I also took off, without a home, for several years. At one point I did rent a place for a bit, but it was while I was en route to somewhere else. I'd joke that I was homeless. And it made people incredibly uncomfortable. I've often wondered what exactly was their discomfort? Why not be curious? Why not explore an interesting story of how I came to this place?
Indeed. The lack of or suppression of curiosity is endemic, not just about being 'houseless' but about anything outside of the security bubble, considering the orthodox narrative imposed on us over the last 2.5 years to 'keep us safe'.
Thank you, Pat, for your observation, especially about the importance of curiosity. It is a great synchronicity for me right now. Earlier tonight I was finishing up a public 'de-zombification' letter addressed to an executive of a spiritual group I am a member of that are totally asleep. I had written them off after a rather closed response exhibiting no curiosity about why I chose to lose my job and uproot my life. Instead I was politely chastised for pretending that the covid was a flu that didn't exist and was deadly. (I did call it a flu, although I didn't say anything about its pathogenicity or lack of existence.)
And earlier, it struck me that one of the greatest success factors in the zombification of much of the industrial world was an educational and social indoctrination process designed to create experts and those who trust experts without question. For the last while I've been exploring in my writing about the lack of curiosity as the sign of a dead life.
In over two years of interviews on my podcast, curiosity emerges as one of the common elements of resilient people and engaged people. I'm actually devoting an entire chapter to it in my book. I personally cannot fathom a life without it!
I've also stopped being polite by letting these idiots drive the dialogue. No more. This mass psychosis has to be broken. I've been shunned, physically accosted and screamed at (when I lived in the woke capital of the world, Santa Fe) and simply won't take it anymore. By the way, I also moved and it is so wonderful to live in relative sanity again.
Have several podcasts to post the first time so people have a choice.
If you don't want to do the tech work, hire someone (fivrr)
Be sure your topic is flexible enough to age well
Those are the top things that come to mind. You may want to have half a dozen episodes ready to go so you're not scrambling. Too much fun! What's your podcast about?
For the tech work, at this point I'm naively thinking recording zoom and then putting them up into ... well, it would have likely been youtube, until this. I have some familiarity with garageband for sound editing. None with video editing. So hire it is.
The theme of it is 'Waking up in the time of Covid.' I think that this will be flexible enough to age for a while. Tentative name of podcast is 'The Wake-Up Guy'.
That film made Chloé Zhao our new favorite director, and we immediately followed it up with “The Rider” and “Songs My Brother Taught Me” (we are pretending “The Eternals” does not exist and pray she will escape Hollywood before they attempt to corrupt her further).
CinemaStix did a lovely video essay on her brilliant practice of casting non-actors in her films (maybe watch after her movies to avoid spoilers):
I don't often read The Guardian, but there is a fantastic review that puts the film in historical context with the Western narrative and manifest destiny.
To be clear, this is not my particular lifestyle here in Europe. Yet considering our collective possibilities, it may be a future for us all. Still, my proposition of Love with a capital L stands true. It's the new L-word!
Thank you for sharing that article—it managed to be astonishingly untainted by wokism, and I appreciated the reference to Steinbeck, which I hadn’t previously considered but which makes perfect sense.
Ironically, Zhao—a Chinese immigrant—captures the heart of America in a way few directors have. Her first three films are both a love letter and an elegy for the American West and the wilderness, individualism, and liberty it represents while also documenting its frailties, corruption, and decline.
Ultimately, the overriding message is that freedom comes at a cost—but a worthwhile one.
Hello Navyo… my journey has been living a lifetime of trust in myself and in grace. The choices made have been unconventional such as defending truth and becoming one with strength in solitude at times… it is an evolution in grace worth participating in my life journey. Blessings to you soul family!
