 All right, well welcome everybody to the very first state of the world address and hopefully one of many. So I realized that I have no official position such as president of the world from which to give a state of the world address. But I figure I'm no less qualified than anybody else either. So I'm going to present to you my view of the state of this world right now bringing together stuff that I hope is off the map for at least something off the map for everybody watching this. I'm going to draw I'm going to start with stuff that you've probably seen in the news and then I'm just going to see where it goes. But the theme that came to me as I was preparing by cross country skiing around and around and around our yard here is apocalypse. Now apocalypse sounds like a pretty scary thing. It sounds like I'm going to be talking about crisis and collapse and breakdown and disaster and something world shattering. And in a sense I am. But really I'm drawing on another meaning of the word apocalypse, which is the removal of the veil, the process of the invisible becoming visible, the things that we had kept hidden from ourselves coming into view. And I'll start on that theme with a little discussion of the ongoing tragedy in Gaza. Might as well start controversial. So here I go. You know, so so far, something like probably close to 30,000 people have been killed in the bombardment and invasion of Gaza. A lot more have been wounded. Almost everybody has been driven from their home. And all of the world's attention or much of the world's attention is on this situation. One thing that that people say sometimes as well, where was everybody's attention in the last 10 years, when a tragedy of equal or I would say greater magnitude was unfolding in Yemen, again with US support, but the total number of casualties there during the during the war from about 2015 to 2022 or so was about 10 times what had, you know, the number of people who've gotten Gaza. And not only from fighting, a lot of them were died from malnutrition, but it was a horrendous humanitarian situation and still pretty tough. Still, I think 11 million children are, you know, food insecure in Yemen. But why? So what what is so significant about Israel and Gaza, Palestine, that it makes this different? And there's kind of a paradox here. One thing that makes it different is simply that everybody's paying attention to it. It's kind of like people who are celebrities because they are celebrities. This the world's attention is on the situation in Gaza. And that is part of the unveiling, part of the things that had been invisible in Yemen to most people. I mean, people, you know, there are people like me who have been following this and following all kinds of other horrors and atrocities, you know, and I mean all over the place, you know, Congo, you know, or Nicaragua, you know, like all over the place. Rojava. But the difference here is that everyone is paying attention to it. So, you see, our civilization can only function because of what is invisible. If we had full recognition, if we could fully take in the consequences of all of the choices we make collectively, we would not be making those choices anymore. If we could take in, if we could apprehend the ecological damage, the social damage, the social costs of the products that we use. If we do not have defenses against those data points, ways that they are not integrated into our sensing and into our sense making, we would not be able to do those. Just like, you know, it would be pretty hard if you were, you know, if there were, there are child slaves right outside your house working 16 hours a day to make the things that you're using and then maybe even wasting. Like, you would have to be pretty callous. You'd have to, it would be pretty hard for most of us to do that. But because they are, because what's happening in the world is so separate from us, it's a lot easier for us to continue as if it weren't happening. And part of that is the violence that is required to maintain our world system. It thrives in the shadows. So one thing that is happening here is that it is no longer in the shadows, both because of technology, but also because maybe it's the Holy Land. It's a place where the world, it's like one of the centers of attention of the world. Now, there is still a lot of blindness to what is happening there. There are many ways that human beings can insulate themselves from seeing the full picture. And when I speak of the full picture, I'm not only talking about horrible things, I'm also talking about the most hopeful, beautiful, miraculous things. Our civilization occupies a very narrow band of the total spectrum of reality. And when we let in a wider spectrum, it changes who we are. It changes what we know is possible. It informs different choices. Informs meaning comes in and forms us into those who make different choices. So I was just reading, let's do a little practice here. I'm going to read something I just read this morning on Democracy Now. And I want to see one way to keep it out is to, when you hear some horrible thing, to fit it into an existing explanation, an existing set of meanings, such as to jump to blame. This is happening because so-and-so is horrible, because these people are horrible, because this nation is horrible. That's actually a non-exclamation. And so I would like, as part of the unveiling, part of the taking in a full spectrum of information, I would like to, for people just to hear this