The 33 and the Gold We Are Mining

This week, the fear story went global.

Photo by Usman Yousaf on Unsplash

Venezuela. Colombia. Cuba. Greenland. Different histories, same lever. When leaders talk in threats, dominance, takeover, invasion, collapse, they do not only move policy. They move nervous systems. They organize fear. And so far, it is working.

That is why I keep returning to Us vs Them. Division is not just a cultural mood. It is a delivery system for extraction.

In an earlier post, I named the pattern Extractionocracy. It is the habit of extracting resources, extracting attention, extracting labor, extracting profit, and extracting compliance, while calling it strength, righteousness, or inevitability. Us vs Them is the social technology that keeps the extraction machine protected.

When we are frightened of THEM, we will accept almost anything from OUR guy. Watching that spell take hold can feel disorienting. Upsetting. Hopeless.

But it is not hopeless.

There are more of us who want a new way, balanced, reciprocal, fair, protective of our fellow human. We are simply not organized yet.

That is where this AMP session comes in.

When fear goes global, I look for the story that trains coherence, courage, and unity. This week, that story is The 33 (2015).

The mine was not only a place of harm, it was a classroom

The story in The 33 is not abstract. It is physical. It is historic. And it is painfully relevant.

The harm that comes to those men is tied to extraction. The extraction of resources from the earth. The extraction of profit before humans. The pattern of cutting corners because the numbers must work. The normalization of risk until people become collateral.

Then the counter pattern emerges.

Those men survive because they do the opposite of extraction. They move into interdependence. They care for each other. They share. They forgive. They let old grudges go. They keep each other alive.

They either pull together and get along, or die.

We are not there yet.

So we practice now.

Underground, unity could not be divided

Here is one of the quiet revelations I had after integrating this session.

In a metaphoric way, those men had to hide underground to discover a new way of living together. They had to come together and protect the unity and love until the outcome was experienced. There was no way for outside forces to split them into teams while they figured it out. No distraction machine. No fear feed. No easy scapegoat.

Just breath, darkness, time, and each other.

That is AMP.

That is how we intended it to work.

We go inward together. We build coherence quietly. We flip the pattern before anyone knows what is going on. Then we come back up carrying a new signal.

What are we mining now

The mine is the perfect metaphor because it holds multiple truths at once.

The mine is where extraction happens. The earth becomes commodity.

The mine is where harm happened. Corners get cut when profit comes first.

And the mine is also where the antidote was discovered. Interdependence. Courage. Beloved community under pressure.

So I want to ask a different question.

What are we mining now?

The extractive economy mines the earth. The distraction economy mines attention. Fear is profitable. Division is efficient.

AMP is a different kind of mining. We are mining coherence. We are mining the felt understanding of connectivity. We are mining the internal conditions that allow reciprocal choices to become possible.

That is the gold.

Coherence is a way out of the mine

I do not want to get professorial here, but coherence matters because it is not an opinion. It is a state.

When people become more coherent, they become harder to recruit into panic, harder to steer into dehumanizing language, more capable of holding complexity, and more capable of acting from steadiness instead of reflex.

Coherence is a way out of the mine.

Ancient yoga psychology says it plainly: what we consistently focus on, we start to merge with. Attention shapes identity.

That is why AMP is a practice of attention, together. We step out of the fear feed long enough to stop merging with THEM, and start rebuilding US.

AMP is not a movement

I need to say something clearly.

AMP work is not a movement.

Movements just create movements.

In physics, when you push, you get pushback. Action, reaction. In human systems, force based organizing often generates an equal and opposite identity, a counter team, a counter movement. The polarity engine stays fed.

So we go around it.

We try a new way.

We need coherence together for a practical reason. It helps establish a new set point.

A lot of the patterns running our world are unconscious. Fear. Division. Dehumanizing the other. When those patterns are the baseline, even sincere efforts tend to snap back to the old normal.

This is also why change is hard, individually and collectively. Changing a set point requires a change in resonance. When resonance changes, perception changes. The mind literally sees different options. What used to feel righteous starts to feel reactive. What used to feel like strength starts to look like fear in costume.

The civil rights movement achieved extraordinary and lasting gains, and it also shows how hard it is to sustain change when the deeper set point does not shift. Laws can change while fear and polarization keep regenerating. The culture finds ways to recreate old patterns in new forms.

That is why I keep emphasizing coherence. It is not spiritual decoration. It is the inner condition that makes a new set point real enough to last without needing constant torch bearers. When enough people establish that steadier baseline, the new normal stops depending on heroic leadership and starts depending on the field we are holding together.

In The 33, the men could not afford a temporary unity. They had to become a new set point for each other, or they would not survive.

This is part of a renaissance of consciousness. We stop trying to force outcomes the familiar way. We practice the inner conditions that make better outcomes possible.

