BEING FULLY PRESENT

This author has used the term “fully present” more often of late, because over time it’s become obvious how much of our human experience is lost to us in its absence—in our absence. When we’re fully present, we aren’t just ‘hearing’ something or someone. We’re intently observing, calculating, processing, trying to understand underlying thoughts, feelings, issues, wants, needs, gains, losses, pain, joy, suffering, manipulation and intentions. We’re looking directly into people’s eyes, noting the strength or shakiness of their voice, strength or sweatiness of their handshake, smelling their perfume, observing their attire, watching their body language, observing mannerisms and choice of words. When presented with images, in print, on the computer or television, when fully present, we’re noticing the colors used, music played, message being conveyed, agenda being pushed, and even hidden symbols in the artwork on the walls or books on the desk or shelves in the background. When we aren’t fully present, all of that goes away.

When we aren’t fully present, the richness of the human experience becomes so reduced it’s almost non-existent. We’re no longer in the restaurant, laughing, inhaling exotic herbal aromas with subtle hints of smoke, enjoying companionship with friends before pallets are doused in succulent, savory sweet delights. Instead, we’re standing out in the street, watching it all happen through the front window.

THE GREAT SNIPPING

Over the last couple of years I’ve often found myself thinking the world is this giant, collective brain or mind, teaming with endless neural pathways, that are being surgically cut or snipped where critical connections are made. This is done in numerous ways, and aside from outright censorship or re-writing history, the purposeful destruction of language is the most harmful and effective method, also being used most in the absence of technological aid.

OBSERVING, CALCULATING & PROCESSING WORDS

When we aren’t fully present, especially in the face of specific words being used, we can’t understand what is actually being said, because we no longer know what the word actually means. Worse, without the simultaneous hearing and processing of meaning—we don’t even know that we don’t know. We all do this, myself included, far more than we should. We often don’t realize we’ve done it however, because we’ve let group-think tell us we already know what it means, which pre-empties future thoughts towards closer inspection. We carry on without a second thought.

NAZI–WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN?

I found myself doing the same thing when it finally ‘came out’ that NAZI means “national socialism” When I first heard that, for a split second I was fully present long enough to notice there’s no letter Z or letter I in “national socialism”. That fully present moment didn’t last. I shrugged it off by telling myself the anomaly must have to do with German root words I wasn’t familiar with, words that include the letter Z and I. Satisfied with that, I moved on, and until recently, never gave it a second thought. In other words, for a brief but fleeting moment I almost re-connected a significant snip I never knew had actually taken place.

Now that I’ve corrected the snip and reconnected those neural pathways, it’s exceedingly obvious why this particular snip was made to the collective mind. Rather than explain it myself, I’ll let one of the greatest researchers of our time, Eustace Mullins, explain it for you in the short video below. In encouraging readers to really process it, be advised that Mullins, an otherwise ordinary and unassuming looking gentleman, is the last living protégé of the world renown poet, Ezra Pound. Moreover, Pound wasn’t just a poet, but taught several other pupils besides Mullins—four of which won Nobel prizes—whose work you might be familiar with: Earnest Hemmingway, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Elliot, and James Joyce.

As of a year or so ago, the elderly Eustace Mullins was still with us, but recovering from being poisoned and consequently suffering a stroke. There’s a lot of that going around these days—far more than ‘good’ people should ever tolerate. Here again I remind readers, out of love and concern for our collective futures, to refuse to comply with your own demise, and I do so with knowledge of how impossible that is, if you don’t first grasp the agenda and mechanisms foisting it upon you.

CORRECTION—Updated 9/21/2023: A couple years ago I came across the video of Mullins explaining he had been poisoned and mistakenly thought it was recent. Eustace Mullins actually passed away in 2010. RIP Eustace—we haven’t forgotten you.

“Humanity once again stands at a most important fork in the road; a moment exhilarating and exasperating, liberating and terrifying—may we have the wisdom and moral fortitude to choose the path of countless wonders.”

–Crystal Clark