Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Living Younger Longer: The Continuous Regeneration of Youth

 

You wake up exhausted despite 8 hours of sleep. Your joints ache more each morning. By afternoon, an energy crash hits like clockwork. Sound familiar? This isn't natural aging? It's programmed decline. I've spent 15 years studying papyrus fragments from the Temple of Karnak and what I discovered will challenge everything you believe about growing old. The ancient Egyptians didn't view aging as inevitable deterioration. Their high priests lived vibrant lives well past 100... not through genetics or luck, but through precise biological protocols.

Thoth wasn't a mythological bird-headed deity. He was a master practitioner who understood that aging happens from the inside out. Your cells don't have expiration dates. They respond to specific internal conditions you can control. The modern anti-aging industry generates $62 billion annually selling creams and supplements while keeping you ignorant of these foundational principles. They need you believing youth is temporary and decline is guaranteed.

What you're about to learn requires abandoning comfortable lies about biological inevitability. Are you ready to claim sovereignty over your own cellular regeneration?

When you hear the name Thoth mentioned in documentaries or New Age circles, they usually paint him as some mystical figure with a bird head scribbling down cosmic wisdom. But that's exactly the kind of surface level interpretation that keeps us from understanding what the ancient Egyptians actually discovered about human biology and consciousness.

The Egyptians weren't primitive people worshiping animal gods. By 3100 BCE they had already developed surgical procedures that wouldn't be rediscovered in Europe until the Renaissance. They understood brain surgery, performed cataract operations, and had mapped the circulatory system with startling accuracy. These weren't people operating on superstition. They were methodical observers of natural law.

Thoth is real... his identity goes far deeper than “the scribe of the gods” that mythology suggests. When you dig into the original hieroglyphic texts, particularly those found in the Temple of Edfu and the pyramid texts, a different picture emerges. Thoth was called “he who measures time and master of the cycles”. The Egyptians specifically credited him with understanding what they called the mechanics of duration, how time moves through living systems.

The pharaohs and high priests didn't pursue immortality the way Hollywood depicts it. They weren't trying to live forever in the same aging bodies. Instead, they focused on what they called “neheh”, continuous regeneration. Think about that distinction for a moment. Immortality suggests stopping time, freezing yourself in place. Regeneration means working with time, understanding how to reset the biological clock.

The Corpus Hermeticum, which preserves some of Thoth's core teachings, describes something called 'conscious expansion of duration'. This isn't mystical language. It's describing a biological process.

When you examine these texts alongside what we now know about cellular regeneration, the parallels are striking. The Egyptians understood that biological age, wrinkles, joint stiffness, organ deterioration weren't inevitable consequences of time passing. They were symptoms of internal conditions.

Modern science is finally catching up to this insight. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn's Nobel Prize-winning research on telomeres proved that cellular aging responds directly to psychological and emotional states. Chronic stress, mental rigidity, and emotional stagnation literally shorten the protective caps on our chromosomes, accelerating cellular breakdown. Meanwhile, mental flexibility, emotional resilience, and what researchers call cognitive plasticity can actually reverse cellular aging markers.

The Egyptians figured this out 7,000 years ago. They observed that true aging begins in the mind and emotions. Physical deterioration is merely the echo of internal stagnation. When your thoughts become repetitive and rigid, when you stop learning and growing, when you hold on to resentment or fear, that's when the body starts breaking down... not because time is passing, but because you've stopped flowing with time.

This is why Thoth was called the master of time. He understood that time isn't something that happens to you. It's something you participate in. And the quality of that participation determines whether time regenerates you or degrades you.

The three-pillar protocol I mentioned earlier emerges directly from this understanding. But before we get there, you need to grasp why this knowledge was encoded in mystical language in the first place. It wasn't because the Egyptians thought it was supernatural. It was because this knowledge threatened existing power structures.

Think about it from a societal perspective. If people understood that they could regenerate their bodies and extend their vital years through internal practices, practices that cost nothing and require no external authorities, what happens to the systems that profit from human dependency? What happens to the medical establishments, the pharmaceutical industries, the entire economic framework built on managing decline rather than promoting regeneration?

The Egyptian priesthood eventually became corrupted by this same dynamic. Knowledge that was originally meant to be shared became hoarded by an elite class who used it to maintain their position over others. Sound familiar?

But here's what they couldn't suppress entirely. The actual mechanism is remarkably simple. The Egyptians discovered that consciousness operates like a tuning fork. When your mental and emotional patterns become rigid, they create what we might call temporal friction, resistance to the natural flow of regenerative processes. But when you learn to maintain mental flexibility, emotional fluidity, and what they called sacred curiosity, you align with what modern quantum physicists describe as the fundamental creative force of the universe.

Recent research in neuroplasticity confirms this ancient insight. Dr. Michael Merzenich's work at UCSF demonstrates that mental exercises specifically designed to maintain cognitive flexibility can reverse age related neural decline. Meanwhile, studies on meditation practitioners show that certain contemplative practices can actually increase gray matter density and improve cellular repair mechanisms.

The Egyptians called this working with Ma.at, aligning with the fundamental order of natural law rather than fighting against it. They understood that the body wants to regenerate. Cellular repair is the default state. We've just been conditioned to interfere with these natural processes through mental and emotional habits that create biological chaos.

This is why the protocol requires no external substances, no complex rituals, no expensive equipment. It works by removing the internal barriers that prevent your body's natural regenerative systems from functioning optimally. And that's exactly what makes it both accessible to anyone and threatening to systems that profit from your dependency.

The question becomes, are you ready to understand what Thoth actually discovered about the relationship between consciousness and biological time? Because once you grasp these three core principles, everything changes.

Right now, as you're reading this, you're breathing in a way that's slowly poisoning your body from the inside out. I know that sounds dramatic, but stay with me because what I'm about to share will fundamentally change how you understand the most basic function keeping you alive.

Here's something that will shock you. The average person today takes between 12 to 20 breaths per minute. Our ancestors breathed at roughly six to eight breaths per minute. We've literally doubled our breathing rate.

This isn't progress. It's cellular suicide in slow motion. Think of your body's circulation system like a river. When water flows properly, it carries away debris, delivers nutrients, and keeps the entire ecosystem thriving. But what happens when that river becomes stagnant, the water turns murky, toxins accumulate, and life begins to decay. This is exactly what's happening inside your body when you breathe the way modern society has conditioned you to breathe.

Most of us have been trained into what I call panic breathing... shallow, rapid chest movements that barely fill the upper portion of our lungs. This creates internal stagnation that accelerates aging at the cellular level. Instead of flowing like a clean mountain river, your blood becomes like a stagnant swamp where free radicals accumulate like rust on metal.

Watch a baby breathe. Notice how their entire belly rises and falls with each breath. They're naturally engaging their diaphragm, the powerful muscle that acts like an internal pump. This isn't just breathing. It's a full body detoxification system. Every deep diaphragmatic breath massages your internal organs, stimulates lymphatic drainage, and creates the pressure changes necessary to flush metabolic waste from your tissues.

But somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose this natural pattern. Society literally teaches us to breathe wrong. We're told to suck in our stomachs, to sit up straight with rigid posture, to suppress our natural breathing rhythms. The result... we become chest breathers using only the top third of our lung capacity.