without too much interpretation. So it's the case of Hind Rajab, my vision is not so great here. Hind Rajab, she's a six-year-old Palestinian girl. And basically what happened, she was in a car with some relatives, and they came under attack under Israeli fire. And everybody in the car died except for her and her 15-year-old sister. And the sister called some relative on the cell phone, some relative in the states or something, and that relative called the Palestinian Red Crescent, which runs all the ambulances and stuff. And then the Red Crescent called the sister. Her name was Lyon, or Lyon. And here's the transcript. Hello. She picks up the phone. Hello. The Red Crescent dispatcher says, hello, dear. They're shooting at us. Hello. They're shooting at us. The tank is next to me. Are you hiding? Yes, in the car. We're next to the tank. Are you inside the car? And then there's no more talking. There's just screaming, screaming. And the dispatcher says, hello, hello. And that was 15-year-old Lyon's last words as she was killed. But the six-year-old Hind was still alive, wounded. And so she called the Red Crescent back, the six-year-old on the phone, and she says, come take me. You will come and take me. Do you want me to come and take you? Says the dispatcher. Hind says, I'm so scared. Please come. Please call someone to come and take me. The dispatcher, okay, dear. I will come and take you. So then the dispatcher got approval from the Israeli military. It took them a while to get the green light. And they sent an ambulance, but the dispatcher lost contact with the medics when they were on their way there. They had been in contact, but they had heard just a bunch of explosions or gunfire or something like that. And never heard anything else. And it wasn't until two weeks later that Hind was found dead alongside her five family members in a car riddled with bullet holes. And the bodies of the two emergency workers who had been sent were just a few yards away, also dead of gunshot wounds. And yeah, so that's the story. You know, this one especially reaches us because it was a six-year-old girl, but every life is precious. And what war is, is the, is a million stories like this. I don't think a six-year-old girl is any more or less precious than, then, you know, a soldier, you know, clutched with fear as the explosions sound. And I mean, that was somebody's son too. But the totality of the stories that make up war gets lost in the narratives of war, narratives of what is justified and who is to blame, who's the oppressor and who is the oppressed. Not to say that these stories don't carry information and that they are not true, but they can obscure what's really happening. And, you know, I've read quite a number of stories like this and often, you know, sometimes on Twitter and the comments often will be examples of how people can keep this out of their reality, how they can keep the veil covering, which is, you know, comments like fake lies, you know, or they deserved it because of Hamas, you know, et cetera, et cetera. But here we have, you know, despite all of those attempts to keep the veil on, we are seeing the truth behind war, the true stories behind war. We are seeing the very nature of war and maybe in a way that we never have, many of us anyway, who care to look, who are willing to look, who are willing to see. And this is a good thing, because as I said before, such a thing as war and so much else of our civilization can only be maintained in the shadows and only be maintained when it's kept behind the veil. And so we are entering an era of unveiling. Another thing that's been in the news, which I will try to relate to this is Julian Assange, who, gosh, now I'm a little bit like, okay, I'm getting pretty political here. Okay. And there are maybe people listening to this who have already left and discussed, or maybe there are people who are about to or feel disturbed and wish this was something not political. But, you know, I am not about transcending the political to talk about spiritual things. Everything is coming together right now. And each of these domains that we label political or spiritual or technological or social, cultural, anything else, these all, they're all one just as much as the mind and the body are one. And the heart and the bones are one. Anything that happens in the bones will happen in the heart too. Anything that happens in the heart is also happening in the mind. And each of these realms, including the personal realms, are holograms of all of the others. So, yeah, so another political happening here that has a much deeper resonance, much deeper implications than just politics is Julian Assange, who after how many years has it been? 10, at least years of persecution. And finally, the Australian parliament has called for his repatriation, repatriation back to Australia, that he not be extradited to the United States for the crime of journalism, essentially, you know, publishing information through information that was very embarrassing to the United States government, basically revealing war crimes that had been admitted by the United States government at all, but also providing a platform for people to bypass the systems of secrecy and oppression and bring transparency to government. Like, that was really what it was. They, you know, Ricky Leakes received all kinds of leaks and published them, you know. So here, but with his persecution, and if he's extradited to the US, he faces a prison sentence of 