Notes From Gordon: Magical Thinking

Hello Dear Ones,

There was a good post from Dr. Joseph Mercola recently about the power of intuition as compared to magical thinking.

Women are known for their powers of intuition. I can remember my wife, Cyndi, seeing President William Jefferson Clinton on TV for the first time and saying, “What a creep.” 

Bill was new to America at that time.

No one knew of his connections to murder and drug running out of Mesa, Arkansas.

This was well before Bill smoked pot but “did not inhale.”

Or spent time cavorting with a nubile, young intern under the desk in the Oval Office, allegedly looking for a lost contact lens.

But Cyndi had nailed it.

Bill was a creep… still is.

Magical thinking, unlike intuition, is thinking that defies reason and logic.

There are many examples of magical thinking that permeate our modern culture.

A few quickly come to mind.

THAT a child can spend 12 years in a social conditioning camp—attendance at which is government-mandated—and ever learn how dangerous government can be.

THAT you can vote for your choice of presidential candidate and think that your missing freedoms will ever be reclaimed.

THAT you can store up your life savings in a circulating medium of exchange that was engineered from the beginning to lose value every year, and see this as a successful path to retirement.

THAT you can surrender your firearms and not become subject to extermination by psychopaths in power.

THAT you can inject your children—repeatedly, I might add—with toxic, experimental concoctions, defy eons of human immune system development, and imagine that things will not go terribly wrong.

People who engage in magical thinking are, to various degrees, hypnotized by the magicians who control them.

We call these magicians experts, politicians and religious leaders.

You were born a citizen with all the rights that a republic under the rule of law—and limited by a written constitution—has to offer.

But forget about that.

Besides, you’ve never actually read the Constitution, have you?

Please focus instead on the swinging pendulum.

Yes, yes… very good… your eyes are getting heavy.

When I count to three you will start to get sleepy.

Excellent, be sure to keep watching television every day.

When I count to five you will start to get very sleepy.

Perfect, keep up your grades and always do as your teachers say.

When I count to eighteen, I want you to start paying taxes.

Excellent, taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

When I count to twenty-one, I want you to start voting.

Very good… you must always vote since only a free people enjoy this privilege.

When I count to thirty and you have accumulated some debt, I want you to think of yourself as a consumer.

Now repeat after me: “I am a citizen no more.”

“I am a citizen no more.”

Very good—you are now under my spell.

Your thoughts are no longer your own.

You have bonded with your captors.

Please contribute to your IRA.

Please vaccinate your children.

Please register your weapons.

Please vote for Donald or Kamala.

### POOF!! ###

Whew, sorry!

Gordon back again… those short naps are refreshing!

I don’t know about you, but my intuition informs me that ‘none of the above’ choices are particularly useful.

And I’m not even a woman.

But these days you can’t be sure... so let me check.