Episode 123
123: Anders Bolling - Escaping Misery Bias: How This Journalist Found Truth Beyond Mainstream Media
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"We are 8 billion different angles on reality and we should respect each other and listen to each other," says Anders Bolling, former mainstream journalist turned alternative media creator, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to explore the evolving landscape of journalism, consciousness, and truth-seeking. After 22 years at Sweden's largest newspaper, Bolling left to pursue deeper questions, launching his own podcast and YouTube channel to discuss topics often overlooked by traditional media.
In this episode, Anders delves into the challenges of discernment in today's information-saturated world, the importance of maintaining neutrality when examining different perspectives, and the exciting developments in consciousness research that bridge science and spirituality. He shares insights on the UFO phenomenon, the role of psychics in military operations, and why he believes the next few years will bring significant shifts in how we perceive reality.
Tune in to learn why Anders thinks "the big secret of the universe is that everything's going to be fine," and how cultivating personal discernment can help navigate the messy but fascinating times ahead.
5 Key Takeaways
1. Cultivate discernment when consuming media. Don't blindly trust any single source - look for the "golden thread of truth" in different perspectives.
2. Take breaks from the news cycle. Limit consumption to stay informed without becoming overwhelmed. This helps maintain mental health and clarity.
3. Meditate or sit in stillness regularly, even for just 5-10 minutes. This improves discernment and helps process information more clearly.
4. Be open to paradigm shifts in science, health, politics and other domains. Old models are breaking down as new discoveries emerge.
5. Trust your own judgment and intuition when evaluating information. Don't outsource your critical thinking to authorities or media outlets.
Memorable Quotes
"We are all aspects of source, if you will, and we have much greater capacity than we are led to believe. If we just listen to our inner voices and our higher selves and sit in stillness five or 10 minutes now and then and just let things sink in and don't think actively about them with your brain, but just let them sink in."
"The big secret of the universe is that everything's going to be fine."
"Trust your own judgment and your discernment. Don't follow the news 24/7. You can follow it a little bit if you want to know what's happening, but not too much because it's not good for your health. Check things for yourself if you have the time and think for yourself."
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Transcript
Welcome to the QVC podcast. I am really looking
Meredith Oke:forward to this conversation.
Anders Bolling:Thank you for having me. Me too. I'm also looking
Anders Bolling:forward to this conversation.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. So we had a delightful discussion when I
Meredith Oke:was on Mind the Shift recently, and I sent that
Meredith Oke:link out to my audience and they were all very
Meredith Oke:excited to find your show, the type of thing that
Meredith Oke:they all really appreciate. I wanted to dive into
Meredith Oke:your story because on this podcast we. We talk to
Meredith Oke:a lot of doctors and we, you know, health
Meredith Oke:professionals who have broken out of kind of the
Meredith Oke:mainstream, you know, infrastructure that they
Meredith Oke:came up in, whether it's. In whether it's
Meredith Oke:allopathic or even alternative. Right. There's
Meredith Oke:just so many new paradigms of health opening up
Meredith Oke:that we tend to talk to people who are more
Meredith Oke:breaking out of whatever it was that's no longer
Meredith Oke:serving them or answering their questions. And
Meredith Oke:you have done a similar. You've been on a similar
Meredith Oke:path, but in the area of journalism, which I
Meredith Oke:think is crucial because that is how we learn. We
Meredith Oke:get all of our information, most of us. So tell
Meredith Oke:me a little bit about what kind of journalism you
Meredith Oke:did when you were a, quote, unquote, regular
Meredith Oke:journalist and then we'll start sort of explore
Meredith Oke:where you are now.
Anders Bolling:Sure. Thank you. Yes. Well, I trained to become a
Anders Bolling:journalist when I was in my 20s and I really
Anders Bolling:looked forward to doing that. I had been looking
Anders Bolling:forward to becoming a journalist since I was, I
Anders Bolling:guess, 15 years old or something like that. When
Anders Bolling:I was a kid, I read these comic books with the
Anders Bolling:hero was called Tintin. I don't know if you have.
Anders Bolling:You do, I guess. It's a Belgian, serious. Anyway,
Anders Bolling:he was a journalist, but he was all. Always on
Anders Bolling:all these fantastic adventures all over the
Anders Bolling:world. So it looked really cool. And he never
Anders Bolling:wrote anything that I can remember, didn't write
Anders Bolling:any articles. So it seemed like a very
Anders Bolling:interesting life. And when I was like, you know,
Anders Bolling:seven or eight or nine or something, I wanted to
Anders Bolling:become a discoverer of the world. But then I
Anders Bolling:realized, oh, every landmass has already been
Anders Bolling:discovered. So I can't. I can't do this. I have
Anders Bolling:to do something else. Anyway, so that's the
Anders Bolling:background. And I wanted to become a journalist,
Anders Bolling:but I took a couple of, you know, gap years to
Anders Bolling:travel before I studied. And then I became a
Anders Bolling:journalist and I got this job at the biggest
Anders Bolling:newspaper in the biggest morning newspaper in
Anders Bolling:Sweden. I'm living in Stockholm, Sweden, Northern
Anders Bolling:Europe. After having had brief sojourns at other
Anders Bolling:outlets, I ended up Douglas New Hatter Daily News
Anders Bolling:biggest Newspaper. So I was there for 22 years
Anders Bolling:as. As full time with a full time job there. I
Anders Bolling:had been there a couple of times before, just
Anders Bolling:briefly, but then 22 years. Okay. From 1998.
Meredith Oke:So you were employed full time as a newspaper
Meredith Oke:journalist for over 20 years. Okay. @ a major.
Anders Bolling:I had.
Meredith Oke:Major Swedish publication.
Anders Bolling:Exactly. I had different kinds of jobs. I was a
Anders Bolling:reporter, I was an editor. I did different
Anders Bolling:things, but. But I was there for 22 years. Yes.
Meredith Oke:And so did you cover all kinds of different
Meredith Oke:things like politics, culture, all the things.
Anders Bolling:I was always. As we might come back to. I was
Anders Bolling:always interested in the deep questions in life,
Anders Bolling:you know, the big questions, where, who are we?
Anders Bolling:Where do we come from? And all that. And I had
Anders Bolling:spiritual streak, a spiritual orientation already
Anders Bolling:from childhood. But I kind of kept that under
Anders Bolling:wraps because I kind of sensed that that wasn't
Anders Bolling:really what you could talk about openly. But I
Anders Bolling:was all I was. I've always been interested also
Anders Bolling:in what's happening in society, foreign policy,
Anders Bolling:economics, science, all kinds of stuff. So I
Anders Bolling:wrote about all kinds of stuff. And when I was an
Anders Bolling:editor, I had edited. I. I was working with other
Anders Bolling:reporters, writing about these different kinds of
Anders Bolling:things, the environment. I also wrote some
Anders Bolling:columns, more personalized things where I shared
Anders Bolling:my look on things, my worldview. So that was kind
Anders Bolling:of nice. Then I had a blog for five years. I ran
Anders Bolling:a blog called the Progress Blog, which was aimed
Anders Bolling:to describe the world in brighter colors than we
Anders Bolling:normally do in news journalism, because it's. And
Anders Bolling:it was tied to a book that I wrote in 2008, and
Anders Bolling:it came out in 2009, and it was called the Cozy
Anders Bolling:Darkness of the Apocalypse. So that's where I
Anders Bolling:kind of my first, you know, kind of. What's the
Anders Bolling:word? When I dealt with. With news journalism,
Anders Bolling:and I had struggled with it within. And so I had
Anders Bolling:many things to say about it. And I was critical
Anders Bolling:to the. To the misery bias that is kind of in the
Anders Bolling:dramaturgy of news journalism. So I wrote a book
Anders Bolling:about that and where I also displayed so many
Anders Bolling:facts, waves and waves and waves of facts,
Anders Bolling:showing that the world is not as bad as we think
Anders Bolling:it is. And it was about the environment, about
Anders Bolling:violence and about poverty broadly. And then it
Anders Bolling:was kind of in detail as well. And I also
Anders Bolling:speculated what this misery bias is, what the
Anders Bolling:causes are behind this misery bias, and there are
Anders Bolling:all kinds of explanations for it. It's a human
Anders Bolling:trait, because I think we have in the lizard
Anders Bolling:brain this tendency or we're prone to search for
Anders Bolling:a scan for danger. And that was probably a useful
Anders Bolling:trait 10,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago when
Anders Bolling:our ancestors lived in caves and there were
Anders Bolling:different dangerous animals are around and
Anders Bolling:wildfires to keep track of and all kinds of
Anders Bolling:stuff. But it's not really useful in our day and
Anders Bolling:age in this society where, I mean day to day life
Anders Bolling:is hardly ever lethal. I mean, the dangers are
Anders Bolling:not lethal, but we still have this tendency.
