Monday, 11 May 2026

Christian Westbrook | From Ice Age Farmer To Unshadowed & The Incoming Engineered Omnicrisis

A deep dive into the engineered collapse of global supply chains and the technocratic shift toward biometric food rationing and digital energy credits.

OmnicrisisIce Age FarmerBiometric RationingDigital IDFood SecurityEnergy CreditsUnshadowed
By The Higherside Chats Free Show | 1h 19m listen | 16 chapters
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About this episode

Christian Westbrook, the researcher formerly known as Ice Age Farmer, returns to the public eye to detail the arrival of an engineered omnicrisis. Westbrook joins the program to reveal how the Washington Post and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue targeted his work on climate lockdowns, leading to his financial deplatforming and a harrowing personal battle with fluoroquinolone toxicity from the antibiotic Levakin. He argues that the current global oil supply shock is a deliberate precursor to a 2027 food crisis designed to force a transition into a biometric rationing system.

Industrial farmers in Australia and India report that diesel shortages and fertilizer plant shutdowns are already causing crops to rot in the fields, while the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts 20% food inflation will drive 50 million people into famine. These disruptions coincide with the rollout of Digital Energy Relief Credits and the European Union’s digital wallet for 400 million residents. In Sri Lanka and Mexico, QR-code fuel rationing and the elimination of cash at gas stations serve as the blueprint for a coming social credit grid where blockchain and AI track every resource from coffee beans to fish.

Christian Westbrook explains his transition to his new platform, Unshadowed, where he focuses on the biological reality of human movement and the metaphor of the ant colony. He emphasizes that while technocrats use the blow dryer of surveillance to force compliance, the only viable countermeasure is becoming a producer through rabbit husbandry, small engine repair, and the cultivation of nutrient-dense superfoods like Moringa. The conversation concludes with a look at the collective shadow work required to integrate transgenerational trauma in an era of occulted horrors.


CHAPTER 01 / 16 Discussion

Global Supply Chain Disruptions, Oil and Food Crises

Global supply chains are experiencing significant shockwaves due to erratic sanctions and strategic maneuvers on the grand chessboard. Economists identify the current situation as the largest oil supply shock in history, which is rapidly transitioning into a food crisis. Industrial farmers report that diesel shortages during key harvest periods have caused massive amounts of crops to rot in the fields, threatening food security for 2027.

supply chain· oil shock· food crisis· shadow government· industrial farmers

00:00 The planet's puppet masters almost surely have a plan There's clearly maybe something there beyond the realm of man And until we've thoroughly tested every last close-chested view I find the more we think we know, the less we really do Where would be without THC? Cause' we know they're lying to us just don't know to what degree Where would we be without THC? The ISI, Chatshow, Greg Carwood and company

00:40 Well, well, well. It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood from the Sunshine State I'm Greg Carlwood and while it seems that reality was leveling out there for a little while post-COVID The hidden hands of the shadow government have never truly been idle And we find ourselves right back intense and chaotic times without any real justification for it It just seems like the story is war because they can and as a result of the on again off again straight up her moose closure, erratic sanctions and more game theory movements on the grand chess board The shockwaves through the supply chain are quite significant. In fact, some economists and market watchers have said it's the largest oil supply shock in history and it is not even a solved problem yet! And this oil crisis is quickly becoming a food crisis as well with many industrial farmers saying the disruption in the oil market coincidentally came right during key harvests and many tons of crops rotted in dirt due to inability to simply access the diesel required to collect them

01:39 It doesn't feel too bad out there now, but the tail of the supply chain is quite long. This wartime posturing is just getting started and the alarm bells are beginning to sound from those in the know that for most of 2026 we're eating 2025's food But when farmers are saying this manufactured and unnecessary disruption to the usual flow devastated their yields this year what will we be eating in 2027? Good thing they're talking about a draft right Well, for these sorts of things I know no one better than the man behind the well-known Ice Age farmer moniker Christian Westbrook. He was a powerful and important voice during COVID and then seemed to just disappear. The curiosity speculation and concern for him only grew

CHAPTER 02 / 16 Discussion

Christian Westbrook, Reemergence and Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

Christian Westbrook, formerly known as Ice Age Farmer, returns after a multi-year absence to discuss his transition to a new platform called Unshadowed. He details how the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Washington Post targeted his work on climate lockdowns, leading to financial deplatforming by PayPal. Westbrook also reveals a personal health battle with fluoroquinolone toxicity caused by the antibiotic Levakin, which fundamentally altered his life and perspective.

christian westbrook· ice age farmer· fluoroquinolones· levakin· institute for strategic dialogue

02:21 But after what seemed to be several years of silence he has reemerged under a new branding on shadowed and i'm so glad to be talking to him again the great educator on the engineered omni crisis survival gardening guru an artist formerly known as ice age farmer christian welcome back my good man. Thank you greg that's quite the intro it's an honor and enjoy to be with you in your audience again thanks for having me yeah, man i know we have a ton of important things to highlight but We got a touch on your absence i probably had forty or fifty people ask me what happened to you as if im supposed to know because we did an interview once. What were already a semi paranoid community so it's not unjustified actually read your post on this but for those who didn't can we just get up brief update on what happened there, short so there is service story which is that there was a response from the system to the work i was doing so towards and they're

03:19 It did get bigger than I ever certainly expected. It was like 350k subscribers on YouTube and the views were pretty high, and then a bunch more in telegram and so forth. And so at some point I started getting some friction from my work. And then in particular there was a piece I did on climate lockdowns that got me solidly under the focus of a group called The Institute for Strategic Dialogue and they published a piece that identified me as one of the core risk to the climate change narrative. And sections of that were quickly lifted and then put into a Washington Post article, that article was then sent on to... It was pretty clear that the mechanism in the way it sprang into action I got sent to my employer and then I became a security risk at PayPal cancelling accounts and other financial institutions and various things that were done

04:13 And then of course the youtube channel was taken away and then the under the surface story is that there's a confluence of things this was just you know sort of the. Somewhat expectable response to work but it was also stuff going on my personal life and usually i wouldn't, dip it all into like medical stuff but I've actually been public about this because A, it's part of the way I'm dealing with myself and then B if I can help people avoid falling into the same situation then I want to do that. And so specifically here there was an antibiotic that I took It was Levakin its related to Ciprofloxacin and a whole family of they're called fluoroquinolones as it turns out many people are highly responsive to them in a very damaging way and so that really tore me apart

05:00 has very much changed the way I live my life in a lasting way. And so avoid those fluoroquinolones if you're able to at all, there are usually good substitutes. The net of all of these things was that basically I got pretty mad at God because here I was trying to do the right thing, right? Trying to be the change I wanted to see in the world and well Gandhi said it was going to be good if I just did...and and it didn't flow that way for me. So it really made over time, you know especially with the medical stuff it made me try to figure out what did I do wrong? Right. How did I mess up here and I think we'll talk about that more in this conversation because that also informs now some of the macro so my micro has sort of affected the way I view the macro and not fighting stuff as immediately and reactively but really trying to understand how am i taking a part in this and where is what I'm seeing in the outside world

05:55 In me and how do i know how to relate to it and a whole bunch of things so that was where i disappeared for a couple years there right on i appreciate that update n. I think a lot of times people realize we might wanna deliver information the people in me like doing that and we appreciate you know we hope it is appreciated but we don't always want to get so personal like, I want to have a personal life i don't want the show to be about me personally almost never ask guest about them personally it's about the research is about the work what's going on what actionable two people out there. When someone in our community goes missing, questions arise i know a lot of friction that i know about came from the telegram group where people were telling me that they would get banned or discouraged from asking about you personally and not only fuel the curiosity

06:45 But whatever who cares about telegram i'm glad you're healthy and i'm glad your back. I need to be addressed up front or they just would never leave me alone in the comments you know that and so. Let's get into the real meat so we're gonna talk about three things today the engineered crisis for being scared into the best way do prepare ahead of time and become a vital asset in your community, add the mental conditioning they've driven into us over many generations to limit our thinking and forget what this reality really is which is the Big part that you are looting to there with the benefits of what has happened from your absence you know your reemergence and the new tone and tenor and where you're going so.

