If only we all had unlimited energy.
We’d be able to tackle our tasks like nobody’s business. We would crush it at
our job and be home in time for a nice dinner with our significant other. But,
the reality is that few of us have the time or the bandwidth to make it all
happen on a consistent basis. As a result, we’re spread thin. We hardly have
time and energy for some of the most important things in life—our own health
and happiness. Fortunately, there are ways to lessen our daily burden. It
starts with identifying the areas of your life that drain energy. Here, experts
share some of these energy drainers and how to keep them from bogging us down.
Neglecting
Self Care
With a piling to-do list in both
your professional and personal life, it can be hard to find energy or time for
anything. This is especially true for the small, but important, things that
feed your happiness. As a result, you’re left feeling overworked and neglected.
“If we aren’t well-rested, emotionally nurtured, and feeling strong overall, we
lose touch with our core values and identity,” explains Charlynn Ruan, Ph.D.,
clinical psychologist at Thrive
Psychology, in Los Angeles. “This then makes it tougher to make good
decisions and take the necessary risks needed to improve our lives.” Her best
advice is to take good care of yourself first. This way you can make all other
life decisions from a place of strength.
Friends
and Family Members
These people are undoubtedly
important in your life. But going out of your way for them too often will
continually drain energy and leave you feeling depleted. This can be especially
true if you’re never asking for what you need in return. “It is really hard to
maintain your strength and purpose when you are giving too much to people in
your life,” explains Dr. Ruan. “Women, especially, struggle with giving too
much of themselves in relationships and letting toxic people run over their
boundaries.” In these instances, she reminds her clients that their internal
energy resources are limited. If they give too much to people who are not
reciprocating or who are negative, they will not have enough left to give to
positive people or projects in their lives.
Unresolved
Issues or Internal Conflicts
Sometimes the impact of past
difficult experiences and emotions linger. This can paralyze us from moving
forward, explains Ellie Cobb, Ph.D., holistic psychologist and mindfulness and
meditation teacher. “It is important to build awareness of how our old
patterns, experiences, relationships, traumas, and challenges affect our
current lives,” she says. “This is a process that can be challenging and
rewarding. It is often most impactful to work through with a therapist to get
professional scaffolding for the experience of addressing the past to create
energy and momentum in the present.”
Lacking
Silence and Stillness
Meditation
is the act of sitting calmly and quietly until you reach a state of deep peace.
It can offer a host of benefits for your health—mentally, physically, and
emotionally. It’s hard to find the time, however, to sneak meditation into our
electronically and socially-saturated lives. Still, it’s important. According
to Dr. Ruan, we need silence to rest our brain and to hear our internal voice
that will direct our actions. “Taking even a few minutes to meditate or
practice mindfulness each day can give a sense of control, peace, and clarity
to our busy lives,” she says.
Practicing mindfulness each day is
easy with Aaptiv, check out the app today.
Overcommitting
to Social Events
Dr. Ruan explains the importance of
prioritizing our lives based on our goals and values. If we don’t, she explains
that we will find ourselves in a continual struggle over saying “no” to
activities. This overcommitment can drain energy and be problematic, as we
neglect our most basic needs in the process. “If we have a clear sense of our
purpose and values, we’ll be able to align our schedules with a deeper sense of
meaning,” she says. “This takes a little time and reflection to figure out, but
saves us from wasting time with commitments that are not a good fit for us.”
Staying
Up Late
You might be a night owl. But
repeatedly staying up too late, whether it be for fun or work, can drain energy
and start to wreak havoc on your health and happiness. It depletes your energy
level in many ways. “Lack of sleep drains our energy because exhaustion creates
stress in the body,” explains Dr. Cobb. “When sufficiently rested, the body and
the brain can function optimally. [This] allows energy to be properly and
effectively distributed to all areas of life.” Aim to get the recommended seven
to eight hours of snooze time each night, so that you can function at your
best.
When you start to feel more rundown
than usual, consider some of the areas of your life that drain energy. There
are often simple solutions that can result in increased energy levels and
quality of life.
Working out can be a great way to
recharge and get an energy boost. Aaptiv has
thousands of workouts that range in length so you can fit one in at any time
during the day.
Exposing how Archons are milking humanity for an energy called Loosh.
I have waited a
long time for people to truly realize how deep the Cabal is into Lucifer
worship before making this post because this post is essentially the bottom of
the rabbit hole. It is the ultimate truth about the enslavement of humanity and
how it all works. Most of this is comes from a whole bunch of sources including
insiders, independent research, and an Esoteric book called Urantia which
explains the origins of Lucifer which I will discuss later.
First thing first,
check out what Q posted the other day about the movie the matrix:
What Q is saying
here is that the Archon non-physical alien species, whom we know as the
Biblical demons, have enslaved us and are absorbing our energy. Here's what I
found out about this. The famous Illuminati triangle represents 3 things:
Energy, Knowledge, and Willpower. The Archons believe that humans lack
will-power because we are so much more a follower species than a species that
follows our inner guidance and that is simply because we are very young. Our
social age is about 4 years old and many 4 year olds don't know how to follow
their own guidance so they seek for an external hand. Also, the Archons are
said to NOT have the energy required to conduct whatever operations they are
conducting on their planet. For this reason, they need to harvest human energy.
Keep in mind that the Archons are a non-physical species and they live in
between the the elements that we know as reality in a place called Plasma. Our
physical eyes are not able to detect them but they can see us. These Archons
must feed on our MISERY which is something called "LOOSH" in order to
energize their own non-physical bodies. Why misery? I'm guessing it has something
to do with the Archons being the most evil species in the local universe of 4
million planets according to Urantia (an esoteric book).
