The Post-Covid World

[kimberlysteele]

I actually am pro-choice, BTW, for all the reasons cited in the meme.

Do you remember how far off the year 2024 seemed in the year 2020? My corner of the world in suburban Chicago was locked down and my business was closed. I awaited news of what was happening overseas in dreaded epicenters of lockdown and "infection" that were supposedly a month ahead of our own two-weeks-to-flatten the curve. Older people were being slaughtered wholesale in hospitals and nursing homes, which quickly morphed into government-subsidized death camps. To add insult to iatrogenic injury, nurses and doctors lovingly choreographed group dance routines in empty hospital corridors. Some dancing medics were even captured hoisting up a patient's corpse (or what looked like it) while they cavorted and frolicked. Adding to the obscenity, we all knew for a act that somewhere in the background, still-living patients were busy suffocating because of unnecessary ventilators, seizing because of unnecessary drugs, or just plain being starved to death with no family or friends allowed to impede the process. If you trust allopathic doctors for yourself or your kids after seeing what went on from 2020-2023, that's on you. The world went insane and those of us with a handful of marbles were not running the asylum.

In January 2021, a local mom and I funded Speakeasy Illinois, a group for getting around masks and later on, vaccines. I was lucky. I had the benefit of being part of the Cosmic Doctrine reader's club and discussion with John Michael Greer patiently guiding and moderating. I knew better than to throw my energy into hating the opposition. Trust me that I wanted to hate them. Instead, my Speakeasy group supported the change we wanted to see, encouraging members to patronize mask and vaccine free establishments. My group started home schools, visited freedom-loving stores, changed to freedom-loving doctors, ate at freedom-loving restaurants, filled freedom-loving churches, networked for religious exemptions, and generally ignored the opposition whenever possible in the spirit of Christian occultist Dion Fortune. We directed people towards freedom-loving medical professionals, and in hindsight, I think this is where we hit the hardest. The greatest fear of the modern medical industry is that it will lose paying customers. My group quietly informed people that allopathic medicine is not in the business of healing. The more the overarching powers tried to censor the information, the more appealing it became to my group's members. Strange things happen when a small group of people wake up.

Image by George Alexopoulos

Far too many unvaccinated persons in my group lost family and friends. One woman regaled me with the tale of her husband divorcing her after 30 years of marriage and two children. Her story was hardly unique. Strained marriages were the rule and not the exception: many marriages did not survive. Yet no matter how bad the vaccine reign of terror became, those that should have known better refused to recognize the tsunami of pro-vaccine propaganda. They fell like cordwood, literally and figuratively. Vaccines killed my neighbors. Vaccines gave them and their children strokes, heart attacks, chronic inflammation, liver failure, psychotic episodes, and cancer. To this day, many who took the vaccines and survived continue to put their faith in them. Each new day brings catastrophic news of how unnecessary, deadly, and damaging are the MRNA vaccines. Though most normal people around me say they would not take another MRNA vaccine, there is still a disturbing number who believe in them. The dwindling number of vaccine enthusiasts seems marked. They remind me of Westboro Baptists, that group that claims to be worshipping Jesus yet spends all of its public time engaged in the demonic cursing and belittling of others. MRNA vaccines were the holy sacrament of the modern Church of Hate. Those who took the communion and simultaneously lack the decency to apologize for their religion are doubling and tripling down in their passions. Religion can be a hell of a drug.

 

My Ogham Were Wrong, Thank the Gods

Though my Ogham divinations got a great deal right about how the unvaxxed and vaxxed would change over the last few years, they were spectacularly wrong about the number of vaccine dead. My Ogham said the vaccines would cause a Black Death scenario by 2024. This patently did not happen. What seems to have happened is a close shave. World population has hit its peak of 8.2 billion and thanks to vaccines, it looks highly unlikely that we will ever get to 10 billion. I am glad my Ogham were wrong about the vaccine dead. Though it is clear people are dying and not being replaced, it is not happening at the breakneck speed suggested by Geert Vanden Bossche, Sucharit Bhakdi, and the late Luc Montagnier. There are ominous trends, for certain: the ERs have been full since the vaccine rollout, and they have not been full of the unvaccinated. Cancers are way up.