75 years. Basically, that sends a message to all journalists that you could be imprisoned for what you published, be careful, even if it's true. And we cannot have anything called a democracy when journalists are living in that kind of fear. And it's been very revealing that so few journalists, at least in the legacy media, have defended him. Something else is going on here. But finally, okay, after all of that, and his own government didn't defend him. But that is changing now. And I see that this is another sign of an awakening where, so, you know, he, the reason that people didn't offend him is that he was designated, I guess you could say, unpouchable, like the way that one could establish one's credibility, one's belonging in responsible, serious circles is that you would not, I mean, first they, they, they tarnished his reputation with bogus accusations of rape, which I can't remember the exact details, but under Swedish law, like there's some interpretation where, you know, basically he slept with somebody and lied about his relationship status. And so that is considered deception and a kind of a coercion or kind of force, you know, false pretenses and led to charges of rape or something, something along the lines. And once that, that charge is put in place, it's like putting a, you know, a sticker on that person saying, unpouchable, and if you associate with them in a positive way and don't join in the ridicule, then you become untouchable as well. And so everybody, this is very, very basic social signaling that everybody understands. Great schools, grade school students understand what will happen to you if you associate with the weird kid. So that was part of the, the pylon or part of the, the device that was employed by the established powers to vilify this man and persecute him. And it is significant that now it seems to be changing really. So again, apocalypse, the lifting of the veil, another word for that is transparency. And what Jillian Assange represents is transparency. That's what WikiLeaks represents. It's a way to see paths, the veils of secrecy and control and propaganda that all governments are exercising today, especially in my own, more and more. We're on a trajectory toward a control society, a control-based society. And here is a sign of a rejection of that. Assange, like the Holy Land, when all attention is on him, takes on a symbolic significance way beyond himself. So we will see next week, you know, what happens with his appeals and there's a chance that he'll be able to go back to Australia pretty soon. And then there's also a chance that he'll, you know, extradition will continue, which may not actually be a bad thing. You know, he could be pardoned by the next president. Okay, certain thing I want to talk about. Explained away with explanations that are so ridiculous that it requires your willing participation to believe them. Swamp gas, weather balloons. These just do not fit the sober observations of reliable observers, reliable witnesses to these events. Yet to accept their authenticity means to unravel your entire world view or at least unravel the standard world view, the dominant world view of science. And also to unravel the world view that our government is basically trustworthy. Because if something this moment has been suppressed for 60 years, then we do not actually have a democracy. We have an elite that decides what we should and shouldn't know and therefore decides what we think is real and what is not. So for 60 years, 70 years, 75 years, whatever, for a long time, we've been hoping for this mythic event called disclosure where the veil will be lifted. And finally, we will know the truth. And it keeps looking like it's going to happen, maybe, or various characters who may or may not have, you know, connections in high levels of the military, tell us that it's about to happen. I was with one last year, I won't name him, but he said, you know, the black ops guys are really getting upset with the black, black ops guys, and they're going to go in with commandos and they're going to liberate the, you know, UFO, the crashed UFOs that are being reverse engineered and they're going to, you know, haul these nefarious actors to court marshals and they're going to, you know, reveal everything. And it's going to happen within six months. And I recognized a myth when I see it. I recognize a myth when I see it and a myth does not mean false. It does not mean an invention. Quite the opposite. Genuine myths cannot be invented. They can only be received. They can be perceived and received. They cannot be invented. And so I recognize this mythic, this archetypal event called disclosure that exists in wherever archetypes exist, you know, it exists in the realm of archetypes, and sometimes it informs the world just like the archetype of, you know, sage or king or warrior or maiden throne informs our being. We take on those archetypes in various forms in various times of our lives. So they are, they are true. So one of these archetypes is called disclosure. Sometimes it trips very close. Sometimes it informs current events. Sometimes it receives a little bit and it seemed like it was drifting a bit closer with the congressional hearings on disclosure. But then, and they were going to reveal all kinds of information and then some high ranking Congress people basically put the kibosh on this. And so, and put the veil down again. But as I said, the effectiveness of this veil depends on our willingness to