, he is good on using discomfort to grow. And there is no &#8216;enlightenment&#8217; , as the choice to respond to any situation, either consciously or unconsciously happens in every given moment. Pro tip here; That sensation that you are special, that comes from our Creator, that sensation that you are more special than others, that comes from the Devil, many times via Brit intelligence operations. Another thing that bothers me in regard to &#8216;spirituality&#8217; is the tendency to devalue the physical. My Lord, it&#8217;s where we live and the denigration seems like a part of the mind fuck we participate in.</p><p>I have always had a sizeable reactive mind element to tame and deal with. My way involves trying to balance order and liberty, respect for others, acceptance, don&#8217;t take things personally, etc. And stay somewhat busy so as to brood less and counter a lazy streak.</p><p>To my mind, knowledge based on false facts and premises have seeped very deeply into the human psyche. Many join the circular firing squad debating false facts of events and history without examining the premise that make the false facts seem plausible. Peak oil ideas support scarcity modeling because, you know there is only so much decomposing stuff from long ago. Given my opinions on so many subjects, there is plenty of room to offend pretty much anybody. Opinions are expressed in a guarded way so folk know of them while making it clear that I do not care to argue about them. I am happy to talk or elaborate, but most folk do not care to have their world views undermined so mostly I stay silent and wait for times to change. </p><p>My wife is a regular well educated normal person, well conditioned by general dominant narratives, and a useful barometer for how far I can extend my questioning attitude and/or novel assertions and speculations before insecurity creates a shut down situation. Sure, things got a little touchy at the beginning of the recent shit show, but my whole mental life has always been a challenge to orthodoxy, so no big change there. An older woman at a visit after a new neighbor get together asked me; How can you think the way you do? I responded, because I have no concern about what other people think of me. That is not totally true, but it fit the situation.</p><p>My aspiration is to put word sequences together that create engagement rather than resistance. An effort with a spotty record at best, but at least it keeps an introspective personality motivated to try to reach out. Trouble is, one creates engagement by talking in terms of what someone is interested in or already knowledgeable about, and resistance if one questions those terms and the knowledge produced. Folk may say they are being rational, but existing belief and bias will often trump rationality.</p><p>I used to frequent a site called Rigorous Intuition, as a news filter and a place where some sharp folk commented on any given news or conspiracy. Folk there claimed to value less partisan attitudes but it was clear over time that most posters had hard left attitudes. I maintained that ideas are something you have while ideology is something that has you. The bully crowd said I was a &#8216;right winger&#8217;. One sharp fellow had it in for me from the start, as early on I had asserted that intellectuals are most addicted to the dominant narrative because they did the most to create it. He and some other well educated folk helped provide the resistance that encouraged me to put better shape to my assertions.</p><p>I tried to observe more and keep the post count down as I was a &#8216;low status&#8217; poster. I might think something witty was said and the thread was just killed. It was useful to observe folks limits and commitments to various ideas, interpretation of events, or notable people. One limit hit with Jack, the aforementioned de-facto moderator, was to connect the coming on line of 5G with the beginning of covid shit show. It was only a suggestion, given substance by the reaction. Electrical fields do affect human body&#8217;s so why the outraged defensive response? The final limit was hit when a interview was shown of the guy that headed up the Reese commission inquiry into foundations. It&#8217;s OK for a low status poster to say that institutions live to create problems not to solve them, but it is not OK to bring the receipts.</p><p>Here is a thread from RI, to get a flavor of the place.</p><p><a href="http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=40036&amp;start=405">rigorousintuition.ca &#8226; View topic - US Government rules on Gender Identity</a></p><p>The site is pretty dead now, dying all the while, which is befitting in this death based culture. I was happy to be banned although I did nothing that was ban worthy. It was a good experience, being circumspect within a sphere that was quick to slap a bad label on outlier thinking yet had little problem with tech, foundations, NGO&#8217;s, pharma, or big problems that require large amounts of govt. money. (Apparently it grows on trees.) I think the old posters no longer go there because most all took the injections and do not want to admit that they were/are being played for dupes. Humans can be impressively smart in one manner and impressively dumb in another. I have my share of dumb moments and that does not mean I am a bad person, so surely the idea can be extended to others. It&#8217;s the old Christian thing of hate the sin, not the sinner. I did find it ironic that many &#8216;rebels&#8217; could be such efficient dominant narrative enforcers. The real rebels did fine, they just had to be more sharp.</p><p>I was amused by the news that LLM&#8217;s have a hard time distinguishing between facts and beliefs. It&#8217;s no wonder given humans long history of presenting beliefs as being verified facts. Now ascendant are the beliefs of perfect psychopaths with Malthusian, eugenicist notions that there are too many people. From my vantage point nearly everything I have ever encountered have elements of contrivance, that is; something being presented differently than it actually is. By doing this folk think they are gaining a necessary advantage but I think it normalizes lying. Of course some contrivances are positive and works of art where the intent is to reveal rather than to cover up. But for the most part they are attempts by power to impose expressions of being on the general population that they would not naturally choose for themselves.</p><p>Being that the prime directive of power is to maintain social control, why would the prime directive of AI be any different? It does not require much in the way of hard control, all that is needed is to flood us with fear and inverted forms of truth that swamp us with bullshit. A example might be the AI twisting Alan Watts or other wise guys in ways that suggests YOU are or about to be awakened. Material to stroke your ego. I am a meat eater, so was encouraged by the carnivore diet business. Then thought a bit and decided that I am thankful for all food I get to eat, and because it&#8217;s a social thing I am happy to eat what is served even if it&#8217;s not my &#8216;favorite&#8217; thing. Anyway, I have always eaten few carbs and little sugar and that is good enough for me. The evidence of an inverted truth is it&#8217;s sudden appearance on the scene. The gluten thing also, scripted by cover-up artists.</p><p>I went to a Veterans for Peace show last night. This is my community and I love them dearly, however, I do see inconsistency between the rhetoric, beliefs and actions. It&#8217;s a proper start to sing peace begins with me. But where is ones peace when a macro struggle is going on where socialism and capitalism compete for the stage. They are symptoms of a dualistic mindset where both seek control over objects as their measure of success. The folk in the all white crowd, for the most part, support the soft racism of DEI, (you need my &#8216;help&#8217; to make it). Believe in AGW, a bullshit Club of Rome, Maurice Strong, billionaire production that requires more resource extraction, taxes and raises the cost of entry for new &#8216;players&#8217;. Most also support Trans rights and Govt.requiring certain injections to share in society. This the new colonialism and leverage to control poor countries and people. There will be no peace as long as we believe in bullshit lies. The lies create internal dissonance where the conscious mind works all the harder to be right and righteous (and gain social status), while the sub-conscious element takes notice but is told to shut up. Humans do have the tools to move forward in more positive ways, but have a ways to go before we recognize what our tools are and how to use them.</p><p>I am stubborn, more stubborn than all the fake reality productions put together. I may well fail, but I will keep trying.</p><p>Thanks for reading.