Nevertheless, suburban subdivisions have enough people to fill traffic jams and kids birthday parties. Life as usual goes on. The slow easing of population is going to look a great deal more like South Korea or Japan than a Mad Max film. Though we are constantly told real estate markets are collapsing or about to collapse, renting or owning a home is still extremely unaffordable anywhere in the industrialized world. The common person's dream -- it's not just the American dream -- is to have a stable place to live peacefully and quietly. This dream is off the table for most of us.

Unfortunately, the Covid Cargo Cult appears to be readying itself for another shot... or set of shots. Cover for election shenanigans and unearned wealth transfer from the hard-working to the non-working are good enough reasons for the medical believer class to gorge on a new wave of manufactured chaos, however, the Church of Hate gets its rocks off on gaslighting above all else. The Church of Hate labors under a heady delusion that they can create their own reality and force others to believe it. This is the substance to which they are addicted and this is what drives their malice. Deprive them of it and they have no power over you.

Don't Hate the Haters

Oh honey, trust me I KNOW that it is tempting to hate the haters, but to succumb to the ruse is to fail one of the primary tests of Meatworld existence. You don't fight the opposition by hating it, or by loving it for that matter. You fight it by becoming different from it and building the superiority of that difference. For every petition they sign or The Thing they embrace, I vow to learn a skill that can actually be of use in the future. For every bit of vitriol they barf out of their poisonous gullets, I will publish a chunk of helpful, uplifting material or at very least, exact it of myself to be kind and courteous unless I am directly in danger. While they do the equivalent of online thumb twiddling, I will go outside, talk to trees, and tend my garden. I suggest you do the same, because the more negative approach is futile.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this thoughtful look at where we are now. And for your courage to seek away around the restrictions.

Sadly, I still have friends who really think of the Covid shots as flu shots. They are planning to get another one this Autumn. I don't know anyone personally who died of Covid, but I know 4 people who died of suddenly (I am using "someone I spoke to within 5 years" as the definition of someone I know personally). To say nothing of all the cancer.

While I am relieved there isn't a large fast die-off, I still want a reckoning. For all the illness, disability, and death, of course, but also for the trampling of rights. The more time passes the less likely I think one will come. Most people just want to forget or move past the craziness of the last 4 years.

I am blessed with a spouse who sees things as I do. Together we've been able to keep ourselves and our daughter free and healthy. That at least is something and I am very very grateful.

Heloise

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! The Covid Karens -- you know the ones -- are terrified of the courageous unvaccinated. I have a great deal of darkness that has culminated in a complete and total unwillingness to go along with what Big Brother wants me to do if push comes to shove. It's strange to have gone from atheist to the kind of religious fanatic who does not fear death. In my current religious state, I am a far worse threat to the would-be dictators and their minions. If Big Brother tries it on me as the Chinese do with their evil RSDL system (it's like Pinochet's secret death houses on steroids), at the very least I'll take someone's eye out when the goons come for me. I will then devise every possible plan to take other sensitive body parts. When there enough deviants like me who do not at all fear death or dismemberment, the tide turns.

From my conversations with various entities (including dead people), the vaxxed have a real uphill battle in the afterlife. They are also facing multiple incarnations according to the spirit they embodied during the Covid years, which acted like a karmic magnifying glass. It was exceedingly important to be brave during the Covid moment. Most were not... I believe 80% of people on the planet at least went through the motions of getting the MRNA vax, regardless of switcheroos and placebos. Maybe it was the demonic influence of that short blip that sent patterns that paved the way so abnormally far into the future. Most would like to forget the intensity of that time. Most would like to think it did not matter much one way or the other if they got the vax. My spirit guides seem to think it mattered. The vaxxed do seem to be able to remedy the karma of vaxxing if they were good, decent people: the gods forgive and reward good works in time.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for sharing your understanding of what happens in the spirit realm to the vaxxed. It sounds like there are consequences. Although now, after hearing there may in fact be the justice I wanted for the vaxxed, I want grace and mercy for (some of) them. Glad to hear forgiveness is there too.

Heloise

[kimberlysteele]

I'm no authority, of course. These are just my best guesses and stabs in the dark from what little I have been able to filter out of the astral noise.

[(Anonymous)]

There is a sick, sick part of me that looks at the diehard boosties and thinks: well, uptake is highest among the class that owns homes in the suburbs. If everything I've heard about the magic potion is true, then we'll be able to pay cash for a house in two years.

