Posts categorized "Personal Development"

Accepting loss

Every lie must go. Everything must now change.

Out with the systems and institutions which have enslaved us financially, which have captured our minds through fear, and which were designed to slowly kill us.

While the end result will be your freedom, prosperity, and healing, you will not reach this state without letting go of all that which needs to first go. Dramatic change can feel terrifying, but do not be afraid.

To survive in the now fading old world, the one constructed to domesticate and enslave each of us, it was necessary to play along with very sick games if only to survive. We desperately sought money for a little safety or a shred of enjoyment. But because of tax and other forms of systematic theft (money printing), there was never quite enough money to build any sort of life. 

We also had to fit in just to get a job or maintain any relationships. So, we accepted satanic entertainment, news consisting of 100% lies, a healthcare system intentionally murdering us, food to make us sick and obese, and schools to indoctrinate us to play along and question nothing.

Now the sick world is dying. Markets are crashing. Truth is being exposed. Wars are ripping away any sense of safety. 

The impulse is to try to hold on, but the right thing to do now is to let go. Nothing real can be lost. If it can be threatened or taken away, it wasn't real to begin with. What is real? Nature. Life itself. The eternal present moment. The way you feel. Your state of being. Love. Truth. Focus on that.

If you, instead, focus on holding onto everything false that is being taken away, you will never be in the proper state to embrace and enjoy everything wonderful that is yours now and eternally. Let all illusions fall. Keep reality close to your heart and learn to love it. If you can do this, you will weather any storm and come out the other side in a perfect position.

Find love within. Extend it to those in your life. Forgive and let go of evil and wrongs. Embrace reality and be grateful for this present moment, where right now there are no problems. This is the switch from a life of mind-based, ego-based fiction to a life rooted in reality, truth, and love (which all means the same thing). Worldly disasters offer the best opportunities to eliminate sickness, lies, and suffering from your life. Let's do our best and our best will certainly be good enough. What is real cannot be threatened.


Tucker Carlson on the topic of honesty

On a lazy Sunday, I enjoyed listening to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson talk openly for 3 hours. A recurring theme from Tucker's side was the importance of honesty. 

As I write about in The Switch, all our problems are rooted in dishonesty. When we are dishonest, our suffering is ongoing, and crisis is inevitable in time.

When we commit to telling only the truth and wanting only the truth, problems cannot exist. We are aligned with reality. We sort out misunderstandings, avoid error, and there is a lightness to life.

In this interview, Tucker is a perfect reflection of this lightness. He is having so much fun it almost appears childlike at times. I, too, have experienced this same joy for so many years now. One need only commit to perfect honesty and this is our natural state. 

This is a topic that seems so absolutely boring to the ego. But if you look at the topic of honesty from the perspective of the true identity as love, consciousness, life itself; you see that all truth and wisdom are found within it. By the way, endless fun and adventure can also be found in honesty...and can be enjoyed without negative consequences.

This is what 5D human interaction looks like. Two great beings sharing their true selves without any filter. 


Letting go of all that is false (a story about moving in with the in-laws)

Even years after I thought that I had let go of all that is unreal in my life, the truth is that I continued to honor and carry so many beliefs, assumptions, and obligations. We are all conditioned to take on layers of false beliefs. When we do, we carry it around that the weight can become so heavy.

The weight of my false load translated into financial stress. The need to make high child support payments, to rent an office, and to rent a nice apartment in a beautiful part of a city. This meant that, as soon as I got paid every month, most of the money left my account. I had only enough left for groceries and camping. Yet, even when traveling with my family in the camper, I felt the weight of what I was paying for back in the city and not using. If there were any unexpected expenses, I would exhaust my savings (and there weren't much in the way of savings to begin with). 

As a father and loving partner, financial stress and uncertainty is the most difficult part of life. I knew that, if I lost my job for example, I would no longer be able to support that situation. Everything would fall apart.

Fear remained real for me in the form of financial worries. When fear is made real, love cannot exist. In the state of salvation, spiritual awakening, presence, being, fear cannot exist. But were my fears baseless? Imagined? 

The truth is that, where there is fear (or any type of negative emotion), reality is telling you that there is a problem that needs to be solved. In my case, I earn far more than enough income to live comfortably, yet because of the false expectations, I was spending too much. I wasn't saving. At age 48, I also had no plan for where I would live a decade or two from now. Nothing was right and something drastic had to be done.