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reality we are the solution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only in the reality fraud are we the problem]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/in-reality-we-are-the-solution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/in-reality-we-are-the-solution</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:30:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/vEINsXknuI4" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>OK, here is the deal, shitheads have license to control as long as we do not control ourselves. Therefor shitheads have as primary interest our general dysfunctionality. This is achieved through inverting truth, creating fraudulent foundational &#8216;facts&#8217; and fake history. Regular good folk cannot conceive of the depth of the lies, so they cherry-pick lies they can see but miss a whole lot of other lies. Some good folk make fine carriers sussing out details of certain segments of the lies. Others that kiss the hand of the hydra-headed monster can be removed from the game with no consequence.</p><p>If we learn to guide ourselves the shitheads will lose their license and we can come to recognize what is going on and how to move forward in more productive ways. The shitheads have hit their limits as they mock their Creator who gave them free will, to help be instructors of mankind, in a negative sort of way. The shitheads help us learn discrimination, so thank them for that.</p><p>People go to great lengths to show others their understanding of the world. But really the details do not much matter if the original premise is shallow or wrong. How many angels can fit on the head of a pin? We do do well with really small physical objects and tech so finally there are practical things to put on the heads of pins, but where did the angels go? Is AGW a threat or more likely a Club of Rome Rockefeller Maurice Strong repricing psyop? Or take the cholesterol myth, which Unbecoming treats well in this essay: <a href="https://substack.com/@unbekoming">https://substack.com/@unbekoming</a> Well worth anybody&#8217;s time. The point is, if your information comes from curated representations of reality, it is most likely part of an intentional and profitable fraud.</p><p>Examples could go on for another page, but it&#8217;s better if folk think these things through themselves. The NGO&#8217;s and three letter agencies are not here to solve problems, they are here to profit off of phantom problems. Do the angels no longer whisper in our ears that this is all bullshit? Of course they do but given that we only listen to our favored angels we only get half pictures, if that. Not to mention the messages taken up from fallen angels.</p><p>Collective conscience is a product of mans law and a pale simulation of Natural Law that exists without corruption or compromise. Whereas man law is the personification of corruption, as the strong impose themselves on the weak. Natural Law provides substance to our internal voice, while mans law demands we listen primarily to external voices. While some are good to listen too, others more often serve to twist truth rather than to reveal it. Science is to Natural Law as scientism is to mans law. By some strange quirk, I have known all my life, at least from age seven that the world is not at all as it appears to be. What it is, I may never know, but I can speculate better than many because I am detached from (typical) emotional triggers and identity commitments that hold many in place.</p><p>This appears to be a world of objects but objects do nothing by themselves, whereas relations carry the spark of creativity. Relations are at the core of reality and relations based on lies, anxiety and fear will surely produce stupid expressions within reality.</p><p>We can change the situation through realizing that nearly everything we are told is fraudulent, and even if we are aware of this, much of what we believe is wrong.</p><p>First though, we will need to swallow some pride.</p><p>Thank-you for your time.</p><p>Testing:</p><div id="youtube2-vEINsXknuI4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;vEINsXknuI4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vEINsXknuI4?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move along now....]]></title><description><![CDATA[nothing to see here.]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/move-along-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/move-along-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:37:55 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am one of those people that thinks that suffering is needed to grow. Sure, growth happens also without it, but it gets amped up with it. So Utopian ideas or ideals hold no interest for me. People living with a better recognition of their dignity and how to assert it bit more would be nice. Given that passivity allows others to assert their will on us, quite possibly not to our benefit.</p><p>For every one of us, when we move forward and attempt to do something, we face limitations and roadblocks. It may be a complex task, stressed interactions, more education needed, material failure, etc. My brother and I took a 12 hour trip, one way, to pick up a travel trailer. He is the sibling, one of nine that I see more often than the rest. He is outwardly harsh yet inwardly kind, doing favors for family and other poor people anytime he can. Our minds function quite differently. He did car mechanic work and is methodical in his process. I did house remodel work and worked on instinct. His way takes care of details better but takes more time to execute. My way can fly but can create backup situations when mistakes are made. This way works well for me but I do not recommend it for many folk.</p><p>The contrast played out during our 24 hour road trip in ways that were of help to both of us, even while being unpleasant at times. My brothers basic rhetorical tool is sarcasm. I do not do sarcasm, except for in ways that most folk do not notice. His is often used to find fault, place blame or assert another persons ignorance, or to have a reason to use his harsh loud voice. I do not respond well to these kinds of things yet do accept the challenge of learning to respond better. I am trying to calm my loud voice while he seems to enjoy getting more loud.</p><p>Being a mechanic, my brothers services were invaluable for insuring the safety and completion of the trip. Maybe it&#8217;s a mechanic thing,but he see&#8217;s problems everywhere. Some are there, but many more are potential and/or not really there. He uses hypotheticals to sort out possibilities but sometimes sticks with a false premise to support prior verbiage or thoughts. He says the tow vehicle is not large enough, I say it&#8217;s AWD and rated to tow this weight. Oh, why didn&#8217;t you say that before. Because it&#8217;s a tow vehicle I assumed that you would know that I would only look for an AWD version. He was finally convinced when he had a half hour conversation with a rest stop maintenance man at 3:00 AM who assured him that our vehicle could handle the proposed load just fine.</p><p>He uses a lot of words while I strive to use as few as possible. It was a good thing he brought his ear thingies so my silence could be isolated from his sounds. After getting to the pick-up site we found need for a trip to the hwd. store for a few items. The owner had given directions and the interstate and a lake ran parallel running north and south. I knew how to double back so as to miss the crowded tourist town, but the google map said otherwise or was not getting reception, producing a comedy of uselessness. After more driving to get &#8216;signal&#8217; I indicated that wasting time was unpleasant and that we need to go &#8216;that way&#8217; to get to the store. It was an easy call and I did not understand my brothers need to rely on a google that was not even working.</p><p>The trip home involved more verbiage than I care to hear so I suggested that brother should get a job as a govt. propagandist, given that he repeats the same thing until the audience submits. He continues... Yep keep going, I still have not been convinced.</p><p>My brother is not alone. The way I see it, most everybody is pushing their book. A compilation of reasons for the noises in their heads. My own noises, this week, center around sympathy and lack thereof. Repeating patterns create repeating circumstances. On one hand, external forces can be so dominant in circumstance creation, that one will tend to have sympathy for the hapless participant. On the other hand, the lack of development of internal force, to counter or balance the external drivers, might cause one to be less sympathetic toward some people.