[kimberlysteele]

The thing is so many have died and are dying and prices just go up, up, up. Maybe it's Blackrock buying up houses to spoil the market. You know what's truly odd is Taylor Swift's Machiavellian father was a higher up at Merrill Lynch which ended up being bought by Blackrock. In many ways, she is essentially a Blackrock plant.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a peculiar phenomenon.

On the plus side, watching the local RE listings, we seem to have peaked. Prices haven't come down yet, but they also don't seem to be going up anymore, and stuff is sitting on the market longer.

Blackrock et al...

I listened to a discussion this week that framed the whole of the weird US political/econ situation in a way I had not looked at it before. I don't know if it's legit, but it made a great deal of sense.

Basically: Old-money East coast elites have been running things for a long time. They're super corrupt and getting stupid and careless. New-money west coast elites are trying to maneuver them out of the pilot's seat-- the techbro billionaire class of Thiel/Musk/Bezos/FBrobotguy. Neither party is on the side of working people in America: whoever wins this, it's bad for us, just a matter of degree. But when trying to sort out the rather bizarre and confusing events around the current candidates for office, and the media response to them, it just... kinda simplifies things if you just ask, of each person/group involved: East or West? Which makes Swift a growth on some appendage of the East monster ;)

Their conclusion very much ticked all my personal bias checkboxes: None of them are on our side. Whichever way that goes, we'll probably see an increase in violence and mafia-type stuff, and now is a good time to find your tribe, connect with reliable people IRL, get out of the big city, and learn how to do more stuff for yourself.

[kimberlysteele]

East Coast West Coast rivalry makes sense. I think it’s notable how badly both are falling apart at the seams: The east has New York City, Baltimore, and Washington DC, both which have turned into open air sewers. The west has most of Southern California doing the same and horrific, collapsing Portland and Seattle.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. They've both got some geopolitical power, and we can see what they have done with it.

[nightwatchwaits]

Kimberley

Your efforts through the covid era will stay with me.

I suspect the covid era will be to our culture what the National Socialist era was to Germany. I understand that schoolchildren’s history books for years after focused more on matters such as the number of German war dead and less on the errrr… other matters…

My Oma was from Austria and most of her family remained in Austria through it all. I have felt a kinship with them that I have not before - a sense of knowing what it is like when the culture you live in goes off on one.

Blessings upon you.

From my own tradition:

https://franciscanfriarscresson.org/the-canticle-of-the-sun/

https://www.cathedralstm.org/about-our-catholic-faith/expressing-our-faith/treasury-catholic-prayers/prayer-st-francis-assisi-prayer-peace/

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you NWW!

I'm sure you've seen Vera Sharav's body of work. She is a Holocaust survivor who has tirelessly pointed out the parallels between Nazi and Coviditarian tactics: https://substack.com/home/post/p-146223399

I am adopted and my late Dad's side was German. My grandma moved here when she was in her teens and oddly enough married a German who was also a recent immigrant. We called my great grandmother Oma.

Thanks so much for the prayers from St. Francis. Though I am obviously not Christian, I feel a special connection with St. Francis. I believe he visited me in a dream to help me through mourning my cat Kiki.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,
Thank you for this thoughtful reflection on this very difficult time. Two thoughts emerge for me.
1) I appreciate your emphasis on Greer's teaching about paying no attention to what you don't want. We have an abundance of opportunities to test this teaching. I have to balance out the need to acknowledge healthy protest at what tptb are perpetrating while staying focused on my soul's journey. Because my soul remains on its journey regardless.
2) Which brings me to my next thought. In the big picture this covid journey has been an incredible test of whether or not people have developed healthy autonomy which in part is about the capacity to express "I won't." It's been so interesting to watch among my personal circle as well as in the public arena whether people have the capacity yi differ while risking belonging. I value connection and healthy autonomy that allows differing in ways that strengthen relationships. What's mine to do to foster that in this highly polarized time?

Thanks for encouraging me to think about all if this.

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! Both JMG and the Ogham have taught me about limits. There's just not enough TIME to think about what we don't want, even if that thought has to do with hating what we don't want. Worry (which is rooted in fear) is the mind killer, to paraphrase Dune.

I have been thinking a great deal about autonomy. Perception of choice seems to be more important than actual choice. Uninformed choices don't really feel like choices, do they?

[mr_nobody1967]

The Sam Reifler interpretation of the I-Ching calls hate "a clumsy, debilitating burden", and I really, really wish I had taken that caution to heart the first time I read those words back in late 1993!

