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“Reading this powerful writing felt like drinking a tall glass of water or taking a very deep breath. I have to laugh at myself because I used to think the burning curiosity I feel to traverse to the edge of understanding what this experience is would lessen if I just embraced the mystery more fully. The deeper I embrace the mystery the more the curiosity burns. I’m grateful for Sol’s work as it’s always deeply embedded with sources/inspo/connected ideas and maintains room for the reader to reach their own conclusions/ideas while leading the way down the rabbit hole with precision.” —Ren
Sol Luckman
If you’re feelin’ dejected
If your moods are affected
If your goals seem deflected
Maybe you’re just
Mandela Effected
If you’re trendin’ neglected
If you feel unselected
If true love’s undetected
Maybe you’re just
Mandela Effected
If you’ve been disconnected
If your mind seems infected
If your heart’s all dissected
Maybe you’re just
Mandela Effected
A Rabbit Hole inside a Box
Earlier in this month of December, an unexpected and quite mysterious box showed up on my doorstep postmarked from Coolum Beach, Australia.
Little did I know what a deep rabbit hole awaited inside as I curiously opened it and pulled out an inexplicable pair of beautiful T-shirts—one for myself and another for my partner, Leigh—that turned out to be from my friend Johnny Flynn’s surf shop down under.
The lovely T-shirts would have been “Christmas present” enough, but an even greater gift—inviting a veritable paradigm shift—lay at the bottom of the box just atop the aforementioned rabbit hole: a hefty, glossy hardback copy of Johnny’s new book (which I had no idea he was even writing) … THE MANDELA DILEMMA.
As I hope to make abundantly clear in what follows, this text is arguably the definitive scholarly and theoretical work on a truly bizarre, largely misunderstood and often ignorantly maligned phenomenon. Anyone who hasn’t read THE MANDELA DILEMMA and tries to take credit for “debunking” or otherwise discrediting the Mandela Effect clearly hasn’t “done the research.”
Without stealing the author’s thunder, in this article I’ll endeavor to impress upon you the immense importance of this work in coming to terms with not just widespread “paranormal” activity of the highest order hidden in plain sight.
Just as crucially, I’ll explain how this Effect elucidates the eminently “metaphysical” operating principles of the world we live in (and usually take for granted) … opening the door for contemplation of how we might begin to take control of the universal OS for our highest personal and collective good.
In a handwritten note I found inside the book, Johnny explained that it was a “little souvenir” for introducing him to the Mandela Effect back in 2022 when I posted a video about Tutankhamun.
I recalled sharing that rather mind-bending video around the time I interviewed popular online personality Shiva Shampoo about the Mandela Effect. After a good bit of searching, however, I wasn’t able to track it down on YouTube.
Not to worry. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of similar ones focused primarily on the apparently erroneous memory many (especially older) people (including myself) have of a single cobra—without today’s bizarrely decontextualized and asymmetrical accompanying vulture—gracing the pharaoh’s golden funereal mask.
Here’s an example of such videos that have been, in the “Wild West” YouTube spirit that embraces borderline if not outright plagiarism, reworked ad nauseam …
“The Mandela Effect is a term coined by paranormal researcher, journalist and author Fiona Broome in 2009 when she recalled Nelson Mandela dying in a South African prison in the 1980s,” writes Flynn in his voluminous “detailed inquiry, analysis and theoretical perspective of popular reality shifts … commonly known as ‘Mandela Effects.’”
“History of course shows that Nelson Mandela died in 2013,” he continues, adding that “Broome realised many others also remembered him dying [earlier]. She was surprised that such a large number of people could remember the same event that never apparently happened.”
Perhaps you’ve experienced this or another Mandela Effect (of which there are hundreds) or know or have heard of people who have been thus impacted. And if so, maybe, even probably, like so many others, you’ve been steered by today’s prevailing rationalism and materialism to dismiss the whole topic without a second thought as a load of hocus pocus.
The “Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories in the same way,” pontificates skeptical cultural commentator Chuck Klosterman, one of countless “experts” who have typically done precious little digging when it comes to the Mandela Effect.
But problem solved anyway, right? Nothing like the casual mention of a “collective delusion” to shame-silence genuine inquiry before any real thinking has even begun.
And if that doesn’t do the trick, why, the religion of science can always—like the architect(s) behind the Mandela Effect itself—just invent something with a ridiculous name like “fuzzy-trace theory” to “logically” explain away such mass malleability of human memory. You’ll soon have enough suckers buying your “explanation” to open a candy store …
Whatever else you do, be sure to take out your broom and sweep Broome’s paranormal shitstorm under the rug as fast as possible. Lest it grow more powerful and whirl itself into something … unthinkable. Lest it rage through your mind like a tornado and explode an entire meticulously constructed worldview grounded in the false god of reason.
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