Here's the biological reality of what shallow breathing does to your body. When you breathe from your chest, you activate your sympathetic nervous system, your fight-or-flight response. This floods your system with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. These hormones were designed for short-term survival situations, not chronic activation throughout your day.

Elevated stress hormones create the perfect storm for cellular damage. They increase inflammation, suppress immune function, and accelerate the production of free radicals, those molecular pirates that literally steal electrons from healthy cells, causing them to age and die prematurely. Shallow breathing delivers less oxygen to your tissues, forcing your cells to operate in a state of chronic hypoxia, like trying to run a high performance engine on watered down fuel.

The ancient Egyptians understood something we've forgotten. Breath is the primary tool for cellular regeneration. They called it the river of life force. And they developed specific breathing practices that could literally reverse the aging process at the cellular level.

This wasn't mystical thinking. It was practical physiology. When you breathe properly using your diaphragm, you create what I call “air alchemy”... the transformation of the most abundant free resource on earth into liquid vitality. Deep diaphragmatic breathing increases oxygen saturation in your blood by up to 15%. It activates your parasympathetic nervous system which triggers the release of the growth hormone melatonin and other regenerative compounds.

But proper breathing doesn't just deliver more oxygen. It also dramatically improves your body's ability to eliminate carbon dioxide and other metabolic wastes. That long controlled exhale isn't just releasing air. It's literally ringing toxins from your tissues like squeezing a sponge.

Let me teach you the specific technique that Thoth's followers used... what they called “the breath of eternal youth”. This isn't some mystical ritual. It's precise physiological engineering. Start with a four-count inhale. But here's the crucial part - breathe into your belly, not your chest. Place one hand on your chest, one on your stomach. The hand on your chest should barely move while the hand on your stomach rises significantly. This engages your diaphragm and creates the pressure changes necessary for optimal circulation.

Hold that breath for four counts. This isn't about creating tension. It's about allowing cellular oxygenation to occur. During this pause, oxygen transfers from your lungs into your bloodstream and then into your cells. Think of it as giving your body time to fully absorb the life force you've just inhaled.

Then comes the six count exhale, the most important part. This extended exhale activates your vagus nerve, the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system. As you slowly release the breath, you're literally switching your body from stress mode into healing mode. This is when toxin release occurs, when cellular repair mechanisms activate, when your body begins to regenerate instead of degenerate.

As you practice this breathing pattern, you'll experience specific physiological changes. You might feel tingling in your hands and feet. That's improved circulation, reaching areas that have been starved of proper blood flow. You might experience warmth spreading through your body. That's your metabolism optimizing. Mental clarity often increases dramatically. That's your brain finally getting the oxygen it's been craving.

These sensations are signs of what I call a nervous system reboot. You're literally rewiring decades of stress, induced breathing patterns, and returning to your body's natural state of vitality.

The ancient Egyptians understood that breath was the river connecting the physical body to the life force itself. They knew that controlling your breathing meant controlling your aging process. But this knowledge was deliberately suppressed because a population that knows how to self-regulate, self-heal, and maintain vitality is much harder to control and profit from.

Think about it. Our modern lifestyle is specifically designed to keep us in perpetual fight-or-flight mode with its constant notifications, artificial deadlines, processed foods that spike blood sugar, electromagnetic pollution. All of this forces us into shallow, panicked breathing patterns. We're literally being programmed for premature aging and dependency on external systems for our health.

Mastering your breath is the first act of rebellion against this systematic programming for weakness. It costs nothing, requires no equipment, and can be done anywhere. Yet, it's more powerful than most medical interventions because it addresses the root cause rather than just managing symptoms.

Here's how to recognize the difference. Chest breathing feels tight, restricted, and often creates anxiety. Your shoulders might rise with each breath, and you'll notice tension in your neck and upper back. This is anxiety inducing breathing that keeps you trapped in stress mode. Diaphragmatic breathing feels expansive and calming. Your belly rises and falls naturally. Your shoulders remain relaxed and you'll notice a sense of groundedness and stability. This is life-giving breathing that activates your body's natural healing mechanisms.

The remarkable thing is that this single change can begin reversing years of internal damage within minutes. Start practicing the 4-4-6 pattern right now as you read. Notice how your body responds. This is just the beginning of reclaiming the vitality that's been systematically stolen from you.

When I first discovered the connection between information overload and cellular aging, I thought I was looking at a typo in the research data. The numbers seemed impossible. But after diving deeper into the biochemistry, I realized we're facing something far more sinister than simple stress. We're witnessing the systematic acceleration of human aging through engineered cognitive chaos.

When Thoth spoke of silence as the foundation of regeneration, he wasn't being poetic. He understood something we're only now rediscovering... that constant mental stimulation literally corrodes your body from the inside out.

This isn't accidental. Think about your morning routine. You wake up, immediately check your phone, scroll through notifications, news alerts, social media updates. Your nervous system hasn't even fully transitioned from sleep, and you're already flooding it with dozens of micro stressors. Each ping, each headline, each notification triggers the same biological response your ancestors experienced when facing a predator. Except now, instead of one threat followed by recovery, you're getting hundreds of these alerts daily.

The average person now processes five times more information daily than someone in 1986. Five times. Your brain, which evolved over millions of years to handle maybe a dozen significant decisions per day, is now bombarded with thousands of micro-choices before lunch. Should you respond to that text, click on that article, watch that video? Each decision point floods your system with cortisol.

Dr. Robert Sapolski's research at Stanford revealed that chronic cortisol exposure doesn't just make you feel stressed. It systematically dismantles your body's repair mechanisms. Cortisol literally dissolves the collagen matrix that keeps your skin elastic and your joints flexible. It's why people in high stress jobs often look a decade older than their chronological age. They're not just tired, they're being chemically aged, but the collagen destruction is just the beginning.

Chronic cortisol triggers what researchers call inflammaging, a state of persistent low-level inflammation that accelerates every degenerative process in your body... your cardiovascular system, your joints, your organs, all operating in a constant state of emergency repair that never quite catches up to the damage being inflicted.

The neurological impact is perhaps most devastating. Studies using brain imaging have shown that chronic stress literally shrinks the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory formation and emotional regulation. Dr. Amy Arnsten's work at Yale demonstrated that just three weeks of chronic stress exposure can kill neurons in this critical area. Three weeks. That brain fog you experience after a particularly intense period of information overload... those aren't just symptoms. That's structural brain damage.

Now contrast this with what ancient Egyptian texts reveal about their understanding of consciousness. They recognized that silence wasn't empty space. It was fertile ground. The hieroglyph for silence actually translates more accurately as “pregnant emptiness”, space pregnant with regenerative potential.

Modern neuroscience is finally catching up to this ancient wisdom. Dr. Imke Kirste's research at Duke University discovered something remarkable. Two hours of daily silence actually stimulates neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells, specifically in the hippocampus, the exact region that chronic stress destroys. Silence doesn't just prevent damage... it actively repairs it.

But here's what nobody tells you about implementing silence in our hyper-connected world. Your nervous system will fight you hard. What researchers call noise withdrawal syndrome is a real phenomenon. When you first attempt sustained silence, your mind will create its own chaos. Thoughts will race. Anxiety will spike. You'll feel an almost physical compulsion to reach for stimulation.

This is your nervous systems addiction response. You've been conditioned to interpret constant stimulation as safety and silence as danger. Breaking this conditioning requires understanding what's actually happening in your brain.