believe uncertainty. And I believe that that is changing. But it will not change. It will not be that that disclosure will make a change. That's not how it happens. That is kind of an authoritarian programming. Things will change when those on high grant us a reprieve. And that's how it was in school. But that's not how it is for genuine sovereign spiritual beings. We have to actually choose. And when enough of us choose to see and to align our further choices with our scene, then the field of the deception, the field of the cover ups will waver and disclosure will happen to a degree as a result, to a degree corresponding to our degree of willingness to see. And as we do so, we begin to also see other things that had been hidden behind the veils. And this can be quite a traumatic process, actually, because our beliefs correspond to a state of being, correspond to our relating, correspond to a lifestyle. And many of us now are getting an assist in a new seeing from the breakdown of the old reality, the breakdown of the old normal. I speak about this a lot these back in the days when I was a public speaker, which ironically happened before the acceleration of the breakdown in the old normal. And then sometimes, you know, you enter this phase where you're like, oh, maybe the old normal isn't breaking down. And I'm speaking here now on multiple levels because this unveiling is not only a political unveiling, but it is infiltrating our lives of infiltrating the lives of people all over the world, where the, and it could be in your self conception, it could be in your career, it could be in an important relationship, where you have been holding on to a reality, willfully believing it despite contrary evidence. And it's no longer true. But maybe it's true. Maybe, maybe, maybe I can't hold on to it. Maybe things aren't going to change. Maybe it still is the way that it's always been. But meanwhile, the feeling grows, the dread, the fear, the premonition that it has already changed. And I am living in a simulacrum of the past, like a, like a, like an image of the past, but not, but that it's no longer real, living in the habits that carry over from when it was real. This is the idea of a zombie, you know, going through the motions, but it's, but without the content, not like a simulation of a human being, but not the real thing, simulation of life, but not really alive. And how many of us have experienced that feeling, living a simulation of our lives, living a story that was placed for us to inhabit, that is no longer valid. And maybe to some extent never was, or maybe we grew out of that story, but are still captive to its habits and its ways of thought. Just as so many of us as political citizens are still captive to obsolete ways of thought. For example, my nation, the United States for so long has considered itself the hero of the world, endlessly creating villains to justify and reify its status as a hero. But do we really even believe that anymore? I mentioned Yemen, I can mention a million other things and our support for the, what I consider war crimes in Gaza. The amount of self-deception required to still see ourselves as the hero nation has grown to such an extreme that even those who profess that narrative, maybe they don't even really believe it. So this maybe is an overarching theme of the, gosh, it's been kind of a downer today. I realize that. But this is, this will be kind of a meta theme of the state of the world. Really what it's about, because I'm going to be giving a bunch of these, maybe probably every month, really what it's about is the breakdown in the old stories that carried humanity, that carried what we call the economy, stories of the nation state, stories of progress, the story called money, the story called law, all of these stories, the story called, yeah, government and all of the subsidiary stories to these. The story also of what a human being is, what the good life is, what is reliable and permanent, what wealth is, what normal is. This program is, the series of addresses is about the breakdown of that story and how we respond to that surrounded by the debris of old meanings, old understandings of the world, old realities, old normalities. What do we do? Well, sometimes we try to stitch it together and make some version of it and pretend that it's still functioning. But at some point we let go. We let go into the space between the stories. We're finally, for a while, we give up trying to understand what's real anymore. And that's a healthy stage. And part of what I'm going to be offering then, on one level, yes, ways of making sense of what is happening, but also support in not making sense of it, not be maturely making sense of it, to be together in the mystery of it, to be together in the bewilderment, so that we don't intensify and reiterate what has gone before by reiterating these obsolete thought forms that are themselves part of the old story, like find the bad guy to blame it all on. What a shortcut from a real understanding that is, such an old thought form. What if we don't jump to that? And sometimes you can't explain something that way, but that is such a reflexive habitual explanation that it is usually not useful anymore. So then what? And then, you know, and so again to return to the big arc of our time, this apocalypse that reveals all the things that had been kept out that would disrupt the story, that is the descent into space between stories, and then the emergence of something