(CW: ANTI-SHIFTERS, SALEM TRIALS) - Still seen by many people who don't practise shifting as a "TikTok trend", reality shifting still comes under the media spotlight in an extremely negative way which demonises our communities, making us appear "stupid, gullible", "unbalanced" or worse. Whilst the bulk of the anti-shifting malice originates from YouTube or TikTok, an increasing number of professional sceptics are targeting shifting, seeking to destroy our credibility by amplifying the disillusionment of troubled shifters while deliberately overlooking context and ignoring the vast majority of well-balanced problem-free shifters.
Whilst the pioneering world of physics is open-minded towards the possibilities of alternate universes, cutting-edge particle science driving the science fiction narrative of so many Marvel film productions, the world of psychology is the polar opposite, more often than not populated by people who dogmatically insist there is no such thing as a soul and life after death, and are happy to label spiritualists as "seriously deluded".
As I have previously mentioned on several occasions, science and spirituality have been at loggerheads since Copernicus correctly declared that the Earth revolved around the sun, DNA and evolution still battling against creationism after all these years.
Rather than challenge the literalism of steadfast traditional religious beliefs, psychologists have focused their continued mockery upon our communities, seeing us as an easy target as shifting is not recognised as a belief system, having previously spent all their time trying to expose all psychic communication workers as "charlatans".
Two days ago, a self-styled "researcher" popped-up on Reddit's normally cautious Shifting Realities community, having ed with no previous posts on the forum, asking subredditors to contribute to their "research" they were conducting about shifting.
Although backed-up as being a "genuine project" by one of the community's long-standing s, they declined from explaining what their project actually is, and what the aim of such research is. In-fact, they emphasised both in their bio and in their post that they are NOT A SHIFTER, which although doesn't mean they are automatically an ANTI-SHIFTER, it difficult to see this being a neutral and objective exercise.
Whilst occasional non-researching university students have written tolerant pieces in student newspapers, this Reddit poster makes it clear that "researching" is their profession.
The post's stated aim is to "put reality shifting in the academic spotlight".
The last time it happened, the psychology journal Current Psychology released an extremely biased and badly-sampled "article" on SpringerLink, which falsely correlated shifting with not just "fabrication", but mental health issues, describing it as "pathological".
The Insider Magazine elaborated upon this blinkered scientific report, whilst making reference to it, including stories of several troubled shifters from Manchester, United Kingdom, who appeared to have underlying health issues which were worsened by their frustration at being unable to shift.
There is no proven or logical connection between switching conscious realities and mental health, and yet, the academic-assisted Insider article wilfully defamed our community with an implication that shifting is linked to PSYCHOSIS, which is not just EXTREMELY AND UNFAIRLY DAMAGING TO OUR COMMUNITIES, but also puts us all in danger of stigmatisation, especially school-age children who if they happen to let it slip out to teachers, mentors, and health professionals they practice shifting, could end up being wrongly viewed as suffering from mental illness.
The "devil" is in the detail, as they say!
The Reddit "researcher specifically wants to communicate privately with individual shifters, even though they state they will only correspond with adult shifters over the age of 18 (seemingly for safeguarding reasons), and Reddit, like Amino, is already totally anonymous, which ultimately shields the exchange of damaging opinions which may be included in the report, from widespread scrutiny.
HAVING already mentioned that they are seeking to discover "PROBLEMS AND DIFFICULTIES" in relation to shifting, it is difficult to see any objectivity, let alone favourability when it comes to drawing their conclusions, when debate is avoided regarding contentious issues, and counterpunch viewpoints are frozen out of the picture.
By focusing particularly on shifters "WHO HAVE NOT SHIFTED YET", suggests an uneven balance pitted towards dissatisfied rather than contented, successful shifters, their analysis likely to be subjective rather than treating testimony on equal standing.