Let me give you the exact protocol that's transformed my own biology. Start with just five minutes of intentional silence daily... not meditation with apps or music. Pure silence.

Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. And here's the crucial part - don't try to stop your thoughts. Instead, imagine yourself sitting by a riverbank watching boats pass by. Each thought is a boat. You can see it, acknowledge it, but you don't board it. The first few days will feel chaotic. Your mind will throw everything at you... forgotten tasks, random memories, future worries. This is normal. You're not failing. You're detoxing. Think of it like clearing years of accumulated cache from a computer processor. The system might run hot initially, but it's freeing up resources for optimal function.

Around day seven, something shifts. The mental storm begins to settle, and underneath you'll glimpse what I call the lake of consciousness, a deeper awareness that exists beneath the surface chatter. This isn't mystical nonsense. It's your default mode network recalibrating.

Brain scans show that regular silence practice literally rewires the neural networks responsible for self-awareness and emotional regulation. By week three, you'll notice physical changes. Your sleep deepens. Your skin looks clearer. That constant low level anxiety that you thought was just normal begins to fade. You're not imagining this. You're witnessing your cortisol levels normalizing and your body's natural repair mechanisms coming back online.

The most profound shift happens when you realize you're no longer a victim of your mental chaos. You've become the observer of your own consciousness. This distinction is everything. Instead of being swept away by every thought and emotion, you develop what psychologists call meta-cognitive awareness, the ability to watch your own mental processes with detachment.

This daily practice becomes like a reset button for your entire system. Just as computers require regular cache clearing to function optimally, your consciousness needs regular silence to clear the accumulated mental debris and operate at peak efficiency.

The ancient Egyptians understood this as a fundamental law of consciousness... that regeneration requires retreat from stimulation. What you'll discover is that this isn't just stress relief. It's time reversal at the cellular level. You're literally giving your body permission to remember how to heal itself.

Here's something that's going to fundamentally shift how you think about aging and vitality. The stiffness in your body right now has absolutely nothing to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated. I've studied centenarians who move like dancers and 30-year-olds who creak like rusty hinges getting out of bed. The difference isn't chronological age, it's energetic flow.

Your body is designed to be a river of living energy with every cell bathed in constant circulation. But modern life has turned us into human dams. We sit hunched over screens for 8, 10, 12 hours a day, creating energetic blockages that would make ancient healers weep. This isn't just about tight hamstrings or a sore back. When you dam a river, the water above becomes stagnant and lifeless while everything downstream withers from lack of nourishment.

The lymphatic system, your body's crucial detoxification network we discussed earlier, relies entirely on movement to function. Unlike your cardiovascular system with its powerful heart pump, lymphatic fluid moves only when you move. Those toxins we talked about clearing through conscious breathing. They need physical movement to complete their journey out of your tissues. Without it, they accumulate like sediment in a stagnant pond.

Ancient cultures understood something we've completely forgotten. Movement isn't exercise. What we call exercise today, lifting weights to build bigger muscles, running on treadmills to burn calories... this is vanity focused manipulation of the physical body. The ancients practiced movement as medicine, as spiritual connection, as a direct pathway to accessing life force energy.

Watch a Shaolin monk flow through his forms at 70 years old... spine undulating like water, joints moving with liquid precision. Observe a master yogi transitioning between poses with the fluid grace of wind through bamboo. These aren't people trying to look good at the beach. They're conducting energy through their bodies like lightning rods channeling cosmic electricity.

The Sufi dervishes understood this when they developed their whirling meditation. They weren't spinning to get dizzy. They were using rotational movement to activate energy centers and create internal circulation that transcends the physical. Shamanic cultures worldwide develop dance rituals that could induce altered states of consciousness purely through specific movement patterns that unlock dormant energy pathways.

Your spine is the master key to this entire system. Ancient texts called it the tree of life, the central axis around which all energy revolves. Modern neuroscience confirms what mystics knew millennia ago. Your spine isn't just a stack of bones protecting your spinal cord. It's a superconductor for your entire nervous system, the primary highway for electrical impulses that coordinate every function in your body. When your spine becomes rigid, you're essentially cutting the main power line to your vitality.

Think about it. Every organ in your body receives its nerve supply from spinal segments. A stiff thoracic spine compromises heart and lung function. Lumbar rigidity affects digestion and elimination. Cervical tension blocks the flow of cerebrospinal fluid that nourishes your brain.

Flexibility, not strength, is the true marker of biological youth. A flexible body allows energy to flow unimpeded, nourishing organs, balancing hormones, and keeping your nervous system in a state of dynamic equilibrium. This is why you can meet an 80-year-old yoga practitioner who radiates more vitality than someone half their age who's been bodybuilding for decades.

The three movements I'm about to share aren't exercises. They're energetic activations that awaken your body's innate regenerative capacity. Think of them as tuning forks that restore your natural frequency.

First is spinal flexion with vertebral awareness. Stand with feet hip-width apart, arms relaxed at your sides. Begin by tucking your chin gently toward your chest. Then slowly roll down vertebrae by vertebrae as if you're peeling your spine away from an invisible wall behind you. This isn't about touching your toes. It's about awakening each individual vertebrae, creating space between the bones and allowing cerebrospinal fluid to circulate freely.

When you roll back up, do it with the same vertebrae by vertebrae precision, stacking each bone deliberately. You're literally giving your nervous system a reset.

The second movement is conscious spinal rotation. Place your hands on your shoulders, elbows wide. Begin making slow, deliberate circles with your torso. Initiate the movement from different segments of your spine. Start a circle from your lower back, then your mid back, then your upper back. This creates an internal massage for your organs while activating lymphatic drainage throughout your torso. Your liver, kidneys, and digestive organs get squeezed and released like sponges, promoting detoxification at the cellular level.

The third movement is what I call solar opening. Stand with arms at your sides, palms facing forward. Inhale and sweep your arms up and back, opening your chest to the sky while gently arching your upper back. This isn't a back bend. It's an energetic opening that counteracts the forward collapse of modern posture. You're literally opening your heart center and creating space for your lungs to fully expand, reversing the chronic compression that blocks energy flow through your chest.

When you perform these three movements in sequence, something remarkable happens. You'll feel energy rising up your spine like mercury in a thermometer. Your mind becomes clearer. Your breathing deepens automatically and there's a sense of lightness in your body that you might not have felt in years. This is your life force awakening from its slumber.

Together, these movements form what ancient traditions called the serpent dance... the undulating flowing activation of energy that refuses to let your body solidify into rigidity and brittleness. The serpent was a symbol of regeneration in countless cultures because it literally sheds its skin to renew itself. Your body has this same capacity for renewal, but only when energy can flow freely through its channels.

This is the movement medicine that is encoded into the deepest mysteries... not complicated gymnastic feats or punishing workout routines, but simple, profound movements that restore your body's natural state of flowing vitality. Practice these three movements every morning for just five minutes and document what you notice changing in your energy, your mood, and your overall sense of aliveness.

The river of your life force has been waiting patiently behind the dam of modern immobility. It's time to let it flow.

You're waiting for the fourth secret, aren't you? … the hidden ritual, the ancient incantation, the complex ceremony that will finally unlock the fountain of youth. Here's where everything you think you know about anti-aging gets turned completely upside down.

There is no fourth secret.

There is no hidden complexity.

The most profound truth that Thoth understood, the one that made pharaohs live for decades beyond their subjects, is so devastatingly simple that it will either liberate you completely or frustrate you beyond measure.