new that whispers to us even now. You know, this is not a totally linear process. And so I want to also bring into this series, like some of the beautiful peace initiatives. A friend of mine just got back from a protective presence program in Palestine, in the West Bank. It seems like a very small thing to stay with the Palestinian family, to protect them from settler violence, you know, and such a tiny drop in the bucket. But when people do this, these hopeless, tiny acts, it establishes a new field and you start to see it popping up everywhere. And so I want to also bring some of these things in. Yeah, because what I call the more beautiful world, our hearts know is possible, also, which is also an archetype, also a being that but it also extends its tendrils into our current reality, even when we're still in the midst of the earliest part of the apocalypse. Okay, I want to show you something also a photograph that by its, well, I'll show it to you and I'll say a little bit about, I guess sometimes you have to look at something that is outside. Here it is. Thank you, Patsy. So this is the, what is it called, the Rapa Mosque. Now look at, it's in Iraq. Now this photograph was taken by Martin Gray, who just published a gorgeous book, this is in the book actually, a gorgeous book called Secret Sacred Sights. And if you, now I'm not sure, you know, if you're watching on a phone or something, you're not going to be able to see the detail, but we'll, I'll, you know, put a link to it it's on his website. So I'll put a link to it in the, I'll pin it to the top of the comments and sub stack and dang it, I could put it in zoom, but it's back to we challenge right now. But you know, if you, if you could zoom in, you'd see just like such exquisite detail that went into the construction. Martin Gray, Martin Gray, the book is sacred, no, Secret Sacred Sights just came out. I traveled all over the world visiting Secret Sights. Yeah, thank you for zooming in there, Patsy. Like somebody, I mean, this was made before technology, you know, this was hundreds of people spending decades of their lives to bring this intricate detailed beauty to this perfect structure. Like, I don't even know if we have the capacity anymore to build such a thing, let alone the cultural value system that puts so much emphasis on beauty as opposed to efficiency. You know, does this like, so, so when people built these things over the centuries, what were they thinking on some, and I'm sure what I'm about to say was unconsciously operating, but they were making a gift to the future. Because the very existence of such an object, of such a building, by its contrast to the society that we operate in now, sends us a signal. It insinuates something into the human being, a kind of a grief. Like, when I look at, when I'm in the presence of something like that, I feel awe and grief. Awe is the sense of seeing something beyond what you can fully understand or what you can fully accomplish. And the grief is that this is, this way of being has been lost. And maybe I'm exaggerating the case, okay, there's probably places in the world where people are, you know, but don't quibble. Okay, something has been lost. And so there's grief there. But there's also a exhortation to live this way again. So it shows it's something not only from the past, but also from the future. Okay, now I want to switch gears here. I've been talking for a long time. And we have about 20 minutes left. So I'd like to, Patsy, yeah, so my fabulous, beloved, former wife Patsy is my partner in this, in this endeavor here. And, and, you know, she's built a team of mostly volunteers who, who kind of steward the online communities that we build around this programs and we're going to be building another one around the state of the world addresses. Patsy, I want to show your, show your beautiful face for a second and tell us a little bit about some of what you're building. Okay, give me a minute to hear myself. Okay. Hi, everyone. So the student, Charles would announce the opening of this program. And basically, this program is hosted in a online platform where we could provide opportunities for like real life interaction to both virtually and, and one of the, our hope with our team is to organize on your behalf to help people connect more on a locally, at least we will also provide the online sort of a smaller container, we call it the sanity pot and sanity pots. And, in addition to that, we also provide you members opportunities to host, you know, to share your gifts, to host any special interests and topics that you would like to lead. So in other words, it would be sort of like an upgrade from the sub stack environment of just writing poses, you will be more seemed and, and be able to see and witness others. So it will be have a more of a sense of a community situation where also Charles would post live calls and would, and will provide more opportunity for interactions. And yeah, and, and also this, and also this, this platform would be based on subscriptions and more detail will be announced. Yeah. And, and, and, you know, the content of these, I'm still going to be putting it out on sub stack, putting out as a podcast and stuff like that. So it's just for people to want to just interact a lot more intimately with it. And speaking of, you know, the reason I'm doing this on zoom and not just broadcasting is I do want to bring some people up to make comments or ask a question. And so in a minute, we'll fall on some