Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
Just returned from morning walk through campus, with hundreds of IU students streaming by, all — and I do mean ALL, I was paying close attention — either holding their phone, or, more often, bent over over their phones, and/or with earbuds, so you know their phones are in their pockets. Even so, despite 100% student distraction, we did receive plenty of real smiles, thanks to prancing Scampi, who, since they were all looking down, fairly easily interrupted their preoccupation.
And all this distraction despite the glorious autumn day; blue sky (not yet chemtrail criss-crossed), leaves just beginning to turn color and whispering, my body straight and tall and striding fast (thanks body, for making me pay attention to you all these decades).
So very much to be grateful for.
Are the students grateful for their phones? I doubt it. Rather, they take them for granted. Of course they have phones; their “identity” depends on them. Standing waiting for a bus, a group of them, all together, each one isolated, preoccupied, dopamined; their “real friend” their phone!?!
Simply ignoring the authentic presence of each other in favor of ephemeral screen images.
Pretend. Pretense.
Which reminds me: this morning, prior to walking, I watched approximately half of the following video. And will watch the other half late this afternoon. Unfortunately, if you abide by his assumptions, it simply makes way too much sense.
Note: I’ve never watched an Ismael Perez video before. So not sure just how seriously to take this video. Would rather not take it seriously.
But so much of what he claims lines up with various times I’ve scratched my head, re: Trump. Trying, as usual, to make whatever puzzles me make sense within our usual (fading!) 3D space/time template.
If this video can be taken seriously, then what about Melania? Watch it, and you may ask that question too.
Hell. What about all of us? Are there multiple versions of each of us? Actors, doubles, clones, etc.? I do still doubt that. But with Trump (and other highly public figures), it actually makes sense to see him in terms of multiples: one set of images, actors, clones, doubles, etc. white hat, and the other set black hat, with telling them apart subject to continuous confusion — as designed.
BTW: Perez assumes the real Trump (though he is, supposedly, Trump.2 since 1989) has been for years in hiding, secreted off somewhere (Cheyenne Mountain?) unground, so DEW can’t get him. And that the Trump(s) we see — with their various heights, BTW — are all fake.
Clearly, it IS time to return to — begin to remember to place high value on — our actual, personal, authentic lived experience, and that includes not just ourselves, but our relationship with others in our lives.
For example, just this morning, on our walk. First, we stopped by neighbor Carisa’s house; she and her son Ollie had just driven up. We all chewed the fat for awhile. Then we walked on to the corner, where we ran into two other neighbors and their son, waiting for the bus to take him to school. Chewed the fat together until the bus came, all of us waving as one at the smiling bus driver.
But of course, such integration is not what is promoted. In fact, it does seem as if AI is the new “doomer” narrative, replacing, let’s see, what was the last one? Oh yes, the covid con.
Remember, “they” have to get and keep us in F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) in order to ensure compliance with whatever they want to do to us next.
[Of course the question is, who’s “they”? Or maybe whose “they”? Usually, if traced way back, we end up with “the reptilians.” Any more questions?]
So is this latest doomer narrative also a con?
Well, yes; IF we assume right/left brain integration, rather than just focusing on left brain data.
On the other hand, that’s hard to assume, given that the entire education (indoctrination) system focuses entirely on training left brain logic and data mining. Or, I should say, just about entirely. Of course there are courses in school called “art,” but they are considered adjunct, even frivolous, compared to the other.
For me: I tend to use AI when I want to investigate something, not to discover/uncover/recover “The Truth,” but to summarize the vast panoply of what humans, so far, think is The Truth.” I see AI as scouring the droppings of the collective left brain, which obviously, has some (though limited) value for anyone seeking to portray the (infinitely) larger, ongoing context of whatever is being focused on at a certain moment in time/space.
I.e., if what I’m focusing on lies within my “Overton Window,” then AI can be utilized to situate that frame within a larger context, i.e., put that window/frame in perspective — which, of course, is itself always changing, evolving, etc.
I think of Jung’s “collective unconscious” here, as what is being mined moment by moment, by various AIs (chatdtp, gemini ai, grok, etc.).
The key is, remember! We humans are blessed with two brains: left and right.
If the left brain utilizes logic and empirical info gathered from five external senses — then the right brain, when open, utilizes intuition to access/range across unlimited “source” within the universal mystery.
How to attune to right brain intuition? Through dreams, visions, synchronicities, hunches, sudden revelations out of nowhere.
Important: don’t get “caught up” in left brain machinations! It’s all fluff, moving fast, faster, so fast that without right brain to harness it, then yes, we are heading for the cliff of doom.
Here’s a Joe Allen piece relevant to what I speak of here. Note that it does not discuss the epistemological relevance of distinguishing left from right brain.
Meanwhile, check these out:
The right brain vs the left brain — do we have a choice?
Are you left brain or right brain?
Hmm. How about both! Not just one or the other. With left brain logic and data serving right brain hunches, questions, explorations.

”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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