I am an independent writer and researcher.
As a child of the 1960s and ‘70s, I was pretty wild. I had to be sent away even to get an education. I narrowly missed being expelled on more than one occasion. (Best ever scrape was bunking off to see Pink Floyd play at Knebworth.) But at least I was taught to think and to question; for which I am more than grateful.
My school did not approve of my choice of university - Sussex. In the 1970s Sussex University, on the south coast of England near Brighton, was a hotbed of so-called radicalism. Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ must have been modelled on it [“People’s Front of Judea”, “no, Judean’s People’s Front”]. The famous phrase “a woman needs a man like fish needs a bicycle” was the graphito on the loo wall. Sussex knew all about ‘woke’ long before the term was used.
In the 1980s I moved to London and tried hard to conform. I spent a few years working for Terence Conran’s Design Group - because I so loved Habitat. Wafting down Neal Street in London’s Covent Garden area seemed to me to be the epitome of living. Then I went to work as an editor for stockbrokers in the City of London which was a real eye-opener. I witnessed the great crash of October 1987: seeing all the screens go red is a once-in-a-life-time shocking sight. In spite of that, I lasted three years there.
In the 1990s I moved to the countryside and had a family. And that should have been that; ‘lived happily ever after…’. But it wasn’t.
Global Polycrisis -
For some reason I had a feeling then that a polycrisis, a series of crises upon crises, could bring about the collapse of civilisation. I thought that climate change would be an important factor. But I didn’t believe in man-made climate change. I tended more to the view that solar activity will be responsible, a view I still hold.
For the next ten years or so I researched the ancient past to see how civilisation had coped before with crises. I even went right back to the end of the Ice Age to find out how cities came about in the first place. I concluded that they didn’t evolve out of a change in agriculture but were the result of a shamanically-accessed blueprint. The milkable cow arose because of cities, not the other way around. And this blueprint is potentially still available to us. Ancient Egypt was the best example of it: very sophisticated people who could build structures we cannot today.
In 2010 I published my findings in a book ‘Approaching Chaos - could an ancient archetype save C21st civilisation?’.
In 2019 I began to get a sense of something along the lines of CS Lewis’ ‘The Last Battle’. So I wrote about it here The Last Battle & the Digital Age – did CS Lewis prophesy the existential threat we currently face?. In March 2020 I was as shocked as everyone else by what happened then and the level of malevolence that seeks to control the world.
This substack is my personal attempt to reframe the narrative and expose the mind virus that has brainwashed us all, myself included, for such a long time. While the Doom Cult, which the mind virus has created, actively kills innocent people, the main threat is to our minds, our psyches, our way of thinking. If we want the Age of the Innocents to arrive, then we have to end the Age of Innocence. We can no longer afford to be naive. If we want to stop the bloodshed, we have to reveal and disable the mind virus behind it.
Without doubt, this is the time for rebels everywhere…