Chris Alyssia (Host): Hello again. Welcome back. I am your host Chris Alyssia and today’s episode is one that really goes into the heart this podcast, fear culture.  The culture of fear that we has been created for us and nurtured in our environments, not just in the US, but across the world for more than a decade, is reaching a brand-new pinnacle of shenanigans.  Every time I watch media content, see the news, or even have conversations with my family or my friends, I can feel the hold that fear has on their decisions, on their emotions, on their very logic.  That culture of fear has taken over their ability to think for themselves.  And I’m as guilty of this as anybody.  Fear culture is the crux of why it’s so important at the time to reframe world events with a spiritual lens.

We can’t afford to take the media at its word. We can’t afford to read an article and know that our emotional reaction to that article is real. I was just watching a video on the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad and I think if you were to watch the ad without any commentary or added context, your reaction would be very different than the way it has been delivered in the media. The media puts together these wonderful sound bites that culminate into emotional triggers for all of us.  And this is not something new. This is something that’s been going on for a very long time. Our culture and the media’s control over how we feel is almost absolute at this point. Something as simple as a jean commercial, it’s still just a jean commercial. So, why are we so emotionally triggered by it?

It’s because the fear culture that has been slowly trickling into our reality is reaching a boiling point. A point where we can be controlled by our emotions. Where our emotions don’t come from our hearts anymore. They’re coming from influencers.  

That is what I want to talk about today – Fear Culture.  The media’s control over us and how we can free ourselves from that control. I understand how emotionally triggering and charged this topic is, so I ask you if this topic interests you, to settle into this space and to open your heart. Because if we listen to this topic with the same frequency and resonance that we listen to our Tik Tok threads, this message is going to be skewed. It’s not going to be for our higher selves. I ask that you ground into this moment and just envision your heart opening to receive. Envision your heart opening to this beautiful spiral of emerald green light. Moving through your whole body.  Calming and opening yourself up to receive this information from our higher selves, not from our human selves.

Crisis of Certainty

To set the stage for this conversation, I heard a comedy special a year or so ago and that talked about “crisis of certainty”. The belief that our opinions are 100% correct. There is no room for discussion and the other people’s opinions, unless they’re in line with ours, are 100% wrong. This black and white belief has opened up this wonderful opportunity to be offended by everything.

However, if we believe that we are right without doubt, how do we grow? What comes next? Are we done with this life? Have we finished it? Can we get our soul diploma right now and leave this life and say, what?

 Check.

We are complete.

I am so good.

I am so right.

Good on me.

It’s so bizarre to even think about the world in this in in the sense.  Where our opinions are so right there is no room for other people’s understanding, for other people’s experiences, for other people’s beliefs and priorities. If we think that we are right and you are wrong, what are we doing here? Why are we here on the planet, if we have nothing to learn from each other?

The purpose of incarnating is to experience and grow. The experiences are going to be different. The purpose of your growth is going to be different. But each and every one of us is down here to experience a human existence and to grow from it. You have all the free will that you want. You can choose right or left a thousand different times, but you’re here to grow and you’re here to experience things.

The minute you shut yourself down from that you fall into this crisis of certainty, where you are correct and everyone else is wrong. You have closed the door on your own opportunity to grow or to learn from the people around you. It makes so little sense when you break it down into this kind of discussion.

So who benefits from this crisis of certainty if it’s not us as souls? Who else, but the beautiful puppet master culture; the owners of social media platforms and the television networks. What they get from dividing us into black and white camps is control. They control how you think. They control how you feel. They control how you spend your money.  They control how you vote. They have an emotional hook into each of us.

Whether you watch the 24-hour news cycle or comedy shows like the Daily Show, all of them have sound bites that are intended to give you a message, an opinion and it’s not necessarily your own opinion or based in truth.  But because we are so sure we are right in this crisis of certainty, we only listen to media that validates how I feel. I’m only going to listen to the Daily Show if I agree with their opinion. In a crisis of certainty, I only want media content that validates that certainty.

I don’t know when consuming content became about making us feel more comfortable in our existing opinions, without asking us to expand our opinions or to hear something new. But that is very much the way that it’s gone. I see it the content that I consume. I hear it in the conversations with my family. Their opinions are on different sides of the spectrum, but everyone feels they are right, and the other is wrong, end of conversation. There are certain topics you cannot even bring up without creating a negative emotional reaction. And it’s often because of what they heard on the news or what they saw on their day programs. We are pawns in a raging information war, and we don’t even know that it’s happening.

