“Tim Fletcher is the best thing that has happened to the internet.” —YouTube Comment I toggled, yesterday and today, between Tim Fletcher and Joe Dispenza. I can’t work out if they are diametrically opposed—I know Dispenza says we need to dislodge the past, (not carry it around or think about it) which sounds awesome.
I am reminded daily we are in a War like no other. We are bombarded 24/7/365 from exterior forces that would have us all suspend our self respect and tear apart the bonds of love and trust we have cherished with friends and family for decades. THEY have done a pretty good job with their barrage of psyche weapons. Living through this causes us all to wage war within our selves. I don't know about you but I personally can't sort it all out within myself, the pain of separation from loved ones and from the life of freedom I used to know is overwhelming, understatement. There are moments of peace ... last evening I sat with neighbors chatting and laughing about nothing, kinda a Seinfeld moment, and then I looked up at our beautiful Idaho sky only to find that the deep blue that had prevailed all day was now being laced with chem trails. Every half hour another very fast jet came hurtling across laying down its path of toxins. As an old Vietnam vet warrior I won't risk revealing what I wish with all my human being could befall the evil god-complexed mfr's that are nonstop waging their war against all of us and the planet. I wrote long ago off the coast of Vietnam - " War is the immutable, unremitting absence of sanity."
I have made it this far, through the barrage of evil this past four years, by reminding myself that I have a tactic today that I did not have on the kinetic battlefield - today I can choose my battles wisely. And you can choose your's too. I am forever grateful for the peace and comradery that I find here on Substack with such fine authors like Celia, and how you all speak from your hearts, does my heart good.
"As we were scapegoated, we choose our own scapegoats, who haunt our consciences. This is the undiagnosed problem—our own memories of our own selves. No chance to repent since giant brooms chase us around demanding we love and accept ourselves."
A profound statement. Thank you. I'm not certain that I personally can ever heal the wounds of my childhood. Perhaps only with the help of God and Jesus.
I went to one of Joe Dispenza's week long retreats when I had cancer. I believe it's interesting to know where he comes from. He comes from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, WA. What I don't like about that is that they used wine and lots of it. I don't believe enlightenment will ever come from something outside of you, especially alcohol. Look it up; it's an interesting school; had it's heyday in the 90s. I met someone who went to it; she says it was a cult. Anyway, he uses hypnosis, but hypnosis for your own good. I'm not sure if the healings he sees really stick. He poo-poo's the use of detox for the body and insists that meditation is the only way. I think each individual has to find his own way.
He charges a LOT of money and that money enriches him. Nothing wrong with that, but if you really wanted to help people who were suffering, do you really need to help them from a $12 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?
Tim Fleitcher notwithstanding, I was in talk therapy for PTSD for 12 years and it didn't do much. Once I started discovering somatic ways of healing (i.e. start with balancing your nervous system so your whole brain can go online and allow you to process the emotions, and witness and change the maladaptive behaviors) I made much better progress. As a trauma recovery coach now, I listen to a lot of different people. I think Tim is extremely helpful in terms of understanding where our behaviors come from. I would listen to others in terms of creating a dichotomy with his views however. I would say the opposite of Tim would be somatic oriented practitioners like Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Steven Porges (polyvagal theory), and people who combine these things like Pat Ogden (sensorimotor psychotherapy) and Janine Fisher (polyvagal theory plus parts work). Joe Dispenza is someone who has fascinated me over the years, but he's not a heavy hitter in terms of trauma.
Also, not only can't you meditate your way out of trauma (I have a friend who has tried this, and although it has helped a lot, he doesn't have a great understanding of his behaviors at all) but some people are too dysregulated to meditate at all. They become more dysregulated from it as it makes them ruminate and get more anxious.
And, meditation can be many things, not just sitting there and having your thoughts float out of your mind on clouds. You can do moving meditation through yoga or walking or gardening. You can also just sit quietly and look at a candle - and I bet Dispenza wants you do to it only one way - and you can do mantras, etc. I never know he was a Ramtha devotee - that is kind of off putting to me.
If you want to see brilliance at work in this field, try one of Linda Thai's body-based courses on Collectively Rooted. The class I'm in now is full of therapists of all sorts and the breakthroughs they are having in their own healing just being exposed to her material and her presence have been nothing less than profound.
In my experience, the people who are unable or unwilling to face their trauma are sick, physically and/or mentally. I would go so far as to say they are content to die that way. In my life, I can divide my friends into those two categories- those willing to process the trauma and those not willing to do so.
I tend to dwell on the past. Some of it is blurry, maybe invented. I suspect some things I was told were invented to cover up other stories I was told before those, and I don't really have a way to tell. So when I'm upset with memories, I turn the skepticism knob all the way to 11 and I feel a bit better.
