Beyond the Deep State

by Jon Rappoport

November 12, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)

These are wide-ranging quotes from my work-in-progress, The Underground.

“The famous American mystic, Edgar Cayce, used to do readings for patients while he was lying down in a state superficially resembling sleep. Perhaps you could say he dreamed the solutions to their problems. This is not entirely different from what the artist does. He dreams in ways that unhook him from the whole System in which we live. He dreams of solutions to problems that don’t yet exist. The Deep State is secretly devoted to boundaries, beyond which the mind is not supposed to go. Because Beyond is where freedom and power live. They don’t live like some sort of principled architecture. They live like great rivers, and you can travel on them forever.”

“The System in which we live is a kind of mutual admiration society: each interconnected piece confirms all the other pieces. People take this as ‘proof’ that the System is correct. What a marvelous delusion! But remove one piece, look at it, examine it closely, turn it over in your hands, notice its flaws, and the whole System trembles, because here is an element that doesn’t fit. Suddenly, it triggers a circuit-breaker. The lights go out. In the darkness, you discover you have night vision. You are able to see things you’ve never seen before. For example, the System’s skeleton. It is a kind of rigging; welded shapes thrown up to block off open space, endless space of the psyche that holds the potential for creations never before conceived, against which the skeleton is an old fatuous scarecrow in a churchyard…”

“The Deep State is a concoction of shadow deals among men that end up in the morning news, but in an entirely different form. Heroes and villains in the news are there to satisfy the public hunger for one kind of story, while the men in the shadows want their own sort of story…”

“It’s hard to imagine a time before history began piling up like a layer cake. I’m not talking about primitive periods; quite the opposite. I mean epochs of great sophistication and art and science—but with no particular impetus toward recording events. Centralization in general had not yet taken hold. There were many branches and rivers of learning. History really began when profound and secret deal-making began. History was invented as a means of covering that up.”

“At some point I decided I would be a fool if I wrote only for today. I also had to write for the future, and not simply the near-future. Time is not a straight line. It grows in many directions. Only when humans become robots operating at the behest of empires does time appear as one moving stripe. I’ve asked myself, why bother to crack open illusions if so many people want to embrace them? There is no Sunday school answer to that question. But there is exploration. There is a fleet of ships you can send out, and they go to many places. The only reason you would hold the fleet back is sheer and obstinate laziness. Otherwise, you send, and you go. The future is there. Nothing is decided. The glazed mind stays behind. And where he stays is fascism: control over details and more details. I make forays into details, in order to expose ongoing crimes. But that is a visit. Where I live, and where many other people secretly live, is in the undecided and entirely open future, which is as long as you want to make it.”

“The Deep State has no poetry, and that is the most important thing to understand about it. It has no poetic rhythms, and therefore it drives itself mad. It has technicians, and as they move closer to becoming full-fledged robots, they seek to make humans over in that image. I’m here to tell you that many people who consider themselves rebels against the State are actually expressions of it. They think in solid blocks. They organize and over-organize. They search for one hyper-rational solution after another, digging themselves deeper into cold space. They’re geometricians in their own prisons. They embrace the underlying matrices of those they consider their mortal enemies.”

“Logic and rational analysis are indispensable tools, when you need them, when they are called for. But there is something else in the human psyche, and it has no easy definition. It is the impulse to reach out through time, beyond time, to ideas and feelings and images that feed back to the soul an endless series of circumstances and inventions that have no counterpart in highly organized and centralized society. Great artists tap into that ocean. They tap into and create that ocean. They surpass all so-called ‘laws of the mind.’ You could say they are pointing to enormous decentralization, where power rests with the individual, who is not a citizen, not a member, not a piece, not a cog, but unique. Each individual, unique, if he wants to be.”

“Build a better organization to take over from the old organization? And this is the future we’re supposed to embrace with caterwauls of enthusiasm? This is the best we have to offer? You want an example of mind control? That would be mind control in its most precise form. Ignorance is the idea that you can take one oppressive structure and replace it with the same architecture, but drained of all malicious content. The architecture was the problem all along.”

