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CBSA, RCMP seizes 45 kg of cannabis destined for the Netherlands

CBSA, RCMP seizes 45 kg of cannabis destined for the Netherlands

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Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) discovered 45 kilograms of cannabis hidden in a Canadian traveller’s luggage on October 26, 2024, destined for the Netherlands.

The seizure resulted in the traveller, Rumana Sunusi Aman Mohamed (20), being arrested and charged with possession for the purpose of export contrary to section 11(2) of the Cannabis Act. A December 9 press release says the man was released on an undertaking and was scheduled to appear in court on December 5, 2024.

“The discovery of travellers arriving at Canadian international airports attempting to hide cannabis continues to be an issue with serious, and possibly lifelong consequences for these travellers,” says Inspector John McMath, Officer in Charge, RCMP Toronto Airport Detachment. It is illegal to carry any amount of cannabis on your person or in your luggage. A decision to carry cannabis can have a very negative impact on a person’s life, please be aware before making this choice.” 

Reports of such seizures appear to be on the increase. Between January 1 and October 31, 2024, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) intercepted over 15,000 kilograms of cannabis. CBSA in Atlantic Canada was responsible for 513 kilograms of that total. CBSA officers for the Greater Toronto Area logged a total of 1,827 cannabis seizures, resulting in the confiscation of approximately 6,400 kilograms of cannabis. 

In the Quebec region, CBSA officers reported 1,928 seizures of cannabis, including 309.52 kg of cannabis at the Montréal Marine and Rail Services (MRS) on January 11.

CBSA officers in the Pacific Region reported capturing 3,378 kg of cannabis while the Prairie Region reported seizing 134 kilograms of cannabis

Recent press releases document more than 500 kilograms of illegal cannabis seized in the past few months alone, most destined for the UK.

CBSA reports seizing nearly 26.6 million grams of cannabis and 126,210 grams of hash in 2023, up from nearly 20 million grams of cannabis in 2022 and 15,429 grams of hash.

Reports of cannabis experts into the US and other markets are not uncommon. In February, police in Québec said they arrested three people in connection with the illicit export of cannabis to the United States

Canadian cannabis also often finds its way into illicit markets overseas. 

In June, while examining outbound luggage at the Halifax Stanfield airport, CBSA seized 32 kg of cannabis. On June 18, CBSA officers at the Montreal Maritime and Rail Services intercepted 309.52 kg of Hashish hidden in cans of tomato paste. 

In May,border officials intercepted a package at the Montréal-Trudeau Airport that contained 120 kg of dried cannabis.

In April, Montreal Maritime and Rail ServicesCBSA officers seized 275 kg of dried cannabis hidden in bags of wood pellets. In February, CBSA officials at Vancouver International seized over 180 kg of cannabis. In January, the CBSA intercepted 310 kg of cannabis in a container exported from Canada to the UK at Montréal Marine and Rail Services.

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420 with CNW — Marijuana Prices Gradually Reduce as Ohio’s Legal Market Grows

420 with CNW — Marijuana Prices Gradually Reduce as Ohio’s Legal Market Grows

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Data released by the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control shows that the price of marijuana has slowly been reducing since adult-use sales were launched this past summer. Dispensaries have reported slow-starts to the recreational program, indicating that vendor costs, confusion among consumers, and the state’s regulations may have contributed to this.

Under state law, licensed dispensaries aren’t allowed to sell marijuana cultivated or purchased outside the state. This has led to a decrease in vendor prices. State records also show that when adult-use sales were launched in August, the manufactured sales average for marijuana product was $31.06 while the average cost of one-tenth ounce of flower was $26.59.

As of last week, the manufactured sales average was $28.70 while the average cost of one-tenth ounce of flower was $21.72.

Terrasana’s director of marketing Nikki Stanley revealed that while they were seeing more traffic after recreational use of marijuana was launched, it still didn’t meet the expectations. Prior to the state approving Issue 2 which allowed individuals aged 21 and above to legally cultivate and use cannabis, most Ohioans were travelling to Michigan to get their marijuana fix.

Even after the recreational-use law going into effect, it appears residents in Ohio are still travelling to Michigan for marijuana. Data from Headset shows that in the last 2 years, Michigan’s marijuana market has recorded over $263 million in total sales.

With regard to sales, $178.5 million in total product sales had been recorded in Ohio as of last week.

Stanley has revealed though that dispensary marijuana prices have also been affected by potency, with higher THC content pushing prices higher. This has made products with higher potency very popular among consumers and while there’s a lot that makes a product good, new consumers seem hell bent on getting products with the highest THC.

The state’s recreational use program imposes a 10% excise tax on all adult-use purchases, with towns that have dispensaries operating in their jurisdictions receiving 36% of the funds generated.

The state has also allocated some taxes towards a substance abuse and addiction fund and a social equity fund, among others.

In addition to this, the program applies a sales tax to cannabis purchases. While the base tax rate is about 5.2% in the state, counties are allowed to impose additional sales taxes on purchases. In Green County, the total tax rate as of this year is 6.75% while in Montgomery County, it’s 7.5%.

The trend being witnessed in Ohio mirrors to a large degree what other jurisdictions in which leading firms like Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) operate saw as the markets in which they are licensed had just launched.

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The War on Humanity – ‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’

The War on Humanity – ‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’

The War on Humanity –

‘A Deliberate Restriction of Consciousness’

By Julian Rose

Almost everything that’s wrong in the world starts from an implacable resistance to the existence of a state of consciousness.

Denial of the fact that every new human life born into this world is a divine spark, a fecund manifestation of limitless potential.

A denial of the fact that higher consciousness is actually the default position of humanity – not a distant goal only attainable by a dedicated minority.

So many remain in a state of resistance to their innate connection with the source of life, thus sealing themselves in a well constructed prison.

Something greatly encouraged via the dumbing down priorities enforced by the architects of global control.

Religious institutions created within this control system teach that only some outside saviour can rescue humanity from the ubiquitous spread of evil – of which they themselves are the prime perpetrators.

It is the inability to throw-off a long existing fixation with this form of irrational dogma that has brought the world so perilously close to the brink today.

The dictionary definition of dogma is “a set of principles intended to be accepted without question”.

Religious dogma starts by making its captors believe that they are powerless, and that their only hope in gaining a little power is by devoting themselves to praying for forgiveness for the fact that they were born sinners.

Being born ‘a sinner’, one is informed by Christian institutions, is due to the fact that Adam and Eve broke away from the command to obey a rule put in place by some strongly authoritarian master of the universe. He who oversaw events taking place in the Garden of Eden.

And if it was not for this reason that one is born a sinner, then it is because one is somehow implicated as being responsible for having Jesus nailed to an execution pole – the cross – in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.

This, it is claimed, is due to one’s being part of a collective unconscious which links all humanity. Thus the crucifixion crime, perpetrated by a small segment of this humanity, becomes one’s crime also.

Either one of these events is enough to mark one for life, according to the religious teachings that have dominated the Western world for far too long.

Put together, they ensure the locking and bolting of the prison door on the development of the gift of conscious awareness. The unfortunate fate of all who fail to see beyond the Veil of Maya.

And then in the afterlife, one is informed, the same prison guards are in attendance awaiting one’s arrival – to direct one to the properly stoked furnace or to their rather exotically decorated playground known as heaven.

Either way, one remains in the trap; and Life goes on somewhere else. A place/dimension one is warned against attempting to engage with.

This kind of top-down subversion leads to unquestioned acceptance of grand ulterior motives like the ‘Great Reset’ and is taken-up by all who suffer a fundamental fear of freedom.

However, all ‘victims’ of this great hoax carry a high level of personal responsibility for allowing themselves to be fooled.

Taking an overtly trusting view of those who one has no basis to trust stems from a failure ‘to know one’s self’. Such self deception comes from a failure to adopt a proper commitment to follow the road of truth in one’s daily life.

While I concentrate on the leading role played by the perpetration of authoritarian control in diverting humanity from its true path, one must not forget that each one of us is responsible for the choices we make in this life.

One may get caught, but there is always a way of overcoming one’s shortcomings and breaking out of jail.

The Vatican, which has its headquarters in Rome, produces its own expression of dogma via the cardinal rule book known as the Catechisms. Here it states that the cross painted onto the forehead of infants at the first baptism ceremony is an exorcism.

It is needed, says the Vatican’s Holy See, because every little baby arrives on this earth as a sinner and therefore must be exorcised of the demon possessing them and then placed in ‘the safe hands of the church’.

The church, according to the Catechisms, is inseparable from God. What the church says is ‘God’s law’ according to this doctrine.

Such teachings have the opposite effect from that which they proclaim to be their goal. They reinforce an implacable resistance to the independent search for truth and the meaning of life which is the true birthright of all human beings.

This grand deception, sold to we the people under the monica ‘the one truth’, leads to senior representatives of leading religious institutions averting their eyes, as millions are murdered due to fearsome divisions created by the mass indoctrination of mankind to a grossly distorted interpretation of the road to salvation.

Religious institutions feign shock, but do nothing to expose and put an end to the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza; the pedophilia and prostitution laid on for their own priests; the crass power-play of politicians; the gross materialistic indulgence of profit obsessed corporations; the cowardly posturing of their own brotherhood and the anti-life politics of control of the deep state.

The hypocrisy is complete, since – while turning away from reality – they present their saviours as supreme actors in defence of life, justice and truth.

Religious institutions are subservient to the authority of the State, just as they are subservient to their very own gods – each of which is proclaimed as ‘the one and only true saviour of mankind’ and therefore permanently at war with other challengers for that title.

So deeply has this idealogical dogma infested the minds, bodies and spirits of humanity that, over the centuries, it has provoked a thoughtless submission to authority figures as well as a plague of passivity and the denial of the basic responsibility that comes with being a trustee of the health and welfare of planet earth.

The protagonists of this disease have rolled our world onto its back – while simultaneously pleading ‘not guilty’ to reducing divine sparks to lifeless expressions of fear, obedience and cowardice.

But then how else could it be, if indoctrinated mortals fail to reject the accusation of guilt that comes with accepting that one is born a sinner?

Fail to reject ‘guilt by association’ with an act of treachery performed by a tiny band of ancient ancestors revolting against their once hallowed master.

While the tribes of Abraham may not have constituted or consolidated a formal religion, their scholars and esoteric priests concocted a thoroughly indigestible diet of messianic indulgence.

An indulgence centred around a conviction in the unique superiority of the God of Abraham and the manipulation of this Old Testament warring deity into representing the absolute voice of authority concerning the destiny of his chosen people.

In this way they invented the ultimate despot, any criticism of whom is treated as an act of outright heresy.

Divide and conquer, fragmentation and division – are used as ways of splintering the primal condition of wholeness which is our common inheritance. Rendering its oneness into a jarring compilation of antagonistic parts.

But there is only One God – and everything comes from Him – and everything returns to Him. The emanation of Supreme Consciousness.

Truth is indivisible. Oneness with our Creator is our primal condition and will remain that way.

The refusal to open one’s self to such a fundamental form of consciousness is to live in a state of great impoverishment. Yet it is just such a state of impoverishment that is generally accepted as the norm of everyday life – leading to the persecution of those who manifest the noble art of standing for truth.