The secret is that there is no secret, only forgotten simplicity.

The three pillars we've explored... conscious breathing, intentional silence, and fluid movement.. are not esoteric techniques passed down through mystery schools. They're not advanced practices requiring years of study. They represent something far more revolutionary... a return to what you already are beneath all the programming, all the complexity, all the noise.

You were born knowing how to breathe with your entire body. Watch any infant sleep and you'll see their belly rise and fall in perfect rhythm. Their nervous system naturally cycling between activation and rest. You didn't need to learn this... civilization taught you to forget it.

You came into this world comfortable with silence. Before language cluttered your mind with endless chatter, you existed in pure awareness, present to each moment without the constant need for mental stimulation. The noise addiction was installed later.

Your body was designed for constant, graceful movement. Before chairs imprisoned your spine and shoes disconnected you from the earth you moved like water... fluid, adaptive, alive. The stiffness, the joint pain, the muscular tension... those aren't natural aging... they're symptoms of forgetting how to inhabit your own body.

This is the paradigm shift that changes everything. You're not trying to become something new. You're remembering what you've always been.

The ancient texts speak of time not as a linear progression that inevitably wears us down, but as a servant that responds to our internal state. Modern science is finally catching up to this understanding. And what we're discovering is extraordinary. When your body is stagnant, when your breath is shallow, your mind chaotic, your movement restricted, time becomes your enemy. It accelerates past you, each day blending into the next in a blur of exhaustion and decline. Your cells receive the signal that survival is uncertain, so they prioritize short-term function over long-term maintenance. Inflammation increases, repair mechanisms slow down, and you literally age faster.

But when your body flows with energy, when your breath is deep and rhythmic, your mind calm and present, your movement fluid and natural, something remarkable happens. Time bends to your will, not metaphorically, but biologically. Your cells receive constant signals that all is well, that resources are abundant, that long-term thriving is the priority. Repair mechanisms activate, inflammation decreases, and your body begins to regenerate rather than merely survive.

This is why the same 24 hours can feel like a rushed, stressful blur or like a spacious, nourishing experience. You're not just changing your perception of time... you're changing your biological relationship with it.

The anti-aging industry has built a trillion dollar empire on a fundamental lie that rejuvenation requires adding something to your body. More supplements, more treatments, more interventions, more complexity. They've convinced you that your body is broken and needs constant external support to function properly.

The truth is exactly the opposite.

True regeneration is a process of subtraction, not addition.

You don't need to add exotic compounds to trigger cellular repair. You need to remove the blockages that prevent your body from doing what it already knows how to do perfectly.

Subtract the shallow breathing that keeps your nervous system in constant stress mode.

Subtract the mental noise that fragments your attention and exhausts your cognitive resources.

Subtract the physical stagnation that turns your body into a collection of rigid, disconnected parts instead of one flowing system.

What remains when you remove these interferences?

Your natural state, a body that repairs itself efficiently, a mind that remains clear and focused, an energy system that regenerates rather than depletes.

When you unite these three pillars... conscious breathing, intentional silence, and fluid movement... you create what the ancient texts called the eternal circulation.

Each practice amplifies the others in an upward spiral of vitality.

Deep breathing calms the mind, making silence more accessible.

Silence reduces mental tension, making movement more fluid.

Fluid movement oxygenates the blood, making breathing more efficient.

This is the virtuous cycle that erases years of programmed decay, not through complex intervention, but through elegant simplicity. The power lies not in what you do once, but in what you do consistently. Your body doesn't respond to dramatic gestures. It responds to reliable patterns.

A single session of deep breathing won't reverse decades of stress, but 20 conscious breaths every morning for 6 months will literally rewire your nervous system. Five minutes of silence won't immediately quiet your mental chatter, but consistent practice will gradually expand the spaces between thoughts until you discover the profound peace that was always there.

This is why consistency becomes an act of rebellion. The world is designed to keep you distracted, fragmented, and dependent. Each deep breath is a declaration of independence. Each moment of chosen silence is a victory against the forces trying to colonize your attention. Each fluid movement is proof that you refuse to accept physical decline as inevitable.

You're not just practicing ancient techniques. You're rewriting your soul contract with time itself. You're reclaiming sovereignty over your own vitality in a system designed to convince you that aging and decline are beyond your control.

The Egyptians understood something we've forgotten. The body is not a machine that breaks down, but a river that either flows freely or becomes stagnant. Keep the river moving and it stays clean, clear, and life-giving indefinitely. Allow it to become still and it becomes murky, toxic, and eventually lifeless. Your next step is to choose which version of time you want to live - in time as enemy or time as ally.

The practices are simple. The consistency is challenging, but the results will speak for themselves in ways that no external intervention ever could.

What we're talking about is the rekindling of an inner flame that years of rigidity, chronic stress, and systematic neglect have tried desperately to extinguish. Think of it this way. Inside every person past 30, there's still an ember of the vitality they had at 25. Most people never even know it's there because it's been buried under layers of poor breathing habits, inflammatory foods, and bodies that barely move beyond walking from the car to the office. But when you begin practicing these three pillars... the breath work that oxygenates every cell, the nutritional protocols that reduce systemic inflammation, and the movement patterns that restore your body's natural energy flow, something remarkable happens. That ember begins to glow again. Day by day, week by week, you're literally fanning it back to life.

Once that flame reaches a certain intensity, it becomes self-sustaining. It starts consuming the very things that were aging you, the stagnation in your joints, the sluggishness in your circulation, the brain fog that made you feel decades older than your chronological age.

But the most profound shift isn't physical at all. It's your relationship with time itself. Right now, most people experience time as an executioner. Every birthday feels like another step toward decline. Every mirror becomes evidence of deterioration. Every forgotten name or creaky joint reinforces the story that their best days are behind them. Time becomes this punishing force that steals a little more vitality with each passing year.

When you align with these ancient principles, something extraordinary happens to your perception. Time stops being your executioner and becomes your craftsman.

Each day becomes an opportunity to sculpt yourself into something stronger, clearer, more vibrant than you were the day before. Instead of counting the years you've lost, you start measuring the energy you've gained, the flexibility you've restored, the mental sharpness you've reclaimed. This isn't positive thinking or self-deception. This is what happens when you finally start working with the fundamental laws of biology instead of against them.

Your body was designed to regenerate, to heal, to maintain itself efficiently well into what we now consider old age when you provide it with proper oxygenation, reduce inflammatory stress, and restore natural movement patterns. You're not fighting aging. You're removing the artificial barriers that were accelerating it.

The ancient Egyptians understood something we've forgotten. When you align with natural law, natural law supports you. Time itself seems to bend in your favor because you're no longer swimming against the current of your own biology.

This great secret has never been hidden. It was never locked away in some expensive program or complicated esoteric technique. The breath techniques are based on principles you can find in any serious study of respiratory physiology. The nutritional protocols are rooted in basic inflammatory science that's been published for decades. The movement patterns mirror the natural biomechanics your body was designed to perform. The secret has always been essential, free, and so obvious that it becomes invisible. It's like the air you breathe, absolutely crucial for life, available to everyone, yet, most people never think about optimizing it.

This is your birthright, not as some mystical inheritance, but as a biological and spiritual reality. You were born into a body capable of maintaining vitality, energy, and mental clarity far longer than this culture tells you is possible. Every traditional society understood this. The decline we accept as normal would have been seen as a sign of serious imbalance by healers throughout history.