“Let’s say, theoretically, a full investigation of the Deep State would take you 1000 miles. But there is a limiting factor. Once you pass a certain point, say, 500 miles, you become so wrapped up in details that you lose your own spontaneous life-energy. It drains away. You become the captive of your own investigation. And there is another thing. Beyond that 500-mile border, what you’re really dealing with is your own perception. That becomes the true subject, because the Deep State is doing everything it can to alter and shrink the dimensions of perception. So now your subject and intent should be: what can I do to expand my vision? My vision of what is possible. My vision of my own creative force. My vision of my own limitless access to the poetic nature of consciousness, freed from the platitudes of fools and buffoons. You know, even the word ‘freedom’ can be a platitude. And it is, when it is carried forward by humans who, unknown to themselves, view life as a series of blocks. They pick out one block and hold it up, as if it were a shining pair of wings. But a block doesn’t fly. It can’t. Holding it aloft can build a few muscles, but that’s all. Strongmen in a circus aren’t going to lead us or themselves out of the labyrinth, the System, the Deep State. They’re going to recreate yet another fascism, no matter what they call it.”

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.

The rule of law, language, and the invention of fact from fiction

Making solid bodies from vaporous ghosts

by Jon Rappoport

June 9, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

This piece is about how language is used in the matrix. Here I present notes from a work-in-progress, The Underground:

“Previously, I have established that psychiatry, a government-protected group, exists on the basis of pseudoscience. None of the 300 officially certified mental disorders has a defining laboratory test for diagnosis. Instead, committees of psychiatrists meet and consider clusters of behaviors, group them, and assign labels, which are arbitrary nouns: bipolar, clinical depression, ADHD, and so on. Because people feel they may ‘have these conditions,’ they accept the unproven assertion that they are suffering from ‘a chemical imbalance’ in the brain. By and large, the public resents interference with this faith-based conviction.

“Psychiatric researchers use terms like ‘breakthrough’, ‘possible link’, ‘enormous progress’, ‘emerging theory’, all of which are fictional. These words don’t denote authentic science; they are advertisements. Prostitutes trolling for grant money.”

“The government has no legal basis for supporting the pseudoscience called psychiatry. It arbitrarily issues licenses to practice. These licenses merely express a preference for one kind of diagnosis and drugging. With the same degree of legal propriety, licenses could be granted to card readers, astrologists, dowsers, and channelers. However, the government has no legal basis for issuing permission to any group that diagnoses mental states. In this area, the word ‘license’ is a fraud.”

“Currently, the federal government, through its trade representatives, is negotiating a secret 12-nation treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Since the US Congress must vote in favor of the TPP in order for it to pass, the term ‘secret treaty’ is a self-contradiction. Congress does not legally vote on measures whose contents are secret. Staging such a vote is a crime. All Representatives and Senators who participate are acting outside their defined duties and responsibilities and are committing a major felony. Citizens have no obligation to accept the vote or the legitimacy of those who cast a vote.”

“The notion that government can invent a term, fail to define it clearly, and yet use it to adopt and legally enforce draconian measures, is a promoted illusion. Unfortunately, most people accept the illusion. Take the term “National Security.” Its definition is sufficiently vague to render it useless. Yet government invokes it every day and acts on it. Refusing to clarify it in any given situation, and refusing to justify its use automatically takes government out of the realm of ‘Republic’ or even ‘Democracy’, and into the realm of Autocracy.”

“Case law, precedent, and the Constitution rely on language, and language relies on definition of terms. However, lawyers (in and out of government) depend on vague terms, in order to make their living. They can argue about meanings, change meanings, ‘update’ meanings, in an endless debate billed at hourly wages.”

“A proper characterization of government work would sound something like this: ‘A US Senator, John Smith, acting outside his Constitutional description and therefore surrendering his role as a legitimate elected representative, cast an illegal vote for a Treaty whose language has yet to be fully revealed, because “National Security,” a term vague enough to be useless, has been invoked to maintain the secret contents of the Treaty which is, owing to its secrecy, no Treaty at all. Senator Smith could seek psychiatric help for his “condition”. However, no defining scientific test exists for any so-called psychiatric disorder, all such disorders being invented fictions utilizing non-scientific terms.’”