CHAPTER 03 / 16 Discussion

Omni Crisis, Energy Infrastructure and Global Famine Risks

The "Omni Crisis" encompasses a series of engineered events including energy infrastructure failures and a transition toward climate lockdowns. In Australia, diesel shortages are already hindering wheat planting, while India has been forced to shut down fertilizer plants due to a lack of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates 20% food inflation next year, potentially driving 50 million people into famine.

omni crisis· fertilizer plants· india· australia· food inflation

07:31 These are all important and i think we're gonna jump around because the way the structure of the show is i don't want one of these aspects to be hidden behind a paywall entirely. Because they're on portent so maybe you can give us a broad overview of those three pillars of this and then we can dive into all that detailed notes i got on these things okay, does three things i think we know where sort of sensing that were on the verge of covid two point oh right with it as i said but the climate lockdowns That's flowing, of course from the situation in Iran informing like you said the biggest oil shock in history. The biggest energy crisis

08:09 It's not just flowing from the war. Anyone who is paying attention can also see energy infrastructure around the world blowing up randomly every day and it's a pretty clear message I would argue that is being sent when they make it that obvious, right? It's almost part of the revelation of The Method when they're like hey let's just totally make it obvious so anyone who is paying attention to this knows damn well what's going on And so that's going on and yeah that does as you also said flow directly into an energy crisis becomes a food crisis because as one Princeton professor of food systems says, we eat fossil fuels. Meaning that way that our food is grown and produced from the fertilizer to the use to the diesel powering the tractors, to the LNG heating the greenhouses in the Netherlands all about obviously flows from the energy system and so when there's a huge shock to the first that necessarily flows into the latter and we have already

09:03 Sadly, started to see that the accessible tales for those of us in English are coming out of Australia where the diesel shortages were already hit or miss around rural parts especially in West Australia. And that's where some of those more accessible stories of farmers saying I just can't get the gas that I need to get the crop out of the ground and I can't get the diesel I needed to plant my winter wheat crop and you know they say there is no shortage but it's already happening Australia is one of the few places that has already even acknowledged that they may need, and this was on the mainstream news. That they may need to start rationing food to keep things running but there are less linguistically accessible stories to us than speaking English in Asia especially right so India where they shut down the fertilizer plants because they don't have the LNG flowing in

09:53 they obviously didn't have fertilizer and that means that they've had to drastically reduce their rice planting. Even here in the US, it was a pretty broadly understood statistic relatively recently that 70% of farmers when surveyed said they couldn't get or couldn't afford the fertilizer that they needed for this year's planting and so yep like you said everything we're eating right now came from last year's harvest plays out that means there will be drastic food prices and indeed the food agriculture organization has said it's gonna be at 18 to 20 percent inflation on the food prices next year which is substantial in itself and does necessarily mean that there is I think they estimated some 50 million people are going to be driven into famine or not able to eat

CHAPTER 04 / 16 Discussion

Community Leadership, Survival Gardening and Rabbit Husbandry

Proactive measures such as planting high-calorie potato crops and raising rabbits or quail are presented as essential responses to the food crisis. Establishing these food pipelines allows individuals to become community leaders who can provide seed potatoes and protein to neighbors during shortages. This decentralized approach contrasts with technocratic control, emphasizing local adaptability over centralized bureaucratic management.

survival gardening· rabbits· potatoes· seed potatoes· community leadership

10:40 So yeah, so that there's a series of crises there. And then the other two things were our reaction to it you know being a community leader and then the mindset that has got us in this bind that we're in Yeah, so our reaction to it shouldn't be freaking out because that plays right into their plan of more lockdowns and more fear and everything sort of replay of COVID but on a broader scale Our reaction has to be, hey it's time to get in gear here. Let's start planting some food in our backyard let's start raising some rabbits on our balcony or in our garage right? All these I've talked about this for over a decade now and I've had so many people say I don't have space you know like I can't I can't It's always the reason and now its time to start finding ways to do it right we need to be creative about how we get it done

11:30 I put out a video last week about some core recommendations of how to start, you know potatoes especially being a high calorie crop and one that when you grow them then your left with seed potatoes that you can plant next year and give to your neighbors. Some other suggestions rabbits or quail being another one for protein production because again once you've started those pipelines then Thanks to give to your neighbors when they start to realize i need some food to supplement what i'm able to get from the grocery store at this point or chickens are. rabbits the same sort of thing once you've got those, they multiply like rabbits right? So once you've got those things coming out then you'll be there to share. The major reasoning there being both that you are producing food for yourself and for your family but also that you are then positioning yourself as a leader who can help everyone around you as they start to come online and need to grow their own food as well. You will have the know-how in some

12:26 eggs and maybe rabbits and seeds, seed potatoes to help them do that. And compost was a big one too It was kind of funny, it was actually a very beautiful thing happened while I filmed that video because i was talking about how the goals of the technocrats to take over the food supply which they've been very open about right from Henry Kissinger saying if you control food you control people. Right through to John Podesta hosting the Food Chain Reaction game which said there's going to be a geopolitical crisis that causes food shortages and it means we need global government but they've been pretty open about this for some time now And i do the parallel to the fact that this is not the first time this has happened and been done in soviet russia, and notably also in china during the great leap forward with big bigger quotes there for the audio listeners. When technocrats or bureaucrats are whatever you want describe them as took over

13:20 the policies for the farms. And they got this idea that birds were eating the grains, and that's why we're having a famine and food problems. So if we just kill the birds will be set right? And so they instituted a policy whereby killing off specifically sparrows was the idea. And then low and behold once there were no birds there you can imagine once there are no birds there the insects went off the chain just crazy levels especially locusts and devastated the crops even more Which made everything much, much worse. And so that's just a quick example of how a technocratic centralized control over food system, a technocratic approach to managing these things doesn't work and I had told this story in my video and then i went about saying you know potatoes and composting quail and then right at the end of the video i had this moment where said well you know what? I can tell you what you need to do

14:12 That's the same thing, right? It's just the whole idea is that I would be me broadcasting from one place where I don't live. Where you are you listening to this show know what works where you are right if you've got grass for cows to graze on that can produce crops for humans to eat but the grass does fine and walk that direction and you just work with the conditions you have and with the experiences and resources that to, as I said creatively figure out how to move the needle on this. And when we all start to do that then this can be a meaningfully impactful So that's a big deal there yes it is and. To speak to that point is hard offer solutions cuz we're talking to so many people at so many different stages of life so many different economic levels, people in their twenties can be super nimble people who are married with kids can't be so nimble so there's

15:07 Advice that's kind of applicable to everyone but it's just like where are you in the race to get there when we did our first interview i was a small two bedroom and san diego the most expensive city, in the country and california with all its problems with no kids. And now im in florida on acre land with two kids i mean I'm trying to embody a lot of the advice that comes from the bright minds of people i talk too and it took time, you have to ask yourself are we larping here or just pretending to be conspiracy people because its fun and exciting and woo they're out to get me. Or do you really believe that there is a long standing plan for technocratic centralized control?