Meredith Oke:But if you just read newspapers and that's it,
Meredith Oke:you stayed alone in a room, you never went out,
Meredith Oke:you only read newspapers, you would not know that
Meredith Oke:we are not, generally speaking, on a day to day
Meredith Oke:basis under threat. It would feel.
Anders Bolling:Exactly.
Meredith Oke:The newspapers make us feel that. Misery bias, I
Meredith Oke:love that term. That's absolutely what it is.
Anders Bolling:Yes. And I also think about the misery threshold.
Anders Bolling:The threshold over which we, I mean, where we put
Anders Bolling:the, where we start talking about misery and bad
Anders Bolling:things, it gets lower and lower all the time. If
Anders Bolling:you go back to 300 years, it was probably a much
Anders Bolling:higher threshold before people actually thought
Anders Bolling:that something was a big problem. Probably, you
Anders Bolling:know, it had to be large catastrophes, big worse
Anders Bolling:and stuff like that. We still have that, that's
Anders Bolling:for sure. But I mean, newspapers can make war
Anders Bolling:headlines out of things that are far, far less
Anders Bolling:dangerous today. So we lower the misery threshold.
Meredith Oke:It's interesting, I really noticed that living
Meredith Oke:overseas because I lived in places and a few
Meredith Oke:different times there were major, major events
Meredith Oke:happening that were in the area that I was living
Meredith Oke:in, that had headlines, global headlines. And I
Meredith Oke:would get messages from people like, I lived in
Meredith Oke:Paris when or near Paris during, when there was
Meredith Oke:that attack in the nightclub in the Bataclan.
Anders Bolling:2015, I think.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, it was 2015 because we just moved there.
Meredith Oke:And it was a terrible, terrible incident. It was
Meredith Oke:major terrorist incident. However, I had people
Meredith Oke:for days and days reaching out, are you okay? Are
Meredith Oke:you okay? And outside of the, the one block
Meredith Oke:radius where that terrible event occurred, I was
Meredith Oke:like, yes, I'm, I'm at, I'm in the grocery store,
Meredith Oke:I'm buying my groceries. And so, you know, life
Meredith Oke:was going on. But it was interesting to me
Meredith Oke:because the entire perception of all of, you
Meredith Oke:know, oh, you're in France, you must be living
Meredith Oke:through this terrorist event. And it was like.
Meredith Oke:Because that's what everyone's focus was on,
Meredith Oke:their attention was on and they connected those
Meredith Oke:two things. And I just thought, isn't this
Meredith Oke:interesting? Like, how often have I done that
Meredith Oke:where I've just painted an entire region based on
Meredith Oke:one incident that's getting my full attention and
Meredith Oke:the attention of the world.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, it's very healthy to be out abroad
Anders Bolling:sometimes and see it from that perspective and
Anders Bolling:also read foreign newspapers, what they write
Anders Bolling:about your own country. Because as you say, I
Anders Bolling:mean, when I was at this big newspaper in
Anders Bolling:Stockholm, we wrote stuff about, you know, what
Anders Bolling:was happening. There is a narrative. We don't
Anders Bolling:have to go into the politics of everything, but
Anders Bolling:there is a. There is a certain narrative that is
Anders Bolling:told that we are told in the Western world. And
Anders Bolling:there's a slightly different narrative about the
Anders Bolling:world told in Eastern Europe and in Russia and in
Anders Bolling:China and as we all know, so different
Anders Bolling:narratives. And I tend to think that there is
Anders Bolling:some truth to all of them, but they're not. None
Anders Bolling:of them is entirely the whole truth, so to speak.
Anders Bolling:So there was a lot of, you know, kind of self,
Anders Bolling:from our perspective, self evident things to say
Anders Bolling:about Hungary and Turkey and countries like that.
Anders Bolling:But then it's interesting to read or get to know
Anders Bolling:what they, the newspapers in those countries
Anders Bolling:write about Sweden and things that are happening
Anders Bolling:in this country. And it's kind of, you know,
Anders Bolling:people get. They feel attacked, you know, because
Anders Bolling:I mean, personally when they read these things.
Anders Bolling:But no, that's not me, that's not my country.
Anders Bolling:That's not what's happening. You don't know
Anders Bolling:what's happening here. It's nothing, nothing
Anders Bolling:dangerous. But. But they are focusing, of course,
Anders Bolling:on certain things that are happening in this
Anders Bolling:country and that are in some countries. That in
Anders Bolling:some countries get to be very big headlines. Like
Anders Bolling:we have this gang violence, you might call it
Anders Bolling:groups, gangs of youngsters, mainly young people
Anders Bolling:who have come from other countries, from
Anders Bolling:countries in the Middle east and Somalia and
Anders Bolling:stuff like, and places like that. And there's
Anders Bolling:some kind of a turf war around, you know, the
Anders Bolling:cocaine and the drugs trade. And for some reason
Anders Bolling:they've started using guns here. It's really
Anders Bolling:bizarre. And I'm not denying that this is a big
Anders Bolling:problem. It is a big problem, but it's not
Anders Bolling:affecting everybody here. I mean, if I didn't
Anders Bolling:read about it in newspapers, I wouldn't know it
Anders Bolling:was going on. I'm living in Stockholm. I know
Anders Bolling:there have been many shootings in this area in
Anders Bolling:the suburbs of Stockholm. I've never heard a shot
Anders Bolling:being fired once. So I mean, it's the same thing.
Anders Bolling:But then if you think about it, I mean, why
Anders Bolling:wouldn't these countries, the newspapers in those
Anders Bolling:countries write about Sweden in that way? It's
Anders Bolling:logical if we write, I mean, if we pick up some
Anders Bolling:problem that's happening there It's a bit. Both a
Anders Bolling:bit sad and a bit funny and a bit ridiculous that
Anders Bolling:we look upon each other in this way. How we
Anders Bolling:cannot see the whole story and the whole truth
Anders Bolling:and just try to be neutral about things. And
Anders Bolling:there's a lot we could say about, for instance,
Anders Bolling:what's happening in Ukraine and all that. I don't
Anders Bolling:think we should dive into that, but it's
Anders Bolling:fascinating. I try to stay. I try to stay as
Anders Bolling:neutral as possible in all these matters. I'm
Anders Bolling:still interested in the news. I try not to follow
Anders Bolling:the news as much because I kind of was marinated
Anders Bolling:in it for so many years. So, I mean, to stay
Anders Bolling:sane, I need to stay away from the news. I don't
Anders Bolling:listen to it 247 like I did, but I kind of check
Anders Bolling:the headlines and read a couple of articles every
Anders Bolling:day. So I know what's going on. The big, big
Anders Bolling:picture. And you can't miss the big things, of
Anders Bolling:course. But I try to stay neutral. And it's,
Anders Bolling:It's. It's incredible how people, you know, crawl
Anders Bolling:into their different boxes and. And just see the
Anders Bolling:world from one perspective. It's. It's so
Anders Bolling:polarized. I don't know. And that's something
Anders Bolling:that. I mean, my credo. Credo has been for many
Anders Bolling:years that the world is better than we think. But
Anders Bolling:this is actually something that's accentuated as
Anders Bolling:being accentuated lately, this polarization. I
Anders Bolling:wonder what it. Why, why that is. Because I would
Anders Bolling:say that these, These opinions, that some people
Anders Bolling:are shocked that they exist now, they have always
Anders Bolling:been there. That's. I would say that I think they
Anders Bolling:have always been there, but they haven't been
Anders Bolling:able. They haven't. People have always had
Anders Bolling:different views on things, but now they are so.
Anders Bolling:It's so easy, you know, to express them by way of
Anders Bolling:social media and all kinds of alternative media
Anders Bolling:and all that. So we can see it. We can see it
Anders Bolling:being said and being expressed. And I don't think
Anders Bolling:people should be so shocked about that because
Anders Bolling:we're different. We're 8 billion different angles
Anders Bolling:on reality and we should respect each other and
Anders Bolling:listen to each other. And we don't have to agree
Anders Bolling:with each other. Absolutely not. But we should
Anders Bolling:kind of be better at listening to each other and
Anders Bolling:trying to understand what the other person means
Anders Bolling:when he says or she says certain things. Because
Anders Bolling:it's sometimes like people are just shut down
Anders Bolling:when they hear that somebody is on a particular
Anders Bolling:political spectrum. They just shut down all, you
Anders Bolling:know, ability to.
Meredith Oke:I think we've been encoded in Some way to trigger
Meredith Oke:a shutdown. Upon hearing certain words, the names
Meredith Oke:of political parties, the names of certain
Meredith Oke:politicians. I tend to avoid saying them because
Meredith Oke:I. I want this podcast to, like, transcend
Meredith Oke:politics. Yeah, everyone has. Everyone's in the
Meredith Oke:quantum field, right? Everyone has mitochondria.