</p><p>"Every human being is a unique individual. Any attempt to replace the personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." -- Hermann Hesse - Author (1877-1962)</p><p>Each person will do best to develop their own personal conscience, sharp as the tip of a spear, to deflate the pretentious word bubbles of consensus thinking. The trick is to not be a repeater in a world of repetition. This writing style reflects an attempt to show and maybe develop an inner voice without trying to act as an external voice to your experience. We each have our own proper path for growth, different ways of sifting or valuing information. This can make for a vibrant world, or one of <strong>algorithmically</strong> isolated cults. Collective conscience tends to dominate in sub-groupings and likely represents the major fears of the group. Still, personal conscience is working in each of us as we make our daily decisions, therefor we do well to be clear on our criteria for making those decisions. Ideology and idealism&#8217;s, with their overarching claims that bypass individual thinking are guides for collective thinking and never provide the answers that personal conscience can provide.</p><p>Natural Law works well for the shaping of my internal voice, the golden rule basically, treat others as you would have them treat you. In my opinion, this opens one to connection and guidance from Source and greater confidence to express personal conscience. I have practiced hearing and expressing my internal voice for many decades and the external voice still dominates quite often. I cannot imagine life as a mashup of external voices, yet it seem that is what most folk settle for. Simple perhaps, but where is satisfaction? Sure, one might know more details, but how are they being used? If one is open, new details might provide for a breakthrough, but more often details are used to buttress existing pretenses.</p><p>The current human tendency is to focus on problems, which seem unending and worthy for focus. Maybe, but I prefer to identify yet never belabor individual problems. There are all to many and they are often distracting from solutions that are better found by having a distanced rather than emotional connection to a given problem. We have more problems than solutions because problems are profitable while solutions tend to lessen the profits. Will survival needs incentivize the solution end of things? I think so although the evidence of this is still sparse.</p><p>The frequencies we act at, limits the depths of our expressions and problems are lower frequency expressions than are solutions.</p><p>Thanks for reading.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad assumptions write our scripts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your loop or mine?]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/bad-assumptions-write-our-scripts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/bad-assumptions-write-our-scripts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:41:08 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>People seem to have no clue about how closely curated the appearances of reality are. Everyone is the audience for this Truman Show, and we must tire of it for it to stop. We crave understanding but tend to claim it before we actually have it. This writes the script. We have no choice but to involve ourselves with assumptions. Some have great appeal but produce many varieties of dependent conclusions, that carry a need to be reconciled for social and individual health. I do not care to point to any one group because most every group does it in some way. A segment of a group requires disdain to be displayed toward another group because they hold a different opinion, or so as to justify or distract from ones own bad behavior. This segment will be the most strident and therefor closed minded people within that group.Stupid entitled thinking naturally produces scandals, often dealt with through intimidation,money and &#8216;special services&#8217;. A polarized environment works best for these inherent extremists, whether from the left, the right, a cult, corporation, law office, or whatever.</p><p>Unfortunately, we live the consequences of the actions of narcissists. One narcissist flames out to be replaced by another narcissist. Paid for to some extent by taking from producers and giving to non-producers by way of incentives and bribes of various forms. The world revolves around their needs, for identity maintenance, approval, to cover their insecurity, social status etc.</p><p>I have some sympathy for this class of folk in that they answer the call to action that the more docile element and system ask for. However their habits can be or quickly become toxic given the mercurial tendencies of self directed thinking. In my opinion, the only way to rein in the influence of narcissists is to become less docile and to create or realize a system that calls for honesty in preference to lies. For people to become less docile they will have to become clear on why they think as they do. The current system intentionally confuses people, making decision making more difficult. Now we have AI mods put to any script on order to twist the original words or sentiment. Either we learn discrimination or we become Pavlovian robots. Who is behind the new AI productions? It may be another ploy to try to drive people back to MSM by presenting the alt. as being less trustworthy.</p><p>We live with so many lies because we often prefer approval over truth. We can easily see through one set of lies while at the same time driven by another set of lies. The loops that the algorithm sets each of us toward re-enforces our bias and the lies we are most vulnerable too. Although it can be fun to be inserted into an unfamiliar loop to laugh a little, but also, have some recognition of the appeal and difficulty getting out of a loop that provides some security and sense of identity and righteousness. To those in a loop, only internal consistency matters as external exposure becomes minimal. And then only with in-laws and family who&#8217;s opinion we don&#8217;t tend to listen to well anyway.</p><p>We all get a lot of practice making decisions, and need the practice given how well we do in general. I tend toward a short temper so I practice at reducing reactive mind, watch my tone, smile and try to give to a situation more than I take. Basic rules for behavior that provides a direction for growth, and plenty of material to work on. One thing that distinguishes this way from the way of the experts is that this is focused on becoming whereas theirs is focused on being. There is no shortage of experts that are willing to tell you what it takes, or what to believe, to be a &#8216;good&#8217; person. (Larry Fink will be happy to tell you) How to be, but the human part comes with the becoming, not the (prescripted) human being. The difference is between (striving to be) responsible for ones decisions versus sloughing decisions off on to an authority figure.</p><p>Seen in a traditional sense and context. I am open to other opinions, yet mine is that our Creator wants us to learn the discrimination needed to participate positively with the creative process. While a static force, Satan perhaps, seeks to inhibit growth because that may be a threat to existing power structures. The creative element seeks to expand decision making skills while a fake authority element seeks to narrow available decisions, thereby stultifying the human spirit, to the point of capitulation, as the fevered dreams of the new &#8216;god men&#8217; demand. For our own good. We are late to the game with most folk still not realizing that when others define the expression of your being, you are left with fewer tools for growth, or decision making opportunities. Is it ecological or fiscally responsible to purchase an EV? Don&#8217;t ask, just buy, it will required soon anyway, to &#8216;save the earth&#8217;. It&#8217;s all about the ability to make decisions. Clearly we need the practice, on how to respond to a given situation, yet social virtue signaling seems to define many decisions rather than our own internal voice. This is where the fake overtakes the authentic, and lying is taken by some as the &#8216;moral&#8217; thing to do.</p><p>  <a href="https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-unvaccinated-proof-of-what-we">The Unvaccinated: Proof of What We Lost</a></p><p>essay from <a href="https://substack.com/@unbekoming">Unbekoming</a> asserts that the administering of &#8216;vitamin K&#8217; to babies is done at a time of maximum vulnerability in order to introduce a compliance habit in favor of injections &#8216;for health&#8217;. After that it never stops, partly because folk are all too embarrassed to admit that they have been gaslit and played for fools. By now, we seem to have no clue what baseline is for normal healthy functioning. Everyone expects to be sick in one way or another, no big deal, right?</p><p>I have said this before but it&#8217;s my favorite &#8216;revelation&#8217; of this year so I do repeat it a bit. While talking to my 93 year old mom, I mentioned how the dictionary definition of spirituality is not to my taste. Given that it is characterized as being, interest in things other than the temporal. Then said that I asked; what is spirituality? The answer came almost immediately; Spirituality is the responsible use or application of free will. This in my opinion is how the subtle and the temporal become more usefully integrated, providing each person with confidence to participate more fully in the creative process.