CHAPTER 05 / 16 Discussion

Reality as a Shared Dream, New Age Psyops

Reality is explored as a mass shared dream or a "participative reality" rather than a purely mechanistic or materialistic existence. This perspective distinguishes itself from "New Age" manifesting, which is characterized as a disempowering psyop that encourages spiritual bypassing. The discussion suggests that the technocratic system is a failing endpoint of a materialistic worldview that ignores the primary role of consciousness.

shared dream· wetiko· paul levy· new age· materialism

15:57 If you do think it's real, then it's not going away. Then this idea that we got through COVID back to normal is like no! It's going to keep coming and so what are you doing to build your resiliency to it? It's a never ending thing it something that i really wish people would stop intellectual ising or debating. And just like act just put an action which speaks to the third pillar of the mindset thing because you wrote this piece recently about reality as a shared dream you said your, Kind of surprised when you wrote that a non trivial amount of your audience said that they felt like you are accepting them into anostic or new age luciferian mindset and saw a little noticeable drop in support i certainly have experience similar things it's very frustrating. And u wanna be authentic but people are so close minded around some of these ideas, and I agree with the when you say that clothes my goodness is intentional and well designed

17:01 Elaborate on that a little bit. Sure. So I've spoken a bunch about, you know, Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey, the Lucius Trust and this one world religion that they want to force onto people. And so it was pretty surprising for them to get that reaction saying oh great, you're one of them. It's like how can you... We're paranoid people Christian! But so the idea of reality being a mass shared dream is actually one that you've explored in an episode I remember well on your podcast with Paul Levy back in the day about his book, Wetiko. And he has a very Jungian and Buddhist lens but excellent I always highly recommend that book and his work to folks

17:45 This is still a bunch of nascent ideas my sort of different take on it is that not just in here's where the big differences between let's discuss right there. The difference between what they say which is the opal oprah winfrey here's the secret you can manifest whatever you want we're all just dreamers and this stream and if u focus your intention hard enough then you get that lamborghini doesn't work that way For one, I think because this is such a mass shared dream that it would take all of us believing the same thing. But I also think it's very clear that the dream has an intelligence to it. It has a guiding plan to it and you can call that... And I do personally call that God but you can call that universe or spirit or whatever language feels appropriate and works for you is absolutely fine to me. The emphasis being that while we do all

18:34 I mean, it ties together so much here because there's this question always of how can God be a sovereign God but everyone have free will? Like how do you marry the... And why does God let bad things happen all these things. I think that what we're seeing is that we have our choice in how we react to what's going on in reality and we can't control the role we play and sort of the way we relate to it but there is something that's happening here that is going to happen anyway. Just as a microcosm, I had this dream and that has sort of helped inform the way I view this it was a weird dream because it looped and so the first iteration of the dream whatever was happening and I walked by something and I incidentally caused a situation where you know water was spilled on the floor and this old lady slipped and she was injured and I felt bad or whatever in the dream went on and then at some point loops and as that situation

19:26 Was reached again i recognized it and I said, i hesitated just for the blink of an eye because i didn't want to trip the old lady again and cause the injury. And in that moment of hesitation someone else knocked over the glass of water and then they'll play slept so i couldn't change. The whole dream but i could change my role in the dream i could change how i relate to it and i think that's Suggesting how this whole thing is working here with reality. The dream has, it does have a, it is sovereign. It does have a way that it's going to go and things that need to happen but we don't necessarily need to be the ones that play certain roles in it and we get to choose how we are in that dream. And how does that land for you? Yeah, it lands well I always get nervous when someone launches into a dream because they are so personal

20:17 I don't know there's a mechanism in my brain and many others i think that just can't get the same. relevance and importance from a dream story without actually was pretty good so kudos you know. Good deal the new age philosophy then just says you can do whatever you want it is this order that becomes the narcissism rewrapped as the secret in the new the new age style says, you can do what everyone you can manifest whatever you want if you believe hard enough for us enough of us leave the same thing and i don't think that's true at all i think that is equally effective at disempowering people because they stop engaging with reality, they retreat into spiritual bypassing and that's why it's the new age psyop. And I kind of previously thought that was all it did

21:03 But when I got this reaction to my post, that was when I realized that it didn't just end there. That is actually a very perfectly and evilly constructed firewall that keeps anyone from thinking about reality as anything other than the mechanistic here-I-am trapped in matter. And that's really fascinating because even as you have Matthias Desmet writing what becomes a bestseller about the psychology of totalitarianism, and he's I would say one of the main points in that book is that the technocrats and their totalitarian tendencies are a necessary endpoint of the failed materialistic worldview. The mechanistic worldview. And so when you have someone with his credentials with that influential of a book or widely read of a book saying hey the worldview has failed it's not this isn't in its consciousness that's primary

21:58 And then no one is seems to be, I'm sure people are doing but i don't seem to find anyone who's really out there saying if this isn't it. If it's not hard and right in front of us what is it? And i think part of the reason that perhaps even that he stopped with that mean there probably would have been another book for him but that he has chosen to stop them and get his academic within especially after putting out this piece and getting that response my sense is that its The whole space of looking outside materialism, looking outside mechanistic reality has been poisoned. Has been made completely radioactive by the new age nonsense. Yes it's been helpful in me understanding the purpose of the New Age style. Yes very well said co-creation is such a buzzword but really like the examples you gave

22:48 Secret type of thinking you know you can get the lamborghini or something a lot of that people who go into those philosophies and types of thinking they are. Apply them to consumer based stuff for better positioning on the economic ladder but that is fake world stuff you know what use the buzzword that is the matrix stop you know that is the simulation it's been built up around us but these principles, Of the real world they become real when you engage with the rio earth directly when you engage with nature directly i'm in the infancy of it i mentioned the acre land like.

CHAPTER 06 / 16 Discussion

Generational Land Wealth, COVID-19 as a Pressure Test

The failure of previous generations to secure land and plant fruit trees has left modern families vulnerable to centralized technocratic control. COVID-19 is described as a "reconnaissance" mission or pressure test used by officials to gather data on public compliance and supply chain breaking points. This "boa constrictor" strategy involves cycles of constriction and release to gradually implement a surveillance grid.

land ownership· covid-19· technocracy· data-driven policy· resilience

23:25 I'm seeing this happen it's a snowball like nature is right there wanting to provide abundance but it has to be coaxed out you have the former relationship with that, no it doesn't know u you been absent i really do think its spiritual thing and it sounds so lame saying a lot of the stuff but. You have to get the snowball rolling down the hill and it is made me so bitter about like our previous generations we know that the elite are very good at planning multi generationally, our families are not you know we hope to just get into the grave and give our.