Regarding geo-engineering trails since the 4/8 "solar eclipse" (or whatever happened on that day; who really knows) where I live in San Diego: It has virtually stopped, disappeared. It's quite astounding, really, to see the completely clear blue sky every day. Today was another day of geo-engineering trail-free blue skies after the fog burned off. It's remarkable. We are on two weeks here of almost non-stop blue skies. I can honestly tell everyone here that I have not witnessed this pattern in several years. I don't know what is going on, but anyone with eyes to see can witness an obvious pattern change. I wonder what "they" are up to.
For whatever it may be worth, Jacob Liberman, an optometrist by training, studied something called syntonics whereby looking at colored lights allegedly helped with behavioral problems.
He developed the idea the colors or shades that cause discomfort can alleviate trauma.
His book "Luminous Life" gives his thought process.<p>He also claimed the use of Brock strings to help eye convergence can have a psychological effect, covered in the same book.
I appreciated this article. I think along with learning how to deal with past traumas we need to learn to fortify ourselves against gaslighting. It's going on everywhere and has been for a long time, even in Christianity. Traumatized people are much more vulnerable to gaslighting, and the powers that be know this. It's why there's so much garbage in the news and in entertainment. It re-traumatizes us every time we engage in it. That's also why, I think, citizen journalists are going to become more and more critical. Authenticity is so important as we learn the hard truths of what the powers that be have been doing to us our whole lives. I know together we'll get through this and come out stronger for it.
My mom died when I was 15, I'm 60 now and think about her every day and sometimes, I get a lump in my throat. It's a good thing, keep the memory alive. All this "expunge it". Well, I disagree.
A friend gave me the book *Living Buddha, Living Christ,* by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have been reading it slowly over the past few months. Not everything TNH says rings true for my experience of Christianity, but there is a lot of wisdom in the book. I particularly appreciate his description of handling an emotionally provoking situation: "Breathing in, I recognize my feeling. Breathing out, I calm my feeling." This has helped me in many situations, and although I do revisit the situation when I am in a calmer frame of mind--usually hours later--I can get through the situation without digging a hole or inflicting wounds on others with this technique.
I am reminded daily we are in a War like no other. We are bombarded 24/7/365 from exterior forces that would have us all suspend our self respect and tear apart the bonds of love and trust we have cherished with friends and family for decades. THEY have done a pretty good job with their barrage of psyche weapons. Living through this causes us all to wage war within our selves. I don't know about you but I personally can't sort it all out within myself, the pain of separation from loved ones and from the life of freedom I used to know is overwhelming, understatement. There are moments of peace ... last evening I sat with neighbors chatting and laughing about nothing, kinda a Seinfeld moment, and then I looked up at our beautiful Idaho sky only to find that the deep blue that had prevailed all day was now being laced with chem trails. Every half hour another very fast jet came hurtling across laying down its path of toxins. As an old Vietnam vet warrior I won't risk revealing what I wish with all my human being could befall the evil god-complexed mfr's that are nonstop waging their war against all of us and the planet. I wrote long ago off the coast of Vietnam - " War is the immutable, unremitting absence of sanity."
I have made it this far, through the barrage of evil this past four years, by reminding myself that I have a tactic today that I did not have on the kinetic battlefield - today I can choose my battles wisely. And you can choose your's too. I am forever grateful for the peace and comradery that I find here on Substack with such fine authors like Celia, and how you all speak from your hearts, does my heart good.
God Speed and God Bless.
"As we were scapegoated, we choose our own scapegoats, who haunt our consciences. This is the undiagnosed problem—our own memories of our own selves. No chance to repent since giant brooms chase us around demanding we love and accept ourselves."
A profound statement. Thank you. I'm not certain that I personally can ever heal the wounds of my childhood. Perhaps only with the help of God and Jesus.
I went to one of Joe Dispenza's week long retreats when I had cancer. I believe it's interesting to know where he comes from. He comes from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, WA. What I don't like about that is that they used wine and lots of it. I don't believe enlightenment will ever come from something outside of you, especially alcohol. Look it up; it's an interesting school; had it's heyday in the 90s. I met someone who went to it; she says it was a cult. Anyway, he uses hypnosis, but hypnosis for your own good. I'm not sure if the healings he sees really stick. He poo-poo's the use of detox for the body and insists that meditation is the only way. I think each individual has to find his own way.
He charges a LOT of money and that money enriches him. Nothing wrong with that, but if you really wanted to help people who were suffering, do you really need to help them from a $12 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?
