NEW ENERGY, OLD ENERGY

by Jon Rappoport

Today, I want to give you a perspective on my audio seminar, The Transformations, and the energy exercises contained in it.

An overwhelming amount of human activity is taken up with passing around old energy from hand to hand. Old energy, familiar energy, stale energy.

This becomes apparent to anyone with a shred of imagination.

It’s an odd habit that humans have. They allow their systems to encase, transmit, and re-transmit stale energy.

I’m not talking about oil or gas or propane or electricity. I’m talking about human energy, endlessly recycled for the purpose of communication, relating, etc.

The result of this habit is boredom on a massive scale and frustration that builds to a boiling point, at which time the boil is repressed and tranquilized in many ways. But at bottom, the frustration stems from the poor quality of the hand-me-down energy.

Human beings would prefer new fresh energy, but this requires imagination and invention, qualities which have been left somewhere back in childhood.

Authentic transformation occurs when a person finds it within himself to invent new energy. Immediately, things take on a different hue.

That’s what the exercises in The Transformations can lead to.

I sometimes think of them as the Saturday morning exercises—because many years ago, freed from school, as children, we woke up with the sharp sense of a New Day, a day of free and open possibility, and we jumped out of bed full of sparkling imagination, and we were ready to swim in the river of life.

There was no question in our minds about new energy. OF COURSE we had it. How could it be otherwise? Magic was everywhere.

This isn’t something you measure or explain with formulas and equations. It something you experience and know in your bones.

Later on, in adulthood, that sensation fades and we forget about it. We steel ourselves to work with old energy. We figure out how to do that and fight off the boredom. We lose the sense of being able to create something fresh and original and bracing.

But we can get it back.

That’s the whole point.

When you really think about all the so-called paranormal phenomena and abilities, this is what they stimulate—the jolt of experiencing, again, that lost magic, that lost sense of something that makes ordinary stale energy recede and diminish.

If living these lives of ours is a test, that’s what the challenge is: can we vault up on to a higher level where we invent new energy that makes us feel joy and ecstasy?

Magic isn’t simply the capacity to punch a hole in ordinary reality. It’s the improvisational and spontaneous creation of never-before, here-and-now energy.

Traditions decay because they come to embody dead energy. Reinstating the best traditions, like freedom, takes more than harkening back to a time when “freedom was new.” A person has to invent it now.

Not as a simulation, not as a cartoon, but as something alive.

The process begins in imagination, which never deserts us, which is always available, which we can trigger at any moment.

With all their machinations and experiments and weighty pronouncements, the best of the alchemists finally came to realize that their heralded and hoped-for elixir of life, philosopher’s stone, and quintessence were CREATIVE, and consisted of the one central transformative power, imagination.

Imagination is a curious and wonderful thing. It doesn’t have much interest in recycling stale energy. It doesn’t care about endless repeating of old action. It doesn’t settle for half. It has wings because it wants to invent/visit new places that never existed before. It wants the sense of being-for-the-first-time.

No matter how appealing various systems may be, imagination knows better. It nods vaguely at those systems and moves on. It already has spontaneous life, and it seeks to express it.

This is the road of magic.

If a few of you want to travel to San Diego, one of my next projects will be a live one-day workshop, Spontaneous Improvisation. No time and place scheduled yet. I’ll tell you this—it’ll be different.

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST

AUGUST 23, 2011. As any sane person knows, routine psychological tests are absurd. For many reasons.

Most importantly, they don’t take CREATIVE POWER into account and give it its due.

But if they did, then psychology wouldn’t be psychology. It would be something else, and perhaps what it was, previously, would just disappear.

So, for interest’s sake, I’ve devised a different sort of test. This one has three questions. They are yes and no Qs, with essays attached.

ONE: If with the power of your mind/imagination alone, you could dissolve a serious hurricane before it reaches land, without diverting its effects to another location, would you do it? Explain.

TWO: If with the power of your mind/imagination alone, you could make a tree grow to a height of 5000 feet, without in any way disrupting the surrounding ecology, would you do it? Explain.

