The Extraterrestrial Presence in our World Today: What You Aren’t Being Told

While many acknowledge the presence of extraterrestrials in our world, the crucial understanding lies in why they are here and what their real motives are. To truly understand this, we must identify what races are here, the extent of their involvement in human affairs, and their overall goals and intentions. This is not a simple task but it can be done by reviewing the proper sources: firsthand accounts of ET experiences, high-level military and insider information, thorough investigation work of the UFO and ET phenomenon, and even messages originating from non-human entities themselves. After researching this subject deeply over the last few years, I have discovered highly disturbing evidence revealing that there is a nefarious extraterrestrial agenda to systematically exploit and enslave humanity in an attempt to gain control of the planet and its resources. Through the use of persistent and extremely subtle forms of manipulation, along with direct physical intervention, several races of extraterrestrial beings are competing for the eventual control of Earth during this critical stage in humanity’s transformation and awakening.

The intention is not to eradicate human beings but to employ them, to have them become workers for a greater “collective.” To fully comprehend how this could be taking place, we must first briefly review the ET phenomenon and some of its recent historical accounts. While this information may be shocking and unbelievable at first, I encourage you to verify these things for yourself using the sources provided or additional research.

It is important to know that the main ways this Intervention is able to take place successfully without us realizing it is through secrecy, deception, and manipulation. The other most effective tools used are ridicule and denial.  Additionally, further persuasion, pacification, and inducement is directed to humans unknowingly via mind-altering frequency-based technology. In some cases, even death comes to those who dare expose this largely hidden aspect of life. You will not hear this information ever spoken about seriously in the controlled media and even by many UFO or ET enthusiasts/researchers.

It is something we refuse to accept or face seriously because we fear the consequences of having to acknowledge this without distortion and taking full responsibility for what this really means. Even if we don’t acknowledge, believe in, or accept the reality of something, it does not change the reality itself. Once you start to accept the idea that extraterrestrial beings are actually hiding in our world and carrying out highly sophisticated and treacherous plans against our very freedoms, the full implications of this scenario begin to sink in on a deeper, more genuine level.

This article will be split into two parts. Part 1 will cover general background information regarding the nature of human-extraterrestrial engagement over the last 60 years. Part 2 will introduce a series of messages from a group of ET beings known as the Allies of Humanity, who have observed our world and the nature of the extraterrestrial intervention that is taking place. Their detailed Briefings are vital for humanity to understand and comprehend at this time.  Without understanding how this ET intervention affects us from a bigger picture perspective, we will likely remain lost and misguided.

The seriousness of this threat to our human freedom cannot be understated. We must become informed and educated about these matters. We must be willing to face these uncomfortable truths head on with great sobriety and clarity.  For when we can truly see what is going on behind the scenes, we can then take action to stop it. Do we value our human sovereignty? Or are we willing to let technologically-advanced beings take advantage of us for profit and for other motives? These are important questions that we must ask ourselves as we continue to face these alarming issues with courage and determination.

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In the 1940s, Nazi German occult secret societies such as the Thule and Vril societies made contact with Grey aliens through through telepathic means using a variety of ritualistic methods. [1] These meetings continued for some time until contact was established on the physical plane, where it is highly likely that exchanges of information and technology of an advanced nature took place. Prior to this, the Nazis had developed their first UFO in June 1934, and were actively engaged in building disc-type craft that operated using implosion-based technology. [1] The newly-gained ET insights gave the Nazis a great advantage in the air during WWII, with powerful flying saucer craft and exotic forms of energy production being available to them. Additionally, the Germans colonized Antarctica in 1938 calling the territory Neuschwabenland, where it is said that they have kept flying saucer and advanced human genetic engineering research alive and well, even to this day. [2] Following the war, a huge number of Nazi scientists and high ranking officials were given safe passage to various parts of the world: South America, Antarctica, and even the USA through Operation Paperclip. No study of the ET phenomenon is complete without understanding the occult connection between Nazi Germany and ETs, which continues to operate in secret on a scale greater than most are willing to entertain. [3]

Sources
[1] Vril Society – The Yellow Book no. 5[2] The Omega File: Interview with Bulgarian physicist, Vladimir Terziski[3] The Nazi/ET Connection: The War for Planet Earth

