I find something "off" about Alex Berenson - I've wondered if he has some sort of mental issue. He has made some strange statements in the past and made uncalled for attacks on people. I watched a television interview that he and Dr. Malone did several years ago. Out of nowhere he attacked Dr. Malone on live television. I thought it was unfounded and weird and out of alignment with the direction of the interview. I had the distinct impression that Alex Berenson was jealous of the attention Dr. Malone was getting around that period. So I cancelled my subscription to his Substack. I get enough valuable insight and information from other writers who have actual science or medical backgrounds.
Berenson appears to be quite narcissistic. His refusal to realize the efficacy of ivermectin for Covid, even when Dr. Pierre Kory handed Alex his ass on a platter in a very civilized debate, made me distrust him forevermore. I listen to nothing he says.
You rock. Blessings, blessings, more blessings & Namaste to you.
Pluto will retrograde back into Capricorn for some fun times, and won't stay in Aquarius until November 20. (Yes, November 20th!) One of the best books to read about the crazy Pluto-Uranus-Neptune-Saturn sky dances is "Cosmos and Psyche" by Richard Tarnas.
Yet another possibility: Berenson is a provocateur who likes drawing attention to himself, by any means. He’s not on either side of a given debate, he’s on HIS side. Being right or wrong therefore doesn’t matter -- that’s too difficult for him to sustain. It’s much easier for him to generate publicity through sheer controversy, and to then avoid engaging in substantive analysis with critics, since defending himself or conceding an error is beside the point -- the point being that he’s the focus at the moment.
I am sort of hoping that Pluto in Aquarius will upend the plutocracy that has been ruling us from positions of extreme power and authority that increasing looks like a criminal cartel. Aquarius may flatten the hierarchy enough that the broader needs of humanity will start to be addressed not through cartel like hierarchies but through decision making and problem solving process that involve AI AND more enlightened human group processes.
Enjoyed this, I'm always interested in learning more about your life journey of discovery. Destiny-wise, why not come back to California and be a folksinger with me? Or a stand-up comic, your choice. Coincidentally (or not?), my wife has been tracking the Pluto implications for a few weeks now, and even more unlikely, has rekindled an interest in palmistry, something she has not thought about in over two decades.
Berenson had his moment when he called out the covid bs. He fell apart after that either due to his massive ego that he could not share the spotlight or that he’s just not that smart - I believe it’s both. If you watch the interview with tucker Carlson you find berenson making a statement as matter of fact & then contradicting it by the end of his sentence. I think he’s in over his head & has the elite mentality (his origin) that he knows best & never wrong.
Love the story about having your palm read. Really incredible. 50 years ago I was working as a waitress. A customer came in who said he could read palms. I gave him my hand and he said, Oh you've had a miscarriage. Well i had had an ectopic pregnancy. Then I had to move on to my next customer and never saw the palm reader again. There are people who are skilled at astrology and other fortune telling arts. It is amazing and thank you for sharing your story. I was listening to Rick Levine astrologer in 2019. He kept saying throughout the year that the most important date of the year was actually early in 2020 on January 12.
Love the story of what led to your resignation, and its timing! (Though I remain curious about what Vernon M. "answered specifically" in response to your question regarding what you should be doing!)
Re: astrology, it will never quite work to try to fit it onto the Procrustean bed of our materialist assumptions about the universe. Astrologers may speak colloquially about "planetary influences," but, strictly speaking, the planets (through their apparent positions in the zodiac and their angular relationships) as interpreted by astrologers are not "causing" anything to happen. They are purely symbolic, like hands on a clock (there may be bio/geophysical effects of the movement of celestial bodies, as with, say, the Moon and the tides and the filling of Emergency wards at the time of a Full Moon, but that is not really what astrologers are dealing with when they consult their charts...).
I should also point out that Pluto is entering Aquarius in the Tropical zodiac, which is not the same as entering the Constellation Aquarius. Though they use the same names, the zodiac as used in Western Astrology is based on the Earth's yearly trip around the Sun, split into twelve sectors or "Signs," and beginning at the Vernal Equinox when Spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere. Some astrologers use other zodiacs, or twelvefold divisions of the heavens, as well, with yet other starting points.
Re: Pluto entering Aquarius (Impersonal Force -> Organization of collectives, social structures) it is interesting that coincident with this we find Ol' Man Schwab himself "speculating" that, with AI, elections where human beings vote to choose their leaders may be unnecessary:
Great piece. I'm curious if Berenson will come out changing his mind on this. Surely he pays attention to the many voices that will offer him a totally different perspective.
