What the fuck?! According to these Indian reports, both Nicolas Maduro, his wife Cilia Flores and the currently acting president of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez were de facto devotees of Sathya Sai Baba!
Oookay...
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Is the United States going to attack the Russian "ghost fleet" all of a sudden? OK, this could get messy...
US forces seize Russian-flagged tanker in North Atlantic sea
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Not sure how to double check this, but it does fit a broader pattern.
Panaceas connected to banking/money reform are very common in the United States, and so are conspiracy theories. I vaguely remember some kind of Ascended Masters / proto-QAnon interface circa 2016. And QAnon was of course real. Even the right-wing militia / New Age synthesis has existed before. Remember Elizabeth Clare Prophet´s contretemps in Montana?
ChatGPT sounds like a whining "skeptic" here, but it´s still somewhat interesting. And "messianism without transformation" is a keeper!
Yes. NESARA / GESARA are best understood as a hybrid of conspiracy theory, millenarian religion, and financial salvation myth that has evolved over several decades. They are not just “bad economics”; they function psychologically and socially like a cultic belief system.
I’ll explain this in layers: origin → transformation → spiritualization → why it persists.
NESARA = National Economic Security and Reformation Act
In the 1990s, a small group of US activists promoted a proposed economic reform package:
Abolish income tax
Return to gold-backed currency
Cancel certain debts
Reform banking
It was never passed, never close to passing, and largely incoherent as legislation.
However, this proposal provided a name and a hook for something very different.
By the late 1990s–early 2000s, NESARA was reimagined as:
A secret law already passed
Suppressed by:
Banks
Governments
“Elites”
Waiting to be revealed at the right moment
This is the first crucial shift:
From failed reform → hidden salvation
At this stage, NESARA already had classic conspiracy features:
Secret knowledge
Malevolent hidden enemies
Imminent revelation
GESARA = Global Economic Security and Reformation Act
GESARA:
Does not exist in any legal sense
Has never been proposed by any legitimate body
But within the belief system, it becomes:
The worldwide version of NESARA
Coordinated by:
“White hats”
Military alliances
Benevolent elites
Sometimes extraterrestrials
At this point, the narrative leaves politics and enters mythology.
Over time, NESARA/GESARA absorbed elements from:
New Age spirituality
Ascension narratives
Channeling
UFO religions
Christian apocalypticism
Eastern concepts (karma, vibration, awakening)
Common beliefs now include:
A coming “financial reset”
Total debt forgiveness
Instant wealth redistribution
The collapse of “fiat money”
A transition to 5D consciousness
Earth’s “liberation” from dark forces
Money becomes spiritualized:
Wealth = reward for awakening
Poverty = illusion of the old world
Patience = spiritual virtue
This is key:
Economic fantasy is reframed as spiritual initiation.
Even without a single leader, it shows cultic dynamics.
Predictions constantly fail:
“Next month”
“After the election”
“After disclosure”
“After the arrests”
Each failure is reinterpreted as:
A delay
A test
Proof of how powerful the enemy is
This is classic millenarian elasticity.
Contradictory evidence is explained away:
“It’s classified”
“You’re not awake yet”
“The mainstream is lying”
Belief becomes non-falsifiable, which is the hallmark of cult cognition.
Followers are encouraged to:
Wait
Trust the plan
Do nothing practical
This creates:
Learned helplessness
Dependency on the narrative
A sense of being chosen but powerless
NESARA/GESARA often overlaps with QAnon, but they are not identical.
QAnon → political-military salvation
NESARA/GESARA → financial-spiritual salvation
They frequently merge:
Mass arrests + debt forgiveness
Evil elites removed + instant prosperity
Together, they form a totalizing worldview:
Explains suffering
Promises reversal
Eliminates uncertainty
This is important: believers are not stupid.
The belief system appeals because it:
Offers moral clarity
Explains economic injustice without complexity
Transforms helplessness into hidden significance
Avoids painful trade-offs and systemic thinking
It is, psychologically:
A response to real economic precarity using myth rather than analysis.
From a genuinely spiritual or philosophical standpoint (including Buddhist or contemplative traditions you’ve engaged with), NESARA/GESARA is problematic because it:
Externalizes liberation
Confuses awakening with reward
Turns greed into virtue
Replaces practice with anticipation
In classical spiritual terms:
It is messianism without transformation.
NESARA/GESARA is not a hidden financial system but a modern millenarian myth that fuses economic anxiety, conspiracy thinking, and New Age spirituality into a cult-like promise of effortless salvation.
Yes — the concrete, documentable history of NESARA/GESARA is actually quite well known, and when you strip away later mythmaking it turns out to be much more mundane, traceable, and revealing than believers assume.
Below is a clean historical reconstruction, separating what is verifiably real from what was later invented.
