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Breaking Free of the Psy-Op

By Ty Bell

With the coming of every new Age, a new Truth is revealed in the collective psyche. A ‘Revelation.’ It’s undeniable to the awakened heart, because it conveys a verifiable Truth about the human condition. But then, a cycle of deception begins. Instead of following the typical ‘exposing the psy-op‘ rabbit hole by speculating on who is responsible for the deception and why it occurs, or how we are being pitted against each other, I feel called here to simply point out what I believe is occurring.

We can observe a 3-step process that occurs in the collective field with these major steps in consciousness evolution.

1. Revelation → 2. Perversion → 3. Polarity

In revelation, we open to a new understanding; a higher level of truth. In perversion, we distort and invert the revelation’s essence and submit to an authority that claims to be its only true keepers. In polarity, we reject the perversion by the authority, but then fail to receive the revelation as we confuse them as one in the same.

Let’s look at how this played out in the last Age – the Age of Pisces, or, what we might call in historical terms the Age of Religious Theocracy.

To read a more extended take on the Pisces-Aquarian Age transition, see my last post titled The New DemiGods of the Aquarian Age.

This is a distilled take on the previous Age of collective consciousness, and the Revelation → Perversion → Polarity trap that was set.

Revelation: Ego is an illusion, you are an expression of the Infinite, and you are free and one with the Infinite in this awareness. Surrender ego, and be free, now, in the bliss of eternal love. Love everyone, for this is the highest form of embodiment. Living in a prison of the separate ego will lead you into a hell of suffering; instead choose the heaven of surrendering to the infinite.

Perversion: Your body and its natural desires are shameful. You are bound by your sinful condition and in need of salvation. Only one authority with the correct salvation symbols can free you, so you must submit to their rule and accept your lot in their hierarchy. Shame and shun the ones that do not adopt the correct symbols of the revelation; love and accept only those who do.

Polarity: Glorify the Self to experience freedom. Reject the notion of any governing power higher than the all-mighty ego. Embolden self-righteousness to hate and shun the oppressors in return, and allow personal desires to run free to subvert the oppression. Bow only to reason and objectivity. Dismiss the revelation as superstition.

Do you see the trap?

Those occupying the space of the perversion look to the ones in polarity, and say “you are not accepting the revelation so you are missing the mark (‘committing sin’).

Those occupying the space of the polarity look to the ones in perversion, and say “you are not embodying the essence of the revelation you claim to be devoted to.”

Both of these propositions are true (in part). So, when set to fight against one another in a false dichotomy between perversion and polarity, neither side gives in, because they know that they’re right. The other side just looks more and more like the enemy that doesn’t get it, and is therefore deserving of being shunned, dismissed, or moved out of the way by force.

Let’s look at how this is playing out in the New Age of Aquarius:

Revelation: Individuality is Illusion, we are One with everyone and everything. Free, voluntary cooperation can bring healing and redesign a more beautiful world that restores integrity and wholeness. Transcend the outdated concept of ‘individual rights’ and experience freedom at the higher octave of collective responsibility, compassion and cooperation…

Perversion: Freedom must equate to ‘freedom from harm’ because no one can truly be free when others are oppressed. An authority that embodies the essence of the revelation (and clearly denounces the heretics) must impose restrictions on behavior to reduce harm and ensure equality. Everyone is a potential victim, therefore, entitled to protections by authority. Everyone is also a potential perpetrator, so must submit control to authority in order to reduce harm for the collective good. Shame or shun those who do not embrace the symbols of the revelation.

Polarity: Reject Oneness and cooperation, for they equate to submitting to controllers. Better to hold onto your individuality and tribal identity than to give up your sacred freedoms. Glorify selfishness to preserve freedom and subvert manipulation. Resist submission to a culture of control that does not accurately embody the symbols it claims to represent. Troll the new converts by mocking the revelation and refusing them empathy.