people you can use the raise hand function. But I'd really like to, you know, sometimes that kind of gets out of hand where somebody's okay, I got the platform and they'll go on a long discourse about, about their opinion about what the world needs to change or something like that. And I'd like to invite you into a different mode to just take before you raise your hand to understand yourself as kind of a proxy for the collective consciousness of everybody listening to this and, you know, to the world beyond and to give your voice in service that that which wants to be said so that we can become better informed about the state of the world. I've gone on a long time, but I'd like to just trust the synchronicity that Patsy will pick the right hand raised and something will be said that will expand my understanding of the state of the world right now and everybody here. So go ahead and raise your hand and we'll maybe take a couple we'll see. And maybe I'll comment on it then. But so yeah, go ahead and pick somebody Patsy and bring more. Thank you. Well, unfortunately, my, my screen has a really strange thing that's covered covering people's names. So I'm going to just pop you up on the screen. And then we will introduce your name that way. Okay, give me a minute. Nice spotlight. So here you are. Dora, please unmute yourself. And I'm going to leave the screen now. Thank you. Nice to meet you, everyone. Great. Am I am I on now? Yes, you are. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, when you mentioned the whole disclosure project that caught my attention. Because for the past few months, I've been doing a podcast talking about the name of it is meditation and aliens. And I'm just the coach, but I'm interviewing this guy who is very into the disclosure thing. And I think you really hit an important point is that people are so unwilling to see it. And they won't see it until they're willing to see it. It's almost like you can't play on Broadway until you've played on Broadway. So I found I just found that very interesting that that angle of looking at this issue. Because people don't want to hear it, they don't want to believe it, they can't sort of step into that reality and let go of their beliefs, as you mentioned. So I just wanted to comment on that. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I mean, to put it succinctly, disclosure comes as a result. And not as the cause of the apocalypse. Yeah, it comes as as the reflection of our own paring away of the veils of our own dropping the veils of our own willingness to take in more more of what is true as a collective. And so when disclosure happens, to the extent that it happens, it will be a cause for celebration because it mean it will mean that we have expanded our minds. Yeah. Thank you, Doro. And we have how come here? Hello, everyone, pronounced Hoken. Just a brief share from my life of the collective. Going through big transitions in my life this last weekend, I was visiting friends in Berkeley for their 30th birthday. And my car was stolen. After getting over the shock and consequently the grief, I chose, I was blessed to be able to choose to take it as a calling for liberation and growth. And actually the theft of my car has catalyzed some shifts in my priorities and my life force energy that feel as though they are setting the foundation for stepping into a more full version of myself. So that's compared to the atrocities suffered by many across the globe. This is a small pain to suffer. But I wish that that way of holding pain may be shared by more than just me. Thank you. Yeah. So just everybody just touching to that moment of shock when you go to your car and it's not there. Just like that. Okay. What does that have to do with the state of the world? I don't know. But I trust that this data point is coming to us in a timely way. And let's have one more. Hello, welcome. Amina. Hi, Charles. Yeah. So I've just kind of been reflecting on the current state of AI. And there is a lot of fear that comes up for me. Because I have realized that the current power structures that create have created and are currently developing AI are developing to serve them. And if I then further kind of delve into what these power structures stand for, its war, its famine, its greed, you know, pedophilia, sexual assault, like all of the things. And I realized that this is also a reflection of our collective consciousness. And for me to be able to pass through them is to also just accept them and hold space for them. And yet I'm also resisting them. And so I just wanted to share that with you and see if you have anything. Yeah. Yeah. So this is something that will come up again and again. And probably there's people thinking it already during this call. It's like, okay, Charles, you're talking about lifting the veil, but you're not even talking about some of the dark stuff, the shadowy operators that wield the marionette strings of the visible leaders, you know, these dark forces. And it's not that I'm not aware of these entire, I would call them storylines, these myths. And I will offend people by calling them myths. But again, just because something is a myth doesn't mean that it's also not true. But these shadowy elites, they do kind of come closer, come further from consensus reality. Something is revealed, you know, like the, you know, Clinton emails, you know, where they're talking about sourcing the pizzas from Chicago for their fancy party in Washington, like, what are