Why not Untruth?

I mean, it is a live option. We can know something to be true, and at the same time act like it isn’t, can we not? We can accept two opposing claims to be true, if we just want to. Nobody is stopping anyone. We can believe something knowing it’s not true, sort of, or disbelieve something knowing it to be true, to some extent. In short, we can disobey truth and we can obey untruth. We can do it. So, why not do it? Nietzsche wondered about this, specifically, why truth was privileged and deemed a non-negotiable and exclusive starting point in thinking and discourse. This was the case for his late-nineteenth-century Germans, and further back, since the time of Plato, when the latter invented the fateful and, for Nietzsche, foolish and servile and emasculating and dishonest distinction between appearance and reality, between the shadows of untruth and the Sun of truth, between the Good and what only appears to us as such. Nietzsche:

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? WHO is it really that puts questions to us here? WHAT really is this "Will to Truth" in us? In fact we made a long halt at the question as to the origin of this Will—until at last we came to an absolute standstill before a yet more fundamental question. We inquired about the VALUE of this Will. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth?[1]

The obvious one-word answer to Nietzsche’s question is insanity. Lying is knowing the truth about something but saying otherwise. The liar cares about the truth, but only for himself. But insanity is not caring about the truth at all, even for oneself. It is a sort of dedication, willing or otherwise, to untruth. To even pose the question, “Why not untruth,” is to flirt with insanity, to begin walking down the path that leads to it. It is tantamount to saying, “Why not insanity,” because sanity or mental health is secured and sustained through one’s dedication to reality, and truth is the conformity of the mind to reality. Being dedicated to something other than and in competition with truth, then, is both an indication and cause of mental illness. M. Scott Peck:

Mental health is a dedication to reality at all costs; and mental illness occurs when the conscious will of the individual substantially deviates from the will of God, which is his or her own unconscious will. We attempt to defend our consciousness, our awareness, against reality. We do this by a variety of means which psychiatrists call defense mechanisms. All of us employ such defenses, thereby limiting our awareness. If in our laziness and fear of suffering we massively defend our awareness, then it will come to pass that our understanding of the world will bear little or no relation to reality. Although our conscious mind has denied reality, our unconscious which is omniscient, knows the true score and attempts to help us out by stimulating, through symptom formation, our conscious mind to the awareness that something is wrong. In other words, the painful and unwanted symptoms of mental illness are manifestations of grace. They are products of a powerful force, originating outside the consciousness which nurtures our spiritual growth.[2]

Nietzsche was the first philosopher to pose seriously the question, “Why not untruth,” and to be taken seriously as a philosopher for doing so. The fact that he eventually went insane and never recovered is suggestive. Hamlet’s question, “To be or not to be?” is an equivalent interrogative sign of imminent insanity. Your and my existence is a gift we did not give ourselves, and it is one that we can’t unreceive. It simply is. There was once a “not to be” for us before we existed, but not after. To pose the possibility of “not being” as if we could make this possibility a reality is to move into unreality, mental illness, insanity. What prevents the vast majority of people from seriously entertaining this question, and living it out is the loving grace of God, keeping us in reality by making us suffer pain when we depart from it, like the pain we receive from touching a hot stove from which our mother may choose one time not to protect us so the lesson is firmly learned, never to be forgotten. We all depart from reality, particularly moral reality, from time to time and to some extent whenever we choose a lesser good over a higher good, when we lie or believe a lie knowing it’s a lie, when we seek to gain unjustly, when we act self-interestedly when duty-bound to care for another, etc. Internally, we suffer interior guilt for such actions, and if we repeatedly ignore or repress or rationalize the guilt, we suffer some level of mental illness. Externally, we suffer the moral opprobrium of friends and society when we trespass against the law and moral norms and customs. If we rebel against and resent this external pressure and punishment, we may be put in jail or otherwise ostracized by family, friends, and society at large. All this pain and suffering is, as Peck says, for our spiritual growth: “God chastises those He loves.” Frank Sheed:

