Breaking the Cultural Trance

Breaking the Cultural Trance — June 2026  |  Don Spencer, CCHt

They're Already Gone

You feel it, don't you? That low hum beneath everything. That sense that something enormous is happening just outside the frame of what they're showing you.

Trust it.

While you were watching the latest outrage cycle — the news story designed to spike your cortisol and keep you scrolling — the people who run this world were quietly packing their bags.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump just bought an island in Albania. Not a vacation home. An island. Peter Thiel, the billionaire architect of surveillance capitalism, relocated to Argentina. These aren't lifestyle choices. These are exits. And exits mean they know something is coming that they have no intention of weathering alongside you.

Meanwhile, the AI data centers being built across America are drinking the water. Literally. Billions of gallons from already-stressed aquifers — in Arizona, in Texas, in the dry West — to cool the machines that will replace your job, monitor your behavior, and concentrate more wealth upward. The infrastructure of your replacement is being built on your land, with your water, and you're paying for it with your taxes and your thirst.

Now ask yourself why Trump keeps genuflecting to Netanyahu.

A man who likely kept Jeffrey Epstein alive — because a Mossad asset that useful doesn't simply disappear — he becomes Palm Beach Pete, untouchable, surfacing quietly while the official story gets swallowed whole by a sedated public. If you control the blackmail, you control the man. And if you control the man, you control the military of the most powerful nation on earth. The push to formally merge U.S. and Israeli military operations isn't diplomacy. It's absorption.  Is it true though?

Netanyahu doesn't want peace. Peace means a war crimes tribunal. Peace means the end of Benjamin Netanyahu. So the bombs keep falling, the body count keeps rising, and a man who fancies himself a biblical instrument of prophecy keeps engineering the conditions for Armageddon — not because God wills it, but because it keeps him out of a cell.

Make no mistake: this is a spiritual battle dressed in the language of politics. The forces driving this chaos feed on fear, division, and your exhaustion. The trance they need you in is one of helplessness — too overwhelmed to resist, too distracted to connect the dots. It is called learned helplessness in the profession, and you can feel it, deep inside, something is wrong.

But the dots connect themselves.

Epstein to Mossad to Netanyahu to Trump. Water to data centers to billionaires to Albanian islands. Wars to distraction to looting to exodus. They are leaving the country they hollowed out. The question they're counting on you never asking is: what do we build in the wreckage they leave behind?

Wake up. Not in anger — in clarity. The trance breaks the moment you see it for what it is.

You are not powerless. You are just not yet fully awake.  Let go of preconceived ideas. It’s the only way to liberate your mind and your soul.

Reach out if you need to break away from the trance.

Don Spencer

www.SleepNow.com