</p><p>Every person, not the three percent that may take us over the top of our troubles. No more bullshit elitism, we do this together.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creative Influence of Intentions]]></title><description><![CDATA[For better or worse....]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/the-creative-influence-of-intentions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/the-creative-influence-of-intentions</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:49:47 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>While in conversation with my wife at breakfast, I pointed to my theory, or opinion that our intentions are our actual prayers to our Creator. Followed with the point that, if true, Israel is in for a world of hurt. Implying here that this is shaping the morphogenic(sp) field in ways that will hurt us all. I do not play in this game. Let&#8217;s face facts, humans are not nice to each other and make all kinds of reasons to justify their not being nice. The fabric of reactive mind is woven quite tightly throughout history and tighter yet these days. Our intentions are always suspect because we always take the other as a potential threat. Then we get offended and twist our own intentions to maintain advantage. It all adds up eventually into a shit show where our intentions, our prayers are to see other people be hurt. There is a way to remove the doom loop from our collective experience; however, there is not yet much evidence of the humility required to achieve this happy potential. Hence, there are lessons yet to be learned about the power of our intentions.</strong></p><p><strong>I tested the theory that we do get what we want, when intentions are clear and focus is good. My prayers give thanks for food and the opportunity of the day. I never ask for anything because I already feel very blessed and figure that the Creator knows best what is good for my learning path. So I was not surprised when my wife looked up with a worried look on her face, at breakfast (again) a month or so ago, concerned by my apparent turn toward a materialistic mindset, antithetical to our personal past values. I deftly brushed aside her concerns by suggesting a higher purpose involving creating resonance via high quality instruments. Violins and an upright acoustic double base in this case. The violins are to sell and meet other fiddlers and the base is to be able to provide foundation that is often missing in old time &#8216;kitchen&#8217; bands. People need a reason to commit to being more social and less lonely and I might be able to help myself and others at the same time.</strong></p><p><strong>The metric used to asses how &#8216;good&#8217; the new set of decisions are is how easy and useful they seem to work as time goes on. So far so good. The instruments are fantastic, tonally, and I have met several interesting new people. Still, what lead me here could use more consideration. I got a couple of auto renewal notifications that I had not realized were part of the &#8216;substack deal&#8217;. The writers I subscribe to or follow are few and are not overly prolific, the way I like it, no apps, beyond what is required, bare bones phone and internet, no cable or subscriptions or car payments, low fixed costs in general. It seems that the system relies of constant promises of money flow. An in-law related a story shortly after this of getting hooked into Hockey season tickets for over five grand after not noticing an e-mail. They liked the games the season before, now they may not have such a great time. You will own nothing because all your money has already been promised for rentals.</strong></p><p><strong>I do want to contribute to worthy writers, however giving or getting cash does not do it for me at this time. For some, given the insights, research, links, effort and analysis put out, they certainly do deserve donations. Others are floating boats on small ponds. For what is done here, no money is wanted or called for. While I would love to have more readers, I have no desire for followers or subscribers. My objective is to see folk knowing how to think for themselves rather than through the prism of another persons thinking. This might be why the writing may seem obscure or obtuse at times. Trust me, you would not want to try to think in the ways I do. I do messy work that more talented folk can clean up later. While trying to not sound or be pretentious my fear is that money would get in the way of connection to holy spirit, tenuous as that may be already.</strong></p><p><strong>I get regular new &#8216;subscribers&#8217; and appreciate all who take the time and effort to read this material, however I do not follow back or count on the internet for social interactions. I will connect as well as I am able, but do find that to be easier in real life activities. Also, the no scrolling in real life saves so much time. I do wonder if folk read any of the original material or might feel inclined to comment but do not , perhaps because the reflections do not fall on familiar territory.</strong></p><p><strong>We show our intentions by how we direct attention at a particular thought, event or person. The masters of distraction have many angles from which to control agendas. Most trace back to assertions of authority where an elite make claims of special status that allows them to exist above the law. Gossip and people talk is often involved. Regular folk may not even notice such things as the waste that it is, as at least space is filled with specticle. </strong></p><p><strong>Matthew Ehret, James Corbett and others profile connections between Brit intelligence, Fabians, fabrications of &#8216;spiritual&#8217; assertions with manipulation as a central goal, Theosophists, etc.</strong></p><p><strong>To me, the primary theme coming from the occult folk is that only they, the wise ones, are qualified to &#8216;direct&#8217; society. Except that about a five minute examination of their thinking will convince you that they are batshit crazy, and deserving of no respect or influence in a sane world.</strong></p><p><strong>And there is a small bit of trouble with the conceit of the &#8216;wise ones&#8217;.</strong></p><p><strong>If my opinion or definition of spiritual holds, &#8216;that to be spiritual is to use or apply free will in a responsible manner&#8217;, then folk might realize that a life trapped in early adolescence does not satisfy, where one is no longer able to make decisions, to have no agency, to do as the cultists are directing you to do. All the while our &#8216;social betters&#8217; clearly do not use their own free will in a responsible manner because they carry no respect for individual dignity, and also waste a lot of energy to maintain the death cult.</strong></p><p><strong>Some proxy title holder can command surrender or claim total control of the sky, but generally those that think they can hold back the tide do not fare well.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age of Deception on to the]]></title><description><![CDATA[Age of Awakening]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/age-of-deception-on-to-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/age-of-deception-on-to-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:42:08 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>We live in an age of deception where it prevails because most cannot fathom, grasp or admit to how how deep the deceptions run. As I related during a very uncomfortable morning conversation with my wife; Folk cannot understand what is going on until they see that the system is not designed to serve the people, rather the people are designed to serve the system. Putting a needle in the arm when told to says that one thinks the system serves them, when it proves the opposite. This is a system of Mans laws where germs cause and vaccines cure disease, cancer is caused &#8216;largely&#8217; by cigarettes, climate catastrophe is caused by a life giving gas, and compassion being equated with encouraging victim-hood and expressions of mental illness. And on and on with prescriptive &#8216;solutions&#8217; that frankly make a mess of natural cultural development.</strong></p><p><strong>On the other hand there is a system that does serve man and that is Natural Law, the prescriptions of our Creator on how to live a proper life. This comes down to morals and ethics where the needs of the &#8216;other&#8217; are an element in the decision making process. We are here to learn by making decisions and inhibiting that process by making decisions from an artificial high stifles the creative process whereby people learn from mistakes. Life is messy and the greatest threats to life are from ones trying to cure the mess while still driven by a strident and poor grasp on reality.</strong></p><p><strong>It has been said that one can deny reality all they want, but one cannot deny the consequences of reality.