I recall an interview I did with my astrologer friend in 2020 I believe. We had a great conversation about the age of Aquarius and this coming cycle of people beginning to reshape a worldview based on new ways of knowing. When he shared this concept with me I felt a deep resonation. Not only because of the passion I have for this subject but because I can't think of a better time for it that perhaps previous revolutions in thought and ways of living. We are yet again at another potent moment. Perhaps you and I will get our show ;)
Re: whatever the palmist told you regarding "what you should be doing," I hope (and suspect) that it was something along the lines of teaching and/or writing (about the increasing deception, manipulation, and control of humanity), as I, for one, feel that your book was a unique achievement and of greater value to humanity than any medical work you could have been doing instead of writing it (which labour most likely was taken up by others, who themselves could not have accomplished what you did with WOKE).
Alas, while it is a book that would -- if persevered with! -- stunningly clarify the perspective we gathered here share (most of us, no doubt, without even having read the book), it is doubtful that any but a very (VERY!) tiny fraction of those who most NEED to read it would even open it if it were handed to them (ask me how I know this!), and of that tiny fraction, only an even tinier fraction would actually be willing and able to follow the thread of your argument through to its conclusion. There are, as you are undoubtedly aware, multiple reasons for this: shimmering screen culture making people unable to follow threads of argument across multiple chapters and dozens or hundreds of pages; the grotesquely successful "conspiracy theory" psyop, where now ANYTHING suggesting (secret or even overt!) collusion between powerful actors is immediately dismissed by the gullible, compliant, complacent and/or intellectually lazy as something "tinfoil-hatty" and unworthy of the slightest attention or consideration, underscored -- always, I suspect! -- by a (conscious or otherwise) fear of being ridiculed and becoming an outcast oneself, were one to actually find something of substance in the imagined "conspiracy theory."
What may really be needed is a (sorry!) "WOKE for Dummies," heavily illustrated. Or in video "documentary" form (along the lines of CHD's recent amphetamine-driven/paced production of the rather dry financial book, The Great Taking; is Vera Sharav, producer of that, aware of your book? She and her crew might be able to work a miracle with your text...).
Anyway, while it may not have been the decision guaranteeing the highest degree of physical comfort and security for you and yours, I'm sure you rest peacefully in the understanding that mere physical comfort and security are not the highest (or deepest) values, and sometimes one simply has no choice but to sacrifice imagined/expected ongoing material security for the sake of those values. As I'm sure many or most of us here have!
'March 23, 2020 turned out to be the last day of elective surgeries around the country.'
Now we know one reason why hospitals got paid so much money for testing people for COVID, putting them on ventilators and giving them remdisiver. But closing down hospitals and having only a few see Rona patients is one of the dumbest things ever. No matter so many hospitals were overwhelmed. There were tons of beds everywhere that were empty.
Yup it makes sense why hospitals got more money to kill patients than to keep them alive. Just disgusting that so many doctors went along with it.
Thanks, That's quite a journey, or a slice of the journeies. Astrologies, I think they can serve us, as languages serve us. I am less fond of relating my Double Virgoness (Virgo sun Virgo rising Libra Moon), as one astrologer joking started off my reading with the words 'I'm so sorry but....'
...so I relate more to my Vedic aspects (Bumblebee/Turtle) and my Chinese astrology (Wood Dragon).
If I were a Rat I probably wouldn't mention it!
As for bamboo, good on you. Land of big grass, so foreign to me. Clearcuts in the mountains, you would think the good employees would refuse, their lives at risk by doing so I would think.
Berenson is not really very smart, a bit thick from what I have watched. Seems sponsored heavily to me, by the timing of his rise to stardom. Maybe he is sending a signal.
Whenever I see responses like what’s coming from Berenson it makes me wonder if he’s controlled opposition or maybe he’s just an arrogant attention grabber. Apparently his wife is a doctor who got the Covid shots which might explain things a bit. But his refusal to accept all the evidence about Ivermectin seems pretty strange considering the many successes that have been reported. And one other thing I can’t seem to grasp is his insistence on bringing back the ban on cannabis. After nearly a century of seeing the harms from prohibition, does Alex really really believe that the best use of government resources is to start locking up citizens who are not hurting anyone?
I find something "off" about Alex Berenson - I've wondered if he has some sort of mental issue. He has made some strange statements in the past and made uncalled for attacks on people. I watched a television interview that he and Dr. Malone did several years ago. Out of nowhere he attacked Dr. Malone on live television. I thought it was unfounded and weird and out of alignment with the direction of the interview. I had the distinct impression that Alex Berenson was jealous of the attention Dr. Malone was getting around that period. So I cancelled my subscription to his Substack. I get enough valuable insight and information from other writers who have actual science or medical backgrounds.
Berenson appears to be quite narcissistic. His refusal to realize the efficacy of ivermectin for Covid, even when Dr. Pierre Kory handed Alex his ass on a platter in a very civilized debate, made me distrust him forevermore. I listen to nothing he says.
Delicious. I don't doubt that there's more going on than we humans can begin to fathom.
Dr Setty,
You rock. Blessings, blessings, more blessings & Namaste to you.
Pluto will retrograde back into Capricorn for some fun times, and won't stay in Aquarius until November 20. (Yes, November 20th!) One of the best books to read about the crazy Pluto-Uranus-Neptune-Saturn sky dances is "Cosmos and Psyche" by Richard Tarnas.
I agree, we're in for one helluva ride.
Yet another possibility: Berenson is a provocateur who likes drawing attention to himself, by any means. He’s not on either side of a given debate, he’s on HIS side. Being right or wrong therefore doesn’t matter -- that’s too difficult for him to sustain. It’s much easier for him to generate publicity through sheer controversy, and to then avoid engaging in substantive analysis with critics, since defending himself or conceding an error is beside the point -- the point being that he’s the focus at the moment.
I am sort of hoping that Pluto in Aquarius will upend the plutocracy that has been ruling us from positions of extreme power and authority that increasing looks like a criminal cartel. Aquarius may flatten the hierarchy enough that the broader needs of humanity will start to be addressed not through cartel like hierarchies but through decision making and problem solving process that involve AI AND more enlightened human group processes.
Enjoyed this, I'm always interested in learning more about your life journey of discovery. Destiny-wise, why not come back to California and be a folksinger with me? Or a stand-up comic, your choice. Coincidentally (or not?), my wife has been tracking the Pluto implications for a few weeks now, and even more unlikely, has rekindled an interest in palmistry, something she has not thought about in over two decades.
Berenson had his moment when he called out the covid bs. He fell apart after that either due to his massive ego that he could not share the spotlight or that he’s just not that smart - I believe it’s both. If you watch the interview with tucker Carlson you find berenson making a statement as matter of fact & then contradicting it by the end of his sentence. I think he’s in over his head & has the elite mentality (his origin) that he knows best & never wrong.
Love the story about having your palm read. Really incredible. 50 years ago I was working as a waitress. A customer came in who said he could read palms. I gave him my hand and he said, Oh you've had a miscarriage. Well i had had an ectopic pregnancy. Then I had to move on to my next customer and never saw the palm reader again. There are people who are skilled at astrology and other fortune telling arts. It is amazing and thank you for sharing your story. I was listening to Rick Levine astrologer in 2019. He kept saying throughout the year that the most important date of the year was actually early in 2020 on January 12.
Love the story of what led to your resignation, and its timing! (Though I remain curious about what Vernon M. "answered specifically" in response to your question regarding what you should be doing!)
Re: astrology, it will never quite work to try to fit it onto the Procrustean bed of our materialist assumptions about the universe. Astrologers may speak colloquially about "planetary influences," but, strictly speaking, the planets (through their apparent positions in the zodiac and their angular relationships) as interpreted by astrologers are not "causing" anything to happen. They are purely symbolic, like hands on a clock (there may be bio/geophysical effects of the movement of celestial bodies, as with, say, the Moon and the tides and the filling of Emergency wards at the time of a Full Moon, but that is not really what astrologers are dealing with when they consult their charts...).
I should also point out that Pluto is entering Aquarius in the Tropical zodiac, which is not the same as entering the Constellation Aquarius. Though they use the same names, the zodiac as used in Western Astrology is based on the Earth's yearly trip around the Sun, split into twelve sectors or "Signs," and beginning at the Vernal Equinox when Spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere. Some astrologers use other zodiacs, or twelvefold divisions of the heavens, as well, with yet other starting points.
Re: Pluto entering Aquarius (Impersonal Force -> Organization of collectives, social structures) it is interesting that coincident with this we find Ol' Man Schwab himself "speculating" that, with AI, elections where human beings vote to choose their leaders may be unnecessary:
https://open.substack.com/pub/theylie/p/klaus-schwab-why-do-we-need-elections?
Great piece. I'm curious if Berenson will come out changing his mind on this. Surely he pays attention to the many voices that will offer him a totally different perspective.
I recall an interview I did with my astrologer friend in 2020 I believe. We had a great conversation about the age of Aquarius and this coming cycle of people beginning to reshape a worldview based on new ways of knowing. When he shared this concept with me I felt a deep resonation. Not only because of the passion I have for this subject but because I can't think of a better time for it that perhaps previous revolutions in thought and ways of living. We are yet again at another potent moment. Perhaps you and I will get our show ;)
Re: whatever the palmist told you regarding "what you should be doing," I hope (and suspect) that it was something along the lines of teaching and/or writing (about the increasing deception, manipulation, and control of humanity), as I, for one, feel that your book was a unique achievement and of greater value to humanity than any medical work you could have been doing instead of writing it (which labour most likely was taken up by others, who themselves could not have accomplished what you did with WOKE).
Alas, while it is a book that would -- if persevered with! -- stunningly clarify the perspective we gathered here share (most of us, no doubt, without even having read the book), it is doubtful that any but a very (VERY!) tiny fraction of those who most NEED to read it would even open it if it were handed to them (ask me how I know this!), and of that tiny fraction, only an even tinier fraction would actually be willing and able to follow the thread of your argument through to its conclusion. There are, as you are undoubtedly aware, multiple reasons for this: shimmering screen culture making people unable to follow threads of argument across multiple chapters and dozens or hundreds of pages; the grotesquely successful "conspiracy theory" psyop, where now ANYTHING suggesting (secret or even overt!) collusion between powerful actors is immediately dismissed by the gullible, compliant, complacent and/or intellectually lazy as something "tinfoil-hatty" and unworthy of the slightest attention or consideration, underscored -- always, I suspect! -- by a (conscious or otherwise) fear of being ridiculed and becoming an outcast oneself, were one to actually find something of substance in the imagined "conspiracy theory."
What may really be needed is a (sorry!) "WOKE for Dummies," heavily illustrated. Or in video "documentary" form (along the lines of CHD's recent amphetamine-driven/paced production of the rather dry financial book, The Great Taking; is Vera Sharav, producer of that, aware of your book? She and her crew might be able to work a miracle with your text...).
Anyway, while it may not have been the decision guaranteeing the highest degree of physical comfort and security for you and yours, I'm sure you rest peacefully in the understanding that mere physical comfort and security are not the highest (or deepest) values, and sometimes one simply has no choice but to sacrifice imagined/expected ongoing material security for the sake of those values. As I'm sure many or most of us here have!
'March 23, 2020 turned out to be the last day of elective surgeries around the country.'
Now we know one reason why hospitals got paid so much money for testing people for COVID, putting them on ventilators and giving them remdisiver. But closing down hospitals and having only a few see Rona patients is one of the dumbest things ever. No matter so many hospitals were overwhelmed. There were tons of beds everywhere that were empty.
Yup it makes sense why hospitals got more money to kill patients than to keep them alive. Just disgusting that so many doctors went along with it.
Thanks, That's quite a journey, or a slice of the journeies. Astrologies, I think they can serve us, as languages serve us. I am less fond of relating my Double Virgoness (Virgo sun Virgo rising Libra Moon), as one astrologer joking started off my reading with the words 'I'm so sorry but....'
...so I relate more to my Vedic aspects (Bumblebee/Turtle) and my Chinese astrology (Wood Dragon).
If I were a Rat I probably wouldn't mention it!
As for bamboo, good on you. Land of big grass, so foreign to me. Clearcuts in the mountains, you would think the good employees would refuse, their lives at risk by doing so I would think.
Berenson is not really very smart, a bit thick from what I have watched. Seems sponsored heavily to me, by the timing of his rise to stardom. Maybe he is sending a signal.
Best
Outer planets don't influence us.
They are only signs of what came before,
patterns that can be read from endless archetypes of being.
Whenever I see responses like what’s coming from Berenson it makes me wonder if he’s controlled opposition or maybe he’s just an arrogant attention grabber. Apparently his wife is a doctor who got the Covid shots which might explain things a bit. But his refusal to accept all the evidence about Ivermectin seems pretty strange considering the many successes that have been reported. And one other thing I can’t seem to grasp is his insistence on bringing back the ban on cannabis. After nearly a century of seeing the harms from prohibition, does Alex really really believe that the best use of government resources is to start locking up citizens who are not hurting anyone?