Pearce
Jedi Master
Since we use the term "planting seeds" this was the analogy I went with. I'm not a farmer and probably don't even have a green thumb! 
Long post incoming, but these are just some thoughts Iāve had lately, and this morning I felt like it would be good to write them up and share them. Hope something in here is useful to someone or comes as a nice reminder.
A good farmer knows when to plant his seeds. It does no good to repeatedly try to plant your seeds in the wrong season or when there is no sunlight and too much rain, only to feel defeated and angry when you continue to have no crops. We are all too familiar with the feeling of failing to have any of our seeds grow, and all of the negative thought loops that this creates. But the key difference between a good farmer and a bad one, is in the timing and approach, and I think we all know this to a degree but it is easy to forget and get swallowed up in the moment of interaction and lose sight of the fact that it may not be the right time to plant anything.
I think of it like this: when a person has their defenses up and are not receptive to new information and data, we can think of this situation as being the wrong season. Maybe itās the middle of winter, or perhaps the forecast just predicts two weeks of solid rain. In either case, there is no need to rush outside and try to plant the seeds as we know they will not grow in these conditions. However, when a person shifts from being energetically defensive to a more open and receptive state, this is the time to run and plant those seeds - the sun is shining and the weather is great! We know that in these conditions our seeds have a higher chance of sprouting. Of course there could be a tornado in two days (the person puts their blinders back on) but at that point we just have to let go and surrender the results to nature.
I have always been very aware of energetic shifts when interacting with people. As a kid it was very much a subconscious or gut-reaction feeling that something had changed, but I had no knowledge or framework of what I was experiencing. The thing is though, it led me to start at least becoming very alert of what was going on around me when that alarm went off in the pit of my stomach. And itās not always for those āget out of dodgeā situations either, the same effect happens when someone is becoming more open and trusting with me which is what I will try to go into more detail shortly. But the point is, I experience a physical reaction to these energetic shifts, sometimes subtle and other times strong, and I believe this is somewhat universal in different ways for those who are of the makeup to be aware of such things, so I guess everyone but psychopaths and OPās.
But like all muscles, physical or spiritual, it takes some strengthening and training and not everyone may notice it at the same intensity.
The point of the above is that, there has to be some sort of marker, or set of markers, that we can loosely identify with a positive energetic shift that will signal that it is time to plant some seeds. For me, the alarm I get from my gut tells me I need to analyze and dissect my surroundings because something is needing my attention, and I try to determine if it is a positive or negative situation or change, and make any decisions from there. So, just as my body responds to a change in energies, so too should the body of the other
person in question, right?
Indeed I have noticed some rather obvious things once I started to look and think about it. The person may change their vocabulary from using words that convey absolutes, such as definitely, never or always, and instead begin to use more open-ended words such as possibility, could be, or maybe. It may be presented as a shift in what they are asking and how, (ie. their questions may become more intelligent). In the most subtle of forms, it may be as simple as a change in the way they look at you, like there is a new gleam in their eyes or their facial muscles become more relaxed. None of these examples are giveaways, and you must always trust your gut feeling, but if you pay attention, it IS noticeable for a lot of people when that energetic shift happens.
The same can be said vice versa of the above if a person is open but then is shutting down, then you know the ground is not fertile. None of these examples even really go into different body language signals, but the major ones I feel are noticeable to a lot of people. (duration of eye contact, crossed arms, fidgety or nervous-acting, turned toward or away from you, etc)
Another thought I have is that it isnāt important to go out and try to lower the defenses of anyone - this is a process that has to happen naturally and spontaneously and our job, in my opinion, is to just observe and be aware of when the time is right to do the work. A farmer can scream at the rain clouds weeks on end but that wonāt make the sun come out. It happens when it happens.
When I get caught up in the incorrect thought patterns that I must first work to lower the defenses of another person before I can do anything at all, Iām wasting all my energy on the wrong thing, and in the very small chance that I happen to break through, what energy will I have left to properly plant any seeds with love and care? At that point I just want to go in and drink my lemonade because Iāve already sweated all of my calories on trying to knock down a brick wall.