For as long as I had been with my wife, Zuzana, her father always told me that we can live upstairs in their village house. He said it hundreds of times, but I was too proud to listen. The place is only 15 minutes outside the city of Kosice (where I had lived for 18 years). While the house is old and the upstairs needed a lot of work to make it livable, the truth is that her parents do have enough space. There is even a new preschool and elementary school just down the street. We both work at home anyway, so no issue there. Plus, we already park the camper at the house (traveling will be easier). Was what I had always thought of as our worst-case scenario actually the right move and best option?

After deep soul-searching and conversations, on November 1st we announced that we would be letting the apartment go, as well as the office space, and we would be withdrawing our son from his private preschool to enroll him in the free preschool in the village. Over the next few weeks, we spent the equivalent of 1 month's rent to buy new doors, paint the place, and carpet the entire space as we slepped outside in the camper.

Now, for the past month, we've been living upstairs in the village house. Our son is enjoying the new school. My daughter visited for Christmas. To her pleasant surprise, I even made the rec room into a full-blown jam room where we played music together for hours (not something we could do in the previous apartment).

Now we're saving thousands per month. No driving around town every day. We have more time, money for skiing, waterparks, and travel when there is a need. There is a nice hiking / biking trail here to escape to nature. Everything is fine. All that was false in our life has been released. My wife even has a parcel of land in the village and we plan to slowly build a house here with the money that we are saving.

Life is never easy. There are always challenges, especially as it relates to our relationships with other imperfect people. In our case, we share a kitchen with my wife's parents. Of course there are the sort of games that any ego plays, but we see it for what it is. We forgive any errors, we do our best, and the love in our family remains as strong as ever. 

Now I look forward to the dramatic world events that are about to come to light, the new financial system and advanced technologies that have been kept from us. I look forward to the financial abundance so many of us will enjoy with the confiscated wealth. I don't know what the future brings or exactly when these changes will come, but our present moment is aligned. We are living in truth, in full acceptance of the situation, sleeping well, having fun, feeling good. 

Let's stop being afraid to truly let go of anything we are carrying which is unreal or unnecessary. Reality will adjust and the fear will be gone. Everything will be fine. Make changes. Go forward in faith.


What's true is always true and always was true

For the first time in so many years, I find myself in a state where it seems nothing more needs to be said. I could analyze every detail about what's going on in the world; but I have no firsthand intel. I will leave this to others who have access or are more inclined.

Everything I have said about spiritual awakening, perfect love, the need to shift away from fear, about freedom, truth, reality...of course it all remains true and relevant now and always. There are hundreds of posts, books, talks, and all of it remains perfectly relevant.

I have stopped living in time, waiting for the world to change. As changes happen, I am paying attention. But waiting for fiction to end only makes the fiction seem real. Instead, we can focus on what is real now and always.

What I am here to live and teach is perfect love; what it is and what it does. Bring unconditional love into your relationships and find that they become holy, eternal, blissful. Bring perfect love into your work and enjoy financial abundance. Know that perfect love means the same thing as honesty, forgiveness, acceptance, freedom, health, bliss, and reality. Live in alignment with perfect love, in the eternal present moment, and you will feel good and be freed from fear. 

This is salvation, and it is here now for anyone who chooses to recognize that you already have everything. There is nothing to wait for. If the world changes for the better, that's wonderful. If evil deeds are being stopped, we can all be grateful. If we are one day freed from this system of propaganda and debt slavery, we can celebrate. But even if current events take a turn for the worst, the truly awake remain in a place of joy and safety.

There is nothing to wait for and nothing to fear. What's true is always true and always was true. 


What is real is eternal

“How simple is salvation! All it says is what was never true is not true now, and never will be. The impossible has not occurred, and can have no effects. And that is all.”

-A Course in Miracles

Fear is the belief that something real can be lost. The compulsive urge to hold onto situations, things, or people is confusion about reality.

That which can be changed, lost, or threatened was never real to begin with. Similarly, that which is true cannot be made untrue.

The peace of God is this deeper recognition of reality. The idea of losing our status, losing a job, losing our physical health—even losing a loved one—is what keeps us up at night. That urge to hold on—it is what drives us to push through a waking life devoid of joy, pleasure, and beauty.