Hi Navyo, I live in a similar fashion - no job, no savings, few possessions, no home, no income and I too have felt the ire of those around me. My family no longer talks to me because during Covid their insistence on me taking the clot shot required some push back - they didn’t like that. Just the other day my landlady informed me she wants me to vacate the room I was staying in because [insert reason]. It’s not the first time this has happened, they just make something up, in her case it was the lie that she has family coming - the actual reason is as you outlined - I threaten them. I don’t watch TV, I don’t really do chit chat (although I try for their sake), I’m quiet and peaceful, preferring to spend my days writing, reading and going for walks. This is intolerable to the normies. How dare he never complain!
I really resonated with what you wrote - so much so that my girlfriend actually sent this to me with the comment “did you write this?” It’s nice to hear from a fellow fearless traveller. DB
Thank you, brother. Weird, isn't it? And yet not, as it's understandable. Nice to meet a fellow traveler. I think there's many more of us than we imagine. As the Empire strikes back, more and more people are waking up and realizing to their shock that their child's sudden death was not by natural causes, or their ageing parent's, or whoever. People are putting two and two together. Of course, many (most?) are still making five as the State would have them.
Another weirdness is actually trying to have a conversation with a 'normie' - not necessarily about the jabs or anything controversial - and watching them flounder. Shorter attention spans, memory loss, confusion, unable to maintain threads or logic. It seems there's a certain amount of neurological damage. Overall, they're easy to spot. It makes the divide more obvious, which is somehow intended. Healing that divide is part of our work. But sometimes I doubt that's even possible.
Nice to hear that comment from your girlfriend. Blessings on your journey. There but for the grace of God go us.
It’s like fish trying to talk to elephants. We just seem so far apart on our whole life orientation thing. But, as you said, maybe more are waking up? Mostly I just see people carrying on, business as usual - buying stuff, going on cruises, watching TV etc.
It’s hard to imagine what has become of us as anything other than orchestrated, at least to some degree. I can’t say I have noticed much in terms of a lack of attention span from the normies as I don’t interact with people that much. I have heard other people say as much. I have certainly noticed a lot more retarded and sick people.
I fear it will take some kind of major cataclysm before we are able to let the love back in and steer society towards the fruitful and the good. Here’s hoping it’s not too painful a transition. DB
Hello, Navyo. I have begun a very similar journey. It began with the 'injection-rejection' that cost me my job. Now I have moved into trust-falling into the Universe. Letting go of fear and the other baggage emotional and physical has brought me lightness in mind and body as my Spirit begins to more fully express without the old frictions of anger, resentment, etc.
I agree that this time of covid has been a huge kick in our butts to the truth of the inhuman and corrupt nature of the entire social construct we are born into. What a huge spiritual opportunity to be change in ourselves and in the small and big communities we inhabit. We are a living embodiment of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Amazing. I feel honoured to be with Arjuna, seeking the truth.
Trust-falling. I like that. Indeed it is the experience of falling. Even the physicality of diving into the deep end or off a cliff doesn't quite match the trust involved. One thing I learned - and have to keep learning (ha ha!) - is that it's safe to let go.
Yes, these past years have been a huge wake up. The fracture of society, of friendships and family have had the biggest impact, I feel. The persecution and segregation of the unvaxxed was both shocking and enlightening. And now we see it is the vaxxed who are filling the hospitals, who are suddenly dying and experiencing horrific injuries. What karma.
The truth will out, as always. I never thought our spiritual awakening would be in this context. But here we are. Blessings.
I'm still learning that let go thing. For weeks it was the basic letting go of the terror that woke me up at 3am with what felt like an elephant sitting on my chest squeezing the life out of me. My dedicated sadhana and meditation practices had given me the strength and courage to let it be, focus on the breath, and then have the terror fall away. After several weeks the terror diminished to small anxiety attacks. And even now, they have diminished a great deal in intensity and frequency.
My family was already fractured, and so not a big impact there. And I've maintained most of my friendships, with some being a little frosty without losing all contact. The yoga community has been the source of the biggest rupture, although even there for me it wasn't too traumatic because I've been a bit of a lone wolf there, long before the covid axe fell.
