Ex-Zionist Trauma Expert Dr. Gabor Maté: Epstein, Disillusionment, Gaza, and the Myth of Normal
A World in Crisis
Dr. Myriam François opens the conversation by describing a world that feels as though it is collapsing in real time. War, political polarization, economic inequality, climate anxiety, Gaza, and the Epstein files all become part of what she calls a “polycrisis.”
The question is not only political. It is psychological. What happens to people when the world they thought they lived in is exposed as something darker, more corrupt, and more exploitative?
That is where Dr. Gabor Maté enters the conversation. His central argument is that much of what we call mental illness is not simply individual weakness or broken biology. It is often a sane response to an insane world."
https://ironcountynews.org/ex-zionist-trauma-expert-dr-gabor-mate-epstein-disillusionment-gaza-and-the-myth-of-normal/
A World in Crisis
Dr. Myriam François opens the conversation by describing a world that feels as though it is collapsing in real time. War, political polarization, economic inequality, climate anxiety, Gaza, and the Epstein files all become part of what she calls a “polycrisis.”
The question is not only political. It is psychological. What happens to people when the world they thought they lived in is exposed as something darker, more corrupt, and more exploitative?
That is where Dr. Gabor Maté enters the conversation. His central argument is that much of what we call mental illness is not simply individual weakness or broken biology. It is often a sane response to an insane world."
https://ironcountynews.org/ex-zionist-trauma-expert-dr-gabor-mate-epstein-disillusionment-gaza-and-the-myth-of-normal/
King Arthur: The Knight, The Free Man, and the Fight for a Worthy Cause
"The Forgotten Meaning of a Knight
Modern culture often imagines knights as armored warriors riding horses into battle. But King Arthur presents something deeper.
A knight is not merely a fighter.
A knight is a man who binds strength to virtue.
He possesses power but chooses restraint.
He carries a sword but seeks justice.
He serves something higher than himself.
Throughout the film, Arthur repeatedly asks a question:
What is worth fighting for?
At the beginning of the story, he believes the answer is Rome.
By the end, he discovers the answer is freedom.
That journey is the heart of the movie."
https://ironcountynews.org/king-arthur-the-knight-the-free-man-and-the-fight-for-a-worthy-cause/
"The Forgotten Meaning of a Knight
Modern culture often imagines knights as armored warriors riding horses into battle. But King Arthur presents something deeper.
A knight is not merely a fighter.
A knight is a man who binds strength to virtue.
He possesses power but chooses restraint.
He carries a sword but seeks justice.
He serves something higher than himself.
Throughout the film, Arthur repeatedly asks a question:
What is worth fighting for?
At the beginning of the story, he believes the answer is Rome.
By the end, he discovers the answer is freedom.
That journey is the heart of the movie."
https://ironcountynews.org/king-arthur-the-knight-the-free-man-and-the-fight-for-a-worthy-cause/
Fathers Under Fire: Courageous, the Culture War, and the Call for Men to Rise Again
"The Odds Are Stacked Against Fathers
Fathers today are not merely being ignored. They are being targeted.
The culture has learned how to weaken a nation by weakening the home, and it has learned how to weaken the home by dishonoring the father. In entertainment, the father is often made into a joke. In marriage, he is often treated as optional. In family law, he is often reduced to a paycheck. In culture, he is told he is either toxic, unnecessary, incompetent, or replaceable.
That means the modern father has to work doubly harder.
He must provide, but he must also be present.
He must protect, but he must also be gentle. He must lead, but without becoming a tyrant. He must love, but without surrendering truth. He must discipline, but without anger. He must model courage in a world that trains men to be passive"
https://ironcountynews.org/fathers-under-fire-courageous-the-culture-war-and-the-call-for-men-to-rise-again/
"The Odds Are Stacked Against Fathers
Fathers today are not merely being ignored. They are being targeted.
The culture has learned how to weaken a nation by weakening the home, and it has learned how to weaken the home by dishonoring the father. In entertainment, the father is often made into a joke. In marriage, he is often treated as optional. In family law, he is often reduced to a paycheck. In culture, he is told he is either toxic, unnecessary, incompetent, or replaceable.
That means the modern father has to work doubly harder.
He must provide, but he must also be present.
