Doug Michael

In a consumerist culture of acquisition and narcissistic greed, where can one find solace amidst the tumultuous currents of life? Only within.

Cardinal rule number one: YOU EXIST.

Happiness is not something you find or pursue; it is something that is created from within. It is a way of being.

There is no life after death; there is only life.

I AM.

Be willing to die and be reborn again each day. Recreate yourself with each moment.

Is it ever possible to gain enlightenment? No it is not. You already are enlightenment. You only need to realize it.

My education began once I finished school and began to unlearn everything the establishment taught me. There are two types of education; the one we receive from the system and the one we give to ourselves. Which do you think is more valuable?

Those who have extinguished the light within themselves often live to extinguish yours. Hold compassion for the self-murdered yet do not allow them to destroy what you have cultivated within yourself. Sometimes compassion involves allowing someone to dwell within their self-created prison but also having enough compassion for yourself to not allow it to affect you negatively.

The true path to salvation is the road that leads within. The journey of the self is the journey of the soul. You define yourself and you create yourself. Looking to the world to give oneself meaning is futile. Bring your meaning to the world. Unlearn, deconstruct and create yourself anew with each moment.

Ignorance has become the new cool. These days, if you show even a semblance of intelligence or hold interests beyond the distractions and absurdities manufactured by this dying culture you are at once looked at with suspicion. Having intellectual pursuits makes one a threat and invites merciless ridicule by those who exist on the outskirts of their own being, lost within the confines of their mental and emotional prison cells, influenced by Hollywood, Madison Avenue and a completely defunct public [mis]education system. Every depraved meme, ideology and false reality is paraded as normal and woe to those who refuse to buy into the lies or to expose them for the nonsense that they quite obviously are. What is the rationale of a person that will willingly embrace ignorance and shun wisdom and knowledge in favor of outright stupidity? Perhaps those few who haven’t completely given away their minds and souls can build something new from the ashes.

I believe that the inability of the majority to acknowledge the challenges and crises that humanity faces, stems from a deep inability to embrace the darker aspects of their own psyche; thus, the darkness is collectively projected onto the global stage by a traumatized, collective and shattered ego consciousness. Deep, unworked, inner psychic trauma manifests in the outer world as breakdown, degeneration, collapse and chaos acting as a mirror and reflecting back upon us all that needs healing.

The greatest threat to the establishment today is the person who can think independently and maintains the ability to continuously scrutinize what they think they know. The challenger of conventional thought, the critical thinker, the man or woman of ideas is the enemy, the one who walks alone. She will not join, she will not conform, she will not waver. She has detached from the herd. The free thinker is perceived as the dangerous one. His ideas are a danger to the system, to his peers and to the rigid confines of ego centered consciousness. He is a rebel in the truest sense. He/she is the sane amongst the unsane, the one whose guidance comes only from within. Think for yourself and watch the lie become dust beneath your feet!

I am sovereign; I stand in the knowledge of who and what I am. I am not the name you have given me, the label you have bestowed upon me, nor am I a nine-digit number on a piece of paper. I am not the roles which I choose to experience. I am not my body and I am not your idea of who you think I should be. I am sentient; I define myself, I create myself with each moment and it is my absolute birthright to do so. I will not be surety for a stranger. I will not waver, I will not falter and I will no longer tolerate the lie. I will not identify with any aspect of your fictional system. I stand in the light of selfhood.

How can you possibly place infinity into a box? The labels, the “trends,” the division and separation, the cultural memes and false ideologies which all serve to distract, are nothing more than psychological prison cells.

In this age of information and instant communications, an age where the veil is lifting away to expose all that has remained hidden, ignorance is nothing more than a personal choice.

The cultivation of the self is an ongoing process.

When you discover the war within yourself, you recognize the battle between the lower mind of the ego and the higher mind of the self. The ego has its place but its predominance is an illusion.

It takes a certain courage, a certain constitution and fearless resolve to see things as they really are, to stand apart from the crowd, to walk the road of selfhood.

Does not the entire universe dwell within?