Meredith Oke:We all deserve to know. So. And I feel like as
Meredith Oke:soon as you say certain things, we've been
Meredith Oke:programmed, Right. You hear a certain word, a
Meredith Oke:certain name, or someone says that they're
Meredith Oke:affiliated with a certain party, and it's like,
Meredith Oke:boom, the mind closes and you feel almost
Meredith Oke:triggered, like, oh, like a betrayal. Like, here
Meredith Oke:I was listening to this. It just happened to me
Meredith Oke:yesterday. I was listening to this coach who I
Meredith Oke:really like. She's. You know, she was sharing all
Meredith Oke:this stuff, and then she said something about her
Meredith Oke:feelings on a political situation, and I just
Meredith Oke:felt myself go, and I felt betrayed because it
Meredith Oke:was different than mine. And I thought, oh, my
Meredith Oke:goodness. Oh, we have all these programmed.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, we're programmed. It's. It's sad, but it's.
Anders Bolling:It's also very interesting. But I think it has.
Anders Bolling:It's part of the. Sorry, part of the health. It's
Anders Bolling:part of our health, actually. I mean, your
Anders Bolling:podcast is all about health and quantum health,
Anders Bolling:which is wonderful. And I think what we're
Anders Bolling:discussing now is actually part of that, because
Anders Bolling:being healthy is also about being able to see the
Anders Bolling:whole world and also to be able to dare to
Anders Bolling:question things and speaking your own truth and
Anders Bolling:all those things without fear and not being so.
Anders Bolling:You know, we're so scared of being on the wrong
Anders Bolling:team or being on the wrong side or. It's not that
Anders Bolling:we're only humans and we're only people, and it
Anders Bolling:has to do with our health, because if we kind of
Anders Bolling:block ourselves from certain parts of this
Anders Bolling:reality, I think we end up blocking also energy,
Anders Bolling:energy lines, energy fields in our bodies. And I
Anders Bolling:think it's bad. I think we should be open.
Meredith Oke:Yes, no, I completely agree. And that's why I
Meredith Oke:wanted to talk to you, because we don't. I think
Meredith Oke:even the categorization of physical health and
Meredith Oke:mental health, I think those categories are
Meredith Oke:fading away. Just like politically, the left and
Meredith Oke:right is starting to be meaningless. You know,
Meredith Oke:like these. These compartments that we've been
Meredith Oke:trained to put everything in are no longer valid.
Meredith Oke:They're no longer useful. And so if health is
Meredith Oke:just health, spiritual, mental, emotional,
Meredith Oke:physical, psychological, then how we process
Meredith Oke:information, which is in large part through
Meredith Oke:media, whether legacy media, traditional media,
Meredith Oke:social media, we need to understand how to do
Meredith Oke:that without going crazy, without Getting
Meredith Oke:triggered and with a level, as we were talking
Meredith Oke:about before, with a level of discernment as we
Meredith Oke:were. So we're moving into this new media
Meredith Oke:landscape and you've been on the forefront of
Meredith Oke:that. You were traditional newspaper then you did
Meredith Oke:a blog, now you have your YouTube channel where
Meredith Oke:you get to cover whatever you want because it's
Meredith Oke:yours. But thousands and thousands of people are
Meredith Oke:doing that. So it's become a very busy media
Meredith Oke:landscape. We used to have four choices and now
Meredith Oke:we have 4 million choices. So talk to me about
Meredith Oke:that word discernment and how in this new
Meredith Oke:landscape where there are so many more choices,
Meredith Oke:there are so many people like yourself, right.
Meredith Oke:Who have been trained to deliver information and
Meredith Oke:are choosing to do it in a new way versus people
Meredith Oke:who just are like, I'm just going to turn on the
Meredith Oke:camera and start talking. I've never done this
Meredith Oke:before. That's all good too. It's all good. But
Meredith Oke:how do we make sure that we are. I know we can't
Meredith Oke:really make sure of anything, I guess, but how do
Meredith Oke:we practice discernment in this very crowded
Meredith Oke:media landscape? Would you say?
Anders Bolling:Very, very. Yeah, very good question. I'm not
Anders Bolling:sure I have a wise enough answer to that
Anders Bolling:question. But it is, as you say, I mean, the
Anders Bolling:landscape is so broad now and, but it's also,
Anders Bolling:it's like everything that happened, the big
Anders Bolling:changes that happened, they contain both
Anders Bolling:opportunities and threats. It's like the, the old
Anders Bolling:saying that the Chinese sign for crisis comprise
Anders Bolling:is comprised of the sign for or the character
Anders Bolling:for. What is it now? Threat and opportunity. I
Anders Bolling:think it's threat and opportunity. This is the
Anders Bolling:definition of a crisis. So there's always an
Anders Bolling:opportunity in this myriad that we see, myriad
Anders Bolling:new outlets that we see and can access. But I
Anders Bolling:think the Internet in general is such a big
Anders Bolling:opportunity. I tend to think of it as kind of the
Anders Bolling:approximation of the akashic Records, the 3D
Anders Bolling:version of the Akashic records. It's kind of a
Anders Bolling:nice try, but we're not really there. But I mean,
Anders Bolling:because for real, it is actually very, very easy
Anders Bolling:now for people. I mean, despite the attempts at
Anders Bolling:censoring people and stuff like that, it is very
Anders Bolling:easy to find very, very interesting information
Anders Bolling:about things that you will never actually learn
Anders Bolling:in the, the legacy media or very seldom, at least
Anders Bolling:you can, you can hear about them out about those
Anders Bolling:things in, in alternative media perhaps. But I
Anders Bolling:think it's actually, of course people say, I
Anders Bolling:don't have time to check everything up. I need
Anders Bolling:the media to tell me what's true and what's not
Anders Bolling:true. But I think that time is over. The time
Anders Bolling:when we could rely on authorities to tell us what
Anders Bolling:is true and not true. The time when we rely on
Anders Bolling:authorities to tell us what's happening and not
Anders Bolling:happening and what we should do and not do and
Anders Bolling:what we should vote for and not vote for. I mean,
Anders Bolling:if you go back 50, 60 years, people were. People
Anders Bolling:tend to romanticize that time and say, oh, it was
Anders Bolling:much more calm, the society was calm and
Anders Bolling:everybody agreed on everything. But I think
Anders Bolling:that's actually a false narrative. I think it was
Anders Bolling:more like people just assumed that authorities
Anders Bolling:were trustworthy, they were to be trusted,
Anders Bolling:because people didn't think for themselves as
Anders Bolling:much. It was more hierarchical in that sense. And
Anders Bolling:you went to a doctor and the doctor told you what
Anders Bolling:you were sick of and you just accepted that.
Anders Bolling:People don't do that anymore. They kind of want a
Anders Bolling:second opinion and they think for themselves and
Anders Bolling:they're skeptical. And that's a good thing. It
Anders Bolling:makes the world a messier place and a more
Anders Bolling:complex and confused place. But I think that's a
Anders Bolling:necessary process. And same with what you read in
Anders Bolling:the papers and here on the TV news or whatever.
Anders Bolling:Check it up for yourself if you can. If you have
Anders Bolling:the time, just go to the Internet and search. Try
Anders Bolling:to find the. The primary sources for everything,
Anders Bolling:if it's possible. Because it's oftentimes not as
Anders Bolling:simple as you were being presented it to be. When
Anders Bolling:it comes to science, for instance, or health or
Anders Bolling:the ua, the UFO phenomenon, which I've lately
Anders Bolling:been very interested in, or there are so many
Anders Bolling:things happening, so discernment, that's one
Anders Bolling:thing. I mean, that's the practical way of, of
Anders Bolling:looking into things for yourself. But also trust
Anders Bolling:your own judgment because we are all, if I am to
Anders Bolling:be a bit esoteric now, we are all aspects of
Anders Bolling:source, if you will, and we have much greater
Anders Bolling:capacity than we are led to believe. If we just
Anders Bolling:listen to our inner voices and our higher selves
Anders Bolling:and sit in stillness five or 10 minutes now and
Anders Bolling:then and just let things sink in and don't think
Anders Bolling:actively about them with your brain, but just let
Anders Bolling:them sink in. And then oftentimes when you come
Anders Bolling:out of that still little period, you have better
Anders Bolling:discernment actually just by doing that, just by
Anders Bolling:meditating a little bit or just by not doing
Anders Bolling:anything for five minutes, it helps. I think
Anders Bolling:that's a good practice. I try to meditate every
Anders Bolling:morning, or I do, but not every meditation
Anders Bolling:session is extremely deep. But most of the time
Anders Bolling:it's really, really good. It makes one start the
Anders Bolling:day on a much better and calmer note than if you
Anders Bolling:don't do it.