Starting a conversation about Bill Gates, vaccines, 4D , aliens and any and/or all topics considered āfringeā is basically the same as digging up all your soil and replacing it with concrete. Nothing will stand a chance of growing! But just engaging with people in a more or less mundane way has a way better chance of providing windows that the person may open their defenses.
However, mundane doesnāt mean inauthentic. Try to talk about things that you would really like to know about or from this person. When I feel like someone is truly interested in me and or my opinion, whether it is about more out-there topics or what I think of whatever sports team (spoiler: I donāt care), Iām more willing to engage with that person in a way that fosters trust. Unless of course itās a creep who is trying to garner information about me for <insert your favorite nefarious purpose> then we all know what to do!
Asking questions is the best way to engage someone else and provide yourself with two major defenses. The first is if someone else is doing most of the talking, you donāt have as much of a chance to slip up and expose your hand, saying something that may land you in trouble if the wrong person hears it. I say this in light of everyone's neighbor turning on one another. The second defense is, in tandem with
the first, you learn more about the other personās thoughts and
boundaries, and it allows you a better chance to practice external consideration.
As for the other person, having them answer questions is great benefit to them to because it makes them have to think! Most people these days love to talk about themselves so itās easy to get them started, and if you are able to subtly begin to shift the topic to test the waters, they may not even know theyāre breaching taboo topics. I think this process can take a long time for most people, and itās not something that will just happen in the first conversation a lot of the times.
And on that topic, at this point due to the massive programming, I think the biggest impact from any statement a person hears, in terms of providing a shock, is going to come from themselves. Someone(s), somewhere(s), in a good, deep and flowing conversation, is going to let their guard down and say something that seems to come from nowhere, but once they said it, in the right person, now they will have to examine it, and the surest way this could happen is if you are asking them questions instead of doing all the talking yourself. However if someone asks you a question to say maybe test the waters, if you arenāt sure just be as vague as possible without trying to avoid or come across as unreceptive. Or heck I donāt know, maybe avoid if you feel itās the right thing!
I donāt think weāre going to be able to reach people en masse, but rather I think the way the ācritical massā or ā100th Monkey Syndromeā is likely to play out that once enough people have seen, internally accepted, and started to talk outwardly about the corruption and rot that plagues our world that the ācommunity consensusā for lack of a better term becomes weighted to that reality, then those who are among
the frightful tag-alongs will also shift their views, because honestly I feel like the number one thing the majority of the population is afraid of is social exclusion. Not the isolation weāre experiencing, but like the whole cancel culture - all these people and celebrities were so eager to play that game until it turned on some of them. Some of the actual victims in that lost a lot, some of them lost everything. And these people who propagate that culture are only projecting what they fear the most, which is being expelled or labeled an outcast from the social group. Those who are psychopaths have a similar fear, but I think they are just afraid of being found out, which at the least would (or should at least) lead to their social exclusion, if the community didnāt decide to take it further. Community choice, not mine! All of that rests on the assumption that cosmic things donāt decide for us first.
Lastly, and Iāll end this thought here cause this post is long, more important than the words we say, in the end it may come down to how we act that sets off a spark in other people. Itās a whole topic of itself that has been discussed a lot already, but I just wanted to include it as a reminder to myself and to anyone else who may have needed it, itās important to conduct ourselves appropriately in dealing with situations where our emotions and decision making have a higher chance of being debilitated.
Lot of thoughts, hope someone finds something useful in there that may help them through this period of turmoil. These are my observations and in some ways goals of how I would like to be able to operate cause honestly when it comes to conversation fencing, Iām not that great!
Anyway, thank you all for being here, keeping the lighthouse lit so everyone has a chance to find their way through the fog.
Summary
Only fertile ground will have a chance of yielding any growth, and even this isnāt guaranteed
Stay alert and look for the right windows of opportunities to plant your seeds
Plant your seeds with love and care, be ready to water them when needed, but surrender the results to nature - non anticipation
Be authentic with people but be strategic and be ready to keep your guard close
Epstein didnāt kill himself
Asking people questions gets them to think and increases the chance that they may say something that, upon hearing it out loud, causes them to look at things more critically
Windows of opportunity may come in different forms, such as a change in vocabulary or level of questioning in the thinking process of the person in question and relaxed body language, and these windows must open naturally, they cannot be broken open by force
Set the example for others with actions and reactions
Watch, look and listen - be a good farmer!
