Perfectly put, Trish! 💯 spot on. I think that’s why I’ve become consumed by gardening this year… I stopped reading every bit of bad news a few years ago, now virtually nothing. I’ve reached saturation… and it doesn’t do us any good wallowing in it all. We’ve got the big picture, that’s enough.
I stopped a lot of the doom scrolling, but I do look for ways to prepare for what’s coming. Financial collapse, power outages yada yada. Cleansing from the nano tech for the transhumanist agenda. Last night I started laughing about it. The transhumanist agenda, so ridiculous. I also found the spiritual channels and astrology. We are in the great awakening and our consciousness can change the course of history / timeline.
It’s so easy to get pulled into the heaviness, but laughing about it helps so much. I think we can overcome this darkness one conversation, one connection at a time - when that happens a million times over, something real shifts in the world.
They say the collective experience is a reflection of our individual states. More awakening means more Christ consciousness, realizing we are all one, would unify the collective
I don’t try to wake people up any longer as we all know it’s pointless but when I do find a rare person that seems genuinely curious & capable of making the first few steps up the staircase of disbelief I am a bit reticent now due to the knowledge that should they start this journey they will have to go through the process you described which as we all know isn’t much fun at times!
I think it better to gloss over the darkness (not fully though) & go straight to the spiritual with certain people. Finding out you are an immortal divine spark of consciousness is way better than doom scrolling for years on end!
That’s a really good point - and also yet another use of our finite time and energy trying to wake others up is probably not the best way to spend our time on this earth and much better as you say to focus instead on the divine truths that are truly awe inspiring and make all the dark stuff just shrink away 🙌🏻
110% agree deenzy. I am on a substack thread (about to get off) where people are debating about the stitching on the holdall of Tommy Mair, the alledged killer of the alleged victim Jo Cox. Rabbit holes to keep us from recognising our divinity.
I one hundred percent agree with everything you say. But there is a certain anchor that keeps me in the trenches ... the future. The memory hole is real, and the ability to erase has now reached the next level. As you say, the burnout of that vigilance will ultimately be counterproductive. But I feel an urgency to help those yet to come. We cant allow the hell we've all been through to become the accepted reality in the days to come ... that requires some hard work and sacrifice now. We don't have to doom scroll all day to accomplish that. For me, it is documenting what happened.
Thank you so much 🙌🏻 your words mean the world to me. I started this Substack to document and to connect with others, to hear that my writing has relevance and meaning for others is really heartening.
Wonderful thought provoking piece Trish.I try to limit my rabbit hole excursions,otherwise it would take up your every waking hour.I’m just back from walking on the Camino and one of the many lessons I took from it was live your best life.It’s a wonderful world with mostly wonderful people with the exception of the predator class.
We can’t unknow what we know but that shouldn’t stop us trying to live our life’s as best we can with our family and friends.
Keep writing Trish,your content seems to be resonating with alot of people.
You write beautifully and honestly from the heart which is so refreshing, resonant and soothing in these dire dystopian times. Stay strong, Trish. I find a bit of random joyful humming often helps the doom and gloom. No tunes, just random free-flow humming! Or some reckless whisper-whistling.
Never before has cleaning out my cupboards seemed like such an important task to stay grounded and laugh at the terror state establishment regime! Hehe, haha, I don't care any more, lots of defiant restorative tidying up to do! Stand back. May the clutter clearances begin!
Thank you Nigel. It means a lot that my musings bring some comfort in these challenging times. I love the idea of random joyful humming and reckless whisper-whistling, simple acts of rebellion and lightness in a heavy world.
There is something seriously therapeutic and restorative about clearing out cupboards and creating order from chaos. It’s a small, defiant act of reclaiming peace and sanity. May your decluttering be joyous, and freeing.
Stay strong and keep humming, my friend. We’re in this together.
You're right about focusing on tangible details and breaking away from the misery train. However, I bet you get more cupboards cleaned out than I do! I'm with you in spirit though! Clutter clearances are an ongoing challenge.