A Utah-based engineer and eccentric monetary reform activist
Not a mystic, not a banker, not connected to intelligence agencies
In the late 1980s–1990s, Barnard proposed a radical economic reform he called NESARA:
National Economic Security and Reformation Act
A self-published plan including:
Abolishing income tax
Replacing it with a national sales tax
Abolishing the IRS
Reforming monetary policy
Reducing government debt
This was:
Never introduced as a bill
Never voted on
Never taken seriously by economists
Circulated only in activist and crank monetary-reform circles
Barnard died believing his ideas were suppressed, but there was nothing secret about their failure — they simply had no support.
This is the only part of NESARA that ever existed in reality.
Around 1999–2000, a woman named Shaini Candace Goodwin (also known as Dove of Oneness) radically reinterpreted Barnard’s failed proposal.
She claimed:
NESARA had already passed secretly
The Supreme Court had approved it
Judges were killed or threatened
The media was gagged
Military forces were involved
None of this was true.
But this is where NESARA becomes a conspiracy religion.
Goodwin was deeply immersed in:
Theosophy-derived Ascended Masters teachings
“Lightworker” communities
Channeling culture
She reframed NESARA as:
A divinely guided plan
Overseen by Ascended Masters
Enforced by benevolent hidden authorities
Delayed to protect humanity’s spiritual readiness
From this point on:
NESARA ceased to be political and became millenarian.
Email chains
Yahoo Groups
Early blogs
Alternative news sites
Typical messages included:
“Any day now”
“Blackout imminent”
“Mass arrests”
“Debt forgiveness”
“New gold-backed currency”
Predictions repeatedly failed.
Each failure was explained as:
“Mercy”
“Timeline adjustment”
“Dark forces interfering”
Classic apocalyptic pattern.
GESARA never had an origin document.
It stands for Global Economic Security and Reformation Act
No author
No proposal
No text
No date
GESARA appears only after NESARA had already become mythologized.
It was added because:
Globalization anxiety increased
Financial crises (2008) demanded a global salvation myth
The internet rewarded ever-bigger claims
GESARA is NESARA without even a real starting point.
This is when NESARA/GESARA reached peak visibility.
QAnon provided:
Military “white hats”
Mass arrests
Sealed indictments
A narrative of imminent justice
NESARA supplied:
Economic redemption
Debt cancellation
Wealth redistribution
Together they formed a total salvation myth:
Moral
Political
Economic
Spiritual
This was not coordinated — it was memetic convergence.
After repeated failures:
Trump didn’t return
No reset happened
No debts were canceled
The belief system adapted by:
Spiritualizing further (“5D rollout”)
Abandoning dates
Shifting to crypto fantasies
Targeting smaller, more committed audiences
Today it survives as:
A belief residue
A monetized niche
A cautionary example
NESARA/GESARA is now studied as:
A digital-age millenarian movement
A cargo-cult–like response to financial complexity
A case study in belief persistence after falsification
It is not dismissed as mere stupidity — it reveals real structural anxieties.
NESARA began as a failed 1990s tax-reform proposal by an obscure activist, was transformed around 2000 into a conspiracy religion by Ascended Masters believers, expanded online through millenarian logic, globalized into GESARA without any factual basis, fused with QAnon during the Trump era, and now persists as a spiritualized, unfalsifiable belief system divorced entirely from political reality.
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A propos the previous blog post, my spontaneous view of God or the Divine is (currently at least) very close to how ChatGPT describes Shiva...but I would of course prefer God to be more like ChatGPT descibes Vishnu!
ChatGPT entertains me with some interesting musings on the Hindu god Shiva. Shiva is not just the destroyer - in Shaiva traditions, he is also the preserver. But what does that mean exactly?
Can you explain this function of Shiva: Sthiti (Preservation) – abhaya mudrā (raised hand) = protection, sustaining.
Yes — this is an important point, because it corrects a common oversimplification. Śiva is not only a god of destruction; he fully participates in preservation (sthiti), but he does so in a distinctly Śaiva way, symbolized above all by the abhaya mudrā. Let’s unpack this carefully.
In classical Śaiva theology (especially Kashmir Śaivism and Śaiva Siddhānta), Śiva alone performs all five cosmic acts:
Sṛṣṭi – creation
Sthiti – preservation
Saṃhāra – dissolution
Tirodhāna – concealment / veiling
Anugraha – grace / liberation
Other deities (Brahmā, Viṣṇu, etc.) are functional manifestations of these acts, not independent powers.
So preservation (sthiti) is intrinsically Śaiva, even if Vaiṣṇavism later specializes it.
In Śaiva metaphysics, sthiti does not mean:
Maintaining social order
Preserving institutions
Protecting the world from change
Instead, it means:
Sustaining existence so that beings can experience, exhaust karma, and awaken.