</strong></p><p><strong>The stories we tell ourselves, are the basis of what we take to be reality. But really it is commentary to make ourselves feel better in a confusing world. People are busy establishing &#8216;what they know&#8217; and forget to recognize that the unknown set is much larger than is the known set. In addition, the known may depend on shared false assumptions, not recognized because they are shared. Such as, AGW, big bang or the standard model of physics for instance. In these cases the &#8216;known&#8217; is replete with and produces many lies. Many may well not believe in the conceits of power, but they are not funded and don&#8217;t matter anyway. It is fine to have models but bad things happen when models are taken as being reality. When a relative thing, created by shaping some assumptions into a form that pleases the loud voices of a given community spreads through force, repetition,propaganda, then onto social conformity effects, dysfunction is sure to follow.</strong></p><p><strong>In practical reality I think what happens is that when we hold on to something that initially looks really &#8216;good&#8217; , it can tend to turn negative if over-commitment makes one unable to integrate new material, observations and realizations into the original notion that captured the imagination. Think gurus and followers. The con man counts on our need for security in an insecure world. But, is the world insecure or are we insecure in our relations to the world? How is it that so many people have such poor relationship to LIFE? Well, in our current way of modeling stuff, generally we kill it to study it. Ours is a death based culture so it should be no surprise that we produce so much of it. CC is a prime example for this. Take the basic life giving gas of plants, declare it as being a threat that will ruin life on this planet and try to bury it in the ground. Yes, absurd beyond belief, yet a fair number of folk subscribe to the notion. The negative and anti life conditioning must be an enormous burden on the unconsciousness program that many are under the spell of.</strong></p><p><strong>When I was young I decided that I really, really liked life and was determined to live a long time and aimed to be happy in old age. I saw grownups killing themselves in response to frustrations of life. I&#8217;m like, OK fine, why should people think that life is easy anyway? The notion that life is hard has saved much grief. I do not want much so what I get is often much more than what I expect. For me, happy in old age is to be able to stay active and look with satisfaction on my efforts at and in life. So far, so good. It may be that I have little outward success because the work is more suited for the age of awakening instead of our current age of deception. I will keep trying to advance the idea that our split model of reality leads consciousness into an object oriented direction, (where manipulation of objects is the basic measure of success) rather than more healthy expressions where reality is taken as being a product of relationships. (Where the subtle and the manifest continually interact, transforming each other as we go along.) But I also have personal development to work on and if I am not getting across, then that is what needs work, rather than more rhetoric that is not quite up to snuff.</strong></p><p><strong>Meanwhile, mundane life is working well and I pray that it may start to work better for more folk during the coming difficult times. Hard times make for practical people.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting Attention]]></title><description><![CDATA[Too Big to Bail]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/getting-attention</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/getting-attention</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:26:38 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Everybody is looking for and in need of attention. But it&#8217;s much easier to get attention for wrong things than for the right things. Claiming victim-hood is easier than doing the work it takes to excel.</strong></p><p><strong>I am immersed in the daily drama in ways broadly similar to everyone&#8217;s experience. One can try to keep some distance, but must admit that many events and people are attention getting. To my mind, giving attention to these events re-enforces their tendency to continue happening. It seems that we all participate as audience members of some gladiatorial spectacle.</strong></p><p><strong>I needed to change focus for a bit and decided, after an illness that served to cure a few bad habits, to be indulgent and reward myself by searching for and finding a high quality violin. I figured this was more likely to happen if I played better fiddle, so set about practicing more than in the past. A few weeks later I was introduced to a talented violin maker and his work through a kitchen jam friend. I visited his shop and was quite impressed and also realized that it was not likely that I could ever afford a fiddle of his quality. Out of desperation or boredom I had a look at E-bay and Chinese fiddles in particular. My new friend had suggested that I might act as source for some small music store in order to move along some fiddles that I have. So I decided to purchase a few Chinese made fiddles for comparison. It turns out that there is very little demand with fiddles essentially being sold for the cost of shipping. The economy must really suck. Shortly before I was going to make my first bid, a European fiddle came up for bid from a distressed music store. Violins from this maker sell for a lot of money. I made a low offer, they took it and I had the fiddle in hand a few days later. My offer equaled the money made from selling two instruments the same week. So the &#8216;asset&#8217; value in my &#8216;bank&#8217; increased while the &#8216;cost basis&#8217; stayed the same.</strong></p><p><strong>The feeling from pulling one measure or three beats of one note, with a steady bow while playing a waltz is exquisite on this violin. Now I can compare my other fiddles with this as a baseline, so as to put a more accurate value on them. Meanwhile, the Chinese fiddles were still tempting me, so I bought five. From different workshops, looking for a good shop. Govt. Policy and subsidies must lower general quality of products, but some small shops that require good hand skills still produce high quality musical instruments.</strong></p><p><strong>Now a process for comparison and pricing starts whereby one tune is played sequentially on a dozen fiddles. The new fiddles also need to be &#8216;played in&#8217; with some amount of overly aggressive playing. The process encourages practice, listening and even feeling for each particular violin. It also helps me connect to community and leave aside, at least for some moments, other elements seeking to grab my attention.</strong></p><p><strong>It seems that the robustness of our systems are to be tested these coming few weeks. I pray that they hold up, corrupt and rickety though they may be. I am no money man, but see deflation rather than inflation in our future. How can things inflate when nobody has any spare cash?</strong></p><p><strong>It is somewhat ironic to be having Mr. Exceptional destroy the myth of US exceptionalism in real time. Now, if we could do something to take out the exceptionalist feelings of the strata of folk above Mr. Not quite as exceptional as he thinks he is. Hey, I have an idea.</strong></p><p><strong>Please do feel free to comment and to read and comment on past posts. Thank-you for being here.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough for Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rejecting P-dog drama]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/enough-for-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/enough-for-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:49:47 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I have stepped back a bit for several reasons. The chief one is that the more change is found on the surface, the less there seems to be change underneath. Coercion remains the central element of our consciousness. Whether coming from the left or the right makes little actual difference, except to the targets. There are no solutions to be found through politics, even though that is their major selling point. The zeitgeist tells our story, not any individual analyst or thinker. (And the external imposition of zeitgeist through ideology always backfires.) Everybody is so busy re-packaging the words of others into their existing biases and conditioning that essentially little is said and even less new material is understood.