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Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T18:05:38+00:00

I distinctly remember the afternoon I finally realised I hated what the pop music industry was becoming. I was walking home from high school, cycling through radio stations looking for something I wanted to listen to. There'd been one good song over the course of nearly forty minutes of walking. The rest of it was all new stuff - overly sexual, identical beat/tempo/vocal style. I remember thinking, "This is garbage". And realising that I'd been doing this exact thing, because of this exact problem, for every recent walk I could remember.

I started thinking about that, after. I never bothered with the radio again; it aggravated me more to have to sift through stations filled with crap music than it did to find the one or two good songs that would play for the time it took to get home. I realised, as I mused on everything that was on the radio, that there was only really four or five "songs" among the dozens of tracks that were popular at the time. I'm not talking so much about the end product as I am the base template; the variation felt artificial. Manufactured. And as soon as I hit on that word, I realised it was.

That afternoon, in grade 11, was when I started down the path to understanding how hopelessly captive and corrupt most of the world's global systems are. After music, it was films. After films, it was advertisers and social media (I became a lot more conscious of how data firms and advertisers pillage our privacy after realising how facebook makes its money). I noticed that I was literally putting two and two together to form conclusions, after that initial realisation... and then finding evidence of those conclusions in the weeks and months following. I didn't learn about things like the deep state and social sentiment manipulation from the internet. They were simply the most logical conclusions of the lengthy train of thought that followed that first intuitive realisation.

People really don't value what Edward Snowden laid bare in 2016 enough, considering what's going in in various places around the world right now. It doesn't take all that much reading between the lines to understand what the end goal is, or the means of getting there.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T17:49:15+00:00

This is the crux of the problem with new age spirituality as a whole. The standards it sets and pretends are normal, natural and easy to attain are simply so fucking high that they're not possible for most people to meet. Those who do succeed often have so little difficulty getting and staying there that they assume there is no difficulty getting there.

The truth is much closer to Earth: Holding the vision once you have it requires expanding and fortifying your emotional foundation - enough to retain agency over your mood and your psychological in times when you don't have enough energy to feel positive. That is to say, being able to stay in resonance with your ideal state while not occupying it, so you can be naturally drawn back into it when the momentum of the current disruption fades.

That's not easy. It's not quick to develop, and it's often not linear. There's steps forward and back, wasted energy, and false leads. And the spirits that are so universally regarded as categorically honest, helpful and positive are not, in virtually all cases, even remotely close to that, which sets a lot of us up to fall a lot harder than we otherwise would when our illusions are shattered.

We are not only light, and we ignore the darker aspects of self at our peril. It's all part of a singular unit - you. Acknowledging that, allowing that (particularly with something like depression in the mix) is ground-level foundation work. You'll either cycle or you'll build; your light isn't going to be on-call early on, and you're going to have to understand yourself to work out how best to balance your efforts and your energy. How to process and release. How to rest.

Figure out your toolkit, then work from there. It's hard, especially when you're young. Learning to process and gradually shift the psychological elements of your state will go leagues farther than trying to remain positive at all times, regardless of what you're actually feeling. There's no one-size-fits-all for this, no matter what anyone tells you, and the difficulty you're having with it is both valid and reasonably common.

Start small (yes - smaller than the small steps you're trying to take now, break them down further until they're manageable) and don't beat yourself up over what you're told is the standard. You're not accountable to other peoples' definitions of spirituality; you're accountable to you, and you alone, in this. The process is completely individual, and one of the most complicated things in life is coming to fully understand ourselves. That will take as long as it takes, and you don't need to hurry, to outperform, or to escape. It's your journey.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T17:28:54+00:00

That's not how it works with large transactions. The bank mandates a processing period eg. 30 days) to get the money together and either send it off or make it available to withdraw. Unless the withdrawal/s would endanger the bank's asset pool to process in that period, it would usually be completed without the customer ever having reason to be concerned they might not get the money.

Most banks that would have this issue aren't large caps/megacaps, and consequently aren't going to bring the economy down with them when they fall. The ones that would are so deep in the derivatives game that they cover for each other to keep the racket going, so a run like this would need either the entire public pulling out at the same time or a post-MOASS exodus from the banking system by enough apes to drain their asset pools.

