For me it was personal. I began to wake up at 15 when I was injured by the HPV v in its “totally safe & effective” testing phase that also seemed to be greatly pushed in conservative Christian communities…..(my theory is bc middle class CC parents at the time were a government obedient bunch & also feared their daughters losing their virginity before marriage, but even worse would be that virginity lost and an STD! That would turn into cancer and then they would DIE——— the perfect storm to volunteer their kids as tribute & adopt the trial. So anyway my mom took me to a Chinese medicine doctor bc I started having bad reactions to food and that was phase 1 of wake up. Phase 2 was seeing an AK Chiro in NYC who was one of the most insane ppl I’ve ever met but he helped me heal an injury I wasn’t sure I couldn’t recover from. Worked w a naturopath in 2016… (same issues since I was 15) & that helped me understand our food supply much deeper; another veil lifted. Then some pizzagate rabbit hole right before the pandemic. Then Covid bs (which was really hard bc I work in entertainment, so you can only imagine the fire I’ve been under as a non-consenter) This last year & a half tho I feel like I am being directly shaken by God so hard it’s making my eyes wider than I knew they could go & it’s really hard. I was sick for four months, an unexplained ongoing puking deliverance is what I’ve accepted it must have been hah. In a prayer I begged God to help me heal - God said “just eat red meat & nothing else” (I didn’t know anything ab the carnivore diet at the time) - so I began doing that and feeling IMMEDIATELY better. Mind blowingly better. The most effective healing I’ve ever experienced in all the crazy diets & hippie doctor remedies I’ve ever done. It was crazy. A week into it, a friend is like “oh you’re doing the lion diet” - I didn’t know ab it, didn’t realize Rogan did it etc etc… I start looking it up & go into the communities of “animal based”, “carnivore” etc and realize I’m in the same boat as so many ppl having this collective conscious wake up ab how fucked our food is — but also realizing that the consumption of meat & dairy (when bought local & grass fed) basically helps no one except farmers who have been so behind the scenes (from the mainstream perspective) crippled over the years. They’re also the people in society who generally tend to LOVE animals & land the most - bc they have such a deeply connected experience to it on a daily basis…. A real threat to corporate greed. The Weston A Price podcast & free birth society podcast (stories of women having birth in the wild vs “birthing in captivity” as they call it on the show) also came at the perfect time for me. I go through waves of despair & cynicism but it’s not productive. I think the most important thing to hold onto is hope- bc if we collectively believe with total faith that the truth will be revealed & the power will return to the people - it will.