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Peter Wiggins's avatar

😊A smile erupts on reading this article, this could be me! I recognise the flow, the learning points. All started some 50 years ago; I was presented with a door, I went through, closed the door behind me, found my path! Over the years I learnt to adopt another personae, normal interactional approach, watching, waiting, learning. I too started to have people come to me, questing, searching. I’ve watched and observed for decades, the innate knowledge unfolding when ready, filling me with understanding. I’ve said this before, we are Coalescing. I am now enlightening those that come with that questing look, a little nudge onto the path, that’s often all it takes….

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Yes — that smile is the tell.

What you describe is exactly it: the door appears, you step through, and there’s no need to drag anyone else with you. You learn to move quietly in the world, to wear a “normal” face, to watch and wait.

And then, without advertising, people begin to find you. Not to be taught, but to be recognized. Most only need the smallest nudge — a word, a pause, a reflection — and the rest unfolds on its own, in its own time.

Coalescing is a good word for it. Nothing forced. Just those who are ready finding one another.

Glad you spoke up.

— Lone Wolf

XXX's avatar

I find this to be true. When having a conversation with certain people, the content immediately turns to a deep level. I feel that I’m privy to a persons personal unspoken depth. The encounter is brief and rich. No effort on my part to deliberately advise, but what comes to me spontaneously. This is not a conscious effort. It IS.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Yes. Exactly that.

Some conversations don’t build depth — they recognize it instantly. No warm-up, no positioning, no performance. Just a quiet click, like two tuning forks finding the same note. The exchange is brief because it doesn’t need padding. What matters lands whole.

What you describe isn’t advising, and it isn’t effort. It’s presence doing what presence does. When you’re not trying to steer, fix, or impress, something truer is allowed to surface — often in the other person first. You’re not pulling it out of them; you’re simply not blocking it.

That’s why it feels spontaneous and a little mysterious. The mind arrives after the moment, looking for an explanation. But the experience itself doesn’t need one.

It is.

And once you’ve noticed it, you start to see why persuasion always feels heavy — and why recognition feels light, inevitable, and complete.

— Lone Wolf 🐺

Peter Wiggins's avatar

😊yes indeed…

Apapach-Arte's avatar

I could have easily been the one writing this piece. It just so happens that “Recognize” is the very first step in the healing blueprint I developed.

I must admit, though, that I’m still kinda’ stuck in the “relentlessly trying to persuade” phase, but slowly learning that the best we can do is to keep putting the information out there, and patiently wait for people to arrive into that frequency.

Must also admit that the phrase “Persuasion assumes ignorance” is kind of a hard pill to swallow… but I’m swallowing it, nonetheless.

Thank you for pointing out where I need to be more humble.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

That’s an honest place to notice yourself. Many of us start by trying to persuade — often because we care, or because what we’ve seen feels urgent. There’s no shame in that phase.

Recognition doesn’t cancel persuasion so much as grow out of it. Over time, you feel the difference between speaking at someone and simply speaking from what you know. When readiness is there, nothing needs to be pushed — the words land on their own.

The fact that you can see that distinction now suggests you’re already crossing that threshold.

— Lone Wolf

Apapach-Arte's avatar

Thank you for your kind words. You also just reminded me that not only do I need to be more humble, but also to give myself the compassion and gentleness I normally offer others. Thank you again for yet another reminder. It is deeply received and appreciated. 💜✨🙏

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

That’s a beautiful realization to land on.

So many of us are fluent in compassion for others and oddly stingy with ourselves.

Humility doesn’t mean shrinking or self-withholding — it means meeting yourself with the same honesty, patience, and grace you extend outward. When that balance clicks, you’re no longer trying to be better… you’re simply being truer.

Glad the reminder landed where it needed to. 💜

Lone Wolf

Offbeat Mistic's avatar

I resonated with this on many levels.

I agree: once you see certain things (or hear them, or just know them), you can’t unsee them. You can try to go back to “normal,” but something in you won’t let you fully forget.