"I never thought our spiritual awakening would be in this context." Nope, me too. For me, when I first started the path of awakening at a deep level, I still had the idea it was all roses gardens and blue skies, or something. Recently, listening to the yogi-Buddhist scholar and teacher Michael Stone on a podcast, he quoted Dogen, I think, paraphrased: "Do you really think that you will arrive at enlightenment and think 'Enlightenment? Just what I thought it would be?'"
The level of world community karmic delusion is so huge that likely a really big ass whupping is required to create some type of re-connection between the soul and body. LOL! It sure has moved up the process in me and my partner.
I know you a lot better now! You are daring indeed, and I am eager to know how it is possible to live in abundance without a home, car, etc. Is this the subject of one of your books?
Thank you for the article. I'm down-shifted living in a cheaper country - so 'down' but not fully 'out' of the system. I'm not sure if this compromise is killing my soul. I feel o.k when I'm working on my patch of land, growing food, weaving, sculpting and writing poetry. Being in the creative process is my 'salvation' - but I'd love to live with less fear (that's how your article attracted my attention). All the best on your journey, Josh.
Thanks Joshua. Being in nature and engaging your creativity are two of the most powerful things you can do, imo. That of itself is going to dissolve any fear and grow your soul. It's a process. These things don't happen overnight. But then one day...
Having an assignment in boot-camp Planet Earth was never going to be easy - but if we're here 'to grow in consciousness' it takes the sting out of the materiality of life (when it turns disagreeable, that is).
I also took off, without a home, for several years. At one point I did rent a place for a bit, but it was while I was en route to somewhere else. I'd joke that I was homeless. And it made people incredibly uncomfortable. I've often wondered what exactly was their discomfort? Why not be curious? Why not explore an interesting story of how I came to this place?
Indeed. The lack of or suppression of curiosity is endemic, not just about being 'houseless' but about anything outside of the security bubble, considering the orthodox narrative imposed on us over the last 2.5 years to 'keep us safe'.
I find it totally bizarre. Curiosity is one of the tenets of an engaged life. Hmmm....maybe I just answered my own question!
Thank you, Pat, for your observation, especially about the importance of curiosity. It is a great synchronicity for me right now. Earlier tonight I was finishing up a public 'de-zombification' letter addressed to an executive of a spiritual group I am a member of that are totally asleep. I had written them off after a rather closed response exhibiting no curiosity about why I chose to lose my job and uproot my life. Instead I was politely chastised for pretending that the covid was a flu that didn't exist and was deadly. (I did call it a flu, although I didn't say anything about its pathogenicity or lack of existence.)
And earlier, it struck me that one of the greatest success factors in the zombification of much of the industrial world was an educational and social indoctrination process designed to create experts and those who trust experts without question. For the last while I've been exploring in my writing about the lack of curiosity as the sign of a dead life.
In over two years of interviews on my podcast, curiosity emerges as one of the common elements of resilient people and engaged people. I'm actually devoting an entire chapter to it in my book. I personally cannot fathom a life without it!
I've also stopped being polite by letting these idiots drive the dialogue. No more. This mass psychosis has to be broken. I've been shunned, physically accosted and screamed at (when I lived in the woke capital of the world, Santa Fe) and simply won't take it anymore. By the way, I also moved and it is so wonderful to live in relative sanity again.
Well done for moving out of wokedom. Could Digital ID really mean Digital Idiots Dialogue?
Denizens in Denial??
Very possibly!
Hello, Pat.
I took a look at and subscribed to your substack. Found 'Curiosity did not kill the cat.' :-)
I'm looking to start my own podcast. I wonder if you have any tips so I can avoid some of the easy to avoid stumbles along the way?
Publish on a schedule and stick to it
Have several podcasts to post the first time so people have a choice.
If you don't want to do the tech work, hire someone (fivrr)
Be sure your topic is flexible enough to age well
Those are the top things that come to mind. You may want to have half a dozen episodes ready to go so you're not scrambling. Too much fun! What's your podcast about?
Gracias. Great points.
For the tech work, at this point I'm naively thinking recording zoom and then putting them up into ... well, it would have likely been youtube, until this. I have some familiarity with garageband for sound editing. None with video editing. So hire it is.
