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jennifer dibley's avatar

Wow a great piece

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Peter Wiggins's avatar

😊Yes indeed…. The beast feeds from the frenzy of ‘the noise’. Once you realise that almost everything perceived is noise; to capture, obscure, control, deter one from actually seeing beyond the deception. Once you understand the noise, realise it’s everywhere, you actually filter it out and see how glorious the light is - clarity…..

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

😊Peter, beautifully said. The turning point is when we see the noise for what it is — a distraction layer, not reality.

Once you stop wrestling with it and let it fall away, the whole world sharpens.

The light wasn’t hidden after all — it was simply drowned out by the static.

Filter the noise, reclaim your vision, and the beast starves on the spot.

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Kriss's avatar

Excellent piece. Nicely summarized. Question I’ve had since discovering substack and yours in particular- what then? So we may see through the schemes yet we still have to live in this world they have constructed. I work and actually enjoy what I do. I deconstructed from Christianity 3 years ago. I deconstructed from Fox News 4 years ago. My husband is unfortunately still living in Plato’s Cave and firmly believes corporations and capitalism are great things and watches Fox News and doesn’t understand that it is controlled opposition. What am I supposed to do with the knowledge in my day to day life? How does the action of a single individual make a difference if nothing really changes at the existential level?

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Kriss — you just asked the real question everyone eventually arrives at once the fog lifts.

What then?

What do we do when we see the bars of the cage but still have to live inside it?

Let me offer you what I’ve learned the hard way:

1. You don’t have to topple the world.

Just stop feeding the part that keeps you asleep.

The mind parasites don’t need your praise — they just need your attention and obedience.

Pull either of those away and you’ve already won more than you realize.

2. Most of the work is invisible.

You’re already living differently than the herd:

You don’t outsource your thinking to Fox or CNN

You don’t hand your soul to a denomination

You don’t let institutions tell you what reality is

That alone moves the needle more than marching, voting, protesting, or screaming.

One awakened individual is not equal to one sleeping individual.

He or she counts for hundreds, because you’re no longer generating psychic consent for their system.

3. You do not have to drag your husband out of the cave.

Love him.

Let him hear the echoes on the wall if that’s what makes him feel safe.

None of us wake up on someone else’s schedule — and trying to pry eyes open is the fastest way to get them slammed shut.

But here’s the thing:

People living with an awakened partner eventually feel the difference, even if they don’t admit it.

Your peace pulls more than your persuasion.

4. The day-to-day life shift is small but seismic:

Buy less crap they advertise

Watch less propaganda

Plant something (even basil in a yogurt cup)

Learn one skill every month that reduces dependence

Support one human instead of one corporation

Speak truth when invited — stay quiet when it’s a waste

Guard your nervous system like treasure

Every one of those actions starves the machine.

5. The existential level is changing — you’re proof.

Systems collapse after people stop believing in them, not before.

You’re not here to fix the world.

You’re here to stay awake while it resets, and to be a sane, sovereign node while others panic.

6. Your “little” life is not little at all.

Every time you:

refuse a lie

remain calm in chaos

choose curiosity over fear

let intuition trump authority

live as if you’re already free

…you crack the storyline they depend on.

This place runs on consent — even silent consent.

Withdraw yours and you’ve already broken the spell.

Your job now is simple:

Stay awake.

Stay kind.

Stay sovereign.

And give others a light to walk toward when the cave roof collapses — and it’s collapsing faster than most think.

One person living in truth changes the field.

That’s not poetry — that’s physics.

— Wolf/RIB

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Kriss's avatar

Thank you. That is pretty much what I've been doing, especially since I've deconstructed this world.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

I like to remind myself that the matrix is an illusion, and I work to manifest what I do want... like Clif and others talk about... the Gospel of Thomas etc...

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Kriss's avatar

I have an interesting story of what could be considered a manifestation (I called it synchronicity). Years ago I was at an antique show in town and saw a set of blocks just like what we had when growing up and thought of my brother and texted him a picture. He responded (a bit too late) asking what the price was. Since it was too late to purchase it, I told myself that I'd keep an eye out for another one at antique malls. One day my husband and I went to a local one and as we started strolling through the stalls, I stopped him and told him the one thing I was looking for was a bag of those blocks to buy my brother. Just as I finished saying that my eyes turned to the right and there they were. Of course I grabbed them and bought them. I gave them to him for Christmas this year. He got a kick out of it.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Beautiful story, Kriss — thank you for sharing it.

That’s exactly how it works.

Not forced.

Not strained.

Just a quiet intention dropped into the field…

and the universe grins and tosses the thing right under your nose when you least expect it.

People call it coincidence or luck.

But once you’ve seen it happen enough times, you recognize the rhythm.

First comes the thought.

Then the emotional charge (in this case: your brother + childhood + meaning).

Then the field arranges the props.

And yes — the universe DOES have a sense of humor.