The problem is that everything in physical form, in the realm of our senses, in the field of matter—it all changes. Maybe slowly, maybe suddenly, but the truth is it will leave us eventually.

Salvation is the ability to accept what is real.

Your creativity is the source of value. This is what generates abundance in every situation (not one particular job). Love and connection between souls is the ultimate truth (not one particular relationship). Stay aware of what is real.

Reality is consciousness, awareness itself. It is the energy of life, the unchanging laws of nature. Love is the whole truth. This all means the same thing.

Fear, frustration, boredom, anger—all negative emotions are caused by confusion over reality. To shift focus on reality and to always forgive non-reality is to find that state of ongoing joy and perfect love, absent of fear.

We are powerless against truth / reality. All power is found in the embrace of it and the rejection of all that is false.

This is spiritual awakening, the death of the ego. Herein lies everything we truly want and truly are. What is real is eternal.

What is real is eternal.


What is, just is

When we set out to change other people or do something about a situation, we fail. Worse yet, our interference starts a trail of unintended consequences and makes the situation worse.

So we should just do nothing, asks the mind? One might answer to the mind, you should do nothing if there are any negative emotions in you and if there is any unease or suffering. Loveless, ego-based doing is powerless, and it is far better to do nothing. Let things be as they are.

True power is in being, rather than doing. If you can be love, then love will effortlessly correct any error and cause no harm. Love is unconditional, meaning that the reality of a person or situation must first be accepted and embraced for love to exist.

Love without forgiveness and understanding is not love. Wanting to change someone or something is not love; rather, it is an act of resistance or withdrawal, which insanely attempts to go against truth, reality, or the free will of another.

State your loving truths, however and whenever you feel inspired, but make no consideration of the consequence because the true meaning or importance is not found in the realm of situations or consequences.

Unconditional love, joy, freedom, honesty, and openness—all words describing the same truth—this is the core of our being and the cornerstone of all true faith. Nothing outside of this has any importance and can be ignored for healing to occur. After all, healing is nothing other than coming to fully embrace the one truth that these words all point to. We continue tomorrow and each day after that.

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What is 3D, 4D, and 5D and what are the differences?

Spiritual teachers often talk of 3D, 4D, and 5D to describe a person’s spiritual evolution. In these different states of existence, people see and interpret reality very differently.

There are, indeed, different perceptions of reality…different ways of seeing and knowing…depending upon our state of spiritual awareness. There are also different frequencies, so that it is difficult for a person in one dimension to truly connect and resonate with a person in a different dimension. There’s no shared understanding or connection. Let’s look at these dimensions.

The Third Dimension:

This is the material world of the ego. Here, we are concerned with what others think about us. We want to be successful. We want material rewards, status, and other treasures that the ego promises will make us happy.

In the Third Dimension, we believe that the voice in the head is who we are. What matters is in the external world. We seek situations and circumstances that will make us happy, and we fear situations and circumstances that would bring suffering or failure.

We see events as random, as just happening to us. We blame others for our problems. Lost in the material world completely, we are unaware of our identity as spirit. With no awareness of the now, the mind is either on the past or the future. Only in the now can we find happiness.

A person living in the Third Dimension typically craves sex, drugs, or other stimuli because this is the only way to turn off the mind, to experience the bliss of the now. Sex, in particular, is an obsessive compulsion because it delivers everything the ego wants—conquering, attention, proof of your worth, drama, and a blissful escape from the mind’s suffering.

What is called love in the Third Dimension is not love. 3D love is understood as an attempt to get something from another. It depends upon a foundation of specific conditions being met by the other person. It is measured in terms of the other person’s loyalty, obedience, good behavior, thoughtfulness, and so on. Because so much importance is placed on oftentimes unrealistic conditions, people living in 3D are not satisfied for the long term in their relationships.

In the Third Dimension, true love is experienced only by accident—when two people experience the bliss of the now together and feel that deeper spiritual connection. This is only possible before the conditions come—at the very early stage of a relationship.

Because there is no spiritual awareness in 3D, it is believed that either God does not exist or that God is external, up there in the sky. Either way, there is a great deal of fear about death, just as there is this fear about life in the background.

