Staying Sane in a World Going Insane
January 12, 2026
(Left. Test Pattern i.e. Keep the mind blank or focused on God/Christ/Consciousness.)WE NEED TO TAKE REGULAR BREAKS FROM FRETTING OVER OUR DISINTEGRATING SOCIETY AND FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE WHICH HOLDS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER.
Thinking is an Addiction (Updated from July 4, 2022)
When I say thinking is an addiction, I'm referring to the compulsive stream of fear, anxiety, judgment, argument, chatter, and trivia that usually fills our minds.
Illuminati member Harold Rosenthal spelled it out: "We have converted the people to our philosophy of getting and acquiring so that they will never be satisfied. A dissatisfied people are pawns in our game of world conquest. They are always seeking and never able to find satisfaction. The very moment they seek happiness outside themselves, they become our willing servants." Harold Rosenthal The Hidden Tyranny TRAPPED IN THE PRISM OF THE MIND
We don't experience reality. We experience our thoughts.
Tell a man he is a chicken, and he struts around and clucks and even tries to lay an egg. Thus, men go to war and die "to defend freedom." Look at the Vietnam War for example. "If Vietnam goes Communist," they told us,"all South East Asia will fall."
(Remember "terrorists" did this) They program our minds to adopt self-destructive behavior.

We experience our programming rather than reality. For example, Hollywood presents romance and sex as panaceas and we actually experience them as such...until the illusion dispels like a morning fog. The Cabalists love hypnotizing us with their "magic." By themselves, our minds have no anchor in Truth. The mental world is a house of mirrors.
The mind (ego) and the consciousness (soul) are two competing sources of identity. We have been programmed to identify entirely with the ego and deny the existence of the soul.
We need to experience ourselves as consciousness. Consciousness witnesses ego. Empty the mind of thought and what's left is the real you.
The poet Henry More (1614-1687) wrote: "When the inordinate desire after knowledge of things was allayed in me, and I aspired after nothing but purity and simplicity of mind, there shone in me daily a greater assurance than ever I could have expected, even of those things which before I had the greatest desire to know."
We are here to realize the Creator's purpose.
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------------------- Ten Signs Western Society is a Satanic Cult
--------- The "News" is used to program you
Eckhart Tolle
How to Escape Prison of Your Mind
Guided Meditation - This is his best explanation of the purpose of meditation. Deep.
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Comments for "Staying Sane in a World Going Insane"
Craig said (July 4, 2022):
Thinking is an addiction. I've attempted to meditate for 60 years and my mind is uncontrollable. A dog sitting in the back seat of a car, with its head stuck out the window, watching the scenery go by, has better concentration than me.
Anonymous said (March 18, 2022):
Smoking pot will not save the Canadians and it’s counterproductive to any serious meditative practice. Drugs in general distort the natural flow of organic energy or chi through our meridians. If meditation is to be functional the etheric body has to be awakened and flowing not disturbed by drugs. Drugs in general take our natural defence system down and invite energetic parasites.
People that smoke pot permanently feel as if they have a cold and lose all the ambition. I remember, few years back by mistake smoking a few puffs of a joint thinking it was a rolled tobacco and I lost ambition to even float in my pool.
In addition, drugs in general (pot less so) are portals and quick connectors to astral worlds but not the good parts of astral worlds but instead the trashy, unhealthy parts that are polluted with beings of questionable integrity. This is often a reason people experience bad trips.
Heavy drugs such as heroin are direct connection to extremely dangerous beings all the way to the boss. This is the very reason why heroin addicts are wrecked their families included. Meditation and drugs don’t go hand in hand at all. First thing I had to give up over a decade ago was drugs in general to be able to conduct daily and lengthy meditation, amplify my consciousness and cognise spiritual realities.
Guided meditation should never be the basis of building a subtle body and vehicles of vision. The proper way is to conduct a practice first thing upon waking up and before eating a breakfast. In total silence. For the best results the meditation should be done around the same time every morning same spot, and never in open space this is where spiritual forces find you easier. Meditation in nature after nuclear wars is not recommended either. Rishis could do this but we can’t. The whole point of meditation is a subtle body building which allows for spiritual vision.
Manfred said (March 18, 2022):
"Give away your life and you will gain it" said Jesus.
Steven Hawkins said something like this:
"The universe is because it is the only one you can perceive”. True?
My humble thoughts are that the universe is because it is the only one that you have created for yourself by your thoughts and actions.
Give away the thoughts and actions that create YOUR perception of the universe and you will experience a blessed ‘emptiness’ in your head which enables God to prompting actions and thinking in your heart (soul) and spirit so you can create a better universe.
Remember darkness it nothing else than the absence of light. So let your light shining.
Al Thompson said (July 11, 2021):
I found this piece when in prison and it has helped me a lot.
PATIENCE
by Tertullian
http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/LostBooks/tertullian_patience.htm
Al Thompson said (July 11, 2021):
Once I completely understood that the governments are communist and founded on the principles of Satan, I am getting better at keeping my mind safe by ignoring the nonsense. When I find my mind drifting into the cesspool of politics and other issues, I simply switch my mind to things that exist in the natural order. This works every time and my life is improving. A Satanic organization has no authority to do anything. All men are responsible for themselves to remain within the natural order. When people go outside of it, they do the harm to themselves and others around them.
https://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2015/06/dealing-with-stupid-people.html
BH said (August 18, 2019):
The enemy is direct energy weapons, and media brainwashing.
'if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice,' for evil. In matters of the soul, one must not hedge. If for no other reason than
the cultivation of the soul is a life long endeavor. There is no time to hedge. If you are hedging, you've already succumbed to evil. The soul
is one area in which one must not be cagey. But, it's never too late, as late is better than never.
The Rush quote from Free Will above. Even the songwriter wasn't sure here or so it appears as the inner sleeve lyrics read:
'if you choose not to decide, you can not have made a choice.' :)
Begging the question, proposing the ponder, which is it?
One must not mistake falling for evil, for standing for something.
One must not do random, thinking they are doing something random, on a whim, when they are doing for evil, these placed, preconceived notions
mentioned above.
Being in control of one's own mind in this way - seriously considering it is a novel proposition to most. Seems too difficult. This too is because of brainwashing, and direct energy weapons, the above mentioned focal point of attack.
Barry (UK) said (August 12, 2019):
I recall many years ago listening to NWO researcher Alan Watt. He said, (paraphrasing) one of the greatest difficulties people will have in the future is holding onto to their sanity.†You can see it happening, particularly with the younger generation who seem rudderless and have no firm ideas on right or wrong. Of course this is part of the elites divide and rule strategy. Divided people with no shared understanding are helpless against a powerful elite who have a plan. A passage in the Protocols sums it up perfectly. “We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the youth of the Goyim by rearing them in principles and theories which are known by us to be false, although it is they that have been inculcated.†When you have control of the movie industry, television, the press and the education system, driving people crazy is a simple thing to do.










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Dan said (January 12, 2026):
A very nice piece Henry. And I would like to add that caring for others keeps me sane. This is the primary way I serve god. Because of our flawed society apathy saturates my society. There are so many others who have no one else who are caring for them. And many if not most are in need of help in some way.