He must protect, but he must also be gentle. He must lead, but without becoming a tyrant. He must love, but without surrendering truth. He must discipline, but without anger. He must model courage in a world that trains men to be passive"
https://ironcountynews.org/fathers-under-fire-courageous-the-culture-war-and-the-call-for-men-to-rise-again/
Political Team Sports: How Party Loyalty Unconsciously Breeds Hypocrisy
"How partisan identity trains people to excuse their own side, condemn the other side, and lose the moral consistency needed for a healthy society
One of the deepest problems in modern political life is not simply disagreement. It is hypocrisy. Not ordinary human inconsistency, where imperfect people fall short of their own ideals, but a more structured and tribal form of hypocrisy: one standard for the other side, another standard for our own.
That is what the two-party binary system increasingly produces. It does not merely sort people into policy preferences. It turns politics into team identity. And once political identity hardens into a jersey, people begin defending the team even when the team is wrong."
https://ironcountynews.org/political-team-sports-how-party-loyalty-unconsciously-breeds-hypocrisy/
"How partisan identity trains people to excuse their own side, condemn the other side, and lose the moral consistency needed for a healthy society
One of the deepest problems in modern political life is not simply disagreement. It is hypocrisy. Not ordinary human inconsistency, where imperfect people fall short of their own ideals, but a more structured and tribal form of hypocrisy: one standard for the other side, another standard for our own.
That is what the two-party binary system increasingly produces. It does not merely sort people into policy preferences. It turns politics into team identity. And once political identity hardens into a jersey, people begin defending the team even when the team is wrong."
https://ironcountynews.org/political-team-sports-how-party-loyalty-unconsciously-breeds-hypocrisy/
Daniel Amen: Why Mental Health Is Really Brain Health
"The Mission: End the Concept of Mental Illness
Dr. Daniel Amen begins with a mission that sounds radical: he wants to end the concept of mental illness.
He does not mean people do not suffer. He means the phrase “mental illness” often hides the real issue. In his view, most psychiatric problems are not simply mental problems. They are brain health problems.
His argument is simple: the brain is the organ of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, addiction, decision-making, character, and relationships. So why would psychiatry treat symptoms without looking at the brain?
Amen says that when we reimagine mental health as brain health, everything changes."
https://ironcountynews.org/daniel-amen-why-mental-health-is-really-brain-health/
"The Mission: End the Concept of Mental Illness
Dr. Daniel Amen begins with a mission that sounds radical: he wants to end the concept of mental illness.
He does not mean people do not suffer. He means the phrase “mental illness” often hides the real issue. In his view, most psychiatric problems are not simply mental problems. They are brain health problems.
His argument is simple: the brain is the organ of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, addiction, decision-making, character, and relationships. So why would psychiatry treat symptoms without looking at the brain?
Amen says that when we reimagine mental health as brain health, everything changes."
https://ironcountynews.org/daniel-amen-why-mental-health-is-really-brain-health/
The Oath of a Knight: How Kingdom of Heaven Begins the Kingdom of Conscience
"Kingdom of Heaven is not simply a film about the Crusades. It is a film about conscience, power, religion, war, and the soul of a man learning what it means to become responsible before God.
The foundation of the entire story is laid in one scene: Godfrey, dying from his wounds, calls Balian to kneel and gives him the oath of a knight.
This is not merely a military promotion. It is a covenant.
Godfrey tells Balian to be without fear before his enemies, to be brave and upright, to speak truth even when it may cost him his life, to safeguard the helpless, and to do no wrong. Then he strikes him across the face so the oath will be remembered.
That slap matters.
The oath is not meant to remain an idea. It is meant to be felt. It is to be written into the body, memory, and conscience of the man receiving it."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-oath-of-a-knight-how-kingdom-of-heaven-begins-the-kingdom-of-conscience/
"Kingdom of Heaven is not simply a film about the Crusades. It is a film about conscience, power, religion, war, and the soul of a man learning what it means to become responsible before God.
The foundation of the entire story is laid in one scene: Godfrey, dying from his wounds, calls Balian to kneel and gives him the oath of a knight.
This is not merely a military promotion. It is a covenant.
Godfrey tells Balian to be without fear before his enemies, to be brave and upright, to speak truth even when it may cost him his life, to safeguard the helpless, and to do no wrong. Then he strikes him across the face so the oath will be remembered.
That slap matters.
The oath is not meant to remain an idea. It is meant to be felt. It is to be written into the body, memory, and conscience of the man receiving it."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-oath-of-a-knight-how-kingdom-of-heaven-begins-the-kingdom-of-conscience/
From Jerusalem to Zion: How the Kingdom of Conscience Builds a Free Civilization
"The Kingdom of Heaven series began as a study of a film. But the deeper we looked, the clearer it became that the movie was not merely about medieval Jerusalem, crusaders, kings, Muslims, Christians, or war.
