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Understanding the Awakening Beneath the Chaos

  • Writer: Brainz Magazine
    Brainz Magazine
  • Dec 25, 2025
  • 9 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

Michael is a Transformational Coach, Sound Healer, Numerologist & Human Design practitioner, & Sacred Medicine Holder. He is the in-house Healer & Mentor at Harmony P.E.C., leading the sacred healing team & co-facilitating the virtual Universal Foundations and Adept Courses to help seekers better understand their power & unique path.

Executive Contributor Michael Ritchie

We are awakening from the illusion within the illusion, the game within the game. The third density is a school, and just as school is an illusion of the greater world outside its walls, Earth school is an illusion of the greater universe beyond our current state of consciousness.


Silhouette of a person raising arms against a dramatic sunset sky with orange and purple clouds, creating a serene and contemplative mood.

What is the purpose of this school, you ask?


To raise our current individual and collective consciousnesses from the current state of the Solar Plexus Chakra (some are still in lower states of the Sacral and Root Chakras), to the Heart Chakra. In other words, from individuality, competition, and thinking (toxic masculinity which affects both males and females alike), to oneness, co-operation, and intuition.


When I use the term love, I am not speaking of the DeBoers Diamond, Hallmark Card possessive love we have been conditioned to believe (I love you, unless you don’t behave the way I want you to, then I don’t love you anymore, equals control), but the truth of love, which is acceptance without judgement.


The fourth level of consciousness, the Heart Chakra, is four hundred percent more conscious than the third density of the Solar Plexus Chakra. It has a 400% increase in power.


What is this power you ask?


Power is the accumulation of knowledge and experience, wisdom. Power is understanding the rules of the game, as higher laws can bend lower-density laws, which means you have a greater effect on the game's outcome. Power is what the game is all about, for whoever holds this power can either control humanity through fear (pride, anger, desire, fear, grief, apathy, guilt, shame, and all their ugly cousins) or free humanity through love, compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness.


It is the ones who control this power (as force) that actually run the reality we live in, not the elected puppets whom we argue over for whoever controls the minds of humanity, controls our reality, as it is our minds that create the reality we live in in the first place. (See the double slit experiment link in the previous article.)


The Keys to this enlightenment for humanity have been collected and secreted away (occulted) within sacred/secret societies, as well as held within the ancient practices of our ancestors.


These practices grant us the knowledge necessary to create the experiences needed for our awakening. These practices are the keys to opening your higher consciousness, as ultimately they grant access to your higher self. These practices let us peek behind the curtain of illusion to truth and, by doing so, reward us with a better understanding of the rules of the game. These practices give us our power back by illuminating our fears, so that we may eliminate them, or at the very least, take the keys of the car away, for they are very poor drivers, as they perceive everything as danger, and danger-fear controls us.


We are currently in a time of awakening. We are awakening to the illusion that has been pulled over our eyes for generation after generation, for thousands and thousands of years. This is not a new development, but one that has been in effect, which has been in the works since before the pyramids were erected. This has been running since the elite first took control of the people, since we gave up community for Kingship, oneness for individuality, love and freedom for fear and control.


And how does a small group of elites control the entirety of humanity? After all, we are the 99%. The same way it’s always been done, divide and conquer.


By dividing humanity into smaller and smaller groups through fear, which creates judgement and prejudice, supporting individuality over connectedness, competition over co-operation, and thinking over intuition.


By pitting masculine against feminine (the first division), white against black, rich against poor, Muslim against Christian, Liberal against Conservative (Democrat against Republican), vaxed against unvaxed, and so on and so on and so on, until we are so small, so singular, so individual that we have no power just as we have been conditioned to believe.


The systems of control have been in development and running for longer than you can imagine. They are the very systems humanity has come to depend upon within modern society. They include our health system, our education system, our economic system, and our political system, to name but a few.


Not that education and health systems, etc., are bad, they are indeed necessary for every community. It is not the concept of the systems themselves that needs to be scrapped, but the current control over these systems, the current methodology, and the hidden agendas behind them that must be replaced.


These systems we depend upon for modern society have been influenced over time by outside interests (to be addressed in later articles). They have been converted to systems of control and no longer work for the majority, which ironically have become dependent upon the very systems that control them, which in turn keeps them actively in control.


In other words, the systems are not broken but working exactly as they were designed to work, to keep the masses in a state of fear and control, highly stressed yet still able to work.


You cannot win this game unless you are born into it. Don’t get me wrong, you can do well in the game, provided you are willing to push it forward, to play by its rules, to compromise your principles, but you cannot win by not following its rules. Though the truth is: this is not the actual game! It’s the game within the game, the matrix within the matrix.


The real game, the one you came to play, to learn and grow from, is Mother. The teachings which help us to raise our vibration, raise our consciousness, move up in our chakras, are based on the teachings of nature, not modern society, not the game within the game, the matrix within the matrix - for how can you escape the box if you are in the box within the box?


