Soul Survivor

🔹 Summary of John Harwood’s “Trump Is Objectively Bad for America” (June 18, 2025)

Veteran journalist John Harwood lays out a clear, damning case that Donald Trump is not merely controversial, but actively harmful to the nation—across politics, governance, and civic life. Here are his main points, distilled:

Trump is a chronic liar who distorts facts, denies truth, and manipulates reality for personal gain.
He undermines democracy by attacking elections, judges, and independent institutions.
He encourages authoritarianism, both at home and abroad, praising dictators and threatening political opponents.
Rule of law? Tossed aside. He’s tried to bend the justice system to protect himself and punish critics.
The Constitution is optional in Trump World—he’s called for suspending it outright to overturn elections.
Racism and xenophobia are not just tolerated but weaponized for political advantage.
He incites violence—not just passively, but actively, through rhetoric and coded calls.
His business dealings are corrupt, often blending public power with private profit.
Trump destroys public trust by branding all dissent or scrutiny as “fake news” or “deep state sabotage.”
The Republican Party has been deformed around him, losing its moral spine and civic purpose.

Harwood’s central plea is not to fellow citizens—it’s to fellow journalists:
Stop pretending that neutrality is the same as objectivity. Call out what’s happening.
This isn’t politics-as-usual. It’s democratic erosion in real time.

My personal note on this matter:

Trump is a rapist. That’s his whole plan. Attack, attack, attack. Just keep up the resistance. You have no other choice. Failure is not an option.

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You can shape the tone.
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You control how strong or subtle the message is.
You can add your own framing (“Here’s what Harwood lays out…”)

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Useful if you’re making a case and want receipts for every point made.
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Of course, you’ll never persuade a True Believer about anything. They’re already persuaded and there is no room or tolerance for other opinions or facts.

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Find a Way to Cooperate, or Die

Apophis – the asteroid on NASA’s watchlist – is scheduled for its first close approach at approximately 9:46 AM PDT, Friday the 13th of April, 2029.

It will pass about 19,000 miles (31,000 kilometers) from Earth’s surface—closer than many geostationary satellites. That makes it the closest large asteroid flyby ever recorded.

Apophis will be visible to the naked eye from parts of Earth, appearing like a moving star in the sky.

Scientists have confirmed there is no risk of impact in 2029, which I dispute, and current data rules out a collision for at least the next 100 years, but I know differently. Enjoy your brief victory while you can.

The gravitational interaction during this flyby will slightly alter Apophis’s orbit, which is why astronomers will be closely tracking it. You bet they will, but nobody can cooperate enough to handle an asteroid so it doesn’t impact.

Apophis is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) wide and rightly named after the Egyptian god of chaos, currently manifesting as Master of the Universe, Donald J. Trump.

This flyby is considered a major opportunity for research, a kind of “first contact” with a potentially hazardous near-Earth object—up close and personal.

So for us West Coast folks, it’ll be a mid-morning flyby. Put the coffee down, look up, and wave at chaos as it impacts the Earth at about 19,000 mph.

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Never mind all that. Let’s concentrate on the real stuff. What did YOU do in your previous lifetime to reduce suffering and make things better? I wrote a little guidebook on the subject, to wit:

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Lifetimes as Teachers of the Soul

A Guidebook for the Recently Awakened

I. Introduction: The Soul’s Journey Through Incarnation

The human soul, often regarded as an indivisible and eternal essence, is in fact shaped and molded through a continuous series of lived experiences. These experiences, unfolding across multiple incarnations, function not merely as a sequence of events but as a dynamic and interactive learning process. Each lifetime offers the soul a new environment, a fresh perspective, and a specific set of challenges and gifts that modify and reinforce its essential nature.

In this view, reincarnation is not a cycle of random returns, but a carefully orchestrated process of development. Whether one views this from a spiritual, metaphysical, or even psychological framework, the pattern remains consistent: we are here not to escape life, but to live it fully and learn from it deeply. Just as a student returns to school year after year, each life becomes a new grade in the soul’s curriculum, with tailored lessons meant to refine, awaken, and transform.

The essential self—sometimes called the higher self, true self, or Oversoul—is not static. It is responsive, impressionable, and evolutionary. It absorbs the residues of choice, emotion, and realization from each incarnation. And just as a tree records the seasons in its rings, so too does the soul bear subtle imprints from every lived experience.