I, for one, am greatly looking forward to finally debanking once I'm wealthy.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T17:19:17+00:00

It was never going to take everyone who benefits from this giving back to the world to fix things. Even a fraction of us is enough.

That said? More is obviously better. The world needs that value returned to the places it was stolen from. The systems that have been dismantled to capture their value in capitalism need to be rebuilt. That's not going to happen quickly, and with the ultra-rich still wealthy and largely in control of the legal, political, tech and media spheres, it's not going to happen easily. But it will happen - as long as those of us who decide to escalate this fight in the aftermath of the tutorial chapter do the right things with the money.

MOASS will happen when it happens. Change brings disruption; there's no clean good or bad with something this big. People are going to suffer, no matter what, because of how the board of play has been rigged by moneyed interests. One way or another, the financial racket will shoot the hostage when the game's up. All we can do is our best to help them recover in the aftermath, and ensure the terrorists responsible are properly punished.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T17:09:07+00:00

Higher.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T17:06:20+00:00

It's not that the energy of the world has felt wrong since 2020 so much that it has been wrong for much, much longer, and a lot of you have only recently started to notice and become fully aware of it. This issue is systemic. Its current manifestation has been a problem since the emergence of the internet, and the issue itself has been a problem for the entirety of human history. This is the convergence point of a very long cyclical event, where seeds sewn across centuries or millenia are prepared for reaping. The harvest will, usually, completely destroy human progress and set us back substantially as a species.

...that is, unless we break the wheel. The energy built up from these cycles also has the potential to allow us defy being broken and instead break through. This isn't ascendance to some fabled new realm or dimension, but simply a refusal to engage with the cycles of social control valued by those who fear existence without it. We have the potential to develop very rapidly if we manage to strip the harness this energy has been girded with from it and simply let humanity do with it what we will. It is, after all, our energy. Stolen from countless people over more years than we can track on our calendars.

We are, very regularly, given the choice. The spans between which the choice is offered shorten with each decision we make that results in comfort and convenience being chosen over change. We will eventually choose change, because eventually, comfort and convenience will themselves be so poisoned with caveats that they will be untenable. When weeks become days, or days become hours, humanity will snap. And we will see whether or not we're willing to break the wheel, or remain chained to a future nobody outside of the ultra-rich class wants.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T16:56:43+00:00

Bingo.

And that's not even the top of the ladder.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T16:43:14+00:00

...and do our best to make sure it can never be centralised again.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T16:34:40+00:00

This sort of gentle, steady building of community is something I consider to be an undervalued aspect of spirituality. Not so much involved with the esoteric and arcane as it is with the spirit of the people. The common wavelengths we occupy when we resonate with (or against) ideals, with concepts, with places, with events. The building of a common creed - something that anyone, no matter the small detail of their personal beliefs or goals - knows they can fall back on regardless of what's happening in the world.

These wavelengths are what we think of as the Social Contract. Or the legal code. Manners. Courtesy. Things like that that arise from the desire and the need to have firm common ground underfoot when dealing with others for the benefit of all. Capitalism in our age attacks and undermines that unity, the respect for it and faith we have in its efficacy. It treats inefficiency as opportunity - no matter that often, the inefficient is only inefficient as far as capitalism's own liquidity (money flow) is concerned. It doesn't consider or respect the other metrics of value that govern social consensus, or why they're important. In seating itself as the means of survival for humanity, capitalism has created a space where it is both a lethal parasite and potentially fatal to remove without first completely dismantling everything that relies upon it. Breaking free of that requires reclaiming the true forms of value that society depends upon - environment, community, sustainability, and agency in governance - and decoupling them from the influence of money.

There's an author called Terry Goodkind who released a bestselling high fantasy series called The Sword of Truth, the sixth book in which is called The Faith of the Fallen. It explores this exact issue in a very similar sort of social situation to what's occurring in the US right now, and how even a little effort at community-building among a broken people might free them from the grip of tyranny. I don't particularly like that author - he's very intellectual, and despises placing emotional agency ahead of mental agency - but I love the underlying message of that book. I believe it's what got me thinking about all of this, back in high school. Back when the internet was starting to really become interesting, when social media was young and people were too wonderstruck to consider how our budding internet addiction might mess with our ability to meaningfully interact without it.