As long as humanity is locked within the box within the box, they will unconsciously be trapped and playing a game which keeps them imprisoned within the illusion within the illusion.


You have not fallen from grace. You are not small, without power, or helpless.


You are not a human having a spiritual experience, but a spirit having a human experience. You are the entirety of the universe in human form, and if you remember this, you cannot be controlled by fear any longer.


And this is the game within the game. Keep humanity stressed and amuse us with games and a means of escape (entertainment: give them games), so instead of standing in our authenticity, we go to work, watch a little Monday night football or the Kardashians, and go to bed, just to do it again tomorrow.


The Shift you are currently feeling is the collapse of these systems of control, the demasking of the string-pullers, the puppet-masters who’ve been brainwashing generation after generation to believe they are helpless, that the very people they have invested their trust in are actually the ones leading them towards the cliff.


Is this the politicians? The business leaders? The religious leaders?


No, not exactly, for they are puppets as well. If you can see them, they are distractions for real power, real money, and do not like attention, as they prefer to work behind the scenes, where no one can identify them. You will not find them on the “rich list” or listed among the movers and shakers of the world, as this too is a distraction. And their wealth is not measured or registered to one person, but hidden within trust funds and portfolios, etc.


They control trillions, not millions or billions. And what is the difference?


Simple, if you made 100,000 per year (forget taxes, interest, etc) in ten years, you would have 1 million. It would take you 10,000 years to reach 1 billion. And 10 million years to reach 1 trillion! And that’s at 100,000 per year!


You cannot win the game within the game. The best you can do to win within the illusion is to align yourself with the current game masters to receive your share. The cost? Your integrity, your morals, your sovereignty, your soul.


In order to align with this distortion of reality, pitting each of us against the other, we must embrace our shadow, our ego, our superiority over anyone who is different from us. We must exploit Mother Earth and our brothers and sisters, with whom we share her, taking the lion’s share for our own, not accepting the oneness which is true north.


Most would not willingly do this, for most would prefer to help one another, not exploit. The problem is, most are doing this unconsciously, just as we are unconsciously destroying the very earth we depend upon for life.


Not maliciously, but unconsciously. Not realizing that every decision we make, every purchase we engage in has a cost, which has been hidden from you, or else you might not keep the game going.


What is another entity that destroys the very host it depends upon for life? Cancer.


It is this unconsciousness that has been exploited, the fear of the unknown used to direct the masses through the maze with carrot and stick. Ignorance is their mana, for through it they control the very illusion we call reality.


Am I speaking of an “us vs. them situation?” No.


For there is no them, only us. We’ve given away our power, willingly for the most part, given up our responsibility of self-sustenance for an illusion of safety and security.


The shift is giving us the opportunity to take it back. Courage is the first energy of Love.


To stand in your truth takes courage. If you don’t believe this, ask Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Ram Dass, the Dalai Lama, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the list goes on.


Is this a new thing, a new age philosophy trudged out by the hippies, the weirdos, the underprivileged, trying to get their share?


No, it has been taught through the centuries. We call it The Golden Rule, which can be found in practically every spiritual teaching given by the masters:


  • Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty, do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.

  • Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

  • Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness. Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

  • Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.

  • Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.

  • Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire law, all the rest is commentary.

  • Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that man should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the Law and the prophets.

  • Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.


We’ve been led to believe that each of these teachings is opposed to the other, that each of us is opposed to one another.


This is simply not the truth.


We are one. Individual in our perspective, yes, as each of us stands at our unique post upon the sphere of consciousness, yet all look towards the center, the truth the collective Oneness of the Central Sun, the Source, The All, The Infinite Creator, The Great “I Am”, The Universe (Multiverse), God, our Spirit, our Soul.


It’s a community, with each individual consciousness unique in their own experience, their gifts, skills, and interests, yet one in purpose. Each is a piece of the puzzle that, when united, forms a beautiful picture, yet with even one piece missing or in the wrong place, the entirety of the scene falls short, broken in a sense of the perfection it could be.


So, as previously mentioned, we are in the final chapter of a seventy-five thousand year cycle, the end of the third twenty-five thousand year semester (more on this in articles to come), and the Shift has not only begun, but we are in the final stages of it! That said, there’s nothing to fear, though. If you would like to catch the train, I suggest you get your energy in order and take the keys from your ego, for she/he is a terrible driver.


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Michael Ritchie, Transformational Coach

Michael holds many skills & among many, he is known as a Transformational Coach, Sound Healer, Numerologist & Human Design practitioner, Sacred Medicine Holder, and Channeler of Energy from the Eternal Creator. In 2011-12 he was told he had 6m to a year to live. Since that day, he has dedicated his life to understanding awakening, enlightenment, and The Great Way. Funny how a death sentence lets you see what’s important, what’s not.

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