“We all use terms which are pure illusions, vague enough to be useless, or self-contradictory. We could, on occasion, preface these terms with an “f”, to denote “fiction” and remind ourselves who and what we’re dealing with. For example: ‘Citing fNational Security, fCongressman John Smith explained why he couldn’t discuss the terms of the fTPP in public. fPresident Obama defended his need for fFast Track Authority, stating that famendments to the fTreaty would stall and disrupt fnegotiations.”

“Notice that many fictional terms turn out to be nouns. This is no accident. Nouns denote people, places, and things. The invention (or gross distortion) of people, places, and things serves the function of expanding the number of signposts populating the map of consensus reality. Thus, ‘writing an endless work of fiction’ becomes ‘describing what exists’.

“There is a range of diseases whose names are fictions, because no known cause has been identified. Parkinson’s, for instance, is said to have several types. Idiopathic, meaning the cause is not known, and secondary, which is usually ascribed to the effects of various toxins. The secondary form should be called ‘poisoning’, which is not a disease. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, whereas his condition should be labeled: ‘hit too many times by Joe Frazier’.”

“If you look up the official definition of autism, you’ll see there is no definitive test that diagnoses it. Instead, there is a menu of behaviors. Therefore, how can the US government claim there is no causative connection between vaccines and autism? Parents seeking government compensation after their children have been damaged by vaccination (happy child withdraws from the world, doesn’t speak, etc.) are in a quandary. If they claim their children have ‘autism’, the government will refuse payment. If, however, the parents claim their children have ‘encephalopathy’, which is a more general (and uselessly vague) term for ‘brain disease’, the parents stand a chance of compensation. All this word manipulation is a cover to obscure the fact that children are severely damaged by vaccines—and that’s what the label should be: ‘damaged by vaccination’. It’s simple, it’s accurate, it’s an unmistakable characterization.”

“The father of General Semantics, Alfred Korzybski, stated that humans have the unique ability of ‘time-binding’. By that he meant the capacity to pass down, to future generations, gained knowledge, and also to generate higher and higher levels of abstraction. Additionally, Korzybski famously pointed out a chronic misunderstanding: “The map is not the territory.” In other words, a series of connected symbols referring to objects or processes in the physical world is not the same thing as those objects and processes. Add to that the following: untold numbers of fictional terms represented as fact are transmitted from one generation of humans to another. The overall result? A titanic piling up of inherited language falsely pretending to describe reality. That language forms a networked perception which is entirely misguided.”

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 OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Deeper investigations: notes from The Underground

by Jon Rappoport

May 22, 2015

Read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed.

The Underground is a work-in-progress. I wrote some of the material in preparation for my three Matrix collections.

The following excerpts are about lessons learned during 30-plus years of investigating false realities:

“Living in a virtual bubble can be interesting, especially when you’re not aware of it. The question is, how extreme can a bubble be? How much of what we think of as reality can actually be the stuff of a bubble? Most people want to say a little bit of this and that is virtual and the rest is absolutely authentic. That’s as far as they want to go. But every bubble has its own space and time. This means space and time are far from exclusive, far from singular, far from absolute…”

“The Labyrinth is where most people are. They live their lives walking through paths that circle around to places they’ve already visited. They experience, over and over, a relatively small number of emotions. They think they need a map to escape. But a map is what got them into the Labyrinth in the first place. A map is a system. To leave the maze, they need something beyond systems.”

“Investigating a false reality has levels. The deeper you go, the closer you come to the basic assumptions that underpin a system. You need to examine those assumptions, those first principles, and discover in what sense they are false. When you understand that, all the dominoes begin to fall. The structure collapses. Then you see the enormity of the cover-up. You see the art of propaganda in full flower. You grasp how false realities are built from the bottom to the top.”

“Imagination is more than a tool. It colors all of consciousness. It involves itself with the understanding that What Already Exists is just a way-station into the future, and that future is open, without limits. Somebody may have already invented the future for everybody else, but he can be derailed, he can be superseded.”

“Look at a structure you have an intuition about. Now begin digging down into it. Think about the weirdest possible revelation you could uncover. The one nobody would believe. It’s possible you’re sniffing on the right track. For example, governments announce a new epidemic caused by a virus. And you eventually find out that this virus has never been found in a single human being. This has happened to me.”