I can confirm that there is joy in doing little things each day, finding peace in simple things. Slow is beautiful, too. Someone somewhere wrote something recently about this that caught my eye. I think it was a poem about taking joy in each moment each day, from simply taking the time to fold clothing away neatly or clean things up here and there. It all helps and it all matters.
We shall keep joyfully sparkling through the dystopian gloom. Bollards to the oppressive Orwellian regime! Never before has joyful bollard-building been such an appealing hobby!
Actually, for me, it wasn't so much that the people on my two councils, disagreed or even that they wouldn't read the evidence--it was the denial of what I thought was a previous universally shared right--to say something even if you disagreed.
Great article Hugh, and the Daily Sceptic one too, it brings that awful time back, I wish I could say in 2025 that those times are over but they are not. There has been no vindication of the good ones. As you say, we have to choose what we focus on, maintain a balance as our minds and spirits can get overwhelmed by the scale of deception if we are not discerning.
I am currently awaiting publication of my 5 year review--setting out what "they" said at the time, what "we" said at the time AND what the real life evidence shows. Presentations such as Martin Neill's to the Scottish Covid enquiry and research such as Jonathan Engler’s bring the story up to date along recent research from Dennis Rancourt
Beautiful words, I appreciate them so. So much crystalized wisdom served so exquisitely. You highlight the importance of balance as we unveil the truth whilst also dealing with the realizations of what those truths have revealed. The thought after thought, like a line of dominos fall and we watch transfixed until the final one has fallen. Only then do we know, in the silence that ensues, the full picture laid before. You are right on so many levels .... Guard your peace... humanity needs it and protect your proportionality; peace; soul and mind and step back from obsession masquerading as awareness.... your offering people the best advice I've read in ages. Many blessings and much love to you and yours xxxx
What a beautiful article Trish as someone who has only been awake for 8 months I can relate. My "final rabbit hole" was the fake space rabbit hole. I dont let myself go to the bottom of anymore as it cannot help me. I know it's a divisive topic but understanding that we don't live on a globe, didn't evolve from monkeys and have been beautifully designed were the gifts of truly plumbing the depths of that hole. This is a spiritual realm and we are infinitely powerful beings and TPTB hide our divinity, KNOWING these things has helped my mental health temendously. The only other rabbit hole I explore is the medical one as knowing about how bodies truly work can help my quality of life and that of my family. Tom Cowan is an amazing doctor who helped me understand the fraud of the medical industry. Health and spirituality are my focus and I encourage others to focus on the same. Thank you for your words Trish.
Thank you so much for sharing this, Mary. It sounds like you’ve been on a deep and courageous journey these past eight months. It’s great that you’ve found clarity in focusing on health and spirituality, remembering we are beautifully designed even in these worrying times.
I’ve not heard about Tom Cowan but will look him up. Sending warmth and encouragement as you continue on your path, and thank you again for reading and sharing your reflections here.
Thank you Trish - I had begun to try to cutdown and out the noise that has been obsessing me for years now and you have now put into words my thoughts exactly. I have no mobile phone but I have an iPad and as a first step I plan to lock it in a drawer every weekend - a start for me I think. I also like the suggestion from one of your commentators of deleting the Substack App and only reading those that drop into my intray via my request and yours will be on this short list for sure!
Ah thank you Barbara. And I think I might need to take some drastic action myself, I spend far too long on my wretched phone, I’m a slave to it really so I think that maybe just cutting down on that and some apps would be a good start. I need to quieten that noise in my head 🙌🏻
I think is natural from time to time. My personal view is that it is ok to delve deep and discover the lies but then don't dwell in any one rabbit hole. There are too many and ultimately takes time away from the main goal of our lives in this realm (imo) which is to contribute to the collective good of the universe by evolving our souls to virbrate at the higher frequency of love rather than fear. I can't believe it just wrote that! 8 months ago if you'd asked me to get a tattoo of Richard Dawkins I might have said yes. Ha!