Meredith Oke:So, yeah, and I think that's really wise to
Meredith Oke:approach the media that way. And for myself, over
Meredith Oke:time, I can now it's super clear to me when the
Meredith Oke:headline has an agenda of some sort. And so then
Meredith Oke:it's like, okay, well, take that with a grain of
Meredith Oke:salt. Take that with a grain of salt. And then
Meredith Oke:you finally find someone who's covering it in a
Meredith Oke:somewhat neutral, or at least maybe with a
Meredith Oke:different agenda, so they're highlighting a
Meredith Oke:different aspect of it and really have to like,
Meredith Oke:put all these puzzle pieces together and see the
Meredith Oke:voices that come through who are most often
Meredith Oke:dedicated to really just wanting to know what's
Meredith Oke:happening and not to as driving a bias in some
Meredith Oke:sort of direction. And yeah, it's a journey.
Anders Bolling:It's a journey. It's also, we, you have to also
Anders Bolling:respect, I mean, everybody. We are all human.
Anders Bolling:We're all human. And I've been, As I said, 22
Anders Bolling:years at this big newspaper. And I can add, by
Anders Bolling:the way, that the blog that I had was actually
Anders Bolling:within that newspaper. So that was my thing that
Anders Bolling:I was able to have it on there. But so I know, I
Anders Bolling:know how, I know the drill, so to speak, and I
Anders Bolling:know how people tend to. And this is natural. It
Anders Bolling:happens in every workplace. There is a certain
Anders Bolling:amount of groupthink and it's, it's, it's, it's
Anders Bolling:not very good, but it's natural. I mean, it's
Anders Bolling:explicable, explainable. It's, it happens. So
Anders Bolling:it's not that. It's, if you, if you, if you find
Anders Bolling:certain media outlets being not trustworthy, not
Anders Bolling:reliable, especially not reliable, certain media
Anders Bolling:outlets, perhaps you have to respect that people
Anders Bolling:working there, or most of them are not, I mean,
Anders Bolling:they are convinced that they're doing a good
Anders Bolling:thing. And so it's, it's just, you know, hard to
Anders Bolling:just go against the stream sometimes. And. Well,
Anders Bolling:there are certain narratives and there is,
Anders Bolling:there's a lot of narratives. I mean, science, for
Anders Bolling:instance. I'm also now engaged in an organization
Anders Bolling:called the Frontier Journalists Network, which is
Anders Bolling:something that your listeners might be interested
Anders Bolling:in checking out, perhaps. And we are, it's a very
Anders Bolling:small organization still, but we want to convey
Anders Bolling:to journalists around the world the science, the
Anders Bolling:research that is happening at the interface of
Anders Bolling:the, the nexus, if you will, between science and
Anders Bolling:spirituality. And there is a lot of things
Anders Bolling:happening there, which is exciting, actually. Not
Anders Bolling:least the Research on consciousness and what
Anders Bolling:consciousness is. And it's getting closer and
Anders Bolling:closer and closer to, I mean the mainstream
Anders Bolling:science there, there neuroscientists are getting
Anders Bolling:closer and closer and closer to, to spiritual
Anders Bolling:traditions that have been there for thousands of
Anders Bolling:years. And it's really exciting. And this is
Anders Bolling:actually happening. It's not, I mean it's peer
Anders Bolling:reviewed papers, but this has not sunk into the
Anders Bolling:mainstream media yet. It will, it will. I've
Anders Bolling:written a couple of articles and I'm very
Anders Bolling:grateful that I've been able to publish one big
Anders Bolling:long read in a mainstream news magazine here in
Anders Bolling:Sweden about the latest findings in consciousness
Anders Bolling:research. And, but there is a going back to this
Anders Bolling:group think and, and the narratives that we're
Anders Bolling:being told for decades and decades. This is a
Anders Bolling:good example of that because journalists are,
Anders Bolling:they tend to, you know, stick to the, what is the
Anders Bolling:mainstream view in, in certain, all kinds of
Anders Bolling:areas. A few of them can sometimes take it, take
Anders Bolling:a detour and write a, you know, a column about
Anders Bolling:some new woo woo. But you know, news articles are
Anders Bolling:mainly following the mainstream path. But, but
Anders Bolling:that is actually moving now. It's a moving
Anders Bolling:target. But most journalists don't know that yet.
Anders Bolling:So it's, but I mean it's difficult to, it's, it's
Anders Bolling:not really fair to blame the journalists for not
Anders Bolling:being on the front, you know, the cutting edge of
Anders Bolling:this development here because they will
Anders Bolling:eventually. But there is an inertia.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. Well, it's interesting you say that because
Meredith Oke:I really think, you know, we get so mad at the
Meredith Oke:bureaucrats and the, the politicians and the
Meredith Oke:journalists. But I'm not sure, you know, I don't
Meredith Oke:think it's the people who are terrible. I think
Meredith Oke:it's the systems that are, have terrible
Meredith Oke:incentives. So you know, I, someone was saying
Meredith Oke:like, why are, who are all these incompetent
Meredith Oke:people? Like why can't they hire better people?
Meredith Oke:And I'm like, they're probably fine. They
Meredith Oke:probably have the potential to be highly
Meredith Oke:competent. But bureaucracy incentivizes
Meredith Oke:incompetence. Right. And politics incentivizes
Meredith Oke:corruption and the medical system incentivizes
Meredith Oke:treating symptoms with drugs.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:And that's, and we just kind of lean into it. And
Meredith Oke:so what I hear saying for journalists it's like
Meredith Oke:you're incentivized to stay in the boat and not
Meredith Oke:rock it. And is the punishment for that losing
Meredith Oke:your job, losing your reputation? Right. Because
Meredith Oke:I know people who are like viscerally terrified
Meredith Oke:of touching a woo woo subject because they really
Meredith Oke:think it will destroy their credibility they want
Meredith Oke:to.
Anders Bolling:They don't want others to put the tinfoil hat on
Anders Bolling:their heads. Yeah, they're terrified of that. I
Anders Bolling:can understand that. But I'm out of that now. I
Anders Bolling:don't, I don't care anymore. I care a little bit,
Anders Bolling:but not too much because I haven't. I mean, I've
Anders Bolling:been a freelancer for five years now, and I've
Anders Bolling:been out there so much. And I know that I have. I
Anders Bolling:have a soul family all over the world.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Anders Bolling:That thinks and feels the same way that I do. So
Anders Bolling:I'm, I'm, I'm fine. But if I were still in that
Anders Bolling:situation, I would probably feel a bit scared
Anders Bolling:about that. Yeah. Because everybody wants to be
Anders Bolling:in the group, on the right side, on the, you
Anders Bolling:know, the sane side of things. And this is. The
Anders Bolling:UFO phenomenon is the same thing here, actually.
Anders Bolling:But what's, what's good about it is that, that
Anders Bolling:it's been discussed in Congress. I mean, these
Anders Bolling:are.
Meredith Oke:Let's unpack that one. What do you see happening
Meredith Oke:with that topic right now?
Anders Bolling:Well, people who have been working in, you know,
Anders Bolling:with. Both in the private sector and in the
Anders Bolling:public sector with security on a high level,
Anders Bolling:they've been working in the military. They are
Anders Bolling:trained officers who have worked for many years
Anders Bolling:in the military special operations, and have come
Anders Bolling:to work with these very secretive, These covert
Anders Bolling:operations that have to do with retrieving
Anders Bolling:unidentified anomalous phenomena, craft et craft
Anders Bolling:probably, and transporting them to certain
Anders Bolling:facilities where they have been. Certain special
Anders Bolling:people have tried to reverse engineer those
Anders Bolling:craft. And this has been going on for probably 70
Anders Bolling:to 80 years. And this is what you hear in
Anders Bolling:congressional hearings now. There have been,
Anders Bolling:there have been two of those, one in 20, 23 and
Anders Bolling:one last year with people who are.
Meredith Oke:You have members of Congress sit and listen to
Meredith Oke:the testimony of people participating in the
Meredith Oke:activities you just described.
Anders Bolling:Yes.
Meredith Oke:Okay. And so this is on the record.
Anders Bolling:This is on the record.
Meredith Oke:All right.
Anders Bolling:And it's been. And some of the mainstream papers,
Anders Bolling:they have written about these hearings, of
Anders Bolling:course. I mean, that otherwise would be really
Anders Bolling:strange. They have, but it's, it's like they kind
Anders Bolling:of. They don't really believe it anyway. It's
Anders Bolling:like it's too, it's too far out. So they had to,
Anders Bolling:you know, add some kind of. They have to
Anders Bolling:formulate it or word it in a way that it's a
Anders Bolling:little bit tongue in cheek sometimes, perhaps, or
Anders Bolling:always end the articles with a little bit of
Anders Bolling:skepticism. But it's coming out there more and
Anders Bolling:more, and I don't know about this latest
Anders Bolling:administration that is now in place in the United
Anders Bolling:States. It's very early to say what's going to
Anders Bolling:happen with many things around that. But anyway,
Anders Bolling:this is one of the things that they have said.
