{"id":37217,"date":"2018-09-01T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37217"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:35:30","slug":"how-to-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37217","title":{"rendered":"How To Wake Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/09\/01\/how-to-wake-up\/\">How To Wake Up<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5182\" class=\"post-5182 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-enlightenment tag-spirituality\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-01-at-6.35.14-AM.jpg?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-01-at-6.35.14-AM.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-01-at-6.35.14-AM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-01-at-6.35.14-AM-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-01-at-6.35.14-AM-128x86.jpg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been putting off writing this article all year, but readers keep asking for it, and since I\u2019ve been writing about mass enlightenment a lot lately I figure I might as well slip it in now.<\/p>\n<p>It is a <a href=\"http:\/\/nonsymbolic.org\/PNSE-Article.pdf\">well-documented<\/a> fact that it is possible for the human organism to move into a far more healthy relationship with thought than the one which most people experience. This shift has been written about for as long as there has been written language, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nonsymbolic.org\/about\/\">scientists have been confirming its existence<\/a> using <a href=\"http:\/\/nonsymbolic.org\/information-for-the-participants\/\">modern studies<\/a> now. Spiritual enlightenment is real, and it is possible. It is possible for thought to take on a role as a useful tool that one can pick up and use in a wholesome way when it\u2019s needed and put down when it isn\u2019t, rather than being the writer, director and star of the entire show as is typical in human experience. If this is possible for the individual, it is possible for the collective.<\/p>\n<p>Our species is at an <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/humanity-is-deciding-if-it-will-evolve-or-die-1afb251fa15b\">evolve-or-die crossroads<\/a>. We will cease destroying our ecosystem and flirting with nuclear armageddon in the very near future, or we will go the way of the dinosaur. The reason we continue on our current trajectory is because a few sociopathic plutocrats have seized control of the dominant narratives we tell ourselves about what\u2019s going on in the world by <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/mass-media-is-the-enemy-of-the-people-like-the-cage-is-the-enemy-of-the-bird-aa1df731bcb0\">buying up the news media<\/a> people use to keep themselves informed. The plutocrat-controlled media manipulate the ways we think and vote to ensure that we will continue supporting the ecocidal, omnicidal, Orwellian status quo upon which the oligarchs have built their empire, instead of rising up and demanding a system that prioritizes human thriving and peaceful coexistence with each other and our environment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQgNrnWZVSI?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Wake Up I\u2019ve been putting off writing this article all year, but readers keep asking for it, and since I\u2019ve been writing about mass enlightenment a lot lately I figure I might as well slip it in now. It is a well-documented fact that it is possible for the human organism to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,20156,3214,512,2276,1779,570,12220,11034],"class_list":["post-37217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-enlightenment","tag-matrix","tag-media","tag-media-manipulation","tag-narratives","tag-news","tag-nuclear-armageddon","tag-plutocrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37218,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions\/37218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}