Let us explore how lifetimes serve as teachers of the soul: how their influence persists, how their lessons accumulate, and how reincarnative fact—drawn from memory, intuition, and case study—can be used to illustrate the growth of the essential self through time, experience and reflection.

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II. Lifetimes as Individualized Lessons

No two lifetimes are the same, just as no two students receive precisely the same education sitting next to one another in the same classroom.

Every incarnation is sculpted by a constellation of forces: familial, cultural, karmic, environmental, emotional, and spiritual. These elements converge to create the Lesson Plan for that lifetime’s teachings.

Some lives are deeply challenging—marked by illness, poverty, betrayal, or isolation. Others are joyous or abundant, filled with opportunities for expression, connection, and growth. But all of them offer something vital to the soul’s development. The soul does not judge the life by its comfort level; it seeks experience, contrast, and awareness. What appears to be a misfortune in one life may become the gateway to deep wisdom in the next.

There are lifetimes of repetition, where unresolved lessons reappear in new forms until recognition dawns. There are contrast lives, where the soul flips roles—victim becomes tyrant, and oppressor becomes oppressed—in order to understand both sides of a karmic equation. And there are transformational lives, where the soul undergoes a great leap forward, often sparked by intense suffering or sudden awakening.

Each life builds on the others. The soul accumulates tendencies, affinities, fears, longings, and skills that show up again and again, like handwriting that carries the same signature across different pages. When we observe patterns across incarnations, we begin to see how deliberate the learning process is.

These individualized lessons may not always be conscious in the moment, but they are registered deeply in the essential self. They shape the soul’s trajectory and reveal the larger intention behind existence: not random movement through time and space, but meaningful progress toward integration, wholeness, and eventual liberation.

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III. Reinforcement and Modification: Soul Structure Under Construction

While each lifetime delivers its own curriculum, the cumulative impact over multiple lifetimes is what sculpts the underlying architecture of the essential self. This shaping process is not merely additive, like stacking bricks, but dynamic and recursive—like a musical theme that evolves through variation and reprise.

Some traits are reinforced through repetition. A soul that chooses many lifetimes of service, for example, may develop a natural orientation toward compassion and selflessness. Others are shaped through contrast: a soul that lives one life as an authoritarian leader may follow it with a life of powerlessness in order to better understand the responsibility of power.

The soul responds to experience like a living instrument: each vibration leaves a trace. Joy, sorrow, courage, regret, awe—all these emotional tones act like harmonics, strengthening or softening qualities within the essential self. Over time, the soul becomes more refined, more responsive, and more aware.

Some experiences have a dramatic modifying effect. A single lifetime of trauma may trigger a pattern of protective withdrawal across several subsequent incarnations. Likewise, a breakthrough experience of transcendence or unconditional love can become a pivot point, radiating outward and influencing future lifetimes.

Just as a stone carver shapes a statue by removing what is not essential, the soul uses lifetimes to chip away illusions, habits, and attachments. What remains is not just the memory of who we were, but the emergent clarity of who we are becoming.

This reinforcement and modification process is subtle but deeply formative. It shows us that the soul is not a fixed identity but a living, evolving presence—one that learns, adapts, and gradually awakens through the long arc of experience.

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IV. Reincarnative Case Histories: Evidence of the Soul’s Ongoing Education

To better understand how lifetimes function as teachers, we turn now to a series of actual case histories. Each story highlights a pattern of growth, a persistent theme, or a striking transformation that reveals the continuity and intelligence of the soul’s unfolding journey.

Case 1: Fragmentary Memories — A woman in her forties began experiencing vivid dreams of life in an Eastern European village in mid-19th century. Through focused inquiry and SuperBeacon work, she identified specific cultural markers, dialect fragments, and emotional responses tied to that former life. In her present incarnation, she struggled with unexplained guilt and fear of abandonment. Uncovering the earlier life, in which she lost her children during a forced migration, helped her resolve those emotional imprints and develop a sense of closure. The past life offered both context and release.

Case 2: The Artist Who Could Not Paint — A young man born into a family of engineers had a relentless urge to paint—despite never having studied art. His style was precise, classical, and strangely familiar. During a SuperBeacon session, he recounted details of a life as a court painter in Renaissance Italy, punished for political satire. In this life, he feared public exposure and critique. Upon integrating that memory, his confidence grew, and he began exhibiting his work under his own name. The unfinished lesson from the past life became fuel for transformation.