Again, the pattern: A revelation is revealed to the collective consciousness. We are all One. We rise together and restore wholeness through cooperation. A cult of control assumes power, and perverts the revelation, assuming that it must be initiated by force on all of the non-believers. A cult of free thinkers recognizes the perversion, equates it to the revelation, and so, on that basis, rejects the revelation itself.

This is the psy-op.

It’s an endless war between two false positions that get inflamed and grow more stubborn and angry with the other, because the truth that each position holds feels continually invalidated and attacked. Mistrust, fear, and the ‘us vs them’ mentality gets stuck on a repeat loop.

This is what’s driving the culture war. It’s not Trump, or social media, or the propaganda machine engineered by the dueling power factions to perpetuate it. And it’s certainty not about one half of the collective having things right, and the other getting things wrong. This is an ancient story playing out. What’s the best way to end a war? Continue dropping bombs until your side wins and then you, the good and righteous ones, usher in the age of peace?

The message of the Aquarian revelation I see trying to break through is to transcend the war mentality, not to use it against the ones you deem unenlightened. Because this mentality defies the revelation itself. And that’s perhaps why all the prophecies predicted such chaos and breakdown during this time. The Aquarian revelation of Oneness completely undoes the story (the lie) of separation that built our entire civilization, and our frame of thinking (which makes the war mentality the default to problem-solving) so on its present track, it’s set to implode.

We have the eyes to see, and the ears to hear.

The mystics in the last Age showed us how to subvert the trap. They reminded us that true joy and true freedom are not accessible on either the path of perversion, or the path of polarity. We cannot reject the essential revelation, for if we do, we miss the important memo from the collective – in the language of old, ‘the Word of God’), thus denying our own part in the collective evolution that’s occurring. It’s the Truth we are called to wake up to, perhaps not just for our own well-being, but because the universe, the Earth, all living beings need us to wake up to it. It’s of such importance, that we also need to make sure we don’t step into the trap of perversion that prevents, or even inverts, its realization.

A different path lies ahead if we choose to take it. The revelation shines a light toward restoration, voluntary cooperation, and conscious evolution. A new level of freedom, experienced in our Oneness.

This false dichotomy is what gives rise to the two Dystopian realities that lie ahead in our collective imagination. In the perversion, we submit to an authority that perverts the symbols of the revelation and ushers in an unprecedented era of social engineering and control that strips away freedom. In the polarity, we deny the revelation of Oneness, refuse to cooperate, and let the old paradigm destroy the planet by stripping the Earth bare of all She has left to offer.

I would like to envision that a more beautiful world is possible.

By Ty Bell

An astrologer’s take the Age of Aquarius, and the socio-political implications of what’s playing out in the shift.

During the Age of Pisces, the collective consciousness was aimed toward Self-Transcendence. After the Aries Age of determination and conquest, we came to understand that a new kind of achievement was possible, and more glorious: that of the complete dissolution of the self, the merging into cosmic consciousness. Quite the opposite of the achievement-mentality (turning the revelations of the previous age on their head), this new ‘achievement’ required ego-dissolution. We had teachers like Jesus, Krishna and others that embodied this beautifully, what in yogic terms we call Bhaki Yoga. The surrender of the self, opening to heart to the frequency of unconditional love, allowing the experience of merging with the Infinite. In this practice, there is a recognition that the conscious mind lives in an illusion of selfhood. In order to experience the next level of evolution, it needs to surrender and allow ‘salvation’ from from this state of the separate self.

This evolution in consciousness was then inverted by the Cult of Control that asserted itself its keepers. They became the demigods of the Piscean Age. Religions perverted selflessness into shame that enslaved people into misery and hatred. They used the zeitgeist of Self-Dissolution (spiritually ‘correct’ and a guiding light during this age when applied with the proper understanding) to impose conquest and enslavement of free people. Bound first by the sword, then by fear and shame, people were ironically and tragically deprived of the Self-Transcendence that was freely available in this age. They were manipulated into believing that only the elite priestly caste had direct contact with the Infinite in this lifetime, and to experience it (after death), they had to follow strict rules and adopt literal interpretations of their myths, shaming and punishing others that encoded the revelation in different stories.

