Frens,
The revolution will be funny.
And if you could restack this before reading, laughing we would all appreciate your humble service. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the creators below if you haven’t. Drop them $5 would be cool too!
Was chatting with Christopher Cook about our state in this fight to derail evil in this world, whether it’s the globalists, the bankers, or the tyrannical flavor of the month I have reached the point where it has become clear we just need to out-build these people rather than thinking civil disobedience will solve anything.
That, and the rabbit hole is dark and deep and lonely and isolating to the point where it disables the most positive anon.
Come on out. We’re with you.
This post is about taking a short break to laugh, to focus on the positive that we’ve done so far rather than to focus on how hopeless it is. Because it’s not hopeless at all.
So, if you need a recharge, you came to the right place.
DROP THE MEMES
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
One thing everyone can do to raise the collective vibration, by choice with very few real barriers, is smile. A smile is like a handshake, but truly a ubiquitous signal of good will. Newborns smile in response to their parent's smile at just 6-8 weeks old. In fact, we are the only animals who consciously smile, but we don't use it nearly enough in communication. Try smiling widely in a crowd of strangers and see how many reflexively mimic you. Small children don’t hesitate. They find joy everywhere they look.
I read this week about a toddler who “took over an airport” by racing up and down the concourse with a Mylar balloon held to their chest and ending each approach with a long leap and a slide across the floor in a dramatic landing protected by the balloon. The entire concourse began smiling at the glee, the undiluted joy displayed through the actions and laughter of the child. Everyone reading this can picture the scene. All the restlessness, exhaustion, and demands of travel dissipated like a puff of smoke for a half hour during the ‘Mylar Olympics’. Even the TSA agents let some questionable actions associated with the event slide, in favor of filling the space with joy. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for people to smile.
Speaking for myself, I never considered myself to be funny until I opened a door to it through writing. Now I gravitate toward and share humor, laughter, and snark in addition to my spiritual leanings. I’ve found myself lighter, and less judgmental as a result, without having consciously set an intention to use humor as such a vehicle. What might make people hesitant, besides the utter polarity running rampant in this world right now, is that smiling at others creates a connection. Here’s the sciency part, according to esciencedirect.com:
Smiling links humans together through a process science calls "interpersonal synchrony" and "emotional contagion," which physically aligns our nervous systems and brains.
Smiling = connecting = putting yourself out there.
So, because of our hesitant mistrust of everything and everybody right now, smiling is reserved for private moments amongst trusted friends and family, proliferating the concept of echo chambers. And all of us are guilty of this, convinced we've got it right. Putting ourselves out there could be risky to our reputation, relationships, physical health, or emotional security. It we cannot conceive of a greater good and a more collective culture, because our flag is already planted inside our virtual territory where we cling to continuity, security, or a peaceful status quo, then how will we move beyond? And, we must move beyond.
Smile – today, tomorrow, every day. I’m not suggesting we are never sad, but I am suggesting we can always choose to smile at the universe, so it can connect with us and smile back.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
We are all entrusted with our own small piece of source consciousness. We've been given it in order to heal it. When we each do the inner work to heal our tiny chunk of the All, we end up benefiting everyone because we are each a part of the All, so it works like a rising tide that lifts all ships. When we practice on focusing our consciousness inward, and we take responsibility for ourselves without distracting ourselves with what is happening outwardly, we tend to make real progress. The reality is that we can only change ourselves and not others. So when we do all we can to be the best possible versions of ourselves, we are all doing the work and elevating the entirety of consciousness.
Why is that so hard? Because people would rather distract themselves with the outward world, with things they have no control over. They would rather chase dopamine, focusing on other people and blaming them for what's wrong with the world instead of going inward and doing the work it takes to heal whatever the universe has entrusted their particular chunk of consciousness with healing. It's easier for people to focus on the external than it is to take accountability and do their own portion of the work. It's also the way we have been trained to view reality.
But the implicate is the way we impact the explicate. The inner world is how we shape the outer one, especially when it comes to effective manifestation techniques. Going inward makes more sense.
Working on changing the self is the only real solution. Anything else is just distraction.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
I will answer the latter part first, because it’s easy. Most people are busy trying to survive. For some, that is their entire focus.