So now we come to the only question that truly matters, not whether this ritual works... you've seen the mechanisms... you understand the science... you know it works. The question is whether you dare to practice it.

Here's what practicing means: Dedicating a few minutes each morning to breath work instead of immediately checking your phone. Choosing foods that serve your biology instead of just satisfying cravings. Moving your body in ways that restore function instead of accepting stiffness as normal. It means reclaiming sovereignty over your own biological destiny. It means defying a lifetime of programming that told you to expect decline and instead believing in your body's incredible capacity for regeneration.

This is the ultimate test of courage. Not the willingness to climb mountains or fight battles, but the willingness to walk a clear, simple path that leads to genuine transformation.

The three pillars are waiting for you. Your renewed vitality is waiting for you. The only question left is, will you take the first step tomorrow morning? If you've made it this far, you're already demonstrating something extraordinary.

Out of every hundred people who started this journey with us, maybe three are still here. Out of every thousand who read this, you're among the handful who possessed both the intellectual courage to question everything they've been taught about aging and the discipline to absorb information that challenges the very foundation of modern medical thinking. This isn't coincidence. This is recognition.

Your subconscious mind has been searching for this knowledge, sometimes for decades. Every time you looked in the mirror and wondered why your energy felt different than it did 10 years ago, every moment you questioned whether the gradual decline everyone accepts as normal was actually inevitable. Every instinct that told you there had to be another way. That was your deeper wisdom calling you toward this moment.

Now you're here at the threshold between two completely different ways of existing in your body. Behind you lies the old paradigm - the world where aging is an unstoppable force... where vitality diminishes year by year... where your relationship with time is one of constant loss. Ahead of you lies something most people will never even glimpse - true biological sovereignty... the understanding that your body's relationship with time can be fundamentally different from what you've been programmed to expect.

But understanding alone changes nothing. The flame of vitality that these ancient principles have rekindled within you... how brightly will you allow it to shine? Because make no mistake, this flame exists now. The knowledge has already begun rewiring your cellular consciousness. Your mitochondria are already responding to the shift in your awareness. Your endocrine system has already begun recalibrating based on the new instructions you've been feeding your nervous system. The question isn't whether transformation is possible. The question is how completely you'll commit to becoming the living proof of what you now know to be true.

When you begin implementing the three pillars we've explored, when you start each day with that moment of cellular communion, when you align your circadian rhythms with cosmic cycles, when you transform your relationship with stress from reactive to responsive, something remarkable happens that extends far beyond your individual experience. You become a walking contradiction to everything the mainstream medical establishment claims is inevitable. Your colleagues will notice that you seem to have more energy at 50 than they do at 30. Your family will start asking what you're doing differently. Strangers will begin commenting that you seem to radiate something they can't quite identify. You'll find yourself in conversations where people confess they feel trapped in bodies that seem to be aging faster than they feel ready for. And you'll realize you're holding keys that could unlock their cellular prisons.

This is where your responsibility begins to expand beyond yourself. Every person who successfully implements these principles becomes a beacon for others who are desperately seeking the same freedom. Your transformation gives others permission to question their own assumptions about what's possible. Your vitality becomes evidence that the story we've all been told about inevitable decline might not be the only story available.

But here's what I need you to understand about the path ahead. Consistency trumps intensity every single time. The person who practices the morning cellular communion for five minutes daily for a year will experience more profound transformation than the person who does elaborate two-hour rituals once a week. The individual who makes small sustainable adjustments to their circadian rhythm patterns will achieve greater time sovereignty than someone who attempts dramatic lifestyle overhauls that can't be maintained.

Your ancient ancestors understood something that our instant gratification culture has forgotten. Real power builds slowly, like sediment forming rock, like trees growing rings, like wisdom accumulating through decades of applied experience.

The Thoth principles we've explored aren't just techniques. They're a way of being in relationship with your body that honors its deeper intelligence. When you practice cellular communion each morning, you're not just doing a routine. You're acknowledging that your body possesses wisdom that extends far beyond what modern science has cataloged. When you align your daily rhythms with natural cycles, you're not just optimizing your sleep. You're remembering that you're part of something infinitely larger than your individual existence.

This remembering changes everything. It changes how you move through your day, how you respond to challenges, how you make decisions about what to eat and when to rest. It changes your relationship with your own reflection in the mirror, transforming it from a daily inventory of decline into a recognition of the timeless consciousness looking back at you. Most importantly, it changes how you show up for the people in your life who need to hear this message.

Because here's the truth about transformation that no one talks about. The moment you begin living from these principles, you become responsible for sharing them. Not because someone is forcing you to, but because the vitality flowing through you will naturally seek expression. The energy you've unlocked will want to serve something greater than your individual experience. You'll find yourself in conversations where someone mentions they're struggling with low energy, and you'll have tools to offer. You'll encounter people who feel helpless about their aging process, and you'll be able to share a completely different perspective. You'll meet individuals who've given up on feeling truly alive in their bodies, and your very presence will remind them that other possibilities exist.

This is how ancient wisdom spreads in the modern world... not through institutions or official channels, but through individuals who embody the principles so completely that they become living invitations for others to remember what's possible.

Your declaration of independence from programmed aging begins right now in this moment with a simple recognition. You are no longer willing to accept limitation as inevitable. You're no longer willing to surrender your vitality to a timeline that someone else created. You're ready to step into partnership with the universal forces that have been supporting human transformation for thousands of years.

The pact you're making isn't with me or with any external authority. It's with the deepest intelligence within your own cellular structure, with the cosmic rhythms that have been orchestrating life on this planet since the beginning with the ancient wisdom that recognizes your body as a temporary temple housing eternal consciousness.

Seal this commitment now, not with words, but with the intention that tomorrow morning you'll begin. One breath, one moment of cellular communion, one small step toward the time sovereignty that is your birthright. This 7,000-year-old knowledge is now yours. The question that remains is what you'll do with it and how many others you'll inspire to reclaim their own biological destiny along the way.

from YouTube @LibraryofThoth on November 8, 2025

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Here's to the Crazy Ones

 

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

~ Steve Jobs, 1997

The most creative people are often the ones who have a hell-raiser trait in them, regardless of whether this comes from nature or nurture. These are the people who think different, feel different, behave different. These are the people who can’t easily fit into the square corporate box. They are rebels.

Organizations both value and despise them. Rebels non-rebels uncomfortable because they challenge thoughts, processes, and the status quo. They disrupt and dismiss. They push. They raise the bar for everyone else and they call people out. They’re not being difficult on purpose — they’re being themselves. They see things differently. And that comes with both opportunities and challenges.

Rebels create organizations and then the organizations they created reject them. You need a rebel to start something but after you reach escape velocity, complacency sets in. Rebels are ignored, dismissed, or put into a positions of failure.

Many people — especially those who are less secure about themselves — have a hard time working with people that push boundaries and challenge the way things are done. These people insulate themselves from the rebels, physically and mentally.

As complacency is eroded by competition and the relative position of the organization falls, the rebels once again rise.

Embrace the rebels. Hear them out. Not all of their ideas will be good, but their perspective will be different. They will push you, challenge you, and if handled properly, ensure complacency is never the reason for failure.

~ from fs.blog

AI: Catalyst for Growth or Collapse?