The theme of it is 'Waking up in the time of Covid.' I think that this will be flexible enough to age for a while. Tentative name of podcast is 'The Wake-Up Guy'.
I wouldn't tie it to covid. It'll become dated. And there are many mass herd trends worth discussing and exploring
Wow, Navyo—you truly are a free spirit! Thank you for modeling what you preach and inspiring us to do the same.
You *must* watch "Nomadland" if you haven't already. It is the embodiment of everything you've written here.
Thank you, Margaret! I will def give it a watch. Free spirits unite!! xo
Indeed! 🙌
That film made Chloé Zhao our new favorite director, and we immediately followed it up with “The Rider” and “Songs My Brother Taught Me” (we are pretending “The Eternals” does not exist and pray she will escape Hollywood before they attempt to corrupt her further).
CinemaStix did a lovely video essay on her brilliant practice of casting non-actors in her films (maybe watch after her movies to avoid spoilers):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8JAhHSt2ic
I don't often read The Guardian, but there is a fantastic review that puts the film in historical context with the Western narrative and manifest destiny.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/09/its-an-utter-myth-how-nomadland-exposes-the-cult-of-the-western
To be clear, this is not my particular lifestyle here in Europe. Yet considering our collective possibilities, it may be a future for us all. Still, my proposition of Love with a capital L stands true. It's the new L-word!
Thank you for sharing that article—it managed to be astonishingly untainted by wokism, and I appreciated the reference to Steinbeck, which I hadn’t previously considered but which makes perfect sense.
Ironically, Zhao—a Chinese immigrant—captures the heart of America in a way few directors have. Her first three films are both a love letter and an elegy for the American West and the wilderness, individualism, and liberty it represents while also documenting its frailties, corruption, and decline.
Ultimately, the overriding message is that freedom comes at a cost—but a worthwhile one.
This looks very interesting. Thx for the recommendation.
Hello Navyo… my journey has been living a lifetime of trust in myself and in grace. The choices made have been unconventional such as defending truth and becoming one with strength in solitude at times… it is an evolution in grace worth participating in my life journey. Blessings to you soul family!
Hi Viviana. I hear you! Thanks for signing up. Blessings. 🙏
Hi Navyo, I live in a similar fashion - no job, no savings, few possessions, no home, no income and I too have felt the ire of those around me. My family no longer talks to me because during Covid their insistence on me taking the clot shot required some push back - they didn’t like that. Just the other day my landlady informed me she wants me to vacate the room I was staying in because [insert reason]. It’s not the first time this has happened, they just make something up, in her case it was the lie that she has family coming - the actual reason is as you outlined - I threaten them. I don’t watch TV, I don’t really do chit chat (although I try for their sake), I’m quiet and peaceful, preferring to spend my days writing, reading and going for walks. This is intolerable to the normies. How dare he never complain!
I really resonated with what you wrote - so much so that my girlfriend actually sent this to me with the comment “did you write this?” It’s nice to hear from a fellow fearless traveller. DB
Thank you, brother. Weird, isn't it? And yet not, as it's understandable. Nice to meet a fellow traveler. I think there's many more of us than we imagine. As the Empire strikes back, more and more people are waking up and realizing to their shock that their child's sudden death was not by natural causes, or their ageing parent's, or whoever. People are putting two and two together. Of course, many (most?) are still making five as the State would have them.
Another weirdness is actually trying to have a conversation with a 'normie' - not necessarily about the jabs or anything controversial - and watching them flounder. Shorter attention spans, memory loss, confusion, unable to maintain threads or logic. It seems there's a certain amount of neurological damage. Overall, they're easy to spot. It makes the divide more obvious, which is somehow intended. Healing that divide is part of our work. But sometimes I doubt that's even possible.
Nice to hear that comment from your girlfriend. Blessings on your journey. There but for the grace of God go us.
It’s like fish trying to talk to elephants. We just seem so far apart on our whole life orientation thing. But, as you said, maybe more are waking up? Mostly I just see people carrying on, business as usual - buying stuff, going on cruises, watching TV etc.