The revelation endured, in the hearts of mystics in every religious tradition. They passed their knowledge down, often in secret so as to keep hidden from the Cult of Control who they knew would pervert its essence. They understood what the revelation of the Age was pointing to. There were also those who rejected the religious symbols entirely: artists, rebels, misfits and social deviants that gave the middle finger to the symbols of their culture that were supposed to represent Self-Transcendence, and they experienced it for themselves, in a kind of ‘joke is on you!’ fashion toward the inverted symbols that had been used to deprive them of it! Sometimes through art, sometimes through sexual freedom, sometimes through drugs and other socially deviant acts, people broke through and found that the true essence of the revelation – Self-Transcendence, and the unconditional love and bliss that come with it. These social deviants demonstrated that when symbols become overly oppressive and invert the meanings they encode, their essence can be more freely realized by subverting them. And sometimes, this is the moral and necessary thing to do, when they’ve become too oppressive. Even when symbols contain the essence of a revelation that’s true in the meta sense, if they invert its meaning and keep us from being able to freely access the revelation they encode we are better off openly rejecting them. To openly reject the Piscean Age symbols was to be called a heretic, and was synonymous, in the people’s minds, with rejecting the more deeply encoded revelation itself.

These are patterns to remember as we enter into the Age of Aquarius.

The new Aquarian Age revelation is twofold: First, that freedom is the essence of our being, and second, we are One human family. The evolutionary urges of the collective are now to experience freedom from the bondage of the Piscean-age enslavement, and to embrace our interconnectedness. The revelation asks us to accept the truth of Oneness – I am you, and you are me. This new revelation pierces through every form of separation – race, culture, gender, class – and says ‘no, these old paradigm hierarchies are based on a lie. The new revelation is that we are all equal in our worthiness. We’re here together as separate beings but we are really just nodes of One being, and we must exist in cooperation. Cooperation is the nature of life, and separation is the destruction of life. This revelation is breaking down the the very concept of the individual self. It understands that we rise, and are made whole again, through cooperation, and the recognition of our brotherhood and sisterhood with all of humanity.

The Age of Aquarius is also bringing rapid acceleration in technology. The beauty illuminated here is free ingenuity and cooperation. In spite of the oppressive structures of the past, these human qualities have broken through, and have given us huge upgrades in our tools and technologies that if used in the spirit of the good, which is to say, embodying true essence of the Aquarian revelation, They could help us re-conceptualize and redesign a world oriented toward freedom, voluntary cooperation, and collective conscious evolution.

If we take a history lesson from the Piscean Age, now, which Cult of Control is to be more feared? Which Cult of Control is more likely to manipulate the people in the coming Age of Aquarius? The Pisces-Age Theocrats of today are like the so-called ‘pagan’ warlords in the time (Aries-Age controllers) that Jesus walked the Earth. Indeed, their power is still expressly manifest in the world, and they are undoubtably fighting to hold onto it. But it’s slipping away. What gives the Cult of Control power is monopoly on the zeitgeist of the Age. People are led into a false duality where they either accept the new revelation- and accept their control – or they reject the revelation – and are cast as heretics. It’s a brilliant manipulation because there’s something about the revelation they claim is true in an archetypal sense, and people intuitively grasp this. Or, they intuitively grasp there’s a manipulation at play, so the reject the new symbols and the deeper revelation they encode. Thus, predictable division and chaos ensues.

If a Cult of Control is going to be successful at maintaining power in the Age of Aquarius, it will do so by manipulating and inverting the new revelations – equality, universal brother/sisterhood, transcending prejudice, growing beyond selfishness, and increasing our cooperation with others. These are the symbols we would look for in the Cult of Control that is most likely to reign in the coming age, and what zeitgeist in the collective field is most potentially damaging. Not because it’s wrong – I know, this seems like a mind-fuck, and that’s by design – but because what’s right (i.e. the Aquarian revelation) is being inverted, just like it was by the Cult of Control in the previous age. When I say ‘by design’ I encourage you to think outside of the framework of sociopathic super-villains, and in the framework of the core assumptions at play in the system. Sociopathic evil is not required to intentionally setup such a manipulation, because it’s bound into the very story of Control itself. It’s inevitable in this story that power will be centralized, and the fixation on control will invert the revelations of any new enlightenment.