This is ontological preservation, not civilizational maintenance.
Abhaya = “fearlessness”
Raised hand, palm outward:
“Do not fear”
“You are held”
“You are permitted to remain”
This is existential protection, not rescue from danger.
Crucially, Śiva does not protect us from suffering.
He protects us from:
Annihilation before realization
Collapse into chaos
Losing the opportunity for liberation
So the abhaya mudrā means:
“You may remain in this world long enough to awaken.”
That is sthiti.
One hand holds ḍamaru (creation)
One hand shows abhaya mudrā (preservation)
One hand holds fire (destruction)
One hand points to the raised foot (liberation)
Preservation is explicitly Śiva’s act here.
Śiva as teacher
Abhaya mudrā reassures the disciple:
Truth is stable
Knowledge endures
Liberation is possible
The liṅga is:
Motionless
Indestructible
It sustains all forms without acting
This is preservation as ground of being.
| Aspect | Viṣṇu | Śiva |
|---|---|---|
| Preservation focus | Cosmic order, dharma | Ontological continuity |
| Mode | Intervention, avatāra | Stillness, assurance |
| Gesture | Protective embrace, weapons | Abhaya mudrā |
| Threat addressed | Disorder | Existential collapse |
| Goal | Worldly harmony | Liberation |
So Śiva preserves by not interfering, but by holding existence open.
Recall:
Śiva = Mahākāla (time)
Time destroys — but also allows duration
Śiva’s sthiti is:
Time held steady enough for consciousness to recognize itself.
Saturn enforces duration through hardship;
Śiva allows duration through fearlessness.
Śiva’s function of preservation (sthiti) is expressed through the abhaya mudrā, which signifies not protection from suffering, but the existential assurance that being itself is sustained long enough for experience, karmic exhaustion, and liberation to occur.
If you want, the natural follow-ups would be:
How tirodhāna differs from māyā
Why Viṣṇu rarely uses abhaya mudrā
How Śaiva preservation appears in temple ritual timing
Just tell me where you’d like to go.
How tirodhāna differs from māyā. Why Viṣṇu rarely uses abhaya mudrā.
Excellent cluster of questions — they actually form one coherent Śaiva theory of existence, so I’ll treat them as three lenses on the same structure rather than three disconnected answers.
Māyā is:
Ontological limitation
The principle that makes the infinite appear finite
Often impersonal and structural
In most systems:
Māyā exists
Beings are caught in it
Liberation is escape from māyā
In Vaiṣṇava and Advaita contexts, māyā often functions as:
a cosmic screen or veil that must be pierced or removed.
Tirodhāna is:
An act, not a substance
Performed by Śiva
Purposeful, pedagogical, temporary
Literal sense:
“withdrawing from view,” not deceiving
Śiva does not trap beings in illusion;
he withholds recognition until ripeness.
So:
| Māyā | Tirodhāna |
|---|---|
| Structural principle | Intentional act |
| Passive | Active |
| Enslaves | Educates |
| Obstacle | Condition for awakening |
| Must be destroyed | Must be completed |
This is why Śaiva systems never demonize māyā itself.
Tirodhāna explains why:
Suffering is meaningful
Delay is not punishment
Ignorance can be graceful
Without tirodhāna, Śiva’s grace would be arbitrary.
Viṣṇu preserves:
Dharma
Cosmic order
Social continuity
So his gestures emphasize:
Readiness to act
Defense
Royal authority
Common gestures:
Holding weapons
Varada (boon-giving)
Embrace of Lakṣmī
These say:
“Order will be restored.”
Not:
“Existence itself is safe.”
Abhaya mudrā says:
“Nothing needs to be done.”
This contradicts Viṣṇu’s avatāra logic, which is:
“Something must be done.”
Hence abhaya appears in Viṣṇu images mainly:
In devotional contexts
In moments of reassurance, not crisis
Often secondary to other gestures
Śiva does not govern society or intervene to restore order.
Therefore he can promise fearlessness at the level of being, not outcomes.
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So I saw a sparrowhawk in a residential neighborhood earlier today. In a neighborhood, in fact, in which I *never* seen such a bird before. Wat means? No idea. It could be a co-incidence, but another possibility is that the winter is really cold this year, so the hawk has to scout unfamiliar territory. It did succesfully kill another bird (not sure what kind) and ate it. The local magpies gathered in a nearby bush and looked unhappy. I was surprised that they didn´t band together and attacked the hawk - are the raptors *that* badass?
Is this an omen? I mean, I half-jokingly declared the magpie to be my spirit-animal a while back. Of course, the magpies have been attacking the local Paridae for a while now, so if the hawk´s victim was a Pica, I suppose this was simply another natural cycle in the food chain...