Anders Bolling:People in that administration have said that they
Anders Bolling:will disclose what has been going on in this
Anders Bolling:area. And so it's very, very interesting,
Anders Bolling:interesting times. And if you're really into the
Anders Bolling:woo woo stuff and listen to people who are
Anders Bolling:channeling and stuff like that, which I do
Anders Bolling:sometimes, I find it very fascinating. I can't
Anders Bolling:say that I am convinced that everything that is
Anders Bolling:actually an extraterrestrial entity that
Anders Bolling:communicates through a channel, but doesn't
Anders Bolling:really matter because what is being said is often
Anders Bolling:very wise and often very interesting. And some of
Anders Bolling:those people have been saying that this is the
Anders Bolling:time of disclosure and we are soon going to see
Anders Bolling:actual craft hovering above cities and people are
Anders Bolling:not going to be able to deny that they're
Anders Bolling:actually there. So we will see. We had these, you
Anders Bolling:know, so called the drone crisis in New Jersey
Anders Bolling:and some other places, mainly over New Jersey.
Anders Bolling:And they were. This is still a very, very
Anders Bolling:unsolved matter. It's been, you know, dismissed
Anders Bolling:by, by the authorities as. No, no, it's totally
Anders Bolling:fine. It's just drones. But there are a lot of,
Anders Bolling:there is a lot of video footage from not only
Anders Bolling:civilians but from mayors and from police
Anders Bolling:officers that show, you know, that this is not
Anders Bolling:just ordinary drones. Some are probably, some
Anders Bolling:are, but not all of them. There is something
Anders Bolling:strange going on there and I don't know, maybe,
Anders Bolling:maybe it's all man made. But then they have to
Anders Bolling:because these craft are moving in such strange
Anders Bolling:ways sometimes that they have to. In that case,
Anders Bolling:if FAA has, has, you know, authorized all these,
Anders Bolling:these operations, they have to explain what's
Anders Bolling:going on. Otherwise we don't. It is something
Anders Bolling:fishy going on. Maybe it's not ETs, but it's in.
Meredith Oke:This case it's something at the very least, it's
Meredith Oke:advanced technology that nobody has. And
Meredith Oke:knowledge exists, whether it was made on this
Meredith Oke:planet or somewhere else.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, maybe on this planet, but with technology
Anders Bolling:that we have retrieved from reverse engineered
Anders Bolling:from retrieved. Did you hear this? Or these
Anders Bolling:interviews and these episodes on News nations
Anders Bolling:with the journalist Ross Coltheart who
Anders Bolling:interviewed Jack Barber.
Meredith Oke:Yes, you did actually. It's funny. Bring it up. I
Meredith Oke:just listened to it two days ago.
Anders Bolling:Okay.
Meredith Oke:Because I heard someone on YouTube talk about it.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, it's fascinating.
Meredith Oke:It was. They did. I thought. I didn't really, I
Meredith Oke:hadn't. Wasn't familiar with News Nation as an
Meredith Oke:outlet. I thought they did a beautiful job
Meredith Oke:covering that story and respectfully and treating
Meredith Oke:all of their interview subjects respectfully, but
Meredith Oke:also not, you know, sensationalizing it and
Meredith Oke:jumping to conclusions, just staying with the
Meredith Oke:facts as they were being related and what they
Meredith Oke:could back up with video. And I thought they. I
Meredith Oke:thought they did a really nice job.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, me too.
Meredith Oke:Journalistically speaking.
Anders Bolling:I understand Ross Coulthard had, you know, vetted
Anders Bolling:this man, Jake Barber, and some other people that
Anders Bolling:were on his show as well for a couple of years.
Anders Bolling:So he really, really. Yeah, he really worked a
Anders Bolling:lot beforehand to make it possible because he. I
Anders Bolling:mean, he's a serious journalist. And this is a
Anders Bolling:good thing with journalism. It should be like
Anders Bolling:this.
Meredith Oke:I think that's what I was picking up on. Like
Meredith Oke:these. This just has a depth to it. These people,
Meredith Oke:these producers and these journalists have done
Meredith Oke:their homework. They really, really. It felt
Meredith Oke:connected to the material. They had researched
Meredith Oke:every piece of everything that they were
Meredith Oke:presenting to the audience. It was. And so now
Meredith Oke:you're telling me it was years of research.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Meredith Oke:Wow.
Anders Bolling:And Jake Barber has also requested to be
Anders Bolling:testifying before Congress as well. So he's
Anders Bolling:working on that. And he has this group of people
Anders Bolling:who. In an organization called Sky Watcher, I
Anders Bolling:think, or Sky Watchers.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Anders Bolling:And they are people like himself who have been
Anders Bolling:working in these covert operations concerning
Anders Bolling:these UAPs and the retrieval programs. And they
Anders Bolling:are. They say that they will try and they are
Anders Bolling:certain that they will succeed also to summon
Anders Bolling:these craft within that. Within that. Within the
Anders Bolling:confines of this organization, Sky Watcher, and
Anders Bolling:be able to retrieve them and to. Because that's
Anders Bolling:also. That's. You heard the interview. Part of
Anders Bolling:this actually has to do with consciousness. And
Anders Bolling:this is where. This is the part. As Ross Coltort
Anders Bolling:pointed out, this is probably the part that
Anders Bolling:people have the hardest time wrapping their heads
Anders Bolling:around because they're not used to talking about
Anders Bolling:consciousness, and especially not in combination
Anders Bolling:with practical things like technical things and
Anders Bolling:science and all that. But it all goes together.
Anders Bolling:Of course. Consciousness is part of it. And as
Anders Bolling:far as I understand, Jake Barber and his. These
Anders Bolling:teams that are working with these retrieval
Anders Bolling:programs, they have certain groups that are.
Anders Bolling:Psyops. No, not psyops. They're psionics. They
Anders Bolling:work with psionics. So it's.
Meredith Oke:Right.
Anders Bolling:Yeah. Parapsychologically, you know, they have
Anders Bolling:extra sensory.
Meredith Oke:They have like a team of psychics.
Anders Bolling:Like a team of psychics. Right. Yeah. Thank you.
Anders Bolling:I was trying to find the right words there.
Meredith Oke:No, but that's not what they call them. You're
Meredith Oke:right. They call them psionics. They had a
Meredith Oke:special military word. So that doesn't sound like
Meredith Oke:team of psychics, except that's what it is. Okay.
Anders Bolling:But they actually contracted these crafts by way
Anders Bolling:of consciousness in some way. So they, they,
Anders Bolling:that's why. Because you can, you can maybe think
Anders Bolling:that, well, if they're so advanced and they come
Anders Bolling:here from another star system and why would they,
Anders Bolling:I mean, why would they do something as stupid as,
Anders Bolling:you know, crash their. Why would they craft crash
Anders Bolling:on Earth Sounds really, you know, not very
Anders Bolling:advanced. But maybe that's not what's happening.
Anders Bolling:It's more like they are being summoned. So
Anders Bolling:anyway, if this group, Skywatcher or organization
Anders Bolling:or whatever it's called, I think it's a company
Anders Bolling:really, but it doesn't matter if they're able to
Anders Bolling:do that and then to present these parts of craft
Anders Bolling:or whatever they get hold of, that would be
Anders Bolling:really, really interesting. Pretty difficult for,
Anders Bolling:I guess, journalists to just dismiss. So we'll
Anders Bolling:see. I think this year is going to be
Anders Bolling:interesting. More things are going to be
Anders Bolling:revealed, I think in that, in that area.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, I think so too. I get my information from a
Meredith Oke:similar way you just described a little bit of
Meredith Oke:this, a little bit of that.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Meredith Oke:Okay. What are the. And that seems to be a common
Meredith Oke:thread is that these next couple of years are
Meredith Oke:just. There are going to be so many shifts in how
Meredith Oke:we see things. It's just going to be impossible
Meredith Oke:to maintain the status quo. And I feel, and I'm
Meredith Oke:curious what your experience has been. I feel
Meredith Oke:that a lot of us have been called to step into
Meredith Oke:these alternative spaces and start laying the
Meredith Oke:foundation so that when these shifts do happen,
Meredith Oke:there's some projects, some place to go for the
Meredith Oke:people. Yeah. Something in place for people for
Meredith Oke:all of us to grab onto. Like, do you feel that
Meredith Oke:sense or what's your experience been like.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, I feel the same way. May sound a bit
Anders Bolling:pretentious, but it's not. I don't think it's
Anders Bolling:that. It's just because in many ways it would
Anders Bolling:have been easier to just stay in the mainstream
Anders Bolling:and do what everybody else does. But I never
Anders Bolling:really felt at ease or I didn't feel comfortable
Anders Bolling:and I didn't understand what it was because I had
Anders Bolling:this fantastic job at this fantastic workplace,
Anders Bolling:this big newspaper. But something told me that
Anders Bolling:I'm not sure I'm supposed to be here. And then I.