24:06 Kids some numbers on a screen where is the land where is the abundance if my grandfather had just saved an acre of land and planted. Twenty fruit trees we have a place to go, add just think that's the biggest thing so you know two times to plant a tree twenty years ago right now as they say so What's what i think these are important things but let's back it up to the problem that is coming so. I have actually gotten pushback when i bring up the idea that cove it was like a dress rehearsal for this much bigger plan of world war three and this engineer energy food crisis, you've actually made a good point that it was supposed to be a climate crisis but people can't stop buying that

24:51 So they pivoted to well now it's a scarcity crisis due to geopolitical tensions. They have that give us the reason but the end point was always gonna be this place again which is why you should prepare and not wait until u see it on your doorstep but regardless, this is just something i keep getting pushback for and i think its unjustified because when you tell your personal story there's evidence that in the aftermath the world economic forum and their think tanks were literally highlighting the people that they saw as putting a wrench in their plans are like okay, what we do this again we gotta deal with this guy we got it not scary to be that guy that sees the name up on the slide like what i shouldn't be there. I would retreat too but

25:39 I guess talk to us about this idea that cove it probably was a pressure test or way of finding the blind spots and sussing out the rebels recon is important in any big operation what's covered the recon for the big show. That were seeing now yes i would say without a doubt i think there was even a moment where on a hot mic one of the white house officials was saying this is a test this is a, A test run for how people react to these things and that was a sort of head scratcher back then but it's coming into better clarity now as we see. A lot of the same policies come back up That's partially because the demand destruction that happened with energy back under COVID has already been eclipsed by the supply shock that is happening now. And so if there, I would argue actually there is no set of policy decisions they can enact that will solve the problem at this point but we can sort of suss out the extremity of how far their going to go in response to this energy crisis

26:40 You're going to keep me on my toes as we dance between the topics. I try and I enjoy it." We've already seen the IEA, The Energy Association come out and give a set of steps that here's our prescription for the problem. And they even have a website up that tracks each country in the world and which of these steps they've taken in which not yet. They are remarkably similar to some of the temporary measures that were enacted under COVID so yeah, I think that was address rehearsal And yet to your point, that was absolutely also a way to see how hard can we squeeze people. Right? We can use this PCR stuff and the infection numbers as a throttle to see how hard can we drive this and how hard can we lock them down where do the supply chain start breaking and how exactly they're very data- I mean it's the definition of a technocrat after all is someone who is very data driven in their policies

27:36 So yeah i think they were absolutely. Sussing out a number of these things generating a lot of data which has i'm sure since been fed into whatever AI models they use their illuminati central. To now have better predictive value as they go for a bigger grab this time around yeah and I think it was a test to see how resilient people are two and how do they pivot another thing that you have said that i think is really insightful is that the more they squeeze The more people wake up it's an inverse relationship and that also kind of pairs nicely with the old phrase that i had heard that.

28:15 The long moral arc of the universe bends towards good but it's a long time to get there and i think that's true in these these things work together that's the baked in mechanism not the natural world guarding against. Full technology distopia is that there something baked into consciousness that when you apply more pressure, People squeeze out of the control system entirely and so they have to work with that they have a relationship with that i think they know it, and so they do it in these stages pressure release pressure release. And i just think thats really insightful now you have used the term omni crisis for this and people know i love a good new term i love again according to return but

CHAPTER 07 / 16 Discussion

Collective Shadow Work, Integrating Transgenerational Trauma

The Omni Crisis is framed as the collective human shadow coming to the surface, requiring deep inner work and the integration of transgenerational trauma. High-profile scandals like the Epstein case are viewed as previously occulted horrors now demanding public attention and integration. Following Jungian principles of individuation, the segment argues that fighting the system directly only empowers it, whereas inner work changes one's relationship to reality.

carl jung· shadow work· transgenerational trauma· epstein· individuation

29:05 We've said it's oil we've said its food but it is more than that it's fertilizer plastics again not even things we endorse we don't endorse fertilizer plastics but the world is what it is and. It takes a long time to pivot away from what we've walked ourselves into, what we have co-created. You know this is what we've co-created by buying the plastic shit and never saying there should be a better way but elaborate on that term Omni Crisis for anyone who maybe doesn't understand how full scope it really is. Sure so the Omni Crisis was my way of pointing at the fact that I mean yes the oil crisis energy crisis

29:47 and then any number of geopolitical crises, plastics and all these things that are very first order. And then we could also layer in there's clearly a moral crisis in our leadership and you know that's sort of the whole Epstein stuff coming to the surface for it being broadcast what was previously occulted and hidden and it was only visible to those people who are really, as you call them the conspiracy people who are really trying to dig into reality and find the truth there. Then you could always reach into these layers but now it's just being blasted out for everyone to see and so I think we can point at all those things but then I think most significantly in my Omni Crisis concept is that we also have a collapsing magnetosphere and like all these cosmic challenges

30:30 And that's stuff that is just way outside of, it would seem is way outside of our control. I sort of went about it as an engineer trying to debug a system like how could this be happening? How could all these crises at all these different levels of reality all the time transpiring and seeming to come to head at the same time and then also yeah, what does it mean? How do we deal with this?" And that's also what led me to this participative reality sort of a thing. Paul Levy described it as again in very Jungian terms the shadow, the collective shadow coming to the surface. So where Jung said anything you don't make conscious will appear in the outside world and then come at you until you integrate it until you see it and say okay yeah that's that is here I own it and then you integrate it and that can mean a number of different things depending on what that specific shadow is

31:27 And that process that happens at an individual level all happens at the collective level as well. And so what that means is that humanity has been, has shoved you know child trafficking and whatever else is now coming to this earth controlling people through engineered scarcity debt-based money all of this nonsense that has been festering in sort of in the shadows for a long time is now bubbling up at once so we can deal with it And I think that's what the Epstein stuff really coming to the surface means is that it's not hidden anymore. It's coming up, it's demanding our attention and we're at a point where we have to do it! We have to do the work, we have to do... The shadow work begins within ourselves and that's how we as individuals within the collective take part in that collective integration of the human shadow. That's also not a new-agey kind of thing. That's really a deep process

32:26 looking at what are the unresolved traumas in my life and in my family, right? What kind of stuff has been passed down. At this point Earth is in a situation where almost anybody has within their lineage within a few generations wars and crazy things that's going to leave some aspect of transgenerational trauma. And so there's work that all of us have to do. Then you move up the scale of participation what's been done by my culture and by other people with my lineage, and looking at all these things. Then taking stock of it, then owning it and integrating it." I think again what integrating is looks different depending on what it is you're dealing with, that may look different depending on who's doing the work but its real work and it's not woo-woo, It's hard and it's important. Yes And I'm not done with it either right? I am not sitting here as a guru or anyone like that

33:23 Like I said, these are still in many cases nascent concepts to me. And Jung was also saying he's still doing it. He called it individuation and he said that you don't get there. You don't ever become the self is the way he put it. So yeah, I just think that Rather than reacting to the Omni crisis, rather than fighting against the technocrats. We have to do some deep inner work and some deep recognition of what reality actually is if we want to help change it because I mean it's actually very popularly said already that if you fight this system, you just empower it

34:00 Yes, what does it mean and that was why I kept asking these questions about where do we go then right? I like it. I like it I agree with so much of that one could even say you know to sum it up It's important to become unshadowed right Always be closing Christian always be closing So there also is something to maybe be said about that the chaos we see On the playing field even cosmic chaos and weather chaos might have a relationship with chaos in our consciousness you know this is something young would probably agree with but.

