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PANEL: Psychological warfare and the power of positive thinking

New face Carey Wedler joins regulars Ryan Cristian, Derrick Broze, Kit Knightly, Steve Poikonen, Catherine Austin Fitts and Hakeem Anwar to discuss her personal journey of stress, sickness and healing. The wide-ranging talk also touches on the impact of emotional stress on physical health, the consequences of engaging with a 24-hour news cycle, the concept of manifestation, the role of religion (for good and bad) and the things we can all do to preserve our own calm.

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lucerbear
lucerbear
Oct 24, 2025 4:32 PM

When is the next panel? Carey Wedler brought me to the site.

hypocrite1
hypocrite1
Aug 28, 2025 9:09 PM

Catherine Austin Fitts is no’s her stuff.

Elrin
Elrin
Aug 7, 2025 6:04 PM

“Kit” should try the rice experiment as he looks totally unconvinced about our objective reality.

Agorista
Agorista
Aug 5, 2025 11:26 AM

I really enjoyed this chat. In the midst of ever more craziness, more than ever we need to look after our physical and mental health.

It’s easy to become fixated on external events and forces but to really change the world we each need to take care of the only thing we can control: our own thoughts and actions.

Big love to you Kit and the rest of you freedom loving folks

Batman
Batman
Aug 3, 2025 7:46 PM

If the youetube video has big YELLOW letters exclaiming something to bait you, steer clear!

Noralf
Noralf
Aug 2, 2025 11:52 AM

Aron Maté, in his brilliant book, “When the Body Says No” has a chapter on the need for negative thinking, and a warning against “positive thinking” being a mental trap. ‘Positive’ is a foggy word and could mean anything depending on who says it, like “God is with us” on the nazi army belts (Gott mit uns”). It takes ‘negative thinking’ to critically learn to know the cage we’re in, in order to break free. Know your enemy. Don’t trust the government. Watch out for that cult! Do not comply! Never take a vaccine (bioweapon) again! Dare to say no! And so on…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 2, 2025 10:55 PM
Reply to  Noralf

Balance. Its a balance and to make a balance you need strength. Inner strength can create the confidence and positive thinking’s instinct and ability to say no.

Agorista
Agorista
Aug 4, 2025 7:12 AM
Reply to  Noralf

It’s Gabor Mate who wrote the book, Aaron’s father 😉

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 2, 2025 9:01 AM

The psychological aspect is the main focus of the propaganda system. Actually it is the propaganda system. The various divisions are programmed into the media. A recent example is the non-sequitur linkage of the Israel/Gaza topic with the trans topic (Trans = Palestinians, Anti-trans = Israel). Earlier we had the fusion of “The Left” with the “fight against covid” thus implying that rejection of the covid crap automatically makes you “Right Wing”.

Thus everyone is pressured into taking up a position in the phony theatre. And having your attention divided between two different and unrelated matters automatically creates that sickening sense of stomach tightening that heralds psychological stress.

Also, I am becoming more and more convinced that so many of the topics being shoved down our throats are, whatever else they are, distractions. The trans issue is serious but at the same time the sheer absurdity of it is part of the psychological warfare. And I think that an early aspect of the psychological warfare is that much of these operations were not supposed to last. I doubt if the trans thing is going to last much longer but in the meantime it has already done a vast amount of damage. And it has provided this huge distraction.

The fundamental tactic is destabilisation – that sickening feeling that you are trying to tread water on a sea of deliberately whipped up confusion where the very words you use are being turned against you.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 2, 2025 11:00 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Very right so, and the solution start to it is awareness. Aware that all this “behavioral science” bs is deliberately made to confuse us, spoil our time, and to weaken us.

mik
mik
Aug 3, 2025 4:06 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Even if it is obvious distraction in needs to be dealt with, it needs to be understood, it must be valuated. You’ve done a good job with trans here, for example.
A thing becomes distraction when one has to know every single news about a thing.

antonym
antonym
Aug 2, 2025 7:00 AM

Positive thinking: that is THE way to go. Morphic resonance + Internet will spread this as counter wildfire, creating obstacles for MSM crap.

les online
les online
Aug 2, 2025 3:03 AM

Missing “minute” from video of Epstein’s cell reveals who dunnit…

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/bread-circuses-great-reset-humor-july-20-2025

(Includes List of Suspects).