</strong></p><p><strong>In the end each one of us finds our own path toward truth and given I have little desire to interfere with the path of others, I choose to mostly keep my mouth shut. Geoff Olsen published a piece relating to the &#8216;plastic&#8217; element within reality, whereby reality seems able and happy to validate even the most batshit crazy ideas. My way of stating this is to say; any system that has internal consistency can seem like a reasonable expression or representation of reality. People that do notice inconsistencies can be dispensed with easily given, as a group, they have no center of focus and the established powers do have a focus. I have a center for focus and while I feel it helps me keep my sanity, the meaning content does not seem to translate easily for other people.</strong></p><p><strong>We may try to resist, but really; how can one not be taken in by the &#8216;glamour of the spectacle&#8217;? It is not good to amplify the bullshit, but that is the most exciting part, right? The challenge seems to be to use the bullshit to help one develop discrimination, without getting sucked under by the bullshit. There are several varieties of beyond bullshit that I seldom mention in conversation and bring up even less in my writing. My credibility would have more limitations than it has now by bringing them up. Still, the chemtrail issue has gotten very far out of hand and if we do not deal with the instigators, most of us will be dead and getting more and more sick along the way. Most still are not able to consider the possibility that the infinite money people have a detailed, determined and focused plan to kill most humans.</strong></p><p><strong>Within our current modeling of reality we kill to control, and take and manipulate objects as our measure of success. This is done in war, agriculture, medicine, planned obsolescence, colonialism both old style and new woke style where IMF and big money require the adoption of western &#8216;values&#8217;, etc. For some time now a limited group have become addicted to this way as a means of maintaining power. And many others are addicted in less lethal ways, that none the less keeps everyone blinded to seeing our/their own participation and promotion of and in this system. The first group are seldom confronted because the second group are too embarrassed to admit the effects of, and how deep is their own participation. Still, people that do good work within compromised systems are learning discrimination as well as when to keep quiet for ones personal safety.</strong></p><p><strong>Generally speaking I do not trust the conclusions of most folk. I may trust others with particulars because they seem honest and have considered the subject at hand much more deeply than I have. But conclusions often the exceeds bounds of focus that brings the particulars together. Outside my area of focus I have noted an extraordinary ability to be wrong or shallow in understanding. Fortunately, one area of focus for me is to improve decision making, so I am better at that than I have been in the past.</strong></p><p><strong>For the moment I do not feel much satisfaction with writing or my attempts to engage. I may return at any time or not at all. If anyone does care to engage, please read earlier posts, ask questions or speak to the ideas within that post, and if relevant I can expand on any element within my areas of focus.</strong></p><p><strong>Thank-you for your time and I wish every and anybody all the best during the strange times ahead.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flipping Polarity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cracks is the Natural Normative Resistance to Discomfort]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/flipping-polarity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/flipping-polarity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:26:53 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>What we have in front of us may be a divine message that we do not know jack shit about life and living. As &#8216;Law&#8217; stands now, it is designed to enable theft rather than to thwart it. Many peoples lives were stolen, in part or in whole with the latest injection craze. Some solace may be taken in that the would be controllers may have overplayed their hand a bit. But rest assured, that faction does not give up and it will destroy humanity if we do not destroy it.</strong></p><p><strong>I will continue with more personal profile in the hope of showing a bit more of where I am coming from. Some context of my adventure, I guess. My personality is such that, in conversation, I try to get others to question common assumptions about reality. Some are game but most people shut me down pretty quick. Over the decades I have become somewhat adept at reading people to determine how far some speculation might be properly taken. Timing and larger context determines a lot of what gets said.</strong></p><p><strong>This extends to my wife, friends and to a lesser degree my family. When I met my future partner, she was somewhat passive in conversation, and I said I needed more push back and mental engagement if we were to become a couple. Ours is a wonderful marriage, however she is still a normie and I am still a freak. She did fall into defending the status quo but I didn&#8217;t mind because if I can question it, it can certainly question me. She is smart so I get to hear about orthodox thinking on several subjects. She is also very kind, considerate, beautiful and a pleasure to be around. Me, not so much. She has seen and experienced some strange things because of me, and still has trouble processing the information. (No frame, no usable information) The relationship works because we do not tell each other what to do, and we like to do stuff for each other and the house. After our two daughters were grown she went back for a masters in genetics counseling. An area of medicine that I saw as another money grab, cover up and misdirection ploy to distract from vaccine and other pharma caused injuries. But we don&#8217;t tell each other what to do, so I have learned a bit about potentials of genetics. (Not much) I must say though, she does see the limitations quite well and her job is to relate this to the patient so they may be properly informed. So, net plus, all in all.</strong></p><p><strong>Most folk take the view that while there may be plenty of things that are &#8216;wrong&#8217; around the edges, still think a naive realism take on our central elements of understanding will serve just fine. The naive realism way tries to make appearances match understanding, while the realist tries to see behind appearances. Personally , I am Sage Hana level skeptic/realist but cannot be black pilled because I love normies. He may too, but has a funny way of showing it if he does. His last post brought material from Whitney Webb, who profiled Jim O'Brien, the new assistant HHS secretary. What a piece of work. Whitney&#8217;s work, but the guy also. We may still see good things from Bobby but mostly he is window dressing.</strong></p><p><strong>Oh yes, back to my wife and current situation. We visited her mom in Florida for the holidays and I found mom to be defensive and ornery in response to anything I had to say. At one point I said; Look, I am not trying to convince you of anything, I am trying to interest you to look at it for yourself. Then turning to my wife, same thing, if you choose to not examine the information that is your business.</strong></p><p><strong>I do see hints that things may be changing in a way that could make me very satisfied. We had an exchange that became uncomfortable so it was ended. A few days later I suggested that her reaction was defensive and did not address what I had to say and is becoming a boring response pattern. A bit like her mom, without the orneriness. Later, after one more defensive and discounting response, in regard to the Whitney material, and another day to think on it she commented about it being hard to develop discernment when so much information is coming at you. Now my response was probably not kind, and I am still a work in progress, as I said; &#8216;It may be that people do not learn discernment because they are afraid of what it may show&#8217;. This tied in with an earlier mention from Renee Elli that growth involves suffering. Still I took the comment as a tacit acknowledgment that she may be inclined to take information presented by me with more consideration than in the past.</strong></p><p><strong>It is hard for kind people, except for the ones getting bombed, to imagine the commitment and callousness of those giving the orders to bomb. Most normies cannot believe or conceive that Malthusian, Fabian, Jacobin, Gnostic elements connected to the elites of society believe that the &#8216;moral&#8217; thing to do is to kill billions of humans in order to &#8216;save&#8217; humanity. Their world view is static with no room or need for development and change. No, death and coercion is all that is needed to make that system work.