I am thinking more and more, how to get out of this ‘sick’ cycle we are all stuck in.

More and more, I’m coming to the conclusion that ‘Evil’ can’t do what it does in the world, unless it’s powered by the energy of you and me.

To put this another way, Evil needs all that ‘fear’, all that ‘despair’, all that ‘hatred’, and the rest of it, in order to keep going.

No-one can get these problems to go away for voting for someone else at the next elections.

All the politicians, at least at the level of real power, are 100% controlled by the Evils.

Otherwise, there is no way they’d be allowed to have power.

It’s that simple.

Ditto, all the ‘celebrities’, pundits, influencers, experts.

Anyone who really would challenge the system would be stopped way, way, way before they got anywhere near a million followers.

Like, around the 12,000 ‘followers’ mark – and even then, with huge censorship still going on.

That’s what I’ve seen time and time and time again, not just with me, but with other truthful ‘small people’, who are over the target.

If they get anywhere close to 12,000 they are shut down – censored into oblivion, or personally persecuted, and scared off sharing any more information.

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This isn’t going to change via sending more of our beloved sons, husbands, fathers and brothers into a pointless, goal-less, totally corrupt ‘war’ that has just been designed to smear Israel’s name internationally, and cause so many Jews to start hating themselves, and to despair of ‘good’.

This isn’t going to change with more street protests.

With more ‘media campaigns’.

With more donations to more corrupt individuals and organisations, all skimming huge profits off the back of Jewish suffering (and also, let it be said, Arab suffering.)

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This changes with us.

You and me.

Every single person who makes the decision to ‘choose life’ – and to stop letting the fake news and fake ‘influence’ of the Evils manipulate and distort our thinking, and our lives.

What does that change look like, tachlis?

It looks like seeking out more ways to connect to other people that are ‘real’ and in person.

It looks like slowing down, and making some real effort to connect to ourselves, our souls – and the way to do this is hitbodedut, personal prayer, where we literally just talk to God like we would talk to a friend. Or a shrink. Or a business coach. Or a mentor. Or a boss.

It looks like ‘opting out’ of sharing more of the latest, pointless ‘news’ and scare stories.

Opting out of all that negative stuff like ‘hating Palestinians’, ‘hating Leftists’, ‘hating rightists’ – even, hating all the politicians who truly are the scum of the earth, acting as the agents of the Evils to bring all this death and destruction about.

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It looks like ‘not making excuses for the sorry state of our relationships with our nearest and dearest’.

Family relationships work on a very simple scale, when you boil it down, especially with kids, but also with others, and also, with everyone, actually:

If you are nice to people and make them feel good about themselves, they like to have you around and to be in your life and company.

But if you regularly insult people, moan about yourself all the time, see other people as a source of ‘what’s in it for me’, force your ‘wants’ on to the other people, even in opposition to what they themselves want, and care way more for the appearance of the relationship than the real content and connection – then don’t be surprised, when your kid moves to a different state or your friend stops returning your calls.

(There is healthy give and take in all relationships, of course. But the give part, especially for parents giving to their young children, has to be around the 150% mark… Adult children is a different story.)

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How else does this change?

It changes when people stop lying to themselves that taking drugs is the ‘answer’ to their mental health issues.

Drugs being prozac, ritalin, weed, psychodelics, as well as the stuff most people would label as ‘drugs’.

Our emotions are such a potent way that God communicates with us, about what is really ‘right’ for us, and what isn’t.

Most seriously depressed people get that way because they are hanging out with selfish narcissists, who literally can’t see anyone else in the picture except themselves.

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This is not easy to say – but I have watched so many well-meaning parents turn into that ‘selfish narc’ by agreeing to a prescription of emotion-deadening prozac, or by going AWOL for hours, weeks, months, years, lost in a cloud of smoke.

When a person is in an altered state, they aren’t really HERE.

They aren’t really feeling themselves.

So then, it’s obvious that they aren’t really ‘here’ for their kids and spouses, or feeling them, either.

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On top of all this, every time someone uses a drug that makes them go ‘awol’ – what is happening spiritually is that they are vacating their own soul-space, leaving a vacuum that invites demonic forces in.

When we ‘check out’ of our felt experience, this is what happens – the body is still here, still operating, but now, there’s some shed behind the wheel spiritually, because aren’t owning our lives, our feelings, our experiences any more, and we went AWOL.

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There is a beautiful life waiting to be rebuilt.

But first, we have to step back into ourselves, and stop hanging out ‘online’, in our heads, or ‘AWOL’ with drug and alcohol abuse.

I give us all a blessing, that 5786 should be the year when we finally step out of the mental prisons so many of us are stuck in, and suffering in, and out into that beautiful world where Ein Od Milvado.

There really is only God.

And once we understand that, mamash – our problems will resolve on every level, in the blink of an eye.