Tim Fleitcher notwithstanding, I was in talk therapy for PTSD for 12 years and it didn't do much. Once I started discovering somatic ways of healing (i.e. start with balancing your nervous system so your whole brain can go online and allow you to process the emotions, and witness and change the maladaptive behaviors) I made much better progress. As a trauma recovery coach now, I listen to a lot of different people. I think Tim is extremely helpful in terms of understanding where our behaviors come from. I would listen to others in terms of creating a dichotomy with his views however. I would say the opposite of Tim would be somatic oriented practitioners like Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Steven Porges (polyvagal theory), and people who combine these things like Pat Ogden (sensorimotor psychotherapy) and Janine Fisher (polyvagal theory plus parts work). Joe Dispenza is someone who has fascinated me over the years, but he's not a heavy hitter in terms of trauma.
Also, not only can't you meditate your way out of trauma (I have a friend who has tried this, and although it has helped a lot, he doesn't have a great understanding of his behaviors at all) but some people are too dysregulated to meditate at all. They become more dysregulated from it as it makes them ruminate and get more anxious.
And, meditation can be many things, not just sitting there and having your thoughts float out of your mind on clouds. You can do moving meditation through yoga or walking or gardening. You can also just sit quietly and look at a candle - and I bet Dispenza wants you do to it only one way - and you can do mantras, etc. I never know he was a Ramtha devotee - that is kind of off putting to me.
If you want to see brilliance at work in this field, try one of Linda Thai's body-based courses on Collectively Rooted. The class I'm in now is full of therapists of all sorts and the breakthroughs they are having in their own healing just being exposed to her material and her presence have been nothing less than profound.
Why be greedy and keep all that pain for ourselves?! Spread it around :- )
In my experience, the people who are unable or unwilling to face their trauma are sick, physically and/or mentally. I would go so far as to say they are content to die that way. In my life, I can divide my friends into those two categories- those willing to process the trauma and those not willing to do so.
...in a very safe environment... hmmm...
I tend to dwell on the past. Some of it is blurry, maybe invented. I suspect some things I was told were invented to cover up other stories I was told before those, and I don't really have a way to tell. So when I'm upset with memories, I turn the skepticism knob all the way to 11 and I feel a bit better.
Elizabeth Nickson is a treasure - as are you!!
That guy in video is not creating a safe space to this viewer
Regarding geo-engineering trails since the 4/8 "solar eclipse" (or whatever happened on that day; who really knows) where I live in San Diego: It has virtually stopped, disappeared. It's quite astounding, really, to see the completely clear blue sky every day. Today was another day of geo-engineering trail-free blue skies after the fog burned off. It's remarkable. We are on two weeks here of almost non-stop blue skies. I can honestly tell everyone here that I have not witnessed this pattern in several years. I don't know what is going on, but anyone with eyes to see can witness an obvious pattern change. I wonder what "they" are up to.
For whatever it may be worth, Jacob Liberman, an optometrist by training, studied something called syntonics whereby looking at colored lights allegedly helped with behavioral problems.
He developed the idea the colors or shades that cause discomfort can alleviate trauma.
His book "Luminous Life" gives his thought process.<p>He also claimed the use of Brock strings to help eye convergence can have a psychological effect, covered in the same book.
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope to change yesterday."
Lily Tomlin
Thanks for sharing the Tim Fletcher video…I’m sure there’s a few of the Truth Barrier readers who will benefit from watching it. 💓🙏🏻
I appreciated this article. I think along with learning how to deal with past traumas we need to learn to fortify ourselves against gaslighting. It's going on everywhere and has been for a long time, even in Christianity. Traumatized people are much more vulnerable to gaslighting, and the powers that be know this. It's why there's so much garbage in the news and in entertainment. It re-traumatizes us every time we engage in it. That's also why, I think, citizen journalists are going to become more and more critical. Authenticity is so important as we learn the hard truths of what the powers that be have been doing to us our whole lives. I know together we'll get through this and come out stronger for it.
My mom died when I was 15, I'm 60 now and think about her every day and sometimes, I get a lump in my throat. It's a good thing, keep the memory alive. All this "expunge it". Well, I disagree.
A friend gave me the book *Living Buddha, Living Christ,* by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have been reading it slowly over the past few months. Not everything TNH says rings true for my experience of Christianity, but there is a lot of wisdom in the book. I particularly appreciate his description of handling an emotionally provoking situation: "Breathing in, I recognize my feeling. Breathing out, I calm my feeling." This has helped me in many situations, and although I do revisit the situation when I am in a calmer frame of mind--usually hours later--I can get through the situation without digging a hole or inflicting wounds on others with this technique.