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C-Section Awakenings
C-Section Awakenings
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Cognitive Dissonance
Speaking from painful experience, the deeper the conditioning the more difficult the awakening. When appraised with an open mind and a fearless self examination, there is little doubt “We the People” have been deeply conditioned……even those of us who now claim our own personal awakening. The depth of our collective conditioning is why there will be many abrupt and traumatic C-section awakenings when the world comes crashing down around us. When seen dispassionately and objectively the question is not if, but when, how fast and by how much.
When referring to a live birth, the concept of a C-section ‘birth’ has always fascinated me. Considering the act of birth has been repeated billions of times over millions of years in one form or another (and one species or another) if anything can be considered ‘natural’ this can. So to cut open a living breathing being, often while awake and fully conscious of the ongoing procedure, and then pluck one living being from another is simply mind boggling.
While some might argue not navigating the birth canal saves the newborn from physical distress, to be plucked from the comforting womb and delivered into the stark reality of ‘life’ must be its own special kind of hell. Then again, children are remarkably resilient with short memories and little conditioning and this is especially true for newborns. They were born for the travails of birth.
To be thrust into the world naked and naïve when we have not been properly readied, devoid of all the tempering trials and preparations needed to ready us, is extremely disorientating and the furthest thing from ‘natural’ one can get. Just imagine your entire world violently sliced open and you torn kicking and screaming from it. While that might be a bit of an exaggeration when speaking of ‘birth’, it is a considerable understatement when discussing the deeply conditioned mind violently ripped from the safe confines of its comforting delusions.
Consider all the difficulties many encounter while attempting to adjust to first light, that moment when it finally hits us that all is not as it seems. Since so much of the illusion is cemented into position via our perceived place within the illusion, to question the illusion means to question not just ourselves, but our ‘self’. What usually unfolds is an identity crisis quite similar to a mid-life crisis, only orders of magnitude worse because a sense of imminent danger and impending doom arises from both external and internal sources. Rarely do we experience an internally created existential crisis (i.e. a mid-life crisis) when our little corner of the world is falling down around us because the mind tends to focus on one disaster at a time. So we are inclined to naval gaze only when the mind is not preoccupied with survival.
However, when the externally imposed illusion begins to unravel our carefully integrated internal belief system (to be differentiated from an everyday ‘normal’ disaster such as job loss, divorce, car crash, illness etc which does not necessarily cause us to thoroughly question the overall illusion) not only do we discover we are our own worst enemy, but everything we believed in has also turned on us. There is no safe cognitive refuge to retreat to while we gather our thoughts and reorient ourselves within the now very unfamiliar universe.
Unfortunately the term ‘awakening’, at least in this context, is a tragic misnomer for it implies a new understanding and re-ordering of old information, all while gathering new inputs. A rigid mind, the proper definition and destination for the conditioned mind, does not value flexible and fluid thought, let alone critical thinking. So when order is destroyed, the vast majority will seek a new (world) order that most seamlessly fits prior conditioned prejudices and preconceived notions.
Throw the frightened feline a new prepackaged ball of yarn and the stricken mind instantly pounces, the soothing endorphins spreading calm to every synapse. If Cypher cannot be re-inserted back into the old Matrix, any new one will do just fine thank you very much. Tell me a lie so I can believe it is the truth. Tell me the Big Lie so I can mindlessly reject any truth. After all, ignorance is bliss for those who desperately wish not to know.

The fact remains the unspoken truth in the self described ‘awake and aware’ alternative community is that aside from a small core who genuinely work towards sustainable change, most of us who claim to be awake are secretly desperate to snooze once again. I suspect many furtively plead “I just want it to work again like it did before”, a preposterous wish considering it never actually did work……though I readily admit the illusion was persistent and convincing. Or we wish the system to be destroyed and rebuilt so we can be reinserted into a new and improved matrix in order for the good times to roll……again. There are, of course, several million variations of this self deception, comfortably allowing all of us to hide within our own uniquely constructed denial.
The proof of this conundrum is self evident, readily apparent and will be quickly refuted by those guilty of precisely what they deny exists within. Rare is the ‘aware’ individual who engages in little more than window dressing in re-ordering our lives in preparation for the inevitable……that which is not self sustaining will not continue. Yet the vast majority of those who claim to be awake and aware, therefore supposedly cognizant of the eventual demise of non sustainable systems, are still fully immersed within the collapsing socioeconomic system.