Remember to laugh!
Long post incoming, but these are just some thoughts Iāve had lately, and this morning I felt like it would be good to write them up and share them. Hope something in here is useful to someone or comes as a nice reminder.
A good farmer knows when to plant his seeds. It does no good to repeatedly try to plant your seeds in the wrong season or when there is no sunlight and too much rain, only to feel defeated and angry when you continue to have no crops. We are all too familiar with the feeling of failing to have any of our seeds grow, and all of the negative thought loops that this creates. But the key difference between a good farmer and a bad one, is in the timing and approach, and I think we all know this to a degree but it is easy to forget and get swallowed up in the moment of interaction and lose sight of the fact that it may not be the right time to plant anything.
I think of it like this: when a person has their defenses up and are not receptive to new information and data, we can think of this situation as being the wrong season. Maybe itās the middle of winter, or perhaps the forecast just predicts two weeks of solid rain. In either case, there is no need to rush outside and try to plant the seeds as we know they will not grow in these conditions. However, when a person shifts from being energetically defensive to a more open and receptive state, this is the time to run and plant those seeds - the sun is shining and the weather is great! We know that in these conditions our seeds have a higher chance of sprouting. Of course there could be a tornado in two days (the person puts their blinders back on) but at that point we just have to let go and surrender the results to nature.
I have always been very aware of energetic shifts when interacting with people. As a kid it was very much a subconscious or gut-reaction feeling that something had changed, but I had no knowledge or framework of what I was experiencing. The thing is though, it led me to start at least becoming very alert of what was going on around me when that alarm went off in the pit of my stomach. And itās not always for those āget out of dodgeā situations either, the same effect happens when someone is becoming more open and trusting with me which is what I will try to go into more detail shortly. But the point is, I experience a physical reaction to these energetic shifts, sometimes subtle and other times strong, and I believe this is somewhat universal in different ways for those who are of the makeup to be aware of such things, so I guess everyone but psychopaths and OPās.
But like all muscles, physical or spiritual, it takes some strengthening and training and not everyone may notice it at the same intensity.
The point of the above is that, there has to be some sort of marker, or set of markers, that we can loosely identify with a positive energetic shift that will signal that it is time to plant some seeds. For me, the alarm I get from my gut tells me I need to analyze and dissect my surroundings because something is needing my attention, and I try to determine if it is a positive or negative situation or change, and make any decisions from there. So, just as my body responds to a change in energies, so too should the body of the other
person in question, right?
Indeed I have noticed some rather obvious things once I started to look and think about it. The person may change their vocabulary from using words that convey absolutes, such as definitely, never or always, and instead begin to use more open-ended words such as possibility, could be, or maybe. It may be presented as a shift in what they are asking and how, (ie. their questions may become more intelligent). In the most subtle of forms, it may be as simple as a change in the way they look at you, like there is a new gleam in their eyes or their facial muscles become more relaxed. None of these examples are giveaways, and you must always trust your gut feeling, but if you pay attention, it IS noticeable for a lot of people when that energetic shift happens.
The same can be said vice versa of the above if a person is open but then is shutting down, then you know the ground is not fertile. None of these examples even really go into different body language signals, but the major ones I feel are noticeable to a lot of people. (duration of eye contact, crossed arms, fidgety or nervous-acting, turned toward or away from you, etc)
Another thought I have is that it isnāt important to go out and try to lower the defenses of anyone - this is a process that has to happen naturally and spontaneously and our job, in my opinion, is to just observe and be aware of when the time is right to do the work. A farmer can scream at the rain clouds weeks on end but that wonāt make the sun come out. It happens when it happens.
When I get caught up in the incorrect thought patterns that I must first work to lower the defenses of another person before I can do anything at all, Iām wasting all my energy on the wrong thing, and in the very small chance that I happen to break through, what energy will I have left to properly plant any seeds with love and care? At that point I just want to go in and drink my lemonade because Iāve already sweated all of my calories on trying to knock down a brick wall.
Starting a conversation about Bill Gates, vaccines, 4D , aliens and any and/or all topics considered āfringeā is basically the same as digging up all your soil and replacing it with concrete. Nothing will stand a chance of growing! But just engaging with people in a more or less mundane way has a way better chance of providing windows that the person may open their defenses.