CHAPTER 08 / 16 Discussion

Global Policy Shifts, Digital ID and Resource Rationing

Practical examples of the tightening technocratic grip include Sri Lanka's QR-code-based fuel rationing and Mexico's move to eliminate cash at gas stations. Tech companies in the United States are facing lawsuits that may serve as a pretext for mandatory digital ID verification under the guise of child protection. These measures move toward a social credit system where every resource, from coffee beans to fish, is tracked via blockchain and AI.

digital id· sri lanka· mexico· rationing· social credit

34:38 I also like to try to put myself in these interviews and the shoes of the listeners and. The critics even like what what would someone say to poke holes in that things were talking about, ends i always try to be cautious not too overstate a problem or push people into panic mode this is an element you You said you yourself you reflected on that your work was becoming quite black billing and maybe feeding the beast and i also agree with your thing about fighting the system you don't fight it. Look at history empire is kind of an ever present thing. But how is it affecting you how are you by the system like, no its not gonna be like we have to go live in a cave looking like robin williams and jim on g like weed just you can determine your own level of participation but that's your power that's the empowerment you have this determining your own level of participation most of us

35:35 Haven't consciously thought about it we just unconsciously slumber walked right into. The loving arms of the techno crats but on that topic overstating a problem there probably are people who would say now christian i listen to you during coven. I never even thought it was really that bad like maybe there was a couple days i couldn't get toilet paper but for the most part, it felt like there is a lot of panic about nothing a lot of alarm bells sounding and nothing really happened What would you say to those people to try to drive home that this time is probably a little different or just that this is gonna be an ever present pressure. In their lives like we're not overstating the problem this is not hypothetical worry this is legitimate i was so yeah, i mean the counter voice about it there are number of people who did take steps to grow their own food and by the way congrats on the acre and children thank you

36:32 And those people are very happy now, they don't feel any fear. They don't need to feel as threatened by this set of problems that are now being engineered and it feels good right? It tastes delicious too when you grow your own food and I think that's just right action Sort of hang on and say well it wasn't that bad last time maybe i'll be alright this time to is what does the hope is not a game plan. So its laziness too it's like i don't wanna have to do something until very clear that i have to do something but thats not how doing something works you can grow your food for your family tomorrow, you know you should just steer your ship towards self sufficiency anti fragility and self

37:17 Determination but i just wanted to throw these out so these are things that are actually happening and you also have included one of your videos a website that actually. Chronicles the things that are happening and has all the countries in the world except i didn't see united states and then it talks about what is happening policy wise needs those places. People might know there's like thirty countries right now with limitations on air conditioning use weather it's the days of the week you can do it or whatever like many countries outside of american bubble are deep in it right now sri lanka switches to qr code based systems to ration fuel sales also

37:55 Also as part of her goal to digitize the mexican economy their president announced that cash payments at gas stations and highway toll booths will be eliminated this year. Executive secretary of the u n said due to the disruption international shipping caused by the war with iran, If there ever was a moment to accelerate the energy transition, ding-ding-ding, you know hint-hint nudge-nudge the technocratic control grid. The time is now one other component digital ID we know the tech companies in the US just got hit with some big lawsuits over the addictiveness of their product beautiful thing right? We want these tech companies held accountable but what's gonna be their reaction to being held accountable what's their reaction to losing some lawsuits about

38:40 How they're damaging children it's gonna be okay we need verification and that's the digital id so in the name of protecting children as always which is a parent job not the government. That's how to get ushering digital i do you see these things happening so i guess i'm trying to answer my own question of weed and overstate a problem because here are things happening in the world right now very practical things and this is just a small sampling right It is, and I think you're also apt in your description of the boa constrictor like constrict and then release a little bit. And so just hoping for the next constriction not to be that bad

39:16 Again it's not a game plan they're on this trajectory there very clear about it being. A totalitarian takeover technocratic take over of reality involves control of every resource on the planet down to you know that they have literally described tracking every coffee bean every piece of fish using the blockchain and ai determine who is eligible together based on their social credit score like By now, I just think it's pretty clear. And I think especially your audience to be fair already has heard a lot of these things and understands that we're they are on this trajectory and we need to get off of it so yeah

CHAPTER 09 / 16 Discussion

Producer Mindset, Great Depression Lessons and Small Engine Repair

Transitioning from a consumer to a producer is identified as the primary way to survive an era of scarcity, drawing lessons from the Great Depression. Developing niche skills such as small engine repair, sewing, or plumbing increases an individual's value within their local community. Aligning with "God's will" or the "dream" involves setting aside personal desires to become a vital asset of service to others.

great depression· producer mindset· small engine repair· community value· service

39:55 And i also heard you talk about kind of studying the great depression a little better listening to testimonies from people who lives through it because we're gonna live through this like we're not saying everybody's gonna die in is the end of the world. What this is a period of constriction and i just thought was very insightful the core of it was to move yourself from a consumer to a producer and some creative way that so broad can be applied to so many things you wanna be a liability, you want to be an asset Put more bluntly you wanna be worth more alive than dead you don't want your neighbors and your neighborhood to think what your dad wait. Who knows how bad it could get but its never gonna be a bad thing that you have, i still can be very broad you could learn so you can learn to repair bikes as u said if you for see. Oil being an issue in more people riding bikes or not repair those bikes

40:49 Make a huge compost pile now so that when your neighbors do think i do need to start growing some stuff oh look this big pilot dirt. This big pile of black gold really shouldn't denigrate the compost like that but it's there for you know grab some take home use it Again the abundance is there chickens eggs heirloom seeds all these things you can be the one to johnny apple senior neighborhood the one where people like they've been watching you with a skeptical i and now they actually think your head of the curve. It's not scarcity thing it's not a guard your resources with your gun kinda thing it really is,

41:29 Trusting the universe and co creating the reality you want if u sit on your front porch with a shotgun in a rocking chair waiting for someone to take from you. You might manifest that story in your life but if you start with a different approach your manifested different story for the most part not naive to the dangers of, scarcity periods but still i think there's definitely something learn to do some basic plumbing because when your toilets backed up that something you can't go without you know you want somebody there become a chef. No fast forward through the learning curve of mistakes so that you can help others fast forward to there is some ideas as we're coming up on the end of the first hour but talk about the great depression or what you've learned from listening to people who went through periods of scarcity that are just kind of foreign to a lot of us living today.

42:24 I think you named several there and it really comes down to that core shift from how do i stop being a consumer and start being a producer of value. And thats as we said all along here its not even just about growing food, if your lawyer theres ways you can apply your skill set help the people around you in your community solve some these problems and navigate the challenges that are coming View the seamstress yes can create clothes are amend the clothes instead of having to go back to amazon and that's something else also changing right now is it's the value equation is changing so as they impose this scarcity. Where has in the last twenty years its been not only been easier but it has many cases literally been cheaper just go by replacement on amazon then was too because it was then became his craft hobby you had a special

43:12 sewing kit and all this equipment, learn how to do it. It became so niche that it became more expensive to actually do some of these things but if they now impose scarcity then that equation shifts and quickly makes sense to get these skills back in flying. Yeah I mean small engine repair there's any number of experiences that you may have that you can use to create value And yeah I would caution against using the manifesting things like language because Land in the new age thing cultivate abundance instead of manifest cultivate cuz that implies you're doing some stuff and i'm still. finding language here too and figuring out how to do it. But I think aligning with the dream is one way to say it, and then another way of course is doing God's will. And this is straight from...and I came at this from a pure like I said from an engineering perspective and I try to keep it completely secular but really the best language from this does come straight from Jesus Christ when he said let me do not my will but your will that core of aligning with God, aligning with the dream

44:16 Setting aside what you might want, which is maybe that is sitting on your front porch with the shotgun. And then in saying how do I really become of service to the people around me? How do I would what can I do and here's a really important question. What can I do today that will build. a better tomorrow for myself to experience and the kind of future that I want my kids to experience. I think that question hand in hand with being of service to those around you, and again focusing on God's will or aligning with the dream...I think those are some of the core steps we take in right action figuring out what right action is

44:54 Yeah i agree with that and I hope the god people are satisfied they got a good bible quote idea you know what am i favorites is god helps those who help themselves into me that does speak to the nature thing as soon as you start trying to plant stuff it's hard to start from scratch but when u get snowball rolling it starts going down the hill. No in a few years i'll have fruit trees that are five or six years old instead of one that's how works so, I would love to see the christians or anyone who just comes over bible verses and debates their meaning on twitter. Do you actually if you think god is great get in there with this goddamn creation and play around with it you know like what are you waiting for god helps those who help themselves and no kind of on the line of thinking about the inverse relationship between the squeeze, add the waking up people

CHAPTER 10 / 16 Discussion

Population Agenda, The Ant Colony Metaphor

A story about moving a colony of ants serves as a metaphor for how the technocratic system fails to force human movement through discomfort. Just as ants refused to move into a flawed environment despite heat and light incentives, humans will naturally move toward better conditions once they are created. This biological reality provides a basis for optimism against the "blow dryer" tactics of social credit and surveillance.

population agenda· myrmecology· ant colony· incentives· optimism

45:51 I do see a continuity to this whole plan. You give out The covid shots you put a lot of people on a five to eight year timeline i know more people experiencing. Things that didn't happen young people more now than during covid like talking talk about as much but i have people in my life better find themselves in the hospital randomly and unexpectedly it's sad but, you can see continuity you put people on this time line and then you have a draft you ever worn you have a draft You call the herd what do they want surveillance grid and i control techno surveillance grid when you want that a goal that lofty.