</strong></p><p><strong>So, psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists are favored for positions of authority while the kind folk are used as window dressing. IIRC the Fabian shield has a couple of foxes carving up a sheep. They see no need for subtlety because they believe that people will not learn about things they do not want to know about. Now with a new carnival barker and circus back in town, the heat will be off of the would be controllers to continue their back room pump and dump work. Such innovation, you won&#8217;t be able to believe it. It will be Great!</strong></p><p><strong>I support the notion that the causes need to be changed if we are to change the effects. So in that sense many would consider me a skeptic, because while a lot of interest is shown examining apparent causes, not much thought is given to creating new shapes for our causes. Problems are profit centers and solutions destroy profits so problems linger while solutions languish.</strong></p><p><strong>Still, behind my realism, hope stands proudly because I trust folk will not accept that they are worthless and indeed, a threat to the survival of the planet. They may then even awaken to their sense of inherent dignity and learn to show and develop more dignity. Trust in the covenant God has made with man. As our souls reach up toward spirit so also will spirit reach down to help us. The job of the adversary seems to be to get in the way of soul searching using the seven deadly sins as bait. One must admit to the appeal, however it is blown away by realizing the loving embrace of our Creator. Why accept the simulation of pleasure when one can experience the real deal?</strong></p><p><strong>Imagine Joy spread across the whole of the world if/when our modeling of reality were to be coherent with natural law and in line with rather than (hubristically) standing in as &#8216;the will of god&#8217;.</strong></p><p><strong>Best wishes to all on your special journey.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Possible? PT 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betrayed by Beliefs]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/what-is-possible-pt-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/what-is-possible-pt-2</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:28:18 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>My &#8216;voice&#8217; is a result of a stance toward knowledge and information that was made as a teenager. The perhaps overblown expression was; All knowledge is hearsay. My experience was of the &#8216;smart&#8217; kids repeating what they were told. I should add, I had GREAT teachers in high school. Whoever hired the teachers at our small class D school has my respect. My physics teacher casually said one day that the smart ones are those that see what is wrong with existing thinking, not the ones that work with and extend existing thinking. Well, it was off to the races, because now I did not need to believe specific things I was told.</strong></p><p><strong>A used book store in the university town I moved to became my haven as I favored old books anyway because I enjoy the contrast between original understanding and modern refinements. (Refinements are largely propaganda) I was an information sponge for over ten years. All the heretics, spiritual traditions, physics theories, history of science, philosophy, alt science and history that I could digest. I tried to be open while reading, saving later reflection for criticism. Possibility factors were attached to information, but seldom did anything rise to the level of knowledge. One tid bit learned from a Beryl Lang book titled Philosophical Style, indicated that back in the day teachers would make exaggerated expressions of orthodoxy to induce questioning in students while evading censorious authorities. Also, publishers are rich or connected to the rich, so one must read between the lines to find more useful understanding. I tired of the obsessive information gathering when it was realized that how we arrange our information is more important than is having more of it. So I gestated for a few years, reading literary and more casual books. In about 1993 I posted an essay called &#8216;The Voice of the Ineffable&#8217; on Wordpress where it quickly hit 1500, then stopped working. That was OK as it was merely a marker indicating (to who?) that I was &#8216;in the game&#8217;.</strong></p><p><strong>It was about trying to reduce reactive mind through balancing Law and Spontaneity or order and liberty, so as to hear the still quiet voice. A melding of my thinking and that of Abraham Joshua Heschel. And that our understanding of reality is based on the incorrect assumption of Dualism. Influenced by Morris Berman.</strong></p><p><strong>Social relations can be touchy if one does not believe in much of what ones peers believe in. Still I do OK because I like people whatever their opinions or foibles may be. I do believe a few things quite strongly; that through will one can re-wire the brain, creating new neuronal pathways that can serve new purposes. I believe in God as the creator and maintainer of this world. I believe in the golden rule and natural law. I believe that life is for learning. Finally I also believe that while dualism represents a necessary stage of social development, it does not produce an accurate picture of reality. I carry opinions lightly on most subjects because the noise to signal ratio is too high for useful participation. Most folk in today's world find the polarity to be between categories, while I find &#8216;good and bad&#8217; within the category. This can save one from feelings of betrayal, uh, when circumstances change, thereby allowing a larger perspective to take over.</strong></p><p><strong>Right, getting back to betrayal. Some on one side of the fence are finding that their ideals do not match up with their interests. Beliefs and values are clashing. Folk on the other side of the fence may soon find out a similar thing. The &#8216;ideals&#8217; are cleverly composed and promoted to create slush funds for &#8216;connected&#8217; people. The ideal is the hook and the prestige is the NGO pocketing tax and/or foundation money. Or big pharma collecting on &#8216;safe and effective&#8217;, or MIC collecting on conflict. Or guru or priest collecting on naivete.</strong></p><p><strong>People either double down on the beliefs to avoid the sense of betrayal or they go through a painful grieving/separation process. We all like to think we are making our own decisions and it hurts the ego to find cleverly disguised beliefs to have been imposed on it. We are all gaslit every day and it should be no surprise and no shame attached too finding that out. Our fellow travelers can be helped to choose the second more difficult option if an alternative and more accurate model of reality is developed.  </strong></p><p>Thanks for considering and I hope this post explains a little bit of where I am coming from.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is possible?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think, think]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/what-is-possible</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/what-is-possible</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:40:31 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>When I was about sixteen, a curious thought entered my head. The thought said that I should or could &#8216;save the world'. I thought the idea was absurd and wondered if others had the same thought. It seems many did and do given how much &#8216;saving&#8217; goes on in the world. I wondered if this was some kind of atavistic thing that we all carry but do not talk about, or we translate it into some socially acceptable form of &#8216;saving&#8217;. Maybe it is an echo of our infinite natures, talking back in time. Or we have things backwards and the world is trying to save us. Whatever it is, we have lots of people talking a good game but not playing all that well.</strong></p><p><strong>The foe may be formidable yet does reveal disparities between form and substance that truth seekers might better use to their advantage. Every cult requires internal consistency or it will fall apart. Big Pharma buys the media to implant the notion; &#8216;Got a problem, go to a doctor and he/she will fix it&#8217;. The fact that there is little substance to the words is of no concern as long as people think that &#8216;doctors heal&#8217;.</strong></p><p><strong>Most of our social elite belong to the Malthusian cult. They therefor believe that the &#8216;moral&#8217; thing to do is to kill people so that there will be enough stuff to go around when the dust settles. Theirs is a static world where &#8216;scarcity&#8217; provides pricing power and excuse for imperial impositions. They believe in technical improvements but no innovations are allowed to threaten the current system. Many folk are trial, on to full members of the cult when they believe in peak oil, climate change, abortion on demand, GMO&#8217;s to feed the world, or world bank austerity measures in exchange for loans, mandatory injections, etc, etc.