It loves timing.

It loves the “oh my God, there it is” moment.

It loves that little jolt of wonder we feel when we realize we are not alone in shaping the moment.

Blocks today, something bigger tomorrow.

Once you start noticing the winks, you realize they never stop.

Wolf on 🐺

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Jacques Lafleur's avatar

Excellent piece in a time where the dominant world view (by far) accepts...no vigorously defends the deliberate outsourcing of responsibility and accountability into control structures conveniently out of reach of scrutiny and question.

Left free to decide (make that dictate) humanities fate; with an unquestioned mandate to execute and direct financial, societal and virtually impose their will openly unopposed with intentional impunity, even a certain hubris...what could go wrong!?

The masses have eyes - but they DO NOT see!!! It will be our undoing....

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Jacques, you nailed the heart of the problem.

We handed our birthright to professional “managers,” then pretended that outsourcing responsibility was the same thing as being safe. The tragedy is not that power was taken — it’s that we gave it away because it was convenient.

A population that won’t look, won’t question, and won’t think becomes livestock by default.

And the control structures prefer it that way — diffuse authority, no accountability, decisions made in sealed rooms where no citizen can tug on a single thread.

Eyes wide open is the entire game now.

Once enough people stop outsourcing their seeing — and reclaim that basic human duty — the whole pyramid goes wobbly. The mind-parasites only thrive when everyone stays asleep.

But the seeing is spreading.

Slow, uneven, messy — but irreversible.

The undoing won’t be ours.

It’ll be theirs the moment we stop playing along.

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Jacques Lafleur's avatar

I like your optimism. Stopped playing decades ago and will to my dying breath. It comes at a cost definitely personal and usually financial.

No regrets....once you see, you cannot unsee.

Love the Cosmic Onion

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Jacques, that’s the mark of the real rebel — you stopped playing long before it was fashionable.

There’s always a price for refusing the script, usually paid in isolation, missed opportunities, and the invisible tax the system slaps on anyone who won’t kneel.

But you’re right — no regrets.

Awakening isn’t reversible, and once you’ve seen the machinery behind the curtain, the circus loses its magic forever.

If enough people do what you did — quietly exit the game and stop feeding the beast — the collapse becomes math, not philosophy.

Love right back at you, fellow Onion peeler.

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Robin Landry's avatar

If I ever became queen of the world, I’d want you as my advisor so I could rule wisely 😉

But seriously, cutting through the BS of the system is vital to understanding so we can stop participating.

You give us this gift.

🎁

Jordan Peterson once said that a person couldn’t be moral without courage.

This is so true today. We are not a courageous people and when we are, we’re labeled as crazy.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Robin, I feel you are Queen of the Universe already — the crown is just invisible to everyone who still thinks authority comes stamped by institutions instead of earned in the fire. If I ever sat at your table, it wouldn’t be as an advisor but as a fellow outlaw human refusing to bend the knee. You’re right — cutting through the BS isn’t optional anymore; it’s survival. Courage has become the new currency of morality, and the minute we step into it, they slap us with the “crazy” label to herd us back into the pen. But the labels don’t work on us anymore. We see the game. And the only throne that matters now is the one rising inside people who dare to stop participating in their own captivity.

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Robin Landry's avatar

Welcome to the table fellow human rebel.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Then let’s feast, Queen — not on crumbs the system tosses us, but on the truth they tried to bury. Rebels make better company than courtiers anyway.

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Deborah Lamousin Saunders's avatar

Yes, so true, it's really about template recognition. Brilliant!

Something in the background of my mind as I was reading felt oddly familiar and then I saw a memory from a couple of years ago: my grandsons playing with a Marble Maze game. I couldn't resist. I queried Bing: "describe how the "marble maze game" is played similarly as the system of NGOs, corporate culture and state power." Funny how the answer feels a lot like what you've described here. I won't fill up this space to share what the AI came back with, but I think anyone who plugs in what I queried will see the resemblance. And laugh out loud like I did.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Love that, Deborah — template recognition is the whole game.

Once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it.

And your Marble Maze metaphor is perfect.

NGOs, corporations, governments — same architecture:

rails already laid,

marble dropped in at birth,

a few approved paths, lots of shiny distractions,

gravity doing most of the directing while the player (you) thinks you’re steering.

Meanwhile the real designers sit outside the box,

counting on the fact that most people never notice

the walls are artificial and the exit isn’t even on the printed map.

The moment a human stops rolling and starts observing the maze itself,

the spell cracks — and the marble becomes a player.

Beautiful catch.

Wolf salute 🐺

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Dianne Stoess's avatar

Yes. And if you say no and are a major influencer (e.g. Charlie Kirk) you will be imprisoned or assassinated in a way that makes it looks like it was suicide or carried out by some lone crazy. The pattern is always the same. I think David Icke is still alive because he has been and continues to be ridiculed by so many.

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