46:33 You need fewer people the fewer people you have easier it is to accomplish your goal now there's another inverse relationship because those who are left. Are the least controllable they're the ones who didn't get the shot of the one two didn't buy the wartime propaganda, the ones who weathered the storm that in fall into your trap so again i'm optimistic i'm optimistic and the end I don't know it's hard to make optimism out of like the population agenda but i'm trying here. No i mean the optimism has to come from the fact that they are not a line clearly there not aligned with the gold they're stuck in a mechanistic view of reality which is doesn't said as a failed world you, what you said their squeezing harder and harder and there something beautiful and slippery about human consciousness that just means we're not gonna work

47:24 I don't know if we have time for a quick story. Yeah, so it's like a microcosm of this kind of thing where I got my son he is seven years old and I got him some ants. It was like a first but he was obsessed with them and spent a lot of time outside with them anyway and so I said alright here is the real interest. He is turning 7 years old let us give him a bit of responsibility to become a little myrmecologist and so I got him a queen ant and we've taken care And the situation happened where you keep them in a test tube, believe it or not. The test tube they were in became moldy and so it became necessary to move the ants. And so we prepared a new test tube with a little piece of cotton water reservoir behind a piece of cotton and we made it available to them through the formicarium but the ants didn't move. My son was getting very upset and I'm thinking crap dad you got to figure this out! You can't let your son down this is supposed to be lesson in responsibility

48:19 And tried a bunch of different things. We took the light, we do the shadow off of the old area so that it would be uncomfortable and then even he used a flashlight to try and make them more uncomfortable just incentivize the ants to move but those guys wouldn't move. So I was consulting all these forums and so on and so forth and finally they had various recommendations using a blow dryer to make them really uncomfortable so they were forced to move, or taking tweezers and moving the ants one by one but then a few posts later the guy says yeah they all died. So it's like... It just wasn't working and finally I found some experienced myrmecologist and he said One does not simply move the ants. One creates the conditions that are better for the ants And when they perceive that conditions are better somewhere else They will move

49:10 So I looked more closely at the test tube that we had prepared, and sure enough, I had used too little cotton and so there was too much water coming through. And if they had gone in there, they would have drowned and been dead! The ants were right! So we fixed the test tube, half an hour later they came over. It worked perfectly but this really stuck with me because that's what they're trying to do and I mean this is also my experience with Ice Age Pharma and with prepping and even with the antibiotic stuff like if i can just make a good enough video then people will figure this out and we can fight the technocrats If I can just find the right doctor or figure out the right supplements then I won't be having these health problems

49:53 hard enough, right? If I can just do it good. No! The ants aren't going to move you have to relate to it differently and create the conditions necessary for the dream to move in the way you want to but you can't change that and not really end so tying back to what you were saying the technocrats are trying to move us right there they're putting a blow dryer on us clamping down the social credit score they're doing everything they can and its gonna fail So thats where I get my optimism Yeah wow look at this guy stick in the landing right at the one hour mark like a pro we can go dark again we just don't have talent like this out there we need you.

CHAPTER 11 / 16 Discussion

Digital Energy Relief Credits, Biometric Rationing in India

"Digital Energy Relief Credits" are identified as a coming tool for energy rationing, already being tested in markets like India. Eight hundred million people in India currently require biometric identification, such as iris or face scans, to access food relief credits. The European Union is also rushing to implement a digital wallet for 400 million residents, positioning the infrastructure for programmable currency and controlled spending.

energy credits· india· biometric id· digital wallet· central bank digital currency

50:32 But i totally right and again it's like show a better way you know if people don't like what they see but they don't have an alternative this is all they know. Show a better way and that's kind of the phase that we are in so, you said something pretty bold one year recent videos in terms of what's coming you brought up the term digital energy relief credits and you said mark my words this is a term your gonna hear in the coming months its already in place in india A lot of times they test this stuff on smaller markets not that india is a smaller market but i guess. To the techno crats it's an expendable market i would say and that's a good test base but digital credits i guess, can only be used on energy and of course require the digital id to get them. I don't know if they'll get this all the way to the end zone no one does but i am with you there that they are trying when u buy something on amazon or by flight

51:30 You see right there that they already have baked in like the amount of energy you're gonna use why is that there's even sometimes an option to just toggle on i'm going to spend more to offset my credit so it's it's baked into the interface but there's no reason to do that yet. So i guess talk about this term digital energy relief credits where we are seeing at implemented and talked about and i guess how far away you think it might be for americans to start seeing this show up in their lives. Yes the digital energy relief credit need for becomes pretty clear if you see that the energy prices are going to be so crazy we've already seen,

52:12 A lot of the taxes across various countries, especially the more resourced countries are just saying don't worry about the taxes on that fuel for now because they want to keep things running as long as possible. And so that kind of letting go of that tax revenue a ton of printing money for example to keep the fishermen fishing in Across the EU, they were just stopping fishing because they couldn't afford the diesel to take their boats out. There's no way they could catch enough fish to pay for the gas anymore and so they said hey there is either not going to be fish or you can pay for my gas for a bit and the government started paying for the gas but you can only do that if it was so long especially when we were already riding a sovereign debt crisis that's... We're sort of coming at the end of economic ladder in few ways here anyway

52:58 You can't flood the economy with that much money. You can just print a ton of money without it falling back and causing crazy amounts of inflation, and so the idea there was that they would need to introduce some form of digital credits that would be scoped and have expiration dates in all of the properties that we already know they've been frantically implementing around digital currencies And it's actually not a terrible amount of speculation when you have the world economic forums co-chair talking about how. It's gonna be great when the central bank digital currency is out there we can watch exactly what people are spending their money on and we can turn off and off as we want none of this cash that's like, i don't know if i need to work out of our control this is gonna be great so they've been quite open about that but this is yes very clear

53:46 lever that makes it necessary to implement an accelerated time frame. The thing in india you referencing was the small eight hundred million people i know what i call myself like a mental gymnastics is like not small but maybe not valuable can't from the perspective of the technocrats who do this stuff subset yeah it's a subset of people they got onto ration cards and so the 800 million, it's a staggering number. The 800 million people that do require food assistance in India now need to go when they want to feed their family give biometric forms of identification. So there can be a face scan or fingerprint or iris scans depends where you go but that is how they tie into your decidedly into your identity and then are issuing relief credits that you can spend on food

54:39 Yeah, so a lot of this grid has been built very rapidly over there. And they were talking about it like at the World Economic Forum very rapidly and implemented and tested on various subsets or various scales often in relief contexts or situations where people didn't have an option right disaster relief war zones that the UN was coming in and saying here's how we're going to make sure refugees have access to resources just use these IDs. And so they've developed the technology. And you do see a rush a mad rush right now You mentioned Mexico, talking about how this year they will be not accepting cash for gas anymore. The EU has made it a policy that the digital wallet must be offered to the 400 plus million residents across Europe this year which is a digital ID that yeah is perfectly positioned for this kind of thing It almost seems weird That they're doing the mad rush to get all these things into people's hands immediately

55:34 unless you take into fact that now we're not in the test anymore there putting us into this crisis so that they can deploy their engineer solutions. Classic problem reaction solution with a million times but it's how to operate yes and thats good thing about people who are not that creative what they're planning is the same template playbook reapplied over and over but Much like the covid shot conundrum put yourself in a position where you can say no to a digital id and you can say notice some of this stuff that's gonna come with strings attached if u need all their resources your gonna have to comply with their requirements.