This is not to say that the Piscean-Age tyrants of old present no threats. As the Aquarian-age converts will attest (those who ‘get’ the revelation), not accepting the new revelation means you’re not getting the memo! And archeypally, speaking, they are right! So they feel self-righteous, just like the Piscean age converts of old, once they ‘got’ the revelation and experienced that Bhakti for the first time. Everyone who rejects the revelation appears to be stuck in the old paradigm consciousness that hasn’t evolved yet to see it. Some intuit they’ve already lost the battle though, and this is just their final hurrah to assert power before it slips away from them into the hands of the new controllers.

The so-called right-wing fear of this new Technocratic Elite might be seen as an intuition in the collective psyche for what’s coming, if we stay on the path of control, or giving our power to an elite class of controllers. Most of its opponents are beating the drum for old paradigm nationalism and/or religious supremacy since it’s all they know, but instead of dismissing them as apologists for the old paradigm, we might first want to receive the insight they are trying to communicate. The Mythic creature that is Bill Gates, for example (something I will write more about in the future) lines up perfectly with the Demigod archetype for the Age of Aquarius. On a mythic level with the turning of the ages, this archetype has emerged, and I think it’s trying to tell us something.

Just as the Piscean age controllers came with their symbols and forced people into conversion, the same social pressures are occurring now with the converts of the new revelation. Devotees of the new zeitgeist (which is the new, enlightened revelation, inverted by the controllers) have difficulty recognizing that what they are doing is a repeat of what occurred in the last Age. The new religion of Progressive Scientific Rationalism presents itself as immune to these criticisms because the new framing is that we aren’t imposing religion on people, we are now just asserting what is morally right (i.e. scientific progressive rationalism). They fail to see the irony, because framed in another light, we could observe that what’s happening is a new group of awakened converts have received the revelation of the new age. That revelation contains something true in its essence that aligns with the consciousness evolution of the collective, so everyone that doesn’t get it yet is seen as a heretic, or an enemy. If unchecked and unexamined, what’s to say that we will not see a familiar pattern play out in the coming Age?

This is how what we call ‘religions’ are born. This formula:

A True Revelation comes to the collective consciousness via our evolution, often marked by the turning of the Ages. A new insight pierces through that resonates with natural law

Then, a Cult of Control emerges monopolizes these revelations, and inverts them.

Finally, the masses who get the revelation come to believe that all who aren’t following the Cult of Control that claims to be the revelation’s keepers do not accept the revelation itself. They convince the people that these non-believers are worthy of shame, shunning, and even persecution. Separation continues and the essence of the revelation is obscured.

We are witnessing the birth of what could be a new religion, and with it, a new pantheon of demigods.

The old stories have broken down. The Age of Aquarius is fully upon us.

And with the influence of AI in the picture, we are heading into some unprecedented territory.

Never before in known history have any elite group of controllers had the power to monitor, track and control every aspect of our lives. This is not to say they will succeed. But the clue to watch for, if we follow the mythic trajectory, is new measures of control being imposed under the banners of the new Aquarian revelations. These are the symbols that will most likely be used to manipulate the people, and be inverted so their very nature is not realized, as long as we keep giving power to the Cult of Control.

There is a new way, and a better way, to integrate the Aquarian revelations. Like the mystics of old, in the Piscean Age, we can awaken to the new revelations (universality, compassion , and voluntary cooperation) without allowing the symbols to be inverted. To do this we may need to be willing to go against the grain.

An Alternative History of Progress.