A quick note about
Urantia. This book is about a sleep talking man who attracted 200 scientists
that interacted with him and wrote down everything he said across a 2000 page
masterpiece that is so behind human, I don't think an entire group of ingenius
writers & directors could make something like this up. Its really that far
beyond the human imagination in many aspects including how inspiration it is,
the inside secrets to life, the fact that it was officially checked for
discrepancies and not a single 1 was found, the way it opens the mind, the way
it changes every life for the better that reads it, the interesting matter, the
way it clearly explains how evolution happened, and MANY other reasons. Its a
clear cut superhuman level writing and the book claims to be the next BIG
revelation after Jesus which happened 2000 years ago. It really clears up a lot
about life.
Now Urantia says that
we are in fact in a matrix. It claims we are actually eternally perfect, hyper
intelligent, beautiful beings that are experiencing a Matrix of our own making
where we become a tiny particle and evolve back into our giant self which is
life itself. Life itself is considered to be God. The Matrix we jump into has
many illusions designed to trick us into doing the wrong thing because without
those illusions, we would always do the right thing. Also, our intelligent
level and memories are totally filtered so we feel dumber and make more
mistakes. There is a lot more to this but the reason this decision was made is
because, in reality (outside of the Matrix), only good exists and the finest of
good and an endless variety of good. This is great but the problem is that to
TRULY appreciate the good, one must see the bad and that is the purpose of this
matrix. It was designed that people who trust their inner voice of guidance can
skirt the pain of error and live a thrilling life but people who are untrained
are bound to make a lot of mistakes but those mistakes mostly happen at a young
age. Humans are said to be age 4 going onto age 5. At some point, evil sort of
disappears but growth doesn't stop for a long time to come. Keeping all this in
mind, the book explains all the different sectors of the universe and all the
characters that are playing in them. This sector of 4 million planets is run by
none other than our friend Jesus but, as the book explains, his real name is
Christ Michael. He's not the sole son of God though. All of us are equally sons
of God but his role in the matrix is very different. There are about 3000 roles
in the matrix. Jesus/Michael's role is essentially the Creator Son meaning he
created this sector of the universe from scratch and fathered everyone in it.
For all intensive purposes, he is like an acting God to this sector. One day,
all of us will surpass this sector of the universe and move into higher places
but while we are here, Jesus is like God.
In the billion
years of life, Urantia says there have 3 rebellions against Jesus which is
possible inside of the Matrix. Remember, nothing bad every happens outside of
the Matrix. This is like a real life video game where each person has a choice
to either listen to the angel on the right shoulder or the devil on the left
shoulder which is properly termed the EGO. The EGO's sole purpose is to
convince the host to make mistakes with promises of riches and glory. The more
one listens to the ego, the more insane they become and fall into all kinds of
miseries. The more inward one moves, the more they are listening to the angel.
Going inward into the self is the way to move upward in the matrix. So
essentially, Urantia says that Jesus dealt with 3 rebellions over the past
billion years. The first 2 were quickly quenched but Lucifer, the 3rd major
rebel, had an idea to poison the minds of as many people possible before
triggering the rebellion. This way, he could spread the rebellion far and wide
before anyone even knew about it.
Long story short,
Lucifer was in the top 200 of most intelligent Lanonadeks which are fairly
higher level beings. If humans are age 4, a Lanonadek is around age 20. These
Lanonadeks are usually mature enough to know better and Lucifer did know better
for a long time while he was a good guy. He was in charge of about 39 planets
and was said to be among the top 200 across 700,000 Lanonadeks. This elevated
intelligence of Lucifer triggered his EGO which worked his mind for about 100
years. He was convinced that he was better than most others and that he should
be some kind of a King among his 39 planets. (I think it was 39 planets but its
around that number.). He thought Jesus had mislead everyone with his teachings.
Lucifer is too low of a level to see God so he thought God was fake. He then
stopped seeing people as equals and started seeing people as lower and higher
levels which ended up triggering his top down slavery model which we have on
Earth today. He also stopped believing that we are all connected which triggered
his selfish behavior. Selfishness and Slavery are the 2 hallmarks of evil.
Eventually he convinced his 2nd in command Satan to join his cause. Lucifer,
Satan, and Calagastia "The Devil" were actually 3 different beings.
Many other lower level beings were corrupted by these 3. Also, these 3 along
with another named Belzebub really tried to ruin Jesus' mission on Earth. The 4
together were called the Dragon. A lot of corrupted beings who saw the Dragon
group try to ruin Jesus lost all respect for Lucifer and went back towards the
light. Also, the reason Lucifer was allowed to roam free ever since 275,000 BC
when the rebellion first started is because the higher ups in the Matrix
believe that it is not only best to allow people to have free will but that
also, when everyone sees the destructive power of evil overtime, we will all be
repulsed and move back towards the light which is all very true. By hiding
Lucifer, we would still learn all this but it would take much longer. Urantia
also says something about the time has finally come to do away with Lucifer
which I think has something to do with destroying his avatar and forcing him to
start all the way back from the beginning of the matrix which is commonly
what's done to people who are so evil that all hope is lost for them to
recover. Again, this evil being is only an avatar in the matrix and not the
real player. The real player is perfectly blameless and will always remain that
way.
Here is the whole
story of the origins of Lucifer according to Urantia.
According to
Urantia, the humans were being taught by Calagastia from 500,000 BC to 275,000
BC. Back then, humans were total morons beyond comprehension. Even in modern
times, we can see human beings that seem extremely dumb. The more back one goes
in society, the dumber humans get. This is the same with an aging human being
that gets smarter as they go. Now imagine how dumb people were in 500,000 BC.
Calagastia was teaching them how to shower, how to shake hands instead of
swapping spit, and other little basic stuff back then. This is until he was
corrupted by Lucifer and became therefore known as "the Devil". After
he was corrupted, he led the entire herd of humans down the path of evil which
degenerated everyone back into total degeneracy. All the work that was
accomplished over 300,000 years of training was lost.
Around 40,000 BC,
the Material Sons, Adam and Eve, were sent to spread their prized DNA to the
humans and to run a school to teach everyone how to advance but their mission
was also sabotaged although some people did get the prized DNA while many
others didn't. The true story was that Adam/Eve were supposed to breed many
children and those children were supposed to breed with human beings to spread
the DNA. Adam was very impatient because of the slow progress so Satan was
trying to convince him to breed directly with the humans which was completely
'illegal' according to the higher ups of the matrix. He knew it was illegal.