It’s hard to imagine what has become of us as anything other than orchestrated, at least to some degree. I can’t say I have noticed much in terms of a lack of attention span from the normies as I don’t interact with people that much. I have heard other people say as much. I have certainly noticed a lot more retarded and sick people.
I fear it will take some kind of major cataclysm before we are able to let the love back in and steer society towards the fruitful and the good. Here’s hoping it’s not too painful a transition. DB
Hello, Navyo. I have begun a very similar journey. It began with the 'injection-rejection' that cost me my job. Now I have moved into trust-falling into the Universe. Letting go of fear and the other baggage emotional and physical has brought me lightness in mind and body as my Spirit begins to more fully express without the old frictions of anger, resentment, etc.
I agree that this time of covid has been a huge kick in our butts to the truth of the inhuman and corrupt nature of the entire social construct we are born into. What a huge spiritual opportunity to be change in ourselves and in the small and big communities we inhabit. We are a living embodiment of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Amazing. I feel honoured to be with Arjuna, seeking the truth.
Trust-falling. I like that. Indeed it is the experience of falling. Even the physicality of diving into the deep end or off a cliff doesn't quite match the trust involved. One thing I learned - and have to keep learning (ha ha!) - is that it's safe to let go.
Yes, these past years have been a huge wake up. The fracture of society, of friendships and family have had the biggest impact, I feel. The persecution and segregation of the unvaxxed was both shocking and enlightening. And now we see it is the vaxxed who are filling the hospitals, who are suddenly dying and experiencing horrific injuries. What karma.
The truth will out, as always. I never thought our spiritual awakening would be in this context. But here we are. Blessings.
I'm still learning that let go thing. For weeks it was the basic letting go of the terror that woke me up at 3am with what felt like an elephant sitting on my chest squeezing the life out of me. My dedicated sadhana and meditation practices had given me the strength and courage to let it be, focus on the breath, and then have the terror fall away. After several weeks the terror diminished to small anxiety attacks. And even now, they have diminished a great deal in intensity and frequency.
My family was already fractured, and so not a big impact there. And I've maintained most of my friendships, with some being a little frosty without losing all contact. The yoga community has been the source of the biggest rupture, although even there for me it wasn't too traumatic because I've been a bit of a lone wolf there, long before the covid axe fell.
"I never thought our spiritual awakening would be in this context." Nope, me too. For me, when I first started the path of awakening at a deep level, I still had the idea it was all roses gardens and blue skies, or something. Recently, listening to the yogi-Buddhist scholar and teacher Michael Stone on a podcast, he quoted Dogen, I think, paraphrased: "Do you really think that you will arrive at enlightenment and think 'Enlightenment? Just what I thought it would be?'"
The level of world community karmic delusion is so huge that likely a really big ass whupping is required to create some type of re-connection between the soul and body. LOL! It sure has moved up the process in me and my partner.
All the best, with peace, love, and gratitude.
I know you a lot better now! You are daring indeed, and I am eager to know how it is possible to live in abundance without a home, car, etc. Is this the subject of one of your books?
Hi Kenneth. Yes, it is a theme in both my books, Soul Traveler Vols 1 & 2
Is your book on amazon?
Yes.
Thank you for the article. I'm down-shifted living in a cheaper country - so 'down' but not fully 'out' of the system. I'm not sure if this compromise is killing my soul. I feel o.k when I'm working on my patch of land, growing food, weaving, sculpting and writing poetry. Being in the creative process is my 'salvation' - but I'd love to live with less fear (that's how your article attracted my attention). All the best on your journey, Josh.
Thanks Joshua. Being in nature and engaging your creativity are two of the most powerful things you can do, imo. That of itself is going to dissolve any fear and grow your soul. It's a process. These things don't happen overnight. But then one day...
Blessings to you.
Having an assignment in boot-camp Planet Earth was never going to be easy - but if we're here 'to grow in consciousness' it takes the sting out of the materiality of life (when it turns disagreeable, that is).
And boy, has it been disagreeable.