Select poems from journalist, essayist and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone.

Poems For Rebels

Literature & Fiction

Johnstone, Caitlin

Foley, Timothy P

Poetry

Thorpe/Bowker

We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world.The real physical world of matter, of atoms and molecules and stars and planets and animals wandering around trying to bite and copulate with each other often has very little to do with the narrative world, which is made of stories and mental chatter. Powerful people have long understood that if you control the stories people tell about themselves, then you can control their resources and their reality. From priests to politicians, CEOs to the architects of war, all have deeply understood the importance of maintaining control of the narrative. We have reached a crisis point where the disconnect between narrative and reality is threatening all life on earth. The narrative world is getting more and more chimerical while the real world is headed toward disaster due to the military and ecological pressures created by our status quo. There are only a few ways this can possibly break, with the most obvious being mass scale ecological disaster or nuclear war. There is also the possibility that the human species goes the other way and adapts, and wakes up to the way narrative has been used to manipulate us into consenting to our own extinction. Throughout recorded history, all around the globe, wise humans have been attesting that it is possible to transcend our delusion-rooted conditioning and come to a lucid perception of the narrative world and reality. There are many names for this lucid perception, but the one that caught on most widely is enlightenment. We all have this potential within us. It has been gestating in us for many millennia. As we approach our adaptation-or-extinction juncture, we are very close indeed to learning if that potential will awaken in us or not.This book rests on the meniscus of that possibility.

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers

An illustrated poetical guide to reclaiming the earth from the forces of death and destruction.\nJames Rozoff writes: "This, this is the sort of book which led humanity to create printing presses. This is the kind of work which inspires, which illuminates, which transcends. This goes on the top of your bookshelf, sitting next to the elites which you have spent a lifetime searching out. And if you are fortunate to have spent a lifetime being introduced to the works of the great thinkers, great writers, and great souls, you will gaze at that top shelf and figure out which one will have to be bumped in order to fit Woke on that shelf."

Caitlin Johnstone

Collected poems harvested from the fertile soil of decaying illusions.

Lao Sue: And Other Poems

JOHNSTONE August 2023: The True Symbol Of The United States Is The Pentagon

JOHNSTONE October 23: The Israel-Palestine Issue Is Not Complicated

JOHNSTONE November 23: We Have Blood On Our Hands

Politics & Government

JOHNSTONE December 23: For Refaat Alareer

JOHNSTONE January 24: The Empire's War On Journalism

JOHNSTONE February 24: Exposing The Ugly Reality Of War Crimes

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