Eve knew it too. Adam would just laugh it off and send Satan along his way but
after a while, Satan figured he would just try and convince Eve to mate
directly. Eve loved Adam and felt sorry for him because he was so frustrated
with trying to advance humankind so she though that breeding directly would
probably just speed up the process and did so. This triggered a full blown
shutdown of the Adam/Eve operation which was outwardly apparent to everyone
including the human beings. Many penalties were incured. Adam thought that the
higher ups were going to take Eve away from him after seeing that his youngest
children were pulled out of Earth. He was so afraid of losing Eve that he also
mated with a human being so that, just in case they do they her, they will take
Adam too. Eventually Adam and Eve devolved into humans and had to go on the
same track as humans do for the rest of their matrix career.
Jump to modern
times and we have a cult that runs the world which we call the ruling class. This
cult originally worshiped the sun as far back as 10,000 BC. They were the ones
who created money and started debt based slavery in the age of Sodom and
Gomorrah which went down due to some electromagnetic activity in the universe
that just destroyed it. This led them to Babylon which was taken down in a war.
Then they went to Rome which they milked for every dime through debt based
slavery until it was no longer able to survive. Now they have central banks in
almost every single country milking everyone's energy through debt based
slavery. This is the Saturn Death Cult aka the ruling class.
This Saturn Death
Cult originally worshiped the Sun but they realized something when they were
sacrificing children to this God. Whenever they killed a baby boy for the Sun
God, a demon would pop up. This demon was of course just an archon alien
because demons and hell aren't actually real. They would have conversations
with the archons and through these conversations made a business deal with
them. The Archons, who's leader is Lucifer himself, would give the Saturn Death
Cult all kinds of power on Earth as long as the Saturn Death Cult members would
do 2 things:
1. Breed
misery across the planet. Misery energy is called LOOSH and Archons eat LOOSH
to energize themselves.
2. Sign
a contract in blood that would marry 1 Saturn Death Cult member to 1 particular
archon. While the human cult member was alive, the Archon would be his slave
and serve his every wish through various methods such as speaking on behalf. I
have seen videos of Nicki Manaj claiming she has another being within herself
and her bringing that being out in youtube videos.
Check out the
Rothschild generated Cabal Map (1 of the Rothschilds is rebelling against their
own family). Right in the center is a pyramid. The top right area of the
pyramid says Loosh which is the energy we give off when miserable. Also, on teh
top left area is all the stuff about Satanism which is the cult's religion:
Also, check out how
they made the George Washington statue similar to this Baphemot archon with the
same Satanic hand gesture of "As above so below". As above so below
means that for every good act, there is an evil opposite. A man can cut a steak
with a knife (good) or he can rob a convenient store with a knife (evil).
Also, here is Jack
Nicholson doing the same pose in the movie "The Shining" made by
Stanley Kubrick; a major Illuminati insider who often puts inside cult secret
stuff in his movies. He made the Eyes Wide Shut movie which some say got him
killed for revealing too much. Here is the image:
Most all
celebrities are forced into the Blood Doctrine which is where they sign their
soul to an Archon where the Archon becomes their slave while they are on Earth
and they become the Archons slave after they die. This is why so many high
level cultists are doing everything to stay alive because there's nothing
pretty waiting for them post death.
Some of the Satanic
Ritual sex slaves have escaped and told their stories. The stories are totally
horrific. Typically, they are children who are forced to have sex on the floor
within a pentagram with another child. First, someone uses a power hose to wash
out their intestines before being anally raped which causes many intestinal
problems as the sex slaves grow older. Mind you that many of these sex slaves
are Illuminati or cult members themselves. The cult has a high priestess that
decides who takes what position and the unfortunate ones become sex slaves.
This particular slave also had her thumb partially chopped off and kept in a
liquid container to preserve it and show it to her as a form of intimidation so
she never tries to run. She claims that she saw demons summoned in these
rituals upon the murder of a baby boy. A lot of the slaves also claim to have
seen major players such as Hillary Clinton and Queen Elizabeth in these
rituals. When asked what the most disturbing part of it all was, the sex slave
said it was the laughter of the audience. As more torture was applied to the
victims, the hysterical laughing got louder and more disturbing. These people
are totally insane and totally evil.
We all know this
cult is being exposed as we speak. Some of the insiders who are familiar with
the aliens say a species called the Greys have reversed course towards the
light leaving the 2 main evil groups which are the Archons and the Reptilians.
The Archons actually enslaved the Reptilians who, in turn, enslaved the humans.
One insider claims George Soros is an Archon but that he is basically without
any power atm ever since they captured him during the Atlanta blackout even a
few months ago. They released him after capture with an ankle monitor just like
they did with many others. Also, many are aware that they say Queen Elizabeth
is a reptilian which I think is true. Check the cabal map center and you will
see a Pyramid. At the top of the Pyramid is a person named PINDAR. PINDAR is
basically the father of Prince Charles and is the Reptilian who claims to be
the Lizard King or the King of the World. Higher than him would be the archons.
See here:
Now check out the
other image made by the son of Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu. He depits
George Soros controlling a reptilian with the offer of the world who in turn is
controlling a cult member with some kind of knowledge and that cult member
controls lower level government officials. Teh image goes on for 2 more people
i think but its cut off here:
So basically we are
now living in the end days of the Lucifer rebellion. Cobra claims that a
positive group of aliens have already liberated all the other planets that
Lucifer controlled and they saved Earth for last because it was the most
complicated of the bunch. The Pope, Queen of England, and about 80% of the
world's politicians are working with the Archons when its all said and done.
Some countries such as the US, UK, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are deeper into the
Luciferian worship. We really need to wake up to this and I am posting this up
now because so many people finally believe that our world rulers are Satan
worshippers.