In the early 1950s, the first meetings between various extraterrestrials and the US government took place directly with Dwight Eisenhower as president. These encounters are well-documented, and it is reported that meetings with both benevolent and malevolent ETs (4 groups) took place up until the mid 1960s. [4] Apparently, the US rejected further relations with benevolent ETs that wished to assist humanity in its spiritual development because they requested that we permanently disarm our nuclear arsenal. This was viewed with great suspicion and no exchange of technology was offered. However, it appears that a treaty was signed by the Greys and the US government in 1954 known as the Grenada Treaty. This deal was engineered between the treasonous Majestic-12 group (MJ-12) and the Greys (serving the oppressive Orion Group) and involved the transfer of information and technology, in exchange for certain freedoms they could exercise within the United States. [5]Essentially, this MJ-12 group gave these ETs access to vital resources: human and cattle for “medical experiments”, which are more accurately known as abductions.  The terms were that only a very small amount of humans could be taken, they had to be returned to their original location, their memories had to be wiped following the encounter, and the ETs had to submit a list of all abducted humans at regular intervals to MJ-12. After only a few years of this, it became clear that the ETs violated this agreement with impunity by taking more than a thousand-fold the amount of people that they promised. This birthed the modern human-alien war that is known within all major militaries across the world in deep secret. This period also marked the beginning of human abductions and cattle mutilations and could be considered the ultimate act of terrorism ever perpetrated against the people of the world.

[4] Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting with Extraterrestrials[5] Majestic-12 Documents (legitimate and groundbreaking)

Human abductions by ETs have been reported all over the world and persist to this day. [6] These activities have been widespread and more frequent than people would think over the last 50 years. Understanding this phenomenon and why this is happening is crucial; it is not benevolent in nature. [7] A large number of abductee experiences are recalled through hypnosis. The examination of reproductive organs and the extraction of sexual fluids and tissue is often reported, giving credence to a larger hybrid-interbreeding program that is occurring. Unfortunately, many people who are taken are not returned and do not live to tell their tale. There are joint human-alien underground bases that operate around the world, usually involving highly risky and dangerous genetic experiments for a variety of nefarious purposes. Some of the more well-known underground bases include Area 51 near Groom Lake, Nevada and Dulce in New Mexico. [9]  Reading first-hand accounts of what interaction is like at these bases is chilling. [8] Kidnapped humans kept in cages, highly grotesque genetic experiments involving the splicing of several creatures, among other things have been reported and this gives a definitive account that these interactions are against human will. We are talking about thousands of innocent people, including women and children, being tortured and dying unspeakable deaths. This needs to end now — these places must be exposed for what they are!  [10]

[6] The Shocking Truth About Alien Abductions (Powerful Video Evidence)
[7] Air Force Specialist Alleges Military and ET Abductions, Contact – Conscious Life News[8] A Dulce Base Security Officer Speaks Out (fascinating interview)[9] The Aliens of Dulce Base, Underground Facility in New Mexico[10] The Dulce Book by Branton (full book)[11] The Dulce Papers (supposedly genuine documents/videos)

******* Highly Recommended Additional Sources *******

For seasoned conspiracy researchers, I find Commander X‘s material highly interesting, accurate, and to-the-point. His former experience within high levels of military clearly shows, and it is a great blessing that there are patriots like him who would dare speak out on such matters. These are short books, but they are essential for anyone who really wants to understand some of the details that comprise this bigger picture.

Incredible Technologies Of The New World Order: UFOs, Tesla, Area 51 by Commander X
Underground Alien Bases: Flying Saucers Come From Inside the Earth! by Commander X

The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda by David M. Jacobs, Ph. D

“The world’s foremost academic expert on UFOs and alien abductions provides the first evidence-based explanation of a mystery that has perplexed scientists for decades.  Based on more than 700 hypnotic-regression interviews with alien abductees and a Roper survey of 6,000 adults, The Threat reveals why the aliens are here and what they want, explains why their agenda has been kept secret, and exposes their frightening plans for earth and its inhabitants. In a direct, authoritative challenge to researchers who believe the abduction phenomenon is essentially benevolent and spiritually uplifting, Professor David M. Jacobs proves that there is a far more disturbing and potentially dangerous plan underway, with possible alien domination at its core.”

Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us by Jim Marrs

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“Your ability to recognize the truth of what we are about to impart is absolutely fundamental for your survival, for your advancement, and indeed, for the preservation of the very freedoms that you hold most dear.  For the Greater Community into which you are emerging is perhaps far different from what you may have thought before…” — The Allies of Humanity

“The Allies of Humanity is being presented to prepare people for a whole new reality that is largely hidden and unrecognized in the world today. It provides a new perspective that empowers people to face the greatest challenge and opportunity that we, as a race, have ever encountered.  The Allies Briefings contain a number of critical if not alarming statements about the growing extraterrestrial intervention and integration into the human race and about the extraterrestrial activities and hidden agenda.

The purpose of the Allies Briefings is to address the dramatic and far-reaching implications of this phenomenon, to challenge our human tendencies and assumptions regarding it and to alert the human family to the great threshold we now face.  The Briefings provide a glimpse into the reality of intelligent life in the Universe and what Contact will really mean. For many readers, what is revealed in the Allies of Humanity will be entirely new. For others, it will be a confirmation of things they have long felt and known.

To truly understand this challenging message, we must confront and question many of the prevailing assumptions and tendencies regarding the possibility and the reality of Contact. These include:

• denial;
• hopeful expectation;
• misinterpreting the evidence to affirm our beliefs;
• wanting and expecting salvation from the “visitors”;
• believing that ET technology will save us;
• feeling hopeless and submissive to what we assume is a superior force;
• demanding government disclosure but not ET disclosure;
• condemning human leaders and institutions while maintaining unquestioned acceptance of the “visitors”;
• assuming that because they have not attacked or invaded us, they must be here for our good;
• assuming that advanced technology equals advanced ethics and spirituality;
• believing that this phenomenon is a mystery when in fact it is a comprehensible event;
• believing that ETs in some way have claim to humanity and to this planet;
• and believing that humanity is irredeemable and cannot make it on its own.

The Allies Briefings challenge such assumptions and tendencies and explode many of the myths we currently have about who is visiting us and why they are here.”

(via The Allies of Humanity)

********* Summary of the Allies Briefings *********

This summary represents only a general overview and does not include many of the important details that make a complete comprehension of the Allies Briefings possible.

1. Humanity’s destiny is to emerge into and to engage with a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe.

2. Contact with other forms of intelligent life represents the greatest threshold that humanity has ever faced. The results of this Contact will determine humanity’s future for generations to come. This Contact is happening now.

3. Humanity is unprepared for Contact. Researchers are still unable to clearly see who is visiting our world and why. Governments are not revealing what they know, and most people are still in denial that this phenomenon is even occurring.

4. Because of this lack of preparation, humanity’s true allies sent representatives to a location near Earth to observe the extraterrestrial presence and activities within our world. The Allies of Humanity Briefings represent their report.

5. The Briefings reveal that our world is undergoing an extraterrestrial Intervention by forces that, as demonstrated by their actions, are here to subvert human authority and to integrate into human societies for their own advantage. These forces represent non-military organizations that are here to seek human and biological resources. The Allies refer to these forces as the “Collectives.” The Collectives do not value human freedom.

6. Because the Intervention is being carried out by small groups of intervening forces, it must rely primarily upon deception and persuasion to achieve its goals. The Allies Briefings describe in detail how this is being accomplished and what we must do to stop it.

7. This extraterrestrial Intervention is being focused in four arenas:

• It is influencing individuals in positions of power and authority to cooperate with the Intervention through the promise of greater wealth, power & technology.
• It is creating hidden establishments in the world from which the Intervention can exert its influence in the Mental Environment, seeking to make people everywhere open and compliant to its will through a “Pacification Program”.
• It is manipulating our religious values and impulses in order to gain human allegiance to their cause.
• It is taking people against their will, and often without their awareness, to support an interbreeding program designed to create a hybrid race and a new leadership who would be bonded to the “visitors”.

8. Those extraterrestrial visitors who have been potentially beneficial to humanity have all retreated from the world in the face of the Intervention. Those remaining are alien races who are not here for our benefit. This leaves us in an unambiguous situation regarding the extraterrestrial presence. This enables us to clearly see what we are dealing with. Otherwise, it would be impossible for us to tell friend from foe.