There are those who enter into religious teachings and ceremonies in a genuine search for spiritual guidance – and who find this within the credo of their particular faith. An environment in which to find a guiding hand onto the path of devotion.

There are prophets at the foundational level of all the main religions of the world, and their teachings have a central commonality of conviction concerning the greatness of God and the supremacy of love, wisdom and compassion.

The tragedy is that this common recognition of the beatitude of the Divine is so rarely, if ever, admitted by different faiths, and is instead claimed as the unique provenance of each one separately.

This lack of magnanimity becomes the touchstone for divisions and rivalries that are openly promoted by the high priests of political sabotage. Those who seek to gain complete control over the lives of others, turning institutes of worship into bastions of political power and greed.

Control is maintained through rules, regulations and promises of salvation for the obedient blinded followers of authority.

Strip away this carefully constructed facade and underneath one will find the small but potent seed of original spirituality that is the actual direct link to the Divine.

It is past time that this original spirituality be set free.

Its suffocation under the various cloaks that have disguised it, has pulled humanity down into a dull and shackled version of its true power.

This hobbled state of humanity is played upon by the deep state globalist architects of control, who work hand in hand with the most influential church authorities in a Faustian pact to maintain domination over the true aspirations of open hearted seekers of truth.

Do we see the Pope or archbishops or leading figureheads of other churches and faiths coming boldly forward to decry those working to genetically modify and re-engineer the DNA of the human, animal and natural environment?

Or unitedly rising up to defy overt cold blooded atrocities of mass murder in and around what is called The Holy Land?

No, we don’t, with one or two notable exceptions.

Yet are not these crimes against humanity and nature the very heinous acts that teachers of belief in God are supposed to implacably stand up against?

Their religious proclamations stand in denial of the very existence of the God of whom they profess to be the messengers.

They are cowards, bowing to the authority of the system and turning their heads away in fear of losing their positions on the jealously guarded hierarchical ladder of the religious world order.

Unwilling to come face to face with the anti-life forces of destruction that manifest in every corner of the world – they serve no function other than the perpetration of the lie.

We cannot help but now see how standing fixedly in the constrictive authority of religious dogma has brought the world to the ultimate geopolitical crisis point.

Somebody’s god has been given the role of stating its absolute supremacy of judgement over all/any other belief systems – and so dogmatic and inflexible is this proclamation that its supporters are willing to provoke a Third World War, rather than see and admit the error of their ways.

Real spirituality is about demolishing ego, not re-enforcing it. Real spirituality recognises the oneness of all nations, peoples, colours and creeds, not their division and mutual attrition. Real spirituality upholds and seeks the supreme guidance of the creator of the universe – of all humanity, animal and insect populations and of the full biological diversity of nature.

There is just one such indivisible Supreme Nucleus. One God. And the division of that God into a hundred warring, despotic claimants to the throne is the single greatest obstruction to the collective spiritual evolution of mankind.

Enforced fanaticism, under the guise of religious belief has brought us to the brink of a collective act of suicide. There can be absolutely no excuse for its continuation.

We who are aware of this and who respond to that great gift called ‘love of life’ represent the majority of the sentient and genuinely human population of planet earth.

We are going to step forward now and put an end to the supposed impregnability of the fanatical clique that holds the whole world hostage to its undisguised megalomania.

We will show the power of spirituality in its true light, freed forever from being chained to institutions of deception that have sought to ‘own the word of God’ and use it to lead mankind into the abyss of an ego fuelled world of chaos.

Rise up, all good people of the world, our unstoppable affirmation of life is fast gaining the upper hand; one can feel its dancing prisms of source-delivered energy multiplying day on day, week on week.

Let them infect our appetite for going determinedly onto the front foot and acting to dispel any last lingering doubts and fears that hold us back from bringing about the full and lasting emancipation of mankind.

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer,  broadcaster and international activist. He is author of the acclaimed title ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind’ and other works.

Do visit his website www.julianrose.info

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Ruminations on “Intelligent Healing” and the Role of Psychedelics

Ruminations on “Intelligent Healing” and the Role of Psychedelics

Ruminations on “Intelligent Healing”

and the Role of Psychedelics

by Stephen Gray

Intelligent healing? An odd pairing perhaps. It begs the question of what needs to be healed and what would make that healing intelligent? I’ll start with the question of healing and circle back to the idea of intelligent healing later.

There are a lot of ways to talk about this. I have a long history of the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Among other things, that experience has given me a language to address issues like this. With more than a millennium isolated up on that icy high plateau with no television or Safeway, Tibetan Buddhists had a lot of time to explore questions about the nature existence, of what needs healing, and how one might go about doing that healing work. Much of that investigation was done by simply sitting still and looking deeply into the mechanics and machinations of the mind and what lies beyond and around the individual “mind.”—in other words, direct empirical investigation as opposed to speculative philosophical enquiry. An anecdote attributed to the Buddha has it that after he landed on enlightenment, someone asked him how he knew he was enlightened. He put his hand on the ground and said, “This solid earth is my witness.”

One result of that investigation was the core insight that almost all humans are living through the filter of an illusion. In English you could call that illusion ego. The Sanskrit word that encompasses the nature of ego is samsara—the endless cycle of dissatisfaction and struggle that arises from this illusion.

Pretty much from the time we’re born, and very likely carried over from past incarnations, we begin to form our own idiosyncratic picture of what is real and not real, true and false, right and wrong, safe and unsafe, achievable (especially for ourselves) and impossible. We gradually put together a package, a configuration of concepts—stories we build our existence on.

That package becomes our identity. We all do it. It’s understandable. We needed to survive and cope. But this identity package is like clouds or vapor. It only exists in the mind, in thought, (although the programming gets imprinted in the whole-body system, but that’s a huge topic for another discussion.) Psychologists, like Otto Rank, a protégé of Sigmund Freud, have called it the lie of personality. It’s also been called the false or provisional personality. The problem with living through the ego illusion is that while it might have been a necessary crutch to get us through the night so to speak, it’s ultimately an extremely unsatisfying and diminished version of who we actually are.

The central insight of Buddhism, as well as of anyone anywhere who has been able to penetrate to the core of unconditional reality, is that there is indeed such a “thing” as unconditional reality. It’s not a belief or a position of any kind. Its only credential is direct experience. And the message is that when we’re able to release ourselves from the limiting cocoon we’ve built around ourselves, there is a way to live in this world that is free from confusion, free from struggle. It is possible to land on what is. Jesus is said to have called it the peace that passes all understanding. The word Buddha just means awake, or one who is awakened. The Buddha taught that Buddha nature is the true nature of us all, the ground of being.

It’s a long journey, maybe one of multiple lifetimes let alone a lifelong path in this particular incarnational go-around. Lord knows it ain’t easy to let ourselves ease down out of that identity. For the great majority of us, it’s our lifesaver. We don’t know what we don’t know and we don’t trust that we’ll be safe, that we’ll survive, without that lifesaver. One way of describing the path or journey of awakening from the illusion of the separate self goes like this. Imagine a line drawn across a page. The line represents the journey over time. At one end of the line is the state of mind that is completely beholden to the self-story, trusting only the contents and parameters of that story as the manual for living. In its extreme version, there is no trust whatsoever in the Tao—the Watercourse Way of the natural, unforced flow and patterns of energy and intelligence.

The path—the healing path—is one of gradually learning that it’s safe to trust the awakened state, and an immense relief to have given up the struggle. I have a lovely little book in the bookshelf behind me here called The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas. (The book was first published in 1972 so I think we can forgive him for the use of the word “man’s.” And as a kind of sidebar, Mr. Golas’ insights into the unconditional nature of reality came from his deep exploration of psychonautic realms with the assistance of LSD.) One of the key insights in the book was “Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.”

So, how can one heal? There are of course a plethora of paths and modalities—meditation, yoga, a range of somatic body therapies, schools of psychotherapy, conventional and mystical religious traditions, and again, the potent psychedelics. I’ll offer two related elemental approaches or modalities. The first is what you might call the gradual path. A spiritual teacher named Vernon Howard (Mystic Path to Cosmic Power) claimed that he knew what he was talking about from experience and that his realization is corroborated by all the world’s great mystics. It’s simply this: self-observation, watching everything within and outside with no judgment. As he says, “Without attitude and without comment, you simply look.”1

 

Simple in concept, but if you’ve made much effort to undertake this practice of non-judgmental observation, you know it’s really difficult. There’s a Sufi saying, “You’re not as good a person as you think you are.” That’s because acknowledging that shadow side of ourselves can destroy our meticulously constructed self-image as blameless good people just doing our best. I can say from experience it can be humbling. I’d like to see myself as a wise and good person. I’d like to think I’ve outgrown or transcended pettiness of various shades. But ruthless honesty compels us to acknowledge what lies hidden in the shadows. The good news, say those who have traveled far on that path, is that the shadows bind us and shining a light on them frees us.

Two important things about that work. First, it’s not self-absorbed navel-gazing. It’s not about circling back to oneself and thinking thinking thinking. It actually demands allowing space in the busy mind to just observe. That by the way, is the core practice of at least the lineage of Tibetan Buddhism I was involved with. The ultimate practice is what Buddhist teachings call bare attention or emptiness meditation, allowing the restless speed of mind to settle down and then, as Howard says, just observing. Peace might ensue—eventually.

For some of us, it’s also important to note that such honest self-observation isn’t about blaming ourselves. That can be tricky. I have at least one friend who struggles with that. She had worked for years on developing a positive self-image after a history of low self-esteem. The idea of acknowledging “faults” feels like knocking herself back down again. The best advice for that concern is to include such thoughts in the practice. You might say to yourself, “Ah, there it is again, the self-sabotaging thought. Just another thought to be observed non-judgmentally.”

Then there is the fast path, which perhaps ironically, is also a gradual path because the knots of samsaric existence and the intense clinging to the self-story still take a long time to ease out of. That path is the path of working with psychedelics. When understood correctly and encountered in optimal circumstances—a book-worthy subject in itself—psychedelics are not drugs, they’re reality medicines. They can pull back the curtain and expose the fiction of the egoic self. They can do that on the spot. That’s the meaning of the term ego dissolution or ego death that is often used in work with psychedelics.

That curtain pulling has two interrelated and overlapping functions. One is as a truth serum. Psychedelics can hold up a mirror. There’s an assumption underlying that capability, as well as the other related function I’ll get to in a moment. The assumption, or hypothesis is that we already know unconditional truth both about ourselves and about the ultimate nature of reality. It’s encoded, just obscured by the fog of ego’s fear-based tapestry of limiting concepts.

Psychedelics, like peyote, psilocybin, ayahuasca, huachuma, LSD, and others, even cannabis, are highly compatible with human brain chemistry. They can pry open encrusted, unused pathways and release what was dormant. It’s well understood in psychotherapy that bringing hidden material into the light is healing.

The other, interwoven capability of skillful use of psychedelics is that they can also open the channel to the nature of reality altogether. It turns out that the “hippies” of the 1960s and 70s weren’t just blowing (cannabis) smoke and pipe dreaming of a fairyland when they proclaimed the primacy of peace and love. For anyone who wasn’t just parroting the insights of others, that declaration arose from their psychedelic experiences. They’re “only” glimpses for almost all of us, but when they happen, you know they’re real. Psychonauts talk about coming home, the ah-ha moment. That, for example, is often the central insight of people who have breakthrough experiences with 5-meO-DMT—an immediate and irrefutable recognition of non-duality.

