Politically Incorrect Thread About Pod People (Page 1 of 16)

Lyra had a great idea at the end of the recently revived Spiritual Evolution of Animals thread. I think I had sidetracked some of druid's excellent and thought-provoking comments about Steiner's views on the evolution of animals and I began talking about the confusing phenomenon of "pod people." Lyra suggested we explore this idea further. Iím all for it!

If you missed it, read the last series of entries in the thread:

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=371

Some disclaimers before I offer a couple of ideas about this.  Number one, I know that I have my own pod people moments.  I believe everyone does. And I mean ìpod people" as in being the type of person who marches along to that tribal mindset that so much of society seems to be operating under, a mindset which is primarily (and sometimes exclusively) focused on sex, breeding/children, money and the acquisition/counting/hoarding/spending of it, and preoccupations with bodily concerns like health and dying. 

Now, we all have times when these issues are our main focus. And rightly so, as we have our mortal, human side, which needs to function here in 3-D, and which needs to functions within a society that is dominated by concerns about these things.

So there is a place for that in our lives, and itís all good.

When I refer to pod people Iím talking about a pretty scary thing that Iíve witnessed over the years. And I donít know if everybody gets to REALLY see this unless they have intense, emotionally and psychologically intimate interactions with thousands of people from all over the world ñ all walks of life, backgrounds, religions, ethnicities, etc.  I had an opportunity to gain a birdís eye view of mass amounts of humanity through being a professional actress and an acting instructor for years working with tens of thousands and also through working on a more intimate level with over 10,000 individuals through my past psychic counseling work. I must be interested in people watching, since Iíve done so much of it!

And the majority of this work was happening between the ages of 16 through 26, at a time in my life when I was truly a fluffy bunny cockeyed optimist New Age chick, embracing all of humanity as ONE, believing in the equality and sameness of all souls, pushing hard with the message of human potential and psychic development for all.

As I mentioned in this other thread, I was shocked to find out how many pod people there are.

I would say that pod people are different from OPís or predatorial types who might be negative in spiritual alignment ñ or who might even be ETís. 

Iím talking about very human people who are pod people. They express very little free will and are frightened to hear any messages that have to do with exerting yourself as an individual. They canít handle people who are swimming against the tide (say, through not automatically getting married at 30, buying a house, holding down the same job for years, and having 2.5 children with an SUV.) 

You know the almost animal response that some people get when you say something that they canít deal with?  Their nostrils flare, they tremble, and itís just like you startled a deerÖ.or a cow.  Complete animal response of fear.

Pod people tend to react that way to ideas that people here at this forum probably consider commonplace ñ the idea of the spiritual sovereignty of human souls, the desire to gain metaphysical wisdom through study and through direct experience, the framework of learning to tap into the eternal energy that lives within us and utilizing it to improve ourselves ñ and maybe even improve the planet. 

I found that these were the two main identifying features of the pod people: number one was a rigid and absolute adherence to the tribal hivemind, lockstep reactions about what you should do with your life without questioning the status quo at all; and the second identifying feature was the complete and automatic fear response (which often turned to anger or attack, or withdrawal from my presence) if you gently probed around the boundaries of their comfort zone.

And I learned to adjust my language when I gave psychic counseling to people.  Iíd stick to the tried and true technique of scanning their love life, commenting on their current job, and that kind of stuff unless I saw a spark and I just KNEW that I could talk with the person about REAL stuff.

In the first five years of giving readings I would give readings to anybody, which was a mistake. Whether for free or for pay, if a personís energy was TOO STRONGLY POD PERSON, it just bummed me out dealing with them. I needed days to recover and I ended up having to literally sleep them off. Iíd sleep for days at a time. 

I felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall the entire time I was dealing with them.  They may have been perfectly nice people, good citizens, etc., but they were so energetically RIGID and unpliable and inflexible that I couldnít introduce any energy of innovation, imagination, or change into my session with them. And that just bored me to tears.

Eventually I became more exclusive about who Iíd do readings for and I relied on a small, quiet referral system. The way it worked was Iíd read for non-pod people and theyíd really benefit from and enjoy my session with them, and they in turn would find one or two non-pod people that they knew (because people usually didnít know more than one or two non-pod people ñ which was sad!) And that person might then come to me for a reading. And so quietly, with very little fuss, I met some of the most brilliant and exciting spirits you could imagine. And it was an honor and a privilege to brainstorm with them about the miraculous potentials they were already manifesting in their lives. I could WORK with them. Every single one of them was a healer ñ whether they self-identified that way or not. I truly believe that they were all ìmovers and shakersî  in a planetary sense, people whose strength of spirit might well affect the future of what happens in this reality. So it was an honor to connect with them.

I gave over 10,000 readings -  well, I should say I read for over 10,000 unique people, and I gave many more readings than that when I did repeat sessions with people.