Seeing God everywhere and all things upheld by Him is not a matter of sanctity,
but of plain sanity, because God IS everywhere and all things are upheld by Him.
What we do about it may be sanctity; but merely seeing it is sanity. To overlook God's presence is not simply to be irreligious; it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there.[3]

Truth is the good of the intellect, and that’s why Dante tells us that all those in Hell have “lost the good of the intellect.” To ask, “why not untruth” is thus to ask, “Why not evil,” since truth and goodness are equivalent, as are untruth and evil. In seeking an answer to this question, one is seeking the truth, the good of one’s intellect, so one cannot really ask this question honestly and earnestly. It is akin for me to claim right now, “I am not writing,” as I write this sentence. “Why not untruth” is not a question posed to the intellect but an attack on the intellect, and so an attack on truth and reality. To even ask this question seriously and earnestly is to sin against the truth, against reality itself. It is thus to dedicate oneself to unreality, which is the definition of insanity, more specifically, moral and spiritual insanity. One would hope that, internally, God, working through what Peck calls the omniscient unconscious or what is more plainly called guilt, and, externally, society and culture through its laws, norms, customs, and other pressures and coercive punishments, will inflict enough merciful and just pain on those who are tempted to ask this question and thus dedicate themselves to unreality to prevent them from doing so, and on those who have already gone down this path, to wake them up to repentance and metanoia.

But what if not just a few insane weirdos but a whole population were to ask this anti-question, being seduced into doing so by a corrupt education and culture, and even brainwashed into doing so by trauma-based mind control, terror-ritual induced scapegoating, and mass formation? And what if the cultural elites and their toadies were relentlessly and ubiquitously to promote and endorse and celebrate such questioning, denigrating, punishing and marginalizing those who don’t or won’t ask it? This, of course, is not hypothetical. The internal defense mechanisms that usually protect the soul against consistently acting against reality are completely corrupted now, as the psychopaths who have no such internal guides have created a global pathocracy in their own image. Every institution from medicine to academia to journalism to politics is now fully predatorial and tyrannical, serving only itself and the elites at the expense of the good of those it is supposed to serve. It’s worse than this. These institutions are now systematically intended to maim, paralyze. and kill, physically and spiritually, and feed off those who remain, keeping them barely alive. Everything is vampiric and parasitic now. Add to this the psychological damage of incessant propaganda rendering unreality as reality in perception and imagination, the intellectual damage of ideological indoctrination replacing liberal education and common sense and tradition, the moral damage of immersion in a culture in rebellion against the Tao, particularly in sexual matters, and the spiritual damage of a Church in apostasy, with its arch-leader baptizing deadly injections as sacraments of the love of neighbor, destroying by deliberate confusion the salvific doctrines and sacraments of the Faith, and offering up the Mystical Body of Christ to the globalist Luciferians, such as Schwab and Gates, to use as they see fit. In reaction to this evil, we now have self-serving Catholic “traditionalists” doing evil in the name of Catholic Tradition by rejecting completely the authority of the post-Vatican II Church and in doing so calling what is obviously holy and good, diabolical and evil. Not to mention the hordes of treasonous leftist Marxist intellectuals, who identify as Catholic but are nothing but white-washed tombs of hypocrisy and filth, serving as willing mouthpieces and maskers of the Luciferian Great Reset propaganda, from the LGBTQ agenda of normalizing pedophilia to the plandemic agenda of mass brainwashing and medical and financial enslavement, to the “sustainable development” agenda of .00001 propertied and 99.9999 (of whoever is left after they attempt to reduce the world population to 500 million) propertyless.

How is the ordinary twenty-first-century secular person, neither God-fearing, well-catechized, liberally educated, nor virtuous, supposed to save his soul, let alone remain immune from these evils and avoid the temptation to commit his life to untruth? All the rewards and blandishments are there for the taking if you do, and hell is unleashed upon you if you don’t. Insane people have always considered themselves the sane ones, and psychopaths see their elite club as the superior breed, but they didn’t get to impose their judgments on the sane and the moral. Now they do, and they have. The insane question in Nietzsche’s day was “Why not untruth?” because truth was the default existential position. The fact that Nietzsche even received a public hearing for his question indicates that things then were not good. And soon after that, the question would lose all its shock value. But it took a century and a half for untruth to become the default and only position, with even the spark of consciousness of any alternative extinguished in the collective consciousness. The result of Nietzsche’s question eventually infecting the consciousness of mankind, plus a global propaganda campaign made possible by a level of technology and malice never before seen in human history, has not only been the global reign of untruth, but the spiritual lobotomization of the masses such that the question of truth, let alone it’s unimpeachable and nonnegotiable authority, is no longer posed. We all seem to be in Plato’s Cave now, but without anyone to break our chains.