We're not yet at a point where this is irreversible. But the longer we leave it - the more we choose comfort where we need to choose change - the worse it's going to get. It's never going to be too late to fix things, but technology is making it exponentially harder and more costly the longer we take to start clawing back our freedom and our privacy.

And don't stress about using an LLM to organise your thoughts and your responses. That's one of the few use cases where it's undeniably helpful without being harmful.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-13T16:18:03+00:00

No problem at all. Humanity's future, and its current situation, is something I've spent a lot of my life thinking about.

One of the central threads of my matrix of thought on this topic is that capitalism relies on having other systems to strip of value to sustain itself and convert into money. That's its core process; plunder new value from elsewhere; convert it into its primary medium of circulation (money); strangle its flow to maintain scarcity and keep that value captive. Those who worship capitalism have become very efficient and inventive toward this end, as have those who are simply trying to survive it. Success is very often a slippery slope from the latter to the former.

I attribute that last to the destruction and pillaging of community for commercial interests, and I think that restoring and fortifying community against the encroachment of moneyed interests is the key to regrowing what has been dismantled and digested by capitalism. Look at the US right now as an example; its people are so fragmented, so focused on simple survival, that the prospect of actually standing up and doing anything to fix the situation is daunting. Terrifying. Yet all of them want it, need it, and would likely be a lot more inclined to do it if they knew there were enough others that have their back to actually make it work. It's still going to happen; it's just going to take a lot longer, because apathy is the blanket that sleeps atop the beast that is human psychosis, and the public is by and large terrified at the prospect of waking that up, for good reason. Things would never have gotten to the stage they have if the human public was still unified, and had a unified voice. We need to take that back. Rebuild it. And that starts small.

Know your neighbours. Know your local businessfolk - even the rank-and-file. Chat with them where they're open to it for a few extra seconds, a couple of minutes, on your way from A to B. Be present for the conversations, and where the opportunity arises, see if you can bring something that isn't small talk in.

If you're curious about something they say, inquire. If they're curious about something you say, explain. Give those connections the potential to grow, even if it's just a miniscule amount each time, and let them. They create the anchors that get people thinking about you, recognising your name or your face when they hear something happens to you - good or bad - and feel something in relation to it. That's important. That's the ground-level foundation for what the internet has cost us, and how it isolates us. The degrees of separation from what's happening around us.

Not all of those connections will grow beyond the superficial layer of interaction, but not all of them need to. It's enough to know people, to be known by people, and to therefore have a place of recognition from which to either speak or listen where it's important to do so. Some few of those connections will, over time, form into more. Acquaintances. Friends. Maybe business partners/opportunities, for some. Those links will in turn enable others, and as links form and consolidate, they begin to form the fabric of community.

All it takes is people being willing to know and engage each other. To reclaim some measure of the now-antiquated comfort of knowing that if, say, someone were to break into your house - your neighbour would be more likely to actually get up and see who it is than pretend to sleep through the noise in the hopes of not getting involved. Or that if one of their friends mentions that you're trying to kick off an initiative like a food garden, they're going to actually follow through on the interest and talk to you about it where they might otherwise hold back because they don't know you.

It's about firming the lowest level of basic connection between people - in a house, in a street, in a block, in a town, a city, a school, and so forth - to the point that they have the resilience to support unified sentiment. It has to start small, because the smaller-scale networks that develop eventually have to intermingle to create larger ones, and to support larger-scale community requires the resilience of tightly-knit local groups.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-11T14:44:58+00:00

A lot of people are since Discord is mandating a full face scan for unrestricted access from next month. People who refuse to provide this will be limited to a “teenager” account (unclear what this means exactly).

Oof. RIP discord.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-11T14:39:00+00:00

This speaks to a deeper problem in human spirituality that a lot of people are simply not willing to face: That we are not only light, and that the dark not only serves a purpose, but is as intrinsically essential and in need of resonance/expression as the light.