One final important
thing to mention is the philosophy of the Archons:
1. They
don't believe there is good or evil. They believe everything is just good. This
is why they practice evil so freely. Lucifer figured out through life
experience that this philosophy was wrong but he kept practicing it anyway as
the true rebel that he is. That's why Lucifer is called Lucifer the Iniquitous
One.
2. The
Luciferians also worship assertiveness. They believe that only assertiveness,
or forcing ones way into things leads to self enrichment. This is why so many
people all over the news or just in media seem so assertive. Almost all
powerful public figures are Luciferians.
3. They
also don't believe in equality. They think that people are either better or
worst than others and that the better ones are supposed to abuse and enslave
the ones below them. This is obviously a very selfish way to see life and gets
people into a lot of trouble.
In the end,
selfishness, slavery, and over-assertiveness are the 3 hallmarks of evil.
This will be new to
many people but just being aware of it will help the world a lot. The worst
thing imaginable is not knowing what's wrong. This is what's wrong with this
world. This is the bottom of the rabbithole. I won't even blame people for not
believing it but look that even Q himself is already trying to break the news
on the Archon energy harvest by comparing it to the matrix movie here:
The final thing I
would like to mention is the Lucifer sign on the Cabal Map on the top left
right above the word Satanism. Here is what it means:
1. It
is in the shape of male genitals because the Luciferians worship sex. After
all, it is the only way they ever experience some form of love which is needed
by all beings whether they admit it or not. Sex is love making and it feels
great even for the cult members but since this is the only form of love they
ever receive, they literally worship sex.
2. The
infinity symbol at the bottom represents how Lucifer rigged this section of the
matrix that if anyone dies, they will eventually be forced to resurrect back on
Earth instead of experiencing other planets. This mechanism will be broken down
only when the Lucifer rebellion is quenched.
3. The
long line in the middle represents how Lucifer has blocked humanity from God
which has happened through various methods including by poisoning our water
supply and dental products with fluoride to block our pineal gland which is
like a portal to God. Another example is how Lucifer took control of the
intergalactic news press which used to give news about intergalactic happens
with Jesus and many other beings. Those news broadcasting tools were basically
shut down and Earth quarantined from the rest of the universe. These will all
be reversed upon liberation.
4. The
top, shorter line makes the shape of the cross that Jesus died on. This is
because Lucifer made sure that our religions focused on the death portion of
Jesus life instead of the message of Jesus. Lucifer does not want us focused on
the messages of love and forgiveness because that goes directly against his
philosophical teachings so all the believers of Jesus now have crosses posted
up all over the place as if it somehow helps which it doesn't.
And the final
bombshell is that the reason the angry God of the Old Testament is so angry,
jelous, constantlly killing people, and punishing everyone is because that
isn't God at all but Calagatia "The Devil" who is the highest dark
force of planet Earth. The New Testament is where Jesus clarifies that God is
love. This is why the 2 are so different.
Here's how it
happened. Before Jesus was a man named Melchizedec who was the one who taught
about the 1 God concept. The world had hundreds of different Gods and, in the
natural evolution of religion, eventually people worship just 1 God and
Melchizedek came in to prep the world with this knowledge just in time for
Jesus' bestowal. His main student was Abraham of the old testament. Fast
forward to Moses, who's family believed in Melchizedeks message. Moses felt
sorry for the hebrew slaves and helped them escape. The 10 plagues were
actually kind of made up but the 10 commandments (actually called 10
commitments) and the splitting of the sea were real. Moses realized the slaves
weren't really interested in the 1 God concept and he was determined to make
them believe so he said that if the Hebrews didn't believe in the 1 God
concept, God would punish them. This scared them straight. It wasn't actually
true but it worked. The Hebrews became the light bearers of the world and the
first race to believe in the 1 God concept. Moses also lied and said God's name
was Yawhey because the Hebrews of the time believed the nearby volcano was God
and they called this volcano Yawhey. No matter. Moses incredibly got a whole
race to advance in their knowledge of God which is 1 reason why we all believe
in the 1 God concept today. The Luciferians loved this fear based God idea and
they did alter the Bible many times to squeeze in their own God Lucifer in the
Old Testemant. That is why so many evil things are done by God in the OT. Its
not really God. The Luciferians just wrote stuff about their own God Lucifer in
there. That is the biggest scam they played on mankind. Another major scam
comes in the old saying:
The greatest trick
the devil ever played on the world is to trick everyone into thinking he
doesn't exist.
This is a long,
extensive subject so I'm sure I'm missing some important things but this will
give anyone interested a decent idea of what we are dealing with here.
Edit:
I forgot to mention
the Reptilians were using the CERN particle accelerator to open a “portal to
hell” which really means a portal into the Archons world in order to bring a
group called ‘the Old Ones’ into our world. The Old Ones are kind of like like
the ruling class reinforcements but this is very difficult to do because the
Archon world is full of antiMatter which, when comes into contact with matter,
causes destruction plus the tiny bit of antiMatter they did bring in (1 gram?)
caused the handlers to go into temporary insanity. The insider says every evil
thought imaginable surfaced to his mind and he found refuge when he thought of
the love of Jesus. The university where the antiMatter was stored had students
who reported seeing ghosts, hearing things, having nightmares, ect.. The CERN
portal to hell image is on the bottom left of the cabal map here:
The first time I met the Archons was playing StarCraft back in
the mid-90s. They were a caste of the powerful aliens with Psionic
powers known as the Protoss. The next time I met the Archons was a
decade later reading the Nag Hammadi library. I had swallowed a Red
Pill, and they were no longer aliens (unless you follow David Icke). The
Archons, I discovered and according to the ancient Gnostics, are the
ruling agents of the universe and brutal overlords of humanity.
Unlike other celestial villains, the Archons aren’t interested in
eternal damnation or overthrowing some good principle. These omnipotent,
thuggish beings are in charge, and that is it. Like traditional demons,
they seduce humanity, but the whole mechanism of the cosmos is one big
ass seduction meant to keep the holy part of humans unaware of a higher
destiny.