But God is here, and He knows what’s happening, and He is allowing it. He can stop it in a nanosecond. But He needs to test us, and this is the final exam. He is asking, “Do you love me” every time we are confronted with propaganda, every time we are pressured to act against truth, every time we have a choice to act to gain the praise of others at the expense of our integrity and what we know to be true, every time we are tempted to ignore the warnings of others, to accept a narrative before assessing it because it makes our lives more comfortable to believe and promote it, to indulge in the self-righteousness of scapegoating. For, to put anything, however “necessary” or “prudent” or “caring,” or “progressive,” above the truth in our thought and speech, and above the spiritual good of others and ourselves in our action, is to tell Jesus that you do not love Him, and he takes our answer quite seriously. We can tell Jesus we love him, and perhaps that’s all we can do at this time. I think it’s good enough.

Our life remains
A process of guilt and obfuscation
And it stays the same
No closer to the deeper truths
And further from a divine light
We rode on wings, baring our souls / Into the night
Leaving scattered remnants of self / When the stars fall
We fell from the sky / The depths went black
And with a blink / The lesser wind
Stood and teetered on the chasm's brink / Submitting to the darkness
And grey, and black and nothingness
We form a line, from there to here
Hoping to find our way back.[4]

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”... it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.[5]

Like Nietzsche, Michele Foucault was committed to the “truth” that discourse is nothing but the surreptitiously coercive use of power, and the more hidden the power, the more effective the coercion. The power hiding behind claims to truth is so all-pervasive and effective that the very person who speaks and listens to discourse is itself its product and mouthpiece. The conviction that I am an individual person with agency and freedom and knowledge before I am influenced by words and the power hiding behind them is itself a mask of power, as is the “individual” himself.

Nevertheless, Foucault used his non-agency over several decades to expose the powers hiding behind discourse systems and working to fight them. What if he had won? To replace them with what? The truth? But there is no such thing—-it’s only power. Foucault was right, though, if we confine his claim to discourse, and the institutions, society, and culture in which it is exercised, that has been thoroughly corrupted. For, the pure purpose of words is to discover and communicate reality, whether in a declarative, optative, interrogative, or exclamatory mode, as an act of love of God and neighbor, with self-effacing worship being the highest form of speech. When words are used against their pure purpose, such as to communicate unreality to gain power over another, this is the corruption of words, and when it becomes habitual and institutionalized, it evinces precisely the characteristics Foucault describes. Josef Pieper:

Whoever speaks to another person--not simply, we presume, in spontaneous conversation but using well-considered words, and whoever in so doing is explicitly not committed to the truth-—whoever, in other words, is in this guided by something other than the truth—such a person, from that moment on, no longer considers the other as partner, as equal. In fact, he no longer respects the other as a human person. From that moment on, to be precise, all conversation ceases; all dialogue and all communication come to an end. Public discourse, the moment it becomes basically neutralized with regard to a strict standard of truth, stands by its nature ready to serve as an instrument in the hands of any ruler to pursue all kinds of power schemes.[6]

2020 was the inauguration of the global institutionalization of the corruption of discourse. Domestic terrorism by the government (shutting down businesses, imprisoning the healthy, imposing the wearing of oxygen-depleting masks, etc.) and the deliberate democide of the world’s population through a mandatory poison injection were successfully translated into the discourse of “public health.” And in case there were still some leftover non-corrupted elements of discourse lying around, as well as to reinforce the mass corruption to irreversible levels, in 2022 they held the second inauguration in Ukraine, wherein supporting a literal Nazi genocide of Russian-speaking Ukrainians was successfully translated into “fighting for freedom.” In 2024, the “October 7 Holocaust,” in truth, an Israeli false-flag psy-op, gave Israel and the US carte blanch authority to commit a genocide of Palestinians. In the meantime, self-mutilation became gender-freedom, conditioning children to tolerate and even desire being molested, inclusive curriculum, and let’s not forget the less-recent transformation of child-murder into reproductive health and elderly-murder into death with dignity.