Never within the history of humankind have we had the ability to gather information so easily. Never have we had such easy access to knowledge and yet, so many would rather use the tools available, to go further into the depths of ignorance, distraction, delusion, and complete narcissistic self-indulgence. “Entertain me” seems to be the mantra of the day.

You must strive to be your own leader, your own teacher, your own shaman, your own guru. The moment you externalize to find your answer is when it is all given away and all is lost. The only truth, the only guidance and the only answer already exists within you. There is no outside savior, no authority over you; the only true path to salvation is internal. Follow the road that leads within.

Externalization and obsession with outer stimuli is a dead-end venture that only leads to ruin, self-depreciation and mediocrity.

Give your allegiance to the mind doctors, the media manipulators, the servants of falsehood and Mammon. Be one of the gormless crowd; for that is easier and far more comfortable. Think for oneself? Why? That would require effort and invite ridicule. Who the hell wants that? Conform, believe what you are told, fit in, follow, bow down and lick the boots of your enslavers. They will promise you security at the expense of your selfhood, safety at the expense of your freedom and protection from the very crises that they have created. There is no more middle ground! The time is now to rise up and reclaim your psychic sovereignty.

If you have come to the point in your life, where you no longer care what other people think of you, your ideas, your expression of uniqueness or the truth that you speak, then you are finally ready to step into the light of what true freedom is. If you can embrace humility and absolve the ego, just a little bit, then you will awaken and your life will transform and have true meaning, despite your circumstances, your pain, your hurt or your programmed and preconceived ideas of what you should be. It is at that moment that the phoenix rises from the ashes and you are reborn.

To those that skulk in the shadows like parasitic vampires and ravenous wolves, the servants of evil, the worshipers of power, fed only by greed and the lust for control; your time is up! Your reign is ending and you know it! Your childish games are now exposed for the world to see; for this is the AGE OF UNVEILING! Your arrogance blinds you and your exposure is imminent! The game is OVER! DOUBT IT NOT! Go cower in the darkness and shiver in the fear you so blindly foster and revel within. You are FINISHED here! The spirit of humanity is rising and there’s not a god damned thing you can do to stop it!

You have been trained your whole life to silence your inner voice. You have been conditioned to distrust your own inherent intelligence, to externalize to find that which can only be found within. You have been hypnotized to beLIEve that you are only the thinker, not the perceiver, that you are powerless, weak and small. The lies must be put to rest, and you must stand within your own magnificence if you are ever to affect change in your life and in the world.

The masses would rather embrace willful ignorance than ever dare to look at painful truths. Looking to the outer imbalance eventually causes one to look within at their own inner imbalance and dark side; they are intimately connected and most would rather die than ever look within.

When you present yourself intelligently to the average person, the collectivized, system serving, willfully ignorant automaton, you are at once considered a lunatic and a fool.

The words soul, self and spirit are interchangeable terms.

The entire system is designed to enslave you psychologically, to imprison your mind within its confines and rigid control structures. Enslaved to debt, archaic religious doctrines, the erroneous belief in authority and the flickering, high definition sorcerer that tells you how to interpret reality.

You can vote all you want for the lesser of two evils, the sycophantic misleader who promises you change or a nation of greater prosperity but you can never expect change in the outer world if the inner landscape is in shambles. You will never change the system by utilizing the tools that the system has provided. You will never affect positive change in the world or in your life without first examining the contents of your own psyche and make no mistake, it is a massively destructive process. It entails reexamining everything you think you know, destroying preconceptions and reducing beliefs and false paradigms to ashes.

Your entire life, you are sold a false reality. You are taught to identify with that which insults the spirit.

Sometimes, the universal intelligence will speak to us through other people. A mirror is presented before us to not only reflect the shadow but also the light. When two are brought together to act as a reflection for one another, it can be a true blessing. It can really open your eyes not only to what needs to be healed but also to the light that shines within.

Honor diversity. Celebrate uniqueness and individualism. Cherish the beauty in selfhood and respect everyone’s right to be a self. Reject collectivism and the erroneous belief in authority.

When you see the world through different eyes you are immediately scorned, rejected ridiculed and feared, even if your observations are valid and correct.

Every breath is a gift, each moment is an eternity and we recreate ourselves with each moment, each thought and the emotions and actions based upon how we think.

