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Journal The Unified Woo Theory (plus recipies!)

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Swampdweller900

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Friends, I like this forum, and really feel at home here. The people are cool and take things seriously, but not overly so.

Taking a page from @HoldAll I'm going to take advantage of the Journal section, rather than throw my ideas away on something Substack or whatever. It's never going to get me money, so why let my work be content for their attention economy?

Splitting things up with posts about how the universe works, and then recipes for things worth sharing. Understanding the origin of time and space don't mean you ain't hungry!
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DUTY TO WARN

Personally, I dismissed astrology for most of my life. Then I happened to be looking at a 2021 important dates on a popular astrology site (IIRC, it was astrology.com, but I haven’t been able to find the same page), which noted civil unrest on January 6, 2021. About 30 seconds after someone texted me “have you seen what’s going on in DC?” I shed much of my doubt.

However, I remain skeptical of astrology at a highly granular level. Big picture stuff with pattern repetition? The correlations are high and obvious. But things like daily horoscopes I take as seriously as IG influences.

Remote Viewing Angle

As a remote viewer, I’ve been aware of Stephen A. Schwartz’s remote viewing 2050 project for years, in which he aggregated data from thousands of sessions to get aggregated agreement. He’s spoken about the findings from about the mid-80s that predict the fall of the USSR, HIV/AIDS, the global war on terror, and a few other points. In videos from New Thinking Allowed as far back as 2013, he notes increased incidence of diseases and pandemics. Even if you ignore COVID, that's true.

The short version of his findings from 2020-2050 is that polarity among people increases dramatically, something which his newsletter focuses on quite a bit. A period of significant political and economic disturbance reaches into the 2030’s, when “something happens to the Earth.” A turning point is reached, and by 2040 society has turned the corner enough to begin rebuilding. The United States suffers some sort of internal crisis that renders it a shadow of its former power.

A few other predictions seem to be just hanging out there without context: batteries that are just a warm metal cube will power most cars and homes, and cars will run on induction charging roadbeds (in the research stage now). Talk of domed cities to avoid the effects of climate change (a point I am most skeptical about), and that everyone has a “chip” for payments – this might simply be 1980’s interpretation of mobile phones and/or credit cards with chips in them. Hard to say.

My only criticism of Schwartz is that he’s been “writing a book” about this for like five years while getting more data on a modern 2030-2050 period. Writing a book is NOT easy, and I don’t want to knock him there. But at this point we’ve passed the point of relevance as predictions. If the book satisfied a duty to warn, then it's failed. We’re in the middle of this mess right now! And with LLMs really excelling at the exact task of aggregating data like this (other remote viewers have noted using LLMs to transcribe and correlate remote viewing data), the task of writing a book really puts all of us interested in the content resorting to other means like watching 10 interviews to get all the relevant points.

The Astrology Angle

Where this data falls out of isolation is that several notable astrologers have predicted a similar big-picture course of events for the United States and the earth in general. Not just one or two, the general consensus is that 2024-2033 is a period of large-scale change, which is not good by default.

Two notable astrologers, Nick Dagan Best and (French guy), as well as many others, have seen the upcoming changes in the outer planets as portending bad times. I’m not an astrologer myself, and I find all the “oh, and the transit of Pluto into Aquarius!” to be a bit too close to a “baffle them with BS” kind of thing to pass that along. Best has a whole book about it and the procession of Uranus and Gemini the United States if you care about the details. I’m not going to rehash the background here, as Best has literally hours and hours of getting into the weeds on various podcasts and books. We’re taking him at his word here.

The point here is that astrologers have a fairly well-established set of previous patterns and movements that are repeating right now. Patterns that denote conflict similar to the 1790-1798 post-Revolution period, the Civil War, and World War II, pointing to a combination of internal strife, internal reorganization and external conflict.

Producing a Timeline

When we take a step back, maybe squint our eyes, and get very big picture, generally speaking, this is the timeline we can expect based on Nick Dagan Best and Stephan A. Schwartz’s work. It's an approximation, so I might have things a bit off.