The global program of discourse corruption was a top-down agenda, orchestrated by the elites of technology, corporations, intelligence, media, finance, medicine, science, academia, as well as the various alphabet-soup agencies of global control (WEF, NIH, CIA, WHO, FDA, CDC, etc.), the multitude of satanic foundations and thinktanks (Rockefeller, Council on Foreign Relations), and let’s not leave out the City of London, the Zionists, and the Freemasons. But it couldn’t have been as successful as it was without the cooperation of first the lower-tier rulers of discourse in the professions, business, religion, the arts, entertainment, education, tech industry, media, government bureaucracy, and management, and then the rest of us ordinary people, who used to be called the unwashed masses, but should now be called the brainwashed masses.

I am not writing this for the psychopaths and those confirmed in wickedness at the source of this malevolent fountain of language corruption, the die-hard Foucaultians in theory and practice. And I am not writing for their lower-tier cooperators, those whose talents and vocations have put them in positions of cultural influence, but whose cowardice, venality, vanity, spite, envy, sloth, hypocrisy, virtue-signaling, faux-compassion, ambition, and overall worldliness has led them to complicity in deception and slander for what they can get personally and career-wise. In Catholic circles, these types are legion on both the “right,” neocons, and the “left,” progressives—what binds them together is their worship of state power. These are so immersed in the corrupt discourse and so good at making the best of it that they wouldn’t know how to live outside of it, and they don’t want to.

Rather, I am writing to and for those of you aware of this corruption, for the most part at least, and are more victims than agents of this corruption, but who, due to the power and subtleness of this corruption, could too easily become agents—it is to help us avoid both victimage and complicity, and to empower us to unmask and destroy the corruption, that I write. If you are still reading this, then it means that you hate the supreme evil of using language to manipulate and gain power, and would rather die than commit it. The first thing I want to say is that if you are indeed committed to using language as God intended it to be used, as an instrument of love, in the present climate, and it’s only getting worse, you are going to be hated, persecuted, gaslighted, mocked, canceled, scapegoated, driven to insanity (if you let them), and, in the not too distant future, murdered—many of those most dangerous to the lie-regime have indeed been murdered since the Plandemic began. But it seems to me that the violence will eventually spread to anyone committed to the truth and unwilling to hide this commitment.

The second important thing is that though we have this commitment to truth above power, the corruption is so pervasive and insidious that we are inevitably tainted with it, meaning that there are beliefs and judgments we are used to holding and asserting as true that are actually just vectors of power relations put into our minds by hidden manipulation and brainwashing. What those are in particular are for you to discover, but they are there. Pray and be quiet, watch and observe, inquire and doubt, read outside your comfort zone, accept the suffering of cognitive dissonance and the loss of some social relations and worldly securities that will come when you recognize and renounce what Pierre Grimes has called the pathologoi in your soul.[7]

Thirdly, it is imperative to find others to talk to and be with that are committed to truth over power, and I mean actually committed, not just claiming to be or having the standard beliefs of someone who is committed It’s hard to find the good souls, but if they are present to you when you talk to them, and you really feel their presence, and if they are willing to suffer for you, when no one is looking, that’s some sure signs of their commitment. Finally, take heart in the fact that God loves and protects those who refuse to put power over truth, because this means you desire Heaven, and His will, approval, and presence, more than anything else, and this makes Him happy.

Medicine, science, technology, academia, law, politics, economics, journalism,—these and all the sundry institutions of contemporary, western, secular liberal society and culture are now in a state of complete corruption. And I mean complete. Incomplete corruption entails intact ends, but corrupt means, e.g., medicine seeking to promote health, but, due to greed or incompetence, promoting illness instead. Complete corruption ensues when the natural ends themselves are no longer sought.