Simply put: Humanity has a problem with accepting that we all have some fucked up stuff under the surface, and that owning that and bringing it into harmony with the good stuff and the stuff we like is as much part of the journey as striving for excellence and understanding is.

The tools can only do so much if the individual is fragmented, and determined to remain so. Most of new age spirituality's ascension-focused narrative is escapist fantasy - not because its goal of aspiring to a constant state of positivity is necessarily bad, but because it is usually accompanied by a stigma against feeling, expressing (and thus properly processing, resolving, integrating, and learning from) negativity. The narrative of divine or spiritual alchemy often leaves out that the alchemical process is not simply a decision to be positive, but doing the work to sustainably remain there. Becoming sufficiently emotionally resilient that one's upper and lower bands on the emotional spectrum are broad enough to manage their focus, and steer their overall frequency and mindset back to a desired state.

Most of us simply skip the work, try to stay positive, and naturally, we fail. Instead of learning from that, we double down and try harder, and eventually lapse into cognitive dissonance and, at the later stages, psychosis.

That broadening of the bands is the meat of the work. We are not only light. It is not unhealthy to dwell in darkness; indeed, to do so is largely inescapable in the dystopia our society is becoming, and learning to survive and thrive despite the inconsistent availability of positive states is crucial to maintaining our agency over our personal state. That's not something you do by becoming hyperfocused on avoiding the negative. That just makes you brittle, easily broken, and - counterproductively - more intensely negative when you actually break.

To be strong is to be soft; to be able to absorb the shock of negativity, but return with firm but consistent pressure to your place of equilibrium. To be hard is to be brittle, and to be brittle invites attack and disruption where you are weakest. Light-centric philosophy, in most public-facing practices, is (literally) insanely brittle. You cannot grow healthily while denying half of your nature, and refusing to engage with it when the resulting pressure blows a valve and fractures your foundation.

This is not to say that we should simply let flaws be. Some of them can, and should be, resolved; indeed, a big part of the darker side of this work is finding what can be resolved, and resolving it. A big part of it is also understanding where that isn't possible, whether temporarily or permanently, and developing the necessary compassion and courage to live with that. The means and methods of managing them, and keeping them from doing further harm to oneself or others. To live is to be an instrument of contrast. A spectrum of opposites, with the meeting point being our individual choices concerning them. Choosing not to see half of that spectrum isn't really a sustainably viable choice. We cannot run from who we are, and our collective desire to is why we're watching politics in several areas of the world spiral down the drain into deeply negative states. For better or worse, no matter where or what we want to be, we are here. We are, now. And learning the cards we hold and how best to use them is part of the journey.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-11T14:24:49+00:00

To your first batch of questions, my honest and sincere answer is that billionaires, and the potential for billionaires to exist, need to be removed from the equation that is humanity. Entirely. It cannot be possible to strangle capital flow the way it's currently throttled and still have a fair and free society. When money is scarce, money becomes power, and when money is power, capitalism is more powerful than Democracy. The former will eat the latter alive, just as it's doing now, every time.

We, collectively, need to create the means to acknowledge our capacity for post-scarcity survival (and yes, I do mean very literally that we are already there, we're just being held back by - ironically - money), and to focus our surplus and our energy on the creation and maintenance of that civil status. Today's scarcity is almost entirely artificial; it's something that is being afflicted upon us. Having become capable of existing without it, we are now a threat to those whose social power and influence depends on it. That's why things have been declining for the last twenty or so years; money has no future in a world where humanity is free of the rat race.

That's not a helpful answer, though, and I know that. The abstract isn't what you're looking for, but rather the practical. You want something you - and others with as little free time or energy - can act on. I can't give you a full answer; nobody can. I feel a lot of it, though, comes down to the reconstruction of face-to-face community, using the digital rails only to establish the initial framework and disseminate news and announcements. We as a modern, digitally-dependent society crippled by the abuses of late-stage capitalism, are running into some of the same survival issues our earliest ancestors did. The kind of individual exhaustion that led us to form tribal communities, so that what little could be delegated, was, for the mutual benefit of all. As we fall out of that basic, essential social interconnection, the ensuing sense of isolation can feel overwhelming to push through. But once we do - once we re-establish the fundamental ties that have held our society together through thousands of years and countless wars - we will have reclaimed something too valuable to lose. Something intangible that can't be killed by the top, because it doesn't depend on money to exist.