Some—and please forgive me for saying this—are not yet sufficiently advanced in their journey to consider questions of vibration. Such matters aren’t even on their radar.
Many have their own personal problems that get in the way. Some of us have health struggles, and it’s hard to think of vibrations—or much of anything else—if the health problems are serious enough.
The first part of the question is complicated. Raising the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction certainly sounds nice. However—and sorry to be over-rational here—when I start to unpack it, I become less convinced that I know what it means.
Human beings are very diverse. Yes, we have things in common, but try getting people to agree on anything and watch what happens. So what do we mean by "collective”? Is there something—anything—that everyone can agree will raise the vibration of the planet in a positive direction?
The entire notion of a “collective" is dangerous. Yes, we are social creatures, but collectivism is a toxic manifestation of that social nature. Democracy doesn’t solve the problem—it merely broadens the authority from a single monarch to a voting majority. Either way, the minority—and especially the minority of one, the individual—is still getting bullied by someone.
Yet we carry on with this single-system fallacy: the belief that in order to coexist, everyone in a given area must be forced to live under one system. (We figured out that isn’t true with churches, and yet we keep doing it with other things.) Even many conservatives, libertarians, and anarchists get this wrong—dreaming of the day when we will have a new revolution … and then what? We get to force our views on the minority? In the end, our social nature—our obsession with group solutions to everything—ensures that someone’s consent is always being violated.
And see, that is the problem right there. If you do the philosophical math, you will arrive at what everyone already knows intuitively: the consent of the individual human person is (ought to be) the fundamental unit of moral concern in society. So, if you want to impact the vibration of the planet in a positive direction, stop violating the consent of others. Stop allowing governments to do it with impunity!
Live by this rule:
Do not trespass the person, property, or liberty of another.
I know that a negative, commandment-like framing doesn’t sound very positive. But it is the one thing that everyone can and should agree on, because it is definitely, verifiably the fundamental rule of morality.
And if everyone lived by it, there would be peace, and then we wouldn’t have to feel this obsessive need to cram people into collectives and force them to live in particular ways.
What is the one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
I think choosing not to participate in behavior fueled by negativity is a big one.
And I mean that broadly.
This is a constant practice for me, and it starts small. We typically have around 90–100 sessions each week at the studio. That is an opportunity to repeat a lot of words to a lot of people. And words have power.
So I really try not to lean into talking about everything that isn’t going well … even during weeks when it feels like the wheels are about to fall off. Because if I repeat all the things that are sucking in my life to client after client after client, I’ve now cemented that energy into my world.
And, to at least some degree, theirs. There is a delicate balance between choosing not to feed negativity and still showing up authentically and honestly. A lot can be going terribly wrong … I can be worried about all the things …I can be honest about that. And I can choose not to give those things additional fuel by repeatedly lamenting them and recruiting everyone around me into the misery.
I do my best to lead by example.
And my goodness, it is a practice. I am not perfect at it. But I try to reflect back into the world what I would like to receive from it. That isn’t always easy, but it does get easier the more I practice.
Negative energy is sneaky and sticky. It slips in the back door and then, like the uninvited asshole at the party, hijacks the entire vibration.
You didn’t even realize that your shitty Thursday began with a Pilates instructor that told you about how everything is going wrong for her this week. That reminds you of a time when everything was going wrong for you. And before you know it, you and Martha and Betty are all stretching on reformers next to each other, bitching about some shit that has already happened.
Nobody consciously decided to have a group bitch sesh. But somehow, here we are.
And you leave your workout just a little more agitated than when you arrived. You have a little less patience navigating rush hour traffic. You reach for your water bottle and realize you left your bag at the studio.
Fuck this day.
Now you’re thinking about how thirsty you are and what a pain in the ass it’s going to be to drive back over there later. Suddenly, you are keenly aware that apparently no one in the greater metropolitan area knows how to use a fucking blinker.
You get cut off twice.
By the time you arrive at work, you’re cursing the old lady - and the horse she rode in on - as she ambles through the crosswalk. And now you are primed.
To notice all the negatives.
In this hypothetical day, what are the chances that you spill some of that energy onto someone else … just like your Pilates instructor spilled it onto you?
Pretty fucking good.
And you probably won’t even realize you’re doing it.