9. The Allies Briefings emphasize the grave danger in our accepting and becoming reliant upon ET technology offered by the Intervention. This will only lead to our becoming dependent on the “visitors,” resulting in our loss of freedom and self-sufficiency. No true ally of humanity would offer this to us. The Allies emphasize that we have earth-based solutions to all the problems that we face. What we lack as a race is unity, will and cooperation.

10. In spite of the great challenge we now face, humanity still has a great advantage if we can respond in time. The Allies Briefings reveal both the Intervention’s strengths and its weaknesses. One of the Intervention’s weaknesses is its reliance upon human acquiescence and cooperation to achieve its goals.

According to Greater Community rules of conduct within the region in which our world exists, Intervention is not allowedunless it can be demonstrated that the native people welcome and approve of it. Here, our voices can have power in the Greater Community. At this moment the Intervention has few critics.

But if enough people can become aware of it and speak out against it, the Intervention will be thwarted and must withdraw. This is the first step in humanity’s preparation for dealing with the realities of life in the Universe. This step and all the steps that follow give humanity its one great chance to overcome its long-standing conflicts and to unite in its own defense for the preservation of the world. 

The Allies affirm that we as human beings have the spiritual and collective power to do this and that we must do this if we want to survive and advance as a free and independent race in the Greater Community.

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The majority of the Briefings can be read online for free (in 7 languages). Please consider reading some of these Briefings! They contain some of the most important messages that humanity needs to understand at this time, written simply and to-the-point.

***** Book 1: An Urgent Message about the ET Presence in the World Today *****

Briefing One: The Extraterrestrial Presence in the World Today

Briefing Two: The Challenge to Human Freedom

Briefing Three: A Great Warning

Briefing Four: Manipulation of Religious Traditions and Beliefs

Briefing Five: Threshold: A New Promise for Humanity

Briefing Six: Questions and Answers

Briefing Seven: Final Words

***** Book 2: Human Unity, Freedom, and the Hidden Reality of Contact *****

Briefing One: The Universe Into Which You Are Emerging

Briefing Two: Why The Intervention Is Occurring

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This all may sound hard to believe at first, but it is extremely important to consider this information with an open mind, for the implications are huge. The tendency to remain in denial and dismiss anything that doesn’t fit into our preconceived ideas of what is possible remains strong, but we must learn to look beyond the veils and face the hard truth. In essence this is all just another aspect of nature playing itself out on a scale grander than we are used to — but this time we are not at the top of the ‘food-chain’. Humanity has arrogantly assumed that we are always going to be “kings of our dominion” but that very notion is being challenged to the core.

We must be very careful when it comes to accepting “offers” of ET technology in order to save us and our planet. It is one thing if we develop and implement free energy technology for ourselves, but it is an entirely different thing to accept this technology from a non-human source. This would NOT be an exchange with “no-strings attached,” even under the guise of “love, light, peace, and brotherhood”. You can bet that these beings are going to be very persuasive, unlike anything we’ve ever come across. Especially given their superior ability to read and influence us on the mental/emotional level, they are going to appeal to our deepest longings and hopeful spiritual aspirations. Therefore, the ONLY way to become strong and discerning is to cultivate our inner connection to the Knowledge we hold within ourselves — contact with our Higher Self. This is the key.

Of course there are positive and loving beings in the universe. However, the ones that are here physically intervening in human affairs and abusing us as if we were ants are not here for our benefit or spiritual advancement. They are here to absorb our collective power and energy into their economic empires of trade and commerce that take place in this belt of the universe. A rather grave threat and realization that we’d rather not face, indeed. However, if we fail, Earth would be mined of its resources and we would be placed under a new world order that would be harsh, exacting, and beyond anything we can imagine. They will continue to use their main weapons of manipulation, persuasion, and pacification to achieve their goals — but we are able to see through this with the eyes of discernment and clarity through Knowledge.

All of this is not taking place for no reason. There is a climax to this and it is building with each passing day. By the time they reveal their presence and intentions openly, it will be too late to take effective action to stop them. We must speak out about this now! There is a real reason that people go to great lengths to expose these conspiracies and present the implications to the public — because our very freedoms and way of life, the pursuit of happiness, and our creative expression depends on it.