I’ve been led down plenty of rabbit holes in my life, and I’ve actually stayed with them long enough to examine what’s real, what’s noise, and what’s just my own pattern-seeking. Lately, I’ve also been looking back at the “threads” in my life — how certain people, choices, and moments showed up, and how they were woven in because of this situation or that one.

It feels like I’m slowly unraveling what no longer fits… and rethreading it with more coherence.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Yes — that’s beautifully put. Once something is genuinely seen, it leaves a kind of residue. You can function in the old “normal,” but you can’t fully inhabit it anymore.

I appreciate what you said about staying in the rabbit holes long enough to sort signal from noise — that’s the part many skip. Pattern-seeking can mislead, but it can also mature into pattern-recognition when tempered with patience and honesty.

Looking back and noticing the threads is a real phase of integration. Some strands fall away because they’ve done their work; others reveal why they were there all along. Coherence isn’t about adding more — it’s about re-threading what remains so it actually holds.

Sounds like you’re doing that work.

— Lone Wolf

Rob-ben's avatar

Sublime…

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Thank you. Sometimes the clearest truths arrive quietly.

— Lone Wolf

BDV's avatar

A wonderful revelation. Thank you

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Thank you. That means a lot. This isn’t about convincing anyone—just recognizing what’s already there, when the moment’s right.

— Lone Wolf

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

There’s something true here about the social cost of seeing differently.

Not the certainty part. The loneliness part.

Most people don’t reject ideas. They recoil from destabilization. From anything that threatens the agreements holding their lives together.

So persuasion fails. Quiet presence survives.

Resonance doesn’t argue. It waits.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

That’s close, Monk — but one small correction from lived ground.

I wasn’t lonely. I was alone.

There’s a big difference. Loneliness is wanting company and not having it. Aloneness is seeing clearly and realizing most people aren’t available for that terrain yet. Messing with normies didn’t make me ache for belonging — it clarified why quiet presence mattered in the first place.

You’re dead right about recoil and destabilization. People don’t argue ideas; they defend the scaffolding of their lives. That’s why persuasion fails. That’s also why resonance doesn’t chase, explain, or recruit.

It waits — not from lack, but from sufficiency.

Alone isn’t a wound.

It’s a position.

— Lone Wolf

Christine Grace's avatar

yep. nodding in recognition <3 100% <3 trust-in-in-this-ever-present-spontaneity <3 i so appreciate you <3

Vee “V” Cee's avatar

Listening to Ricardo Bosie of Australia One. He made me aware of something I hadn't actually thought about. Even though I was part of The Republic for the united States.

I had wondered about the military takeover, and how long it would last. Ricardo brought up in a interesting point. We the people no longer know how to govern ourselves. We have given over that position to paid politicians for so long. We no longer understand what self government is, or looks like. He predicts that the military occupation of the United States will be quite a long process, as we are retaught self government.

Perhaps it is time to returned to “The Republic for the United States” group, and start training as a fill in leader until such a time as elections can be held to restore a constitutional government.

But when you talk about these things to the average person all you get is the eye roll. The asleep want to stay that way.

Good stuff my friend. Keep up shouting at the wall

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That’s an important observation, and Ricardo is right about one thing: most people have forgotten what self-governance even is. We outsourced responsibility so completely that we now confuse “being governed” with “being safe.”

Where I’d gently differ is this: self-government can’t be retaught from the top down — whether by politicians or by uniforms. If it arrives as a “process” imposed on people, it isn’t self-government anymore. It’s just another management layer with better branding.

Real self-governance only comes back the same way it left: one person at a time, through recognition, not persuasion. Through people reclaiming their own discernment, boundaries, and responsibility — not waiting for a permission structure to bless it.

That’s also why the eye-rolling happens. Most folks aren’t “asleep” in a moral sense; they’re exhausted, habituated, and unconsciously relieved not to be responsible. Awakening threatens comfort more than it promises freedom.

So I don’t shout at the wall expecting it to fall. I speak near it — knowing that some bricks are already loose. When they’re ready, they hear it. When they’re not, no amount of training programs or interim leaders will help.

Appreciate you thinking it through instead of swallowing narratives whole. That, in itself, is self-government in action.