Anders Bolling:It's a personal thing also because me and my ex
Anders Bolling:wife who's now still my best friend. We meet all
Anders Bolling:the time and we discuss these kinds of things
Anders Bolling:also a lot. So it was a very beautiful, loving
Anders Bolling:divorce that we decided to have there five years
Anders Bolling:ago. And so all this happened at once. We
Anders Bolling:separated and I quit my job. My father died and I
Anders Bolling:started this podcast. And so it all happened at
Anders Bolling:once. So there were a lot of things happening. So
Anders Bolling:there was some kind of a. Maybe it was a Saturn
Anders Bolling:return in my life, if you know about that, every
Anders Bolling:29 years. So I was 58 then. Was I 57 or
Anders Bolling:something? I don't know, something like that. 56
Anders Bolling:maybe. But somewhere around there, there was
Anders Bolling:something telling me that if I don't do this now,
Anders Bolling:then when. Because I got an inheritance. And a
Anders Bolling:little bit like that, when we sold our house, we
Anders Bolling:made some money on that. So I had some. Some
Anders Bolling:extra money and I thought, so if I'm going to
Anders Bolling:quit, I better do it now because this is the best
Anders Bolling:time. So I did it.
Meredith Oke:It's like, there's no more real world reasons.
Meredith Oke:It's like, oh, I need the paycheck, I need to pay
Meredith Oke:my mortgage. It's like, okay, Exactly.
Anders Bolling:And then, yes, during that period, I was very
Anders Bolling:grateful that there were people like yourself and
Anders Bolling:others on YouTube and on Alternative platforms
Anders Bolling:that could talk about deep stuff that I was
Anders Bolling:pondering at the time, that I didn't find anybody
Anders Bolling:talking about that on Swedish national radio or
Anders Bolling:in the newspaper. So I already. Back then, I
Anders Bolling:mean, it's not very long ago, but it's growing
Anders Bolling:even more so. I think you're right to your point
Anders Bolling:there, that people like you and me, I think we
Anders Bolling:have a role to play there. When it's going to
Anders Bolling:become even more confused and chaotic out there,
Anders Bolling:which I think it will in many ways. I don't think
Anders Bolling:we're going to have violent, more violence and
Anders Bolling:stuff like that. People are scared of that. I
Anders Bolling:don't know. Of course, I know as little as
Anders Bolling:anybody. But my sense is that it's going to be
Anders Bolling:kind of messy but not really dangerous, if you
Anders Bolling:see what I mean. So people are gonna perceive
Anders Bolling:things as dangerous, but they're not really. It's
Anders Bolling:just that things are handled in a different way
Anders Bolling:than they used to be handled. And old paradigms
Anders Bolling:are shattered and old ways of organizing science,
Anders Bolling:nations, economies, politics are changing and
Anders Bolling:people always get scared when this happens. I
Anders Bolling:just think it's from the place where I am now. I
Anders Bolling:just think it's very, very interesting, actually.
Anders Bolling:It's not going to be easy, but it's Going to be
Anders Bolling:very interesting.
Meredith Oke:I think it's true. We. What's that? I think it's
Meredith Oke:also a Chinese proverb, may you be born in
Meredith Oke:interesting times. But it's kind of. We're in it
Meredith Oke:because. Yeah, I think messy is a good word.
Meredith Oke:That's the sense I'm getting. And that's what
Meredith Oke:I'm. I'm starting to see. Like a maelstrom. Like,
Meredith Oke:there's just. It's. It's like the Zone is being
Meredith Oke:flooded with messages and information and this is
Meredith Oke:happening. No, that's happening. No, that's
Meredith Oke:wrong. No, this. Wrong. And it's becoming. Yeah,
Meredith Oke:it's. It's not clear. And that part of us that
Meredith Oke:wants. That wants it to be clear was this. Is
Meredith Oke:this disinformation or not? It's like, what. But
Meredith Oke:what you always say is, there's a golden thread
Meredith Oke:of truth in everything. It's like. Well, it's
Meredith Oke:kind of. Kind of misinformation, but there's
Meredith Oke:something true about it. Right? It's like.
Anders Bolling:Exactly.
Meredith Oke:That seems to be what we're coming up against
Meredith Oke:over and over. And navigating through that, for
Meredith Oke:those of us, like, oriented towards truth, is.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, it's. It's. It's exciting.
Anders Bolling:It's exciting. Yeah, it's exciting. And golden
Anders Bolling:thread of truth is. Is a very good thing here to
Anders Bolling:think about, because when you see that, if you
Anders Bolling:can. If you can see all. All the pieces of
Anders Bolling:information that you glean with a neutral, with
Anders Bolling:neutralize, you. You. You will discern, you will
Anders Bolling:be able to discern that there is, as I say, a
Anders Bolling:golden thread of truth in everything, even the
Anders Bolling:things that the mainstream might call
Anders Bolling:disinformation. But then you also realize that
Anders Bolling:what you have thought for 30 years was the
Anders Bolling:absolute truth was not either. Not the absolute
Anders Bolling:truth, but it had a golden truth, a golden,
Anders Bolling:golden thread of truth in it. But it wasn't the
Anders Bolling:whole truth. I mean, take history, for instance.
Anders Bolling:It's kind of obvious these days that, I mean,
Anders Bolling:more and more things are coming up about what's
Anders Bolling:happened in history and we haven't been told
Anders Bolling:everything. Of course, it's not strange, of
Anders Bolling:course. I mean, if you take wars, for instance,
Anders Bolling:that have been fought over the course of history,
Anders Bolling:the winner writes the history. So there's another
Anders Bolling:side to it, always and has always been. So it's
Anders Bolling:not. It's not. There's nothing strange in it.
Anders Bolling:Some people might get nervous and feel uneasy
Anders Bolling:when they realize that there is no such thing as
Anders Bolling:one absolute truth, because there isn't. But to
Anders Bolling:Me, it makes life much more interesting and much
Anders Bolling:larger. And it also has to do, of course, it ties
Anders Bolling:in with what kind of worldview or life view you
Anders Bolling:have. Because if you're a materialist and you
Anders Bolling:believe that we are only biological robots with
Anders Bolling:no purpose, we just have to do the best we can of
Anders Bolling:this physical life and then we die and it's all
Anders Bolling:black and there is nothing more, then you might
Anders Bolling:get nervous about it. But if you have a different
Anders Bolling:view and you realize that the essence of us, the
Anders Bolling:core, can't die, it never dies. It's, I mean,
Anders Bolling:consciousness is eternal. We're just part of,
Anders Bolling:we're all together, we're all part of the same
Anders Bolling:all encompassing consciousness. Then it's, it's
Anders Bolling:just, I mean, this may sound almost preposterous
Anders Bolling:to some people, but it's, it's all good. When you
Anders Bolling:see it that way, it actually is all good. I mean,
Anders Bolling:in essence then you can, of course, on the
Anders Bolling:surface, when you day to day life and decisions
Anders Bolling:that are being made and events, you can, of
Anders Bolling:course you can have opinions about them. That was
Anders Bolling:bad. That was good. That was bad. That was good.
Anders Bolling:That's how we operate, that's how we are human.
Anders Bolling:But I mean in general, the big scheme of things,
Anders Bolling:it's all good. That's the big secret of the
Anders Bolling:universe, is that everything's going to be fine.
Meredith Oke:Yes, yes. And we, and we get to participate, we
Meredith Oke:get to contribute to the type of consciousness
Meredith Oke:that we're living in, the type of reality that
Meredith Oke:we're living in. So your decision to leave
Meredith Oke:mainstream media and start your own is
Meredith Oke:contributing to a timeline where that, that
Meredith Oke:exists. And then everyone who chooses, whether
Meredith Oke:you do it in a public facing way or you just
Meredith Oke:choose to put your energy on different types of
Meredith Oke:things. Like we're building, we're building the
Meredith Oke:reality that we are then going to be experiencing.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Or are experiencing.
Anders Bolling:Yes, yes, I agree. I wonder what people,
Anders Bolling:colleagues, old colleagues of mine from the
Anders Bolling:newspaper are thinking about what I'm doing. Or
Anders Bolling:maybe they're not thinking about it at all. Maybe
Anders Bolling:I'm just, they have just forgot about me. That's,
Anders Bolling:that's fine. But because I think I still, I think
Anders Bolling:I'm a person who's pretty difficult to pinpoint
Anders Bolling:for, for people because I'm still writing, you
Anders Bolling:know, pieces that are kind of, you know, normal
Anders Bolling:about science and about the environment. And I
Anders Bolling:get the thumbs up for that from the old guard.
Meredith Oke:Oh, thank God he did something that we can talk
Meredith Oke:about.
Anders Bolling:All of a sudden I write an article about the UFOs
Anders Bolling:phenomenon or about consciousness. And then I can
Anders Bolling:imagine that some people go, whoa, he seems to
Anders Bolling:have lost it. What's happened?