What I will avoid here is interpreting the data. I find that this is where a lot of predictions go wrong, is that they were right all along, but someone takes a stand on defining something before knowing the context of the time. No one looking at these data in 2000 would have come close to knowing what any of it meant, and interpreting it at that time period would have resulted in wrong specific predictions. Even being this close to things, I can’t tell you what the tech advances of 2027 will be with accuracy. Take these themes and use them as a set of guidelines and themes from which to prepare yourself to exist over the next 10-20 years.

I should also add that “stability” is not necessarily good for everyone. Stability is just lack of chaos and uncertainty. YMMV. The Stalinist Soviet Union was "stable" for a time as well, and it wasn't pleasant.

OK, let’s get to it. Sorry, but everyone else's work focuses on the US, so that's all I have to work with.

2025

We’ve already been through most of this year, with a lot of communication and technology and its disruption themes about here, which we've seen. So far is that after the relative calm of the last 2 months, turbulence is ahead for the rest of the year, with an increase in what can be only called information wars. I hate referencing Alex Jones, but that’s about what we’re doing here. Overall, a lot of data privacy issues, data leaks, misinformation, internet kerfuffles, and possible social media whiplash. Overall climate of too much data, and it’s all garbage.

My personal advice: Americans, freeze your credit. Like, yesterday. Please.

Note: Some predictions note cyberattacks and internet outages start happening quite a bit, and I wrote this originally just before AWS was having a major outage thanks to faulty DNS.

Some have also pointed this time as an opportunity for another wave of disease of some sort, with the late 2025-early 2026 period matching some aspects of COVID (astrologically). It might simply be a very bad flu season, the mental health crisis getting worse, pertussis and measles outbreaks, AI-induced psychosis – who knows. But it’s not just one person noting this alignment.

2026

After the holidays, economic turbulence really sets in. Supply chain issues and “border” issues (as in, tariffs?). Really, a lot of astrologers for decades have pointed to this time as sub-optimal, even across the broader “2025-2027 Sucks” theme.

I have seen some people say that the birth chart for a certain pale balding warmonger that should leave Ukraine the hell alone might have some hiccups during late February 2026. I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m writing it down here now for posterity.

Spring-summer ‘26 might show more stability and more tech jumps. “New tools appear amid the chaos.” That's the bright spot? Ugh, OK.

Buuuuut the Mid-term elections bring us all back to the squabble for the summer. End of the year is more garbage information overload. What a time to get a paperback and ignore the world.

Honestly, none of this is exactly surprising so far. I could have guessed this all just on my own. I’m acknowledging the “well, duh” aspect, here. But no warnings of comets or inaccurate periods of "sunshine and puppy dogs and unicorns!"

2027

Starts with a bang, sadly. Predictions are conflict and attacks. This is when the new Congress gets sworn in, so that’s not great.

Interestingly, it does seem to also show a lot of major institutional and legislative changes over this whole time period as well. More than we've been having. Which to me doesn't seem likely with a close split in the House and Senate. So either Congress goes total supermajority as backlash, or in the midterms all that gerrymandering pays off big time and all 3 branches remain held by the same folks as now.

Same with post-summer – bad times that will last almost a year. Including for Eastern Europe and hybrid conflicts there. By the end of the year, there might be some glimmers of hope for a brief reprieve. Don’t get used to it.

2028

Starts with more economic turmoil, and more conflict. This is not an awesome year, with both uncertainty from all this institutional overhaul (more? WTF?) and conflict, including many suggestions of hybrid or cyber warfare. As if we haven’t been warned of both for years. Sure, plenty of tech jumps and innovation with how goods and data move, but that’s most of the net positives. The year ends with a transition to greater stability, whatever that means, as it's the 2028 election.

2029

Turbulence begins to recede, and the trends of conflict and chaos start to ease up. Not go away, just ease up. Greater constructive momentum, more stability. Continued de-escalation of conflicts. By the summer, things almost look...promising? The end of 2029 completes the cycle and transition. We’re emerging from the mess, but still have a ways left to go.