[kimberlysteele]

I can totally get behind that description of hate. I also wish I had figured that out in 1993... or earlier.

Anger

[(Anonymous)]

The opposite of anger is patience.

I’m quite challenged with this daily. So I’ve moved my clinic to a studio on my property, I practice homesteading and collapsing now so I can live on LESS, I grow my own food and forage for my medicine as I can, but I still get purely p*ssed off at the idiots who have chosen to not understand what has been taken away from us.

So my spiritual path is to practice patience daily.

Some days it’s more fun to just verbally nail an idiot, but then I feel miserable for giving so much of my energy away and my victim doesn’t get why I’m being so mean, so I’ve wasted my time and not changed hearts. And I feel lonely because I’ve alienated a friend of years. And I can’t escape knowing that I’ve indulged in bullying behavior.

Mea fracking culpa.

More patience, eh?

Annette

Re: Anger

[kimberlysteele]

I think patience can be toxic. In the way anger can be toxic. When we think about it and the terms of Aristotlean balance, The opposite of an extreme imbalance is an extreme imbalance. Usually, I just block the idiots but sometimes nailing them and humiliating them in public is the only way. Harsh tactics work. For example, in my world, we would punish pedophiles with a speedy trial and public execution by firing squad. Such an approach is brutal, but it would take care of most of the problem in a few decades, if not a few years. Dead pedophiles do not commit crimes and death is a very good deterrent when we are setting an example for future would-be pedophiles.

Re: Anger

[(Anonymous)]

I sure I’m in no danger of becoming toxically patient!

Annette

Re: Anger

[kimberlysteele]

Same... guilty as charged.

Pedos

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, yeah. You know the Old West before the law took hold of settled territory. … there were obviously a few pedos around, but we’ve never heard that much about them. That’s likely bc once discovered they we’re escorted out of town for a quick unceremonious “necktie party”. And that’s the way it should have been ….vigilante justice has its place when the law is not present or when the lawmakers are corrupt.

Will M

Re: Pedos

[kimberlysteele]

Exactly -- we all know pedos existed well before our era. Hanging was a good way of dealing with them and striking fear into those who would copy them. The problems occur when legislation becomes such a big (corrupt) astral pyramid that it cannot fairly execute punishment against crimes of any size.

Hate/love

[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly, I dunno, I think hate might be the appropriate response to evil doing. I don’t mean neck vein-popping, teeth-clenching, ego-inflating *anger*, which is of course inevitably disabling and self-defeating. And I certainly don’t mean a hate in response to having our egotistic sense of self worth challenged. I mean a calm, quiet, steady-state, absolute detestation for evil doing and those who inflict evil on us. It doesn’t have to produce indigestion.

The big caveat here is that hate is useless unless one can love the evil do-ers at the same time, and this of course requires a cosmic vision. You know what I’m talking about - we come to understand, to actually see that the evil-do-ers have immortal souls, that they are no less a part of the fabric of the Divine than we are, that they have really effed up - as we likely did at some point in our spiritual evolution - and that they will pay terribly for every last jot of the harm they have done. Also, I’m pretty sure that this is the only path to forgiveness, genuine forgiveness, which I think, outside having a cosmic vision, is probably impossible to attain.

Looks like the White Sox might set a major league record for the number of losses in a season. No hate here, just pity.

best,
Will M

Re: Hate/love

[kimberlysteele]

I don't know if I will ever be capable of loving evil-doers for their immortal souls. I am working on it but there is often a line that draws itself in the sand for me. Pedophilia, as mentioned above, is one of those lines. It's good I am not queen of the world because I would torture pedos to death. That said, I don't think of pre-puberty as the same as post-puberty. Hebephilia and ephebophilia can certainly be criminal, but they are a far cry from pedophilia. I would make being caught as a pedo a dire fate. When I have hatred, it tends to be as cold as ice. I could easily watch a pedo being tortured to death with a slight smile on my face the entire time.

LOL, the White Sox. They seem hexed... it makes me wonder if sports teams have karma?

Re: Hate/love

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely with you re: the summary execution of pedos. And just maybe the same for those responsible for the sexualization of children, the porn-tinted school books, the drag queen story hours, etc.

Dunno about sport team karma, but I’m fairly certain there was, maybe still is, a sick egregore hanging over Wrigley Field that impelled decades of losses. It’s possible, I think, that the egregore was created by fan’s expectation of loss. Or maybe it’s in that patch of land itself.

