“It feels like the psyops have been unplugged. The air feels different.”
I’m really pleased to share this conversation with Piers Kaniuka, who is a friend and connection from Maine. We open by going through his background, which connects directly to many of the drug-culture and mind-control conspiracy theories. He works in the field of recovery, and has had much opportunity to consider, as he refers to it, “the manufacturing of addiction and addicts.”
I would like to mention: I’ve never heard the term “conspiracy theory” as a pejorative (though of course it is)—instead, I always heard it in my head as a literal theory about a conspiracy or conspiracies attempted or enacted by a group of people.
One irony of looking into the shadows of culture is: for many people, exposure to these conspiracy theories becomes the reason they turn to spiritual seeking.
So while this conversation opens up with a history of American conspiracy theories, it leads right into the spiritual side. Often revelations require difficult passage. The second part of the conversation is loaded with anthroposophical lingo, which we mostly do not explain. 🫠
It’s useful for me to hear the paths others have taken to their questions. Good questions are the key.
Piers recently did a conversation with Ronda on Christology in the context of anthroposophy. One of the things that Steiner emphasized is that we can’t “withdraw unlovingly” from the world in order to protect our own vibration—that is what the Essenes did, and is not appropriate these days because it is selfish.
What is instead asked of us is to develop the ability to witness the evil that is occurring around us AND maintain our own spiritual equanimity and continued development—because only through that can evil be transformed and redeemed. This willingness to face challenging people and circumstances with equanimity is one of the (many) things I admire about Piers and his work with recovery.
He brought up the fascinating and new-to-me idea that attention—(where and how we focus)—is something that is not measurable by current materialist technology, and is the key that is stolen through mind control and psyops—as well as through conspiracy theory. Yet at the same time, when this becomes obvious, attention can be reclaimed.
Always ask, “am I watching the magician’s hand or the actual event?”
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