Definitions of War

Forging a Path Through Chaos

It’s been as quiet a month at the Burning Bright blog as it’s been chaotic in the Info War, and, truth be told, the reason I haven’t put claws to keyboard in a few weeks is owing slightly less to the sheer madness my early 2024 schedule has been and slightly more to the fact that I’ve had some difficulty in picking just one cognitive direction to go in.

At this stage of the Info War, this community needs no true explanation or exploration of the various terms we use with interchangeable frequency.

We know what Fifth-Generation Warfare entails. We know we’re in a war both FOR and AGAINST the Collective Mind, of which each and all of our minds are a part. We know that Psychological Operations have been carried out (illegally) by some parties and (legally) by others since time immemorial, and that the practice has ramped up in recent years due to the congruent advent of Trumpism and the America First movement with the parallel fall of the Deep State’s System of Systems.

We’ve even explored the framework and mechanisms of said System in depth, and will likely continue to for months and years ahead.

All of which is to say, if you’re here, at this stage of the game, an active participant in the dissolution of the Dance of Demons that is the Deep State Death Spiral, I think now is as good a time as any to take a pause, take a beat and rather than composing yourself for the battles to come—and rest assured, there ARE battles to come—instead look back at the battles you’ve been through, and ruminate on the core, foundational, observable reality that, if you’re still in it—whatever IT is—then you’ve managed to keep your head when many about you have lost their own … and that makes you an unconquerable and thus, an incorruptible jewel of the awakening that is now as inevitable as [their] demise.

Such were my thoughts as I flew home from a recent conference I attended at the invite of Badlands Media in Irvine, California—the third such conference I’ve had the honor of participating in and speaking at, and one that truly began to solidify for me that, while my role and each of your roles in this awakening are as changeable as the minds that make us up, they are also vital, necessary and—I believe now more than ever—only the beginning of where this movement is going as we attempt to not just tear down the remnants of an ancient Sumerian death cult that has wielded key systems of societal control over us for generations, but to build something new in its place.

And that something new happens to look an awful lot like something old—like the American Republic we hold up as a unifying principle as much as a half-remembered dream. Like kingdoms of heaven on earth that may have once existed, but whose stories continue to inform the hopes and perhaps the core destinies of those who would strive to make it so again.

What I took out of my one-on-one interactions with so many bright and beautiful, awakening minds on a coast entirely alien to me—and whose grave sins have been codified and translated through the illusory vectors of informational control that make up the culture war—is the fact that there are not only so many more of us than [they] could ever hope to stop, but that the key reason we’re winning the Info War, the Mind War and yes, the Soul War, and that the Great Awakening is as inevitable as it is serendipitous, is that now, we’re beginning to understand that we’re not alone, that we’ve never been alone … and most importantly, that we never will be alone again.

I have described this community—Truthers, Anons, Sovereign Spirits or any number of names assigned to whatever it is we form together—as a decentralized collective, and to that I hold.

In California, a land that has come under the collectivist thumb of the controllers more so than perhaps any other in recent decades, this description and definition was codified and cemented in my mind, as I didn’t meet a single patriot I would have described as akin to another in style, persuasion or personality … and yet, there was an unmistakable energy, frequency, or perhaps language encoded into each awake and awakening mind I came into contact with, and that I witnessed come into contact with one another.

What’s more, while the digital age has brought with it the remarkable ability for me to reach you and for you to reach me, and for us to help tear down and build up through vectors of abstract power projection previously unavailable to us, it is both sobering and gratifying to be reminded that direct, human connection has the ability to spark new ideas, new motivations and, most importantly, renewed hope than any cognitive, intellectual or meditative exercise alone.

Suffice to say, my experiences this month have both motivated me to continue to project whatever abstract power, motivation, education and inspiration I might be able to provide, to continue to engage with the Info War in as direct-path a manner as I can in order to both discern the enemy’s moves and our rapid counters, but also to rededicate myself to maintaining and forging anchored connections to the corporeal, to the real, and to the tangible in my personal life, and in my connections to the fellow man we are ostensibly in this to both awaken and perhaps, in some small way, to lead into a brighter future.

And if each of us in this decentralized collective can dedicate ourselves to this forming vision of forging ahead while reaching behind, rising above while tethering below—dichotomous and bicameral endeavors that will take different forms based on the respective abilities and passions of each mind in the awakening—then I think we might be able to form a mighty and lasting thing out of the ‘frame and support’ vision first projected to us in the Q Drops, and later solidified through the darkest days of the Mind War.