These powerful, sometimes shockingly ego-dissolving substances are clearly not for everyone. Thaddeus Golas counselled his readers thusly: “You need only open your awareness at the pace you find safe and comfortable. If LSD is too fast, go slower. This is home. We all belong in the universe.”2

 

I mentioned earlier that the psychedelic path is also a gradual path because of our intense and long-standing reliance on the stories that form our identity. Old patterns die hard. Not all explorers of psychedelics understand that—a misunderstanding that can have unfortunate consequences in the realm of spiritual materialism and spiritual bypassing. It’s well known in worlds I travel in that some people have had, for example, many dozens of ayahuasca journeys without ever getting to the root of their longstanding egoic patterns. The above-mentioned humble and patient practice of non-judgmental self-observation is the essential foundation of the ongoing journey. These days that is commonly called integration.

So what about the term “intelligent healing,” Jesus is said to have taught that the entry into the Kingdom is akin to passing through the eye of a needle. Can’t take no excess baggage with you. Buddhists call it the narrow path. I like the “feet to the fire” metaphor. As I’ve suggested above, psychedelics dramatically up the ante on the narrow path. The wonderful Buddhist teacher and writer Pema Chödrön titled one of her books The Wisdom of No Escape. It might be the hardest thing we can do.

I’ve learned this for myself in psychedelic journeys. You want to get away from the uncompromising demand. It requires trust, surrender, letting go. In one ayahuasca journey, the effects of the sacrament were really powerful. It scared me. I wanted to look away. I wanted to run. But the medicine had just settled in at full effect and I realized there was no escape. Just keep breathing and tough it out. If you can ride the turbulence and surrender, maybe, like I did that day, you relax into the now and think, “Why on earth would I want to be anywhere else at this moment? This is rich beyond words. This is reality.”

In other words, the wisdom of no escape is intelligent healing. If you eventually manage to peel away all the layers of encrustation to reveal the indestructible diamond within, I’m pretty sure you’ll look back, and say, “Yup, that was it, diligent and persistent neutral observation and continued relaxation and surrender—learning to trust the flow of reality* and not tying yourself up in knots of secondhand head-sourced apperception of life.”

*The title of an old (1970) book comes to mind: Don’t Push the River, It Flows by Itself, by Barry Stevens. Another way to express that advice could be, “Relax and align rather than contract and control.”

Finally, there’s another layer to the principle of intelligent healing. If the healing is real and durable, at a certain stage you begin to realize that your personal healing was just the starting point. It’s like repairing a car. The point is to take the car on the road, not spend the rest of your life tinkering with it in the garage. Wisdom carriers tell us that the healed heart becomes our guide. We’re naturally drawn to think, feel, and act for the benefit of others.

Although it’s a topic for another essay, I’ll say briefly that it appears the planet is in dangerous circumstances on multiple levels. (The term “polycrisis” is gaining currency these days.) You might say that the jig is up. As the great mystic bard of song and poetry Leonard Cohen put it, “It ain’t going any further.” The insights of mystics and deep explorers of psychonautic realms concur with multiple indigenous prophecies from around the world that we have reached a nexus point. The world needs us. It needs our love and our creative action. It’s time to get real, to manifest. God(dess) speed.

Notes:

  1. Howard, Vernon, Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, 33
  2. Golas, Thaddeus, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, 62 (in 1995 edition with new author foreword)

Stephen Gray is an educator, speaker, conference organizer, ceremony leader, and author/editor of two books: Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer’s Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally (2017), and How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Vsionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out (2022). He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada with his wife and female cat Henry.

A finer taste for cannabis

A finer taste for cannabis

For Patrick Pagé, the measure of success in the cannabis industry isn’t the trophies or awards for best flower, it’s the tremendous impact of mentorship. Guiding others to run successful facilities, as he himself was guided, Pagé believes is the most meaningful recognition he could receive. 

He likens this process to his previous experience working in high-end kitchens. Aside from the obvious similarities between the restaurant industry and regulated cannabis such as strict SOPs, cleanliness and a fast-paced environment, it’s the legacy of the star chefs he sees as the strongest parallel.  

“It’s ‘who am I going to train to run the next successful cultivation team, and maintain the high-quality standards that follow?’ If you want more from the industry, go get mentored by the top dogs, and carry on the tradition.” 

Early on

Hailing from Huntingdon, Quebec, Pagé moved to the city at age 17 where he was introduced to some of the finer flavours in the legacy game. He recalls trying “EXO’S” for the first time, upstaging the M39 and outdoor grown he was used to. When he would return home, his friends knew he had the best cannabis: “always super flavourful, super potent,” he says. “It just sort of stuck; I wanted more.”  

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The weed coming out of Montreal at the time was a real influence for Pagé. “I can’t put a name, or any one person or grower per se because it was all very black market. But there was a lot of really flavourful, really nice cannabis going around Montreal, and I wanted to be a part of it.” 

Cannabis was already a permanent fixture in his life, mainly recreationally, as well as for sports recovery and for unwinding. Pagé found the plant beneficial and he self-medicated for focus, for slowing down a busy mind. “It helped me dial in,” he says. 

There was a discrepancy between his passion for cannabis and only growing a few plants in the backyard. So in 2017, with a baby on the way, Pagé had just bought a house with his then wife and decided to transition from working in the kitchen to a trimming position at Aurora Cannabis in Pointe Claire, QC. “Cooking was amazing, and I loved the lifestyle that came with. There’s a certain beauty to the chaos that I really enjoy,” says Pagé. “But cooking didn’t seem like something that was going to pay the bills or take me to where I wanted to go.” 

He started at Aurora in the spring of 2018 and worked for a year until he met best friend, Alexandre Gauthier. First impressions of the industry took a more political standpoint, which was the pivotal moment in Pagé’s career where his desire to grow a craft product became the forefront of his focus. He wanted to grow better than what was available. “It was a motivating factor to be more than just a 9-5 trimmer,” he says. Gauthier moved to New Brunswick to work at Tidal Health Solutions, “and I followed him out there,” says Pagé. He was the irrigation specialist for about eight months, at which point he moved back to Montreal to be closer to his daughter.

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November 2019, Pagé went to work for Mitch and Rich Clément at MTL Cannabis and came on as the alternate master grower working beneath Denis Clément, the youngest of the three brothers. “Eight months into working there I became the master grower.” 

Pagé stayed on until November 2022, helping grow the canopy at MTL from 3,600 square-feet to 30,000, speaking to his skill in scaling premium cannabis production. 

At Great White North Growers, the second Phase 2 flower room is now complete. Here their prized Amnesia Haze sativa-dominant flower is nearing harvest.
Photo: Patrick Page

Montreal mentorship

Pagé credits his progress to the “people who took the time to mentor me and support my career.” Alexandre Gauthier, the Clément brothers, Mick, Vincent Gagné and many others. During his time at MTL he learned how “running an LP isn’t that different from running a kitchen. You need a strong team,” says Pagé. 

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Like running a Michelin-starred kitchen, growing quality weed requires precision, the right people in your corner and a continuous focus on the fundamentals. “Alex and I always used to joke about the rugby team analogy,” he says. “It needs to be the same with a cannabis company. Either you’re going with this genetic, or we’re going into Phase 2 – whatever it is – you need to know that they’ve got your back and that they can run with you.”    

By that time, he had taken on more of a desk job at MTL. “I had trained multiple successors (partner Mehgan Race Widdison, Michel Goulet & others) to run the day-to-day. To run the grow,” says Pagé. “It was at a point where it wasn’t really necessary for me to be there anymore; I’d done my job and it was time to go look for a new challenge,” he says, leaving behind something meaningful: “Not just the weed but the people who know how to grow it right.” 

GWNG 

The new challenge came in the form of Great White North Growers (GWNG). Pagé had an impromptu meeting with them and learned that their latest project saw them reviving cultivation dreams with single-tier bench-style growing and hopes of a second phase. “I met co-owners Peter Schissler and George Goulakos at an Origine Nature industry party,” says Pagé, “and we just hit it off.” 

Patrick Pagé has been the master grower at GWNG for two years, helping bring cultivation back online and launch their Phase 2.
Photo: Mehgan race widdison

When the Montreal Island-based LP started in 2019, they’d been sold on the idea of aeroponic towers. Then they implemented a bench style but eventually slowed growing and switched focus to processing until they met Pagé who brought their cultivation back online. “They had 25 partners that they were packaging for when I came on board,” he says.

After coming on near the end of 2022, Pagé helped grow a roster of rooms under double-ended HPS and some LEDs, and establish a core team of three trained growers, using a logical, data-driven approach to business and cultivation. Fueled by CANNA products. “I love the CANNA Coco Flex; I love the CANNA A&B,” says Pagé.

The result was the sativa-dominant Amnesia Haze flower with six per cent terpenes, incapable of meeting the growing market demand therefore instigating their Phase 2 expansion. 

“Out of the 15-20 seeds we popped, we found the right genetic and that ended up being the Amnesia Haze we’re putting on the market now,” says Pagé. “We opened up about 2,000 square-feet of canopy all in Phase 1. We were also planning to open Phase 2 so we started building the rooms, we got the license, and we have the first room up and running now, with a second coming soon. We’ll build three more, in a perfect world, by the end of next year… I can’t grow enough of the Amnesia. I’d love to phenohunt, but we cannot spare the flowering space at the moment.”

GWNG also works with some local micros: Microcannabi has a 1:1 called Molten Core, and another called Grease Monkey. XOPRO is an LP out of Montreal suburb, Châteauguay, growing a nice Time Wreck. “And the Clém+Co. guys are the people making aeroponic towers work, they have one called Apricot Cream and Cheese that I swear tastes like apricot and cheese,” he says. 

“At the end of the day, legacy isn’t just what you grow – it’s who you grow with,” says Pagé. “The goal isn’t just to grow good weed, it’s to build this industry into something we can all be proud of.”        

Gerrit Richards wins Top Grower Award

Gerrit Richards wins Top Grower Award

Gerrit Richards relates the living soil approach to growing and consuming cannabis as an alchemical progression from “water to fire,” where the same permanent beds have been tended since 2019 means the diverse microbiome requires only water to unlock its soil nutrients for healthy plant uptake. The fire, of course, comes later.

Backing up, born in Calgary and raised between the ages of six and 11 on a 40ft sailboat touching 32 countries and covering 45,000kms, Richards had an unconventional childhood that challenged social norms and profoundly broadened his horizons. Since age three, he has been an insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetic who found relief using cannabis for the management of secondary symptoms such as nausea, appetite, stress and overall mental health.  

Richards began growing in 2014 which spurred a deeper scientific interest in plant production and biology, specifically psychoactive plants. Then he went on to complete a Bachelor of Applied Science in Horticulture at the Olds College in Alberta, and pre-legalization worked at Aurora Cannabis in Cremona, Alta.– the first medically licensed facility in the province. 

After his first year at Olds, Richards immediately broke into the industry, working weekends while he was in school. He began in the medical side of things and later transitioned to the rec market. 