I suspect the C-section awakening will be just as violent, and possibly more debilitating, for the self declared ‘awake’ than those who are rightfully confirmed asleep at the wheel. The only thing worse than awakening is re-awakening after believing you are awake. The ego can only take so much before it shuts down the internal circuit breakers and we are left drooling in our lap zonked out on Thorazine. Then again, three hots and a cot don’t sound so bad while the world falls down around our ears.
This is not to say the path forward is to bunker down with a year’s supply of freeze dried food, three thousands rounds and our favorite equalizer(s). One man’s solution is not everyone’s salvation. Seen clearly and honestly, to bunker is just another dead end non-self sustaining system that will end when the ammo and food runs out……or are taken by force.
Either we make our own reality or we live in someone else’s. The key is not to make like Rambo, but rather to make community, to specialize as a generalist and contribute to the whole in order to survive as an individual. If the surrounding community values our contributions more than our ‘things’ (and we of them and their things) we will all gather together to protect ourselves and our things.
Unfortunately one will be hard pressed to build a viable and self sustaining community when the population density is measured in tens of thousands per square mile. With no hope to be self sustaining as individuals when packed in like sardines, no community can become what the individual cannot. Thus the need to move (aka relocate) to an existing community already in place who is willing to welcome additional members who bring value to the whole. This in situ community does not imply single minded preppers need only apply. It does imply those with a history of individualism, existing community bonds, a strong work ethic and the ability to work with their hands are always welcome.
But to make this change the person(s) claiming awareness, therefore the knowledge of certain severe decay if not outright collapse of empire, must walk the talk even if doing so means changing everything they presently value……or simply wish not to change. To assume one will recognize the death throes of Empire before just about everyone else, then sell your assets and slip away into the night is just about as delusional as thinking you can ride out the storm in place with nary a hair mussed or a meal missed.
Everything is about to change, is presently changing, with some effects imperceptible and some blatantly obvious. To think sheltering in place is the answer might be the correct answer; then again it might not. Ultimately each individual must arrive at an answer best suited to their needs and wants. But from what I can see and hear both from personal experience as well as from my readings online, many are doing nothing and hoping nothing is enough. The probability is it will not be, thereby assuring many C-section awakenings will be psychologically and physically shattering.
12-27-15
Cognitive Dissonance

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Excellent article, CD. Did a fairly simple probability analysis a few weeks back to determine the liklihood of a castratophic/catalytic event, the liklihood of needing to shelter in place (self-sustainably) in a suburban setting, and the liklihood of needing to "bug out".
I picked out 7 life-as-we-know-it-will-change events, and assessed the likliood of each using published data where such exists, and guesses where it doesn't (for example, NASA estimates that the odds of a solar flare significant enough to produce an EMP-type effect over the next decade at 1 in 8 or 12.5%.)
The summary math surprised me. Using fairly conservative assumptions, I staked the liklihood of one of these cataclysmic/catalytic events happening in the next 5-10 years at 75%ish. And the liklihood of needing to "bug out" from my suburban east coast neighborhood to a more remote, more sustainabable place was 50%ish. Given that the consequences of not bugging out (if it's needed) are severe, my path forward is clear.
I would post a link to the analysis, but I still need to write it up in a digestible format. Once I do so, I'll post it at my blog, www.thoughtfulcynic.com.
aghast, i like what i see-TIA...
I just subscribed to your email list and confirmed. I assume you notify your subscriber base when new articles are posted?
Yes...if all works as it's supposed to.
We should remember that the shocks are not going to be limited to the Empire. The shake-up will be global in scope, although it will be felt most strongly in the more developed parts of the world.
I think we should also be wary of exaggeration. The Great Depression of the 1930s was severe and world wide (although it probably pales with what lies ahead of us). Millions of people lost their life savings, many became homeless, but most people survived.
People thought the world economy might collapes at the turn of the century - the "Year 2000" scare. It passed by with hardly a blip on the radar scope.
If one dwells too much on the potential severity of the changes that are a-comin', one runs the risk of paralysis.
