ALL THINGS MUST PASS
Tower Records, Winter Music, The Power of Sound, and the Great Purge of 2018
“Truth has a ring”
—Eileen Day McKusick, pioneer of Bio Field Tuning.
I’ve taken over a month off from writing this Substack. With the snow blanketing my little mountain world, and blocking out much of the noise that streams incessantly through the censored platforms we call “social media”, I chose to embrace the quiet.
I wanted to wrap myself up in the stillness of winter.
There’s so much to say and far too many people vying to be heard. I can feel the strain it puts on the mind of the average person. Maybe I didn’t feel the need to add to the mix.
The hammer comes down every day on the working person who takes orders from AI-driven protocols, instead of real people with real experience. Anger and apathy are the common denominators when walking through the halls of this new country of ours. The energy is thick, yet invisible. Something undefined is pushing us back wherever we go.
I recently watched the Tower Records documentary “All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records” and wondered what happened to old fashioned retail stores. They used to have owners who had grit and soul. They had stories of humble roots and hard work. It was endearing to hear how tight-knit the staff of the Tower Records family was, and the way Russ Solomon (the visionary owner of the iconic chain) was more of a brother and father, than a boss. They all laughed, drank, partied, and loved one another for three decades. One of the employees in the documentary described his life long career at Tower not as a job, or a place he dreaded going, but as a lifestyle. Everyone started out there as kids, at what we normally call the “bottom” in the real world. However, as they reflected on their paths it sounded less like the corporate bottom and more like being the youngest child in a large chaotic family. Those places are rare today, and if they do exist, the government hand is always lurking in the shadows with some new permitting requirement, or impending corporate tax that serves only one purpose: to fleece the little guy. These days walking into any retail store in a big city is like entering a soul crushing vortex of anger, EMF’s, and surveillance. Everything once human is now owned and run by a network of computers. This is progress according to……THEM. Some small towns like mine don’t have big box stores (or any chain stores at all), and I believe it contributes to our feeling of “normal”.
Is it me, or are people too busy to make eye contact? I treat everyone I see like a recent trauma victim because it’s easy for the slightest provocation to be considered a vicious assault. Recently, I was in an organic juice shop and I asked the person behind the counter to hold the ice — she stomped off angrily to the back kitchen with tears in her eyes.
Then it occurred to me - are we all recent trauma victims? The world cracked open in 2020 and all the toxic goo that had piled up in the unseen places for a thousand years came oozing out without any real warning. Yes, some deep into astrology saw it coming but no one KNEW what it would feel like.
Whatever this new form of government is in our country, both at the State and Federal levels, it carries the imprint of violence and generational trauma. A new and decidedly inhuman form of government has been dumped on us without our permission and we seemingly have no roadmap to guide us to safety. Or do we?
These rulers are crazed, unhinged, unwell and on full display here, with allegiances that are clearly counter to the well-being of the average American, or any American for that matter. So who can we trust? How do we know what’s real?
Recently, I listened to the Alfa Vedic podcast with sound healing pioneer Eileen McKusick. She has become renowned for her work in bio-field tuning —a fascinating field that has shown clear evidence of its ability to heal the body and mind using sound. Based on the work of Sol Luckman, author and healer, it also has the power to repair our DNA. She said something that was so simple, yet so powerful. Truth has a certain vibratory nature. It has a ring. It bypasses the questions our mental minds ruminate about. Is that true? Or isn’t it? Is he/she lying, or isn’t he/she? Is climate change the greatest existential threat to humanity, or isn’t it? Does what is coming out of his/her mouth match their vibration? Tuning in is a life-saver. It is a survival mechanism and the ultimate defense against propaganda and gas-lighting. If you tune out your mind, and tune into your vibration, you can’t be tricked. If you’ve ever been to a sound bath, you will know this feeling. Government censorship didn’t account for the power of sound.
THE GREAT PURGE
5 years ago on October 11th, 2018 under the guise of "suppressing misinformation" all the top social media companies in accordance with the federal government coordinated in a concerted effort to de-platform hundreds of independent journalists in an attempt to kill off the alternative media. And it basically worked.
- The Free Thought Project
In 2018, I noticed that the channels that featured all my trusted healers, health coaches, and spiritual voices were erased from YouTube in one fell swoop. Much of the healing guidance I got in those days was from other people experiencing a similar health crisis to me (mercury poisoning, chronic Lyme, etc..) and they were kindly guiding us all through some of the more unconventional methods of detox like turpentine, parasite cleanses, and coffee enemas. Boom. One day it all went away. None of us knew why. Until 2020. Then it was clear. Anything health related that veered from pharmaceutical mandates was considered paranoid misinformation. I have a friend who owned a crystal shop, and her online store was taken down because she used the word “healing” on her site.
This was the birth of what is now known as the Censorship Industrial Complex. According to the Free Thought Project, an independent media outlet devoted to uncovering government corruption, “The whistleblower's documents describe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships with civil society organizations and commercial media, and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques”
I don’t want to report on every new truth bomb that Elon Musk unleashes. Nor do I care to continue to raise the red flag on being drenched in toxins, EMFs, and bioweapons due to criminal regulatory agencies: if you don’t know this by now you’re not going to care about anything I write.
Most days I’d rather just strum on my guitar while I watch my cat roll around our cabin showing me her belly.
Maybe these are the times when we need to go inside before we can handle being outside in this world? What comes next? An endless stream of reporting on the hideous but much needed truth? A theatrical election? A civil war? Presidential candidate RFK Jr. brings the ring of truth to this shattered place, but many of the Truth Movement people believe he’s “controlled opposition”, and the rest don’t seem to know why his name keeps popping up these days…wait, didn’t he die a while back? He’s running for office? In a climate of censorship, we all run the risk of being ignorant to what matters.
Gavin Newsom, the puppet governor of California who was ushered into office in 2019 to prep for the Covid rollout is now apparently being ushered into the White House to prep for…..(fill in the blank)? US Representative from California Kevin Kiley lists Newsom’s accomplishments here. In a nutshell, California roads are now on par with Afghanistan, we have the highest rate of homelessness in the country, and the lowest rate of literacy and personal income growth. So if you vote for Newsom in any election, you are voting for poverty, illiteracy, and dangerous driving conditions. Even if voting is nothing more than a ritual these days, who you vote for sets an intention, and it has a ring….
At a certain point we need more than the sum of the curated facts. We need help from the parts of ourselves that are hidden. I want these essays to be a place of solace, where my readers feel safe even in the storminess of what has become of us. Labels distract us from the truth, which is that we are all coming apart and trying to keep it together at the same time. It’s clear that the violence unfolding around the world, is unfolding in us. People are snapping left and right. Crumbling under the weight of what’s not here anymore. Their own internal violence is emerging. We call it different things: ‘Clearing the air’, ‘closing the loop’, ‘standing my ground’ - so many colorful excuses for dumping our unhealed parts on those around us. I’m not invested in what you believe or don’t believe. I don’t need to influence your opinion on anything. What I want most of all is for you to think is…..what if? What if there’s a whole new world waiting to be born? What if, I have a talent I haven’t tapped into yet? What if, life will be even better for us down the road and we will all be able to eat bread again? What if the skies are returned to us?
If you feel called, maybe you can tell me what’s most pressing to you these days? What content do you want to see? What stories do you feel need to be told? To my fellow artist and writers, I am open to ideas….