THREE: If with the power of your mind/imagination alone, you could shrink the universe down to the size of a peanut and put it in your pocket for an hour—and then reconstitute it just as it was, with no one recalling any “disruption of service”—would you do it?

There are no hidden tricks in these questions. They are what they are.

I’m not offering answers. I’m simply saying you would learn some very interesting things about a person from his answers and explanations. Aside from the essays, an interview with the person about his answers should also prove illuminating.

But very few people in this society care to explore creative power in a serious way. And maybe that’s just fine, because, knowing the mindset of “professionals,” they would prove to be absolutely useless.

Which, of course, raises the question, why are they involved in other people’s lives at all? For those patients who want to solve problems, a systems approach handled by a therapy-robot would certainly do. Software shouldn’t be too difficult to develop.

We really need to make a separation between the people who take everything you say and place it into their own problem-solving system, and those who see that the enormous energy of their own creative impulse is a different animal altogether.

We need to understand that those people who whine about power being a corrupting force—and ONLY a corrupting force—need to find out where they mislaid their own imaginations.

They also need to figure out that the curtailment of individual power is the central agenda of elites, whose aim, globalism, would reduce the energy of everyone except themselves, the elites.

From emails I receive, I correctly infer there are people out there who yearn for the kind of magic their own power can deliver to them. This is not a misplaced yearning. It’s real. It requires exiting from the swampy consensus reality that sinks all boats.

What do you have to lose? The illusion of a comfortable decay into old age? A stack of excuses and reasons why you never did what you really wanted to do?

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

JON’S PROMISE

THE MAGNIFICENT ENERGY

AUGUST 21, 2011. Lately, in my articles, I’ve been mentioning two audio seminars of mine: Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations.

I want to make sure you know this:

I’M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ARISE WHEN YOU DO THE EXERCISES DESCRIBED IN THOSE SEMINARS—OR IN OTHER SEMINARS OF MINE IN WHICH EXERCISES ARE GIVEN.

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

After you’ve been doing the energy exercises, consistently, for at least a week, if you have questions, write me and explain, in detail, what help you need. Tell me exactly what you’re not sure of.

I will do everything I can to help you.

You see, these exercises form a foundation on which many other practices and techniques are then based. So it’s good to get it right.

I’m in this for the long haul.

No one walks the whole road of magic, energy, or imagination overnight. Our culture may think in terms of “magic bullets,” but I know the fallacy of that. After investigating profound medical fraud for 30 years, you bet I do.

More people are ordering my audio seminars now, and I want to make sure you get everything out of them you can. What I’m teaching doesn’t fall into the mainstream of what people are used to. This is unusual material. It dispels a muddle that’s been around for a long time—and that muddle has to do with energy blockages and deficits. That’s what most people experience in their lives.

Not enough energy. Energy blocked. Energy that isn’t focused. Energy that seems to run into a brick wall. Energy of a quality that doesn’t break through into the manifestation of more power. This is what many people experience. And they know, intuitively, there is a better answer.

There is.

It isn’t just a quick snap of the fingers for two seconds. But the answer is there, for you to experience, through your own actions doing these exercises and getting the feedback from them in an intimate, personal way.

So that you come into more of your own power.

This isn’t therapy. It’s about magic, which is our natural ability and heritage, which has been misplaced, which has been sacrificed on the altar of some vague notion of “efficiency,” in a highly technical age.

Nothing wrong with efficiency. But it can be oversold and over-bought. It can put a lid on the vast well of power we naturally possess.

This “private status quo” I’ve been writing about? It’s all based on lack of available energy. People circle the wagons in their lives and say, “This is enough. I’ll settle for this. It’s not all that good, but what else can I do? I’ll stop hoping for more. I’ll settle for half.”

Power requires much flowing energy. Power projects energy. Power is the capacity to make deep desires come true in the world.

When people experience a taste of that, they begin to discard their personal cover stories about how limited their lives are. They begin to drop those cover stories.

Most people are secret agents. They carry out assignments designed to prove they are limited in their capabilities.

They go through life that way. They say, “See? See what I just did? That demonstrates my limits. That proves how little I can do. That proves I can only gather up enough energy to keep going. That’s my keynote—I keep going. I endure. I get by.”