We gravitate towards specific news stations and certain types of content. But take a step back again, open your heart space and ask yourself, what could this content be leading me to think or to feel? Is this honestly how I think? Am I really that upset about a jeans commercial? Do I hate that person? Do I know that person well enough to hate them? Or are the sound bites that I have consumed driving how I feel about that person, issue, and country. About whether we will even survive as a species.

This crisis of certainty is not about what kind of jeans do you buy. Instead, it about how safe do you feel in your life? How safe are our children? Are you happy? Are you scared? Are you depressed? All of these things can and are being controlled by the content that we consume. And the insidious part about it is we don’t even realize that it’s happening.

The Boiling Frog

There is a theory that I learned a long time ago, called the boiling frog theory. According to this theory, if you were to take a frog and throw it into a pot of boiling water, the frog would immediately jump out. It knows it’s hot. It knows this is a bad idea, and it wants to get out of there. However, if you put a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly increase the temperature over time, the frog will boil to death before it even realizes that it is in danger. That is what is happening to us on a human level.

This small incremental turning up of the heat to turn us against each other, make us isolated, and feel in need of things that only they can provide. It is a beautiful way of controlling us because if you can control the way someone feels, you can control the way they do everything in their lives.

Think about how much content we have in our daily lives. Whether you watch TV, listen to podcasts, or love social media, we are constantly bombarded with content. Our children are constantly bombarded with content.  And whomever is in control of the content has a goal in mind.  To control how you feel, control how you think, and then control how you act.

This is not something new but it has slowly been getting more aggressive, which we can see in the state of our world.  Here in the US we are divided on pretty much every issue in politics, economy, education, and medical system. We have a culture that has created no neutral zone, no middle ground, no compromise.

You’re with us or you’re against us.

You believe what you believe 100%.  Everyone else is wrong and I hate them!

When did that happen? The slow incremental heating of that water to the point where now I hate someone, and I don’t even remember why. The boiling frog theory.

Ask yourself, where in your life has this already happened? Because the only way to stop this trend is to become conscious of it. We need to pay attention to outrage headlines, those wonderful snapshots and reels, and all these other things that innocuous and yet they are intended to make your emotions run high. They want an emotional reaction because when you’re emotional, you’re going to click. You’re going to spend more time watching the content. They are going to be able to control how you think and how you act. It’s not a small thing to break, but we can break free.

The reason that I am filming this today is because of a dream I had last Sunday night. The dream was so visceral and real that it woke me up.  After which, I spent two hours going through every nuance of the dream to figure out what it meant. I knew it was important for me to understand and to share it with you now.

The Dream

The dream began with me guarding a sacred item called Dante’s tarot.  I was meant to go to a secure location at night and to guard the item, and it was just going to be me. The employees knew they weren’t to come back at night after their 9 to 5 shift, or they would endanger the company and themselves.  At first, nobody was there, but suddenly, people started acting out of pattern. The employees started showing up and they wanted in the room badly. They were banging on the walls and window, even though they knew it was critical that the place remain secret and closed. They became aggressive and violent bringing even more attention to it.

I tried to calm people down, but they kept getting worse. Instead, I decided I had to move the item and get this small group of employees to safety.   As soon as we step out, chaos erupts. People start coming out of their homes with weapons and attacking each other. People were standing two feet away from each other, pulling guns and firing from a two-ft range.  Others were screaming nonsense and hatred. It was clear they didn’t know each other. It was strangers killing strangers.

I remember knowing we couldn’t go anywhere near people because everyone was acting so irrationally and aggressively that there would be no reasoning with them. There would be no explaining that we didn’t know what was going on or that we weren’t a part of whatever the anger was. I knew we had to maneuver away from humanity to survive.

As we were moving my small group through a building, one of the women that was with me was kidnapped and taken away. A couple minutes later she reappeared, but she didn’t look like herself anymore. She was a plastic version of herself, as if she had undergone complete body plastic surgery and was now a perfect Stepford wife version of herself. Perfect hair, perfect body, all plastic, fake smile on her face, and completely empty eyes. Behind her stood a score of women that looked just her, her clones. With smiles on their faces, they attacked us. Demanding that we submit. Because it was going to be safer. Because we would be happier if we just gave up. I realized while fighting the clones that I was not powerful enough to fight them all, which is when I woke up. My group has been destroyed.