One thing I’ve always liked about baseball is its American egalitarianism - everybody gets a turn at the plate, everybody has opportunity to be a hero. But even the established stars go into long slumps, sometimes entire teams go into long slumps at the same time. I’m figuring that when this happens, all the teams players have natal astro charts that are being negatively effected at the same time.

So …..my dream is that I’m the General Manager and I take care to select players by their astro charts, making sure that if one player is gonna be negatively effected astro-wise, another player will thrive at the same time. Thus the team will not collectively slump. No one’s gonna ever try this. But dammit, I think it could work!

You know, there was a rumor going around in ‘84 after the Cubs shockingly collapsed in the playoffs, one of those now storied Cub failures. The rumor was that southern CA wiccans banded together to hex the Cubs so that the clearly inferior team, the SD Padres, would win, which they did.

Re: Hate/love

[kimberlysteele]

Wiccans! So much for that rule of three thing. It always did seem like a lie.

Some random thoughts on the topic of this blog post

[denebalgedi777]

You are of course correct that the population decline has not been on the order of a Black Death event, however I would wager the number of deaths has been a good deal higher than we are told. The world actually has gotten a "depopulated" feel since the Covid years, and it's noticeable enough that friends of mine and myself have talked about it. This applies to the amount of activity in suburban neighborhoods, business activity, and even things like air traffic (apparently the air is much deader than it used to be). The number of casualties of Covid and the shots is in the millions and this may be enough to show up conspicuously in the real world. The other thing to keep in mind is that JMG's divinations, if I recall correctly, suggested it could take 1-2 decades for the total mortality of this disaster to play out, and I think he's not wrong about that. Anyway, the world seems a lot emptier than before. Yes, I still see traffic jams from time to time, but traffic overall seems down from the peak years in my area ('18-'19). This may not all be excess mortality, either, though that's wildly elevated since the jabs came out. It could also reflect an increased climate of fear and apathy causing people to not go out as much (something similar happened during the peak of the Global War on Terror in the Bush years as you will no doubt remember), or depressed economic conditions, or the fact that many people work from home now, and so on. All of the above, probably.

The other thing I'd say about the residential real estate bubble is... Well, give it time. Bubbles can be very resilient, but look at what happened to commercial real estate in the USA in the past 2 years. As soon as interest rates went up, it went into a meltdown that is still a deep depression to this day. I see vacant CRE all over the place now, including a huge old Optum/UHG headquarters in Eden Prairie that used to be jam packed back when I last worked in office regularly. I drove by it earlier this year and was shocked at how it had turned into a ghost town. Similarly, the Chinese had this massive, unprecedented in the history of the world, boom in residential real estate and it went on for more than a decade. Then it began melting down in 2021 and it still has not recovered. I have a feeling this could be the fate of the residential bubble as well, although time will tell. Just don't assume that the current sky-high valuations will last forever, they may not. There are still enough people working and not enough forced liquidations to really cause the bottom to fall out of the market yet, but I wouldn't bet on that being the case forever. Oftentimes, bubbles that blow up badly can remain depressed for a long time afterward. We have been able to stop this with bailouts the past few times, but with the inflation, dollar devaluation and the slow erosion of world reserve currency status, not to mention exponentially growing debts, the US government may not be able to stop a crisis the same way in the future.

We live in VERY interesting times. Anyway, great posts lately, keep up the good work and in the words of Kipling "don't give way to hating". We want to aim to build up a nation in decline, or at least our little corners of it, not knock down somebody else's sand castles. I have to remind myself of this everyday because it's such a trying time and an age in which propaganda is ubiquitous.

Re: Some random thoughts on the topic of this blog post

[kimberlysteele]

Activity seems to have ramped up near me -- I don't notice any lack of people despite the fact my state of Illinois is hemorrhaging residents. There is the sense though that it is the last frenzy before a collapse. There is an undercurrent of panic and sadness to it.

I am just going to flat out admit that the state of real estate, commercial and otherwise, makes me angry. As much as the nice upper middle class couples don't mean to harm anybody, it is their lifestyle that makes it impossible for everyone else to live. Their big, mostly empty houses with lawns tended by teams of Hispanic guys are the reason why people in my neighborhood cannot afford rent and adequate food at the same time. The richies drive up property taxes until only their class can afford to live in nice houses and nice neighborhoods. To add insult to injury, they often go on luxury vacations when they have nothing to get away from.