Thus, what the Archons want the most is status quo.
How did exactly do they seduce and keep us trapped in Maya? Keep the
factory going? One view is a unique but actually appropriate way any
modern person can relate to—to the point of sharing it loudly in a
support group. Let’s find out before they hear us.
In Gnostic systems, the archons are the numerous
assistance of the demiurge. They are usually responsible for the
creation of the human body, and specific archons are sometimes
considered to create or animate the various components (limbs, organs,
etc.) of the body. Planetary archons are also thought to rule over the
various spheres through which the soul may ascend. The archons have a
negative role, restraining the spiritual impulses of humanity and direct
human affairs for the Demiurge, being responsible for the flood the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the crucifixion of Jesus.
Although depicted as hermaphrodite creatures owning bestial faces,
with an appetite for rape and brawling, the Archons are essentially a
mixture of heavenly administrators and hellish union goons. Their
greatest tool isn’t fear, however, but ignorance, the “Mother of All
Evil” according to the Gnostic Gospel of Philip. If humans
remain ignorant of their divine origins beyond the universe, the system
remains constant, and all is good for the Archons.
Except the system is, according to the Gnostics, a flawed construct. As Sam Kriss wrote in The Atlantic:
The physical universe was the creation of the demiurge,
Samael or Ialdaboath, sometimes figured as a snake with the head of a
lion, a blind and stupid god who creates his false world in imperfect
imitation of the real Creator. This world is a distorted mirror, an
image; in other words, a kind of software.
In this flawed system—this software—the archons are demented
brogrammers, coding our fate, precisely every negative aspect of our
lives, inner and outer, that slowly broke our mental spine. They grant
us the counterfeit spirit. It sucks.
The method of the Archons
All of this brings us to the specific method the Archons likely use to keep us in abject ignorance, the opposite of liberating Gnosis.
Bureaucracy. Really bad bureaucracy. The Archon nature of being the
bumbling administrators of the heavens is their greatest weapon. And “as
above, so below,” said the Gnostic Hermetics. While many faiths feel
that a celestial bureaucracy is fantastic, from the Pythagoreans to
Confucianism, the Gnostics—history’s great anarchists—contended it was
quite the opposite. The faulty “software” was, ironically, the perfect
mechanism to keep us trapped in, as Philip K Dick called the universe,
the Black Iron Prison.
It was death by a thousand regulations, death by a thousand frustrations.
In fact, in the novel Good Omens, written by Terry
Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, a demon appropriately named Crowley proves
that the Archon-way is superior in the fight against Heaven. He
demonstrates that traffic jams and phone service outages are far more
efficient in damning souls than such common demonic methods as
possession or temptation. Death by a thousand frustrations is the best way to dim the human spirit.
Ponder this. I mean, as humans, we are basically prepared (especially
if we go to church or watch enough Netflix) to deal with and overcome
life’s significant challenges, from a family death to a nearby war. In a
Gnostic sense, we share their essence with the Alien God, and thus
infinity is part of our vibe. It’s the little shit in life that seems to
get us. Imagine going through a day when:
The car won’t start.
You seem to catch every bloody red light.
You need five departments at work to sign off on your order for print cartridges.
The customer service representative of your cable company is oblivious after you spend an hour trying to connect.
Like Morpheus said in The Matrix: “It’s like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” And these events don’t seem at all like an accident.
Between bureaucracy and a faulty system, you can feel your soul
dimming, your mind numbing, and your heroic side perishing. You become
forgetful and anxious, a Stockholm Syndrome victim to a passive
aggressive kismet.
Think of the works of Franz Kafka. Think of Terri Gilliam’s Brazil.
Think of the next time you have a good idea at work. Think of
negotiating with the IRS, experiencing Microsoft updates (software!), or
family holiday parties where being comfortable numb is truly the
closest you feel to Heaven.
It’s not truly Heaven, but that’s the game the Archons play. Anyone
can get used to fire after a billion years in Hell. Anyone can get
comfortable with extinction in a Richard Dawkins paradigm. But not even
Buddha can handle the local DMV.
Like Lao-Tze said:
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
In an Archon-ruled universe, we are all outlaws who don’t even know
it, sinking in ignorance by every Mercury retrograde and iPhone upgrade.
We are the frogs in the boiling waters of Lethe.
How do we fight the Archons?
We fight the Archons like the ancient Gnostics did: with knowledge,
wisdom, and detachment. To be in the world and not of it, as Jesus
explains in the Gospel of John. Or as Paul says in Romans 12:
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Don’t let them control your mind like some demented Protoss.
As Nicola Denzey Lewis in her book Gnosticism,
the Archons “transcend category, which in the thought-world of
antiquity, was not a good thing.” She also writes that they are neither
“divine nor clearly demonic.”
After arming ourselves with the right data to see beyond the
software, we must beat the Archons at their game by transcending human
categories, becoming neither divine nor clearly demonic, awaken the
essence of the Alien God that resides within us, sometimes known as the
Divine Spark.
The Gnostics utilized many rituals to achieve this, so your mileage
may vary. Ultimately, it’s about breaking fate, knowing that the Archons
truly own our body that we only rent at a high-interest rate and that
our thoughts can become free with the right information.
I think the Archons heard us! Look busy in line at the DMV.
Men face many microaggressions that we rarely think about
Microaggressions are those subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) things we do to distance ourselves from minorities, be they someone from another race, or culture, LGBT people, etc. The term “microaggression” was coined by psychiatrist and Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflict on African Americans[1]. Most people are well-intended and do not mean to be offensive at all—but they are. Some of these include:
“What are you?” (to a biracial person)
“You don’t act like a black person.”
“I am colorblind.”
“Why do you sound white?”
“Is that really your hair?”
“Are you the first in your family to go to college?”
Today the term "microaggression" is also being used to describe insults and dismissals of women and LGBT people. Kevin Nadal does a great job describing microaggressions against LGBT individuals in his book, That’s So Gay: Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and TransgenderCommunity[2]. Some microaggressions against LGBT people include:
“I’m not being homophobic; you're being too sensitive.”