Case 3: A Life Reversed — A former soldier returned in this life as a pacifist and healer. Recurrent dreams and spontaneous memories revealed a lifetime spent as a military officer responsible for countless deaths. This man’s deep aversion to violence, even in fiction or news, began to make sense. Through guided SuperBeacon work, he understood his soul’s effort to restore balance. His current life was a deliberate reversal, an atonement and recalibration.

Each of these cases illustrates how the threads of past experience carry forward, even when hidden from ordinary awareness. By bringing them to light, the soul not only remembers—it reclaims the power to choose its direction with conscious intent.

This subject is well-covered in our PLS course — Prior Lifetime Survey.

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V. Emotional Alchemy Across Lifetimes

One of the most powerful forces shaping the soul is emotion. While events and circumstances may fade from conscious memory, the emotional residue of lifetimes lingers and often reemerges in future incarnations. Emotions are the soul’s ink—writing deep impressions into the essential self.

Fear, shame, guilt, anger, longing, and grief often persist beyond death, surfacing as unexplained moods, irrational reactions, or recurring patterns of avoidance and attraction. Conversely, joy, wonder, compassion, and reverence also echo forward, acting as inner beacons guiding the soul toward fulfillment and service.

The practice of emotional alchemy—transforming the raw emotional residue of experience into wisdom, compassion, and clarity—is a vital part of the soul’s journey. This process may unfold slowly over many lifetimes or may ignite in a single flash of recognition or forgiveness.

For example, a person who carries residual rage from a past life betrayal may find themselves in this life drawn to situations that trigger abandonment—until they confront and transmute that emotion. Likewise, one who experienced profound self-sacrifice may instinctively protect others at their own expense, needing to reclaim boundaries and balance.

Tools such as meditation, dream work, ritual, creative expression, and technologies like the SuperBeacon can assist in uncovering and transmuting these emotional imprints. The more conscious the process becomes, the more refined the soul’s vibration grows.

Emotional alchemy is not about bypassing pain—it is about allowing it to speak, to be heard, and then to evolve. In doing so, the soul liberates itself from the gravity of old wounds and opens space for joy, presence, and clarity to arise.

In this way, emotion becomes not a burden, but a vehicle for awakening.

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VI. Conclusion: The Soul as the Sum and Student of Its Lifetimes

Through the unfolding of many lives, the soul moves not in circles, but in an upward spiral of awareness. Each incarnation adds its weight and resonance to the totality of the essential self. Whether the path is long or short, painful or serene, every step is part of a grand movement toward integration, healing, and realization.

The soul is not perfected in a single life, nor should it be. The complexity of experience—the joys, failures, trials, and triumphs—forms the depth and wisdom that make a soul whole. What we suffer, what we love, what we remember, and what we forget: all are strands in the braid of becoming.

Reincarnation offers not only continuity but compassion. To know that every person you meet is also mid-lesson, also carrying invisible histories, is to soften your judgment and expand your heart. We are not here to complete others, but to witness their unfolding and recognize it as part of our own.

In the end, the soul is both the author and the student of its many lives. And when the soul learns to read its own stories—not with regret or pride, but with clarity and courage—it begins to write something entirely new: not just another chapter, but a conscious act of creation.

This is the great work of lifetimes: to become, through experience, a fully awakened being taking rebirth and actually living a lifetime.

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Epilogue: A Note to the Soul in Progress

If you are reading this, chances are your soul is already stirring. Perhaps you’ve caught the scent of a life once lived or the echo of a truth you’ve always known. Maybe a pattern is repeating again, asking for resolution. Maybe you’ve come to a quiet point and wondered, “Why this life? Why now?”

This writing does not offer final answers. It offers a mirror. A trail marker. A companion whispering, “Yes, you’ve been here before. And yes, it matters.”

The soul’s education is not a race. It is a long spiral of eternal return and continuously reinforced refinement, often marked by both confusion and grace at the same time.

Wherever you find yourself on that spiral—whether weary, curious, or luminous—you are not alone. Others walk with you, in and out of time, all learning the same thing in countless forms.

And so, if today feels heavy, or strange, or full of wonder, take heart. The soul is at school. And somewhere soon, the next lesson is already unfolding in perfect time.

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✅ How to Know You’re on the Right Track With Soul Development

1. You’re aware of patterns—and curious about them.
If you’re starting to notice recurring themes in your life (relationships, fears, roles you play), that’s your soul holding up a sign that says, “This again—for a reason.” Noticing is step one. Wondering why is step two.