Meredith Oke:He's gone off the deep end again. Yeah, it's so
Meredith Oke:interesting to me because. And I noticed this,
Meredith Oke:doing research on all of these different
Meredith Oke:scientists and physicists over the last few
Meredith Oke:years. Psychologists. And so many of them were
Meredith Oke:considered brilliant and they won all the prizes
Meredith Oke:and they were like, all the medals and they were
Meredith Oke:the towering figure in their field. And then so
Meredith Oke:many times in the bio I would read, it would be
Meredith Oke:like. And then in the last like 10, 15 years of
Meredith Oke:their life, they went on like, they got all weird
Meredith Oke:and they went down this weird woo woo track.
Meredith Oke:Nobody, they must have just got old and crazy.
Meredith Oke:And it's like bio after bio after bio has some
Meredith Oke:version of that. And I'm like, at what point do
Meredith Oke:we say maybe all of these towering figures of
Meredith Oke:intellect saw something once they, you know,
Meredith Oke:accrued all of their achievements and no longer,
Meredith Oke:you know, saw the end of their life coming and
Meredith Oke:were ready to accept a larger truth. But every
Meredith Oke:time, nope, they just went, they just got old and
Meredith Oke:crazy and they write off the bigger esoteric,
Meredith Oke:more difficult to explain conclusions.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, yeah, I know. I've also seen what you're
Anders Bolling:describing, especially on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is
Anders Bolling:terrible when it comes to describing the
Anders Bolling:scientists that are interested in esoteric
Anders Bolling:matters. It's the worst. You know that there is a
Anders Bolling:group called the guerrilla skeptics on Wikipedia,
Anders Bolling:gsow I think it's abbreviated and they are.
Anders Bolling:There's a guy in California, journalist I know a
Anders Bolling:little bit, Craig Wyler, he has taken it upon
Anders Bolling:himself to kind of expose this group because it's
Anders Bolling:an active group and you can look it up on, also
Anders Bolling:on Wikipedia actually, because they're proud of
Anders Bolling:what they're. And they are, you know, materialist
Anders Bolling:skeptics who are really, you know, in this
Anders Bolling:physicalist box. And they have, I think they're,
Anders Bolling:they actually, actually believe that they are
Anders Bolling:doing a very, very good thing for humanity. And
Anders Bolling:so they, they go into all these articles about
Anders Bolling:people like Rupert Sheldrake and Dean Radin and
Anders Bolling:Pim Van Lommel and they just change things
Anders Bolling:because they don't want, they want to depict
Anders Bolling:their research as pseudoscience. That's their
Anders Bolling:task. So it's terrible. It should be exposed.
Meredith Oke:So Wikipedia is intentionally framing any of
Meredith Oke:these more esoteric thinkers?
Anders Bolling:Yeah, well, yeah, right, but Wikipedia is not
Anders Bolling:this group. But the thing with Wikipedia is that
Anders Bolling:it's kind of user operated. So I mean they are
Anders Bolling:Kind of. They have become admins of it. And you
Anders Bolling:can become that. You can. You can apply for that
Anders Bolling:and. But I think the founder, Jimmy Wales, is
Anders Bolling:himself a materialist. I don't think he has
Anders Bolling:openly said that. I support this group and I like
Anders Bolling:what they're doing, but I think he silently
Anders Bolling:approves of what they're doing. That's. That's my
Anders Bolling:guess.
Meredith Oke:No, I think so, based on my experience with
Meredith Oke:Wikipedia and hearing stories of how political it
Meredith Oke:is to even be able to edit on there. I mean, I
Meredith Oke:know. I know people. There's a journalist called
Meredith Oke:Alex Berenson. He. He does a lot of. He covered a
Meredith Oke:lot during COVID and on the vaccines and
Meredith Oke:everything. And I saw him, he wrote one time,
Meredith Oke:he's like, I just gave up. My Wikipedia bio is
Meredith Oke:garbage, and there's nothing I can do about it. I
Meredith Oke:can't get in there. I can't change it, I can't
Meredith Oke:fix it. It's filled with lies. And so I guess
Meredith Oke:that goes back to what we were talking about
Meredith Oke:earlier, cultivating discernment, and especially
Meredith Oke:when there's these intentional forces muddying
Meredith Oke:the waters. Because what you were saying and what
Meredith Oke:your work covers is that there is a lot of quote
Meredith Oke:unquote hard science behind so many fascinating
Meredith Oke:things, you know, quantum biology, consciousness,
Meredith Oke:and all of it. But then there are forces that are
Meredith Oke:intentionally making it seem unfounded.
Anders Bolling:Yeah, yeah. It's, it's, it's. It makes you, of
Anders Bolling:course, then become suspicious towards other
Anders Bolling:topics as well, if you know that they're
Anders Bolling:manipulating or doctoring information when it
Anders Bolling:comes to science and spirituality stuff. Maybe
Anders Bolling:they have other groups doing the same thing on
Anders Bolling:other topics. Probably. Probably.
Meredith Oke:Right. Probably. And then this comes back to
Meredith Oke:something else I wanted to ask you more about,
Meredith Oke:because what happens then, and I see this very
Meredith Oke:often in the health sort of ecosystem. People
Meredith Oke:become kind of bitter. They feel that they're
Meredith Oke:being lied to. They feel that they're being
Meredith Oke:betrayed, and they are. And it's just sort of,
Meredith Oke:you know, forget everything sucks. Everyone's
Meredith Oke:terrible. These people are terrible. And it can
Meredith Oke:create a. Yeah. Like a bitter, unhappy kind of
Meredith Oke:way of life. And so I'm curious. Your book was
Meredith Oke:the.
Anders Bolling:The Cozy, Cozy Darkness of the Apocalypse.
Meredith Oke:The Cozy Darkness of the Apocalypse. Right.
Meredith Oke:Which. The point of that being that sometimes we,
Meredith Oke:like, we. We feel more comfortable saying, like,
Meredith Oke:oh, everything's terrible.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Is that.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:What is. What was your premise there?
Anders Bolling:Kind of the background to the title there.
Meredith Oke:Okay.
Anders Bolling:Trying to describe how we kind of. What's the
Anders Bolling:word? Wallow in the Misery in a way because I
Anders Bolling:mean we can all relate to. And it's probably ages
Anders Bolling:old. You can, you can imagine people sitting
Anders Bolling:around a bonfire outside of the cave 20,000 years
Anders Bolling:ago and there's some person in the, in the, in
Anders Bolling:the group there telling horror stories about
Anders Bolling:saber toothed tigers that he met on his, you
Anders Bolling:know, hunts and things like that. And everybody
Anders Bolling:was, oh, tell me more, tell me more. So we love
Anders Bolling:that. And people love also thriller movies and
Anders Bolling:horror stories in novels and it's, it's very,
Anders Bolling:very difficult to write. I've heard of Swedish,
Anders Bolling:Swedish author talked about this once and said
Anders Bolling:that it's so sad that it's extremely difficult to
Anders Bolling:write a truly happy story because nobody really
Anders Bolling:wants it or nobody really is really interested in
Anders Bolling:it, which is, I don't know, there's something
Anders Bolling:about the human condition. But then people have
Anders Bolling:often also had these visions. They've talked
Anders Bolling:about the global village. And I remember when I
Anders Bolling:grew up, quite a few people who were kind of
Anders Bolling:visualizing a world in peace and a world where we
Anders Bolling:didn't have any borders. And I mean that's still
Anders Bolling:possible. We're not dead yet, we're here. So why
Anders Bolling:can't people have these visions? I don't really
Anders Bolling:understand that. It's strange to me. It's like I
Anders Bolling:can sometimes kind of wake up in my waking state
Anders Bolling:and be surprised that firstly I'm still here.
Anders Bolling:I've been here always. Because I mean that's this
Anders Bolling:sense that you have when you, when you're in this
Anders Bolling:life and you. I think it's kind of a, kind of an
Anders Bolling:evidence or indication that you are eternal.
Anders Bolling:Because there's this sense that I've always been
Anders Bolling:around, of course, anyway, that's one thing. And
Anders Bolling:the other thing is I kind of wake up and look
Anders Bolling:around and think what are we still doing this? We
Anders Bolling:have nations, we have even, we even have wars, we
Anders Bolling:have money, we have what's. What is this? I mean,
Anders Bolling:I've been having this, you know, since I was a
Anders Bolling:kid and back in the 70s idea that oh, it's soon
Anders Bolling:going to change dramatically and maybe I'm very
Anders Bolling:special. Then I might be strange because to me
Anders Bolling:it's been natural to think that way. That this
Anders Bolling:world is one day we won't have any borders, we
Anders Bolling:won't have any this or that, no races and not
Anders Bolling:even any money. Eventually we're just going to be
Anders Bolling:here and do things because that's why we're here,
Anders Bolling:to do things and experience things together,
Anders Bolling:invent things, you know, have feelings that's the
Anders Bolling:reason why we're here. We're not here to build
Anders Bolling:borders and governments and bureaucracies and
Anders Bolling:civil servants and, you know, install these kinds
Anders Bolling:of jobs that people have, meaningless jobs.