CHAPTER 12 / 16 Discussion

Unshadowed Substack, Supply Chain Fragility and Content Production

Christian Westbrook directs listeners to his new Substack, Unshadowed.org, as his primary outlet for writing and video content. Following the interview, the host reflects on the fragility of the supply chain and the strategic importance of Westbrook's research. A brief discussion on production values notes the balance between timely releases and high-quality editing for the show's archive.

unshadowed· substack· supply chain· content editing· ice age farmer

56:16 Obviously no one is fully self sufficient but supplementing a little bit so empowering and makes you feel like you can buy down a little bit harder and just get through it without having to comply some. I think it's just moving that direction however far you get up to you but why not move in that direction can't allocate. Thirty percent of your screen time too. You know cultivating your own abundance and some way or are just moving the anti for jill we got a lot of screen time, Well man i'm so glad you're back on the scene the world economic forum and their lackeys were right to single you out because u do have a talent in your niche and there's a very contagious inspiring quality to. And that's really the biggest threat of all right helping people dream better dream will let people know where they can show their appreciation and fight the uphill battle keeping you in their algorithm and all that,

57:15 Thank you for that greg you can find me now on unshadowed dot org and. That is a sub stack i do have a new youtube channel will see how long this one lasts but thats what im doing most of the writing and everything's posted there so thank you for that, i love it well folks don't pay too much attention to the engineer techno scarcity dont live that story Focus your attention on the story of abundance that's right there ready to be walked into but christian you are the man thanks again keep doing what you do and take care. Likewise thank you good you got it all right all right how about that christian westbrook the ice age farmer thoroughly thought from his long winter hibernation,

58:04 I kid i am actually quite sorry to hear about a health issue on top of the stress and pressure of the sudden explosion in growth, end the acknowledgement from the big machine that he specifically is a strategic problem for them. Because it's highlighting all the big supply chain issues and they don't want that They want to distract with anything but the fragility of the system that they've worked so hard to get us dependent on whether it's hantavirus or some really basic introductory disclosure bullshit.

58:43 No throw anything they can add us to keep us from realizing how dependent we are how fragile the supply chain is and doing something about it. But anyway his response to the absence makes a lot of sense to me i thought it was important ask and then move on to get to the stuff that is more important, But the big thing that fueled all the rumors and speculation was the behavior of the moderators at The Telegram. It was like you weren't supposed to talk about him or you weren't supposed to ask, which of course has a reverse effect and God forbid people want to know where Ice Age Farmer is in The Ice Age Farmer Telegram group

59:24 But if you're not feeling like you're in the condition to do your normal thing and you need a break then you probably just take one without a huge formal announcement. And nobody really owes the internet an update, even though we get these parasocial relationships when we feel entitled it's just not the case Speculation shouldn't really surprise anyone though people get removed in one way or another from our community all the time. I also understand the feeling of being to black pill and wanting to reframe your content i think it's hard as hell to rebrand its hard enough to do at once,

1:00:05 But i do get the logic behind it so i wish him well very important material i would say we recorded this a little over a week ago. And i wasn't hearing anyone really talk about this fuel disruption or the coming crop disruption, but in the time since i'm here and about it quite a bit so again i was slightly ahead of the curve when booking and recording a show and end up looking a little bit behind story my life It would be nice if i could tighten up the production pipeline around here. It's always an age old question when people rather have a show that well edited or where they rather have it right away five days earlier than normal, i think we're building in archive you want the shows to be well edited and timeless. And that's the priority of that's more important issue to me so

CHAPTER 13 / 16 Discussion

Personal Health Update, 2027 Economic Forecast

The host shares a personal update regarding a friend in Phoenix who suffered a sudden stroke, necessitating a trip to provide 24/7 supervision. Looking ahead to 2027, the host predicts that politicians will use socialist class warfare rhetoric to justify food and energy limits. This framing will likely pit the lower middle class against the middle class to normalize rationing of meat, eggs, and dairy.

stroke recovery· phoenix· mother's day· middle class· class warfare

1:00:55 Just is what it is. It didn't used to matter as much, but things are just moving so quickly these days... Either way as some of you can see I'm definitely due for a good shave and even though the lighting doesn't make it that obvious I am thoroughly roasted right now! A good friend of mine in Phoenix had a sudden random stroke just a few months before his 40th birthday. So he's out of the hospital now and on the road to recovery, but I went out there to see him and now that he is back home doctors orders is that he needs two weeks to be supervised 24-7 And that's just not realistic Not only does he have to go back to work as much as he can

1:01:40 If he can but his wife needs to go back to work she can't take another two weeks off to sit around and keep an eye on him. So i went out there to hang and also to give her some time to step away and get caught up on life, and I got back late this saturday and then sunday was mother's day we did the beach day and now im back to work but there hasn't really been time for even simple beard maintenance and I'm not a sunscreen guy so now i just look like this. Anyway, had I not taken that trip maybe I could have shaved a few days off the release schedule on this one but whatever as we said the supply chain is long and the real consequences will likely be much later So there's really no hurry to tell you about this story expect 2027 to be a difficult year

1:02:31 i was actually listening to some commentary on the plane that sounded a lot like what christian was saying today. You can almost see how it's going to play out now of course big agendas transcend politics i'm not trying to buy into the left right thing but you can see that, The democrats are probably gonna sweep the midterms if you believe in elections at all it's definitely the perception or the way things are swinging as the pendulum goes back and forth. And you can see how they're gonna frame these issues, they're gonna see the shortages coming in early twenty twenty seven and there gonna say things like why should the rich just because they have money be able to hoard all the groceries

1:03:14 And it's like when they say rich they really mean middle class not the truly rich that upper class always avoids any kind of criticism. And it just putting the lower middle against the middle middle and the upper metal but either way you can see this being the way that, the politicians are gonna justify saying what we need to make this more fair we need a spread this out so Why should these people who have money be able to buy the eggs and the bread and meat maybe we should put limits on what people can buy one gallon of milk a month, limit the mead in limit the eggs and. Of course all the animal products you know how does much lays potato chips and pepsi as you want but the point is just that this is how i could see things framed through that socialist class warfare lens

CHAPTER 14 / 16 Discussion

Countermeasures, Local Food Economies and Moringa

A comparison of perspectives between Christian Westbrook and Chris Knowles explores whether COVID-19 was a failed "shot" or a successful test run. Regardless of the intent, the recommended countermeasure is the immediate involvement in decentralized, local economies that accept cash. Growing nutrient-dense "superfoods" like Moringa in Central Florida is highlighted as a practical step toward independent nutrition.