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While the micro cultivator Living Cannabis was founded in 2019, Richards worked at the original build of Candre Cannabis, a 45,000 square foot multiple-tiered facility where he spent just under five years doing IPM and genetic development, eventually taking on the role of master grower before moving on to the Okanagan micro in early 2023. 

Partner Beth Talbot also began in the legacy market, and later met Richards at Aurora as trimmers “harvesting into each other’s bins,” she says. Talbot moved onto Sundial and Candre, until the pair made the jump to the North Okanagan-based Living Cannabis facility, where she currently works alongside Richards wearing many hats including cultivation tasks, quality assurance, social media management and B2B sales. 

Richards’ knack for organic growing is rooted in the principles of permaculture and the pursuit of efficiency after having experienced the waste associated with large scale facilities growing beneath single-use production systems. Having witnessed the closure of facilities due to factors such as overhead, Richards says he saw the writing on the wall. “These systems aren’t really sustainable from an economic, operational or environmental standpoint,” and has aligned himself with what he believes is as a more positive future for the industry with less supply chain dependency and waste.

The founders of Living Cannabis had the foresight in 2019 to use living soil, however until Richards, they lacked the direction from an appropriate operator to produce consistent quality product using a system that worked for their operation. 

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Since Richards and Talbot came on in early 2023, relocating from their home province of Alberta to the interior of British Columbia with a couple cats and dogs, the producer’s yield has increased substantially, their lots are consistent and they produce clean flowers that do not require microbial remediation or irradiation. They’re also committed to continue developing their own in-house genetic bank, which was already in the works when they arrived, however Richards and Talbot are now actively trialing new phenotypes to bring to market.

NSFW cultivar, grown in organic living soil, nears harvest at micro-LP Living Cannabis in the Okanagan, B.C.
Photo: Beth Talbot

The organic method

Living Cannabis bootstrapped its build and completed its licensing process in-house. The team works with just under their allotted 200m2 canopy spread between three flowering rooms, a veg room and a mothers/genetics room. 

“We are optimistic about the proposed changes to increase the micro canopy license from 200m2 to 800m2,” says Richards, “but for now are just focused on the day-to-day.” 

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He states that with the right operator,  he believes the organic methods could be scaled. And with the confidence and the right knowledge, the living soil method is actually quite an easy and low maintenance system to steer. “I water one-to-two times per week as needed,” he says, without ever adjusting the pH. “The soil and plant genetics do most of the hard work, we minerally amend periodically and just do our best to guide plant expression to its full potential.”

The grow team duo are training themselves to work using a different mentality than say a hydroponic grower, “because you’re dealing with nutrients that aren’t immediately available, and you actually have to be working on balancing the soil minerally and microbially.”  Genetics also plays into the question of consistency and yield. “We’ve seen massive variability in our system,” says Richards. “The seeds are like siblings. So, we take advantage of the diversity within our seedbank and then find the ones that express the best and have the most desirable characteristics.” 

Having the same soil since 2019 means the beds become increasingly microbially rich as the composting organic matter performs nutrient cycling. The high nutrient and moisture holding soil is supplemented with amendments: kelp, humic and fulvic acids, teas, enzymes, as well as cover crops that promote soil biology, root health and nutrient availability. 

Interestingly, the mycorrhizal fungi and other amendments help with the observability of soil life under the microscope. Richards learned from soil biologist Elaine Ingham Soil Food Web School where he trained in soil microscopy to identify and study microorganisms in the food web, having since incorporated this training into the regenerative agricultural practices he employs at work.  

 “We think in terms of availability,” says Richards. “The big thing is the base nutrients are always all there, but we’re trying to make sure they’re available at the right times, and that primarily occurs through soil biology.”

Aside from beneficial predatory insects for IPM, the medium is also teaming with beneficial fungi, bacteria and nematodes. “I fundamentally believe that living soil helps plants express fuller genetic potential and produces a very nice, clean burning product that resonates with consumers.” 

The cultivation team at Living Cannabis, Gerrit Richards and Beth Talbot, moved from Alberta to the interior of B.C. to take on their new roles in early 2023.
Photo: Beth Talbot

Spreading the word 

Living Cannabis spent the last year selling B2B for a company exporting cannabis to Australia. Domestically their product is available in B.C. and on occasion, Ontario. They’re also focusing on supplying nearby processors and brands, such as Pistol and Paris and Dealr, to expand the supply of products nationally. 

In terms of marketing, Talbot says they’ve largely shifted their efforts towards B2B, “because it’s easier for us to sell our product without having to focus on the retail side as much.” They also work with other processors to get their cannabis to market. “A lot of our marketing is consumer targeted in the sense of education about living soil,” she says. “It’s also targeted at business entities who are looking to get organic or eco-conscious cannabis produced using living soil methodologies.”  

Talbot finds the old school legacy mentality puts a high emphasis on living soil; they appreciate it. For the novel consumer, she finds it’s more of an ongoing education process as they may not consider the way the plant is produced. Richards adds that all of the desirable secondary metabolite production in cannabis (terpenes, cannabinoids, flavonoids, esters) evolved over millions of years out of soil systems and are inherently linked and synergized by microbiological processes. 

Overall, the team is pleased with their current trajectory and the headway gained in the last two years –growing out cultivars like NSFW with its heavy nose, as well as some old school Blueberry crosses. Richards and Talbot are proud of their low impact cultivation style that negates the labour of filling pots, or the environmental impact of disposing rockwool or coco.  

Richards says he’s grateful for the differentiation in their business practices, and for the mutual growth shared with Talbot over the past seven years, “working side by side for various employers,” he says, now happy to continue that ongoing journey at Living Cannabis in B.C.  

New Study Seeks to Understand How Jewish Community Views Psychedelics

New Study Seeks to Understand How Jewish Community Views Psychedelics

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz has long been interested in psychedelics, despite growing up being terrified of drugs. How the rabbi viewed psychedelics shifted after his first experience with psilocybin in 2017, during an NYU and Johns Hopkins study for religious professionals.

Since then, his interest in the substances has continued to grow, even inspiring him to set up a non-profit in 2020.

The non-profit in question, Shefa, educates members of the Jewish community about the rewards and risks associated with using psychedelics. Last month, Shefa announced that it’d be collaborating with Emory University to investigate the perspective of Jewish Americans on psychedelic drugs.

The Director of Research Projects in Spiritual Health at Emory University, Roman Palitsky, stated that it was crucial to determine how stigmatized these drugs were in this community as there was no data on this.

This development comes as the use of psychedelics in the U.S. continues increasing, with studies unearthing more about the potential of these substances in managing a range of mental conditions.

The study’s objective is to address concerns that psychedelic use may go against Jewish theology, creativity, and community while also finding out why individuals were using these substances. In a statement, Kamenetz emphasized that they would not be administering any psychedelics to participants, and neither were they condemning or condoning those who used the drugs.

He estimates that about one million Jewish American adults use these substances. Despite this considerable number, very few are able to discuss the use of psychedelics for spiritual experiences in the community as the topic is seen as taboo by religious leaders.

The study, dubbed Jewish Journeys, hopes to examine 1500 participants, some of whom are curious about psychedelics, others who’ve tried the substances and those who are skeptical about them.

Each participant will take part in a survey containing questions about their experiences with and beliefs about psychedelics. Investigators plan to conduct in-depth follow-up interviews, focusing on psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, ketamine, ibogaine, and MDMA. Survey questions include whether respondents believe psychedelics are addictive, good for society, and more dangerous than alcohol.

The survey also asks questions on spirituality and Judaism, in addition to asking those who’ve used the drugs how they prepared for their trip and whether they had negative or positive experiences.

The research is being funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation, through its research and development wing, Common Era. The organization explores new ways to connect with young members of the Jewish community who may otherwise be disconnected.

Learning more about how the psychedelic space interacts with the Jewish community may allow institutions to better serve individuals. This information can also be beneficial to start-ups like Compass Pathways PLC (NASDAQ: CMPS) that are looking to develop psychedelic medicines for the mainstream market.

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“The Bigg’un: Vegas, Fundraising, & THE PROJECT”

“The Bigg’un: Vegas, Fundraising, & THE PROJECT”

“The Bigg’un: Vegas, Fundraising

& THE PROJECT”

“In this call to action John Coleman restates the Vegas education conference opportunity, the state of fundraising for it, and he announces the beginning of a publication project which will both help you support the coming trip and bring the college to the next level.”

 Link to Apocatastasis Press HERE.

“A proud product of public education, John Coleman received his undergraduate degree in history from Western Connecticut State University. Alas, that was to be the end of his flattering academic titles. Unwilling to once again become a debt slave to usurers, his graduate studies were scotched at the half-way point. John wasted over a decade of his professional life attempting to establish a high school for a community who took neither themselves nor their worldview seriously. Burned by these unseemly experiences, on Holy Saturday of 2013 Apocatastasis Institute was founded.“
Apocatastasis: An Institute For The Humanities

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“In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” Is.30:15



Wising Up to Alien Interference

Wising Up to Alien Interference

Wising Up to Alien Interference

By Tom Montalk

This Q&A is a paraphrased transcript of three radio interviews I did with Sienna Lea on her show Illuminating the Shadowland. The original audio interviews are also posted on YouTube.

The public perception of the UFO phenomenon centers around lights seen in the sky, reports of encounters with beings and ships that have landed in the woods, and certain people getting abducted for experimentation and breeding purposes. These do happen, but they are only the tip of the iceberg.

Most alien influences are much more subtle and widespread. Their abilities include teleportation, invisibility, telepathy, and viewing of probable futures. This allows them to be more ubiquitous than commonly assumed. For instance, they can be standing by your bed while you sleep and telepathically insert commands into your subconscious. They can look over your shoulder as you type. They can monitor internet forums, pay attention to what people read and think of them. They can track who networks with whom, toward what possible outcomes, and what potentials for misunderstanding can be leveraged to break up those networks. Whereas lights in the sky are intentional displays to slowly acclimate the public to their existence, this more serious stuff is surreptitious and not meant to be noticed.

Now, they don’t have a personal interest in most people because most are of no consequence to them, except indirectly as far as total public perception goes. But if you are personally a threat to them, say by exposing their activities and methods, or if you are someone they find potentially useful as a proxy for their agenda, then they can be in your life without you ever remembering an abduction or having a UFO sighting. In other words, their reach extends beyond the typical abductees, contactees, and sighting witnesses. Thus far more people than assumed are under their observation and influence, and the alien phenomenon as a whole cannot be kept at arm’s length, as some abstract phenomenon that stays safely between the pages of a UFO book.

Why should people care about this subject?

Because the increase in sightings, contacts, abductions, and saturation of alien imagery and concepts in media and entertainment suggests alien open contact will happen in our lifetimes. It will change human history forever. Over time, the impacts will dwarf any of the mundane concerns people still take seriously today. The future can go very wrong, or very well depending on how we respond. If we’re not informed, we will be no better off than the natives who blindly welcomed the Spanish conquistadors. Misconceptions, disinformation, and wishful thinking are convincing people to support the wrong team. We just have to wise up, get informed, and not fall for it.

Where do they come from?