Nicely summed up, Trish. Me? I go fly-fishing, church bell-ringing, gardening and spend time with my young grand-daughter because she’s the reason I stay awake and cleave to dissident activism. I do not want the world they are planning for her.
A virtual kiss from my distant hamster cage, in a completely irrelevant place for you, somewhere in this beautiful earth, where we can't really dwell around in anymore, because "private property" met big time monopoly "pushers and shakers" - the circus show was too entertaining and distracting, the tribal nature of people, too determinant - the primal instinct "to belong", too easy to exploit. Reality, too crude and raw to digest - fantasy virtual worlds, soon to be deployed.
Just appreciate your mortality, and know that everything here is an attempt to eat your soul up. Cheers! 👋
Thank you Matias 🙏I will check out that link. I have not seen that episode of Black Mirror but certainly the last 5 years have felt a bit like one long episode of Black Mirror, especially the “pandemic “ years.
Sounds like we're on the same kind of path ... I too decided to step back after consuming so much info. It's a necessary action if you want to keep your sanity for the long term , who knows what we may need to overcome next my friend.
Perfectly put, Trish! 💯 spot on. I think that’s why I’ve become consumed by gardening this year… I stopped reading every bit of bad news a few years ago, now virtually nothing. I’ve reached saturation… and it doesn’t do us any good wallowing in it all. We’ve got the big picture, that’s enough.
Exactly that Rachel 👌🏻 we’ve got the big picture, and that’s more than enough to shoulder 🙌🏻😔
I stopped a lot of the doom scrolling, but I do look for ways to prepare for what’s coming. Financial collapse, power outages yada yada. Cleansing from the nano tech for the transhumanist agenda. Last night I started laughing about it. The transhumanist agenda, so ridiculous. I also found the spiritual channels and astrology. We are in the great awakening and our consciousness can change the course of history / timeline.
It’s so easy to get pulled into the heaviness, but laughing about it helps so much. I think we can overcome this darkness one conversation, one connection at a time - when that happens a million times over, something real shifts in the world.
They say the collective experience is a reflection of our individual states. More awakening means more Christ consciousness, realizing we are all one, would unify the collective
Great piece Trish.
I don’t try to wake people up any longer as we all know it’s pointless but when I do find a rare person that seems genuinely curious & capable of making the first few steps up the staircase of disbelief I am a bit reticent now due to the knowledge that should they start this journey they will have to go through the process you described which as we all know isn’t much fun at times!
I think it better to gloss over the darkness (not fully though) & go straight to the spiritual with certain people. Finding out you are an immortal divine spark of consciousness is way better than doom scrolling for years on end!
That’s a really good point - and also yet another use of our finite time and energy trying to wake others up is probably not the best way to spend our time on this earth and much better as you say to focus instead on the divine truths that are truly awe inspiring and make all the dark stuff just shrink away 🙌🏻
110% agree deenzy. I am on a substack thread (about to get off) where people are debating about the stitching on the holdall of Tommy Mair, the alledged killer of the alleged victim Jo Cox. Rabbit holes to keep us from recognising our divinity.
Thank you, you write like I wish I could.
I one hundred percent agree with everything you say. But there is a certain anchor that keeps me in the trenches ... the future. The memory hole is real, and the ability to erase has now reached the next level. As you say, the burnout of that vigilance will ultimately be counterproductive. But I feel an urgency to help those yet to come. We cant allow the hell we've all been through to become the accepted reality in the days to come ... that requires some hard work and sacrifice now. We don't have to doom scroll all day to accomplish that. For me, it is documenting what happened.
Trish your writing is just that.
I agree that we owe it to future generations to keep speaking up, and speaking out for truth.
Thank you so much 🙌🏻 your words mean the world to me. I started this Substack to document and to connect with others, to hear that my writing has relevance and meaning for others is really heartening.
Wonderful thought provoking piece Trish.I try to limit my rabbit hole excursions,otherwise it would take up your every waking hour.I’m just back from walking on the Camino and one of the many lessons I took from it was live your best life.It’s a wonderful world with mostly wonderful people with the exception of the predator class.