 

AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable. The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for us, the solutions are at hand: building modular nuclear power plants at scale and tapping North America's vast reserves of cheap natural gas.

Problem solved! With cheap energy to power all the AI data centers, we're on a trajectory of fantastic growth of all the good things in life.
Let's consider the implicit assumptions buried in this narrative.

1. The unspoken assumption here is AI will solve all our problems because it's "smart." But this assumes the problems are intellectual puzzles rather than self-reinforcing, self-destructive structures fueled by corruption and perverse incentives embedded in the system itself.

2. The assumption is that if we replace human workers with apps and robots, that will automatically generate Utopia. But this is based on a series of baseless, pie-in-the-sky assumptions about human nature and the nature of social and economic structures.

3. The assumption is that being "entertained" by staring at screens all day is the foundation of human fulfillment and happiness, and so getting rid of human work will usher in Nirvana. The reality is humans are hard-wired to find fulfillment in purposeful, meaningful work that is valued by others. Staring at "entertainment" on screens all day isn't fulfillment, it's deranging and depressing. This is human nature in a nutshell: Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

4. Another assumption is that every technological revolution generates more and better jobs by some causal mechanism. But there is no law of nature that technology inevitably creates more jobs than it destroys, or that the resulting jobs are more rewarding. That recent history supports this idea doesn't make it a causal law of nature. By its very nature, AI destroys jobs while generating few replacement jobs. The handful of top AI programmers are paid (or promised) millions of dollars; the industry doesn't need more than a handful of top designers because AI can generate its own conventional coding.

5. This narrative assumes AI will be immensely profitable and the profit motive will push its limitless expansion. But once again, there are no laws of nature that every new technology is inevitably immensely profitable just because it's a new technology. If the projected use-value doesn't materialize, the investment in the new tech is mal-invested - a stupendous waste of capital chasing a delusional pipe dream. Some percentage might generate some use-value, but this use-value may be obsoleted long before the massive initial investment pays off.

6. Even if the new technology continues expanding, the speculative bubble can deflate 80%. This is the lesson of the dot-com era: that the Internet continued to expand didn't mean the speculative bubble continued inflating: the speculative bubble is not the same thing as the actual use-value in the real world. The Internet continued expanding even as the dot-com stock bubble collapsed. In other words, this is the best-case scenario: if the use-value of AI is questionable, then the losses can approach 100%.

7. Perhaps the greatest assumption being made is that there is some law-of-nature inevitability in AI's eventual supremacy. From the perspective laid out in What We've Lost, AI's influence on systemic problems is zero because AI can't reverse moral decay, and it actually reinforces destructive concentrations of capital and power in oligarchic cartels. In other words, AI is a force not just of disruption (i.e. creative destruction) but of disorder, for its promoters are not accountable for its consequences, which are already visibly corrosive and potentially disastrous.

8. Every trend and every technology reaches an extreme version of its initial state. This extreme can be transformative - but not necessarily in the way proponents anticipate. AI could also be a catalyst for collapse, as the mal-investment on a vast scale bleeds the system of capital while generating consequences which destabilize a system already on the verge of disorder due to extremes of wealth-income inequality and unaffordability. Put another way: AI is the ultimate projection of disruptive technology, but there are no guarantees that its consequences won't catalyze systemic collapse.

9. AI boosters assume the public will either embrace or be forced to accept their AI dominance. That there could be pushback against AI supremacy that itself catalyzes disorder leading to collapse doesn't enter their blinkered worldview.

10. Technocrats love to declare victory because their models indicate victory is inevitable. But models aren't reality, as things get left out of models without the model builders being aware of what was left out. Consequences generate second-order effects that aren't included in the projections. Things always look great when simplified into a chart based on projections and data selected to support the shared delusion.

Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable. But we are gonna find out. AI is here to stay and we are the ones who are going to have to adjust if Growth is going to characterize our new Utopian future.

by Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com on November 20, 2025

Gaslighting the American Mind

 

      One of the most disorienting aspects of the conspiratorial mania that overtook America’s elites in response to the rise of Donald Trump was the sheer scale of expert consensus behind views that were, on their merits, utterly deranged. What an ordinary person saw in 2016 was the country’s most venerated institutions all promoting the same claims about a Russian takeover of the American political system. Any given charge about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin might fall apart under scrutiny, but there were so many, coming from seemingly authoritative sources, that their totality seemed to outweigh their individual merits. The alternative—that it might all be so much propaganda—was difficult to face. It meant that the legions of Harvard professors, senators, senior national security officials, and respected journalists touting Trump’s sinister connections to Vladimir Putin had allowed themselves to become credulous bullhorns for a cynical and destructive information operation. If that was true it suggested that institutions and individuals with hundreds of years of built-up trust behind them were not only capable of getting big questions wrong but could, at any moment, decide to join hands and break out in song while they led the entire country off a cliff. Either the president was a Manchurian candidate, or his opponents had lost their minds. Simply contemplating the options was enough to induce a sense of nihilism. First Trump drove the elites mad, then their madness spread.

They waged on us. That’s the simplest way to summarize what the government, technocratic elite, security state, and media did to the American people in 2016. It’s also the premise behind what is sure to be the most important and explosive book of 2026. That book, The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control by Jacob Siegel, explores the ways the crazed reactions of these parts of society to the arrival of Donald Trump drove them to label him “a threat to American democracy” and take actions that, ironically, turned them into the very threat they tried to warn us against.

Worse, that justification for their actions turned this elite class not just against Trump but against the people who supported him. Trump’s rise, Siegel, writes,

meant that politics had become war, as it is in many parts of the world, and tens of millions of Americans were the enemy. With Russian active measures having supposedly penetrated the Internet, anything said online could be attributed to Moscow.

The great value of The Information State is how well it is organized, brilliantly it is written, and carefully it marshals the evidence that makes its case. There were agencies, within agencies, within agencies who were involved in spying, censorship, peddling false stories, and attempting to ruin lives. The media was essential to the effort and is unlikely, ever, to regain the public trust. Yet behind these Byzantine departments erected to combat “misinformation,” “disinformation” and “malinformation”—that last just meaning any opinion with which our elites disagreed—there is one simple truth: With the arrival of Trump, America’s elite institutions waged war against their own people.

Siegel, a writer for Tablet and a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, lays it out well:

One of the most disorienting aspects of the conspiratorial mania that overtook America’s elites in response to the rise of Donald Trump was the sheer scale of expert consensus behind views that were, on their merits, utterly deranged. What an ordinary person saw in 2016 was the country’s most venerated institutions all promoting the same claims about a Russian takeover of the American political system. Any given charge about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin might fall apart under scrutiny, but there were so many, coming from seemingly authoritative sources, that their totality seemed to outweigh their individual merits. The alternative—that it might all be so much propaganda—was difficult to face. It meant that the legions of Harvard professors, senators, senior national security officials, and respected journalists touting Trump’s sinister connections to Vladimir Putin had allowed themselves to become credulous bullhorns for a cynical and destructive information operation. If that was true it suggested that institutions and individuals with hundreds of years of built-up trust behind them were not only capable of getting big questions wrong but could, at any moment, decide to join hands and break out in song while they led the entire country off a cliff. Either the president was a Manchurian candidate, or his opponents had lost their minds. Simply contemplating the options was enough to induce a sense of nihilism. First Trump drove the elites mad, then their madness spread.