Any combination of possibilities: from the future, from a parallel reality, from some higher dimension we cannot perceive, some from other planets, some could be humans that long ago branched off and became more advanced than the rest of humanity. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive. For example, one alien faction might be human-like time travelers from a future where they have established colonies on other star systems and transcended to a higher dimension we cannot perceive.

Are they physical or nonphysical beings?

Both, neither, and in between. It seems to vary depending on the alien in question. They have bodies, real ships, working technology, and bases so we know they are physical to a degree. But by using technology or psychic powers they can change the dial on the radio station, so to speak. We are on one station; they can shift to other stations. To us it looks like they dematerialize. But really they are just shifting in/out of our reality. I would say the majority is quasi-physical or variably physical. They are not as entrenched in the limitations of physicality as we are. From a physics viewpoint, aliens demonstrate they have command over macroscopic quantum phenomena.

Are they good or evil?

They span the whole spectrum. Make no mistake, every alien faction has an agenda. Just that some agendas are in our best interest, some are not, and that defines whether an intention is good or bad — regardless of whether such distinctions exist at the absolute metaphysical level. There are obvious good guys, obvious bad guys, and then there are bad guys pretending to be good guys. What many channelers and contactees or abductees think are good aliens, are actually impostors. Telling the difference is important, and my article series Discerning Alien Disinformation is directed toward that goal.

Why are they here?

It ranges from one extreme to the other and everything in between. Some seem dedicated to our enlightenment and spiritual liberation, even if only to safeguard their own timeline if they are time travelers. Others are bent on total planetary control through deception and persuasion, for they are interested in us — not just our planet, but us humans — as a natural resource and strategic asset. Sure, some could be here as scientific observers or neutral referees, but those are not the only roles present. If you pay attention, you will see that since ancient times, there has been a tug of war going on. It’s over the future of this planet and the human race. They have a strategic interest in us, in our planet, in our future. William Bramley’s book “The Gods of Eden” gets into that. Factions from the future could even be engaged in a kind of quantum-based timewar over their shared past to restructure the timeline in their favor.

How long have they been here?

As Lloyd Pye points out, there’s evidence of genetic engineering in our DNA. We have fewer chromosomes than some worms, ferns, and even chimpanzees. We have genetic diseases that are unheard of among undomesticated animals. Aliens have surely been around since before the dawn of our species and played a role in genetically engineering or modifying us. Sumerian, Biblical, Greek, and Hindu mythology claim mankind was created by superhuman beings. The ancients called them gods, archons, angels, or jinn. This shows they’re not recent visitors to Earth, certainly not recent curious scientific explorers who just happened upon our world. They’ve been watching and influencing us since antediluvian times.

What are some common misconceptions about aliens?

1) That if they are advanced enough to get here, they must be evolved as a civilization, thus they must be good. Not so. If a hostile faction on their home planet uses nonviolent manipulation, they can slowly take over the rest of their planet without resorting to self-destroying forms of warfare. Then they can mold their civilization into a totalitarian dystopia hostile to other worlds. Think of what would have happened if the Nazis won the war. They came incredibly close. Had they succeeded, within several generations they would be colonizing other planets and enslaving those they considered subhuman.

2) That what we focus on we attract, therefore we shouldn’t think about negative aliens. The Law of Attraction only applies to synchronistic attraction. If you stop attracting, you’re not blocking either. They can still enter your life if they want, and they will do so if your ignorance can be exploited for their convenience.

3) That the government is bad, aliens are good. Ancient history and mythology suggest alien factions have battled each other. If they are all good, why were they fighting one another? What of the Battle of Nuremberg in 1516 when UFO fleets were seen shooting each other down? Undoubtedly there are negative alien factions here on Earth. And it’s more likely that the core of our shadow government, whose nucleus was seeded by the Nazis brought over after the war, are in league with the same negative alien factions that were in contact with Hitler and the Thule Society that birthed Nazism as an occult organization. If the shadow government is shooting down anyone, it’s the positive alien factions who refused to sign technology exchange treaties with them. These black ops groups may be using technology given to them by negative alien factions. So to say the government is bad, and aliens are good, is a gross and dangerous oversimplification.

Why haven’t they contacted us openly?

They do contact certain people and allow themselves to be seen at certain times in a certain controlled way. They don’t need to turn on their lights when they fly around, yet they do… for a purpose. They want to be seen, just in a measured way. It’s been an incremental desensitization and viral marketing effort that’s been going on since the 40s. And it’s accelerating toward a threshold. That means it will come to a head soon.

But why not full public contact yet? The “good guys” probably think our planet as a whole is not mature enough to handle alien contact calmly and wisely. It would do more harm than good.

Meanwhile, the “bad guys” don’t have all their pieces in place yet, but they’re getting close. They stay hidden to avoid painting themselves as targets. And the shadow government doesn’t want to upset the status quo either, not until they have enough totalitarian controls in place to prevent chaos when the alien presence is revealed.

So none have had reason yet to make public contact. The first to do so, however, will be the negative factions once programming of the population and police state controls are adequately in place. Should these forces cross a certain line, then positive factions might show up to help level the playing field by informing us of the deception. But they certainly wouldn’t show up first, as then they would have to shoulder the burden of being responsible for sending our civilization into a culture-shock induced tailspin. Nor are they in a position to orchestrate a police state lockdown to make sure we can face such a shock without total anarchy.

Why haven’t aliens taken over the planet when we were primitive?

Because not until recently have we developed the level of global government and technology needed to enslave ourselves. Now we have GPS, satellites, cameras, drones, NSA surveillance of every communication, militarized police, a global strike force, a global military. We have the mining infrastructure, water distillation plants, genetic raw material industries. We have everything needed to run our own prison, our own farm, and that’s far less work that these aliens have to do. If they tried it even five hundred years ago, they’d have to supply all the technology, training, and manpower themselves. Look at what the US forces in Afghanistan had to do to create the new Afghan military from the ground up, it’s a total mess. If the US had taken over the UK, the technology and infrastructure would already be in place there and would only have to be repurposed toward quelling dissent against the occupiers.

Why do negative aliens work through persuasion and deception instead of force?

It’s a softer, subtler form of hostility. They’re trying to keep us from making informed decisions, decisions that would interfere with their attempt to one day win over our hearts and minds through deception. That’s why even now, if you speak out against them, reveal their tactics, ask too many questions on a message board, you can and will gain their attention. They are quite neurotic about controlling and shaping public perception of them, just like any corporation worried about its image because that affects their bottom line. In practice though, aliens can already detect your probable future of causing them harm before you even speak the first word against them. I believe some people are profiled as a threat from infancy, and are abducted throughout life to ensure they never reach their potential.

They are micromanaging the little problem spots on the timeline, to keep them from becoming bigger problems in the future. It could be as simple as you starting to read an important book or website on this issue, and suddenly you’re overcome with an intense desire to fall asleep. Or you wake up the next day and all motivation to look into that subject has been wiped from you, even though you were all enthusiastic before going to sleep. What happened during the night? You don’t have to be taken for hybrid breeding purposes, to get visited and tinkered with.

So aliens use a variety of tactics to shut down spiritual and strategic awakenings in people. They are telepathic. They can read your thoughts, and they can influence your thoughts and feelings to an extent. It’s more a pressure than a total override, though they are capable of the latter as well if they are permitted to exercise that level of control. They can put hypnotic commands into your subconscious while you sleep, that influence you into doing, saying, thinking, or feeling what they require you to. Again, I say influence because it’s not total forced mind control. Most of the time it’s subtle persuasion, but it has a very high success rate because humans are so mindless and don’t question their own impulses.

If we’re aware of it, we can keep ourselves from following through with it. For instance, when coming across an important book on the subject, instead of saying “gee I’m sleepy, I guess I better go to bed” even though it’s two hours before your bedtime, become aware that something unusual is happening, and fight it off. That’s an easy one. Other forms of influencing play on your ego, your insecurities, your emotional weaknesses. Those are harder, because one needs self-examination, willpower, honesty, and humility to not play into ego hooks.

What is the demiurgic Matrix control grid?

This is a question of who’s really running the show, what’s really behind the system of spiritual oppression on this planet. If we look at who is controlling our society, on the surface it looks like the problem could be greedy corporations or corrupt politicians, but if you dig deeper you will find that their strings are really being pulled by secret societies and shadow military groups. But even those guys, by their own admission, ultimately take their orders from non-human beings, and here I mean aliens. So let’s look at what’s going on with aliens then.

From the abduction literature we know that the gray aliens are the most commonly reported. And it’s probably because they are more like worker bots that are put on the front line of the abduction program to do most of the handling of the abductees. They’re the ones flipping the burgers, so to speak. Grays never act on their own, they’re always looking up the chain of command for instruction. Sometimes they are seen with reptilians, insectoids, or human-looking aliens who appear to have the role of supervisor. Therefore it’s safe to say that the Grays are working for these other aliens, and that therefore these latter ones are the ones in charge. Then the big question is, whom do they ultimately serve? Who or what is their God?

Well, several sources I’ve come across claim that the reptilians worship the physical universe itself. But I think it would be more accurate to say that they worship the soul of the physical universe, which by definition would be what the Greeks and Gnostics called the Demiurge. It’s basically the soul of the matrix control system, the underlying source code that keeps it running. It’s a kind of subtle energy field that permeates this universe and holds it together in a certain configuration.

Now why is this important? Because if you want to control physical reality, you have to do it through the Demiurge in some way. You have to manipulate the source code or subtle energy field that projects this universe. If you’ve ever seen the movie Dark City, the aliens in that film do this nightly ritual where they channel their psychic powers into this big machine shaped like a face, and that machine is symbolic of the Demiurge. They use this machine to reconfigure the fake city that they have made for their victims to live in. Well, if Reptilians or other negative aliens want power, if they want to be kings of the Matrix, they have to turn to the Demiurge to do it.

And as a result of all their manipulations, their interfacing with the Demiurge, it’s my belief that the soul of the universe has gotten corrupted from all this evil intent being funneled though it. The source code of reality is infested with viruses and trojans. And that has given the Demiurge aspects of a universal parasite — which is exactly what the Gnostics recognized. Plato thought the Demiurge was good, but the Gnostics thought it was evil. Why? Because in its original and true form, it is a necessary and healthy part of creation. But it has a corrupted partition that seems to have a firm grip on our reality, and that is what the Gnostics saw. The Gnostics also said that there were powerful beings they termed Archons, who served this corrupt Demiurge and were served by it. Of course the Archons are really upper level negative aliens and maybe some overlords of the demonic realm.

So to sum up, there are probably negative aliens who “worship” the Demiurge, because it’s their occult sugar daddy, so to speak. I believe the Demiurge is therefore at the top of the negative hierarchy and the central coordinator of the matrix control system.

How do we contract to become part of the demiurge control grid?

I think it boils down to the fact that at some level, we made a choice that resulted in us being here in this physical universe. And when you take on a human body, you choose to accept its limitations. One of these limitations is that by default we only have five senses. That funnels our consciousness into a very narrow range, into perception of only the part of reality controlled by the Demiurge and its subordinates. So really, choosing to incarnate is choosing to take on a handicap, a kind of ignorance or blindness or delusion.