This is, by and large, the logic of the world.

It isn’t the logic of magic.

Here is where a certain kind of confusion sets in, and I want to explain it, because it’s instructive. People think that, in order to realize their potential, they have to disassemble the elements of their own personal status quo. They have to take it down, brick by brick, stick by stick, like a tinker-toy. The prospect of doing this is, understandably, unsettling, because the person wonders what in the world they’ll do if they don’t have that reliable status quo to fall back on.

They feel like they’ll be left in a vacuum.

Well, that’s not the case at all.

When you project energies across space, you simply SURPASS the status quo. You OUTDISTANCE it. You TRANSCEND it.

There is no dismantling involved.

This process isn’t like a puzzle that needs to be solved.

It’s more like outfitting a train with a new and much bigger engine that allows it to go on an express route. It doesn’t have to keep making all those local stops.

For far too long, people have been dickering around with the local stops, the little things, the little dreams, the idle fancies, the vague ruminations, all of which are symptoms of the fact that they really want to leap across the pond and the puddle, and get into open spaces.

They want to get to the place where they can stretch out and exercise their power—and feel what that is like.

As our society becomes more controlled and more regulated, more people yearn for that open space and power. And they are right to want it.

Fifty years ago, I found it when I started painting. It saved me. It did more than that. It showed me that SPACE wasn’t just a physical aspect of the universe, it was personal and individual. It was a doorway into energy unlimited. Space is possibility manifesting.

When you “create big,” you literally enter your space into the space of the world. You prove, without even thinking about proof, that the world has room for “new unending spaces.” Perhaps this sounds like a paradox, but it really isn’t. It’s as actual as rocks or rivers.

For a very long time, painters have known about space. They’ve become ecstatic about it. It’s magic.

In the past, I’ve written about Hermes, the trickster god, who upsets apple carts and status quos. Hermes is the archetype of “other spaces.” He sees, as clearly as you’re seeing these words right now, that the bulk of humanity is living in a delusion of One Space. And in that space, they fail to realize the uncreated potential of an infinity of other spaces.

Hermes, now and then, here and there, punches holes in the shared delusion of One Space, and then he stands back and laughs.

When you project energy, you create space. You become aware of a different feeling about space. Space opens up, expands. It takes on new and more natural qualities, as if you’ve just unbuttoned a straitjacket and tossed it aside. You can breathe. You can move. You can flex the elasticity of your being.

And in that elasticity, you can access more imagination, more possibility.

It’s called joy.

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

GETTING RID OF THE NEGATIVE

AUGUST 20, 2011. A significant amount of traditional therapy, and a whole lot of pop-culture psychology, involves “getting rid of negative material.” Baggage.

The theory behind it sounds good at first. It’s sort of like surgery. The doctor says, “You have this thing right here, and we’re going to take it out.”

But lo and behold, as the years roll on, it doesn’t seem to be turning out so well. One piece of “negative emotion” is sort of gone, and so is another piece, but other pieces, not seen before, have cropped up. Where is the end to it?

Clue: there is no end.

Why not?

Because when the goal is “getting rid of problems,” people dedicate themselves to it, and in that dedication they will keep finding (or inventing) negative material so THERE IS SOMETHING TO DO. Otherwise, the goal is useless.

Therefore, the goal becomes a long freight train heading down the tracks, and it keeps going—and keeps on going…

This was not seen clearly when modern therapy was first invented. Neurosis (in the generalized sense) was viewed more or less as a big tin can, and the negative material was inside. If you washed the can out, you were cured.

However, it’s not that simple.

Often, the patient in therapy becomes dimly aware (or not so dimly) that he can keep using the search for more problems as a shield and postponement against just making his life better. “I have more material to work through.”

The patient develops an ingrained habit, which is “looking for negative baggage.” It’s a reflex. The other part of the habit is explaining lack of success in life by: “The negative is keeping me from getting what I want.”

Again, it sounds right, but the theory just doesn’t work out.

There is an analogy in the medical world. “Germs cause disease, so we have to keep getting rid of germs to make you well.”

Actually, the solution there is non-medical. You have to make your immune system stronger.

