ON MASKS: In 2020, my early nightmare vision came true

June 13, 2022

Back when I was studying for my PhD in philosophy — with really, no idea why; I just knew I had to get out of the house. Had to do something so that I wouldn’t take out my stored, volatile, fiery energy on my two young children. Then, starting the second year of graduate school (when I was 24, launching a new 12-year Jupiter cycle of growth and opportunity), I began to obsess over the whole notion of masks, masks that we wear to play certain roles. I myself sported the attentive, striving-to-be-smart student mask, the good mommy mask, the bad mommy mask, the obedient (but internally seething) wife mask, the social (hello, how are you?) mask. But what I didn’t have is any real sense of presence, the larger, essential, spacious self inside my masks, those personas — all of which, BTW, I despised, as fake. I was pretending. I was leading a pretend life, and I knew it.

 

Furthermore, I sensed that everyone else was leading a pretend life too.

Plus, and this really scared me: it felt like everything I was learning in my philosophical studies, all the academic “facts” I picked up, were fitting into pre-set slots in my brain. That I was accumulating, rather than actually learning.

But what was real learning? I didn’t know. All I knew is that it had something to do with growth. That my understanding of the world had to change, to grow — and keep expanding, forever; and that meant the pre-set framework, the “matrix” we’d say now, that held all those “facts” in its tiny vise grip, had to break up.

That was in 1967.

In 2020, my early nightmare vision of the world came true . . . with seemingly everyone on earth “mandated” to wear a literal mask, buttressed with gobs of indoctrinated “reasons” slotted into preset grids of the brain.

Kant was right, the original mask is actually not on the face, but on the brain, so that we can’t see reality for what it is.

In other words, as long as we keep pretending we won’t even begin to comprehend reality.

It doesn’t just stop with the covid con. The con is proving to be culturally endemic. All institutions (visible structures erected to guide the complex movement of actors pretending, playing roles) that we used to trust, or at least to tolerate, are visibly and invisibly deteriorating, even shattering, as our growing X-ray vision penetrates to the heart of the corruption that affects them all, turning them into the opposite of what they pretend to be. Thus do Big Pharma and Big Med kill rather than cure; Academia indoctrinates rather than encourages; Big Gov seeks to control rather than to assist; — on and on.

Remember the part Pluto plays in all this, as its very first return to the degree it occupied at the birth of the United States takes hold, stealthily approaching over the past few years, exact for the first time in February 2022, and not to even begin to fade out until the next few years are done.

Pluto governs THE POWER OF DEATH AND REBIRTH.

Pluto’s primal movement pulses energy into and out of form. During this first ever Pluto Return, the original form of the U.S. Constitution will either be trampled into dust, or U.S. citizens will remember in time that we live in a Constitutional Republic, and that we value it immensely, consider it essential to our continued existence as a nation.

And with this deepening of values, we will prove ourselves worthy of our Republic, by moving into action.

Only then will there be a possibility of rescuing — and reinvigorating — this nation for its second round of Pluto’s 248 year cycle.

And if we do manage to suffer through this agonizing multi-year transformation, it will be because we have learned to let go of our greed for empire, for hegemony, for total control. Instead of utilizing the power of Pluto for “power over,” this nation will evolve into “empowerment,” i.e., power from within, sharing the world stage with a multiplicity of other nations, each one autonomous, sovereign, and equal, with all the others.

We don’t know yet how this grand Plutonian drama will turn out.

It’s up to us, U.S. citizens.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

The whole world is watching.

As goes the U.S., so goes the world. 

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