However, mundane doesnāt mean inauthentic. Try to talk about things that you would really like to know about or from this person. When I feel like someone is truly interested in me and or my opinion, whether it is about more out-there topics or what I think of whatever sports team (spoiler: I donāt care), Iām more willing to engage with that person in a way that fosters trust. Unless of course itās a creep who is trying to garner information about me for <insert your favorite nefarious purpose> then we all know what to do!
Asking questions is the best way to engage someone else and provide yourself with two major defenses. The first is if someone else is doing most of the talking, you donāt have as much of a chance to slip up and expose your hand, saying something that may land you in trouble if the wrong person hears it. I say this in light of everyone's neighbor turning on one another. The second defense is, in tandem with
the first, you learn more about the other personās thoughts and
boundaries, and it allows you a better chance to practice external consideration.
As for the other person, having them answer questions is great benefit to them to because it makes them have to think! Most people these days love to talk about themselves so itās easy to get them started, and if you are able to subtly begin to shift the topic to test the waters, they may not even know theyāre breaching taboo topics. I think this process can take a long time for most people, and itās not something that will just happen in the first conversation a lot of the times.
And on that topic, at this point due to the massive programming, I think the biggest impact from any statement a person hears, in terms of providing a shock, is going to come from themselves. Someone(s), somewhere(s), in a good, deep and flowing conversation, is going to let their guard down and say something that seems to come from nowhere, but once they said it, in the right person, now they will have to examine it, and the surest way this could happen is if you are asking them questions instead of doing all the talking yourself. However if someone asks you a question to say maybe test the waters, if you arenāt sure just be as vague as possible without trying to avoid or come across as unreceptive. Or heck I donāt know, maybe avoid if you feel itās the right thing!
I donāt think weāre going to be able to reach people en masse, but rather I think the way the ācritical massā or ā100th Monkey Syndromeā is likely to play out that once enough people have seen, internally accepted, and started to talk outwardly about the corruption and rot that plagues our world that the ācommunity consensusā for lack of a better term becomes weighted to that reality, then those who are among
the frightful tag-alongs will also shift their views, because honestly I feel like the number one thing the majority of the population is afraid of is social exclusion. Not the isolation weāre experiencing, but like the whole cancel culture - all these people and celebrities were so eager to play that game until it turned on some of them. Some of the actual victims in that lost a lot, some of them lost everything. And these people who propagate that culture are only projecting what they fear the most, which is being expelled or labeled an outcast from the social group. Those who are psychopaths have a similar fear, but I think they are just afraid of being found out, which at the least would (or should at least) lead to their social exclusion, if the community didnāt decide to take it further. Community choice, not mine! All of that rests on the assumption that cosmic things donāt decide for us first.
Lastly, and Iāll end this thought here cause this post is long, more important than the words we say, in the end it may come down to how we act that sets off a spark in other people. Itās a whole topic of itself that has been discussed a lot already, but I just wanted to include it as a reminder to myself and to anyone else who may have needed it, itās important to conduct ourselves appropriately in dealing with situations where our emotions and decision making have a higher chance of being debilitated.
Lot of thoughts, hope someone finds something useful in there that may help them through this period of turmoil. These are my observations and in some ways goals of how I would like to be able to operate cause honestly when it comes to conversation fencing, Iām not that great!
Anyway, thank you all for being here, keeping the lighthouse lit so everyone has a chance to find their way through the fog.
Summary
Only fertile ground will have a chance of yielding any growth, and even this isnāt guaranteed
Stay alert and look for the right windows of opportunities to plant your seeds
Plant your seeds with love and care, be ready to water them when needed, but surrender the results to nature - non anticipation
Be authentic with people but be strategic and be ready to keep your guard close
Epstein didnāt kill himself
Asking people questions gets them to think and increases the chance that they may say something that, upon hearing it out loud, causes them to look at things more critically
Windows of opportunity may come in different forms, such as a change in vocabulary or level of questioning in the thinking process of the person in question and relaxed body language, and these windows must open naturally, they cannot be broken open by force
Set the example for others with actions and reactions
Watch, look and listen - be a good farmer!
Remember to laugh!