Willful ignorance is not cute or cool. It is a scourge and a plague. Choosing ignorance in the face of knowledge in an age of information is the mark of a weak and cowardly soul. It is the mentality of the slave and the bending of the knee to everything that insults what it means to be human.

True intelligence embraces the understanding that you have been lied to your entire life.

In the place you come from, and the place in which you shall return to, there is no judgment, there is only love.

A revolution is needed in today’s world; a new kind of revolution. Waving placards in the streets or voting for the evil of two lessers is not going to do it. A revolution in consciousness is required and the coming together of humanity as one family, despite the manufactured divisions and illusions that separate one from another. It is long past the time to claim our spiritual renaissance.

This complete and utter collapse of civilization brings with it great opportunity for humanity. We will be challenged to face the force of our own destructiveness and release our fear-based attachments to the material. This breakdown is calling us to look within, yet far too many run from this challenge and would rather destroy a part of themselves [psychotropic drugs, escapism, etc.] than turn their focus within to where the problems and the answers truly dwell. They are prisoners of the ego and cut off from the totality of the true self. They are existentially dead.

I’ve realized that most people are scared to death to face their innermost darkness. This is worrisome because until each individual faces the shadow and works to heal it, the outer world will never change. Far more worrisome however, is the fact that most are afraid to face their innermost light. Perhaps it is not until the shadow is faced, that one’s true magnificence can be revealed. Indeed, this is the day and age where we must figure out how to reconcile these seemingly opposed aspects, or dualities if you will and to fuse them into balance so that harmony can be reflected in the aggregate.

One of the most important maxims of law is that ignorance is no excuse. If you do not know who you are (and who you aren’t) and stand within the light of that truth, you unwittingly become surety for a LEGAL FICTION, which is the name on the birth certificate. The name is NOT YOU!

Lack of care, compassion and empathy is what is wrong with the world. Obsession with outer stimuli and over identification with the external is marching us straight into collectivism. The entire cultural paradigm speaks to survival instincts and promotes over identification with the mechanism that we think our thoughts with, what is called the ego. Division and separation are the calling cards of this faux paradigm.

‘Ignore the negative’ is the mantra of the blind. Focusing on only that which is perceived as ‘positive’ is an imbalance of the minds of those who are not fully integrated psychologically; they are inwardly split, divided, not whole. Ignoring the ‘negative’ aspect of duality, or the dark side of life is a sign of an unbalanced mind and only allows the ‘negative’ to flourish.

If you want to see real change and transformation, then stop beLIEving what you are conditioned to accept as true from hypocritical, overdressed and well paid liars, such as media mouthpieces, false “men of God,” politicians, or anyone connected to those who hide in the shadows and dance as their strings are pulled by those who willingly serve evil and spit upon freedom. Stand in the light of your truth, your uniqueness, your magnificence and your selfhood. There is no other way to be truly free.

The new age movement is full of flakes, charlatans and false teachers of all stripes. This defunct and completely co-opted movement, like the worldly religions, is awash with erroneous teachings, fake doctrines, and dogmatic, poisonous worldviews, all specifically designed to psychologically enslave human consciousness.

A true human being inherently knows in their heart what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Committing evil acts under the banner of religion does not abdicate personal responsibility for those actions.

If you want to act, express yourself and live like a victim, life is going to treat you like one. If you act like a “poor me” and put yourself out there like that, I promise you, life will oblige that level of consciousness. A victim mentality will only deliver to you a victim reality and until you can take responsibility for this truism, nothing in your life will ever, nor can it ever change. This is the attitude that needs to be transcended and if you cannot grasp this concept, please at least don’t advertise your victimhood with such reckless zeal; it’s ugly, it does not work and all you will succeed at is attracting fellow victims and victimizers to fulfill that idea, or beLIEf that you harbor about yourself.

Do not trust your own inherent intelligence or ability to seek knowledge and inform yourself! There are people with expensive degrees and letters after their names that will happily do your thinking for you!

What is about to occur across this planet will shake it to its core.

This time, right now is the catalyst; this is the turning point.

Fear no evil, because you are about to come face to face with it.