The fact that we're revolving around the sun used to be a conspiracy theory, just by a different name.
Heresy could get you burned on a stake. Today, it can get you canceled, censored, delicensed, de-platformed, delegitimized, and shunned - a modern version of the stake.
Nicolaus Copernicus, the heliocentric protoheretic, died in a house arrest (an early term for lockdown) from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1543. He popped a vein from excess exposure to ridicule. Galileo, a fellow heretic who shared Nic's hypothesis a century later, similarly ran out of life juice during a forced lockdown after years of gaslighting by the establishment.
For the rest of the self-respecting aka mainstream scientists, the idea that the sun did NOT revolve around their nuts (aka egos) took another three centuries to digest. Heliocentrism was an unbearable idea because it downgraded their manly status in the universal order.
They must have hurt real bad. Consider that these scientists used to be the spitting image and favorite of the Creator Of All Things, who placed them smack in the middle of His biosphere before Nick and Gali came along.
They would probably have gotten an embolism if they saw the modern map of the universe.
Today, Nic and Gali have statues in almost every corner of the planet, while their colleagues rapidly faded out to the hey-it's-like-I-never-existed space.
Hail Nic and Gali!
We like to worship heretics who stick to their belief systems against the overwhelming consensus of the masses - after they are proven right.
And herein lies the rub.
Heretics deserve our attention earlier - before they become superstars.
Based on their historical track record, heretics have earned at least a momentary suspension of disbelief from every one of us, at precisely the time when they're still swimming in deep shit, gaslit to the rims of paranoia.
They deserve a friendly hand on their shoulder and a "bro, explain again wtf you were talking about earlier. "
Then actually listen. Go against your neuronal grind, press your butt cheeks together, and listen and digest without pretension.
Unfortunately, our standard response to heretic claims is to shun and shut up, let someone else (the villagers) throw them in a pond, see if they float or sink. In both outcomes, ex post, you can always say "I said so" later and feel good about yourself. It's the safe option.
Alas, safe options almost never save the day. Certainly never brought the truth out to the light of day.
Historically, heretics have to survive an uphill battle against an entrenched brotherhood of wealth, academia, and prestige - a cult, basically - before they get a chance to shine. This is the chief reason we're still living in a grand sea of deceptions - especially in what is considered the unshakable domain of science.
Genuine scientific breakthroughs tend to shake, stir, and shatter entrenched cults.
Ergo the snail speed at which eureka travels to the eardrums of gatekeepers.
Ergo the universal resistance to game-changers.
The modern peer-review process, for example, used to legitimize novel scientific and medical papers, is a perfect example of cult protectionism. A group of expert stags checks the work of a newbie stag to make sure it doesn't disrupt the herd's old feeding and mating habits. I shit you not. That's how peer review works1.
Industries with entrenched revenue logic will rather see you burned as a heretic than get shaken or shattered by a breakthrough discovery. They'd rather have cancer than accept that someone just came up with a cure for cancer. I kid you not - this has also happened.
The more powerful the industry, the more vicious the protectionism against new ideas.
Take healthcare.
"By definition, anyone who is an 'expert' in an area of medicine will be a supporter of whatever dogma holds sway," writes Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, Scottish GP, heretic, and author of "The Clot Thickens," a book that redefines our understanding of heart disease2.
Contrary to overwhelming medical consensus, heart disease isn't related to fat and cholesterol. It never was. It's statistically likely you or your loved one has been eating the wrong diet or taking the wrong meds since the 1980s, with dire consequences.
The truth would have upset at least two cults - Food and Pharma.
Similarly, contrary to medical axiom, cancer is primarily a metabolic rather than a genetic disease. This insight could have led to vastly more efficient natural cures than the slash-burn-poison protocol of the last hundred years3. But it would also have destroyed a trillion-dollar industry.
A German scientist and Nobel laureate Otto Warburg, one of the 20th century's leading biochemists, became a heretic in 1924 after observing what happens inside cancer cells. Today's established oncologists increasingly risk heresy when they turn back to Warburg's notes out of sheer desperation, as a century of medical breakthroughs and hundreds of billions in cancer research have led to one-in-two males and one-in-three women to get cancer.
It used to be one-in-twenty a century ago.
With the search algorithms, social platforms, Big Media, Big Food, Big Medicine, and Big Defense under single umbrella ownership4, the power of the cult has reached full dystopian potential. An intelligent algorithm can now stop all original thought in its tracks, wherever, whenever it appears, before it's allowed to shake or rattle the grand stag party.
This has been going on for longer than we care to admit.
Scientific logic was hijacked during the recent pandemic5 and its countermeasures6 in a way that is all but unique in recent history. It's been hijacked before about bacteria7, microwaves8, sugar9, fats10, chronic disease11, the immune system12, and other topics that are too numerous to list without sounding like a lexicon.
Deception is the rule - not the exception - in the history of human scientific discovery, especially in the medical industry.
The medical industry works a bit like the defense industry in that both use the classical "problem-solution" deception regularly. Drop a bomb or a drug on a hostile macro-organism (person) or micro-organism (bacteria, virus), even if it was the bomb or the drug that got them hostile, to begin with.
This type of Catch-22 type deviousness is a typical feature of cult deceptions.
Today we live the wet dream of an insane medieval despot: the ability to monorail the belief system and behavior of entire populations through what is known as mass formation psychology13, a science that leverages fear, isolation, and the Stockholm Syndrome to make you act and think with the predictability of a Pavlovian dog.
As we find ourselves sleepwalking inside this dream, we need to remember the people who still dare to make a difference.
Today's heretics include people like Dr. Mercola. Dr. Malone. Dr. Zelenko. Dr. McCullough. RFK. Rogan. And every single scientist, integrative doctor, healthcare practitioner, podcaster, blogger, and communicator who can still phrase original questions, maintain doubt in the face of overwhelming pressure, engage in genuine, critical dialogue, and process information with their very own and dear grey matter.
Waking up takes extraordinary courage and energy, especially now that heresy is recognized as a federally certified terrorist threat.
From a February 7, 2022, National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin14:
"The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online climate filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors."
And so on. An entirely new level of entrenched insanity.
Once again, the future rests on the shoulders of a handful of heretics, probably more today than ever before.
And as always, the truth shall prevail, although, as in the case of Nic Copernicus, it may materialize with a slight delay.
Don't let the delay be a source of frustration or desperation, by the way. An ancient energetic principle explains why such a delay is natural.
Anyone can use lies to accumulate power relatively quickly. But ultimately, lies consume energy by lowering coherence, weakening the body and spirit.
Truth, on the other hand, increases coherence in spirit and body. When we begin to calibrate towards truth, we get rewarded with more energy, leading to more courage to go after more of the good stuff - a habit that can get addictive in a good way.
No. It's not esoteric bullshit. It's just the way the universe rolls.
It's why supporting the heretics is a safe bet for the future.
Why Scientific Peer Review Is A Sham, February 19, 2018
The Clot Thickens: The enduring mystery of heart disease, 2022, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma And Media, Joseph Mercola, 2021
Mass Formation psychology by Dr. Mattias Desmet
Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland, Homeland Security, DHS, 2022