That old saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Welp. The self-help, pop-psychology, alternative thinking world - Caroline Myss, Esther Hicks, Ernest Holmes, even Joe Dispenza (the most expensive voice in the game) - is repackaging of threads of ancient truths.

Rooted in ancient teachings from Indigenous people, Sufism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and more. All searching for a connection to something greater than themselves that enables them to know “God.” All eventually shaped, broken, or erased by quests for control, power, and domination (the politics of their time).

That doesn’t mean the new stuff isn’t helpful. It can be. That doesn’t mean all the old stuff is “truth” either.

What know for sure, no one actually knows much.
Not me. Not Dr. Joe Dispenza. Not the Pope.
The sheer magnitude of what can be known, renders it unknowable… and in constant motion.
We get glimpses. Temporary clarity.

However, if we decide this glimpse is the mountaintop. We have arrived, the ordained keepers of truth. Expect a mudslide.

Truth does not like to be caged.

But, I’ll be damned if it doesn’t feel like relief for someone to lie to me and to believe my total life solution only costs $39.99 (or name your price.. I am in).

“… Most of what we call ‘normal’ in our interactions is deeply conditioned. We’re trained by our systems - education, media, culture, family - to know our place, play our part, follow the script. That conditioning isn't random. It exists to shape how we perceive, assign power, define identity, and most of all preserve the system itself.

So when we’re suddenly outside that script, when someone doesn’t follow the expected norms, or when a space behaves differently than we’re used to, it triggers anxiety. Not because anything’s truly wrong, but because we’ve been coached to believe something is.

That’s cognitive dissonance.
That’s the signal.
It’s not proof something’s broken.
It’s proof we’ve been trained.

And once a system becomes our “reality,” challenging it feels like betrayal. People who question it get dismissed, attacked, or worse. Because dismantling what we’ve internalized isn’t just uncomfortable, it threatens the identity we’ve wrapped around it. …”

Systems are a collective ego. …

“… I think of karma is embodied learning. This means it is alive. In our bodies. Beyond all the ways we love to believe we can control what’s happening with our thoughty thoughts. The way our soul is unmistakably beckoning us to better, expansion, transformation, A MIRACLE.

Karmic looping, which psychology calls repetition compulsion or trauma reenactment, is what’s up when we resist how bad the pile of shit stinks. We leave it there. We hide it. We insist we didn’t create that pile, they (insert any they) did it.

There’s no wrong here. There’s no wrong in finding yourself in the same wretched situation for the umpteenth time. Every time you find yourself there it’s a beautiful choice point. Are you going to put your pile in shit in your pocket and carry it around? Or, are you ready to be the person for the job? Because the job’s calling. You’ve been hired. …”