In every sector of life, from schooling to jobs, to love and relationships, those who fail to achieve their hopes and aims, will always be unhappy, and some will express extremely frustration which amplifies existing mental health conditions. Shifting is no different, as although everybody has the latent ability shift within their subconscious, because of preconceived notions of reality deriving from religion and society, ultimately activating limiting blocks, some of shifting communities will find shifting extremely difficult, and may become incredibly demotivated, especially if they are susceptible to, or already suffering from pre-existing mental health issues.
When academic "researchers", for whatever reason, fail to embrace context, they are deliberately overlooking opinions which counter preconceived narratives, which in the case of PROFESSIONAL ANTI-SHIFTERS, our belief that shifting is harmless, genuine and a positive and life-affirming endeavour whether temporary or permanently shifting.
Whether or not their chosen Reddit nickname "LooniBe" is a deliberate play on the slur on people with mental health issue, or just a coincidence, or actually related to their real name, the likelihood they are seeking to actually "understand" shifting as they claim, is likely to be pretty low, when they are seeking to analyse the MINDS of shifters, rather than seek to VALIDATE and THEORISE TO AUTHENTICATE actual actual shifting experiences, which quantum physics will one day hope to achieve.
Whilst reiterating they are "NOT A SHIFTER", they fail to confirm whether they are an undergraduate, postgraduate, doctor or professor, and which particular branch of ACADEMIC LEARNING they represent.
As they are analysing SHIFTERS rather than SHIFTING, it can be assumed they are indeed of the PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSION who have repeatedly taken it on themselves to attempt to DEBUNK our communities.
R/shiftingrealities on Reddit should have proceeded with extreme caution, and refused to offer a platform to an "academic researcher" who is ittedly an outsider, to trawl for data from its own community, especially when the auto- supposedly "protects" the community from posts lacking "Reddit karma" (i.e. posting pedigree and community standing).
"LooniBe" is self-declared as neither a shifter or expressing a desire to become one, and has not expressed a desire to consider the physics or spirituality behind shifting,. Even if they were to belatedly mention such now, to be expressed interested in SHIFTING'S FAILURES strongly suggests shifting is being placed on the examination couch.
TELLINGLY their post asks for participation in their "research" from TikTok creators, this platform not renowned for credibility, as anyone who has supposedly acquainted themselves with shifting, will be fully aware of. TikTok is an unfortunate hotbed of misinformation, and the media's overreliance upon this platform gives false assumptions "legs", allowing myths to be consolidated, resulting in confusion that actually does impinge upon mental health, not knowing who to believe.
Their post also seeks to include Redditors who are active on Amino and Wattpad, our very own communities under direct threat from misrepresentation, besides Reddit.
If the "scientific profession" behind the opinion trawling is indeed the psychology profession, most if not all practitioners are sceptics of anything and everything spiritual. Their cross-interest in shifters who read tarot, experience out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and astral project, add armoury to preconceived beliefs that shifting is "spiritual nonsense", as everything that exists outside this Current Reality body of ours, is non-existent, and SPIRITUALITY, MAKE-BELIEVE to such people.
Most worryingly, a sizeable number of repliers have expressed an active interest in participating in the private discourse, providing potential one-sided ammunition in which to belittle our entire scene.
The last thing we, as shifters should do, is trust strangers who shifting communities to nosey around...
When shifting is deliberately cast in a bad light by HATCHET-JOB reporting such as the INSIDER MAGAZINE ARTICLE by ANTI-SHIFTING JOURNALISTS with an AXE TO GRIND, we all suffer which ever community we are in, and our family and friends, are less likely to warm to our shifting, if and when we reveal to them we shift.
(To assist shifters safely revealing, I recently provided SAFE REVEALING ADVICE): -
Such a project being "verified" as genuine by of their community, does not make it representative, or ethical. Whether they have academic standing, or letters after their name, fails to explain their motivation in putting shifters under the spotlight.
As a yet unproveable spiritual practise, shifting cannot take recourse against disseminators of misinformation, particularly those who may have had a more extensive education, no matter how biased and deliberate their intent may be to attempt to "disprove" shifting, not that they can do so. Anonymous testimony is unverifiable, as it is unreliable.
What PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHERS can do, is POISON public opinions towards shifting, further alienating troubled shifters, leaving them with no way to turn.
It will not affect steadfast shifters like myself who have had many spiritual experiences, but when psychologists go public to attack shifting, the younger end, especially those of young school age, can end up distraught. Whilst some may be certain shifting is real and genuine, they will be afraid their CR friends will point and laugh, and nobody close to them will ever believe them, when they finally shift, leaving them with actual mind issues.
Such persecution of vulnerable shifters who were managing to live reasonably stress-free lives before academia indulged in their witch-hunt, will undoubtedly unleash depression and anxiety, which, pleasingly to the psychological profession, will keep them busy treating shifters with unnecessarily triggered mental health issues for a very long time.
To understand how toxic persecution can vilify minority spiritual pursuits, we need only to look at witchcraft, and why wiccan practitioners have remained in the closet for an eternity.
My long-term offline best friend who I have know for many years, who is also a shifter, has past-life memories of being executed in the Salem Witch trials, which were the epitome of religious persecution. Many books and films have been written about how society targeted practitioners of minority spiritual beliefs. Even herbalists met a deadly end.
Whilst there is far more personal spiritual freedom in today's age than in centuries gone by, shifters hardly likely to be burnt at the stake, deliberate unwanted negative exposure towards us, particularly by supposed "trusted experts", poses serious risks of doctors, teachers, social workers, and even our own parents, unfairly labelling us as "mentally subnormal", subjecting us to a lifetime of discrimination.
Although Church and State are rapidly becoming re-entwined in America against the wording of the constitution, atheistic anti-shifting professionals will not raise an eyebrow at the bizarre practices and beliefs of organised religionists, some of whom have attempted to "exorcise" and ostracise shifters as being "subnormal", fringe spirituality an easier target than organised religions in positions of authority.
It is everybody's responsibility within the shifting scene to treat such "researchers" with caution, no matter how learned and "clever" they are, no matter how their "projects" are organised by respected centres of learning, if we are not to be SITTING DUCKS for those who seek to DESTROY SHIFTING just because they REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN IT!
Enabling unfettered access to prying eyes, may ultimately end in tears.....
If in doubt as to somebody's motives, refuse to interact with such academic strangers. And if approached by such people on Amino, report such posts to the leaders.
TAKE CARE, STAY SAFE and HAPPY SHIFTING!!!
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Comments (43)
I don’t understand anti-shifters they say shifters need help cause they think they’re mentally ill or because of possible underlying issues but their main focus is on proving shifters wrong or humiliating them and not actually getting them the help they apparently need.
everyone the world of psychology also use to lock woman up for reading and performed lobotomies they aren't 100 percent credible in any way. Science is never stated as absolute fact if you haven't noticed since it's only our best understanding from a human perspective.
Reply to: RealityShifting101
Pregnancy, pre and post natal care, and giving birth or even caesarean section, and everything it entails, bring up kids, the difficulties, etc, is not something shifters' CR brains could dream up, especially if they have no incise experience or family or TV knowledge of it before. Probably the most unfalsifiable reality check of them all.
Reply to: RealityShifting101
Nobody would lucid dream weeks of morning sickness FFS!!! Psychologists, get a grip!
Reply to: RealityShifting101
Likewise, the long-term shifter who spends many adult years doing some specialised occupation such as commercial law before returning, and has ed all the exams, and can recall in detail specifics to the trade, yet never knew anything about legal , etc, only to be told by supposed "intelligent" minds they were dreaming, shows the stupidity and ignorance of the sceptics.
Can they just get a life :skull: if you don’t believe something then you wouldn’t be obsessed over “debunking” it or worried about the community,seems to me their just jealous we’re living our desired lives
yeah that's hella suspicious
The fact they specified they wanted to talk to shifters that haven't shifted yet already gives away that no, they are not interesed in actually researching shifting, they only want amunition to tear us down and belittle us in front of the public eye.
So true!