Modern Shaman Talk

04/26/2026

BEEN SCREAMING THIS FOR DECADES!

"Thank you Mr Secretary
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). This doesn't include the 4% of people 34-65 who worked & contributed but passed away before they were ever able to draw payments.
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

99% of people won't Cut and Paste this to their timelines. Will you?"

04/25/2026

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04/24/2026

Amen

IN CASE YOU FORGOT:

1. You are a soul wearing a human disguise.
2. You are here to remember who you are.
3. What you love is the key to your purpose.
4. Your challenges are meant to trigger your growth.
5. There are no mistakes, only lessons.

04/24/2026

They are just working people with bigger paychecks. They are not rocket scientists.

Good morning tribe,

I'm not sure when we as a people started to think that "entertainers" know more about facts than the average person. They are just people with more money than others and many have had poor judgement. I rely on my own ability to understand fact from fiction. I'm looking for the result. Do the persons actions benefit most people or just a few. Are the facts with them or is it just drama. I dislike drama.

May we all be blessed to know fact from feelings and opinions.

Walks With Thunder ⚡⚡⚡

04/23/2026

The paranormal world can be dangerous.
Smudge every 5 to 7 days.

Walks With Thunder ⚡️⚡️⚡️

04/23/2026

Walking away from toxic family isn’t about being cold, ungrateful, or “giving up.” It’s usually the result of trying everything else first… and realizing nothing changes except how much of yourself you lose.

Toxic family dynamics often look like this: your feelings are minimized, your boundaries are ignored, your reality gets questioned, and somehow you end up carrying the emotional weight for everyone else. There’s often guilt woven in, like you owe them access to you simply because you share blood.

But biology is not a contract for suffering.

Healthy relationships, even within families, have some basic qualities: respect, accountability, emotional safety, and reciprocity. When those are consistently missing, what’s left isn’t love in the way people like to define it, it’s obligation mixed with conditioning.

You can love someone and still choose distance.

Walking away doesn’t always mean you stop caring. It means you stop allowing behaviors that harm you. Sometimes distance is the only boundary that actually holds when everything else gets pushed past or ignored.

There’s also a nervous system piece to this. When you’re around people who are unpredictable, critical, or manipulative, your body stays in a low-grade stress response. Over time, that wears you down. People don’t realize how much “family stress” shows up as exhaustion, anxiety, brain fog, even physical symptoms.

So when someone finally steps away, it’s not just emotional… it’s biological relief.

That said, walking away is not easy. There’s grief in it. You’re not just letting go of the people, you’re letting go of the hope that they’ll become who you needed them to be. That’s a real loss, and it deserves to be acknowledged, not rushed past.

You are allowed to protect your peace, even if it disappoints people who benefited from you having none.

This is where I am at in my life right now and it’s a hard step to take.

Be kind to yourself ❤️‍🔥

❤️Apprentice Alina

04/22/2026

Dogs make the world a better place!

04/22/2026

✨️ I have

04/22/2026

The feminists turned a lot of men into beta males.
Now they want a woman’s life. Chivalry is dead.

04/22/2026

A great man!!!

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.

Let that number sit with you.

Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.

What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.

While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.

He doesn’t argue feelings.

He measures results.

He isn’t selling anything.

His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Sit with that, too.

Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.

Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.

Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:

“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”

“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”

That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.

The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.

Sowell says it plain:

“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”

The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.

Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:

“Stay away from the race hustlers.”

“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”

That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.

Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.

Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.

What are the incentives?

Who actually benefits from this policy?

What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?

Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.

The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.

He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.

Ninety-five years of telling the truth.

Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

04/22/2026

Don’t be racist; don’t support criminals