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I'm not afraid. 
I'm not afraid to take a stand. 

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Take a stand, everybody. 
Everybody, hello and welcome 

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back to the Tiny Pod. 
This week I want to talk about 

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terror. 
The word terror comes from the 

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Latin terere, meaning to 
frighten, to fill with fear, to 

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cause, to tremble. 
Terror is physiological nervous 

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system level fear that shakes 
the body. 

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It is paralysing fear that 
activates the sympathetic 

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nervous system response of 
freeze and panic. 

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Historically, terror was how 
power governed. 

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The French Revolution made this 
explicit with the Reign of 

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Terror. 
Terror was government policy. 

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Kill enough people publicly and 
the rest will obey, submit and 

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self police. 
The word terrorism was first 

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used during the revolution in 
France to describe the 

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calculated use of violence to 
create fear by a government 

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against its own citizens. 
The word terrorism has been 

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weaponized by the very people 
creating the terror through 

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corruption, exploitation and 
systemic abuse. 

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They call the people naming the 
terror terrorists. 

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The people asking questions, 
demanding accountability get 

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labelled domestic terrorists for
refusing to be compliant and 

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complicit in their reign of 
terror. 

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Much like left liberal, woke 
anti fascist, the word terrorist

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gets inverted and suddenly 
citizens, mothers, protesters 

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and truth tellers are the threat
while the corrupt politicians, 

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governments, federal forces, 
arms dealers are merely 

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enforcing order. 
Terror has always been a tool of

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control rooted in the idea of 
destabilising people so 

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completely that they cannot 
think clearly or act freely. 

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Modern terror is psychological. 
We are fed endless conflicting 

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narratives made to fear 
invisible enemies and live in a 

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state of permanent crisis. 
Terror collapses time. 

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Everything becomes urgent, 
reactive, defensive, a permanent

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emergency mode to shake our 
psyches. 

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We are constantly terrorised by 
lies, gaslighting on 

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institutional levels with 
disinformation that erodes 

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trust. 
Trump is terrorising because he 

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normalises violence, chaos and 
shamelessness. 

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Epstein is terrorising because 
he reveals global impunity for 

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wealth and power and just how 
very protected abusers are. 

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War is terror because it 
reframes the mass slaughter of 

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innocent children, families and 
civilians as necessary. 

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Terror always externalises 
danger to hide the extraction, 

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violence and corruption that 
sustains governments. 

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Power believes that if it can 
keep people trembling, then it 

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can strip them of their power to
unify, resist, rest, love and 

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heal. 
Terror is only debilitating and 

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exhausting if we let it. 
Terror only works on people who 

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are disconnected from their 
bodies and each other. 

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Terror thrives on separation and
disconnection. 

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Community and connection to 
truth, to yourself and to one 

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another breaks the power of 
terror. 

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Clarity and unflinching truth 
free from hysteria is lethal to 

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terror. 
When a person can slow their 

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nervous system, steady into the 
parasympathetic state of rest 

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and digest into calm rooted in 
reality, terror dissolves. 

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When you are rooted, you can 
tremble and still move. 

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Much like trees, their roots 
keep them stable in the storms. 

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Grounded, regulated people can't
be terrorised. 

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The solution to the reign of 
Terror is sovereignty, wholeness

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and unshakeable, unwavering 
belief, faith and trust in 

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ourselves and in something 
higher. 

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Whether you call it God, the 
universe, the natural laws of 

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physics, or the arc of history 
bending as it always has, Robert

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Gulrick writes, there is a 
loveliness to life that does not

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fade. 
Even in the terrors of the 

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night. 
There is a tendency towards 

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grace that does not fail us. 
Rooting in yourself and faith 

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gives you courage and the power 
to speak even when your voice 

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shakes, to stand even when 
you're standing alone. 

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Power labels people domestic 
terrorists when they are not 

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terrorised anymore, when they 
are free, Vasily Grossman wrote.

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The extreme violence of the 
totalitarian social systems 

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proved able to paralyse the 
human spirit throughout whole 

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continents. 
We will not be paralysed by the 

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government's relentless 
onslaught of violence and 

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terror. 
As William Shakespeare wrote, 

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there is no terror in your 
threats. 

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For I am armed so strong in 
honesty they pass me by as the 

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idle wind which I respect not. 
Terror cannot dominate, 

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manipulate, coerce or control 
anyone. 

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Rooted in honesty, truth, and 
love, terror seeks to make 

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people powerless, anxious, 
restless and afraid. 

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But the only thing to fear is 
fear itself. 

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When we look honestly at the 
cause of fear, we find the lie 

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it is built on. 
The only people who benefit from

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terror are the powers starting 
the wars, inciting the hate, 

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creating the division, and 
enforcing violence. 

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Dressed up as law enforcement, 
we are stronger together, but 

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much like every team, is only as
strong as its weakest member, we

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are even stronger when we 
fortify ourselves with our own 

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wholeness and have the courage 
to heal individually so that we 

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can heal collectively. 
As Bad Bunny just displayed at 

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the Super Bowl last night, the 
only thing more powerful than 

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hate is love. 
I'll see you next week.