“That's totally cool with me as long as I can watch.”
“You are so Jack on ‘Will and Grace’ or Cam on ‘Modern Family.’”
“I would never date a bisexual man he can’t commit or make up his mind”
“What’s going on down there” (To a transgender person)
Some verbal microaggressions I’ve heard against women are:
“I wouldn’t work for a woman.”
“If you dress like a slut, you’re asking for it.”
“She thinks like a man.” (Intended complement)
“You’re being too emotional. You need to look at this logically.”
“I’m impressed that a woman could do that.”
“Why don’t you just get back in the kitchen.” (Supposed joke)
Misandry
I have been noticing more and more microaggressions toward men, but I’ve found surprisingly little discussion of this trend. There is a word most people have never heard of: Misandry, meaning hatred of men. It corresponds to misogyny, hatred of women. By noticing microaggressions directed against men, we can uncover a lot of hidden misandry. Here are some examples I've come across:
“Men only think with their dicks.”
“A man wouldn’t understand.”
“Men just want a hole to put it in.”
“Men can’t hear the word no.” (When rejected sexually)
I’ve even heard women say things like, “Balls are gross. I hate them.” If a woman overheard men talking about vaginas being dirty and disgusting, she’d surely think this was misogyny and microaggression, but why not the other way around? Many otherwise enlightened people seem to think that putting a man down by shaming him for the transgressions of a few criminalmen or for his inadequate physicality is a sort of privilege or entitlement. They are not even aware of their misandry.
Patriarchy
Mostly we know that men, especially heterosexual white men, have a privileged status in our society, that they are mostly blind to their privilege, and that we live in a patriarchal world. But let’s look at our assumptions for a moment. What does it mean, for instance, when we tell someone to “man up” or “toughen up?”
We often think of patriarchy as hurting women, but we don’t talk about how it also hurts men. Patriarchy includes a rigid standard of looks and behavior, and men who fail to follow the standard are tormented ruthlessly. Conforming men may be "blind to their privilege," but nerds and sissies are fair targets for contempt. A man who dares not be "manly" is scorned by women as well as men. Those “crybabies” deserve what they get.
In his book, I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression[3] author and psychotherapist Terrence Real says, “Boys and men are granted privilege and special status, but only on the condition that they turn their backs on vulnerability and connection to join in the fray. Those who resist, like unconventional men or gay or bisexual men, are punished for it.” I completely agree with him.
The language of hate and love
The old adage, “Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words can never hurt me,” is wrong. Words can and do wound. They perpetuate norms that give rise to bigotry, misogyny, misandry, racism, homophobia, and more. Given how “manliness” is enforced by both men and women, is it any wonder that men have become fair targets for a running commentary of contempt?
Even the absence of online discussions of microaggressions against men is itself a microaggression because the absence renders the problem invisible. Some discussions of microaggressions toward women and minorities even say that because men are privileged they can't experience microaggressions. But many men are not privileged. These men have been rendered invisible and at the same time marked as fair game.
It pathologizes men when we assume something is wrong with a guy who doesn’t like sports, isn’t tall, dark, and handsome, or otherwise doesn’t fit a manly stereotype. It also pathologizes men when we assume the worst transgressions of a few are characteristics of all. It doesn’t help women (or blacks or LGBT individuals) to engage in the sport of putting down men. We might begin by extending to men our sensitivity about the harm done by microaggressions. It could open the door to compassion and help us build a more humane world.
To be a homophobe in 2014 is, increasingly, to find oneself on the fast track to social scorn. In an environment of growing acceptance, we condemn homophobic feelings, particularly in men, because we think they come from inside the individual and are thus his full responsibility. A man who says hateful things about gays is “backward.” He’s protecting his social status, or maybe he’s secretly gay himself. He needs to grow up or come out already.
However, the continued existence of homophobia—despite the obvious downsides—raises questions about its basic nature: Do psychological theories like those above really explain why gayness, specifically, evokes such fear, the kind that can sometimes even lead to violent speech and action? Do they account for why homophobia is such an easy bulwark against masculine insecurity? Why does coming out seem so impossible to some men? The only way to answer these questions is to stop thinking of homophobia as a personal choice and understand it as the inevitable and deliberate result of the culture in which American men are raised.
Clearly, men in America have grown up learning to be scared of gayness. But not only for the reasons we typically think—not only, in the end, because of religion, insecurity about their own sexuality, or a visceral aversion to other men’s penises. The truth is, they’re afraid because heterosexuality is so fragile.
Heterosexuality’s power lies in perception, not physical truth—as long as people think you’re exclusively attracted to the right gender, you’re golden. But perception is a precarious thing; a “zero-tolerance” policy has taught men that the way people think of them can change permanently with one slip, one little kiss or too-intimate friendship. And once lost, it can be nearly impossible to reclaim.
Put another way, the zero-tolerance rule means that if a man makes one “wrong” move—kisses another man in a moment of drunken fun, say—he is immediately assumed to be gay. Women have a certain amount of freedom to play with their sexuality (mostly because society has a hard time believing in lesbian sex at all). Male sexuality, on the other hand, is understood as unidirectional. Once young men realize they are gay, they become A Gay Person. We don’t hear about gay men discovering an interest in women later in life, and we rarely believe men when they say they are bisexual—the common, if erroneous, wisdom is that any man who says he is bi is really just gay and hasn’t admitted it yet.
The result of all this is that men are not allowed “complex” sexualities; once the presumption of straightness has been shattered, a dude is automatically gay. That narrative does not allow much freedom to explore even fleeting same-sex attractions without a permanent commitment. I knew a guy who, straight in high school, hooked up with dudes for the first semester of college. He was then in a monogamous relationship with a woman for the rest of college; in the weeks before graduation, I would still hear people express confusion about the existence of their relationship.