In life, you have to expand your creative power, to create what you want.

The world is filled with people who have undergone therapy with the hope of ascending to a new level of happiness. A large percentage of them have never gotten what they showed up for. Instead, they’ve saddled themselves with a habit: they continue to search for negative material that can explain why they aren’t happy.

All of this engenders a loss of energy over time.

From a more expansive point of view, it’s obvious that, in a scientific rational age, humans would invent a theory of behavior that would define happiness as the elimination of unhappiness. It’s neat and precise and simple. It’s straightforward. Discover what constitutes unhappiness in the mind and remove it.

However, adopting a rational position doesn’t always ensure success. That’s a lesson that needs to be learned. The kind of logic that applies so well when you are analyzing an argument won’t work in the same way when you assess the human being as a whole.

As I discovered long ago in my consulting work with clients, the creative aspect of a person will always assert itself in one way or another. You can’t discount it or block it out or pretend it doesn’t exist.

For example, at the most profound level, a person creates problems if he decides he has a reason to. Not only that, he creates the basic mindset that views reality as “problems that need to be solved.”

I’m not making an academic point here. This is as real as rocks and trees. You can seemingly neutralize all sorts of problems…and more will crop up. The TENDENCY to have problems is, at bottom, a creative decision, in the same way that a playwright or a director will sculpt and shape a stage play to have a certain kind of mood, atmosphere, and plot.

So I decided to work directly with that creative impulse in people. That’s where the core and crux of a life resides. (I had seen that for myself, in 1961, when I started painting.)

In that creative core—that’s where a person will build his own private status quo.

Tearing down a few bricks from it won’t do the trick. He’ll just rebuild it.

Because, like it or not, he’s an artist.

You can’t change things by scrubbing out a few areas in his paintings. He’s still a painter, and he still has ideas about what he wants to put on the canvas.

Again, from a rational point of view, it might seem that you should get a person to change his thoughts about what he wants to paint.

“Paint more positively!” “Instead of painting THIS, paint THAT.”

But the results from such an approach yield disappointing results.

Instead, you need to acquaint a person, more thoroughly, with his creative power. You need to have him do things (exercises and techniques) that put him, more consciously, in the driver’s seat of his own power. That’s been my approach.

When you do that, the person can undertake a personal revolution of a kind. He can feel and experience more energy, he can use more energy, he can tap into his imagination, he can see wider realities, he can create in ways he’s forgotten about, he can see, first-hand, that problems are just one “mode” or style of creating. Because he’s operating at the core of his own being and power.

There is a guideline here: when a person is creating with enough power, and knows he is, he will, by his own choice, find deeper desires he wants to fulfill—and he will create that fulfillment in the world.

At that point, the “negative” is just a vaporous illusion that breaks up and disintegrates like the plot of an old story he doesn’t want to tell anymore, because he’s bored with it.

That’s all it ever was.

It was a piece of HIS art, and HE tossed it aside because HE was ready for more, because HE could do much more, because HE took charge of his own creative power.

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

SAVING THE PEA

AUGUST 20, 2011. This is a culture that unalterably believes in endless fairy-tale progress and the preservation of things down to the last dress of the last doll a child played with in her cradle.

Which is why the culture has spawned such an absurd and puerile version of psychology.

People take every destruction as a gross insult. EVERYTHING MUST BE SAVED.

If you want to make a good living, go into the storage-locker business. You’ll always have a steady supply of customers.

If you eat a plate of peas, save the last pea, put it in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer. Someday you might want to eat it or just look at it and remember the time you ate the plate of peas.

It really gets interesting when a person wants to preserve the pattern of his life, even though he’s unhappy with it. It’s a “thing” so, automatically, it has to be saved.

I once met a sandal-clad therapist at a party. He asked me, “If you could tell me every thought you have, express every feeling you ever had, without fear of recrimination, would you become a patient?”

An interesting conversation-opener-sales-pitch. I said, “If I were to tell you every thought I have, it would take ten billion years.”

“Why is that?” he said.

“Because I invent them.”

For him, that was a puzzler.

I guess he thought all thoughts were in a metal container you saved in a storage locker, and you could just unpack them and play them back.