The risk of paralysis is very high, and it is high because it's impossible these days to *know* what is a lie and what isn't.
This was perhaps most famously mouthed by Rummy:
Here are 2 examples, one from today. Mrs. chunga like to watch the weather report in the morning. We were sitting there and the TV showed us a glossy presentation of "Doctors Urge Everyone To Get Flu Vaccinations". Ok, a bunch of important looking people in lab coats talk all about it blah, blah. Then it goes back to the local anchor girl who blurts out "I never get he flu shot and have never gotten the flu". The weather guy chimes in, chuckling, he did get the flu shot last year and wound up with the flu. Hmmm...do the doctors really believe in flu shots or do they fear running afoul of CDC, AMA, etc? Do they even know what the fuck is in them?
Hard to answer.
Another example of not being able to *know*...so called "climate change". My suspicion is, both deniers and believers at the recent "summit" are peddling competing theories, probably lies, to advance their cause...which is most likely to profit from the situation. Hard to *know* what's true. I'd be very surprised if there weren't all sorts of new pollution all over the place. Meanwhile it's 70+ F outside and I've got frogs swimming around in my pond and bluebirds making nests.
I think me wife has the best approach, and wish I had her discipline. She *knows* which things she can change and *knows* what she can't, and ignores the rest...because figuring out what's best do in a world full of lies will cause paralysis. Not being able to know whats true makes it impossible to know whats best to do.
"Meanwhile it's 70+ F outside and I've got frogs swimming around in my pond and bluebirds making nests."
Dude...
Don't go triangulating your location, Ok...?
;-)
E. Tennessee. Next week when temps go more towards normal the frogs will die along with bird eggs.
I suspect the fallacy is in believing I must 'know' in order to 'do', and the only way to 'know' is to seek 'knowing' or knowledge from an outside source or 'authority'.
I'm not talking about an obvious need to know, such as the need to know where you are and where you are going in order to plan out a travel route. I'm speaking of the culturally indoctrinated need for a higher 'authority' to instruct and guide us rather than looking within for the answers.
As Mrs Cog likes to say.....we know ourselves best, which infers we know best what we need. But to 'know' ourselves we must first discover ourselves. This requires a honest and thorough self examination, a path nearly all wish to avoid. Or worse, a path many travel in the most superficial way in order to continue to self deceive.
I mustn't have made my point very well, if I even had one. About the only thing we *do* know is ourselves because we don't seek or require authorities to tell us about that because we see it every single day. They might try, and they do, but we reject that.
The authorities are all frauds. We live in the age of fraud. Take your pick, politics, gov, education, science, economics, finance, religion, media, etc has all been hijacked by fraud. If you try to "do" anything (like prepare for various collapse scenarios) by what you "know" that isn't in your personal realm of knowledge...well, good luck. Determining things like the safety of vaccines or global climate stuff is beyond the practical capabilities of individuals. You have to either rely on information from authorities who have proven themselves time and time again to be frauds, or reject it like we do.
To prepare for whatever comes or doesn't, we only do things that we can see and touch. My wife can block everything else out, and that isn't easy to do. Listening to authorities is a fool's errand and spinning wheels imho.
Your point was well made and equally well received. I was amplifying, not correcting or criticizing. My apologies if it appeared I was.
No, no not at all. Another thing I'm pretty sure of, looking back years later, is my thinking is almost always wrong ;-)
LOL
Mrs Cog and I try not to sweat the fact we have no way of knowing what's coming, or freaking out on the latest doom porn article laying out exactly how the world is going to end.
We know one thing with absolute certainty. Whatever we know with certainty will most certainly be wrong. :-)
"...honest and thorough self examination."
Do you mean introspection? I rarely hear or read the word anymore. It's a practice, not an event.
I do and it is. :-)
With regards to introspection, the reference to the matrix and the recent Star Wars craze..
The Matrix - Joseph Campbell Monomyth https://youtu.be/8AG4rlGkCRUStar Wars and The Hero's Journey http://www.moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
Mr./Mrs. Cog,
I've trivially skimmed a bit of your writing on TwoIceFloors.com. Are you interested in things that can be done to avoid the chronic problems we see around us? If so, see my profile.
What is Sapiocracy?