By Ty Bell

First, a short glossary of terms:

Babylon: a system that elevates Control as the highest form of the good. A system whose god is, in essence, Control. Elevating human power over the power of Life itself, Babylon is a system of thinking and being that lacks reverence, humility, and alignment with Nature.

The Old Oppressor: The voice in the collective that seeks only to maintain the past, and present structures of Babylon control. The voice that resists awakening and uses force to prevent it, because of how its own power is threatened by the integration of the new truths that are revealed.

The Old Crow: The voice in the collective that affirms the new awakenings, but cautions us about where they will lead, in a Babylon system. The Crow embodies the wisdom of Natural Law, that instinct present in all beings. The Old Crow is the one who is painted black in the minds of the people, dismissed and mistaken by the awakening people as the Old Oppressor.

They Came With Democracy….

And the Crow came to affirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The Old Oppressor’s ways of tribal rule and birthright hierarchies do not align with Natural Law. You’re coming to understand, in your awakening, the principles of Equality and Free Will.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, your ideal of Democracy will seed a new brand of supremacy that will accelerate the dissolution and distortion of your ancient wisdom and cultures. Your people will continue to crusade and colonize in the name of this new ideal that assumes the moral authority to indoctrinate and transform cultures by force, just like the theocracies of old. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Democracy.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The newly awakened ones were ready to move forward.

And so, they carried on.

They came with Separation of Church and State……

And the Crow came back to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

You’ve taken your myths too literally. This has put perverse power in the hands of your religious authorities. The Old Oppressor’s religious supremacy, indeed, violates Natural Law. Your literalism is blinding you to your connection to all beings, and obscuring the Truths your stories once encoded. It’s replacing the humility you once had with a destructive pride. You are coming to further understand the principles of Equality and Free Will.

But take heed. Babylon secular government will be based on the same religious supremacy as the Old Oppressor’s, but in disguise. By presenting itself as rational it will claim to supersede religion, paying lip service to welcoming them all, yet limiting them to a private sphere. The Truths encoded in your stories will be all but forgotten. Your public life will lose touch with all that is sacred and beautiful if your institutions bow only rationality and efficiency as their gods. With no reverence to a higher power greater than the knowledge possessed by the minds of your elites, your communities, once built and maintained as offerings to the sacred, will become devoid of meaning and purpose. Public life will become superficial and empty, and this will fuel apathy, alienation and cynicism among your people. It will also set off a backlash by those of you that sense the wrongness of the sacred being diminished, but know no other way to preserve it other than by the religious hierarchies of old. So your culture will be perpetually split and divided.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The people were wounded by years of oppression at the hands of the Old Oppressor. They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

And so, they went along.

They came with Education…..

And the Crow came once again to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The Old Oppressor’s ways of restricting knowledge to an elite few, indeed, violates Natural Law. You are beginning to see that knowledge is rightly free and accessible to all, and that barriers against it are unnatural, and unwise. You’re awakening to see that by freeing the access to knowledge and affirming the potential genius and creator in all human beings, you are evolving out of a dark age of restrictive hierarchies. You are realizing, in your awakening, that depriving anyone of knowledge has a negative impact on the whole, for your greatest potential awakens when knowledge is freely available.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, your Education ideal will pave the way for the further destruction of your tribal and family cultures. Your Education ideal will be exploited to program your children to become homogenous worker drones for the industrial-market machine, rather than free creative human beings. It will apply the use of force to assimilate your children into the new religion of rational materialism. Education by an authority that bows only to these new gods will not make your people wiser. Your children will be deprived of generational wisdom and experience by a system that narrows the scope of knowledge to trivial facts and left-brain analysis. All other forms of knowledge and wisdom will be dismissed, and then over time, erode. Your creative brilliance and cultural wealth will be diminished by these new gods. Your connection to family, land, and culture will be eroded and many new wounds will be inflicted if you follow this cult of Babylon Education.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The people were wounded by years of oppression. The Crow was painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

And so, the people went along.

They came with Industrial Food……

And the Crow came yet again to confirm: yes, you are coming to understand.

The old ways are no longer working for your growing population. It would be painful for your newly awakened hearts to allow people to go hungry, because you are developing a broader sense of social responsibility, beyond your immediate families and tribes. You need to develop new ways of feeding your people that embody this generosity and understanding of your connection with all beings. You see that feeding all people is a noble ideal that aligns with Natural Law. This is the principle of Oneness, and you’re beginning to get it.

But take heed: In the Babylon system of control, this ideal of ending world hunger and maximizing the efficiency of food production will lead to disaster. Your people will lose their connection to the Earth, and your health will deteriorate. You will become dependent on a food supply that depletes the soil, the water, the air, and the very bodies you seek to feed. A system that bows to gods of materialism and efficiency will only deplete your lives and your land of beauty, reducing food to its materialistic function. Your forests and gardens will be replaced by mono-cropped wastelands that erode biodiversity, which will create the need for more chemicals which further deplete the land, and your bodies. Your people will be displaced and scattered throughout concrete jungle landscapes where the only foods available could hardly be called foods anymore at all. You will forget how to participate with Nature to survive, and you will come to accept consumption as a normal and rational way of being. The health of your land, your water, your communities and your bodies will be destroyed. You will grow dependent on this new class of elites that will perpetuate this destruction to amass and maintain power. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Industrial Food production.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The Crow was, yet again, painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings.

They were too captivated by their new knowledge and too weary from the oppression of old, to discern.

And so, again, the people went along.

They Came with Medicine….

Yes, the Crow came once again, to affirm.

You’re remembering your roots in alchemy. Not only can you use plants to heal – you can work with the elements creatively in ways that your Old Oppressor didn’t allow you to see was possible! This new knowledge has great potential. You’re also deepening in your compassion and understanding that if it’s possible to help a fellow being, the a heart calls you to do it. You’re awakening deeper to the principle of communal responsibility. You’re seeing that through creativity and cooperation, you can make lives better not only for your village and tribe, but for your entire human family. You’re seeing that greater collective well-being is possible for your species by removing the barriers that the Old Oppressor imposed with regards to human ingenuity. Caring for people outside of your immediate sphere is a core tenant of Natural Law for, as you’re coming to see, you are all One.

But take heed: Your medicines, in the Babylon system of control, will further deplete your ancient knowledge. It will erode your culture of personal responsibility into a culture of victimhood. Health will come to be equated with dependency on a new culture of experts. They will be the new authorities that your people will imagine provide, or deny health. You will forget your abilities to heal yourselves and you will lose the community bonds you share through births, deaths and illnesses. In a system that bows to this new god of efficiency, these life events will all become ‘medicalized’ – removed the community and placed into a sterilized, objective spaces devoid of sacredness and connectivity. Reductionism and materialism will eclipse all of your ancient knowledge and understanding about what it means to be human, to the point that you will imagine your bodies to simply be machines, in need of maintenance and management by experts. Your people will grow sicker, weaker and more dependent on their cures. The system will give rise to a new class of elites who will perpetuate this dependency cycle to maintain their power, at the expense of your health and your sovereignty. Take heed, and do not follow this cult of Babylon Medicine.

The people did not did not listen, because they could not hear.

They confused Old Crow with the Old Oppressor.

His cautions were mistaken as a refusal to accept the new awakenings. The Crow was once again painted black in the minds of the newly awakened people who saw only through the lens of the Old Oppressor’s inflictions, and the yearning for healing and restoration.

They were ready to move forward with their new awakenings. They were too captivated by their new knowledge and too weary from the oppression of old, to discern. And the new elite, who sought to gain power from this new development, exploited their confusion and ensured that the people would not hear. By convincing the people that Old Crow was an ally of the Old Oppressor, speaking only to apologize for his continued reign, these new elites didn’t need to use force to silence Old Crow, for the people did the silencing for them.

And, so, once again, the people went along.

To Be Continued….