Of them, they were predominantly white, predominantly from the East Coast of the US where I live, mostly with high school education plus at least some college education. Many had advanced degrees. Economically they ranged from lower middle class to very upper class/upper crust in financial resources.

Within this group, at least 75% were pod people.  About 15% were not, they were really cool, spiritually and psychically opened people with vibrant life sparks and individualized consciousness.  And the last 5% were the anomalous OPís or ETís or just plain weird as frick negative critters who I would refuse to read for after about five minutes ëcause their energies were so dark.  Occasionally I did stick out the reading just to remain in observer mode, like with the occasional lizzie in human form.  But I donít even know what the rest of them were ñ just that they were extremely negative in orientation to the point where it would make me physically ill the moment Iíd open up a psychic cord of connection between us, so Iíd have to shut it down quickly and excuse myself from the session. Iíd usually play sick and just sort of back out of the situation without giving them any clue that it was their energy making me feel ill.

The 75% pod people I worked with were often intelligent in the way we currently measure intelligence. Many of them had open hearts and a kind or loving nature.  But they were pod people. And I canít claim to understand this phenomenon, whether itís about them being on a different human evolutional track where they are part of a collective in which certain rules of behavior MUST be followed (i.e. there are all these mandatory things that they must do to fit in to the herd)Ö.or what. And I freely confess that I donít know what to make of it. But I can confirm that the phenomenon exists. 

If I look at my own life, with all the incredible and wonderful and inspiring folks Iíve been lucky to know within the professional worlds of both the arts and the holistic healing field (the only two fields Iíve worked in,) even in those rarefied worlds which tend to attract extremely creative and ìsparkly" people, Iíve probably only really known about 50 people in close friendships or work relationships that were not pod people.  Thatís incredibly sad to me.  Itís why I would be a hermit with eight cats if my honey wasnít wired in a similar way to me. When you feel so completely different from an entire subset of the human race, itís so bizarre. You can go through all these stages of ìWhy am I not normal? Why canít I just be like them? It would be easier." 

But then you see what their lives consist ofÖ.eating, breeding, accumulating money, and dying in fear because theyíve never grasped the world of spirit and have no education about our essence as energy beings. Again, there is nothing wrong with any of the above pursuits, but when your awareness doesnít extend into other areas, itís a very limiting way to go about your time in this body, donít you think?

I donít know how people can put up with not knowing for themselves that life continues after death and all the other cool things that you learn without a doubt when you start focusing on the spiritual aspects of life.

I remember asking an older woman in my family once when I was about nine years old how many books she had written.  And the woman sort of looked at me blankly and said, ìWhat do you mean? I havenít written any books."

And although I have yet to complete any of the many books Iím simultaneously working on (not the most efficient way to get things done!), I canít imagine a reality where I wouldnít be writing books, wouldnít be attempting to stamp my psychic imprint on the world somehow --- not to feed my ego because I donít know SHIT-- but because I believe each spirit on this planet is an amazing being filled with treasures that should be freely sharedÖ.and we should all be doing this, all be shining our individual lights before the world. Each of us has our own psychic toolbox filled with magic, and we need to be showing more of it, because we all learn from each otherís light.

So to be confronted with someone who not only didnít write any books (not that thereís anything wrong with that!) but more importantly DIDNíT GET MY QUESTION, which was about how many books did she write, i.e, what sort of creative expression has she enjoyed on this planet, what turned her on spiritually and energetically, and to get a blank stare, well, that kind of sums up pod people vs. non-pod people.

I donít dare hypothesize that non-pod people are ìbetter" or morally or spiritually superior to pod people.  Because that might just be bull.  It goes back to the discussion about animals. Just because most animals donít have opposable thumbs and they donít express intelligence in the same way humans do, does that make them ìlesser"?  I donít think so. But maybe pod people are on a more animal-like evolutional track, with great gifts and potential, but still operating at a level where they just donít have all circuits lit up yet, and so there are still operating at maybe 10% of their potential.

Iím all for leaving the pod people to do what they need to do, just as animals have their own path to follow. 

But my only concern is that too many pod people and too many OPís or negatively oriented critters have their hands on the nuke button.  And it should be the non-pod people who are in charge, because non-pod people are more fully attuned to the precious nature of all of life and less likely to engage in wars, planetary and environmental destruction, and the annihilation of other forms of life. I wish more non-pod people were given positions of authority in our culture, so that they could better act as guardians for this delicate and fragile world we live in. But then, maybe non-pod people ARE in charge, since they can shift reality through their consciousness. So everything is probably how it needs to be, in its own mysterious way.

I finally came to grips with the fact that I canít be a pod person, no matter how hard I try or might want to ìfit in" at times.  And about the time I realized this I saw a car with the bumper sticker ìWhy be normal?"

And that pretty much summed it up for me. Why be ìnormal," indeed, when I truly believe we all have it within us to be extraordinary?

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer