Why do we get hoodwinked?

Why are so many of us easily fooled?

How do we get tricked into believing a series of lies?

What’s the psychological mechanism at play here?

Today, let’s use the pandemic narrative as an illustration of the “psychology of getting hoodwinked.”

I realize that many of you already understand what I’m going to share here.

For you, I’m mainly going to provide additional context and language for what you’ve already observed in others.

The mechanism at work begins in childhood …

When we’re young, we don’t really understand how this world works.

So we naturally start to look around and observe what other people are doing.

But we’re also given a set of commands from those “bigger people” like our parents and teachers:

• “Do what you’re told.”
• “Follow what I say.”

And when we asked these bigger people why?

We often got back,

• “Because I said so.”
• “Because that’s how it is.”
• “Because I know what’s best.”

(Or, we received an answer that didn’t make much sense to us.)

So we learned at a young to see and project authority outside of ourselves.

As children, it was our parents, teachers, the education system, sports coaches, or perhaps our church or religious group leaders.

Then, as we got older, this outside authority might become our professors, public figures, athletes, spiritual gurus, presidents, celebrities, CEOs, authors, speakers, or various media personalities.

What does it mean to project authority outside of oneself?

Authority can be located inside or outside of us.

When we project authority outside, we look to others to see how we should behave and what we should believe.

When someone tells us what to do and what is true—if they represent “authority” to us—for the most part, we blindly follow them.

Plus, these “authorities” give us constant assurance that we’re doing the right thing.

We might feel assured when our physician tells us what’s wrong with our bodies and prescribe us medication to fix it.

We might feel comforted when a health official on television tells us to protect ourselves and others by wearing masks whenever we’re around other people (even when we’re healthy).

We might feel protected when a pharmaceutical company tells us that their product is safe and that it will keep us from getting sick or dying.

And these assurances may give us comfort.

They may provide a feeling of security because our authority figures said so.

And we assume these authorities care about our health and well-being.

But WHAT IF these “authorities” are ill-informed, confused, or even have harmful intentions for us?

How would we know?

We all have four primary ways of processing information.

As Carl Jung highlighted, we can use our

• thinking (logic and reason),
• senses or instincts,
• intuition, or
• feelings

… to process data in the world around us.

Thinking, instincts, intuition, and feelings all help shape our perception of reality.

They all provide vital data with which to interpret and understand what’s going on around us.

But when we project authority outside of ourselves, without realizing it, we put ourselves under the complete influence of someone else.

In doing so, we stop accessing these vital ways of evaluating information for ourselves.

It’s like there are volume control levels on all four of these data processing centers.

When we project authority outside, the volume of our thinking, sensing, and intuition drops down.

Simultaneously, the volume of our feeling function goes up.

As a result, our anxiety levels increase (neurosis). And our perception is usually impaired.

What happens next?

Then, irrationality sets in.

When this impairment happens to a small number of people on the same topic, it’s called a cult.

But when a large number of people have their judgments and perception impaired on a subject matter—when it represents the majority—it’s often mistaken for “reality” or “the truth.”

And then, a mass psychosis ensues.

So why is it so difficult to question the validity of our authority figures?

Let’s take an example using what’s happening in the world right now.

If we were to question the “authority figures” about this pandemic narrative, consider the type of questions we would ask ourselves:

• What if there was an ulterior motive behind the story that we’re being told?
• What if many government officials, pharmaceutical companies, and big technology companies had another reason to create a worldwide panic and to collapse the economy?
• What if they are intentionally lying to us?
• What are the primary motivations and ideologies of these so-called authorities?
• What if there are individuals in positions of power that are really trying to hurt or even kill us?
• Could there really be a hidden agenda we don’t know about?

Notice how you FEEL when you confront yourself with these questions (even if you already know what’s going on).

This line of questioning makes us feel very uncomfortable.

Just these questions alone can produce fear and uncertainty—and a healthy dose of paranoia.

You might think to yourself …

• What am I going to do if there IS a hidden agenda?
• What does all of this MEAN?
• Am I one of those crazy “conspiracy theorists” now?

And when we feel the discomfort of fear and uncertainty (and cognitive dissonance), it often makes us run to safety.

What happens when we run to safety?