The zero-tolerance policy is legitimately scary, then, not just because it sticks you with a label, but also because it erases a lifetime of straightness. One semester of experimentation was worth more than every other hook-up and romance of this guy’s life—both before and afterward.
Indeed, such erasure is scary even if homosexuality itself isn’t a bad thing. Even if religion and Esquire didn’t teach men to be scared of each other’s bodies, they would still be afraid of the way a brush with gayness can so suddenly erase the rest of their sexuality. With so much on the line, it’s no surprise that men take up the job of policing this boundary themselves, lest it be policed by someone else, to their detriment.
It’s worth noting that men confront their fear with brilliant creativity. High-schoolers accuse each other, their activities, and even objects of being gay with precisely the zero-tolerance attitude that they themselves are navigating. A popular game in high school was “fag tag,” where boys slap each other’s packages with the back of their hands. In college they played chicken, where two guys each slide their hand up the other one’s inner thigh. Whoever gets freaked out first loses—or wins, really. These games aren’t just grounded in disgust with homosex; they are playing out exactly what society has taught men about heterosexuality: One wrong move, and you’ll be permanently marked.
Homophobia, then, is precisely a fear, and one that these men are not at all foolish for entertaining. The behavior it engenders is a perceptive response to a sick system, rather than a sickness itself. That’s why I don’t hold a grudge against the kids in high school who said “fag,” or the occasional bartender who makes a weird comment about my date—they’re understandably more scared of me than I am of them.
Why Some Gay Men Hate Pride Parades — And Ourselves
Internalized homophobia can take a lifetime to unlearn.
“Somebody ought to kill those faggots,” the guy sitting next to me muttered. I’ll call him Jake. Our bus rolled past the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where rainbow flags swayed lazily in the breeze in preparation for, as our guide reminded us, a Pride parade later that day. I could see Jake hold himself back, clutching the seat in front of him and lifting his haunches slightly, like a dog prepared to strike. But his hostile body language was speaking to no one in particular. It was morning, and it would be hours before queer people would actually filter out onto the lawn. It was the mere idea of the parade Jake hated.
Jake and I were both from Oklahoma, on a student trip to the capital in 2008. I was there because of an essay contest I had won; he’d been sent as part of his school’s agricultural program. I had to share a bed with him in the hotel. On the first night, he winked at me, bit his finger in mock seduction and said, “You like to snuggle?” I quickly realized that he was one of the worst people I’d ever met.
As for Jake wishing death on the absentee Pride participants, I just rolled my eyes. His language was extreme, but the sentiment wasn’t unique. I was in high school and hadn’t yet come out of the closet, or even acknowledged my sexuality to myself. The gulf between the person I was and a person who might attend a Pride parade — someone who had not only come to terms with being gay, but also had the audacity to announce it — was vast. It was so vast that I hardly felt a thing when the violence of Jake’s words landed on my ears. He wasn’t talking about me, at least then.
Growing up in a straight world means straight people teach us how to think and talk about gay people, even if we’re gay ourselves. “I can’t stand Pride parades,” I told my crew one night, tipsy at a bar in college. I had recently come out, and almost all my friends were straight. My gayness was something new to play with, as novel for me as it was for them. They quizzed me on things as if I were a brand new person, asking what kind of guys I was into, how long I had known. They asked me about Pride parades.
I’m not sure what I hoped to achieve with my answer. I’d never attended a Pride event before, nor did I know what one looked like. I only had a vague image conjured from stereotypes — men dancing around in their underwear, throwing glitter everywhere. Maybe I said I couldn’t stand them to establish distance between myself and these unrepentant gay people I had made up, people I had been conditioned to reject because I felt rejecting them was what I was supposed to do. Maybe it was an impulse of American individualism, the smug Pride in breaking a mold. As a gay man, society expected me to be flamboyant, or so I imagined, and I, being special and different, would not conform.
Or maybe it was fear, uncomplicated and crude, because I had privately retained every threat and insult and disparaging remark I’d ever heard about gay people, even though I’d pretended they didn’t apply to me and I wasn’t bothered, terrible things like what Jake had said, violent things. I had retained them anyway, and maybe I thought I could exempt myself from the collective force of their verdict through compromise. Sure, I’m gay. But I’m not like the gay people you hate, those who bring it on themselves by being so flamboyant.
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Condemning the Pride parade that night was a convenient way for me to cram everything straight people didn’t like about gay people into one symbolic event and then throw it away. It’s the same line of thinking that social conservatives take, wherein the parade is a sort of bogeyman. To hate Pride is to hate the moral chaos queerness promises upon hegemony, and to condemn it is to protect the status quo it seeks to upend.
It’s more common for homophobes to say they hate the Pride parade than it is for them to say they hate Pride itself. Parades are garish, extravagant things, after all. A parade is not a contained celebration. It exists in the public eye. It asks to be celebrated, challenges its surroundings with its naked desire to be seen; it seeks to make its bystanders collaborators. “But do you really need a parade?” a common retort goes. It rests on the unspoken argument that, by merely existing, the parade has asked the critic to participate. “Do you need to shove it down our throats?”
“Shoving it down our throats” is another common complaint, because at the core of many straight men’s homophobia lies a phantom violation: imaginary gay men who want to touch them without permission, to objectify them, to threaten their masculinity. There was no one on the Capitol Mall that morning in D.C. But Jake rose to defend himself. Over the years, I’ve tinkered with his reaction, tried to solve the puzzle of his animus, because I thought doing so might explain everything.
What I’ve found is that this instinct against Pride parades and gayness in general isn’t confined to straight men. Gay men are also conditioned to see gayness as an intrusion, a disruption. We see gayness punished with violence, and we replicate that violence so as to avoid it. We punish ourselves if we have to, if it keeps others from getting to us first. For gay men who are white and/or cisgender, gay men who are adjacent to the access straight white men enjoy in society, distancing ourselves from anything that marginalizes us can be a way to cling to privilege. It’s not liberation. It’s a facsimile of it. But its rewards are enough for some.