This dream showed me the boiling frog.  It started out where people are just doing their own thing. But slowly the heat was ramping up to where people were becoming irrational. They started to do things outside of their own best interest. They started to do things to hurt other people, and they were willing to do it because their needs were more important anyone else’s. Moving to the point where they were on the streets killing each other. Moving to the final clone stage, surrender, assimilation. If you are a Star Trek fan you remember the Borg, “resistance is futile”.

We are in this cycle of the boiling frog right now. We have not reached the stage of cloning that I saw in the dreams. But that is the goal of this emotional manipulation trajectory that have us on. They want us to get to the point where we no longer think and feel for ourselves. Where we think we are happy, but our emotions, our thoughts, and our actions are controlled by them.

This dream was so real that I stepped back and I asked myself, “Okay, why am I dreaming about this now?” Fear culture is not something new to me. It’s something that I’ve known and studied.  I realized it was because I needed to look at my own life and see where this fear culture was getting me. I realized where it was affecting me and it’s a sensitive topic to discussion, but one I think that is important; President Trump.

President Trump

Now, I don’t watch news or any of the television cable shows that talk about the news, but I do consume content about Donald Trump, and it’s usually in the form of some version of comedy. For example, the Daily Show with their hilarious sound bites, the social media reels, and the South Park episodes. When Trump first ran for election, I was interested in what he had to say because he was coming at politics from outside the system. But over time, I built a negative reaction to his voice to the point where I could not listen to him speak at all. I forced my husband to turn off his speeches when I was in the house.  I opint blank did not want him on the television.

And up to when I had this dream, I could not look at his face or hear his voice without feeling my body break out in goosebumps. After this dream, when I was sitting in my bed,  realized why I was having such a visceral, illogical reaction to a man that I don’t know. I know sound bites about him. I knew what the media thought of him. I knew what the comedy shows had to say about him. But those are intended to take me down a certain path of thought and emotion. So why am I having such a emotional reaction to a human being that I have never spoken to?

I was to the point where I couldn’t listen to his words and I immediately had a negative opinion on his speeches or reading into the policies, without even knowing the topic.

it was so strong that even as a spiritual being who knows that this lifetime is intentional and that he is a soul, a divine soul just I am, could not open my heart up enough to hear his intent. I was unwilling to understand what his soul was trying to do. Thanks to the dream, I realized it was the content that I was consuming, even if it was just small little sound bites. Over time the heat had slowly turned creating my emotional reaction to the point where I was logical or spiritual.

I no longer listened to my heart, and it was working against my emotional and spiritual health. To be that angry and that irrevocably against a person is not who I want to be. It’s not how I want to be or how I want to live.

I did not realize that the content I was consuming, even in the small little increments was doing that to me. I had built up an intolerance, which was controlling my emotional reaction to him. This is a hard example for me to share because I know how triggering he is to the world right now. So, I ask that anyone who has listened this far into the podcast, that you reflect on your own feelings for him, whether it’s positive or negative, and ask where that reaction has been placed.

Is it your true reaction? Is it a reaction from your heart, from your logic, from your experiences? Or is a reaction from all the content and how the media wants you to feel. I had a friend tell me the other day that her husband wouldn’t even fly into the US because of how much he disliked Trump. That an honest reaction. It’s a human reaction, but is that how he feels or is that the heat that’s been turned up on his emotions to the point where he has reached a boiling point?

It’s such a subtle vulnerability that we don’t realize we are inviting into our lives. I think social media is a wonderful thing. I think it has a lot of powerful abilities for people seeking spiritual awakening and understanding. But we need to be very aware of what we are inviting in and consuming. Because if fear is the goal of whoever is in control, then freedom and unity are the keys to defeat them. If we refuse to trot along with this slow progression of control, if we refuse to hate, if we refuse to feel outrage, insulted, and alone…then we are free.

The puppet master’s behind this control our content, and there’s not that many people that control the media channels. Moreover, it’s only a handful of people that control the social media platforms. They are astronomically wealthy and are very silent about their role in all of this. So the question that we have to ask ourselves, is what do they gain from controlling us? What do they gain from putting out content that creates emotional triggers?

There are three major goals for any group trying to control our emotions.