Those living in 3D believe that the world is as authority says it is. They are afraid to question norms and to express an original thought that doesn’t conform to what society says is normal. This causes a great deal of suffering because people exploit these individuals to make a lot of money. The 3D person is the loyal subject, the good consumer, the foundation of what we call Capitalism or any other system of centralized power. 3D consciousness makes us willing to buy and consume whatever seems cool, do whatever we are told and whatever everyone else does, and all without giving it much thought.

Then one day, you find yourself sick, badly out of shape, broke, confused, and depressed. Still, afraid to leave the familiar dimension, they seek quick fixes in the consumer world. Anyone who challenges the reality they believe is normal is attacked and walls are put up. Unless…

The Fourth Dimension:

There comes a moment in anyone’s life when you can no longer believe the implausible stories of the Third Dimension. You begin asking questions. Am I happy? Is the standard diet and lifestyle causing weight gain and sickness? Are politicians and news anchors lying? Are pharmaceuticals good for me? Do I believe the official story of 9/11? Isn’t COVID just another name for the flu and don’t a lot of people die every year from pneumonia? Are lockdowns and so-called vaccines really about our health? Any real question leads a person to start 4D thinking.

Now you break through to the formerly forbidden realm of free thinking. Now begins an honest questioning of everything. You start to see how humans are indoctrinated, conditioned, programed. You start researching to find out how it is this way. Who’s really in charge? What is the truth in any situation?

You become excited to learn, though in the beginning it can be very traumatic and even lead to depression. There is a hopelessness at first. A void inside. But there’s no going back, so you try to fight for truth and justice. You speak up, trying to persuade others.

At some point, you realize that you can’t change the world. Others don’t want to see the truth. You still function in 3D—you must still earn a living and keep things together. You still understand 3D thought and, in many areas of life, you easily slip right back into it. In the 4th and 5th Dimension, yes, you can still function in 3D for practical reasons. You play it like a game because, in the current world, you simply must.

For others, the 4D experience is different. What I described so far is probably the lower orders of 4D, where you are looking only at the material world, but now with a desire to find out the truth and change it. Others experience 4D in a more spiritual sense. They practice strange rituals and become superstitious. They go on retreats, do yoga, talk a lot about energy and vibration, collect crystals, go to fortune-tellers, they may try to maintain a smile and exude spiritual wisdom.

They may get involved in more outlandish ideas beyond the observable world—talking about reptilians, Atlantis, time travel, and an endless variety of things that make those in 3D roll their eyes, tune out, or worse.

In 4D consciousness, fear is still very real and what matters externally in the world is still very important. This is currently the dimension in which the global war is being waged between the black hats and the white hats. The white hats want to awaken the population from 3D so that we can end the sickness and corruption of the world.

There is a great moral calling to end the human trafficking, stop the destruction cause by drug trafficking, end the wars and large-scale theft perpetrated upon a sleeping and unaware 3D population. For the sake of our state of being, for our children and future generations, this is a great and important war.

We are truly in the process of changing the world, entering an entirely new era, simply because enough of us have moved from 3D to 4D—and because there is a very well-planned operation in place at the highest level which is moving everything forward in the right way.

The Fifth Dimension:

This is salvation / true spiritual awakening / escape from ego / unconditional love / present moment awareness / forgiveness—and so many other words which all mean the same thing. Oneness. The end of suffering and pain. Perfect knowledge through the recognition that nothing in the lower dimensions is ultimately real.

I’ve heard that roughly 13% of the English-speaking world exists in 5D, and the numbers are growing. 5D is accessible at any time and instantly with almost no effort. You can go straight from 3D to 5D even never having entered 4D. All that is required is a total humbling of your ego-self and a willingness to understand the right teachings.

There are at least a few portals into instant 5D: 1) aligning with perfect, unconditional love as a continuous state, 2) a noticing of and acceptance of the present moment—the now—as a continuous state, 3) a decision to always tell the truth and want the truth, no matter what. If you can do any of these, the others will come naturally. Though you do need a spiritual practice—reading or listening to the right teachings, meditating, taking care of yourself, etc.

Those who exist in 5D tend not to obsess over the matters of the 3D or 4D world. There is a tendency not to watch TV, not to know what’s going on in the world, because there is this awareness that it doesn’t ultimately matter.