It was about civilization.
It was about what happens when the inward moral life of a people either strengthens or separates from the outward institutions they build.
It was about the difference between a kingdom that has walls and a kingdom that has a soul.
At the center of the entire tapestry is one idea:
The Kingdom of Heaven and Zion are formed when the Kingdom of Conscience and the Kingdom of Jerusalem are aligned.
The Kingdom of Conscience is inward."
https://ironcountynews.org/from-jerusalem-to-zion-how-the-kingdom-of-conscience-builds-a-free-civilization/
"The Kingdom of Heaven series began as a study of a film. But the deeper we looked, the clearer it became that the movie was not merely about medieval Jerusalem, crusaders, kings, Muslims, Christians, or war.
It was about civilization.
It was about what happens when the inward moral life of a people either strengthens or separates from the outward institutions they build.
It was about the difference between a kingdom that has walls and a kingdom that has a soul.
At the center of the entire tapestry is one idea:
The Kingdom of Heaven and Zion are formed when the Kingdom of Conscience and the Kingdom of Jerusalem are aligned.
The Kingdom of Conscience is inward."
https://ironcountynews.org/from-jerusalem-to-zion-how-the-kingdom-of-conscience-builds-a-free-civilization/
America Can’t Build New Refineries: Diesel will be in short supply
"Matt Weinschenk and Dan Ferris argue that America may be facing a growing diesel shortage that most people aren’t paying attention to. Diesel isn’t just another fuel—it powers the trucks that deliver goods, trains, ships, farm equipment, construction machinery, pipelines, military vehicles, and backup generators that keep the economy running. They note that U.S. diesel inventories have fallen to around 20 days of supply, while refining capacity has been shrinking because old refineries are closing and almost no new large refineries are being built.
The hosts also explain that the rapid growth of AI is increasing diesel demand in an unexpected way. Most large data centers rely on diesel backup generators in case the electrical grid fails. As more AI data centers are built, they require more diesel for emergency power and regular maintenance...."
https://ironcountynews.org/america-cant-build-new-refineries-this-stock-wins/
"Matt Weinschenk and Dan Ferris argue that America may be facing a growing diesel shortage that most people aren’t paying attention to. Diesel isn’t just another fuel—it powers the trucks that deliver goods, trains, ships, farm equipment, construction machinery, pipelines, military vehicles, and backup generators that keep the economy running. They note that U.S. diesel inventories have fallen to around 20 days of supply, while refining capacity has been shrinking because old refineries are closing and almost no new large refineries are being built.
The hosts also explain that the rapid growth of AI is increasing diesel demand in an unexpected way. Most large data centers rely on diesel backup generators in case the electrical grid fails. As more AI data centers are built, they require more diesel for emergency power and regular maintenance...."
https://ironcountynews.org/america-cant-build-new-refineries-this-stock-wins/
The Iran War Was Lost on Purpose to Create This: Simon Dixon’s Warning About the Financial War Behind the Military War
"What If the War Was the Negotiation?
In this BTC Sessions interview, Simon Dixon argues that the Iran war should not be understood only as a military conflict. In his view, the visible war was the public-facing layer of a much deeper financial, geopolitical, and technological transition.
His central claim is stark: the war was not “lost” by accident. It was managed, bounded, and used to create the conditions for a new regional and global order.
Dixon’s argument is not that no one suffered or that the violence was fake in the sense of harmless theater. People died. Infrastructure was destroyed. Nations were traumatized. But he argues that the war’s deeper purpose was not conventional victory. It was leverage."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-iran-war-was-lost-on-purpose-to-create-this-simon-dixons-warning-about-the-financial-war-behind-the-military-war/
"What If the War Was the Negotiation?
In this BTC Sessions interview, Simon Dixon argues that the Iran war should not be understood only as a military conflict. In his view, the visible war was the public-facing layer of a much deeper financial, geopolitical, and technological transition.
His central claim is stark: the war was not “lost” by accident. It was managed, bounded, and used to create the conditions for a new regional and global order.