We can’t unknow what we know but that shouldn’t stop us trying to live our life’s as best we can with our family and friends.
Keep writing Trish,your content seems to be resonating with alot of people.
Thank you 🙏 I fully agree with you, live our lives as best we can is the best antidote to the burden of knowing 🙌🏻☺️
You write beautifully and honestly from the heart which is so refreshing, resonant and soothing in these dire dystopian times. Stay strong, Trish. I find a bit of random joyful humming often helps the doom and gloom. No tunes, just random free-flow humming! Or some reckless whisper-whistling.
Never before has cleaning out my cupboards seemed like such an important task to stay grounded and laugh at the terror state establishment regime! Hehe, haha, I don't care any more, lots of defiant restorative tidying up to do! Stand back. May the clutter clearances begin!
Thank you Nigel. It means a lot that my musings bring some comfort in these challenging times. I love the idea of random joyful humming and reckless whisper-whistling, simple acts of rebellion and lightness in a heavy world.
There is something seriously therapeutic and restorative about clearing out cupboards and creating order from chaos. It’s a small, defiant act of reclaiming peace and sanity. May your decluttering be joyous, and freeing.
Stay strong and keep humming, my friend. We’re in this together.
You're right about focusing on tangible details and breaking away from the misery train. However, I bet you get more cupboards cleaned out than I do! I'm with you in spirit though! Clutter clearances are an ongoing challenge.
I can confirm that there is joy in doing little things each day, finding peace in simple things. Slow is beautiful, too. Someone somewhere wrote something recently about this that caught my eye. I think it was a poem about taking joy in each moment each day, from simply taking the time to fold clothing away neatly or clean things up here and there. It all helps and it all matters.
We shall keep joyfully sparkling through the dystopian gloom. Bollards to the oppressive Orwellian regime! Never before has joyful bollard-building been such an appealing hobby!
Or a forwards roll. That always makes me smile, once I’ve managed to stand up again!
haha I get into trouble all the time for humming..... it's a great technique to keep you going, to be sure.
Not sure I could manage that, maybe I will try it 😅
Actually, for me, it wasn't so much that the people on my two councils, disagreed or even that they wouldn't read the evidence--it was the denial of what I thought was a previous universally shared right--to say something even if you disagreed.
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/its-not-what-i-said-its-why-i-couldnt
As you say, the quest for truth is exhausting, I now try to prioritise those whom I read-it's the only way to survive.
Great article Hugh, and the Daily Sceptic one too, it brings that awful time back, I wish I could say in 2025 that those times are over but they are not. There has been no vindication of the good ones. As you say, we have to choose what we focus on, maintain a balance as our minds and spirits can get overwhelmed by the scale of deception if we are not discerning.
I am currently awaiting publication of my 5 year review--setting out what "they" said at the time, what "we" said at the time AND what the real life evidence shows. Presentations such as Martin Neill's to the Scottish Covid enquiry and research such as Jonathan Engler’s bring the story up to date along recent research from Dennis Rancourt
It is all about the lack of accountability.
I look forward to reading that 🙌🏻
Beautiful words, I appreciate them so. So much crystalized wisdom served so exquisitely. You highlight the importance of balance as we unveil the truth whilst also dealing with the realizations of what those truths have revealed. The thought after thought, like a line of dominos fall and we watch transfixed until the final one has fallen. Only then do we know, in the silence that ensues, the full picture laid before. You are right on so many levels .... Guard your peace... humanity needs it and protect your proportionality; peace; soul and mind and step back from obsession masquerading as awareness.... your offering people the best advice I've read in ages. Many blessings and much love to you and yours xxxx
Thank you so much for your kind words, it is lovely to get a comment like that 🙌🏻♥️♥️
Superb.
I'm learning (as of very recently), the importance of good daily habits, which can become a routine, a ground, to live from.
The right reading, time outside, bodily movement, clear boundary fence = digging the soil, for me.
Then it's finding, and planting, the good seeds and tending them with care and clear attention.