Yet, there is still the need to function in the 3D world because you need to earn money, you need to follow the laws, you need to take care of loved ones. But you try to do so in a way that is loving. You find that the Third Dimension is very easy to navigate now. You are successful and happy, just as others are generally pleased with you.

You also continue to engage in 4D thinking because that is part of telling and wanting the truth. The difference now is that it isn’t an obsession or compulsive need. If it becomes compulsive, now you have left 5D and are back in 4D as your primary state.

In 5D, you no longer fear death because you have found your identity as spirit—which is eternal. You fear nothing of the world because, ultimately, you know it doesn’t matter. It’s all just physical form, which is always changing and impermanent. Whenever a bit of fear does creep back in, you dispel it by focusing on the thought system of perfect, unconditional love (or, alternatively, awareness of the now). Love casts out fear just as light casts out darkness. Both cannot exist at once. Presence casts out fear because here, in this moment, nothing is wrong.

Those living in 5D accept all of reality. If it is happening, it is supposed to be happening. There is a reason. We forgive by looking past error, by seeing its unreality. We experience a calm state of joy, where there is no drama, just a good energy. Negative emotions pass through very quickly because we have learned to let go.

In 5D, we no longer seek out sex compulsively, though it is very much enjoyed with another person who is on the same wavelength. There is a guiltless, easy sharing of joy without all the jealousy and negative emotions that surround sex in the lower dimensions. While we may still have a drink and engage in life’s pleasures, we do so not with the compulsion or addiction like before.

The First Dimension is entirely internal. It is found in the empty space rather than in form. Love. Feeling good. Inspiration. Safety. Knowledge. Understanding. Everything we most care about is found only in 5D.

This is obviously intended as a high-level overview. There is so much more than can be covered about these three dimensions. I believe it is helpful, in observing my own thoughts and behaviors, to at least recognize which dimension I am operating in—trying not to lose contact with 5D even when the world pulls some of my attention to 3D and 4D.

One day, when most of us are familiar with 5D, the world’s problems and largescale suffering will end. We will find solutions in love and truth. We will no longer use attack in any form. We will no longer see your differences and will connect through our oneness. We will understand the source of abundance and happiness. We will love in a way that is eternal. We will exist in a state of heaven on earth. This is what is coming as we continue to ascend.

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The world cannot change until we awaken

We can hope and wait for justice, for the truth to be revealed—for a better world of abundance, beauty, fairness, and health. We want it now. Yet we continue to wait because most people are not ready.

Even if all the wonderful promises of NESARA / GESARA were instantly made real now, little would change unless we change. Humanity must awaken or we will continue to be fooled again and again.

The world can't change if there is no awakening.

If we do not first understand health, we will continue to poison our bodies with sugar and processed foods. We will continue taking the poisons we are told are medicine. We will continue listening to doctors while ignoring how we feel.

If we do not first understand Hollywood, the media, and the music industry, we will continue consuming content designed to confuse us, dumb us down, and program our thought patterns against our own wellbeing.

If we do not first know our values and what we stand for, we will one day again be fooled by tyrants who scare us and then promise safety.

If we do not first understand love, we will continue doing relationships in a way that causes suffering, breaks families, and robs us of joy.

This awakening is the undoing of ego—a simple, 3-letter word describing all the ways we have been programmed and conditioned to think and behave; a state of being that pulls us further from everything we most deeply want.

Ego is the belief that your identity is found in your gender identification, your race, your social status, your wealth, your looks, the neighborhood you live in, or any other external idol. The ego has you obey external (so-called) authority while drowning out the inner voice of intuition and truth. The ego causes such a deep hole inside that you endlessly attempt to fill it with junk food, junk entertainment, shopping, arguments and drama, drugs, or sex. The ego tells you that who you are is who you were yesterday, but that your happiness is out there in the future if situation x, y, or z happen.

The ego is paralysis and death. Sickness and exhaustion. It is a roller-coaster of fear and hope. Ups and downs. Promises that never come true. Pursuits that never lead to lasting happiness.

Connect the dots. See the truth in the world. Deeply know the reality within. Feel the energy of life, which is love, which is what you are. In this state of being, perfect joy and peace exist now. Fear is absent. Health is the normal state. Healing is what your body does on its own. Your love extends from within to those around you.

This is awakening. When most of us finally awaken, the old corrupt and destructive world collapses. Something very beautiful arises, to be enjoyed by beautiful people who will never be fooled again. There is support at the highest levels, but they are waiting on us because there can be no other way.