In addition to that, we also accept the laws of physics, which allow for physical force and therefore violence. Physicality is what allows one being to violate the freewill of another. Therefore, whether through deception because we can barely perceive anything, or through force because we are here in physicality, we risk having our freewill manipulated or outright violated. Thus we have chosen at some level to accept the risks that come with living in the domain of the Demiurge, and that creates a kind of contract that allows negative forces to influence and suppress us if we don’t take countermeasures.

The biggest problem is that a portion of this control system actually lives inside of us. It’s as if we — and here I mean our spirit or core consciousness — aren’t the only intelligence residing in our bodies. There’s another component inside that may be called the shadow.

The shadow is the part of us that comes from the Matrix, and that resonates with the corrupt Demiurge in an ‘as above, so below’ kind of way. It’s like an inner microcosmic reflection of the external Demiurgic hierarchy. The ego is part of it, but that’s only one component. I define the shadow as all hands on our steering wheel that aren’t our own, that are trying to pull us every way except the right spiritual direction. We’re not usually conscious of it, but our outlook and our behaviors and our decisions are biased by it.

The shadow resides in our subconscious, in the dark basement of the mind. There’s all kind of stuff down there, like repressed traumas, dissociated personalities or soul fragments, demons or ghosts that latch onto us like parasites, and also our biological drives and social conditioning. All of these make up the shadow, and their collective representative in our minds is the ego, which is the inner analogue to the Corrupt Demiurge itself.

So some of the shadow comes from habits, programs, and conditioning. People can spend years trying to work through such issues from a psychoanalytical perspective. But other parts of the shadow are actual entities that have embedded parts of themselves into our soul. There are times when psychological problems stemming from the shadow are actually due to these entities, rather than repressed emotions or internalized habits or whatever psychoanalysis tends to blame for being the problem. Researchers like William Baldwin, Corrado Malanga, and Shakuntala Modi have devised hypnosis techniques that aim to uproot these entities at the level of your subconscious mind, which can give faster results than mere counseling or psychoanalysis.

Is there an ancestral/racial shadow that we carry that has contracted with the dark side?

Well considering we humans have similar biology and psychology, we do have aspects of our individual personal shadows in common. Except that since we’re so fragmented as a species, where every mind is psychically cut off from another, there’s not that much of a cohesive collective shadow.

The situation would be different for aliens though. We know that aliens are telepathic, and that they’re therefore always connected to a kind of psychic internet shared between members of their civilization. This psychic internet creates a collective consciousness or collective pool of memories, and thoughts and experiences. The Law of One Material calls this a social memory complex. It’s not necessarily a hive mind where every alien is just an unconscious organ directed by a central mind, rather the aliens still have their own minds, but they are connected to each other via a common mental field.

Now, it stands to reason that for a dark alien civilization, that collective mental field will likewise have a dark aspect. After all, it’s what unifies them; it’s what gives them their motivation; it’s their common denominator. So this, then, would be their collective shadow, and it’s what resonates them collectively with the Demiurge.

So you could say that the shadow within an alien links it to the collective shadow of its civilization, which links that civilization to the shadow of the universe, namely the Demiurge. The same thing could be said for humans, just in a more embryonic and unfocused form.

How do we reinforce the Matrix control grid unconsciously with this relationship between our shadow and the entities that have access to our energy?

Well it’s like how computers can get viruses or trojans that allow hackers to access files and mess with the system. Our shadow is like a pyschological trojan that allows the Matrix to manipulate us. One example would be when the Matrix makes an appeal to ego, and we ignore our spiritual conscience and make an ego-based decision instead. And that ends up ensnaring us further in the Matrix.

In any case it leads to a loss of personal energy that instead feeds the demons, negative aliens, and other parasites that evoked that response. It’s in our lacking self-awareness and not questioning what’s motivating our decisions, that we act from the part within us that the Matrix has control over.

In what ways do Aliens and entities influence our thoughts emotions and actions once we have allowed them in?

I think most sentient people start off with a very basic form of protection from these entities. Not that they are free from getting harassed or manipulated in life, but rather that they can’t be outright killed or possessed on the first try. The protection might come from the higher self or spirit guardians or angels or whatever.

But if you intentionally invite negative forces in, even if you mistakenly believe they’re the good guys, then all bets are off. It’s like lowering the drawbridge. No matter how good the rest of your defenses are, if you give them permission to come in, then you have a real problem on your hands. It’s like giving a hacker the passwords to your online accounts. Think of how much can they do with that. They can take over your life. Well, giving aliens or demons permission eventually leads to full possession or mind control, whereby a person will become a walking instrument for aliens or demons to control.

The more permission they obtain from you over time, the more tangible, noticeable, and imposing they become in your life. Permission isn’t an all or nothing thing. It’s incremental, and they take what they can get. Satanic rituals are an extreme example. That’s where you consciously invoke an entity through ritualistic acts that serve as a method of giving permission. With some aliens, it’s not that different. I mean, there are books on steps you can take to invite the Grays into your life! We have to be careful with those kinds of sources.

What are the dangers of inviting such forces?

Let me give you an example. When I was 12, my family was driving home one night and I looked out the window at the stars and asked “them” for a sign. I had read a lot of books about abductions and was curious about the Grays. I wanted them to prove to me they were real. I expected the stars to start flying around or something, but that didn’t happen. Well, that night I had a dream about being on an airplane with people sitting around me who had white faces and black eyes. I woke up with a two inch long scar on my forehead going into my hair line. And for the next several years, I had a lot of backdoor alien interference in my life. I got my sign alright, but at the cost of my wellbeing.

So when you mentally send out a request for alien contact, remember that anyone can hear that message — not just the good guys. From what I’ve experienced, negative aliens — especially the ones who share traits with demons — they need permission to get at you more directly. And when they hear such a mental broadcast, they realize there’s a potential sucker down there who can be exploited. They can sense the motivation behind your call, and if you do it out of ego and ignorant wonder, you’ll definitely attract the wrong forces. If you do it for the right reasons, in a moment of humble sincerity and strength and discernment and readiness, then maybe the real good guys will enter your life — even if only by sending inspiration and beneficial coincidences your way. But they’re at the back of the line as far as who wants at you first, and not until you have the filter mechanism to see through all but the last in line, will you earn the respect of the latter.

If you do call out to aliens, never EVER address or mentally picture the Grays, Reptilians, or Insectoid beings. Address only those who serve the divine will and are of a positive spiritual orientation. And even then, be sure to test whoever might respond to make sure they are not impostors putting on a smile and a pretty face. Inviting aliens is a bad idea overall, but if you do it, do it from a position of selflessness, calm awareness of the risks, and with a sense of dedication to the upliftment of humanity to gain the attention of beings with similar motives. Even just being curious for the sake of new experiences is not enough.

And don’t aim it at the sky, because that demonstrates a naive assumption that they’re necessarily flying around in ships. Just aim it inwardly like a prayer. They’re psychic and can sense you based on your intent and energy. If you can’t muster that kind of selfless purity and wisdom, then it’s best not to try. If you’re ready, they’ll contact you, you don’t need to solicit them. It’s a rule though, that positive aliens try to interfere as little as possible, so even if you got their attention, their presence in your life may be covert, helping you out in ways that make you think you’re just lucky or clever. It’s the impostor aliens that show up with fanfare and pompous stories about how you’re really the only surviving heir of Commander Ashtar and need to claim your galactic inheritance from the Dolphin Council or some baloney story like that.

What is their agenda for the human race, and how are they wishing to use us against our own humanity?

I believe that we are divine godsparks inhabiting human bodies. The body can be our prison, or it can be our temple. It depends on whether we rule the body, or whether the body rules us. I believe that our bodies were genetically engineered over tens of thousands of years by various alien factions. The later modifications probably handicapped us psychically, mentally, and physically. Right now we’re at a point where we have just enough abilities to sustain civilization and keep the matrix going, but not enough to easily see through deception and have the energy and smarts to easily put a stop to it. But we still have enough of something that we could escape their clutches of control, and I think that’s the risk they’re trying to mitigate.

I believe that they are planning on revealing themselves to humanity one day but will pose as our saviors. Then I think they will implement a transhumanist movement that will result in the human species being genetically modified once again and augmented with cybernetic technologies that take the place of spiritual functions. So that in the end, we will be godsparks fully imprisoned within a high tech biological prison and deeply mind controlled.

I think they’re just trying to create a more manageable and profitable crop. I mean, we’re GMOs, we’re genetically modified organisms, and they are the Monsanto of the galaxy. Overall I think it’s about a war of darkness against light, a completion of the mythical Lucifer Rebellion against the Kingdom of Heaven.

Is truly embodying our humanity, our love and compassion and empathy for life, the cure for all this?

Well that’s the part we must never give up, because those qualities of love, compassion, and empathy are functions of spirit, of our inner godspark. The moment we give those up, we give up the very thing we’re fighting for. But of course, love without wisdom is ignorance and naiveté. It’s like the story of Adam and Eve, they had love and compassion and empathy because they were pure, but they were no wiser than babies. The other half of the equation is wisdom, discernment, and awareness. You have to be sharp, think hard, see through the deception, and have the tools and knowledge to carry out the directives that come from your heart.

Love and understanding go hand in hand. The highest love and the highest understanding are the same thing. When you truly understand something or someone in the most absolute sense, you can’t help but love them. That’s where the two halves of the equation unite. But at our level, the best we can do is strive to balance and develop both sides in parallel.

How do we break our contracts with them and gain sovereignty over our own spirits and souls?

There are different kinds of contracts. The verbal ones made with aliens or demons are straightforward to deal with. If you have an unwanted alien presence in your life, it’s always a good idea to put your foot down and show gestures of refusal to cooperate. If they tell you to lie down and go to sleep because they are coming, refuse. If they are likely to show up on a particular night, then get a voice activated digital recorder to make it harder for them to get away with it. State out loud periodically that you revoke all permissions given to them, you know, that you cancel any agreements you might have with them. When you assert yourself that you are no longer cooperating with the dark side, that gives the positive forces more legal right to intervene and protect you. So really it comes down to revoking permission, aligning yourself with the divine, dropping all fear, and acquiring sharper awareness and knowledge and applying it in a very calm and strategic manner. That’s the best advice I can give.

On the other hand, the contract you have with physicality by being born into a human body, that contract is the most deeply binding. To overcome the five senses and the laws of physics is very difficult because it’s rooted in a choice made at a level of mind that is way deeper than any level we have access to in our current state. Tell yourself that you reject gravity and try stepping off a chair. You’re guaranteed to fall to the floor. That’s the whole point of physicality, to be bound by restrictions and consequences that create a kind of game or difficult workout for the soul.

Now, if you really wanted to get over the five senses and physicality, you can either go backwards or forwards. Going backwards means reversing the choice you made to inhabit a physical body, as in death. But that’s not progress, that’s a form of rejection or avoidance. It’s like a kid dropping out of school, that’s not the same as leaving school via graduating. To go forward would mean graduating from physicality through high levels of spiritual self-mastery and the development of certain psychic powers. If you make the choice to eat like crazy and then you get fat, how do you overcome the consequences of that choice? You exercise, and that takes lots of time and lots of exercise. The choice to become human likewise takes time and work to overcome. It’s not as simple as verbally revoking the choice, as you still have to undo the consequences. Even the positive aliens aren’t fully there yet, though they are light-years beyond us in what they’ve overcome.