In my consulting practice, I work to take the coat of shellac off existing “saved” reality, because, placed in the correct perspective, reality is more like taffy. It can be sculpted into many shapes. It can be invented at the drop of a hat. This isn’t just theory, it’s real.

Saving isn’t really a bad thing until it becomes extreme, until the person wants to preserve his own private status quo, even though it’s not making him happy.

People do a risk analysis—they weigh the dissatisfaction they feel about their own status quo against what the risk might be if they step out of the shadows and begin a new kind of life—a life that would fulfill their deepest desires.

They add up both sides of the ledger and decide where the lesser risk is. Of course, when you use comparative risk as your only standard, you’re pretty much into saving the status quo.

In my articles, my consulting practice, and my audio seminars, I’m building a visible foundation for the second choice—a life lived in pursuit of fulfillment of deep desire.

That’s where the magic shows up.

It’s not really in the pea in the bag in the freezer.

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

POWER AND MAGIC

AUGUST 18, 2011. The power to manifest deep desire and make it come true in the world is not a timid thing. It does not come walking with its hands in its pockets full of self-effacing apologies.

This power is not aching for compromise. It is not trying to please everyone everywhere and gain acceptance from the group.

This power is a force.

With that as a prelude, some people would conclude I am talking about a thing that is intrusive, immoral, overbearing, and decidedly anti-social. Against all norms.

But actually, this power (magic) would never step on the freedom of another person. It has no truck with that. It doesn’t attempt to diminish or cow anyone.

And as an incidental spillover effect, it benefits other people.

The accelerating socialization of planet Earth, in which the population is taught to be one mass of “people giving up everything to serve each other,” is, at bottom, an agenda of control over the individual, and so naturally propaganda is going to be employed to convince one and all that power, any kind of personal power, is bad.

When I consult with a client in my practice, I’m fully aware that, sooner or later, we’re going to meet up with the issue of power. And more than simply a topic to discuss, power needs to be created and experienced.

To do anything else is to detour around a high mountain and pretend it isn’t there.

Power has many features, and one of its side effects is its ability to act as a kind of air-blower, cleaning out the dust, cobwebs, blocks, and doldrums of a lifetime. It literally rejuvenates the cells of the body and the electromagnetic field around the body.

Power has its paradoxes, too. The more of it you have, the less you need, in order to make things happen.

Here’s a rough metaphor to explain power as it rises to the level of magic:

Joe is taking an acting class. The teacher is having the students break up into pairs and do the same short scene from a play. Joe brings off his scene perfectly. He knows his lines, he doesn’t miss a beat. Yet each time he does the scene, the teacher doesn’t gush with praise. Joe is puzzled. Finally, one day, it all comes to him. What’s missing is sufficient depth of feeling. He’s giving a very clean performance, but he isn’t projecting the twists and turns of feeling his part requires. So that is what he works on, and lo and behold, he discovers something about himself. He can inject deeper and deeper levels and layers and energies of emotion into his performance. And when he does, he comes alive. He experiences being alive in a way he hasn’t ever felt before. His whole world and space opens up for him. He’s got energy running through his body. It’s as if his cells have been eagerly waiting for this moment. He knows what efficiency is all about, but this is way beyond that. He’s crossed a line. He’s broken through. Some sort of abundance is flooding into his veins. He hasn’t solved a problem consisting of numbers and equations. He’s blown the walls off his boundaries.

And if, in that moment, you asked him whether he felt power, he would say yes, without hesitation. It wouldn’t need any thought. If you asked him to describe this power, he might say it was the exhilarating confidence that he could use and direct and even inhabit great energies to move in any direction he decided to go, toward any objective.

He might say this was genuine illumination.

He might say he could now project his subjective world into the physical world.

He might say this was magic.

And he would be right.

It’s a new leap along the great road of magic.

Power, as it rises to higher levels, paradoxically acquires a “centered fluidity,” an ability to manifest the fulfillment of individual desire and, simultaneously, spill over with spontaneous generosity.

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

How does a life change?