</strong></p><p><strong>The elite can laugh at their parties as long as they can get the four percent to keep the five percent from informing the ninety percent what is going on. Through generous funding from one percenter NGO&#8217;s, the four per-centers form authority structures with prescriptive decision making to be imposed on the masses. Politicians might be invited, to be blackmailed, laughed at or to be impressed by all that money, or all of the above.</strong></p><p><strong>The elite believe they have the tools to turn this world into a feudal technocratic system, yet in their hubris, lack understanding of the power of our Creator to change the poison into a way for the masses to develop discrimination. The elite have lost and are digging their own grave. The elite have turned the atavistic notion of &#8216;saving the world&#8217;, into we are at the top of the Malthusian heap, therefor we are the gods of this world. Here is Georgie boy saying as much&#8230; From Peter and Gingers substack.</strong></p><p><em>About his god-like grandiosity:</em></p><blockquote><p>It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out. &#8230; I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes. &#8230; If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Indulge while you can Georgie. I am also an indulgent person, yet prefer to limit them so as to be less distracted from hearing the still quiet voice, -that is a much better guide than are the self centered proclamations of ego and hubris. This way has inherent advantages in that working toward truth is less stressful than is requiring lies to be taken as truths. Truth hurts short term, but as the soul crushing weight of lies continues to grow, the price point between the two may flip.</p><blockquote><p>With thanks to Ann Tomoco Rosen for admitting to her &#8216;corny&#8217; desire to &#8216;save the world&#8217; and Peter&#8217;s profile of the empty man Soros with his inverted form of &#8216;saving the world&#8217;. Possibilities, both positive and negative, are greater than what we perceive. Our consciousness limits the incoming signals so we do not get overwhelmed. But if we find a better way to process our signals we might participate in truly creative and healthy endeavors and leave behind our trauma induced reactive mind relations with our surroundings.</p><p>It&#8217;s a possibility, Thanks for considering.</p></blockquote><p>All Glory to God</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get the Borg Out of Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[App Free for Life]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/get-the-borg-out-of-here</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/get-the-borg-out-of-here</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:23:51 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>People that read books or sub-stacks are trying to build out a larger context by which to better understand this world. The context is built through ones interests, disposition and inclination toward putting different data sets together. I confine my computer assisted context building to quick reviews of two news aggregator sites and about a half dozen sub-stack writers. The preferred context building is done away from electronic devices, reflecting and introspecting on what other authors have to say. My favored authors focus on what we may become rather than commentary on people and events. Which are often transient, and on the trivial side of context building. Trivia looms large because (computers and) people are paid to confuse the context and it&#8217;s easier to pin a cause on a person or event than it is to find the substance that stands behind appearances.</strong></p><p><strong>When I started on sub-stack a while ago, a determination was made to limit the number of stacks I subscribe to. I picked well and still like the same stacks I started with. My context builders, in no particular order, are C J Hopkins, Kathleen Devanney, Margret Anna Alice, Celia Farber, Sasha Latyapova, Matthew Ehret and Martin Emmet. OK, also Unbecoming and A Midwestern Doctor and Peter and Ginger Breggin. We want context builders that provide a better signal to noise ratio. At the same time, excellent context builders might still not recognize elements of the really big context, that lie outside ones area of focus. None of us can see everything but if resources are properly pooled, we might find the common thread that better reveals the nature of our situation.</strong></p><p><strong>I am making a possibly arrogant assertion that the following summation is a significant element of the larger context, pointed to but not always consciously recognized by many fine context creators.</strong></p><p><strong>There are two strains or forces in this world. One force seeks to crush the soul. This is done by prescribing 'proper' expressions of being, resulting in people being absolved of making decisions for themselves, providing 'comfort', yet also bringing atrophy to the soul. That is the second and currently dominant way, man&#8217;s law that codifies corruption giving advantage to the class that writes the laws. The first way, on the other hand, places consciousness before being and depends on active decision making based on natural law, (morals and ethics) to build one's soul and life in general. Current soul building efforts could use a better point of focus, for the second strain to be countered more effectively.</strong></p><p><strong>The assertion is that consciousness precedes being and that recognizing the spiritual and the physical as being similar rather than as being fundamentally different will help us see and establish that as truth, and thereby improve our relationship to our Creator.</strong></p><p><strong>Thank-you for reading.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Get What I Want]]></title><description><![CDATA[Careful now]]></description><link>https://sounder151.substack.com/p/i-get-what-i-want</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://sounder151.substack.com/p/i-get-what-i-want</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sounder]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:29:50 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>I have a very blessed life and circumstances. I never made much money, being in construction provided no retirement plan. My own was made by being frugal. Controlling ones &#8216;wants&#8217; helps here and so does buying used and/or waiting for the right deal. I am ready for winter. The zipper on my coat did not work (I love this coat), a little hammer work on the zipper pull fixed it. A 28 inch snow blower was procured for $200.00. Craigs list priced at $600.00 and recently serviced for $250.00. I expressed some hesitation because there was a bit of smoke, not much, and the lower price was offered. I liked how she made things simple and gave more to compensate for the service job. The porch is also filled with free and good burning hardwoods.</strong></p><p><strong>Having wants that do not involve money is of course the best thing for the budget. Whenever &#8216;wants&#8217; are involved, focus of some sort needs to be applied to get it. Where and how we direct our focus determines what we make of things. I prefer quiet that leaves room for internal dialogue and mulling things over. I wake up around 3:30 or 4:00 AM as I have since picking asparagus days when I was 14. I love the morning.</strong></p><p><strong>What I (say) I want most is answers to my questions. One is the same question I had as a kid, the father to the man, being; why do people treat each other so poorly? Over the many years answers have been provided that unfortunately most people do not want to hear about. This, fortunately leads to more questions, that require careful framing. So I pray for understanding and guidance. My life tells me that reality is inherently fruitful and constantly producing new stuff. This coming from a position of having no sense of entitlement, an attitude resulting from being raised in a family of semi-gifted folk with a sense of entitlement where results did not match expectations. Also possibly influenced by a Readers Digest quote from Plato saying (something like); There are two ways to improve ones life, either increase your income or lower your expenses. I chose the later and am glad I did. The better we do at lowering monthly fixed costs, the better our life is. Discretionary costs are not big, except for the trips my wife wants to take. While driving through town the other day I noted many shopping areas that I had never visited and would never visit. Who buys this stuff? I am however a rather good customer at the hardware store.</strong></p><p><strong>I could go on about the &#8216;wants&#8217; in my life that have been provided for, but that would be bragging and the major point is that I am grateful for all the comfort and discomfort in my life. With a remaining hope that my &#8216;wants&#8217; have not or do not distract my focus too far away from a more generally productive course.</strong></p><p><strong>Happy Thanksgiving to all.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>