I will explore your website further when time permits. Thanks.
My pleasure.
By the way.....our website is www.twoicefloes.com, not twoicefloors as you mention in your previous comment. I assume this was an error on your part.
CogDis,
Yes, thank you. That was my error - I looked at it very quickly and typed it by memory. No disrespect intended.
"If one dwells too much on the potential severity of the changes that are a-comin', one runs the risk of paralysis."
I fully agree.
This is the genesis of our move to the mountain and our slow turn to a more sustainable way of living. Mrs Cog and I both feel if things turn for the worse we have taken steps, and continue to take additional steps, which will afford us a viable way forward.
However, if the socioeconmic system continues to muddle along for years or even decades (Perhaps a Crumble Rather than a Collapse) we are quite comfortable and very happy where we are.
At this point our goal is the create the best parts of both worlds. It requires some personal sacrifice....but most definitely not bunkering. It is important to recognize and understand what is happening to us psychologically and emotionally, thus my series Dispatches from Occupied Territory.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
Cognitive Dissonance
Your welcome, CD.
I've read that series of articles. While beautifully written, I can't relate to what I'll call the existential pain that permeates them. Maybe I'm on a lower level of consciousness, or maybe I took a different path to arrive at the same place as you or your correspondent in the articles.
What I'm saying is that whatever additional consciousness about "the way things are" that I have been granted over time, I have received it with some awe, and with joy, but I didn't connect it with any pain or disorientation, other than the normal pains of life that come to us all.
Perhaps I'm less introspective than others, or I paid my dues with a different currency and didn't realize that was connected to the insights or the awakening attained.
That's not to deny the seeds of wisdom in the aphorism "no pain, no gain".
Many good points in this piece CD ! The best thing anybody can do is to try to recognize and accept the many illusions for what they are, control mechanisms. Then they loose their power or grip on people. To not grasp this means one is under their spell or power and therefore will be a victim of such. As you know I am firmly convinced that tapping into our own "Inner Powers" is the ultimate defense and answer for every matter and event including our health and well being. It is all simply about understanding and a form of knowledge that sets us free, but it does take some basic self honesty and a little courage. Good on Ya ! check out the new pages at my site !
like minded good people will band together and fight off the bad elements that do not have a clue, will never have a clue, and would not have a clue of what you just wrote...
ie, good vs bad, it's how i deal with your writing...
and some of the good will die, maybe me.
the good die young, ha...
Better to band together and help each other but NOT confront those others, nor even let them know you're alive nor that don't think the way they do. Becoming (and remaining) as invisible as possible has its benefits.
"Consider all the difficulties many encounter while attempting to adjust to first light, that moment when it finally hits us"
I had this type of rude awakening when my parents told me Santa wasn't real. Boy was I mad. At first I pushed back and thought they were just kidding about Santa not being real. There was so much evidence he was. The xmas tree, the presents, the decorations everywhere and it was repeatable every year too. I had known Santa all my life! The media even had songs and TV shows about him. Christmas even had tie ins to our religion which placed an extreme emphasis on truth. And then I could see that they were serious and something deep inside of me knew I had been tricked all along. And I fell for it hook line and sinker.
So my next question after having my heart broken and crushed was an immediate "is Jesus real or just made up too?"
Substitute 'government' or 'America' for Santa and you have just described the illusion we all (more or less) labor under.
This article suffers from religious bias. Religious people are brain washed into thinking a catastrophe is always right around the corner. It's a form of control that the elites use to exert power over you. Use logic to free your mind and it all goes away.
In reality, major changes/catastrophes HARDLY EVER HAPPEN.
What really happens -- what HAS happened over decades -- is slow change.
I suggest everyone just chill out and work the system as best they can. Yes, things are getting tougher out there. But even if you are on welfare in america, you are better off than 6 billion people. Fuck -- your cats and dogs are better off than 6 billion people.
Stop waiting for some mythical reset that will turn everything back 100 years. Never gonna happen.
OTOH, lighting off a few missiles could set things back several hundred years within minutes. When things go cataclysmic, they can blow off in a short time. I don't believe things will continue the slow frog boil but the fiat control loss will snowball. If I'm wrong, and have prepared for the worst, and it doesn't manifest, a little reprieve is good for the soul..