Derek Diamond
Derek Diamond
Aug 1, 2025 11:32 PM

Uru in the Valley of Sleepers
Daniel Quinn

https://www.ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/parables/uru-in-the-valley-of-sleepers/

An excerpt from Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism by Jack D. Forbes:
https://www.sevenstories.com/blogs/186-to-abolish-columbus-day

I’m thinking of blueberry and cranberry picking.

Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People
by ‘Cúagilákv (Jess Housty)

April 27, 2021

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/thriving-together-salmon-berries-and-people/

The Serviceberry

Robin Wall Kimmerer

October 26, 2022

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/

Vision Quest
“The Vision Quest is a rite of passage conducted each spring that enables men and adolescent boys to engage in an ancient ceremony, assisting them in the transition from one life stage to the next, with purpose and meaning.”

https://www.turtlelodge.org/cause-view/vision-quest/

Paul Ortega, Indian music legend, walks on
https://www.nativesunnews.today/articles/paul-ortega-indian-music-legend-walks-on/

The Trail Song

A. Paul. Ortega

https://youtu.be/Vq-irEdoNF8

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 2, 2025 11:24 PM
Reply to  Derek Diamond

A music legend? A hiking wheel chair https://youtu.be/whzAXhUk-dY?list=RDwhzAXhUk-dY .

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 1, 2025 10:40 PM

How are we going to positively think our way out of this trend in “medicine”?

The tech billionaires and rogue scientists moving to commercialise CRISPR babies
Advocates of heritable genome editing who command enormous financial resources are moving ahead with no regard for its safety, societal, or eugenic risks.

This week, Bloomberg News reports that Bootstrap Bio, a company created about 18 months ago, has “hired a chief science officer, opened a lab and pivoted its work” to genetic editing of human embryos. Based on investor information, it says that Bootstrap Bio may be planning to launch human trials – that is, using altered embryos to initiate pregnancies – in 2026 or 2027 in Honduras, “a place where the company could potentially avoid US regulations.”
_________________

Forget governments and their regs and police. They are for us plebs.
It’s the rogue states and rogue billionnaires who run the world.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Aug 2, 2025 3:35 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

I’m not quite sure why this affects 3 billion fertile men and women globally? Are we going to suggest that breeding is going be outlawed by the billionaires, so that only they can create embryos in a laboratory??

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 1, 2025 9:17 PM

How many people in this community know of or have practical experience with GNM (German New Medicine)?

I can see how GNM can truly change the perception of your own self. In ways similar to Carey Wedler says.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Aug 1, 2025 9:04 PM

Is Norman Vincent Peale mentioned? Then what good is it?

weeman666
weeman666
Aug 1, 2025 7:53 PM

gosh!

brianborou
brianborou
Aug 1, 2025 6:17 PM

” .. the role of religion..”

Mere Christianity.

mik
mik
Aug 3, 2025 4:34 PM
Reply to  brianborou

Thank you. Bookmarked!

Commenters here who are full-mouthed of God and religion should read two chapters about Faith. Many of them are far from what is written there and closer to:

Suicidal Tendencies – Send me your moneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtCYKam2JTc

Recommended to others too, well you need stomach for religious texts.

p.s.
When entered search phrase ‘ suicidal tendencies’ on gootube I got a message that I’m not alone, do I need help…..unfucking believable, that’s new

sandy
sandy
Aug 1, 2025 4:20 PM

It seems to me if we had a plan of how the public, with some form of self governing, can disempower an elite class ruling system from ever developing again, we can reduce the fear levels to a manageable norm. Imho.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 2, 2025 3:35 AM
Reply to  sandy