Anders Bolling:That's not why we're here. It's crazy. Can't you
Anders Bolling:think that, can't you feel the same way sometimes
Anders Bolling:that it's strange that we're still doing this?
Meredith Oke:Yes. Especially on the bureaucracy front because
Meredith Oke:it just seems to perpetuate itself and it's never
Meredith Oke:going to solve. Bureaucracy doesn't solve
Meredith Oke:problems. It doesn't.
Anders Bolling:No.
Meredith Oke:You know, it doesn't have any vision. It's just.
Meredith Oke:And it's self generated, it's functionary and it
Meredith Oke:just, it just exists to expand itself and take
Meredith Oke:over. And I. Yeah, but at the same time, I feel
Meredith Oke:like there's always where we are in our conscious
Meredith Oke:evolution. We, we need a little friction. I mean,
Meredith Oke:I have, I've been pushed to do some of my best
Meredith Oke:work when I've come up against really annoying
Meredith Oke:people.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:And then I break through with an idea I wouldn't
Meredith Oke:have had without that person.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Or even the work we're doing now if we didn't
Meredith Oke:have that old way to push back on.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:But. Yeah, then at what point does it. Do we not
Meredith Oke:need that anymore? We can just sort of exist.
Meredith Oke:Because I think, you know, we can wrap up on this
Meredith Oke:topic. I just, I think it's super interesting,
Meredith Oke:like what's happening in the United States right
Meredith Oke:now. So I'm Canadian, I live in the US So I have
Meredith Oke:this kind of front row seat. But I'm not, I'm not
Meredith Oke:involved. I can't vote. And I see just in the
Meredith Oke:area of health, there's a new Health and Human
Meredith Oke:Services Secretary in the United States who five
Meredith Oke:minutes ago was public enemy number one. Talk
Meredith Oke:about jumping from mainstream to alternative.
Anders Bolling:It's happened fast nowadays.
Meredith Oke:You never know what's going to happen. But now I
Meredith Oke:feel like, okay, we're in this place where we
Meredith Oke:were just so angry, pushing back on the
Meredith Oke:establishment. Like, oh, they're so terrible.
Meredith Oke:They're doing this stuff. They're doing that to
Meredith Oke:us. And now it's like, okay, now we have the. Now
Meredith Oke:we have the floor. It's like building or making
Meredith Oke:the change or supporting people and it's gonna be
Meredith Oke:messy. Cause that person is right about food, but
Meredith Oke:they don't know anything about this. And this
Meredith Oke:person's talking about vaccines, but they don't
Meredith Oke:know anything about light. And everyone's got
Meredith Oke:there becomes territorial and it gets really
Meredith Oke:messy. And it's like, okay, now we, now we are
Meredith Oke:out in the, you know, in the ring, so to speak.
Meredith Oke:We're not no longer on the sidelines. And what
Meredith Oke:are we going to do? How's it going to go? I don't
Meredith Oke:know.
Anders Bolling:Like I said, it's very interesting. It's
Anders Bolling:fascinating that it's happening. And I think
Anders Bolling:that, like, exactly as you're describing it,
Anders Bolling:these people that are now being placed in
Anders Bolling:different positions in this new administration,
Anders Bolling:they're being vetted and they're being checked
Anders Bolling:and they're being scrutinized much, much, much
Anders Bolling:more than they would normally be in normal,
Anders Bolling:quote, unquote, or ordinary administrations, be
Anders Bolling:it from the left side or the right side, doesn't
Anders Bolling:matter. It's been, I mean, it's been more or less
Anders Bolling:the same, regardless of party controlling it for
Anders Bolling:50 years or something like that. But now it is
Anders Bolling:something different. It is something completely
Anders Bolling:different. And people are freaking out because
Anders Bolling:they don't know what's happening. They don't
Anders Bolling:understand these people. They don't understand
Anders Bolling:how people like this can be placed in these
Anders Bolling:positions. So they're being vetted a lot. Maybe
Anders Bolling:it's a good thing that they are. But anyway, it's
Anders Bolling:really. And speaking of the secretary that you
Anders Bolling:were just referring to also in this country and
Anders Bolling:in Europe and I think all over Western Europe and
Anders Bolling:Americans should realize this, that what's
Anders Bolling:happening now in the United States is so, it's so
Anders Bolling:many people are watching this and it's polarized
Anders Bolling:here as well. Many people are freaking out and
Anders Bolling:thinking that this is the beginning of World War
Anders Bolling:Three or something. And they're just horrified.
Anders Bolling:And they are only reading the newspapers that are
Anders Bolling:depicting it in that way as well. So they don't,
Anders Bolling:you know, get to really understand what could be
Anders Bolling:said about it from the other side. But also a lot
Anders Bolling:of people are hoping, putting a lot of hopes
Anders Bolling:around this figure in HHS now. And because there
Anders Bolling:was also a lot of controversy around the
Anders Bolling:pandemic, the vaccines, the lockdowns, face masks
Anders Bolling:and all of those things here in Europe as well.
Anders Bolling:Sweden was one of the few countries that didn't
Anders Bolling:have lockdowns, which I was very grateful for.
Meredith Oke:That's right.
Anders Bolling:Yeah. That was a good thing. So we could, we
Anders Bolling:could.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, your poor guy who made that decision, he
Meredith Oke:was like getting hammered. He stuck to it, didn't
Meredith Oke:he?
Anders Bolling:Both. And I mean, but he was also very, he was
Anders Bolling:also very adamant that the vaccines were the best
Anders Bolling:thing that had happened since sliced bread. Since
Anders Bolling:sliced bread or something like that. So, I mean,
Anders Bolling:he was. It was. I think he kind of felt that he
Anders Bolling:had to be that and he had to say those things.
Anders Bolling:But when it came to lockdowns and face masks, he
Anders Bolling:just followed the science because it's common
Anders Bolling:sense. We can't close schools. Why would you
Anders Bolling:close schools when we have this infection that is
Anders Bolling:a thousand fold or 2000 fold more dangerous for
Anders Bolling:people over 70 than for kids? It. It's not
Anders Bolling:dangerous for kids. Might be dangerous for 70
Anders Bolling:years olds. And I mean, they should have the
Anders Bolling:vaccine perhaps, but. Or whatever, whatever you
Anders Bolling:should call it. The, the medical intervention,
Anders Bolling:the experimental medical intervention. So. Yeah,
Anders Bolling:but people are, as I said, also watching this
Anders Bolling:very closely, even in Europe. So what is
Anders Bolling:happening?
Meredith Oke:Yes. No, there is an energy ball unfolding in the
Meredith Oke:United States right now that is super fascinating
Meredith Oke:and I think will have ramifications around the
Meredith Oke:world and who knows what's going to happen or how
Meredith Oke:things are going to play out. But I do feel like
Meredith Oke:it's our time to step up. And you know, I. What I
Meredith Oke:hear you saying too is like, be flexible in. In
Meredith Oke:how we take in information. Be discerning. Trust
Meredith Oke:our. Trust our own intuition. Like, how does. How
Meredith Oke:did this land? How did this make me feel? Am I
Meredith Oke:feeling outraged or am I feeling like, oh, okay,
Meredith Oke:that's good to know. Like all these different
Meredith Oke:things.
Anders Bolling:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:So is there anything that you would like to share
Meredith Oke:before we wrap up? Anything that's coming to you?
Anders Bolling:No, just that emphasize what you just talked
Anders Bolling:about here, that trust your own judgment and your
Anders Bolling:discernment. And don't follow the news 24 7. You
Anders Bolling:can follow it a little bit if you want to know
Anders Bolling:what's happening, but not too much because it's
Anders Bolling:not good for your health. And also check things
Anders Bolling:for yourself if you have the time and think for
Anders Bolling:yourself and take some time off just to do
Anders Bolling:nothing once in a while. 10 minutes here, 10
Anders Bolling:minutes there, meditate or just do nothing. It
Anders Bolling:will be good for you and you will have better
Anders Bolling:discernment of what's going on out there in this
Anders Bolling:messy time.
Meredith Oke:All right, thank you. Very good advice. And I
Meredith Oke:encourage everybody to check out anders podcast
Meredith Oke:and YouTube channel. It's Mind the Shift on
Meredith Oke:YouTube and on all of the podcast, all the places
Meredith Oke:where podcasts are. And your website is anders,
Meredith Oke:anders bowling.com. okay, so that's. We'll put
Meredith Oke:that link in the show notes as well. It's A N D E
Meredith Oke:R S B O L L I N G dot com. Thank you so much for
Meredith Oke:being here. We'll have to do this again.
Anders Bolling:It was really fun, Meredith. It's been true Joy
Anders Bolling:speaking to you today.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Anders Bolling:Thank you for what you're doing also with your
Anders Bolling:podcast and the other work that you do.
Meredith Oke:Appreciate it.