While drained in terms of corporeal energy from recent experiences, both in terms of life balance and illness, it has been rendered absolutely clear to me that my friend

Just Human

is absolutely right in his assertion that our psychological and spiritual cups can be refilled in each other’s presence, not through agreement, but through the unified commitment to active discernment and forward progress through American cultural maximalism.

And perhaps disagreement is where to kick off some call to momentum as we head into a year that, for many, marks some sort of ‘ending,’ even as it heralds a new beginning.

In Irvine, as I participated on and observed panels spanning everything from election systems and participation in them (or lack thereof,) to financial maximalism through partial or total reform, or even rejection of systemic and societal norms, the most hearty disagreements on stage and within the audience in attendance and online demonstrates the beauty and the strength of this movement, which is a perfect paradox comprised of more power than I think any of us can truly appreciate alone.

The hegemon, after all is something we are unified against, and sometimes, that hegemon puts on the skin suit of a movement, political ideology or even spiritual belief system we’re predisposed toward, which is the type of subversion we cannot fall prey to again, and that we can only avoid by recognizing the effort in the first place.

This is why it is often far easier to recognize and begin the process of stripping away or excising lies than in determining truth, with the latter being revealed over time more so than discovered with immediacy and finality.

After all, as I argued in my first-ever piece at Burning Bright, each of us has been gifted with an innate ability to recognize lies more so than truth, and in the act of exposing these, we burn them up in the light of our awareness, and strip away layers of falsity so that the melting permafrost of unreality that has been laid over the truth begins to melt away, revealing that which always was, but that we have been programmed to forget.

The recognition of all this falsity often manifests in the form of conflict—direct and bold, projecting signal and noise out into the false reality to see what bits of ‘real’ it bounces off of, getting us ever closer to kernels of truth from which we can erect the beginnings of a future framework built on the real and that stands as a monument that both distorts the unreality of the system of systems while attracting more truth seekers into its orbit.

This process is the mechanism through which the Great Awakening marches on, and recalls

Chris Paul

’s ‘sifting’ concept, and if we have the fortitude to project psychological power, while understanding that that energy will reverberate, and then bounce back, usually changed in some way, then as long as we calibrate our minds to be both projectors AND receivers, this sifting, projection and absorption process creates a loop of change and distillation that can only result in further clarification and boosting of signal over noise, and that occurs on a Micro and Macro level simultaneously.

By cultivating this understanding and this manifestation, I believe each of us can transform ourselves into batteries of both awareness and awakening, both taking in the energies and stories of the False Reality while changing them through the conscious direction of our minds and spirits in order to distill, create and eventually … RADIATE.

And that mindset that is also a philosophy will be of the utmost importance to cultivate ahead of the most chaotic year we’ve witnessed … since the last one.

So, rather than delving into the current persuasion of the Info War in this first piece of 2024, I would implore you each to leave the details aside for just a moment—perhaps an hour, or even a day—as the chaos of the sifting, shifting battlefield will remain when you’ve returned, and with a mind rededicated and perhaps reforged in key places for the task at hand, and ruminate on the prospect that the Info War, the Strange War and the Shadow War are disparate and yet, parallel and even converging Micros that describe the ultimate Macro of all, which is the ultimate Story:

Us vs. them. Good vs. evil. Light vs. dark.

There are many ways of engaging with these wars, and for me, the cypher I am both primed and perhaps qualified (if there is such a thing) to discern is the War of Stories refrain I continue to write about and attempt to distill. That said, a recent comment on this publication raised a good point of consideration, asking at what point we risk ‘losing’ awakening minds due to the tension inherent in the story we are being told and participating in simultaneously.

It's a reasonable sentiment expressed and fear codified, and I responded that the climax phase of any story tends to ratchet exponentially; in other words, I believe we’re closer to mass inflection points than most in this community do, which is not the same thing as saying we’re near ‘the end’ of the story. This also gives us some insight into how precarious the balance between whiplash and apathy is that patriots or even divine powers must walk if we’re to come through the awakening era better off and more numerous than in the realm of dreaming we’re attempting to leave behind.

But that is where each and all of us come in, as we can not only be awakening minds, but minds that awaken … through radiation. We can be batteries of hope and discernment, leaving aside all other thoughts and faith-based ruminations on plans.

What is my goal at Burning Bright, then?