Dixon’s argument is not that no one suffered or that the violence was fake in the sense of harmless theater. People died. Infrastructure was destroyed. Nations were traumatized. But he argues that the war’s deeper purpose was not conventional victory. It was leverage."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-iran-war-was-lost-on-purpose-to-create-this-simon-dixons-warning-about-the-financial-war-behind-the-military-war/
“If You Don’t Stop It Here, It Will Come to the U.S.”
"Ben Swann’s Warning About Digital ID, CBDCs, and the Control Grid
Ben Swann opened the conversation with Scottish political commentator Jim Ferguson by framing the issue as more than a British political debate. The subject was digital ID in the United Kingdom, but the warning was aimed directly at Americans: if this system is normalized in Britain, it can spread to the rest of the West.
Ferguson’s message was blunt. Digital ID is not just about convenience, immigration control, or modernizing government services. In his view, it is the first layer of a much larger control system.
“If they get away with doing it in the United Kingdom, who’s to say it might not come to America?”
https://ironcountynews.org/if-you-dont-stop-it-here-it-will-come-to-the-u-s/
"Ben Swann’s Warning About Digital ID, CBDCs, and the Control Grid
Ben Swann opened the conversation with Scottish political commentator Jim Ferguson by framing the issue as more than a British political debate. The subject was digital ID in the United Kingdom, but the warning was aimed directly at Americans: if this system is normalized in Britain, it can spread to the rest of the West.
Ferguson’s message was blunt. Digital ID is not just about convenience, immigration control, or modernizing government services. In his view, it is the first layer of a much larger control system.
“If they get away with doing it in the United Kingdom, who’s to say it might not come to America?”
https://ironcountynews.org/if-you-dont-stop-it-here-it-will-come-to-the-u-s/
The UK Digital ID Was Always Mandatory
"How The Drey Dossier Connects Britain’s Digital ID System, Oracle, Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, and the Future of Government Surveillance
The central argument of this episode is that the UK’s digital ID debate has been misframed from the beginning.
Most people think the fight is about a card, an app, or whether Keir Starmer’s government backed down after public backlash. But according to The Drey Dossier, the card was never the real point.
The database was the point.
The app was only the visible surface. The deeper system is the infrastructure underneath it: government records, NHS data, employment verification, tax records, immigration status, driver records, and identity checks all routed through a digital architecture increasingly connected to Oracle."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-uk-digital-id-was-always-mandatory/
"How The Drey Dossier Connects Britain’s Digital ID System, Oracle, Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, and the Future of Government Surveillance
The central argument of this episode is that the UK’s digital ID debate has been misframed from the beginning.
Most people think the fight is about a card, an app, or whether Keir Starmer’s government backed down after public backlash. But according to The Drey Dossier, the card was never the real point.
The database was the point.
The app was only the visible surface. The deeper system is the infrastructure underneath it: government records, NHS data, employment verification, tax records, immigration status, driver records, and identity checks all routed through a digital architecture increasingly connected to Oracle."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-uk-digital-id-was-always-mandatory/
Israel, TikTok, and the Surveillance Pipeline
"How The Drey Dossier Connects Oracle, Larry Ellison, Gaza, AI Targeting, and the Future of Social Media
The central warning of this episode is simple: the TikTok deal is not just about social media ownership. It is about who controls the infrastructure beneath public speech, public attention, surveillance data, and political narrative.
The Drey Dossier argues that Oracle’s role in TikTok cannot be understood by looking only at China, ByteDance, or “data sovereignty.” According to the episode, the deeper story is Oracle’s long history of building surveillance systems, Larry Ellison’s ideological obsession with data and control, and the way military surveillance technology tested in conflict zones can later be exported into civilian life."
https://ironcountynews.org/israel-tiktok-and-the-surveillance-pipeline/
"How The Drey Dossier Connects Oracle, Larry Ellison, Gaza, AI Targeting, and the Future of Social Media
The central warning of this episode is simple: the TikTok deal is not just about social media ownership. It is about who controls the infrastructure beneath public speech, public attention, surveillance data, and political narrative.
The Drey Dossier argues that Oracle’s role in TikTok cannot be understood by looking only at China, ByteDance, or “data sovereignty.” According to the episode, the deeper story is Oracle’s long history of building surveillance systems, Larry Ellison’s ideological obsession with data and control, and the way military surveillance technology tested in conflict zones can later be exported into civilian life."
https://ironcountynews.org/israel-tiktok-and-the-surveillance-pipeline/
“Feminism Did This”: Rachel Wilson, the Paradox of Female Happiness, and the War Over Womanhood (Connection to CIA)
"The Modern Woman’s Paradox
Jack Neel opens the conversation with a blunt question: the average American woman is more educated, more financially independent, and more “free” than any woman in history. Yet, according to the frame of the interview, she is also lonelier, more depressed, less likely to marry, and less likely to have children.