Familiarity breeds a sense of safety.

Safety, in this case, includes whatever information we may have innocently accepted before as “true.”

By seeking safety, we return to the initial authority figures as we might have run home to our parents after something terrible happened at school when we were kids.

• “Masks will protect you and others.”
• “The injections are safe and for your protection.”
• “Stay away from other people.”
• “Your government is trying to protect you.”

Now, we’re back in our “comfort zone.” AAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

And at the same time, all of our access to critical thinking, intuition, and instincts is severed.

Then, we can no longer ask critical questions like:

From data reported to VAERS, these injections have already killed more people than all “vaxxes” administered throughout history combined.

So why are they still administering them? (In contrast, the swine flu vax was stopped after only 25 reported deaths.)

If immunity is stronger without the injection, why are they still mandating the injections?

What does it tell us when the city of Waterford, Ireland has the highest rate of injections in the EU AND the highest rate of incidence?

If the survival rate of this “thing” is over 99%, why are they still locking down the world and rolling out digital “health passports”?

We can’t ask these questions in earnestness AND run to safety at the same time.

What happens to us when we run to safety?

So to avoid feelings of fear and terror, we often default back to whatever the authorities told us was true.

But in doing so, we …

• Cut ourselves off from loads of facts that conflict with the original narrative
• Dull our instincts and intuition that is telling us something is seriously wrong
• Seek out confirmation of our beliefs to give us a false sense of security
• Drown out any source of information that conflicts with the original story
• Surround ourselves with people who share our viewpoints (and avoid everyone else)

And this defensive posture seems to work … at least, for a while.

Our minds lock themselves into a little prison surrounded by a series of familiar ideas and beliefs, making us feel safer.

But once we start to ask questions—once we begin to pull the thread—there’s something inside of us that can no longer be at ease …

What are we supposed to do when this happens?

Instead of projecting authority outside of ourselves, we begin to “recollect our projections” and bring that authority back into ourselves (where it belonged in the first place).

Jung called this process individuation.

So what does it mean to individuate?

It means we …

* Open up to the fear and terror that’s sitting within us instead of running away from it.

* Accept the ambiguity of not having certainty about what’s true—at least when we first start to examine what’s going on.

* Start to evaluate different viewpoints and data with an open mind.

* Apply critical thinking and evaluation of whatever information we blindly accepted before as “facts.”

* Invest the time to try to investigate and understand the “bigger picture.”

* Work with our childhood trauma (as that’s why we project authority outside in the first place).

* Embrace the cognitive dissonance and disillusionment that comes with this process.

These are some of the tests and trials of individuation.

Can we embrace loneliness too?

As you individuate, you begin to realize that there’s no longer any perceived authority outside of you.

Governments, big businesses, or any other big institution do not have our best interests in mind. (Most of us intuitively know this, and yet we often still get deceived by them.)

One of the most difficult things, as many of you know, is the feeling of not having a “footing” or ground beneath you.

Disillusionment is a mighty beast we all must tame if we are to land both feet on the ground.

Through the individuation process, you will likely also feel isolated or alone at times.

As Jung wrote in Memories, Dreams and Reflections:

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

Sound familiar in our current times?

Diving into the deep end …

The more we have projected authority outside of ourselves, the more unconscious we are of our fears lurking in the deep.

And as a consequence, the less grounded we are in reality.

This turbulent process takes patience, persistence, and personal will.

It’s as if you’re having your whole world flipped upside down—like you’re stuck in a wave continually crashing over you.

But if you persist, as you come out of the dark tunnel, you transform.

You’ll find that you’re stronger, more capable, and more intuitive than you once realized.

The volume turns back up on your abilities to think critically, access intuition, connect to your instincts, and discern your feelings.

Then, you will no longer be hoodwinked so easily.

Instead, you will be able to evaluate information with both eyes open, looking straight ahead.

As a consequence, your ability to make effective decisions increases tenfold.

Individuation is an individual journey. No one can do it for you.

And you can’t help someone else do it either.

But the more progress we each make—at any level—the sooner this mass psychosis we are currently experiencing can finally end.

Understand the “Bigger Picture” of what’s unfolding

Read the Worldwide Shadow Report

Stay alert. Stay vigilant.