{"id":265385,"date":"2024-07-01T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=265385"},"modified":"2024-06-26T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T05:38:18","slug":"listen-deeply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/listen-deeply\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Deeply"},"content":{"rendered":"

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25 Jun 2024<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen deeply to the screaming mothers
\nand the whirring of the drones.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply to the news man\u2019s lies
\nand the crashing of the bulldozers.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply to the tanks and missiles
\nas they are rolled into position.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply to the dying fish
\nand the fruit bats dropping out of trees from the heat.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply to the gasping biosphere
\nand the reverberating cries of the long-dead indigenous.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply to the vibrations all around you
\nand to the vibrations deep within yourself.<\/p>\n

This is a holy place.
\nThis is a holy moment.
\nIt demands your reverence,
\neven amid the smell of exhaust fumes and landfill
\nand of rotting whales washing up on the shore
\nand of rotting human corpses in Gaza.
\nEven amid the blaring screens and the smirking lies
\nof podium pontiffs and Pentagon propagandists.
\nEven amid the dead-eyed dystopioids
\nmarching through life sedated by smartphones
\nand sitcoms and sports and snacks and synthetics.<\/p>\n

So listen.
\nListen deeply.<\/p>\n

There are messages here.
\nBuried in the code.
\nHidden in the metadata.
\nWhisperings of something big.
\nSomething lurking just behind the chatter.
\nSomething ancient,
\nyet entirely unanticipated.<\/p>\n

Listen deeply, kind friend,
\nbecause mark my words:
\neven within our oceans choked with plastic,
\neven within our minds choked with media,
\neven within our hearts choked with capitalism,
\neven within our souls choked with fraudulence,<\/p>\n

there are still leviathans.<\/p>\n

________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. Contact: <\/em>admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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