2030-2033

During this time, reform will be on the agenda, with a period mirroring the drafting of the Constitution. This points to major overhauls, such as Amendments being passed, and potential for Constitutional crises. Ultimately, it’s during this time that things shift so dramatically that the U.S. begins to re-define itself as a nation. This is an era of things turning the corner and being on a path back to stability, not actually finding stability yet.

2034-2040

On the astrological side of things, this points to an era of rebuilding and healing. If you’ve made it this far, congrats! You’re living in a Brave New World.

Good luck out there, y’all!
 
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Intent is what Makes Magic Happen


Intent is a special tool each human possesses. A powerful tool, when wielded correctly.

While not hard to define the term, various sources define it in oddly nebulous ways. One dictionary might say intent is full attention with mind and will focused on a particular outcome. I enjoy the legal definition: that a person expects the natural consequences of their actions. Knock the glass off the counter and you expect it to hit the floor and shatter, right?


When exploring consciousness, we say “intent” is often a focused willpower and mental imagery to try and influence an outcome. As we stray more into the paranormal and esoteric realm, intent takes on different names. Prayer. Meditation. Vibes. Spells. Curses. Reaching out. Requests to Spirit. Intent, as it turns out, sits squarely at the center of active participation in both the mundane and esoteric.


The typical method scientists test intent tasks subjects with influencing a random number generator. A test subject sits and concentrates on making the average number move a statistically significant amount off the average.


Results are mixed, with some studies showing a statistically significant effect, while others fail to do so. Critics often jump on this as evidence of no effect whatsoever. I, and I imagine most researchers on this side of the woo-woo line, see this as not evidence of no effect, but evidence that intent to affect the outcome is the most important element. Dean Radin’s study showed that people who did not believe they could affect the outcome either did not, with some actually driving their outcomes below average when the task to was make the number higher.


Imagine you work for a company that makes a fancy boutique commercial bread yeast. Someone sends you an angry email saying their yeast is always dead, and they insist they’re fallowing directions. You go to their house and observe them proofing the yeast and find they use water that is a few degrees too warm and kills the yeast because they only have a Celsius thermometer and have been doing the conversion to Fahrenheit wrong, but the same temperature is just barely right for more robust commercial bread yeast.

Would we blame the yeast company for a bad product? Certainly not.


Companies place warning labels on curling irons not to stick the hot curling iron in anything you don’t want burned. Because someone somewhere once did exactly that. Do we blame the company for someone who doesn’t know how to use the product? Do we assume that everyone with a curling iron has tried that? Of course not.

People make mistakes on their taxes all the time. Do we say that taxes are not worth doing because a few people simply can’t figure out how to do their own filing? Of course not.

So then why dismiss studies showing intent with a statistically significant effect when studies that attempt to replicate the effect don’t select for participants that think they can affect the outcome? Because

Studies such as those of James Alcock (1981 and later), Ray Hyman (1985, 1989) and Milton & Wiseman (1999), all failed to replicate the exact conditions of studies that showed and effect, and yet somehow those clearly biased and poorly run studies are the ones that materialists cling to because they confirm their own biases.

They exhibit the same behavior as people who drink a bottle of red wine every night and make the excuse that “some study I saw an article about” says that one glass a day may be beneficial.

Intent, however, when applied is the fundamental basis of humanity’s original way to interact with the world beyond their hands. Shamans use their well-developed intent to save people from spirit possession, parishioners pray for members their churches to heal, witches formulate and cast spells, some folks into cloud busting swear by their intent to disperse anything from the sky, and remote influencers claim to be able to inject thoughts or even physical effects on other people from a distance.

Intent is a powerful tool every human has – but only if you have the intent to believe that you can use it.
 

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Hah, synchronicity! I'm planning start off my next journal entry with a piece about 'intent', about how many everyday movements could be interpreted as martial arts techniques, for example opening a drawer as pulling sb. towards you, but what differentiates the two is intent, i.e. when you intend to execute this movement as a martial arts technique as a part of your practice, you will generate martial arts energy but not when you just rummage around in the kitchen, although performing one and the same move. Hmm... the same could be said about magic where hand gestures mean different things within a ritual and daily life, depending on context.
 
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