Deeply rooted misogyny and a performed disdain for all things feminine is a hallmark of masculinity, and a necessary action to procure its benefits — like not being harassed or assaulted on the street, a benefit that isn’t on the table for other queer people. The fear is vulnerability, and the Pride parade makes it impossible to hide, to be a chameleon. It exposes. It’s “out.” By participating in that violent tradition of masculinity, we can spare ourselves, even if it comes at the expense of all those in our community for whom it is not an option.
I attended myfirst Pride parade in Oklahoma City right after I graduated college with someone I’ll call Matthew, one of my first gay friends. I put on a sleeveless shirt and jorts, which I thought was the unspoken uniform, unsure what to expect. Some drag queens standing on truck beds rolled by, throwing beads. There was a lot of rainbow. It did not have the transformative effect I thought it would — I thought once I attended, something final and intense would happen. I would finally be a “real” gay person. But it wasn’t remarkable in that way. I enjoyed myself.
Today I understand that every Pride event is different, and what it means varies widely depending on location and from individual to individual. Some Prides are protests. Some are parties. Some fit the bill of the hedonistic conservative nightmare of promiscuity and alcohol. I’ve been to some of those. They’re fun. Others are family friendly events. As my politics have changed, my critiques of Pride have wrapped around to the other side. I wonder if it is radical enough, if it’s too white, if it’s dominated by cisgender gay men. I wonder if there are too many banks with floats.
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I’ve also encountered many gay men who parrot the language I used to use for Pride parades. I don’t think anyone has to enjoy Pride, but there’s a certain strand of hating it that sets off alarms for me. It’s the same language many gay men use for feminine gay men, for “the scene.” It’s the language of distance, of condemnation. It’s a vocabulary most of us were taught at an early age; sometimes by parents, sometimes by peers. There are gay men who think if they use it loudly, they can sever the cumbersome bond of community, and the restrictions and marginalization that comes with it.
I wonder if the people who do this had a moment like I had with Jake, a moment where they realized people would not only hate them for existing, but actively seek to punish them for it. I wonder if they even know, as I didn’t know when I first came out and rejected my community at a bar in college, that they’re afraid.
Our Society Hates Feminine Men
How feminism can help change the suppression boys and men are forced to endure.
Feminism is pointless. Women have the upper-hand in society. They are more likely to graduate from college, they are way less likely to have workplace injuries and they get away with all sorts of horrible crimes by virtue of being female.
Men are ridiculed if abused by their partners, they are more likely to lose custody of their children, men are weaker if they are thought of as feminine while women are stronger if they are thought of as masculine.
The reasons why "feminism is dead" are repeated over and over when someone expresses his or her views on the topic. The Merriam Dictionary's definition of Feminism simply as "The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes."
So then why do people assume that Feminism would not seek to balance the inequality that men feel?
The truth is, Feminism fights for men just as it fights for women. The reason the lists above ring true is because our culture continually values masculinity over femininity. Phrases like "man-up," "fight like a man" or "grow a pair" prove that, for men and boys, there is nothing worse than being feminine.
One heart-breaking proof of these gender assumptions is the story of Michael Morones. Michael is a fan of the show "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic." This show teaches values of empathy, love and kindness (all values we tend to associate with femininity, whether we realize it or not.)
Michael is a kind boy who is supported by his family but relentlessly bullied by his peers. When he was in school, he often came home with stories of name-calling and hearing his favorite show classified as "gay" by his classmates.
When Michael was only 11 years old, he took his belt, wrapped it around his neck and tried to hang himself from the top bunk in his room.
Michael survived, but that is not the point. He tried to kill himself because his peers implicitly told him that it is better to be dead than to be thought of as a "girly boy."
The ridiculing doesn't stop with young boys. In December of 2012, President Obama addressed the nation after 20 first graders were shot to death in classroom. During his speech, as he said, "For every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun..." and he began to tear up.
Those who criticized the president mocked Obama just as Michael's peers mocked Michael. He was called weak, unpresidential and unbelievable. Our society is one in which men are supposed to be numb while talking about six-year old victims of gun-violence.
Feminism tries to tell society that things like this continue to happen and yet society turns its head. It encourages men to hold their emotions inside and to express them only through anger. Men are angry and women are loving. Women are better parents and men are bread-winners.
These gender stereotypes do far more harm to our society than we think. Gender-based assumptions actually directly link to something anti-feminists like to give as an example against their Feminist counter-parts. Women are less likely to be given harsh sentences in a court, if they are convicted at all. This is because we, as a society assume women are more innocent, more compassionate, than men.
Men do face inequality in our society, and it's because our society only values emotionless men. Men and boys who are suspected of being feminine are called "gay" and slurs associated with the LGBTQ+ community. This leads to large amounts of sexism and homophobia running rampant within our young people, who grow up to put these values into place in the real world.
Boys are constantly singled out and bullied for femininity and this leads to suicide and issues of mental health. It is even presumed that this type of sexist and homophobic bullying can lead to the epidemic of mass shootings that boys carry out in High Schools and other places they are bullied.
Our culture genders everything such as colors, movies, interests and emotions. Men are meant to demean women. They are supposed to be adored by girls and to be thought of as a "playboy." They aren't allowed to have male friends without saying the phrase, "no homo."
Opposite to men having to suppress sadness, women are made to suppress anger. If a woman is angry, they are less attractive. They are more pushy. They are called a "bitch." Women can't be angry and men can't be sad. This is because of how our society thinks about the two genders and their roles in the world.
Feminism is the fight to show that femaleness is equal to, not better than maleness. We should give both men and women, boys and girls, the right to feel their emotions. Hyper-feminizing society leads to a culture of violence. It leads to the rape culture we see on campuses, it leads to frustration that men let out by hurting others or themselves.
Feminism doesn't discriminate against men. It seeks to equalize the pain and suppression they feel in our society. Perhaps if it feels more comfortable, use words like "Equalism" instead. But the truth is, "Equalism" and Feminism are the same thing.