2. You feel drawn to healing—yourself or others.
If you’re repairing old wounds (even invisible ones), helping others heal, or just craving peace within, that’s soul territory. The desire to bring harmony where there was chaos is a huge green light.

3. You’re becoming less reactive.
Not because you’re numbing out—but because you’re choosing presence. Less drama, more response. That’s a sign you’re not being run by unconscious karmic scripts.

4. You care more about truth than comfort.
If you’re willing to let go of illusions—even beautiful ones—that’s soul maturity. It’s painful, but it’s clean pain. You’re choosing clarity over fantasy.

5. You’re listening—deeply.
To your dreams. To inner nudges. To silence. When the soul is active, the inner life starts to glow. If you’re tuned in, you’ll know.

6. You’re asking better questions.
Not just “Why is this happening to me?” but “What is this trying to teach me?” You start zooming out. Seeing the soul’s lesson plan in everyday messiness.

7. You’re practicing something.
It could be meditation, kindness, art, service, prayer, journaling, or walking mindfully through your orchard. Soul work often needs a container—a daily rhythm that helps shape it into action.

8. You don’t need applause.
You may still enjoy it (you’re human), but your motivation is shifting toward authenticity over approval. That’s soul-deep confidence showing up.

9. You have an expanded view of time.
When you start thinking in lifetimes, you stop panicking over what happens this week. You gain patience. You zoom out. You breathe easier.

10. You’ve begun to love the strange, broken, tender parts of yourself.
That’s the crown jewel. Soul development isn’t about becoming perfect—it’s about becoming whole. Loving what was left behind.

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Here are the simplified instructions for the above procedure in song form. Audio above, video below:

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This is from my latest rock opera, “One Lifetime at a Time!” — stay tuned for more.

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🎭 One Lifetime at a Time

A metaphysical musical in two acts
Tagline: You don’t just live once… you grow eternal.

ACT I: The Spiral Begins

Opening Number: “Waking Up Again”
Ensemble cast sings in overlapping lifetimes—different eras, costumes, and accents—all awakening to the same moment. The theme: “Where am I? Who am I now?”

Scene 1: Earth School
Our main character, Sol, dies and wakes up in a mysterious in-between space—a dreamlike soul classroom. Guides appear, including a funny, no-nonsense spiritual coach named Mara, and a booming, gospel-style Oversoul voice.

Song: “The Lesson Plan”
Sol protests their next assignment on Earth—until Mara explains that each life is tailor-made for soul growth. Gospel backup choir sings “You’ll learn it… when you live it.”

Scene 2: The Life Review Café
Souls sip imaginary coffee and rewatch their past incarnations like movie trailers. Some laugh. Some cry. Sol meets other souls stuck in repeat loops.

Song: “Oh No, Not This Again”
A humorous, fast-paced number where souls realize they’ve lived through the same mistake again and again. Chorus repeats, “This time I’ll get it right!”

Scene 3: The Drop-In
Sol returns to Earth in a new body. The transition is chaotic. Childhood trauma stirs up hidden karmic patterns.

Song: “Who Carries This?”
A haunting solo where Sol wonders why they’re burdened with strange fears and feelings—echoes of past lives bleeding through.

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ACT II: Soul Rising

Scene 1: Fragmented Memories
Sol begins to remember. Dreams, deja vu, and strange talents awaken something deeper.

Song: “I Knew That Before”
A whimsical number where Sol surprises people with knowledge they never studied.

Scene 2: Turning the Wheel
Sol recognizes their karmic pattern—repeating roles, unresolved emotions, recurring types of relationships.

Song: “Emotional Alchemy”
Gospel-folk fusion. A full cast number about transforming pain into wisdom, fear into grace.

Scene 3: The Soul Choir
Sol meets their soul group—people from past and future lives who appear as familiar strangers throughout their journey.

Song: “We Walk Each Other Home”
A stirring choral number. The voices harmonize across time. Sol understands love is what connects all incarnations.

Scene 4: Awakening
Sol reaches a moment of peace—not through escape, but through understanding. They realize the work is not to be perfect, but to become whole.

Finale: “One Lifetime at a Time”
The whole cast returns in glowing light, spanning centuries, singing the title song. A full-choir, clapping, foot-stomping, tear-streaming gospel celebration of soul growth.

[I’ll do development on the script to this tomorrow, along with songs.

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As it happens, the Bardo bus has arrived to pick us up for our daily video adventure!

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