Today I realized that even though the Web3 program is ramping up as demonstrated by Silicon Valley’s plans to turn Argentina into a “network state,” few understand what is unfolding with cybernetic governance. For that reason, I decided to take time off this spring to work on my garden and simply be with real people in the real world. I made a brief announcement to that effect tonight.
This is a clip I created (6 minutes) summarizing Protocol Lab’s Aleph project with Javier Milei, the guy who gave Musk the chainsaw at the CPAC gathering a few weeks ago. I get that it is difficult to navigate narratives and torrents of information. The current has been against the story I’ve been trying to tell for a decade. It simply didn’t stick, but I did try. I lost my old life in the process, but I gained a sunny yard filled with birdsong and time to read stacks of books on cosmology and consciousness. Until I pop in again, be well everyone.
A work in progress. Yesterday I planted twenty-five asparagus crowns. It will be three years before I can harvest them. It feels kind of good to be on slow vegetable time.
Excellent choice! Happy to read this. Enjoy the garden and real people you can see and touch. You look happy and glowing.
Completely hear you, drowning in an ocean of nothing to see here, holding on to what is in my here and now – which is moving to a new life is all I can do too. Sending warmest hugs and so much gratitude for the learning.
Hi Alison, I read this book recently and thought it might resonate with you. Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping.
Love Abby x
Bristol, England.
Enjoy your time off, Alison. Thinking of you with real people in the real world and being in slow vegetable time in your garden makes me happy for you.
For ever grateful of your work and morn all the sacrifices you made. It was not in vain, it does stick on some of us! I would never have understood as much as I do without you. I”m sure we will se a lot of ramping up 2025 and forward. My latest lesson is to try to stop change other people, learning to enjoy my own company, reading. Tips on good reads is allwas appreciated. I”m readin Paul Cudenec, The Withway. He has referenced and praised your efforts twice so far. I suppose you knew but in case not. You have made a difference! Cudenec and Winteroak is also a great source these days. Where I live we had snowfall last night (Sweden) but spring and light are returning. My bees has shown themselves and the chicks are laying eggs again. Soon time for nettlesoup. Love to you!
Allison you changed everything for me when I discovered your work on social impact investing deep in the lockdowns. I took handwritten notes on everything you said in some of those videos. I am still so far ahead of the curve understanding what’s coming that there is no one I can even discuss it with. I cannot imagine your sacrifice – but can relate to the loneliness feeling. You are a true hero. You stuck your neck out there and tried to tell the truth and lost everything because of it. You have been right about all of it. So many let their guard down for Trump and MAGA, and have no clue the evils that await.
The work you have done is still there for people to learn from when they are ready. I think reconnecting to the real world with your hands on the earth is wise. Perhaps it will give a new perspective on what to share and how to share it in meaningful ways. It may also lead to creative solutions that you would not have otherwise thought of because you have been submerged in such dark topics for so long. Perceptive souls and tender hearts can only handle so much. Surrender is a wonderful sanctuary.
We are creative beings with infinite capacity, so the future is malleable. My family moved to the county, started a homestead, and began connecting with our immediate community. We share our expertise, learn from others, and buy/sell/trade with whoever is open to connecting with us. It is not perfect, but it is a start. We march on.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. This has been a regular prayer for me these last few years…and countless others, I’m sure.
Enjoy playing in the dirt and making things beautiful. Mother Gaia appreciates the attention and connection. She is spry and might just yet lead us out of this madness in ways we never expected.
“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.”
Alison, All is Sun and all the wonderful ways in between. Enjoy watching the new life you’re tending grow and know that it eventually reaches/teaches us all. Nothing ever ever replaces heart. I can’t wait to watch your heart mandalas cover your new garden. Take heart, dear one, take heart! You are never alone.
Alison. I feel your pain. Know that we who follow you, owe you eternal gratitude for sifting through all the madness and putting it into a context that we can chew on until “we get it”. We may not be as fast as getting it as you might like. All in good time. The human psyches’ “aperture” (thank you James True) opens up like a camera lense. The more you open it up, the more you can absorb. When it’s too much information, the lense closes to protect the psyche until subliminally we’re ready to return to the table, pick up the crumbs and begin to absorb again. Know that your work is a gift we appreciate so much. Trust me. Nothing you have done has been in vain. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy connecting with your garden and your new friends and community. Personally I’d be happy to keep you company virtually as you report on How Your Garden Grows, if you’ve a mind to share. We’ll be here.
I had to look up the definition of ‘hiatus’ to make sure I understood your sentiment as much as possible — “a pause or a gap in sequence, series or process.” That seems appropriate at this juncture as you have given so much of your time and energy, a pause may do us all a good service to allow your many syntheses to percolate before further sinking in.
Seeing as you are going big into the garden during your hiatus, I cannot resist but offer a metaphor. Judging by some of the comments on your blog and corresponding YouTube post, your work is for many of us (myself included) like a giant compost heap — full of a variety of ideas and concepts in the various states of breaking down and decomposing towards a more homogenized garden amendment. In all candidness, you have amassed a huge pile of sh*t and collected some of the most amazing and far-flung data points and woven them together like only a master gardener can do. But, like the compost pile, it is too hot, too ‘spicy’ to be spread out just yet — it needs some time to breakdown before it can be safely accessed by the majority of the plants. Time to sit and breakdown is essential for the healthy compost heap — unless you are like my friend Ivan who fancied draining the turtle pond onto the pile in an attempt for spontaneous combustion. Either way, I enjoy watching your compost pile grow and break down.
In looking for good quotes on soil to accompany this attempt at gratitude, I found this one from Howard Warren Buffet to be the most apt. As the grandson to Warren Buffet, I think this suggests and further underpins that despite the massive amount of stuff you’ve piled on, none of this is going anywhere… the future is always going to be there waiting for us, waiting to be sifted and spread and further amended as we see fit. Enjoy your time in the garden, building your compost and improving your ‘soil’ — and remember you have made a difference in many lives. Thank you!
“Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer’s most precious asset. A farmer’s productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.”
~Howard Warren Buffet
Happiest spring to you, Alison! Take care of yourself and enjoy your time away. Big ol’ bear hugs to you, and if you see an elemental out there, tell them Hi from me.