Go well, Trish : )
Thank you Penny - I love to walk along the beautiful coastal walk near my home, everything feels better after a walk by the sea 🙌🏻
What a beautiful article Trish as someone who has only been awake for 8 months I can relate. My "final rabbit hole" was the fake space rabbit hole. I dont let myself go to the bottom of anymore as it cannot help me. I know it's a divisive topic but understanding that we don't live on a globe, didn't evolve from monkeys and have been beautifully designed were the gifts of truly plumbing the depths of that hole. This is a spiritual realm and we are infinitely powerful beings and TPTB hide our divinity, KNOWING these things has helped my mental health temendously. The only other rabbit hole I explore is the medical one as knowing about how bodies truly work can help my quality of life and that of my family. Tom Cowan is an amazing doctor who helped me understand the fraud of the medical industry. Health and spirituality are my focus and I encourage others to focus on the same. Thank you for your words Trish.
Thank you so much for sharing this, Mary. It sounds like you’ve been on a deep and courageous journey these past eight months. It’s great that you’ve found clarity in focusing on health and spirituality, remembering we are beautifully designed even in these worrying times.
I’ve not heard about Tom Cowan but will look him up. Sending warmth and encouragement as you continue on your path, and thank you again for reading and sharing your reflections here.
Thank you Trish - I had begun to try to cutdown and out the noise that has been obsessing me for years now and you have now put into words my thoughts exactly. I have no mobile phone but I have an iPad and as a first step I plan to lock it in a drawer every weekend - a start for me I think. I also like the suggestion from one of your commentators of deleting the Substack App and only reading those that drop into my intray via my request and yours will be on this short list for sure!
Ah thank you Barbara. And I think I might need to take some drastic action myself, I spend far too long on my wretched phone, I’m a slave to it really so I think that maybe just cutting down on that and some apps would be a good start. I need to quieten that noise in my head 🙌🏻
I too have been only getting limited sleep pursuing information
It’s addictive but don’t let it wear you down, you need your sleep 🙌🏻
I think is natural from time to time. My personal view is that it is ok to delve deep and discover the lies but then don't dwell in any one rabbit hole. There are too many and ultimately takes time away from the main goal of our lives in this realm (imo) which is to contribute to the collective good of the universe by evolving our souls to virbrate at the higher frequency of love rather than fear. I can't believe it just wrote that! 8 months ago if you'd asked me to get a tattoo of Richard Dawkins I might have said yes. Ha!
Excellent advice Trish! Have been realising the same. X
Ah thank you Michéle 🙏
Nicely summed up, Trish. Me? I go fly-fishing, church bell-ringing, gardening and spend time with my young grand-daughter because she’s the reason I stay awake and cleave to dissident activism. I do not want the world they are planning for her.
Sounds like the perfect antidote Iain, the best revenge is living well, as the saying goes 🙌🏻☺️
Welcome to the attention economy. Black Mirror Season 1/ Episode 2.
It's the wheel in the hamster cage. I was listening to this 👇 while reading your article:
https://soundcloud.com/camilo-gomez-918693624/sets/jazz-noir-mix
Perfect match. 👌
A virtual kiss from my distant hamster cage, in a completely irrelevant place for you, somewhere in this beautiful earth, where we can't really dwell around in anymore, because "private property" met big time monopoly "pushers and shakers" - the circus show was too entertaining and distracting, the tribal nature of people, too determinant - the primal instinct "to belong", too easy to exploit. Reality, too crude and raw to digest - fantasy virtual worlds, soon to be deployed.
Just appreciate your mortality, and know that everything here is an attempt to eat your soul up. Cheers! 👋
Thank you Matias 🙏I will check out that link. I have not seen that episode of Black Mirror but certainly the last 5 years have felt a bit like one long episode of Black Mirror, especially the “pandemic “ years.
Sounds like we're on the same kind of path ... I too decided to step back after consuming so much info. It's a necessary action if you want to keep your sanity for the long term , who knows what we may need to overcome next my friend.
Sound advice 👌 Trish
Jason
Thank you Jason 🙌🏻☺️