chris knowles· local economy· moringa· nutrient density· decentralized

1:04:11 And as Christian was saying, it seems like this entire conflict is engineered to cause that supply chain disruption to justify the use of digital energy and or food credits. I do lean more towards Christian on this one than Chris Knowles who was saying just in that last episode that To him it feels like they were really shooting their shot with COVID and just fell short and couldn't do it. On the other hand, Christian would say that COVID was a test run and what's coming now was always supposed to be the big show

1:04:48 To play devil's advocate, I mean and i'm split really but to play devils advocate the conspiracy minded do have a tendency to see everything as super controlled and calculated step by step plan and execution that is essentially flawless. And Chris Knowles might be more inclined to say stop putting them up on a pedestal they ain't that good again I see both sides And I would rather see them as not that good, but that's not even really the important part. Whether COVID was the thing or a test for the thing they're still going to keep trying to organize world events to give them another shot

1:05:29 And if they fall short again, and people prove to be more resilient than expected again then expect another 12-24 month planning period and then some other justification for moving closer to the digital control grid because that is the goal. That is the trajectory Which again is why it's most important to focus on building your own resiliency. It's hard to suddenly stop renting or magically make more money, I get that but it's not hard to at least learn about the farms and ranches in your area that do sell direct-to-consumer independently. It's not hard to start getting your eggs from someone

1:06:10 Local who will take cash and not register your purchase with some allotment tracking system god forbid one should emerge. It's not hard to put a few things in pots that are high yield and super nutrient dense, start finding out what would be most important in your zone to grow You can just think if your available nutrition were to take a hit, what is the one superfood in your area you could grow? Usually something where you eat the leaves like a green of some kind. For me in Central Florida it's moringa because as we said it's not about making it through an event It's about countermeasures that are important to take given the trajectory which is not going to change regardless how many stabs they take at it

1:07:01 Knowledge without action isn't any better than full-blown ignorance. And we are not ignorant! It seems like the hard part is being open-minded and able to think independently from the herd. So if you got that, the easy part is involving yourself in the independent decentralized alternative economies that are local to you and growing food or getting chickens or making a compost pile so big but the whole neighborhood can use it when their own reality starts to catch up to them either way good luck out there This straight-up hormuz issue is still not solved, and it's already by the numbers looking like a huge problem. But I liked this episode a lot!

CHAPTER 15 / 16 Discussion

War Mode Collaboration, Riverside Audio Issues

The host addresses confusion regarding a recent collaboration with the "War Mode" podcast and their subsequent Patreon release. Additionally, technical issues with the Riverside recording platform are discussed to clarify that recent audio dropouts were not intentional censorship. High ratings for recent guests, including David Icke and Michael Cremo, are noted as the show continues its current run.

war mode· patreon· riverside· audio editing· censorship

1:10:51 But that's not really on the table, though you can store gas if you need to. I actually just bought call me paranoid but i bought a big gas can on wheels that holds 15 gallons and has a nozzle and everything just like an old school rectangular gas pump because why not it's 150 bucks to feel a little more secure and prepared But the point is, if you give up a gas vehicle you give up A LOT of that storage ability. You get it! Okay in higher side news So many questions about War Mode Wow... so the war mode guys They don't do alot of other shows besides their own but they came on THC for a normal 2 hour thing like we do around here but then when were done They wanted to record an hour for their Patreon We were already there and I said great

1:11:44 So they recorded that side of it and then posted it right away and said it was the third hour of a two hour conversation well. That is true but just by the nature of saying that a lot of their people feel kinda gypped, which is only gonna be made worse by the optics when they hear that's out of three hours to here at all you have to be a member here and remember there it just looks really bad More charitable framing is that they were my guests for my regular show. And what they put out could have easily been an hour that we recorded anytime and should be thought of as its own thing but whatever, that is the next episode that has been worked on right now for those who are wondering it was a great time i'm glad that went so well as you'll see

1:12:37 Again, I knew i was going to go see my friend so I recorded a couple that could be edited while I was off the clock for a few days but it is coming. So that's the next one let's talk about the last one The Return of The Great Chris Knowles A bit more casual and a bit more candid and emotional than usual kind of lamenting the conspiracy culture on the mental health toll it can take a more somber tone i guess than the typical chris interview given the timing of it all but well liked we got a four point seven top shelf and there was one moment where chris's audio dropped out talking about tracy and a lot of people jumped to me taking something out or censoring that

1:13:26 Well look we edit the show to make it easier to listen to i'm recording with people in many different home environments with many different audio challenges is not like were on the same room together so they need. Burned edit becomes more clear because there's such a wide range of setups so which is part of the mix but If I wanted to take out some sort of content, you wouldn't even know. I wouldn't just let a guest's audio drop out mid-sentence and let it hang there for everyone to speculate on, y'know? Honestly the audio dropped out more than once but... ...I guess we missed one spot where we could've cleaned it up a bit better But this was all Riverside! I think I just need to start using a different platform to record because its getting worse and worse all the time

1:14:16 But come on people, put a little more faith in me than to think I'm trying to censor my guests or keep you from hearing something. Either way good show overall and we are really on a roll with the five star scale we have chris at four point seven doctor heather land of four point eight my solo show about too many secrets also to four point eight michael creamer what a four point six david ike a four point eight. And a w finnegan and the whole weaponized ticks episode at a four point seven so that is a very good string episodes that plus people are quite happy with

CHAPTER 16 / 16 Discussion

Upcoming Meetups, Closing Musical Mix

The episode concludes with a list of upcoming listener meetups in Raleigh, Vancouver, St. Paul, Riverside, and Chicago. Listeners are encouraged to visit highersidemeetups.com to coordinate local networking and community building. The show signs off with a custom musical track featuring lyrics about "factory meatcakes" and a lost world of blue skies and independent thought.

meetups· raleigh· vancouver· st. paul· riverside· chicago

1:14:55 It's a beautiful thing. Use that free trial and get in there! Okay, here we go with the upcoming meetups this Saturday May 16th Raleigh North Carolina at The Raleigh Brewing Company Sunday May 24th The Alibi Room in Vancouver June 7th St Paul Minnesota at Blackstack Brewing and Saturday June 13th the brick would in Riverside California and Sunday June 21st Chicago Illinois the map room pretty sure that one's new love to see it so great stuff a little light but that's okay maybe today is episode motivated you to put something on the calendar and see if it turns into any sort of important local networking for ya, super easy and low pressure

1:15:41 Just go to higher side meetups dot com think of a local brewery or gathering place and pick a date and put it on the calendar i will read out a few times in other thc fans in your area will hear it. And that's that that's the magic always said good idea to pick a day at least two weeks in advance to give it time to be announced on the show at least twice but have fun with make it valuable to you all right well, Thanks for listening, good luck out there. Prepare yourself for the future use the information to your benefit and all that and take care of you in yours I've done my part Your move supply chain disruptors war starting psychopaths and engineered crisis engineers Your fucking move Mama used to tell us stories about playing outside That thing that we never had to do

1:16:39 They say life is better since they covered the sky And got rid of all that pesky blue They had no protection from the sun back then Just scary exposed out there I hear they fight over what they'd eat each night A burden we don't have to bear Because our factory meatcake Comes every mo-ay's taste just right And we never have to Get dirty in here Cause the pot is always white Just imagine the trouble Of finding some job to do Or finding your own

1:17:55 The implants weren't made yet They weren't as connected You sometimes had to be alone They didn't yet know who Trust them and let them care for you Will we have answers now or every? Back then they had to think it I get none of those books, you I wake up

1:18:51 I dreamt factory meatcakes didn't come every month And it almost felt old. I dreamt we sometimes got dirty outside But wasn't always white