What are the Universal laws we need to learn to shore up the holes in our self-protection fields.

It’s important to understand how our own shadows can resonate with the dark side of certain alien beings and draw them deeper into our lives. There’s this metaphysical principle called the Law of Attraction. It says that what we deeply resonate with down at the subconscious level, we attract in a synchronistic way. It’s not a New Age principle, it traces back to ancient times and were part of the teachings of Christ, though the New Age has certainly hijacked that idea and diverted it toward ignorant, egotistical, and materialistic ends.

As far as aliens are concerned, if you resonate with the predator-prey dynamic, you will be the prey that attracts the predator. That’s true in everyday life, where people with low self-esteem and lack of confidence may attract abusers and bullies. Well, same goes for the opportunistic types of aliens that look for people to toy with and feed on. When you sustain a deep seated fear of a situation, a kind of fear that gnaws at you and takes on a life of its own, that can cause that very situation to manifest. So being in a constant state of fear, paranoia, and jumpiness regarding aliens can actually bring about terrifying alien activities in your life. That’s the dark side of the Law of Attraction.

Some aliens, mainly those who have demonic traits and may actually be possessed by demons in some way, they can use the Law of Attraction against you in order to worm their way into your life. They start by dropping some paranoid thought into your head telepathically, or maybe they cause some small paranormal incident that grabs your attention and makes you worry. Then the more you obsess over it and give into prolonged paranoia, the more you attract events that induce more of the same feelings. The beings can therefore “ride” these events to make you even more scared. This creates a runaway feedback loop that, if left unchecked, can cause a total meltdown of your mind and your reality. People who succumb to that end up homeless, or in mental hospitals, or in some cases I believe they get taken over or possessed.

Now, just because paranoia attracts them, that doesn’t mean ignoring the alien phenomenon will keep them away. Sure, ignoring might make you stop attracting them, but that’s not the same as outright blocking them. They can still enter your life if they want to. Your door may no longer be open, but it’s also not locked. They can enter if they want. So you can’t make negative forces go away solely by ignoring them. That’s a prevalent misconception in the New Age community.

The question is, how then do you block them? Well, it’s conscious awareness that has a blocking effect. For instance, more often than not, I’ve noticed that problems tend to show up when I least expect them. But if I become aware of the problem and am mentally prepared to handle it, then it never happens again. So what you prepare for and calmly anticipate tends not to manifest. This is the Law of Awareness. It’s as if awareness freezes a probable future in its tracks, keeps it from precipitating in the present moment. This can be combined with the Law of Attraction to get rid of 90% of overt alien interference in your life.

What you do is use the Law of Attraction to stop attracting, and use the Law of Awareness to start blocking. So first and most important thing you can do, is drop the paranoia, the fear, the desperation, obsession, and victim mindset. That’s because having a strong sense of powerlessness attracts situations that make you feel even more powerless. You can also apply the Law of Attraction by resonating with the opposite of paranoia, by invoking a feeling of protection, confidence, power, and stability. Then you can combine this with the Law of Awareness by very calmly and strategically anticipating their moves, and then taking common sense preventative measures if needed.

It’s totally okay to learn about the alien agenda and read about what they’re up to, so long as you keep calm and approach it from an intellectual and strategic point of view. It helps to maintain a sense of confidence and positivity. You know, it’s not a choice between being cynically aware or blissfully ignorant, you can be blissfully aware if you have the right knowledge and stay centered. So be aware, but stay positive.

What are some of your personal experiences with these forces?

There are two types of alien and demonic phenomena, overt and hidden. The overt phenomena are pretty easy to notice. They include intimidation, harassment, paranormal phenomena, and remembered abduction experiences. These comprise the bulk of experiences you find shown in movies, books and television because they are so tangible and in-your-face. But they are just the tip of the ice berg. Often they are just bluffs or misdirection meant to distract you. Most of what negative aliens and demons actually engage in, can be described as hidden interference which is far more serious and effective because it tries to sneak through the backdoor of your mind and exploit your weaknesses and blind spots without you noticing what’s going on.

My earliest overt experiences happened in 1981 in Germany, when I was less than a year old. I was in my crib in my room at night with all lights turned off except for a night-light shining up at spinning mobile suspended above me. I was looking up at it, when suddenly a pale face with black eyes peered over the crib and looked down at me. I remember being terrified and screaming the word “Geist!” at the top of my lungs. Geist is German for ghost, and that was actually my first word in life. So my parents would run into the room to check on me, but it was gone. According to my mom this happened a bunch of times.

Then between 1982 and 1985 I had several dozen abductions from that same apartment in Germany. The couple I remember started out the same way. I’d be in my parent’s bedroom during the early afternoon, having just awoken from my nap, and often my mom would be there standing next to the bed. She tells me to stay there while she attends to some business out in the hallway. The bedroom door was closed, but I could tell there was a lot of activity on the other side. So she walks out the door and closes it behind her, and at that point I would suddenly remember all the previous times this happened, and I thought “oh no, not this again!” So I panicked and looked for a place to hide, which was either under the bed or in the back corner of the room between some furniture. But as I was running for cover, the door would open and in would pour a half dozen or more Grays in cobalt blue suits. They swooped right in on me and then I would black out. After that I only remember small fragments. I do recall landing on a grassy field near some mountains, with the sun starting to set. When the abduction was over, I’d wake up in the bedroom and it would be early afternoon again. So I suspect I was taken east to a different time zone. Now, during those years I also had a terrible fear of owls and was always talking to my parents and grandparents about what I called the Steinemenschen, meaning Stone Men. I called them that because their vibes were like they were non-living things that were somehow animated in a creepy way. So I was definitely being abducted back then, but what they did to me exactly I don’t remember.

Fast forward to October of 2002, when an alien tried to bust down my front door. I was living in Florida at the time, in my own studio apartment. I was up late at night working on an article for my site, when I heard something dash across the lawn of the private courtyard outside. It made a rustling sound like porcupine quills or dry leaves being shaken. And I could tell from the sound that it was bipedal and about as light as a child. But it moved way too quickly for person, and that made me concerned. So I projected my mental feelers into the darkness outside and when I connected with whatever it was, I got goose bumps because that thing felt wrong. That’s when I heard this thing step onto the concrete porch and slowly pitter patter up to my door. So I stared at the door as it got closer and then boom, it threw itself up against the door and started rattling it like it was trying to get in. Because I was sitting on the floor, I couldn’t see through the gaps between glass slats, only through the slats themselves, and what I saw was a pinkish blob shaped like a face at doorknob height, and a smaller blob shaped like a hand with long fingers about halfway down. This thing was probably 3 to 4 feet tall. After yelling at it to identify itself a couple times, I commanded it in the name of God to go away. But it just stayed there pressed up against the door. And that’s when I reached for the phone and began dialing my girlfriend, and when she answered and I looked back up the thing was finally gone. I told her I was coming over, and then had to make a run for my car through that dark courtyard, but luckily I didn’t encounter that being.

So in the fall of 2004 we moved to Virginia, and just a month or two later I heard that same exact rustling sound coming from outside the kitchen window. Something had just dashed across the cement patio out there. My girlfriend heard it too, and she knew immediately what it might be. Our cat also heard it, and went nuts running from window to window trying to look out into the darkness at whatever made that noise. She never did that with deer or raccoons, so this was different. Instinctively I just went around and closed all the blinds, made sure nothing could see in, and we couldn’t see out. And that was the end of that incident. If I had seen a face peering through the window I think I would have lost it.

What are the more covert forms of interference you have experienced?

The overt kinds of experiences are pretty rare in my life. I don’t have even a quarter of the experiences that others might. I mean, check out my girlfriend’s website if you’d like some cool anecdotes. I’m normally the guy taking in everyone else’s experiences and crunching the data. But I don’t really get open harassment like black vans parked outside, or threatening phone calls, or aliens telling me they’re going to replace me with a clone if I don’t stop what I’m doing. That stuff doesn’t really work on me, it only makes me fight harder with more confidence. I found that when they get serious, they use covert methods to destroy you without you even realizing it. And that’s a much bigger threat, because it’s sneaky and I think more commonplace than the overt stuff.

Disinfo Agents

I noticed a recurring pattern with aware people, which was that a disinformation agent would enter their life shortly after the beginning of their awakening process. It was like something was trying to nip these people in the bud before they could build up discernment. Well I had mine in 2001 after I first stumbled across the idea that reality itself was a conspiracy, that it might be counterfeit like in the Matrix movies or the Truman Show. A couple weeks into this, a woman emailed me through another website I owned that was completely separate from my main site. No one who visited that site could possibly know that I was behind it, and I hadn’t yet published anything concerning the Matrix idea either. And yet there she was telling me about reality being fake, and listing off some of the very same websites I had been looking into regarding that theory.

So her contacting me was quite synchronistic to say the least. She mirrored all my thoughts and theories about it as if trying to gain rapport, except she would add this disinformative paranoid spin to it all. As the weeks went on, the spin would keep increasing and try to pull me along with it. I got the impression she was hurried like some sales person trying to close a deal. Well I wasn’t buying into it fast enough for her, and that’s when she did a 180 and tried to bite my head off, and I mean a total emotional breakdown. When that didn’t work, she became really nice again, and then another 180 and that’s when I cut her out.

I’ve known dozens of other people who’ve had similar stories of someone entering their lives synchronistically who worked quickly to gain rapport only to dump a bunch of disinformation on them and try to lead them around by the nose, then do 180s when it wasn’t working. You have to watch out for those controlling types.

Paranoia-induced Synchronicities

Another thing I started noticing back then was how my beliefs could warp reality into creating synchronicities that reinforced those beliefs. Like for a short while there I really was starting to believe that reality was fake and people around me were only pretending to be human. And wouldn’t you know it, my college roommates and their friends started mirroring my thoughts, saying things that pertained to what I had been thinking or noticing that day. Like I was walking home from class when I came across a shoe in the grass, a black flat just lying there. I thought that was odd but put it out of my mind, and then as soon as I got back to my apartment and sat down to rest, my roommate’s girlfriend sits down and starts telling me about the black flats she just bought. She shows them to me and they’re the same exact kind I saw earlier. Stuff like that would happen several times a day for weeks. It seemed like people knew what I was doing and thinking at all times. And if I hadn’t snapped out of it, I could have easily descended into all out paranoid schizophrenia.

But knowing what I know now, most of it was actually generated by my own subconscious bending probability and nudging other people’s thoughts. My subconscious was being filled with paranoid beliefs that were bleeding over into reality itself. I mean, sure there are hybrids and aliens pretending to be human who have telepathic powers, but there’s also self-generated synchronistic phenomena that can mimic that and add to it. So that’s why I recommend people drop the deep seated fear and paranoia, and try to seek awareness with a sense of confidence and positivity, because you don’t want to make reality weirder than it already is.