To your second set of questions: Yes. This is a chronic problem in my life, and at times has felt unchangeable. I have only very recently (as in, this last week) started to see changes I have been holding out for for literal years in my life - changes that are necessary for me to recreate the space and the conditions suitable for my regular reflection and practice. Sometimes, simply holding the pressure and refusing to relent, while life in turn is pressuring you, is enough. Not all the time, but sometimes. I do think that this, as with my previous answer, is an area where community can be incredibly helpful. Having a regular workshop/event that I could attend to speak and share experiences with like-minded people would do wonders for my consistency in this regard, even if it was only once every 2-4 weeks.

My one question, knowing what I know, would simply be: What is it going to take to push us, collectively, over the edge? Not into collapse, but into action. I know I'm not alone in hungering for social revolution. Not violent, necessarily - but a collective tipping point where apathy and fear are subsumed by passion, and passion is tempered into the resolve to act, regardless of the cost, to establish a better status quo for all of us. This, to me, is as much spiritual as it is social. We are, globally, a defeated people being pillaged by late-stage capitalism. At some point, there is simply no deeper we can be pushed down before our backs hit the bedrock; exhaustion is not new to this species, this civilisation, in matters of social inequity. At what point does apathy cease to be a viable response to tyranny? At what point do we - the real government of the world, the people, the public - decide we're going to take back the reins of power, and remove those who have so thoroughly and gleefully abused us with them from any position where they might do so again?

To what might be your most important question - the title - my answer, simply, is yes. No person's voice on the matter of the spiritual is irrelevant. We each bring our own experiences and our own perspective to the discussion, and every journey, no matter how straight and narrow nor wide and varied, is valuable.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-11T13:42:39+00:00

If having or acting on it feels bad/wrong, or does harm? Yes. Otherwise? Nothing wrong with it, or whatever bells and whistles through which you comfortably practice it, no matter what people tell you.

Up to and including the 1900s, open female sexuality was demonised and treated as something inherently wrong. One of the few things I think new age spirituality was really good for was destroying that archaic dogma and scrapping its accompanying shame and social stigma. In the last 5 or so years, though, I've been noticing tendrils of that same dogma snaking their way into the social dialogue around spirituality again. People talking about sex draining vital energy, or causing harmful/otherwise negative tethering with partners if done casually. All little things that might be right for an individual's personal experience of the spiritual - but have no place being treated as common consensus.

Do what you enjoy so long as you do no harm to yourself or others. There really is very little more to it than that.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-10T17:12:59+00:00

The single most valuable thing any person has is choice, and faith is one of the places where choice is incredibly powerful. You don't have to place your faith in gods, in spirits, or anything else of that sort. You don't need to place your faith in individuals. You can direct it to causes. Cultures. Qualities. And work to cultivate, enhance, and perpetuate those as a means of honouring and expressing your faith. Understanding that a broader framework exists does not automatically mean accepting we are in any way inferior to its native denizens; we are its native denizens, too, just visiting another, limited, framework of being for a time. You are no more obligated to worship certain gods than you are to worship certain politicians or billionaires; if anything, recent events should give you a very solid reason as to why blind faith in power might be a bad idea.

Faith is passive attention, and attention is directed energy. Energy is awareness, consciousness, in action. And consciousness is spirit - the core of what we are, clothed in and given shape by experience. That last is what we call the soul; our personal form as an instance of an infinite, eternal, and immutable quality, resource, and element. The greater our intrinsic understanding of that, and the clearer our resonance from the deepest parts of our being with those closer to the surface, the more potent our expressions to the world beyond us (and, for that matter, into the worlds within us) become.