Medicine, instead of promoting health and life, now promotes illness and death—consider the poisonous and deadly spikeshot that called itself a vaccine. Science, instead of promoting empirical truth based upon impartial research, now peddles empirical falsehoods based upon ideology. Technology, instead of helping man to harness nature for his flourishing, now works to enslave the many to the few. Academia, far from being a bastion of free inquiry ordered to truth, now is nothing but woke group-think ordered to power. Journalism reports lies as truth, politics secures the common evil, economics destroys wealth, and media mediates unreality.

What’s the reason for this systemic and absolute corruption? Did a group of evil, psychopathic men infiltrate these institutions and get into positions of power? Well, yes, certainly. But the question remains as to how and why that happened. My thesis is that absolute corruption is what happens and what must happen when societal institutions are officially divorced from natural and supernatural reality, when they are set up and made to function as self-sufficient entities, needing no explicit, corporate, and deliberate grounding in the true and the good. When man, a creature of God, acts as if he were self-created and independent, he becomes a monster. It is the same with institutions. First, they are corrupted by atheist ideology (whether explicit as in Marxism or cloaked as in Liberalism), then they are taken over by psychopaths and their wicked minions.

I have been committed to this thesis on an intellectual level for some time now, but it is something else to see its truth playing out in practice right before our eyes. Ever since I figured this out decades ago, after reading Plato’s Republic, Christopher Dawson, and the Encyclicals of Leo XIII, I have been trying to help people, especially Catholic academics, to see this truth, at least on an intellectual level in terms of logic, of what follows and must follow from first principles, the primary of which being that politics flows from culture, culture from religion, and religion from theology. But now, the truth is right here in living color, manifest, concrete, palpable, in front of our eyes. The incarnate revelation of evil.

I had once thought that when the obviously evil consequences of diabolically evil ideas, such as the grotesque, cunningly hidden godlessness of liberalism, became manifest in existential and material reality, the masses would wake up, repent, revolt, overthrow the elite of psychopaths and Luciferians in power, and work with the grace of God to establish a new Christendom. Well, the evil consequences are here now in spades—virtually the entire global population injected itself with a deadly, human-genome-altering poison, and the leaders of the Church that the God-Man Himself founded promoted this diabolical sorcery—and I see no sign of such a graced response, though there have been pockets of resistance. Quite the contrary. It is as if the whole world was under diabolical possession. And now it is in remission—for a time. The end game is the voluntary, consensual spiritual self-enslavement of every human being to the will of Satan via a technocratic globalist elite. The means to this is staged “crises” (fake pandemics, false-flag provoked wars) that tempt us to turn on our own brothers and sisters and cry out to the minions of antichrist for salvation from the very evils they have caused.

God allowed these demonic elites to torture us so that their masks fall off and we finally realize that rejecting God as our Father, we don’t get to govern ourselves, as liberalism tells us. The only alternative to submission to the Living God who gave His Blood for us is enslavement to vampiric monsters who lust for our blood. God is allowing this final chastisement—and it is going to get worse—so that so that as many people as possible will recognize Him, cry out to Him, and repent. God cares about nothing more than the salvation of souls. We are His creatures, and we are to obey and live in His will. He has given us the gift to do this on earth. It is the same with the institutions that we have created in modern times. They are to be instruments of His will, ordered and grounded in it, not instruments of human will in rebellion against reality and thus His will, the ground of reality. There is no neutrality, no “secular,” no “liberal,” no “separation of Church and state.” There is just the Holy Will of God, and all humans and human institutions must be obedient to it. If they are not, they have hell to pay, both now and in eternity. And this is also a consequence of God’s love. He will bring us into His arms, even if it’s because the only alternative is the hideous mouth of the devil.

Silence, long held

in shuttered cities

Landscape pocked with bodies

Stale breath hovers

Piled high under common eye

the naked dead flow

A stream uninterrupted

in light of day

Rats stir, quiver

under sun’s unbidden pallor

Oh, muted hearts

through clasped hands glimmer

Shine!