In the ending of each of my pieces, I somewhat instinctively appeal to Truth, Discernment and Logic-Based Positivity.

But what does each mean?

The first is also the last, in that truth, we must recognize, isn’t somewhere in between. It’s inherent. And yet, we must all acknowledge that, while that’s undoubtedly the case, the very fact that this community disagrees as often as we agree is evidence enough that the Truth isn’t always as plain and obvious as we’d like it to be. In this pillar, then, Truth isn’t so much a concept, but logic-based faith incarnate. It is the ultimate, universal and yes, divine unknown that we must always strive to know.

And it is in the striving where we find meaning, purpose and ultimately, happiness.

This is why we can’t ever allow enemy subversion or even sensationalism within our own community to blind us and paralyze us into the obsessive tracking of one theater at the expense of others.

For example, while the looming, pregnant monolith of the 2024 election represents a projected ‘ending’ for many, if only because of the mass psychological tension inherent in it, I believe this is a self-defeating and reductive mindset to adopt in the midst of an Infinite Game, which is an infinite war … one that will stretch into eternity. One that is the point of it all, in my estimation.

General Steven Kwast, who moved among us once more this weekend in Irvine, echoed these sentiments when he delivered a steadying, signal-boosting message on the importance of discarding the idea of a Finite War, and embracing the Infinite Mindset that will be necessary to KEEP the Republic we hope to usher in once more.

He also discussed a version of the sovereign radiation concept I’m attempting to flesh out today.

This is the Process Paradigm, and it is buoyed and defined by that middle pillar I set out to erect in my own cognitive cypher—and it’s the most important pillar, that being Discernment.

Cognitive Intentionality. Direct-path reasoning.

Whatever you’d like to define the ranging into the unknown in order to make it known, the ranging onto the darkest paths to scatter light onto them, so that others might follow after. The plunging into the abyss so that we might unmake it, or else break its hold over each of us first and eventually, all of us.

We often learn the darkest truth from the outset of our journeys into awakening, which is that the presence of evil exists within the heart of Man, and so, from Man must it be burned away.

Sometimes, you have to go through the darkness to see the light. It’s a refrain that’s come to define the Awakening, and there’s nothing reductive about it, though there’s plenty poetic, and divine. Plenty human.

Which brings me to the third pillar, which is less about positivity in and of itself than it is about learning to Radiate that which you are, and that which you strive to become.

Logic-based positivity is earned, not projected. It radiates, attracting energy into its orbit flowing on the back of calibrated discernment, unearthing and defending truth while simultaneously repelling its antithesis. Discernment is cognition recalibrated, cognitive cyphers honed and remade, and it is both steady and malleable.

There is strength in movement, solidity in flexibility. And so, we must strive to be heterodox in framework and consideration while being orthodox in faith and morality, as I believe this allows for progression through regression to baseline … to reason … to logos, and to the recognition and breathless, fierce defense of the known.

This series of perfect paradoxes makes up the disparate, now unified minds of the ultimate perfect paradox that is the decentralized collective of the Anon world. And this collective thrives on the power of questions.

After all, as I have argued many times before, it is in the asking of questions where we might find that the answers were with us all along.

I put this concept in slightly more colloquial terms last week.

And so, what I set out to cultivate in my own cognitive cypher is the hunt for and defense of truth through the ruthless hunting of lies, and that can only be achieved through dedication to the conscious act of discernment, which cannot help but result in the radiation of a more positive self, and a more positive energy, which begets and creates more of its kind in the world around us.

This is the logic-based positivity I cling to and attempt to radiate, myself, which is a rather unwieldy term for faith, I suppose.

It is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and one that I would see fulfilled, even if it will never be over.

Discernment is the bridge between Truth and Positivity, Logic and Faith, and Discernment can be married to creation, and not cut off from it, for we are not machine men with machine minds and certainly not machine hearts.

We love. We err. We believe. We lose. We try.

In this movement, awakening is often treated as something one HAS gone through, when it is truly an endless, ongoing process—a way of life, rather than anything tied into empirical or temporal vectors and measurements. As the System of Systems is stretched to its logical breaking point through congruent paths of escalation and acceleration, ‘Shatterpoints’ emerge within the Collective Mind, of which each and every awakening mind is not only a part, but is one, incarnate.