That madness began with people like John Brennan of the CIA, James Comey of the FBI, and President Barack Obama. Government officials were practicing the new art “hybrid warfare,” which consisted not only of physical maneuvers but manipulating information itself. “Hybrid warfare,” Siegel writes, “provided the framework for reclassifying populist parties as security threats and shoving them outside the protection of the law.”

On Dec. 23, 2016, Obama signed the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. The Act directed the State Department to expand the mission of the recently formed Global Engagement Center, run out of the Department of Homeland Security, and whose job it was to counter the effects of foreign propaganda and disinformation. Siegel notes that:

By creating a mechanism to enforce a party line on matters related to fighting disinformation and defending ‘US interests,’ the agency effectively created an official government office for coordinating the resistance to Trump who, after all, stood accused of being the primary beneficiary and spreader of disinformation. Thus countering disinformation, while nominally concerned with foreign threats, marshaled the federal bureaucracies against the incoming administration. The government was not only divided but at war with itself.

Obama’s actions had come in the wake of Trump’s election, which the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies had tried to stop. A central figure was the CIA’s John Brennan, who used a ridiculous, fake piece of opposition research called the Steele dossier in his attempt to destroy Trump. FBI Director James Comey leaked the dossier to The New York Times. “Even for intelligence agencies with a long record of abuses,” Siegel writes,

spying on a presidential campaign represented an extraordinary breach. It moved the US a step closer to becoming the kind of dime-a-dozen autocracy where spy chiefs determine the outcomes of elections and voting is only ceremonial.

Obama also forced people like Mark Zuckerberg and platforms like Twitter to abet the new hysteria. Zuckerberg at first resisted, but quickly caved when Obama demanded that they combat “disinformation.” So did Yoel Roth, a Twitter executive who initially opposed the new information war but was quickly intimidated into silence. The new leviathan, Siegel observes, was just too huge.

The “whole-of-society apparatus” intent on “fighting disinformation”  was just a group that

fused the political goals of the Obama-led ruling party with the institutional agenda of the intelligence agencies, funding from the financial elite, the narrative power and activist fervor of the media and NGOs, and the tech companies’ technological control of the public arena The fact that the populist challenge was both legal and highly democratic did not affect their view that it was illegitimate. If democracy allowed such a threat to arise, then the rules of democracy would have to be changed.

Two weeks after the GEC announcement, the Obama administration released a declassified version of an intelligence community assessment (ICA), on “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.” It asserted that “Putin and the Russian government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”

The ICA was presented as the consensus view reached by the entire intelligence community, free of any agency’s biases. In fact, Siegel writes, “the ICA was just the opposite: a selectively curated political document that deliberately omitted contrary evidence to create the false impression that the Russian collusion narrative was an objective fact.”

On the same day that the declassified intelligence report was released, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security head, Jeh Johnson, moved to unilaterally designate U.S. election systems as “critical national infrastructure” in response to what he called Russian “orchestrated cyberattacks.” Johnson placed 8,000 election jurisdictions across the country under the control of the federal government. “It was a coup he had been angling to accomplish for months,” writes Siegel.

Soon the censorship leviathan had grown out of control. In 2018 Congress created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Sold to the public by the Department of Homeland Security as a department that would protect things like pipelines and electrical grids, CISA soon claimed its job was also to monitor communications passing over computer networks.

A month after CISA was created, a cybersecurity firm called New Knowledge launched. Ostensibly created to prevent the spread of disinformation, it was soon revealed that New Knowledge had run an information operation called Project Birmingham. This operation was intended to determine the outcome of the 2017 Alabama senate race between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones. An internal report revealed the truth: “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.”

Just as the FBI was setting up its task force inside Twitter, a government-backed organization called Hamilton 68 inundated the social media network with a propaganda campaign. Technically justified as a “dashboard” exposing networks of Russian influence on social media, Hamilton 68 launched as an initiative of another recently formed group called the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), which was itself a subsidiary of the U.S. government–funded German Marshall Fund. Hamilton 68 claimed it had a secret list of 600 Twitter accounts linked to the Russian government.

Siegel sums up the new reality:

Groups like the Anti-Defamation League, counterterrorism veterans, trust and safety officials, countering violent extremism experts, social scientists, political operatives, FBI agents, millennial journalists, and CIA officers all rubbed shoulders on the counter-disinformation party bus housed inside the social media companies. This information war was more than just a policy mandate; it was a sociological phenomenon with its own professional mores and cultural impetus.

The aim was “not to appeal to public opinion, but to control it.”

Through it all, the media refused to do its job. Consider the example of its coverage of Renee DiResta who worked for tech companies in San Francisco before coming to work at New Knowledge. In 2019 she took a position at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a group that had been create to “study the abuse in information technologies.” There DiResta led the Election Integrity Project (EIP), a public-private social media monitoring and censorship initiative. Siegel reports that all the leaders of the EIP “had long-standing relationships with the top content moderation executives in all of the major social media platforms.” The EIP director, Alex Stamos, had been the chief security officer for Facebook before going to the Stanford Internet Observatory. It was eventually revealed that DiResta had worked for the CIA. The mainstream media reported on none of it. Instead, it was contributing to the Russiagate hysteria and the suppression of facts. Readers will not get to the end of The State of Information without developing a deep sense of loathing for the media. Cowards all, it is difficult to think of a group more deserving of the public’s contempt.

Of course, the most obvious example of media malpractice and the deep state carrying water for Democrats is Hunter Biden. When the news broke in October 2020 that the president’s son had left a computer in a repair shop, and that the computer held ample evidence of the corruption of both Hunter and his father, the intelligence agencies, media, the American Stasi flipped out. The New York Post, which reported the news, was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. It’s still hard to believe that this happened in America.

Towards the end of The Information State, Siegel offers some small hope. Elon Musk bought Twitter—now X—and thanks to reporters like Siegel, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Shellenberger, the truth about the attempted coup against Trump is slowly coming to light. Someone may go to jail. Still, the words of Siegel are chilling:

Russiagate was not a tragedy but a crime against the country. Disinformation was both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up, a weapon that doubled as a disguise. The crime was the information war launched under false pretenses that by its nature destroyed the essential boundaries between public and private, foreign and domestic, on which peace and democracy depend. By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning tools of war against American citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life takes place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations. The crime was the routine violation of Americans’ rights by unelected officials who tried to secretly control what individuals could think and say.

by Mark Judge at chroniclesmagazine.org on December 17, 2025

Bank Wars: Depression, But No Panic

 

We live in interesting times, more interesting for some people than others. We're at a point where we are starting to have echoes of two historical periods that are going to be smooshed together for all of us living now. This is necessary because we're at a normal cycle point as well as at the termination of a larger cycle.

So basically, what I'm going to describe here is the situation that we're in now, where we're due for another depression relative to the Central Bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, and its creation of fake money out of thin air and all of the influences and repercussions of that. So this is all part of a larger cycle.

We should be going into a depression... it should have happened this year, or next year... all leading up to about 2030. This is part of the plan of the World Economic Forum and the United Nations and all these other control freaks. So they want to take advantage because they know the cycle is coming due. They're just going to exacerbate it where they need to and then ride the emotional wave to greater and greater levels of control. Right? That's their plan.