Power, love, and peace

We use power the way Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described it, with love that is not fluffy.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.

Love without power becomes sentimental. Power without love becomes abusive. The work is to marry them.

And that brings me to peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. Peace is not simply stopping the fighting.

Peace is finding balanced outcomes people can live with.

That does not mean we let harm slide. It means we do not quit until balance and harmony are discovered. Accountability stays. Dehumanization goes.

We have known this for a very long time

If you go deeply into the world’s wisdom traditions, across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hindu and yogic lineages, and the great teachers of nonviolence, you will start to notice a repeating thread: train attention, soften reactivity, widen compassion, and refuse to dehumanize the other. It has been here for a very long time. You can find it.

The difference is speed and accessibility.

Most of us do not have years to translate ancient texts into lived practice. AMP is a way to practice that same essential movement toward coherence, toward US, in a single sitting, then integrate it into daily life.

This is not me preaching, it is the outcome

One final clarification.

I did not go out and search for movies to tell the story of what I think humanity needs to hear.

I learned after integrating the sessions. This point of view I am presenting today is the outcome. It is what I am learning.

My perspective will not be the only one. Others will integrate these same patterns and bring back their own benevolent angles, different language, different gifts, same direction. And when enough people start carrying a steadier signal, it spreads.

Not as a movement, but as a social contagion of coherence.

That is how we stop rebuilding the Iron Tree even as it comes down.

We stop choosing the old materials.

Closing

This week the world felt loud. The kind of loud that tries to make you pick a side, tighten your chest, and call it righteousness.

So I am choosing a different kind of underground. Not hiding from reality, but stepping beneath the noise long enough to remember what is real. Breath. Presence. Human beings.

My hope for those other nations, and for ours, is simple. May we become harder to divide. May we become harder to scare. May we become more able to hold the tension without turning each other into enemies.

That is the gold I am mining. And if you want it too, the entrance is right here.

Intention Session

Before the statements, a reminder of why The Intention Session is the first step.

AMP is on your terms, not mine. You only receive what is right for you, in your timing, with grace and ease. I am simply putting up the resonance for anyone who wants it. People process in their time. It is meant to be graceful. So do this first, and you will get the resonance benefits listed below - on your terms and timing

Step one: The Intention Session

You only need to do this once before you watch the film The 33. If you have already completed an Intention Session, it carries over for all of the AMP movies I talk about, so you do not need to repeat it.

Speak these aloud:

1. I allow the changes in my timing and only integrate what I am ready to.

2. I have faith that I will receive the benefits I desire.

3. I am patient with myself as I make my changes.

4. I let go of feeling I am too busy to take the time for this.

5. I let go of needing to understand how AMP works and allow myself to receive the full benefits in my own timing.

Engage three simple modalities:

1. Nod your head yes.

2. Drink some water.

3. Take several slow, rhythmic breaths through your nose.

Then watch The 33 all the way through.

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There are over 800 intentions included in this The 33 AMP session. Below is a short summary of what you can expect if you choose to do this AMP session. For now, I’m making these intentions available to everyone.

The 33 AMP Session statements

Let Go - (old pattern resonance I am releasing)

• I’m afraid of what is coming.

• I’m afraid everything won’t be okay.

• I’m afraid and want to know that we’ll be okay.

• I’m afraid to speak my mind.

• I’m afraid of money and business.

• I’m afraid to vote with my dollars.

• I’m afraid to lead in the face of business and political leaders who demand nothing changes in commerce.

• In the face of my obligations, I tend to create frustration and feelings of limitation or restriction.

• I nurse negative attitudes and nurture them, seeing me in a rather low mood.

• I’m too rigid and stubborn.

• My stubbornness causes me great heart ache and sadness.

• My stubbornness pushes people away.

• Business has rigged commerce and I’m a victim in the process.

Allow - (everything you’re choosing to stabilize as the new set point)

• My focus is on unity and humanitarian issues.

• I step into the ultimate attainment of consciousness that express deeper compassion and empathy.

• I have a great devotion to the cause of healing humanity.

• I use my life to raise the consciousness of as many people as possible.

• I am now able to see issues impartially and with compassion both in my life and in the world around me.

• I keep my heart open.

• I allow the beauty of God that is outside of what I have been told.

• I allow this to be the end of suffering of low self worth.

• I allow any restrictions to be removed and I am now transformed into service.

• I allow feeling and speech.

• I allow myself to cry for my losses and then I get on with living fully.

• I allow myself to experience my grief appropriately.

• I allow God’s truth to be revealed and the foundations and institutions that no longer serve be allowed to crumble.

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This post is rooted in the original research and the belief statements and intentions I developed through our Alignment Movie Process (AMP). I collaborated with ChatGPT to help shape these ideas into a clear, everyday voice so they can be more easily shared and experienced. The resonance and insights are the heart of our work; the words here are one way to carry them into the world.