This question Sir Ratio has posited about raising the collective vibration is one I’ve spent a lot of time pondering over the past few years.
As the covid op unfolded, I had so much anger. I spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to tell people what I saw happening. And I spent even more time being pissed off that very few people seemed willing to listen … or that supposedly very intelligent people simply refused to engage in honest intellectual conversation about it.
Eventually, I had to come to terms with what I can actually influence. And usually, it isn’t changing somebody’s mind. That realization changed a lot for me. And it actually gave me a lot more space.
I can show compassion toward someone I strongly believe is dealing with the consequences of a decision I disagreed with - without pretending I agreed with the decision. I can disagree with someone and still reflect love toward them. I can say what I believe without needing them to believe it too. And if the opportunity arises, I’m able to share my stance on things relatively calmly these days. I no longer feel compelled to persuade anyone of anything.
Now, if you ask for my opinion?
I will give it freely and unapologetically.
And then, if necessary, remind you that you fucking asked. Turns out, raising the collective vibration isn’t some grand spiritual assignment. It’s not grandiose. And it’s not glamorous. It’s simply refusing to add another bucket of shit to a world already overflowing with it.
Being honest without being corrosive.
Disagreeing without dehumanizing.
Feeling anger without making everyone around you carry it. And recognizing that whatever energy we repeatedly put into the people around us tends to travel farther than we will ever know. Negativity asks almost nothing of us. It’s reactive. It’s contagious. And it feels justified.
Misery loves company.
Choosing not to pass it along requires noticing it first. And actively putting something better into the world takes energy.
Both take practice.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
I think the only thing anyone can really do is raise their own vibration.
As Gandhi said, "Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself."
Why is it so hard? Because we're not in charge. And possibly because we think it's easier to change others than ourselves. Still, I'm an incurable Pollyanna and try to help others anyway, by raising awareness.
So I make T-shirts and memes to cause cognitive dissonance, oh wait, I mean thinking and laughing. But I'll never really know if it helped. And I'm not going to lie, sometimes the overall feedback loop of humanity gets depressing. But then I remember "The Golden Key" by Emmet Fox whose central idea is this: “Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead.” Then I go make more T-Shirts and memes.
That raises my vibration.
We can almost all be friendlier in our everyday interactions.
It’s hard for lots of reasons:
you don’t want to creep people out
you don’t want to attract creepy people
you may feel some resentment toward someone
you may be having a hard day, wrapped up in your own problems.
But with a little bit of thought and good judgment, you can be friendly in spite of those reasons. And when you get friendliness back, everyone wins. You’ll have a better day as well as the other person. You do receive by giving.
The meme above is us, frens. Keep that torch lit! No matter what the storm dishes out.
How to raise the collective vibration?
That's not particularly my vocabulary, but I get the drift. It's a fine line. We need to stop the ZOG takeover and the forever wars, but at the same time, not fall victim to our own hatred or helplessness.
Separate the person from their actions - each person is victimized by their own karma, their own soulcrush, their own habitual patterns. In a sense, all of us are both guilty and innocent.
As Nietszche said - I do not attack individuals, but institutions.
Buddha said - have compassion for all, without bias.
Jesus said, forgive them, they know not what they do.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
I am reminded of a study where the scientists brought a group of experienced meditaters to NYC and had them meditate, focusing on peace.
I think it was for a week. During that time the crime rate in the city dropped by a significant percentage.
So to answer, I think if each person concentrated their attention on peace and love, for sustained periods of time, we could help influence the collective in a positive direction.
What makes this difficult is the trappings of modern society. There is a concerted effort to keep us all distracted, busy, stressed out, afraid and angry. It takes focused attention and intention to overcome these obstacles, not to mention dedicated time. All premium resources that we have a tendency to overspend. I believe each of us can do it if we make it a priority.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
Ritual is the most fundamental way.
Ritual is a practice, or a prayer, or some other kind of routine we do regularly.
The chaotic world around us changes but the orderly ritual stays the same.
Over dozens or hundreds or thousands of repetitions, we wake up to the connections between the symbolism of our actions and the real world.
For example, building a sandcastle. Literally all that I do is pile sand in a neat cone. But this has brought children immense joy and adults to tears. The sandcastle ritual is like a personality test for myself and everyone that encounters it. It teaches us about our innermost joys and hopes.