Depression and Aggression

One of the most important things I’ve learned is that not all of our thoughts and emotions are necessarily our own. They can be induced from the outside by various technologies and psychic means. I mean, people can be neutralized this way if their minds are bent towards self-destructive attitudes like despair, apathy, depression, suicidal thoughts, and so on. Now, for years I would get hit with a dark cloud of negative energies just prior to being faced with an important decision or situation. Like at the end of high school when I was doing college and scholarship applications, I might wake up feeling utterly defeated and worthless and depressed for no reason, and coincidentally that very day a counselor would tell me to apply for a particular scholarship. I had no way of knowing that morning, that this day I’d be given such an opportunity. And if I gave into the artificial attitude I woke up with, I would have not even bothered applying. But most of the time I pushed myself and went for it anyway, and because of that ended up getting a full ride. But had I given into those feelings, my life would be very different now.

Same with feelings of aggression that might hit me out of nowhere just prior to some situation erupting that could cause a lot of damage to friendships and relationship if I overreacted. So whatever was influencing me had foreknowledge of the immediate future and was manipulating me into being off balance so that I wouldn’t make the right choices. But by realizing these sudden changes were external manipulations, I could disown them and thereby locate my true inner feelings and act from those instead. After doing this for a while, whatever was causing the problem finally backed off, like it wasn’t working anymore for them.

Break up of Networks

The most common and most serious form of interference is the breaking up of networks, and friendships, relationships. I’ve seen how people are profiled for their weaknesses and then played against each other in very precise ways to create the maximum amount of damage. I saw this happen all the time on the Noble Realms forum that I ran for several years. That forum was a constant target of disruptions because it was a fringe sanctuary of sorts and a lot of good came from it. But people were being targeted left and right. One guy left the forum for a while because he was so spooked at his own overreactions, you know, by the sensation of being overcome by an external psychic pressure.

From what I could tell, some external force was profiling members, scanning them for their weaknesses, who held what interests, who had what buttons and ego sensitivities and so on. This force could also see the near future and tell when certain people would be at their low points, which I noticed tended to correlate with lunar and biorhythm cycles. So it would pick the weakest people and start working them over, possibly even through abduction, so that at their weakest time they could be pressured into carrying out a certain act, into saying something that had a very strategically calculated effect. One thing then triggers another and the end result would be a permanent ruin of important friendships and great damage to my credibility and reputation as well.

But I caught onto this and got better and better at heading it off. Like I would get precognitive dreams and other indicators that would let me know who would be the problem, what the issue would be about, and roughly when it would occur. That allowed me to make some prescient moderator moves that prevented about half of these incidences from coming to fruition. People who didn’t have the inside scoop were pretty mystified at my moderation style, but little did they know that an invisible war was happening behind the scenes. This allowed me to keep the forum running for a good four years before I had to move onto other things.

Signs of Monitoring

Even back in Germany, I would get occasional ringing in my ears as a kid. They sounded like this sample I re-created.

Looking back on it, they would cluster around times when I would have my abductions. Well it wasn’t until ten years ago that I figured out what these ear ringings meant. In my case they were signs of being psychically pinged by an entity that was scanning me. A few times I was dreaming while an ear ringing occurred for real, and in the dream it would symbolically manifest as a fire station alarm going off, or something along those lines. That is what initially clued me to the idea that for me, ringings were like a psychic tripwire being set off by an intruder.

So in my case, it was a sign of being monitored, usually in anticipation of something I didn’t yet know about like an impending abduction, or some disinformation agent sent to throw me off track, or some orchestrated hit on the forum that would impact me, or any event that they find strategically important. I would get these ear ringings and other symptoms in the days or sometimes even minutes leading up to it. The correlation was good enough that I can use ear ringings as a pretty reliable indicator that something is around the corner.

As for ringing in the left ear versus right, I found that right has a relatively more positive meaning than the left. But that’s relative to what the basic meaning of an ear ringing is for you. Since mine indicate monitoring regarding an event of interest, I found that right ear means an event that signifies a hit against my faith, self-confidence, resolve, and will to live. Those are all positive qualities, hence why it’s in my right ear. Whereas left ear has correlated with events that play on my aggression or cockiness or overreaction, which are negative qualities. But for someone else whose ear ringing has a different basic meaning, the right and left will be positive and negative in context of that. The Law of One material mentions how the subtle energy field of the body is bilateral and the right side is associated with more spiritually positive patterns, which correlates.

Some people don’t get ear ringings at all, and I’ve always wondered what differentiated them. From the few I know who don’t, their interests and abilities don’t really intersect with the alien agenda. So perhaps they aren’t of interest to them.

Weakening Process Leading up to Critical Decisions

I noticed that I would get a lot of interference in the days leading up to some negatively orchestrated event. For one, I would get hit with this amped-up nervous energy that felt like having too much caffeine even though I didn’t have any caffeine, and that resulted in a couple days of sleep deprivation. Along with that, I would also get this pulsation of the glowing phosphenes in my field of vision, which I actually measured and found to be 8 cycles per second, which is in the alpha brainwave state. That state is too low to be fully awake, and too high to be asleep, so that further added to my sleep deprivation.

Then about a day before the event, someone would always email me being a complete jerk and try to provoke a reaction. Maybe to throw me further off balance, I don’t know. And lastly, when I did manage to get some sleep, I would get some pretty violent nightmares. So I would wake up tired and discombobulated, only to be thrown into the orchestrated event where my self-restraint and judgment were really put to the test.

This kind of thing would happen once or twice a month for the four years I ran my forum, and also afterwards when the opportunity arose. It’s always the same pattern, and I’m still working on how to deal with that.

Mind Programming Attrition

When all else fails, I noticed that they simply engage in a very subtle but steady process of weakening a person. It’s called a war of attrition. Sapping energy here and there, lots of programming during sleep or during abductions to instill posthypnotic commands, and so on.

Imagine if you were told several thousand times a night as you slept, that you see no hope in the world and that God has abandoned you. And that this went on for months without you consciously realizing it. Can you imagine what effect that would have on your subconscious, what that would do to your daily outlook? It would grind you down and sink you into that exact mindset.

What I said before about using the Law of Awareness, well that protection goes away if you’re unconscious. You can’t block if you’re not aware. What are you doing for a third of the day? You’re sleeping, you’re unconscious of your surroundings. Unless you develop lucid dreaming skills, which is really about how much mental and spiritual energy you have, or unless you have some psychic mechanism in place to alert you intrusion, you are manipulable during sleep. Then the best you can do is damage control in the days after to notice triggers and influences before they trip you up.

I believe this is the kind of stuff that is being done on a mass scale, whether by human technology, or through demonic beings whispering such negative programming into our minds as we sleep, or aliens picking targets and hacking away at their morale and spiritual light. This is a big problem.

How do you deal with attrition?

To counter this, if you can identify roughly what negative commands are shaping your attitude, you can create equal and opposite statements and use those as affirmations. I’ve also found it important to spend a few minutes everyday before getting up, doing what it takes to put yourself into a good and healthy mindset. This way you start the day on a mindset of your own choosing, rather than letting what happened during the night decide that. The way I see it, as long as I’m conscious and awake, I have the freewill to take control of my thoughts and my feelings. They may have the night, but I rule the day. And if my positive gains outdo negative influences, I win and they lose. I learned that if you can’t block them, you can still outmaneuver them by having more light than they can snuff out. That’s really what it comes down to.

Week in Weed – December 7, 2024

Week in Weed – December 7, 2024

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This week at StratCann, the biggest news was probably Organigram acquiring Motif Labs, followed by the release of Health Canada’s 2024 Canadian Cannabis Survey

We also spoke with the OCS’ Dr. Jenna Valleriana about mindful cannabis use over the holidays and looked into a recent amendment to PEI’s vaping legislation.

On December 1 we dropped our monthly cannabis jobs report, and we spoke with a group seeking to enrol 1,000 Canadian medical cannabis patients for an observational study.

In financial news, Nova Scotia sold $32.6 million worth of cannabis in Q2 2024, High Tide is expanding its Cabana Club to an international market, and a judge rejected Final Bell’s equity claims against BZAM monitor, extending the stay of proceedings once again.

In other cannabis news

Niagara College is studying electrical conductivity and its importance in producing healthy, happy cannabis plants.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) is asking its members to review the recent updates from Health Canada regarding authorized cannabis for medical use. The memo notes that Health Canada may contact CPSM registrants directly to request evidence supporting the amount of cannabis authorized for a particular patient.

Almost five months into its court-appointed receivership, Delta 9 Cannabis Inc. creditors will have a chance to vote on the Manitoba company’s plan of arrangement later this month, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. SNDL Inc., which holds about $40 million in secured debt, will be paid in full. Co-founder John Arbuthnot said a deal should be closed on Delta 9’s 100,000-square-foot cultivation hub (with its 297 production pods) by mid-January. In November, Delta 9 selected a bidder for 17 of those grow pods. 

Pure Sunfarms announced a new infused 2.1 gram Canna Czar twax blunt from Soar.

Avicanna Inc. announced the initial delivery of its topical products into Europe as a part of a previously announced exclusive supply agreement with a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company plans to launch products in six European countries during 2025 with expectations of further expansion throughout the European region shortly after. The products use CBD and CBG from Avicanna’s majority-owned subsidiary, Santa Marta Golden Hemp S.A.S., in Santa Marta, Colombia.

Canopy Growth Corporation will complete its acquisition of Acreage Holdings on or around December 9, 2024, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions.

Canopy also announced the launch of two holiday-inspired cannabis products from Tweed, including a sugar-free Cranberry Ginger Ale and Tweed Snowtorious 91K flower.

Several media outlets ran a story on new products available at the OCS for the holidays.

The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal ran a piece on the testing results of cannabis vape pens (covered by StratCann in October) by RPC in New Brunswick. The article also includes new comments regarding ongoing questions in the province around jurisdictional authority for the province’s retail regulations, with comments from former NB public safety minister Kris Austin, RCMP Cpl. Hans Ouellette, and Health Canada.

Rubicon Organics Inc. announced that it has entered into credit agreements where it has borrowed an aggregate of $10 million from Community Savings Credit Union and another lender. 

Decibel Cannabis Company Inc. received final acceptance from the TSX Venture Exchange for its previously announced acquisition of AgMedica Bioscience Inc.

A causality analysis of legal recreational cannabis sales and opioid-related mortality in the five years following cannabis legalization in Canada found no support for that hypothesis while looking at British Columbia, Ontario, or at the national level.

Halifax CBSA officers seized a suitcase containing 20 kilograms of cannabis on a flight to the UK on Monday, December 2, and arrested an Ontario man, Alessandro Pinchera, 21, of Richmond Hill.

International cannabis news

Many people again gathered in Las Vegas during the annual MJBizCon.

The USDEA’s hearings on cannabis rescheduling will begin on January 21, 2025, continuing through March 6, meeting twice a week save for a one-week break in February. Presenters will include Village Farms International, the parent company of Pure Sunfarms in Delta, BC.

Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment. The letter was co-signed by AMA Queensland, the state branches of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, and RANZCP, reports AusDoc.com.

Uruguay’s Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute (IRCCA) is recruiting a junior lawyer for its legal team

Politico spoke with Brian Hanna, executive director of Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency, on the successes and challenges of the state’s legalization efforts, five years in. And finally, Texas Governor Dan Patrick announced he’s launched a legislative initiative to ban all THC being sold in Texas.