— Lone Wolf 🐺

Vee “V” Cee's avatar

Thanks Wolf

I to I am tired of talking to the wall.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

I hear you. That tiredness is often the signal to stop pushing and start resting in what you know. Walls don’t wake — people do, when they’re ready.

— Lone Wolf

Jean-Sebastien Savard's avatar

Wolf flow my brother! arrrrwwhhouuuuuuuuuuuu! ;) the moon is brighter seen by many eyes

“Ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων.” — Heraclitus

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Wolf flow indeed. When the howl resonates, it’s because the terrain was already listening.

“Character is destiny” wasn’t a warning — it was a description.

See you under the same moon. 🐺

Todd Kramer's avatar

"Once you stop vibrating at the system’s preferred frequency, you become noise."...

Here's to being Noisy my brudda!!...and we cant thank ya enough for the volume!

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Noise is what truth sounds like when it refuses to be domesticated.

Glad to be noisy with you.

Colin Karewa Forbes's avatar

Big nod from over here, RIB!

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

I figured this one might hit home for you brother. Cheers

Anami Heart's avatar

Nods ☺️

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

☺️ Nods back.

Sometimes that’s the whole conversation.

Recognition doesn’t need commentary — just resonance.

— Lone Wolf 🐺

Vee “V” Cee's avatar

My dear wolf: on more of a personal note, have you ever experienced a kidney stone? They say that the pain is on par with childbirth. If this is so I do not understand how the human race has survived.

You would think that at my advanced stage, I would know better then to try to work hard all day at shoveling snow, i'm not taking breaks not hydrating. Especially since I experienced severe dehydration as a young man and I know the consequences of it. That is far too long.A story to go into here. But I knew that when my urine turned to a dark expresso, coffee color that I was in trouble. Even though I tried to rehydrate myself as soon as I recognized the symptoms. I developed a kidney stone. I am fortunate in that I do follow herbalist, and knew what to do, like putting dmso on my kidneys and using red light therapy to help move the situation along. Let's just say I am grateful for the fact that I have followed Non traditional medical advice and treatments.

Still when I read that the pain level

As I said, it's comparable to childbirth. It gave me a chuckle, and a considerable, more appreciation for what my wife went through.

Pray, you are well and have a wonderful day.

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

My dear V — whew. Yes… kidney stones will humble even the most stubborn, capable human. That espresso-colored warning sign is no joke, and the fact that you recognized it, acted, and trusted your own lived knowledge probably saved you from a far uglier chapter.

The childbirth comparison always makes me smile too — not because it minimizes either experience, but because it exposes just how ferociously tough the human body actually is, especially when necessity overrides comfort. It also has a way of retroactively upgrading one’s respect for women by several notches. Consider that a quiet initiation most men never formally receive.

What stands out to me in your story isn’t the pain — it’s the pattern. You already knew the rules: hydrate, pace, listen. And still, in the moment, you overrode yourself. That’s not stupidity; that’s being human. We all occasionally loan our discernment to momentum. The body is very good at sending reminders when we do.

I won’t weigh in on methods — you’ve clearly walked your own path and paid attention — but I will say this: self-trust plus attentiveness beats blind compliance every time. You didn’t outsource your knowing. You responded. That matters.

I’m glad you’re on the other side of it, and I appreciate the humor you kept intact while passing through the fire. May today be gentler, slower, and well-hydrated.

Be well, friend.

— Lone Wolf 🐺

Dianne Stoess's avatar

As I read this, it was like reading about myself, every word to the very end, but never have I been able to express it as clearly and openly has you have here. The road less traveled is difficult and lonely in the beginning, but once I reached a certain point, there was no turning back, even had I wanted to. I made a conscious decision to keep on going. I'm just here to be helpful in whatever way I'm able to; in invisible, subtle ways that come from my heart. You are helping a lot of people doing exactly what you came here to do, even those you don't know and never will know. What you share ripples out into the universe where many souls who are hungry for what you offer, accept it, awaken, and once they have, they too make ripples. So, on and on it goes.