Come on. Do you sincerely believe the public could take over the Elite Class Ruling System?
They would not last more than 1 week, then some ISIS or Azov would take over the show.

sandy
sandy
Aug 2, 2025 7:00 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

We are 99%. They are 1%. When the 99% finally want to stand up together, we are unstoppable. We won’t repeat a ruling class system. We replace it with a consent based, democratic policy making by and for the 99%. This is the simple logic of any group of people who want to make collective decisions. If you don’t want to be bothered with this tedious task then return to bowing down to the Elite Ruling Class you’ve determined to be your omnipotent master. Socrates would run i through question and answer, but i’m just cutting to the chase.

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 10:17 AM
Reply to  sandy

This would require a level of organisation that would immediately replicate the power structures that you intend to dismantle in the first place.

sandy
sandy
Aug 2, 2025 7:09 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

You are assuming any “level of organization” is limited to the existing FAKE republic totalitarianism? No other possibilities? Are you not self-policing your thinking in favor of the current dysfunctional mess operated by a few? If so, why? If you’d like an example of real collective decision making join a collective or anarchist group to see how it’s done. You might not find one easily but they exist. They work if no one or no one group takes over. And there are process/meeting/decision methods that make this so. Experiment. Document. It is doable and humanity has the technological skills and morality to make it work if we get together in solidarity. The rats show themselves early or late and are neutralized out of all power. Their smell is distinctive.

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 8:56 PM
Reply to  sandy

 If you’d like an example of real collective decision making join a collective or anarchist group to see how it’s done

I am not denying the success of potential experiments in non-hyerarchical structures. I am merely suggesting that when you try to scale them up, you almost inevitably reproduce some forms of the power structures that have plagued societies for thousands of years.

But I remain hopeful that large-scale decentralised societies will exist in the distant future, once the human beings have collectively do without the needs of saviours. It will take an awful lot of collective spiritual evolution that I don’t see happening anytime soon, though.

sandy
sandy
Aug 2, 2025 11:08 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

At some point people decide to do it. That is sometime in the future, 5 minutes or 5 years or whatever. No one has scaled them up because capitalists have indoctrinated (150 years of controlled history propaganda) it as impossible, then use the barrel of a gun to the head of any who attempt it. We now have the knowledge to know that the capitalist’s “free market” is a bedtime myth and fraudulent usurpment of human authority for the purpose of allowing unregulated criminality to rule. That day is obsolete, and we have the right and the authority to permanently cage it away from harming Earth and Humanity. Our streets, our Planet. Simple as that thought being foremost in one’s mind. Nothing else is acceptable and nothing less can be prosecuted by us.

mik
mik
Aug 3, 2025 1:41 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

“It will take an awful lot of collective spiritual evolution….”

This sounds to me very new age. And it’s wrong.
I’ve posted the following passage from Tao Ta Ching 38 many times:

When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of Chaos.

What we need is ethical renaissance. Spiritual will come latter.

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 3, 2025 10:43 PM
Reply to  mik

Okay then, if you do not like the new age “garbage”, i will happily change my statement using your vocab:

It will take an awful lot of ethical renaissance that I don’t see happening anytime soon, though.

Happier now? 🙂

mik
mik
Aug 3, 2025 11:20 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

Yes, I am.

It’s about meaning, knowing, not vocab.

mik
mik
Aug 3, 2025 2:21 PM
Reply to  sandy

“It is doable and humanity has ….. and morality to make it work …..”.

No, at the moment we don’t have even a philosophical groundwork for practicable ethics.
In general, morality these days is a mess.

Btw., Interesting documentary:
No Gods No Masters A History of Anarchism
Available on internet.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 7, 2025 3:56 AM
Reply to  mik

Arch Enemy – Try Ukraine Donbass, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, certain areas in Latin, Africa, East, where no masters govern.
Only anarchy where those who have the biggest gun win.

mik
mik
Aug 7, 2025 12:27 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Not really. These are fiefdoms where warlord are the masters. They more look like chaos. Chaos and anarchy are not synonyms.