“Painters like Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, and Redon understood that what they inventing was at least as real as what people took to be reality. The painters understood that, but they didn’t talk about it. They didn’t express their insights in such bold terms. They realized it would open them up to intense ridicule. From whom? There is a large group on planet Earth who functions as the Guardians of Reality; and then there is a much larger group, the dupes of the Guardians. These two groups buy and sell Ordinary Reality.”

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 emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.

by Jon Rappoport

May 9, 2015

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Here are quotes from my work-in-progress, The Underground. I wrote this material in the lead-up to putting together my second collection, Exit From The Matrix.

“Solutions to private problems and public problems require the ability to think things through, logically, and to reject what is unworkable or biased—but above and beyond that, a person needs to be able to imagine solutions that haven’t been tried before. He can’t keep asking other people to invent solutions for him. This is the hardest lesson. The habit of demanding that others come up with answers, that others find a way out of the tunnel—this habit is based on the assumption that one’s own power of imagination is grossly limited, which is a lie. You might say it is the central lie.”

“The world says defect from your own power. Never find out what it is. Assume it isn’t there. The world says all life is about the species, not about the individual. The world says you should use every excuse in the book to define how small and helpless you are.”

“When propagandists find a good thing, a message that works, they pound on it, they keep hammering away. Family, group, family, group, community. On and on. They never promote the message called The Individual with the same intensity. That would be counter-productive to what they are trying to accomplish: group identity; and amnesia about being an individual.”

“Civilization continues to erode and decay, as individual power is put on the back burner. But that doesn’t give the individual a license to surrender. If others want to give up, that’s their business. The individual, instead, finds new frontiers for his power, for his capacity to invent reality.”

“A confession of helplessness doesn’t earn you a gold star on the blackboard. There is no gold star or blackboard. There is you, expanding the scope and range of your own power. And what is that power? It comes in two forms or venues. First, there is the ability to apply logic to events and information; to think rationally from A to B to C; to analyze. And second, there is imagination, the capacity to conceive and then invent realities that would never otherwise exist in the world.”

“Individual power doesn’t need to make rigid distinctions between what is done for self vs. what is done for others. Social engineers and propagandists make those separations. You exercise your creative power to fulfill what you deeply desire; and that process will, in fact, spill over and affect others in a positive way. It will lift them up. It will remind them that they, too, have power.”

“Logic and analysis keeps you from being sent down wrong roads, keeps you from buying official reality. Logic also reminds you that you have a mind. Logic is a road that can take you deeper and deeper into more basic fallacies that underpin organized society and its branches of knowledge. Logic tells you there are always more fundamental questions to ask and answer. There are levels of lies. The deeper you go, the more confident you become. The more powerful. Logic also lets you know when you’re projecting basic pre-judgments over a whole landscape and neglecting to look at the details.”

“Despair about the condition of society and the world is not a function of your power. It’s a moment of reflection, or it’s yet one more excuse for inaction and passivity. “What can we do about it all?” is a misdirected question. The actual target of that question is you. You’re asking yourself. And with your power, you can find an answer.”

“Passivity is a disease. It spreads and takes over. It makes strong people weak, and weak people demented. The passive life is precisely and exactly a life without power. The cure is a life lived with power.”

“In case there is any misunderstanding, the ability to help others and defend them from oppression is part and parcel of your own power. How could you help them without your power? How could you accomplish anything at all in that direction? How would denying your own power possibly result in a good outcome? And most importantly, it is through imagination that you can devise new ways to expose and reduce oppression, ways that haven’t been thought of before.”

“As society continues to decay, more and people attack individual power and place their faith in a program that reduces every human to a lowest common denominator of dependence on some controlling entity. This article of faith is surrender.”

“Some people want to say that power is a neutral object that can be used for good or evil. That isn’t true. Your power is alive. It’s personal. It’s stunningly energetic and dynamic. It connects with your deepest understanding of what is true and good and right. But it never sacrifices itself on the altar of what others insist is good and true and right. It never deserts you for an abstract ideology someone else has devised. That ideology was formulated, in fact, to separate you from your power.”

“It takes great power and energy for a person to bury his own power.”

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 emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.