Posted by onawah
(here)
Being a forum that is largely about "conspiracy theory", which naturally consists mainly of uncomfortable subjects, forum members may be concerned with whether "staring into the abyss" is negatively affecting those of us who are preoccupied with doing just that, as the side effect of researching what's really going on in the world that is being hidden.
(...From whatever motivation, which can range from simply wanting to be in service to others by exposing the truth, to needing to understand a problem in order to avoid it ourselves. )
Personally, I was working very hard for a long time at being a "positive thinker" but eventually I realized how that can actually result in mental and emotional imbalance and becoming foolishly blinded to reality.
(Being a Leo, I can tend to go to extremes, and I may have actually gone to the other extreme as well at times.
For example, I was at one time an ardent student of the "Course in Miracles", the main premise of which is that evil actually doesn't exist.
Until I realized how the public was being lied to about 911, and began jumping down many rabbit holes nearly full time. )
Being always in resistance to accepting that the Dark side of things exists may actually also result in a
warped imbalance that can make the Dark side appear somehow fascinating and attractive, and necessary in order to be a "sophisticated" person.
Older and wiser souls are no doubt aware of all that and work at maintaining a balanced and
healthy perspective.
...Although that may seem like pessimism to younger souls who think they must maintain a state of denial about the yin and yang of this 3D reality in order to remain optimistic.
To the wise souls that's no doubt one more sure avenue to disillusionment.
That question of balance applies to so much in life.
This line of thought was sparked in me by recent posts from a couple of long-time Avalonians who are apparently feeling the inevitable squeeze of disillusionment now.
...And then by the following relevant episode from Greg Reese (which is kind of ironic, since he is very much a whistleblower and conspiracy theorist himself
):
Mental Food
Greg Reese
Feb 10 2026
https://substack.com/home/post/p-187409490
(Podcast at the link)
"The concept of “mental food” is simple: just as the food we eat shapes our body, the information and stimuli we consume with our senses shapes our psyche, our emotions, and our overall well-being. There is an ancient proverb: “The body becomes what the foods are; as the spirit becomes what the thoughts are.” The Buddha taught that feeding the mind with greed, hatred, and delusion strengthens those things, and that practicing mindfulness allows us to guard the “gates of the senses” and curate a more pure experience. Epictetus taught that the mind should be guarded like a fortress against external events to maintain inner peace and freedom. According to Rosicrucian philosophy, pure thoughts build finer vehicles. In James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh, the mind is compared to a garden that must be cultivated. By treating thoughts as seeds, individuals choose to plant positive, constructive ideas or allow weeds of negative thought to grow. This shapes the individual’s character and determines their outcomes in life.
GIGO—”Garbage In, Garbage Out”—is a computing principle that simply expresses how the quality of the output is directly determined by the quality of the input. You don’t want to input garbage code into your computer, and you certainly don’t want to input garbage into your mind. And Social media, for the most part—along with much of mass media—is garbage.
Studies show that habitual scrolling on social media causes desensitization, reduced focus, dopamine addiction, compulsion, anxiety, and depression. Exposure to political media, regardless of political affiliation, increases feelings of despair, hopelessness, and paranoia. And this psychology is very well known: when people are kept in this voluntary state of hysteria, they are easily herded in any direction the shepherd desires.
Techniques called microtargeting and hyper-nudging are used against social media consumers to foster conflicts and reactive behaviors, and to create echo chambers that temper worldviews. This manipulates the emotions of all social media consumers on a subconscious level, keeping them from asking deeper questions. State-sponsored social media manipulation is officially being used in over sixty countries to condition the minds of the masses. Propaganda is very popular with governments because everyone is easily influenced by it.
G.I. Gurdjieff calls these sensory and psychological inputs from the external world “impressions” and taught that impressions are the highest and most important food, requiring conscious awareness to be properly assimilated. And warned that without a well-practiced sense of self-awareness, the acquired personality—what some call the ego—will mismanage the impressions, causing people to be hypnotized and poisoned by them.
To override this, one must interpose consciousness the moment the impression is received. As an impression arrives, pause and observe it objectively, and observe how your thoughts, emotions, and body react to it. Use reflection to properly address the impression, and if needed, redirect it to the intellectual center for analysis. To get really good at this, you could sit comfortably every evening before bed and reconstruct your entire day, working backwards scene by scene.
For many, this requires consistent effort, but restricting yourself from violent media and feeding yourself more positive stimuli has the benefits of reduced ego-driven reactions, less stress, more peace, and spiritual evolution. Studies on media deprivation and mental health show that even taking a break for one or two weeks significantly reduces anxiety, depression, loneliness, and insomnia. Studies have shown that listening to non-lyrical classical music reduces stress and depression while enhancing cognition and emotional processing. It improves sleep quality, memory, and mobility in older adults.
Be careful what you “eat.” As Nietzsche famously said, “If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
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By Greg Reese
A commentary on the current course of human destiny.
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Then again, there is another perspective that challenges just how on target even conspiracy theorists are when so many devote themselves passionately to issues that are minor in importance compared to the larger issues that affect the health and well being of all life on the planet, but which often remain on the sidelines.
(Possibly because those issues are just too depressing to dwell on, or, more likely, too unbelievable.)
...Because too many people are still in such denial about those larger issues that it may feel like a hopeless waste of time trying to bring it to public attention.
Such as what Dr. Ana Mihalcea expresses in the excerpt following from:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-186349271
Humanity United Now - Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD
Are Geoengineering Magnetite Nanoparticles Causing Ice Storms Also Used For Cognitive, Biological and Technological Warfare Against US Civilians?
Jan 30, 2026
"If my tone seems a bit cynical at this insanity, it is only that I am wondering about the fact that people will march the streets and protest for one or two individuals being killed in some situation. They will get riled up in political wars, what is called ICE today, was called Black Lives Matter, J6 etc.
But the population of the world will not rise against the military industrial complex and the world military intelligence shadow governments when every man, woman and child living on earth is being poisoned via geoengineering operations and our biosphere and home planet is being destroyed. It does not matter what country you live in, what gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, skin color, political persuasion or any other identifier you want to name as our differences that warrant discord--
WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME WEAPONIZED AIR OF THIS EARTH.
Is it because the brain destruction via these magnetite nanoparticles combined with the mind control electromagnetic frequency warfare via 5 G, HAARP is so effective that people are not waking up to this existential threat?
We are running out of time, because demented people will never change this situation -- and that is where everyone’s brain is heading, even the youngest people.
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(Thankfully, she goes on in the same article to talk about the remedies, such as EDTA, that she has found which detoxify the human body from the nanotech in question. )
Just some food for thought, and possibly discussion.
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A worthwhile post, but also it’s the OP of a recent worthwhile thread:
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