Nothing can stop what is coming, but it also cannot be rushed. Without a Great Awakening, no fundamental change is possible. Any revolution not based on love—I mean perfect love, God’s love—is no revolution at all. Only drama.

The white hats know that this all must come together at one beautiful moment—not in time but in eternity. We have support and it will happen, but the timing is up to us. We continue tomorrow and each day after that.  


It's not scary to be honest

Imagine going through life in such a way that you are never exactly honest about anything. In everything you do and say, the question is never about what's true; rather, about what you are supposed to say, how you are supposed to feel, and what you are supposed to want (all according to the opinions and expectations of others).

The underlying principle here is this: I'm faking, I'm hiding, I'm lying about everything, and I expect everyone else to do the same. We all know what is going on here, but by calling it "normal" and pretending there is no alternative to a life of faking, we go on.

As we do go on faking, we accumulate such a heavy and impossible burden; to the extent that we bury ourselves and forget entirely who we are.

I am telling you that another life is possible: your life, staring you, with truth and honesty as your guide. Yes, you can be honest with everyone, even in business, even in romance, even with your family. As you do, a miracle happens: all that you do not want disappears, and each breath of your life is filled with everything you've always wanted.

If you understand this fully and have enough faith that what's real is real, then you can remember this moment as your awakening to a new life. We continue tomorrow and each day after that.

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Now the conspiracy theories are good news

So-called “conspiracy theorists” have been very unpopular—primarily because who have been doing our own thinking and research have brought fearful, terrifying news. Yes, up until now, the truth about our world has been ugly, terrifying, unimaginable.

What most people don’t know is that, at this moment, there are some very happy conspiracy theories which are about to come true. At the risk of sounding insane, I want to share this because, when it comes to pass, it will be easier for you to understand, accept, and believe.

After the imminent financial crash, after the horrifying truth about the so-called pandemic and injections are known to all, after the scare event, after the Internet shut-down, the arrests, after it seems like everything has fallen apart and our world has descended into chaos and hopelessness—that’s when the new life begins. It’s all part of the plan that is being carried out.

These next few weeks and months will be, for most, the most difficult time of our lives. Others have been waiting for this because we know what comes next:

The gold-backed (Basel 3) Quantum Financial System:

Built on Stellar and a mix of other blockchain technologies, today’s fiat currencies are merged into asset-backed, digital dollars, Euros, etc. Most will be afraid of this change, thinking this is a Central Bank Digital Currency designed to strip us of our freedoms. In truth, because it is decentralized, it undoes central banks, ends money-laundering and other criminal schemes, and provides a channel to re-allocate all the confiscated wealth of the captured Vatical, the Crown, and the USA Corporation and criminal gangs. In short, this is an era of fairness and abundance for we the people.

Med beds:

Technologies exist which have been withheld from us. True cures. Hang on, because whatever is ailing you (even damage caused by the vaccine) will be healed.

Free energy and Internet:

Why do you think they have been launching all those Starlink satellites? Free, quantum Internet. Have you heard of Nikola Tesla and how he created free energy. I know it is real. I saw it work in a now defunct museum in Colorado Springs in 1995. Cars can also be powered by water (look it up). Free (or very cheap) energy is available and there will no longer be a need to pollute with oil and coal.

No income tax:

The bill in the U.S. House of Representatives is designed to introduce this idea. It’s coming.

These are just a few examples of the radical, positive changes coming. This, and much more, is in store for us—but first we must go through the Great Awakening. We need to understand ugly, horrific truths about our world. We need the people who have been causing us so much suffering to be removed from their positions. It is a slow process, because it is so difficult for the people in charge of this transformation to complete the job in a way that is successful and wakes people up.

If you look any of this up on Google, if you read the news, they will tell you that all of this is fact checked. Of course they will. The powers that be are still trying to maintain power. In truth, they have already lost the war.

Up until now, we have been through so much oppression and pain. Now it is their turn to feel the pain so that we, the people, can live in abundance, health, freedom, and truth. I never, in my wildest dreams, thought this day would come. Yet, just as I knew the other so-called conspiracies would come to pass, I know this good news conspiracy is also true.

I hope this gives you some comfort and helps you make sense of what is about to come. Hang on.