There has never been a greater threat to human freedom than this one — and the overwhelming majority are not even aware this is taking place. However, through this tremendous challenge lies our golden opportunity: the ability to unite humanity and to stand up for our freedom, exercising our power through inner Knowledge and maintaining control over our planet. This is the way we will establish a new paradigm of unity, peace, cooperation, and order. We are going to have to earn it and it’s not going to be easy — this is going to take tremendous courage, relentless discernment, and a genuine passion for freedom!

Please share and discuss this message with those you know. Our very freedoms depend on this understanding reaching critical mass and starting an active resistance against the ET intervention! These beings are counting on us remaining complacent, ignorant, and unwilling to face them directly. How will we answer the call?

Declaration of Human Sovereignty: Regarding Contact with Extraterrestrial Nations and Forces

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley

Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/04/29/the-extraterrestrial-presence-in-our-world-today-what-you-arent-being-told/

WELCOME TO TERMINUS - Food for thought

“Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.” – Edward Teller

I was a late arrival to the Walking Dead television program. I don’t watch much of the mindless drivel passing for entertainment on the 600 worthless channels available 24/7 on cable TV. I assumed it was another superficial zombie horror show on par with the teenage vampire crap polluting the airwaves. Last year a friend told me I had to watch the show. I was hooked immediately and after some marathon watching of seasons one and two, I understood the various storylines and back stories. What the show doesn’t openly reveal is the deeper meanings, symbolism, and lessons we can learn from viewing human beings trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. In my opinion, the horror and gore is secondary to the human responses to horrific circumstances and the consequences of individual and group decisions to their survival.

As the end of season four approached, the disbursed characters were descending upon a place called Terminus. They were drawn by the intriguing and hopeful signs posted at various railroad junctions promising sanctuary, community and survival. Of course the name Terminus does not sound very inviting or hopeful. There are multiple possible meanings regarding Terminus. The Roman god Terminus protected boundary markers and sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone. The bones, ashes, and blood of a sacrificial victim, along with crops, honeycombs, and wine, were placed into a hole at a point where estates converged, and the stone was driven in on top. Maintaining boundaries and sacrifice are major themes throughout the series.

The show is set in the metropolitan Atlanta area of Georgia and the surrounding countryside. It just so happens that during the 1830s Terminus was the name of a settlement at the end of the Western and Atlantic railroad line. That settlement is now Atlanta. Terminus is also the title of the final poem ever composed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The poem focuses on a conversation between the author and the god Terminus, discussing the author’s forthcoming death. The message of the poem is to resist fear and prepare for death. The destination is worth the journey.   

“As the bird trims her to the gale,

I trim myself to the storm of time,

I man the rudder, reef the sail,

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime:

“Lowly faithful, banish fear,

Right onward drive unharmed;

The port, well worth the cruise, is near,

And every wave is charmed.”

We are only given a short time on this earth and the end of the line will be the same for everyone. What matters is how we conduct ourselves during our own journey towards our personal Terminus. Have we served as a virtuous example for our children, sacrificed for others, and benefited humanity or have we displayed greed, avarice and selfishness during our trek through life? As we approach our own meeting with destiny, the actions and morality of individuals will matter. I don’t know the motivations of the writers creating the themes for the Walking Dead, but the show connects with me on a number of levels. I look around and see hordes of zombies everywhere.

Zombification of America

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” – Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited

The vast majority of the population in the post-apocalyptic world of the Walking Dead is mindless zombies driven by only their need to feed upon human flesh. They are infected with a disease that disables the cognitive portion of their brains and leaves them as slobbering predatory zombies seeking to satisfy their vile needs. They are referred to as “walkers” or “biters” as they aimlessly roam the countryside seeking human flesh. Everyone bitten or killed by a zombie is infected and turned into a zombie. The only way to stop them is by destroying their brain. The relentless violence and gore is not for the squeamish, but is probably a realistic portrayal of the brutishness and harsh conditions that will overwhelm this country once the electrical grid goes down, fuel becomes scarce and the global supply chain fails. Our just in time society is about one week from chaos, lawlessness, starvation and death on a grand scale.