And each shatterpoint is capable of creating more, poking more holes in the false reality until the bubble bursts in a brilliant, beautiful, kaleidoscopic and chaotic display of raw mass psychological energy … unreality made up of the stories that stitched it all together.

We all contain multitudes, after all. We all are multitudes. As I have said in the past, we are alone, together, and we are together, alone.

As we cultivate and level up our powers of discernment, then, we might see that those with the most difficult time in recognizing breaks in this reality are systemic thinkers, and yet, structure is not antithetical to awakening, as long as it is reduced to baseline … to foundation … to logos.

Thus, while it is almost impossible to discern baseline truth, and while passing through to the realm of awakening often results in the loss of horizon, and where even foundations are difficult to find and codify, it is in Man we must place our trust, and in God. It is in morality, goodness and the recognition that evil exists from which we must plant our individual, and collective flag, and venture out into the void … if we dare.

For the void is not a realm of darkness, but of infinite canvas onto which light can be called up and applied. It is a vast, expansive empty. A nothing that can be everything, if only we have the will to make it so.

We are each of us a story around which Micros that inform vast Macros spin out and coalesce.

We are both informed by and inform the Story of Stories, and our creative engines are our Change Engines, which might explain why an author better known for epic fantasy and genre fiction came to spend the majority of his waking hours in recent years penning esoteric and philosophical musings on the sociopolitical sphere far more frequently than cream-colored pages of adventure and striving against the forces of darkness … though I plan to return to those fantastical realms in the near future.

But then, you’ve seen the rub, haven’t you? The contradiction that’s not a contradiction?

We are in a story of good vs. evil. We know this, us more than most. And what better story to read, and to play a part in writing through the act of cognitive intentionality … through discernment, and through God-granted and human-honed reason?

What greater purpose could we cultivate? What higher calling could we answer?

Is it possible for us to cultivate a sense of gratitude to live in such chaotic, turbulent times as these? Is it possible for us to appreciate darkness, if only for its ability to help us define the light?

If you are in the habit of asking these questions … if they wake you up and lull you to sleep, animate the change engine that is the combination of your sovereign mind and spirit married, then you’re already well into the process of answering them.

The journey—as cliché as some might think it—IS the destination. The process IS the paradigm. It is in the striving to be that we find that we already are, and it is in the separation—the defection—from the system that we might locate the self, and each of us build castles of the mind with which to guard the soul.

This isn’t just political, even though it is. This isn’t just cultural, even though it is.

This is everything.

Each can be maximalist in different aspects and theaters, but we are all unified in the maximalist movement toward sovereignty. The absolute commitment to the absolution of tyranny in all its forms, and in all theaters of the individual and collective human theater.

Our maxim, then, is maximalism itself.

Our culture is our creed. Our mission is our lifestyle. Our spirit is our guide.

I don’t pretend to have all of the answers, or any of them. I have a lot of questions, and I attempt to explore them earnestly and honestly, and to do so using a movable cognitive cypher I continue to develop through my own directed intentionality and through constant interaction—and even cognitive conflict—with my peers, and yes, with each and every one of you.

So, if you get anything out of watching this process unfold, and following along with it, and if any of my observations provoke the movement of your own change engine within, then the effort is worthwhile, and I thank you for supporting this journey, as 2024 is already set up to be one for the ages.

Moving minds move one another, after all, and my mind has been moved by those that came before it, just as I hope it will move those that follow.

As one such eternal mind, Miyamoto Musashi wrote, ‘When one knows the way broadly, he can see it in all things.’

And to know the way broadly, you have to mold yourself into more than a passive, observing mind, but rather an active one. More than a thinker and even a doer … more than one who wields cyphers, but becomes them.

We are each of us constructing a paradigm through which to not just discern reality, but to project it.

In this world and in this war that is both the first war and the last, in this story it’s tied into that is both the first story and the last, there are many forms of power projection.

Be one.

Don’t try to define the war. Try to define your place within it.

Don’t try to make the world. Make yourself in it. And strive to make it better before you’ve left it.

Badlands is our attempt—my friends and me, my brothers and sisters in the awakening—at kickstarting that pathway. Burning Bright is mine.

But this process—this task—is never finished.

And I, for one wouldn’t have it any other way.

So, as you both anticipate and welcome the engineered, kaleidoscopic, beautiful chaos to come, I implore you to cultivate and animate the change engine within you—to become it—and, no matter how dark it gets before the dawn, to stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright, so that others might be drawn to your flame, and to spark a bit of hope of their own.

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