Overcoming the Institutionalized Fear Mongering
How Changing our Predictions Based on Past Events Can Help
In my previous article,
of made a good, and fair, point in the comments section:
“Gary, I don’t doubt you are right about the underlying tendency towards control by fear, but are you perhaps feeding the beast?”
I think Nick is correct that when talking about and focussing on the dystopian agenda at play, we may be just feeding the fear mongering ourselves, triggering each other, and doing the globalists’ work for them. Indeed, youtuber Richard Vobes, recently faced similar criticisms, that he was just scaring people and “doing the Devil’s Work”. I also had watched the video which his viewer critiqued for being too scary, and I too found it very triggering and it left me feeling ill. Richard then made a video of self-reflection about this issue:
Richard concludes there is a need to balance informing and preparing people about the oncoming governmental over-reach, such as the 15-minute cities, Central Bank Digital Coupons, increasing surveillance, digital IDs, censorship, and curtailing of freedoms, with providing solutions, and telling more hopeful stories. Indeed, much of the scary stuff may be being seeded by the very people who seek dominion over the rest of us through control by fear. This is known as “predictive programming”. So, by talking about these issues in a fearful way, without providing the solutions oriented part, nor shining a light at the end tunnel, we may be just playing into their hands, and hence making it more likely these things become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Similarly,
of recently had to regroup his readers, who were becoming anxious with the news he was sharing:
I am generally aware of these pitfalls in my articles about the interactions between trauma/stress, and the encroaching dystopia and technocracy. I usually therefore make sure to include insights into how the manipulation works and what we can do to disarm it. So, these types of articles of mine usually include suggested solutions, defences against the dark arts, and more hopeful narratives.
However, I did not provide this balancing piece in my previous article about the institutionalized fear mongering, and therefore I fully accept Nick’s critique. So in this follow up article, I will endeavour to provide the solution oriented perspective on this.
The fear mongering works as a control method, because it keeps us in defensive Nervous System states, or survival mode. When we are in such states, it becomes difficult for us to engage in critical or strategic thinking. We are also effectively exiled from collaborative mode, making it all but impossible to heed or hear what other people are saying,
making us more likely to fawn to or appease those who we deem to be more powerful than ourselves,
as well as making us more prone to be wilfully or psychologically blind, to bury our heads in the sand:
Hence fear mongering exploits classic divide and conquer mechanisms, diminishing the effect of our safety in numbers, and making it harder for people to resist, or be strategic and co-operative in opposition.
The fear mongering works to drive us into defensive Nervous System states by leveraging our traumas and body memories of stressful situations, especially from childhood. It activates our insecurities, anxieties, inner critics, and sense of shame.
How can we increase our immunity to being triggered and activated like this? Here we focus on what we can do at the personal level to disarm and disable other people’s power over of us through fear.
In the below interview, therapist
and Innovation Scientist Tony Fitzgerald, discuss the brain as a "predicting organ": how it makes predictions about the future based on past events, which includes our traumas, and body memories of stressful episodes, especially from childhood. It is a long conservation, but well worth investing the time in, and Lilian is currently serializing it into short episodes on her substack.The main take away for the purpose of this article, is than when carrying these traumas, shames, and damaged personal boundaries, around with us, these are weak points which the governmental nudge units can exploit.
Conversely, the most important point in their conversation here is that specific forms of therapies can greatly reduce our susceptibility to being exploitable through fear. Indeed, they discuss the profound transformations they have seen in clients via these types of therapies.
“You can clear [the problem memory] out, and the funny thing is, people cannot remember it afterward. Maybe they have a note in a book, but it's sort of gone because they know they were in this situation, but it's not a big deal.”
“And that's a beautiful moment, right? For you as a therapist, but also for that client to go, wow, this thing has been bothering me all this time, it's like it isn’t a problem anymore.”
“Isn't that fascinating? And to me, this kind of speaks to the predicting brain, because there's a fantastic paper just published in Nature, and part of our reality comes from just the level of the signal. So if it doesn't produce a signal in the body to be heard back, it's not a problem. And so the whole brain machinery goes, it's not a problem.”
“So you see these beautiful transformations of people, as you said. They have this issue, like whether it's been shame for decades or fear of humiliation. And then within a session, they're like, it just seems silly to me why I was worried about it. It's not an important issue. Let's move on to something else. So you see these absolute transformational changes. And the reason I believe for that is this prediction system updates.”
“When you look at the prediction literature, what you see is that they talk about the memory as a bridge to the present. So if you change that representation, that information, if you change that response in the body, now the brain sees something completely differently to what it saw before. So now it used to see shame, it's just neutral as if it has never been there.”
“And the response is it has never been there. So that shows that memory system contributes so much to our present day experience. And when you rewire that memory system, when you rewire that prediction system, you rewire people's present moment.”
This tells us that the more of us who engage in doing this kind of inner work, the more of us there will be to role model what staying cool, calm, and collected in the face of the governmental machinations look like. The more the opportunities for strategic collaborations, and the more we will be able to feel into the true depth of safety in numbers we actually have.
For more info about Lilian’s work on these types of therapies, resources, and experience with clients, see her web resource.
"So, by talking about these issues in a fearful way, without providing the solutions oriented part, nor shining a light at the end tunnel, we may be just playing into their hands, and hence making it more likely these things become self-fulfilling prophecies."
Well put. To your armory, I would add faith in God as the best defense. But that doesn’t mean other tools might not come in handy in a given situation.
Actually this is tricky, because we need some fear. The point is that we each have a narrow - and different - window of tolerance and reaction.
- Not enough fear and we do nothing.
- Too much fear and we collapse in helplessness.
Gary suggests rightly that:
- our personal healing processes increase our window of tolerance.
- cooperation increases our inner strength.
So fear mongering is inadequate when it is used to prevent cooperation and control. It will be used to favour part of the population, because our institutions are too big and lack personal bonds.
Look at what happens in therapy, when we feel that we receive an adequate support! That's what people used to live daily in their indigenous group: safety within the group, even if life was still full of threats.