As I watch the hordes of hideous brain dead zombies shuffling across the apocalyptic landscape seeking to satiate their basest cravings I can’t help but see the parallels with the millions of mindless tattooed obese slobs waddling across mall parking lots past vacant store fronts staring zombielike at their iGadgets as they seek to satisfy their basest desires at Macy’s and Chipotle. A virus has overspread our country causing a vast swath of the population to gratuitously assuage their every want without thinking of the consequences. The sickness is caused by being imprisoned for twelve years in government run public schools, watching thousands of hours of propaganda emitted by the corporate media, viewing hundreds of brain cell destroying reality TV shows, reading and sending thousands of texts and tweets, and being overwhelmed by the delusional belief spending more than they make, saving nothing, and piling up mountains of debt is the path to success in our contaminated society.

In the show there is no clear explanation as to why the majority of the population have been infected and turned into zombies, while a tiny minority is unaffected and able to think critically and act rationally. It is revealed that all living people are infected with the zombie virus, but it remains dormant in a minority of the survivors. Death by any means triggers the virus and turns the corpse into a mindless flesh eating zombie. There are 318 million Americans and a majority of them fall into the category of zombies in my estimation. Every American has the zombie virus within them. It has been incubated by corrupt vote seeking politicians, control hungry government sociopaths, mind numbingly worthless public education, and the relentless dumbing down through corporate media propaganda and vacuous reality TV entertainment. Once cogent thinking aware citizens have been zombiefied into mindless impulsive consumers.

How can you not see the parallels between American society and the zombies in the Walking Dead? Walk down any city street in America and you see hordes shuffling along staring with blank faces and glazed over eyes at their iGadgets. Black Friday is identical to flinging a freshly slaughtered hog in front of the flesh eating zombies. Americans flock to malls across our apocalyptic suburban sprawl landscape and proceed to stampede, gouge, and punch their way to a fantastic bargain on a Chinese slave labor produced microwave they must have to cook their toxic frankenfood created by one of our corporate food conglomerates. The Black Friday crowds actually make the zombies from the Walking Dead seem well behaved. While the American zombies are shambling through superficial lives of pleasure seeking, mass consumption, and a delusional faith in debt based wealth, there is still a minority of rational thinking people who can control their impulses and resist the disease devouring our culture.

 

“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” ― Philip Slater                  

Collapse Will Be Sudden

“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.” ― Mark A. Rayner – The Fridgularity

What you note after watching a few episodes of the Walking Dead is that collapse happened suddenly. Cities, towns, houses and highways remained relatively intact. The decay and deterioration caused by neglect and abandonment are the only visible signs that modern civilization has ceased. The show highlights the life-threatening difficulty of enduring on a day to day basis without the certainty of shelter, food, water, and fuel. The average asleep American isn’t prepared to last one week without the basics of modern life. They haven’t stocked any food, water or fuel in case of an emergency. Their normalcy bias keeps them from even considering the high likelihood of even a natural disaster caused by a hurricane, snowstorm, or earthquake. Recent examples of most people’s complete helplessness were the snow and ice storms that struck this past winter and hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. Without power and access to food and water, modern society breaks down quickly, with chaos, looting and anarchy only days away.

It is unlikely that collapse of civilization as we know it will happen due to some extreme event such as nuclear war, super volcano, or asteroid. When our central banker masters of the universe trigger the next financial system collapse, with no monetary bullets of debasement left in their pop gun, the resulting chaos when ATMs stop spitting out $20 bills and EBT cards for 47 million people stop functioning at Wally World will be epic. We got a glimpse into the future this past October when the EBT system went down in several states for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon. Zombies began to ransack Wal-Mart stores attempting to steal as much as they could get away with. Chaos, anger and criminal behavior was virtually instantaneous. A vast swath of EBT dependent zombies live in our numerous urban ghettos and when the EBT system goes down permanently violence will quickly erupt. Police will be vastly out-numbered, hungry mobs will become armed gangs of violent looters burning down their ghettos, ransacking and plundering businesses, stores and homes, and stealing everything that isn’t nailed down. Visualize the L.A. riots after the Rodney King verdict in every urban area in the country.

The fragility of our debt financed oil dependent just in time global supply chain system is beyond the comprehension of the average zombie American. They are too distracted by mass consuming the products dependent on that very same fragile scheme. They are clueless zombie-like dupes who believe $20 bills magically appear in ATMs, Funyuns and Cheetos miraculously materialize on Wal-Mart shelves, gasoline endlessly bubbles up from the ground into the hose they stick in their $40,000 monster SUVs “bought” with a 0% seven year loan from Ally Financial, and that enchanted plastic card with a magnetic strip empowers them to fulfill every craving like a zombie feeding on a dead carcass.