Rachel Wilson calls this “the million-dollar question.”
Her answer begins with what she calls the paradox of declining female happiness. Feminism promised that freedom from dependence on men, greater education, career opportunity, sexual liberation, and financial independence would make women happier. But Wilson argues that the outcome has not matched the promise.
Women were told they could “have it all”: the career..."
https://ironcountynews.org/feminism-did-this-rachel-wilson-the-paradox-of-female-happiness-and-the-war-over-womanhood-connection-to-cia/
"The Modern Woman’s Paradox
Jack Neel opens the conversation with a blunt question: the average American woman is more educated, more financially independent, and more “free” than any woman in history. Yet, according to the frame of the interview, she is also lonelier, more depressed, less likely to marry, and less likely to have children.
Rachel Wilson calls this “the million-dollar question.”
Her answer begins with what she calls the paradox of declining female happiness. Feminism promised that freedom from dependence on men, greater education, career opportunity, sexual liberation, and financial independence would make women happier. But Wilson argues that the outcome has not matched the promise.
Women were told they could “have it all”: the career..."
https://ironcountynews.org/feminism-did-this-rachel-wilson-the-paradox-of-female-happiness-and-the-war-over-womanhood-connection-to-cia/
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Emergency Debate: The AI Reality That Could Destroy the Middle Class and Collapse the Economy
"The Rules of the Economy Have Changed
In this Diary of a CEO emergency debate, Steven Bartlett brings together Nick Hanauer and Daniel Priestley to argue over one of the biggest questions of our time:
What happens when AI, big tech, big finance, and economic inequality collide?
The conversation is not simply about artificial intelligence replacing jobs. It is about the deeper economic system AI is entering.
The old promise was simple:
Work hard.
Get a job.
Earn a wage.
Buy a house.
Raise a family.
Build security.
But the debate begins from the painful recognition that this promise has collapsed for millions of people. Houses are unaffordable. Local jobs have disappeared. Small businesses are squeezed. Technology has removed middlemen. Big corporations dominate markets...."
https://ironcountynews.org/emergency-debate-the-ai-reality-that-could-destroy-the-middle-class-and-collapse-the-economy/
"The Rules of the Economy Have Changed
In this Diary of a CEO emergency debate, Steven Bartlett brings together Nick Hanauer and Daniel Priestley to argue over one of the biggest questions of our time:
What happens when AI, big tech, big finance, and economic inequality collide?
The conversation is not simply about artificial intelligence replacing jobs. It is about the deeper economic system AI is entering.
The old promise was simple:
Work hard.
Get a job.
Earn a wage.
Buy a house.
Raise a family.
Build security.
But the debate begins from the painful recognition that this promise has collapsed for millions of people. Houses are unaffordable. Local jobs have disappeared. Small businesses are squeezed. Technology has removed middlemen. Big corporations dominate markets...."
https://ironcountynews.org/emergency-debate-the-ai-reality-that-could-destroy-the-middle-class-and-collapse-the-economy/
Young Men Are Quietly Giving Up: Why the Lost Boys Crisis Matters
"A Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
This episode of The Diary of a CEO opens with a disturbing warning: millions of young men are becoming lonely, addicted, economically adrift, romantically rejected, and socially detached.
Steven Bartlett frames the conversation around The Lost Boys report, which argues that something serious is happening to boys and young men. They are struggling in education, falling out of work, losing purpose, and becoming more vulnerable to crime, addiction, depression, and suicide.
Scott Galloway and Logan Ury approach the issue from different angles. Scott focuses on economics, male role models, education, policy, and masculine identity. Logan focuses on dating, relationships, mating gaps, emotional intelligence, and the way changing gender roles are confusing both men and women."
https://ironcountynews.org/young-men-are-quietly-giving-up-why-the-lost-boys-crisis-matters/
"A Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
This episode of The Diary of a CEO opens with a disturbing warning: millions of young men are becoming lonely, addicted, economically adrift, romantically rejected, and socially detached.
Steven Bartlett frames the conversation around The Lost Boys report, which argues that something serious is happening to boys and young men. They are struggling in education, falling out of work, losing purpose, and becoming more vulnerable to crime, addiction, depression, and suicide.