Another ritual I like is counting to twelve reps on exercises — squats, pushups, pull-ups — by naming the twelve Greek gods. At first it just felt like a based way to count. But over thousands of times I have learned to meditate on the symbolism of each one and how they relate to athletic aspiration.
Why is ritual so hard for people? Because ritual has been hijacked.
Instead of prayer, we scroll a phone. Instead of sandcastles, we walk a treadmill. Instead of gathering water and chopping wood, we stream slop.
Ritual is our connection with the divine and that connection has not just been severed, but co-opted.
For ritual we need three virtues:
Patience. We don’t demand quick results, but persevere with an open mind.
Faith. We believe that there is a higher plan, unseen by us, and joyfully participate in its discovery.
Curiosity. We don’t just go through the motions, but carefully observe the results. If we feel pain or boredom or any negative emotion, we don’t avert ourselves, but lean in to understand it.
In a society where spirituality is not just forgotten, but actively weaponized against us, ritual holds the keys to discovering our lost traditions — the same way our ancestors discovered them in the first place.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
That's a tough one, but I'll go with have a conversation with someone you've been conditioned to hate, it might make you realize they are not any different than you. And why is it so hard? The previously mentioned conditioning, as well as risking alienation from the hive mind circle of friends most have.
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
Regarding how people can raise the collective vibration of the planet, I think it first goes to finding the common ground among others. Most of us want what is best for those closest to us and want a bright future for generations to come, for example. I think the hardest thing for people to do is the most transformative one: Letting go of your ego and admitting when you've been wrong, lied to, or duped. of course we all think we are smarter than that. The powers that be count on it...
What is one thing a person can do to raise the collective vibration of the planet in a positive direction and why do you think that is so hard for people to do?
One thing you can do right now to raise the positive vibration of the planet is to be of service to everyone you come into contact with on a daily basis. Staring with your family, put yourself last.
My Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ. He was being grilled one day by some haters we call the Pharisees. They tried to trap my God into selecting the best law that God gave to Moses. He did just that and summed the entire law into this: Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to Love your neighbor as yourself.
We were not created to serve ourselves. You know exactly what has happened through all of human history. Service to self has every atrocity attached to it.
The heart focuses on what it loves. If you only love yourself it will show. If you only serve yourself and then give others what is left then welcome to emptiness.
This leads straight into the next part of the question.
Why is it so hard for people?
As humans we can do two things only. Think/say stuff & do stuff. You are a perceiver with an appetite. Lots of ‘em.
Since God is not exactly present, just His creation we get lost in it. We mistake most often ourselves and the creation as a replacement for God. That’s why you have the saying “It’s me against the world.” We mistakenly think we’re alone when God is all around us, the Creator gave us the Creation.
And if you’re alone all you have left is the Self.
If you were to have a conversation with your “self” and look it in the eye then offer it some forgiveness you could then serve that self last knowing that God created this place so that even the smallest creature can live even if you never see it. God is the Absolute, the All, the I AM.
We are at our core vibration, atoms, energy and the self causes a dissonant frequency unless allowed to use creation in service of both God and your Neighbor. In that service we create a contagious vibration that grows voluntarily.
The other day we were coming home from a movie. An RV at the RV park caught fire. In Colorado where we are the fire engines are deployed, the paramedics and arrive within minutes. It brings a tear to my eyes when I think of those first responders who don’t know who’s in trouble, they just go. In service of others. Sure, they get paid, and not a lot, but the fact that this exists on a planet where we’re told and often see evil winning so much, we have this positive vibration in the darkness.
It is this vibration that can only grow in service to others. You’re at a restaurant and there’s paper towel on the ground, pick it up. You see a gunman shooting up a place and you’re armed, you act in service of others. The flood comes, the fire burns, the injustice happens, the disrepair grows, the black pills handed out, but when it all collapses there are those who arrive sent by God to rebuild. In service.
That’s us.
Frens,
Thank you for reading and playing along. Should you restack this, all us content creators would sure appreciate it.
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Above all, this collaboration raises the collective vibration!
A toast to gracious host Ratio for bringing our minds together to reach critical mass.
This is a post we will return to again and again.
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