The energy

by Jon Rappoport

August 17, 2011

Some years back, I considered trying to come up with a name for my consulting work with private clients. I eventually decided it didn’t matter. I didn’t need a name for it. But one idea was: ENERGY CONSULTING.

I want to explain why that fit. Stay with me on this, because it’s the difference between things remaining as they are and changing for the better.

A person tends to “gather up his own life” and construct its boundaries and possibilities in his own mind. It’s like taking a snapshot of life and pinning it to the wall and saying: THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE IS. IT COULDN’T BE ANYTHING ELSE.

And when he does that, he builds a thought-form that tells him where he can go and what he can do and where he won’t go and what he won’t do.

In my consulting work, I come across this.

I once had a client who was very enthusiastic about our work. In each session, he would come across new ideas and resolve to put them into action. However, he never did put even one idea into action. It was as if these new possibilities were bouncing off something already set in his mind. And that something was, literally, a thought-form he had built years earlier, for the purpose of defining his life.

This thought-form operated as a trampoline. It repelled anything new.

In this sense, a person can have his own private status quo. No matter what he does, no matter what he says, things will remain the same.

You can call the thought-form a mask, a wall, a fortress—you can call it anything you want to. But it doesn’t budge. If a piece of it comes loose, it is rebuilt quickly. Workers show up with remarkable speed and re-set the bricks.

But then problems develop. All sorts of problems. Physical, relationship, emotional, spiritual…

Why? Because if your life stays the same, at some point it doesn’t work.

Which then means you will become preoccupied with solving problems. And that equals endless distractions.

If you want to see this, as an analogy, played out on a group scale, look at the so-called the US National Security State. All its branches, its procedures, its protections, its research programs, its surveillance, its intrusions, its spies, its need for empire building, and so forth and so on. Problems? They never end. Solutions? They never end.

Well, this is what happens to a person’s life. As a result of keeping that thought-form in place, that configuration that defines his life, the person will experience many problems. And those problems will require solutions…and on and on it goes. He will keep bringing more and more elaborate solutions on board, until finally his life looks like a problem-solving machine that can’t quite keep up.

Into this, all of this, I drop a liquid called imagination.

And the work then involves bringing the person on to a new plateau where solving problems isn’t the prime directive.

Instead, a new shining direction is chosen, in which imagination and power play the central role.

Of course, the old thought-form is still there.

So I give the person exercises to do. These exercises acquaint him with using energies he’s never used before.

And in that process, he begins to realize HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO LIVE HIS OLD LIFE.

HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO MAINTAIN HIS STATUS QUO.

HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO RUN HIS PROBLEM-SOLVING MACHINE.

HE HAS EXCESS ENERGY. LOTS AND LOTS OF IT.

THIS is how life changes.

A person realizes he has more energy than he thought he had.

You see, in order to keep bowing at the feet of his thought-form, the thing that tells him what to do and what not to do, the thing that hems him in, he needs to expend a certain amount of energy.

Staying the same requires a “steady maintenance dose” of energy. And the person intuitively knows this.

He believes he’s living a zero-sum game. He puts just enough energy into maintaining that thought-form to keep everything the same. And then he gets? His life as it is.

SO HE CONCLUDES THE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE ENERGY HE HAS ON HAND IS ALL THE ENERGY HE’LL EVER HAVE.

But suppose one day he shows up with 100 tons of new energy?

This is new, this is different.

Because ENERGY IS THE THING THAT WILL CONVINCE A PERSON HE CAN LIVE A NEW LIFE.

If he has an abundance of energy, he’ll offload that thought-form that’s been holding him a straitjacket.

Because he sees he can go farther than the thought-form can take him. He has the energy to do it.

Energy is the proof.

That’s what, subconsciously, he’s been waiting for and hoping for.

When I saw this in action with clients, I knew I was on to something.

A few of those exercises are contained in my audio seminar, The Transformations.

Finding new energy is like finding a gold mine.

Until that happens, people with a tight, restraining thought-form will keep bouncing new possibilities off it into the air and walking away and letting those great new ideas fall on the ground.

Energy is the key.

There are ways to restore it and expand it.

Fuel (energy) was the key to the great leap forward in rocket science, and it’s the missing piece in the leap forward in life.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.