Basecamp for Men E336: An Autumn Firestarter

E336: An Autumn Firestarter

 

E336 Introduction

Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is a short format show also known as a Firestarter. Just 8 or so minutes long with  a few things to cover. I will be back next episode with a great interview with Dr. Bob Beare, someone who has been on the show on three previous episodes.

First off, I am in good health and cancer free! My recent PET scan showed no tumors so that was most excellent. I am feeling great and now I start the process of finding out what my diet and lifestyle is going to look like along with which supplements are going to best keep those rogue cells at bay.

I did a deep dive into Fenbendazole, Ivermectin, and Chlorine Dioxide the past year along with other anti-cancer and anti-parasite treatments and these will certainly be part of my ongoing protocol. And fasting and saunas really helped me detox so I will keep those as well along with colonics and few other things like Vit C IV’s. My ongoing health regiment is extensive. But I think that is how it goes, right? As much as I appreciate simplicity in as many things as possible in life, this is a condition that seems to require approaching it in a more sophisticated way.

And I appreciate all the prayers from so many of you. The faith and the prayers were, in my eyes, the most powerful thing that I did and received. The whole process has been moving and humbling.  So thank you again Basecampers.

I recently had a conversation and it revealed just how triggered the left is by DJT. I was a bit taken aback as the man I was talking to used to be a mentor of mine. Someone who I look up to and a extremely well-trained psychotherapist and facilitator of men’s work. He understands full-well the idea of projection. This is the notion that, if someone triggers us and upsets us, then there is ALWAYS some traits about that person that we possess but don’t acknowledge in ourselves. I have been over this in previous episodes. To me, owning your shadow projection is one of the most sure-fire ways to restore affinity or at least greatly diminish hatred, revulsion, disdain and a load of other negative thoughts and feeling in ourselves and, therefore, the world at large.

President Trump is holding the projected hatred, disdain, and anger and disapproval of millions of liberals. Think about that. So…this came up as  I was speaking to this man. I did not bring up President Trump, he did. I simply wanted to explore the idea of projection.

He started ranting emotionally about how horrible President Trump is. He’s a piece of shit, a deplorable, a sub-human.  A TOTAL idiot. Beyond redemption. That sort of thing. Remember, this is a highly trained therapist I am listening to.

So I asked him an obvious question. Of this massive trigger, can you own your own shadow traits that you are projecting onto our President? Remember, shadow traits are all the things we hide, repress,  or deny in ourselves. We then project these shadow traits onto people like Donald Trump.

So I invited this man to do the work and own the projection. Something he has done dozens of times on dozens of men’s weekends. And you know what? He couldn’t do it. He tried to put lipstick on a pig by saying that he can own that he can  be arrogant or that he wants to do what he wants to do or that he wouldn’t mind being rich but do you know what? He didn’t really do the work. You know how I know this? As soon as he stated it, he went right back to being pissed off, saying that Trump is a despicable sub-human and then started calling ME names. No shit.

I shared with him that, when I was a liberal, I had a deep hatred of Dick Cheney. Just like the left does now with President Trump.  I had loathing in my heart for this man. And I shared that I did a Shadow Projection exercise in my book about Cheney. Saying that I was projecting my arrogance and righteousness and rigidness and a few other traits onto Dick Cheney. They were things I DID NOT want to acknowledge in myself. And after I owned all these traits as my own shadow, it humanized Cheney for me. I didn’t have this deep-seated hatred for the man any longer. I still didn’t love the guy but at least the site of him did not cause a reflexive negative emotion in me. Cheney no longer triggered me because of the work. In other words, I freed myself from Dick Cheney.

President Trump has the left fully hooked and triggered, as evidence by this man I know. And it left me with a deep empathy for the left. If an extremely awake and well-trained psychotherapist can’t REALLY own his shadow and goes right back to being triggered. IF the exercise does not free oneself from Donald Trump, then there is no point in doing the exercise, are you following me?

The left says they can’t wait to be free of Donald Trump all the while they can’t stop talking about him and being triggered by everything he says and does. They are literally OBSESSED with the man. Do you see the conundrum for liberals. You could own the projection and be done with it. It’s not as hard as you think but you gotta be ready, truly ready to be free from him. We’ll see.

On a similar note I got invited to an upcoming meetup with the Braver Angels organization. It’s about bringing Conservatives and Liberals together to better understand one another. I will let you know how it goes. I was originally thinking it will be 50/50 but the organizer said I may be the only Conservative with a bunch of liberals. I am fine with that although if you really want to do a cool forum, get equal numbers from each side, right?

Anyway, the organizer is really sweet and I think it will be a good learning experiment for everyone there. I’ll let you know what I find out.

That’s it for today. Thank you for listening to this Firestarter Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.

Basecamp for Men E283: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

E283: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

 

E283 Introduction

Today is a bit of an odd little short-format Firestarter episode, under 10 minutes. With that Terrance McKenna audio clip and then a song at the end. I came across the idea for this mini-EP for this as I was on my run around the lake that I do. I had a playlist on and the song “Feels So Good” by Chuck Mangione, which was one of the popular songs of the day when I was a little kid. It made me think back to my childhood when this song would come on the FM radio in my Mom’s car.

A simple little jazz and trumpet song that conveyed its central theme…..Feels So Good. And I realized that this thread of joy and God and Divine Guidance and love and family is absolutely essential for our ascension and redemption. The Globalists, the Luciferians, call them what you will, can’t stand this about us. Our Divine Spark, the life-force and emotions that gives meaning to this whole mythic storyline.

It all got me thinking about something the ancient Greeks referred to as The Good, the True, and the Beautiful. This ancient Platonic ideal contains three qualities or principles that are transcendent. These principles transcend nationalities, transcend Democrat vs. Republican, woke vs. Patriot, Trump as King vs. Trump as Hitler. The Good the True and the Beautiful is a wonderful lens and mirror and a barometer to see and feel how we are doing at each stage.

And you can see the attack on all of this in the mainstream culture and the mainstream media. The education system is dumbing down the kids (which is not True or Good or Beautiful). Our once-proud cities look ravaged by crime and addiction and filth. Again, nothing True or Good or Beautiful going on down the street.

The media landscape is a vipers den of lies and deception. Again, not Good or True or Beautiful. So much so that you could, as a practice, completely invert EVERYTHING that the media says and have a more accurate portrait of what is going on.

And yet….and yet we still have laughter, we still have beautiful children being born and raised, we still have joy in one another. Even as we all see the absurdity of it all like Terrance McKennan said in the beginning.

If Terrance McKenna is correct and moving into a higher dimension is like a “fire in the madhouse” then the game becomes how do we hold onto the Good and the True and the Beautiful while inside the “fire in the madhouse”. That is what we are all attempting to do. No wonder people are freaking out about every little thing and bracing for God knows what.

It’s important for us to keep one another close in these times. Even if it is just 2 or 3 trusted friends and family members. Large numbers in your tribe does not matter. This is not a popularity contest. The fire in the madhouse moment has us reach only for those most important to us. To keep alive the Good, the True, and the Beautiful as we watch this insanity reveal itself to this beautiful planet and all of the confused, traumatized and loving humans who call this place home.

I was going to conclude with a classical musical piece but God was whispering about this song so this song it is. And remember Basecampers, you and I , we belong to the Light. We’ll see you next week.