It's not going to work, however. Not this time. The last time we were in this kind of a depressive situation was 1933. We're swinging toward the end of a hundred year cycle now. So fiat currencies have a known lifespan. Most of them, unbacked fiat currencies, die within 56 years of their creation, or they morph so much that they're no longer recognizable. And this is what's happening to the dollar.

Trump and his people, in my opinion, are fighting against several large economic forces and the political forces associated with them that want the United States to become either broken up or communistic so that they can leverage better control. But there's the larger cycles yet to deal with, and forces involving space aliens headed our way.

So there's all of these huge things that Trump is having to deal with. We're at the end of the Federal Reserve Bank, where the Federal Reserve Bank will be phased out following the same progression as the end of the Second Bank that happened previously in 1833, 192 years ago. In 1833, the central bank at the time, called the Second Bank, was killed by President Andrew Jackson who vetoed a bill and did not allow it to be rechartered. So a single man saved the country at that point from a political process that had been corrupted. Sound familiar? Lots of the politicians at that time had been purchased by banking interests. Big echo there. And here we are again today, repeating it all over.

And so the central bank wasn't chartered, and so it had to go private. And it wasn't able to sustain itself without the federal government effectively stopping the competition, which were state chartered banks then. And so once he did that, it ended.

Now, it took another three years before it really got into deep, deep, deep problems. And it caused huge problems in the United States with the largest land speculation effort ever, and one of the largest depressions as a result of that, all of which leads back to the real owners of the central bank... the British banks, flooding the United States with money in order to cause the split in the United States and the Civil War. So that was all engineered by the bankers.

So the banks came under pressure in 1833 when the central bank couldn't renew. By 1836, we'd had the speculative boom of Western land where over 20 million acres were sold. That's going to come back up, by the way, in this particular cycle in a huge way, maybe four years from now... and it's going to alter the relationship of the people to the power structures in a huge way. We're actually close to the point where the Federal Reserve will have its deposits from the federal government removed. I think Trump's plan will, to some degree, echo what Jackson did because Jackson's plan was very well conceived and it worked very well.

So one year after the second bank's charter expired, the U.S. plunged into a depression. We're getting into this period now. We still have a Federal Reserve. It still has a charter, but it's not structured the way the Second Bank was. These bankers learn. And so when they hoaxed the United States again into accepting the Federal Reserve lending money to the country in 1913, they had it structured differently, so we're not going to go through the exact same thing, but the tactics still work.

I think we're coming up close to a point where there will effectively be no renewal of charter for the Federal Reserve. And I think that'll happen over the next six to eight months. You'll see it in minor legislation, not anything big. They're not going to be advertising what's going on. And then we're going to get, and we're into it right now, the early stages of a depression.

I think we'll also have a banking panic of some sort. That's a secondary issue. It will be brief. The banks will die. There will be all kinds of stuff to sort out. And then we'll be heading into a depression. It's going to be a very unusual depression because it's not going to be generally effective. That is to say... it'll be like the breakup of tech in the late 90s where there were many industries that were being sold off to China wholesale... old industries in the U.S. where we'd sell the whole factory to somebody in China and they'd come and disassemble it and pack it off.

But we were getting into the new high-tech industries at that point in a serious way. I think we're approaching something like that. So we're going to be in a transition stage during this period. We'll see a lot of older economic construction within the United States fall away and new stuff come in. Everything from new types of manufacturing to new industries to new sciences, all different kinds of stuff are going to be emerging during the period of this depression.

Now, Trump today tweeted out to buy Bitcoin. I'm going to echo that. My large language model AI always focused on the idea of Bitcoin being the method for government-to-government and international corporation-to-international corporation settlements for very large purchases, debts, contracts, etc., and so it always focused on the idea of Bitcoin being used as a carrier of big money. And that still holds in the future.

We haven't seen that yet. I suspect over the next few years, relative to the current U.S. federal dollar, we will see Bitcoin exceed maybe a million dollars each. However, there's going to be another metric involved. The current U.S. the Federal Reserve note (dollar), because it's a debt instrument, is not actually a currency; it's not actually money. There's going to be a competitor that will be arising. I think it's going to be a Treasury-issued dollar, both digital and physical in some form, although I think it'll be some kind of a Treasury-issued dollar which will compete with the Federal Reserve note.

When it's issued, you're gonna see a weird thing happen. If you want it to be speculative... me personally, I'm going to convert as many Federal Reserve notes as I can at that time into the new Treasury-issued dollars.. basically dumping the Federal Reserve Bank notes, to get all of my funds converted over to the new currency and wait for the progress of things... because the Federal Reserve Bank is dying. It can't sustain itself. There's no possibility of life in a few years for it.

If we model it on the time of Andrew Jackson, it'll take 13 years for the Federal Reserve Bank to die. So if the stuff I expect to happen happens in the next eight months, that is to say by June of 2026, just ahead of our 250-year celebration, then it sort of starts a clock ticking. I don't think that the Federal Reserve Bank will live much beyond 13 years, however, it will fade off to irrelevance in maybe as little as, say, three or four years... not very much time at all.

Anyway, so, we're going to get into this period of time that's going to replicate much of the turmoil of the mid-1800s that led up to the Civil War. It was the British banks that had been thrown out because they were the backers of the Second Bank. They decided to try and reclaim their prize, so they engineered the split of the USA... the same way they engineered the split of Korea, Vietnam, and many other countries, right? It's like a plan, a playbook.

They're trying to use it again here now. It's not going to work. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that Bitcoin is really solid. Now is a tremendous buying opportunity because I know that all of my data has never wavered and it's been really good so far. I said it would hit 100,000 when everybody else said you're full of shit, a decade early. And it did, and here we are now. It's fallen down recently due to the pressures that are being put on the Federal Reserve banking structure, the debt, the corporations, and the derivatives. All of these things are under such huge pressure that they have to sell. There are many people that are in a position of having to sell whatever they possibly can to raise Federal Reserve notes in order to try and keep themselves afloat against the crashing of the value versus the debt within the overall system that's affecting their operations. So a lot of corporations are involved in this at the moment.

It's going to get a lot worse. It's going to get quite strange because we have these other factors being put in. We've been through this before, so the powers that be on all sides are positioning themselves, getting ready for the next moves. I don't do financial advice. Bitcoin's not a financial instrument anyway, but I'm not selling. And in my opinion, it's a buying opportunity. We'll see how it all works out. I'm not particularly worried about that.

We will have economic ramifications from the current Federal Reserve Bank dying. That's what's ongoing at the moment. They're trying to do everything they can to keep themselves afloat and prevent the loss of power, so this is ultimately the prompt for all of these financial moves and the loss of power here.

There is an interesting asymmetric intrusion into this particular crises in the form of the 3i/Atlas in our solar system, with serious speculation about contact with non-human intelligence that's going to be a very interesting aspect of these near times to come... because it's going to get larger and larger as we go along. And it will have many unpredictable effects because we've never been here before.

So we'll be getting into some real novel territory with this.

But don't panic. We're into the bank wars. It's going to be vicious. It's going to be ugly. But it's going to take a decade to work through this. So it's not like you've got to freak out today. You can make plans, see how things go, and ease into the whole bank war period. I'll get into this in some detail in the future... just not today.

from the Substack of Clif High on November 21, 2025

Living Younger Longer: The Continuous Regeneration of Youth

  You wake up exhausted despite 8 hours of sleep. Your joints ache more each morning. By afternoon, an energy crash hits like clockwork. So...