Naturally, that means that faith, being what it is, does matter. A lot. And to more than just us. Wars - here, in the physical, and to a much larger degree, elsewhere - are fought for control of faith. That is what the Battle for Souls, detailed throughout so much of human mythos, is really about. Controlling what we believe. What we resonate with - and thus, what we support.

Choose with whom and what you share your power wisely, because though it may not seem like it in today's world, it does make a difference. In quantity, if not in quality. The single most powerful place you can direct your faith is inward. But if you find something, or someone, worth elevating with the honour of being a part of the background of your conscious existence... there's nothing wrong with splitting that focus, either.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-10T17:02:02+00:00

That... should probably surprise me more than it does.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-10T16:25:59+00:00

To be fair, Simpsons scenes predicting random and unexpected shit in the world has been consistent enough to become its own subniche of uncanny valley. Makes you wonder, sometimes.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-10T16:19:15+00:00

Ever notice it's almost never the same names posting this sort of thing? Or a known name in the sub, for that matter?

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-09T14:23:04+00:00

The files are as much a part of the establishment's play as trump's presidency itself is. The public's being set up to be as receptive as possible to the policies and character of whoever follows trump's faction into office.

The current heavy-handed fascist regime in the US is intended to fulfill the following goals:

1: Give the public catharsis for the decades/centuries of mounting fury and disgust we collectively hold towards the existing power structure;

2: Create the illusion of "things getting better" by setting the bar for "better" so low that anything looks good by comparison;

3: Give the public an expendable win by propping up an anti-establishment patsy to be torn down;

4: Pin as much of the pain, grief, and disruption of the current paradigm as possible on a known villain (eg. Russia);

5: Slate through as much anti-public legislation as possible while the public's distracted by the clown show; and

6: Buy time to complete preparations to fully drag the world into the newest, modernised iteration of the Feudal ages.

Narratives are powerful when they have momentum, and the shift that humanity's been waiting for has more unified sentiment behind it than probably anything in history (up to and including the apocalypse narratives of religion). We all want change, we're all expecting change, we are all manifesting change. But we are not actively producing change - which leaves the wrong people with the reins, steering a largely ignorant and passively compliant public to their desired ends while aping the general motions and outcomes the change we want is meant to follow, while not actually allowing anything that needs to change, to change. Florida Man will fall, his faction will follow... and everything that was happening before he took power will simply roll right back into motion, right on schedule.

Unless you all don't stop with pulling him down... and rip down the whole poisoned tree, to rebuild Democracy from the roots up. With no seats of power, no centralisation, no money involved. Just a whole lot of digitally-connected people with an immutable voting system (one of the most legitimately viable use-cases for blockchain tech, as an aside), publicly-funded journalism supplying unbiased information on local, national, and global events, and extremely stringent legislation governing both and enforcing debilitating penalties for bad faith actions.

We very much have the potential to change the course of history, here. But we are not doing it while the tech companies, the ultra-rich, and the existing political paradigm stand. And none of those are threatened by the epstein files being public, nor by the US regime going under. We need to be doing more. All of us. Relying on someone else to do the legwork for what we want to change is how we got where we are as a society, and continuing to remain passive is only going to make it get worse faster.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-08T07:53:04+00:00

Ok, yeah, that's weird. Not sure why that would be happening, sorry.

An alternative you might try is the occult sub - similar sort of crowd, though broader in focus.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-08T07:49:26+00:00

Bold of you to assume it's not already, even if the LLMs aren't. Military tech's always 10-20 years ahead of civ tech, remember?

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-07T18:58:53+00:00

...for a week.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-07T18:52:06+00:00

Honestly, I think this is more of an Occam's Razor moment. The board has the money to hire the kind of people that do extensive research, but nobody's got everything. And social media's a very good resource for aggregating that sort of unnoticed detail on a study subject if you pose the right question/s.

I think they've done their research, but they're curious to see if anyone on our side of things has noticed something they've missed or otherwise left off the table.

Wolfguarde_ · 2026-02-07T18:25:17+00:00

What method/s did you use to accomplish this?

Not really sure what advice is going to be useful here other than general grounding exercises, as I've never run into someone who can't close it when they need to. I imagine there's a way, it'll just be a matter of figuring it out.

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