1. Keep us divided because if we feel alone, we are more likely to consume content. We are more likely to buy certain things. They control how we react if we are divided. Moreover, we can’t share information if we’re divided. If I think I am right and you are wrong, I’m not going to talk to you, which makes me easier to manipulate. It makes it easier to turn me against more people.
2. They want to keep us afraid and keep us in fear. When we are in fear, we feel like we are lacking something. So what can you give me to make me feel less fearful? What can you sell me? What do I have to pull into my life to get rid of this fear? What is it that I can bring into my life to just feel a little bit more secure?
3. They want to keep us on the edge of that emotional boil. Think about fight or flight. When you are in a life-threatening situation, you can fight, you can flee, or you can freeze. Your body shuts down most of its programs to focus on the threat. Literally moving more blood to the heart to allow you to physically react to the threat. It also shuts down the logical systems. You are not thinking. you are reacting. And the less logically you think, the less critically you think and the more control they have over the way you act.

It’s brilliant, simple and insidious. Keep us divided, keep us afraid, and keep us emotional so that we cannot think through whether what we are doing makes sense for us.

Break Free

We need to break through this fear culture. And I say this specifically to everyone, whether you are a spiritual seeker or want to live a happier life. There is freedom from this fear culture. There are ways to break out of it. And the number one way is just being aware that it’s happening so that you can be critical about the content you are consuming.

If you’re aware that this is happening, then you can discern the content that you are consuming critically and decide for yourself if that is how you want to feel. If you want to free yourself from being emotionally triggered by any content, then you must be discerning about the content’s goal and discerning about how you want to feel. Nobody can control the way that you feel when you are aware that it’s their goal to control you.  

The New Muscle Memory

When you feel yourself starting to get emotionally triggered by anything, your body has a physical reaction. When I was watching Trump, I could feel my body breaking out in goosebumps. When I feel that now, instead of triggering an emotion, it triggers me to be aware and to come into present moment. When I start to feel this reaction, I catch myself and chose if I want to feel this way. I can decide if that emotion is warranted and if not, then I need to let it go.

Moreover, I need to feel compassion instead of superiority. I need to be open to the other person and their sovereign soul experience instead of thinking that my way is correct. And I need to remember that I too am a soul. I am a divine soul here on earth having a human experience. I am not 3D Chris. I am not going to check out of this lifetime and be done. I’m going to get to incarnate many times. This existence is a drop in the thousands of lives we can have. Is that emotional reaction how I want to feel? Is it logical for me to feel that way and what are the ramifications of feeling that way?

My inner sovereignty, my soul, is so much more powerful than anything that is happening in the 3D world and trumps any information that the puppet masters put out to control me. I will not be controlled and to ensure that, I need to be aware that it’s happening. I need to figure out how it’s being triggered in my body so that I can become aware when it happens and then discern the information for myself critically. And I have compassion for the people that are wrapped up in this cycle. This would be the worst time in the world to be in the public eye because they can make you look a villain or they can make you look a hero and they’re not doing it for you.

We have to feel for ourselves, feel with our souls, feel with our hearts, and not allow the puppet masters to control us. Or in the immortal words of Carla from Scrubs, “Don’t let him be your puppet master”.

We are free. We are not broken. We are not divided. We are not controlled. We are sovereign beings here having a human experience.

The whole purpose of our coming to earth is to have experiences and to grow. This situation is an opportunity for us to grow. So I don’t hate that this is happening, but I will be free of this cycle and I want to give others the tool to be free as well.

So ask yourselves where in your life are you being triggered? What is making you feel isolated or fearful? What is causing you to have an emotional reaction above and beyond what the situation calls for and chase that back.

To inoculate myself to the content that I was consuming. I plan to change the content that I’m consuming. I don’t have to change my opinion on the person or situation, but I will control how I feel. I won’t forget that they’re souls and I won’t lose my compassion and my heart.

So my dear friends, please feel free to share. I would love to hear from others where you are being fed fear. What has been causing emotional reactions and separation instead of compassion and love? Please share those stories because they are going to help other people free themselves.

Help other people free themselves. Share your stories. Share your love and compassion instead of your outrage and your hate. Because we are all souls having a human experience.

We are not polarized. We are not living on separate sides. We are all one. And that is how I choose to live. If this message resonates with you, please subscribe. I put out an episode every Thursday with a new podcast. Share this content with your friends and your family if you think it will help.

We are all in this fear culture and you can break free. Whether you believe in spirituality, whether you believe in God, religions, atheist, doesn’t matter. This fear culture can be broken if we refuse to play. So, cut those strings and I’ll see you next time.

Love and light.