Scott Galloway and Logan Ury approach the issue from different angles. Scott focuses on economics, male role models, education, policy, and masculine identity. Logan focuses on dating, relationships, mating gaps, emotional intelligence, and the way changing gender roles are confusing both men and women."
https://ironcountynews.org/young-men-are-quietly-giving-up-why-the-lost-boys-crisis-matters/
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Tyranny, Education, and Indoctrination: Why Liberty Requires Learning Both Sides
"The Scam Is Not Learning — The Scam Is Narrow Learning
There is a difference between being taught and being trained.
There is a difference between education and indoctrination.
Education opens the mind.
Indoctrination narrows it.
Education teaches a person how to think.
Indoctrination teaches a person what to think.
This distinction matters because no free society can remain free if its people lose the ability to examine ideas honestly. Liberty requires citizens who can reason, compare, question, debate, discern, and correct themselves. Tyranny, on the other hand, does not need people to stop thinking entirely. It only needs them to think inside approved boundaries."
https://ironcountynews.org/tyranny-education-and-indoctrination-why-liberty-requires-learning-both-sides/
"The Scam Is Not Learning — The Scam Is Narrow Learning
There is a difference between being taught and being trained.
There is a difference between education and indoctrination.
Education opens the mind.
Indoctrination narrows it.
Education teaches a person how to think.
Indoctrination teaches a person what to think.
This distinction matters because no free society can remain free if its people lose the ability to examine ideas honestly. Liberty requires citizens who can reason, compare, question, debate, discern, and correct themselves. Tyranny, on the other hand, does not need people to stop thinking entirely. It only needs them to think inside approved boundaries."
https://ironcountynews.org/tyranny-education-and-indoctrination-why-liberty-requires-learning-both-sides/
Defending Utah invites you to read the Federalist and Anti-Papers and identify the root principles that explain the different aspects of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
Vibrations, Consciousness, and the Human Journey: Understanding the Levels of Consciousness
"The concept of “raising your vibration” has become increasingly popular in psychology, spirituality, and self-improvement circles. It appears in books, podcasts, meditation practices, and social media, often accompanied by colorful charts showing emotions arranged from shame and fear at the bottom to love, joy, peace, and enlightenment at the top.
One of the most influential versions of this model was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David R. Hawkins in his book Power vs. Force. Hawkins proposed that human consciousness could be organized into a hierarchy, assigning numerical values ranging from 20 (Shame) to 1000 (Enlightenment)."
https://ironcountynews.org/vibrations-consciousness-and-the-human-journey-understanding-the-levels-of-consciousness/
"The concept of “raising your vibration” has become increasingly popular in psychology, spirituality, and self-improvement circles. It appears in books, podcasts, meditation practices, and social media, often accompanied by colorful charts showing emotions arranged from shame and fear at the bottom to love, joy, peace, and enlightenment at the top.
One of the most influential versions of this model was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David R. Hawkins in his book Power vs. Force. Hawkins proposed that human consciousness could be organized into a hierarchy, assigning numerical values ranging from 20 (Shame) to 1000 (Enlightenment)."
https://ironcountynews.org/vibrations-consciousness-and-the-human-journey-understanding-the-levels-of-consciousness/
July 2: The Independence Day John Adams Thought America Would Remember
"Most Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4. That is the date printed at the top of the Declaration of Independence. It is the date Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration. It became the date of fireworks, flags, parades, patriotic songs, and national memory.
But John Adams believed America’s true Independence Day would be July 2, 1776.
He was not confused. He was remembering the moment Congress actually voted to sever political ties with Great Britain.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress approved Richard Henry Lee’s resolution declaring that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States.” That was the legal and political break. Two days later, on July 4, Congress adopted the written explanation of that break: the Declaration of Independence."
https://ironcountynews.org/july-2-the-independence-day-john-adams-thought-america-would-remember/
"Most Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4. That is the date printed at the top of the Declaration of Independence. It is the date Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration. It became the date of fireworks, flags, parades, patriotic songs, and national memory.
But John Adams believed America’s true Independence Day would be July 2, 1776.
He was not confused. He was remembering the moment Congress actually voted to sever political ties with Great Britain.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress approved Richard Henry Lee’s resolution declaring that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States.” That was the legal and political break. Two days later, on July 4, Congress adopted the written explanation of that break: the Declaration of Independence."
https://ironcountynews.org/july-2-the-independence-day-john-adams-thought-america-would-remember/