they talking about there? You know, like there's stuff that kind of breaks through from this shadow realm into our reality. And we think, aha, that means it's, you know, objectively true. Things are much more mysterious than that. And so I'm speaking a little bit enigmatically here. But just to say that, that first, that I'm aware of these things. And secondly, that they, as with disclosure, as with everything that is hidden behind the veil, they are connected to our consciousness. Objective reality is not as objective as we think. It's also not our own creation. And I don't mean to be like philosophically bypassing horrible things that are being done by actual human beings to children. To nations, to forests, to anybody who gets in the way of the program of dominance and power and profit. And that is not the only lens through which to see things. Because there are people doing amazing things, beautiful things, restorative things, regenerative things, all over the world. So however powerful these shadowy forces are, their power is not absolute. And when we fall too deeply into the narrative, into the mythology of them, we lose our power. And we become paralyzed, which means that that narrative is itself part of the control system. And there's a deep paradox here that the way that one of the ways that the shadowy Illuminati power elite maintains its power is by disseminating the idea that they exist and that they're powerful. But when you come to your senses, you realize that there are other powers at work in this world that are not subject to the kinds of control that those who are inebriated with power believe in. And these other kinds of power come from the intelligence of all things, the intelligence that is beyond the human, that manifests as synchronicity, that is invoked through morphic resonance and through the prayers of our actions that generate a field like the witness, like the protective presence people in Palestine, people doing these humble acts of service, doctors who stay in the hospital when it's being bombarded because the patients can't move, so they stay. And then maybe they die and no one even knows how did that help the world? It did. No action is wasted. No act of beauty and generosity encourages ever in vain. And you know that what I'm saying is true. When we lose sight of that truth, and as I do sometimes, then we're not in reality anymore. And it's that kind of truth that we need to develop a strong connection to in times of turbulence and turmoil and chaos and breakdown. Because what else will we have to navigate by when the systems that told us what is impactful and what is meaningful and what is going to help the world and what is going to create change are obliterated. And we don't know what to do. We need something else to hold us. And that is also part of my intention for the state of the world addresses. So thank you. Gosh, I missed your name. Can you tell me your name again? Homina. Oh, maybe I didn't miss it. Homina? Homina. Amina. Amina. Passy said Amina. Yeah, thank you. Are we met even? Maybe not. No, okay. Anyway, thank you for bringing that up. And I think I would like now in our last few minutes see how much time we have here. Two minutes. Two minutes. Perfect. In our last few minutes. And Passy, before I close with a meditation slash prayer, Passy, if you could host in the chat, there's three discussion rooms hosted by various people. Amanda, Dr. Drew, and Passy, which people who want to kind of be brief and integrate and talk to each other, you can go to those. Passy will post the links, go to whichever one you feel drawn to. And yeah, and so in the meantime, I'm going to close my eyes a little bit and just feeling into the idea of the state of the world. And in this moment, the evident knowledge that it is mysteriously connected to the state of the cell connected not just through the normal things of, you know, the economic condition of the world affects our own finances and air pollution affects our breath and so forth. But in uncanny ways to the knowledge that everything happening is in some way happening to me and feeling also with gratitude, the presence of the gifts to the future from the past, the transmission of life, the gift of the beauty in the world. And feeling also our willingness to see more, to let go of the habits of old stories, pretending that they're still real, and our willingness to see behind the veil, to see what is disclosed, to acknowledge what maybe has been staring us in the face for a long time, to relax into acceptance of reality, to put aside our habitual stories, to understand and organize things into concepts and categories and meanings, knowing that yeah, we'll probably still do that, but there's something else, another willingness to let go of what we thought we knew. And we feel the same willingness, the same willingness, and even the hardest parts, has a little speck, a point of light, because our willingness is within them, just as their shadows are within us. And in a state of peace, open your eyes, and I thank you, thank you for joining me, taking the chance to take an hour of your time to check out the state of the world address. And I'll be looking on Substack for feedback, and we'll see how it evolves for the next month. Much love, everybody. Thank you, Patsy, thank you, Rowan, for being in the background. Thanks to everybody who brought their voice forward. And thank you to all the beings that make this possible, and goodbye for now. Goodbye.