There is a worldwide currency and petroleum war being waged today as too much fiat currency is chasing a dwindling amount of cheap petroleum supplies. The developed world has experienced a century of relative illusory prosperity as cheap easy to access fuel and cheap easy to print fiat currency have led zombies to believe progress and prosperity are their god given right. The most highly educated zombies will be the most shocked when they realize the reality they believed was all an illusion. The Starbucks “Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato” crowd who isolate themselves in their 100% financed 5,000 square foot luxury cookie cutter brick McMansions amidst 200 other identical McMansions occupied by reclusive strangers in enclaves pretentiously named The Preserve at Meadow Lakes, and driving multiple leased BMWs, are about as prepared for a collapse of modern society as a helpless child. The suburban wasteland of strip malls, office parks, and fast food joints is completely dependent upon an endless supply of cheap oil and cheap credit.

The cracks in this delusionary foundation are visible for all to see as Space Available signs outnumber actual businesses, pothole dotted highways deteriorate, sewer lines crack, and houses in disrepair outnumber those being kept up. It takes money to keep a home from deteriorating and it happens to be in short supply for 90% of the population. Despite the non-stop money printing operation at the Fed and the mainstream media fantasy stories of shale oil energy independence, the suburban dream is turning into a nightmare. When the inevitable financial implosion strikes in the next few years, the illusion of progress will come to an end. The inner cities will explode in violence and will burn. The police will be helpless and scared. There will be death on a large scale.

Suburbia will turn into a lawless landscape where neighbors turn on each other, as they have failed to create real communities. The isolation and seclusion which have marked suburban existence for the last thirty years will contribute to the creation of criminal gangs looting and pillaging stores, businesses and unprotected homes. After the collapse the only people likely to survive relatively unscathed are rural folk. Farmers, ranchers and those capable of living off the land have the abilities to endure a breakdown in our modern society. These people are prepared, know how to use firearms and create communities of self-sufficiency. No one will thrive in the world coming our way, but those not dependent upon or tied to our modern societal paradigm have a better chance to survive.      

“If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?” ―Brandon Andress – And Then the End Will Come!

Individualism vs Community

“The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.” ― Jared Diamond – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Our society has always glorified rugged individualism. We celebrate individual accomplishments and make heroes of those who have gone it alone and triumphed either in business, politics, sports, or the arts. Overcoming tremendous obstacles and going it alone in the face of adversity has been the narrative Americans admire and seek to emulate. Even the reality TV shows about preppers focus on individuals who plan on going it alone when civilization enters collapse mode. These rugged loners take pride in individualism, build bunkers, amass small arsenals and stockpile food and supplies. They will likely survive the initial onslaught of collapse and first wave of violence. But how long can an individual expect to survive alone in a Walking Dead environment? The traits which were appropriate and rewarded in modern society will be inappropriate and fatal in a post-modern society. A lesson from the show is clearly that a community of like-minded individuals working together has a better chance at long-term survival than a loner. Just make sure you join the right community.

With hordes of flesh eating automatons roaming the countryside it was essential for the living to form communities in order to fend off the zombies, protect each other, provide shelter, and forage for food. An individual alone had no chance at survival as falling asleep would ultimately prove fatal if a zombie stumbled upon your camp. The group led by Sheriff Rick Grimes eventually creates a community within the gates of an abandoned prison. The irony of seeing mindless throngs of soulless killers attempting to breakdown the fences to get “into” the prison is not lost on the audience. At first, the occupants of the prison would leave on foraging/pillaging missions to nearby cities and towns attempting to find food, medical supplies, gasoline and any other essential necessities of life. Eventually Hershel, the wise old man of the community, convinced Rick that cultivating the soil, sowing seeds and growing their own food was the only chance for their community to thrive over the long haul. Working with your hands is refreshing to the soul. Jesus’ Parable of the Sower immediately comes to mind.

Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, some an hundred. He said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. — Mark 4:3-9

Some communities are evil at their core and will commit malevolent atrocities. Some communities will appear ethical, but when hardship strikes they will fall back to their wicked ways. Communities of those addicted to riches and wealth will ignore the pleas of the downtrodden and wail and gnash their teeth when their worldly wealth evaporates.  A fruitful community that chooses decent honorable leaders, adopts a moral code, treats all members with respect, encourages hard work and accountability, and plans for the future, will reap the benefits of sustainability and stability. Cultivating a good community is difficult, requiring sacrifice, compromise, hard work, difficult choices, and depends upon the goodwill of all members. Rick tried to become a farmer, but Carol saw the future clearly telling him, “you can be a farmer, you can’t just be a farmer”. A peaceful happy ending was not to be.

The community of Woodbury, led by a despicably evil man referred to as the governor, gave outward appearances of stability and health. But it was ruled through fear, intimidation, vindictiveness and evil. Leaders like the governor arise during desperate times when the weak seek someone who promises to save them and keep them safe. Leaders like the governor are far more savage, ruthless and dangerous than the flesh eating zombie hordes because they kill with malicious intent, fully knowledgeable of the consequences of their actions. Eventually good communities led by good people must stand up and fight bad communities led by evil men, no matter the consequences. Under dire circumstances and an uncertain future we will need to decide what kind of community we will be. What kind of people we will be. Will we fight for a better future for our children? Can we retain our humanity or will we become no better than the walking dead?   

“What fascinates me is not so much humanity’s engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.” ―Carolyn Baker – Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

Who Are the Real Walking Dead?

The central question permeating the Walking Dead is whether the living can maintain their humanity amidst so much horror, brutality, death, and desolation. Can the living continue to show compassion, kindness, mercy and love in a world torn apart by disarray, violence, viciousness and despair?  Throughout the series those who haven’t “turned” still have the capacity to empathize, comfort one another, offer succor, and show mercy and kindness. But after enduring unending horrors, cruelty, death and sorrow, it appears some of the characters are “turning” into the very monsters pursuing them.

Every human being has their breaking point. The main characters must commit increasingly heinous acts in order to survive. The walkers have no choice. Their humanity was stripped from them by the virus. The living have a choice. The mental anguish pushes some (Lizzy) over the edge into insanity. Others (Michonne and Carl) are torn by guilt that they have become monsters. Carol justifies her ruthlessness as the only choice for survival – just like the walkers. The seismic shift occurs when Rick, seeing his son being sexually assaulted, goes full zombie and bites the jugular of his captor and relentlessly stabs his son’s attacker. Daryl kills one of the bad guys by crushing his skull with his boot. Many of the characters have made a choice to shed their humanity in order to protect their family and friends. As the series completes its fourth season we are left with a question. Are the zombies really the “walking dead” or are the living really the “walking dead”?       

Life is complicated and those seeking simplicity and consistency will be terribly disappointed. The future is not going to be bright for our empire of debt and delusions. Times that will try men’s souls are on the horizon. The choices we make as individuals and communities will matter. Every human being has the capacity for good or evil. We will be alone in deciding whether we gravitate toward the dark side of our character or whether we make a stand for all that is noble and decent. Retaining our humanity during the trials and tribulations that await us will be crucial to creating a community that is sustainable and a future worth living and fighting for. It is clear that Terminus is not a true sanctuary for all. It permeates evil. As all of the “good” people are herded into a single boxcar I couldn’t help but see the parallels of the Nazis herding the Jews into boxcars for their final destination. Passive submission to an evil authority never ends well.

As the door is slammed shut and the protagonists are reunited, Rick declares“they’re gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out.” Abraham then asks “find out what?” Rick’s “they’re screwing with the wrong people” response confirms his transformation from an ambivalent reluctant leader into a powerful figure who will do anything necessary to protect his family, friends and community. This Fourth Turning has yet to reach its bloody, violent, chaotic zenith. The popularity of shows like the Walking Dead is a sign of the darkening mood change in this country. With our fragile fraudulent finance driven eco-system teetering on the edge, the threat of collapse is ever present. Within one week of a financial system collapse we would enter a Walking Dead like scenario. Each American who hasn’t already been infected with the zombie virus needs to prepare now and decide what kind of person they will become as the collapse engulfs our society. We all exit this world as we entered it – alone. But we have the wherewithal to positively impact the rebuilding of our culture from the rubble of this one. Are you ready to meet the deadly trials ahead? The choices we make over the next decade will determine if this is the end of the line for our civilization or a new beginning..       

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.” ― Aldous Huxley – Doors of Perception

Source: http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/04/06/welcome-to-terminus/