Hearts! Shine!

Steps falter

in halls long emptied

Dull gaze glistens

through shadowed cracks

Mask broken

Blood, across all shores

twined

By the fall

all are joined

Through red cloud’s haze

finger’s reach is met

All are joined

All are joined

Sight regained

In rooms now illumed

by fire’s shine

Swaying mass

by hymns restored

Up the luminous steps

Arisen from the ash they ascend

Up! Up!

Ascend!

By shards of sun scattered

Through dome hung with leaves

are anointed bowed heads

In this world of light.[8]

There are two ways to discern the Will of God for one’s life. One is to discover what God has revealed about it in His own words, and this is to be found in Catholicism, with no admixture of error. By practicing it, one is also enabled to believe with certainty and follow with consistency what God has revealed through Grace, the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity that are infused into the soul in Baptism, through participation in the sacraments, and a life of prayer, contemplation, and grace-inspired, meritorious, loving works. While Faith provides access to the supernatural aspect of God’s Will, undiscoverable and incomprehensible to the human intellect, His will can also be known on a natural level in creation through the exercise of theoretical and practical reason. For example, what God wants us to do is communicated through the moral law, which is discernible by reason alone. And the acquired virtue of prudence, aided by the infused virtue of the prudence and the Holy Spirit’s gift of counsel, indeed, by all of the acquired and infused virtues and gifts, allows one to discern God’s will in the immanent particulars of one’s daily life.

There is a lot more I could say about this way of knowing God’s Will, including the role that liberal education and familial/political/cultural habituation play in disposing us to see it and love it, not to mention the conditioning influence of one’s political and cultural order, healthy or corrupt or somewhere in between, and the present condition of the human element of the Church, with its relation to the political and cultural, whether subservient or authoritative or somewhere in between. Regardless of these factors and conditions, everything every human being has ever and will ever need to discern the Will of God and obey It is available, for God desires that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth, and thus He provides to every human being at every moment in every place what is necessary to obtain salvation, if we so desire it, choose it, and cooperate with His abundant Grace. Desiring it and choosing it is up to us, for God who created us without our will will not save us without it.

But there is another way to discern the Will of God, not through what God has directly revealed about Himself and His Will, but through what God has permitted His enemies to reveal in their opposition to Him. In addition to the first way, and for many it is now the main path to it, it is this “negative” revelation of God’s will that God wants us to turn our attention to, whether we have the Catholic Faith or not. Just as God allows heresies to arise so that the full and balanced truth can be more deeply and accurately understood in contrast, so too is God allowing not mere heresy but an all-out assault of all the combined forces of evil on God, His Church, and Reality itself, both from within the Church and without, so that we can more fully and deeply understand the saving truths and realities in which we may already believe and experience to be exquisitely prepared to do His Will in the present time.

If everything needed for salvation is present to us, and guaranteed to be such, for against the Church the Gates of Hell cannot prevail; and since evil cannot prevent us from choosing to do God’s will, then the only thing the forces of evil can do is to make it as difficult as possible to do so. God allows them to make it so difficult, and we wish He did not, and we cannot really explain why He does so. We only know that it’s somehow better for us this way. When we look back on our lives from Heaven, we will have more understanding of this, but until then, we must simply trust and submit to His all-loving and all-merciful and all-just and knowing and all-powerful will. So what is evil doing right now to make things as difficult as possible, and what can we learn from it so as to defeat it?

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[1] Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Helen Zimmern (New York: Dover Publications, 1997), 6.

[2] M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), 281.

[3] Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946), 24.

[4] Minsk, “Within and Without,’ The Crash and the Draw, Relapse Records, 2015.

[5] Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977), 27. "The Subject and Power," Critical Inquiry 8, no. 4 (Summer 1982): 777.

[6] Josef Pieper, Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, trans. Lothar Krauth (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992), 21.

[7] Pierre Grimes and Regina L. Uliana, Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems With Its Validation (Huntington Beach, CA: Hyparxis Press, 1990).

[8] Sumac, "World of Light," track 5 on The Healer, Thrill Jockey Records, 2024,