Tonic Masculinity : Part 1

from a musician's perspective

Some of my favorite writers on Substack are waxing on about a new term they call "tonic masculinity." They offer this alternative to the much-hyped notion of "toxic masculinity," which characterizes boys and men as violent, angry, uncaring assholes. Here is a video in which several of the writers are interviewed on a Zoom-type platform. (Please note that I have not vetted the host, Aly, who creates a lot of videos.)

I’m using my own platform to write about “tonic masculinity” in order to get my tiny little head around this ongoing discussion, which seems to involve various nuances and lots of big words (I often use my dictionary when reading/listening to them) as everyone contributes and the tonic flows, so to speak.

In this article, which I have made into two part, I will be taking the long road with my argument, claim, warrant, interpretation, and evaluation. That said, I’m going to start out boldly, so as to weed out any readers who want to stay snuggly, safe, and secure in their damaging beliefs and ideology:

There are things that men must absolutely do to preserve the Divine Masculine while protecting the Sacred Feminine, thus bringing back the true creativity and wholesomeness of the Natural Order.

For example — and I have been saying this since the beginning of the CovAin’t — if men had said "no" to wearing face masks, our world would be a very different and far better place. The fact (and I do know first hand) that a large percentage of men capitulated under pressure from the women in their lives is testament to the fact that their testicles became irrelevant sacks between their legs long before the plandemic, and as a result, we lost a major battle in the psycho-spiritual war being waged against us by the wayward wizards. And, no, I will not apologize for saying that these men — and the women who manipulate them — are deeply psychologically troubled.

So, clearly, there is a fundamental toxicity present in the vast majority of people, because they have tossed aside their innate knowledge of "right" and "wrong." Their Divine psycho-spiritual moorings have been replaced with scientific materialism — perhaps more aptly termed "the machine mind" — and now we still see grown adults suffocating, isolating, and poisoning themselves and their children because "authorities" and "experts" told them to do so. This is infantilization; or maybe classic Stockholm Syndrome; or both. If people hadn’t succumbed over the last nearly 200 years to the psychopathic tyrants, Natural Law would be the law of the land, and the tyrants of today would be in hospital wards (or dead), not ruining everyone and everything.

WHAT IS NATURAL LAW, AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH TONIC MASCULINITY?

Natural Law is the body of Divine principles which govern the consequences of human behavior. These principles are universal, permanent, binding, and immutable. Under Natural Law, a "right" is defined as an action that does not cause harm to another sentient being, and a "wrong" is defined as an action that does cause harm to another sentient being.

The consequences of doing a "right" action are all the things that make life worth living: Receiving love; raising healthy families; having an abundance of nutritious food at all times; enjoying access to resources for healthful living; and everywhere seeing opportunities to express ourselves creatively. The consequences might even include being honored for a specific trait or ability that brings value to the family and/or to the community. Unfortunately, in our current abnormal state of existence, reaping these immediate rewards happens on some weird variable intermittent schedule. Sometimes, your good deeds DO get noticed and the goodness flows; but other times, right actions are met with disdain and even violence. I’m sure you all have examples of this in your own lives.

The consequences of committing a "wrong" action would — in a normal, natural world — be restraint of the wrongdoer by members of one’s family, neighborhood, or local community so that the offender is unable to cause additional harm. Ideally, this would be followed by therapeutic education and rehabilitation. The more grievous the "wrong," the more intense any appropriate treatment ought to be. Simply locking the wrongdoer in an isolated cement cell (as under the current "prison" system) is not a viable solution to helping bring a wrongdoer into harmony, health, and wholeness. Inflicting trauma cannot, will not, and never does lead to healing.

But the consequences of BOTH “rights” and “wrongs” are arbitrary, capricious, and typically immoral, because we do not live in a normal, natural world. Most humans have unconsciously forsaken their "rights" and go about committing many "wrongs" throughout their lives. Forcing people to do things that will harm themselves or others is a "wrong." Deceiving someone is a "wrong." All forms of stealing — whether taking another sentient being’s belongings or their life — are "wrong." There is no gray area in Natural Law. But that’s not how our world currently operates because the wayward wizards are actively interfering with the Divine frequencies of Natural Law, inverting these forces to prevent being held accountable for their own long, long, long list of "wrongs" throughout millennia. They have been inverting and perverting our divine realm in myriad ways in every aspect of human interaction.

The basis of the inversion of "rights" and "wrongs" lies with the two factions of wayward wizards, who worship Lucifer on one side and Satan on the other. They have intentionally deceived us on every imaginable level and thus we have committed atrocious wrongs: Everything from killing people in a country with which we we are supposedly "at war," to fining and jailing people who ingest particular herbs, to forcing children and other adults to wear suffocation devices (a.k.a "face masks"). Our abdication of personal responsibility to the machine mind and "going-along-to-get-along" has created the "we’ve always done it this way" model of existence, allowing the wayward wizards to ever more boldly encroach upon and weaken our psycho-spiritual foundations.

So, in one instance, it is true that none of what is "wrong" with the world is our fault; but seen from another perspective, we allow the "wrong" to happen even after realizing the previous damage. We say, "What’s done is done," and "Don’t speak ill of the dead." We perpetuate the trauma, refusing to acknowledge our wrongful behaviors. We sweep under the rug that the burden of responsibility must be realized with our real eyes for personal change to occur, but that it also must occur in order for the larger social structures to be righted.

The wayward wizards know that enough people are addicted to entertainment and are quite literally out of their minds having accepted the machine mind. The wayward wizards know that these folks are unable to even question the elaborate social constructs that have been progressively projected over generations, let alone to do the deep, difficult psychological work of individuation and maturation. Hard questions must be asked; hard changes must be enacted. Infantilized men continue cowering to self-proclaimed authorities and experts, and submitting to the women in their lives who unconsciously use fear-based psychology — and the exotic technology behind it — as a weapon of weakening.

I doubt that I need to provide examples to illustrate the pervasiveness and profundity of this problem. But it boils down to this:

If we don’t do the work, the wayward wizards will win, and they will have escaped — yet again — the consequences of human behavior as meted out under Natural Law.

Within Natural Law, there exists the Masculine principle, which is outward-oriented and shows as "action," and the Feminine principle, which is inward-oriented and presents as "being."

Men have a duty under Natural Law to present their Divine Masculinity as protectors against evil, destroyers of evil, and providers for their family.

Women have a duty under Natural Law to present their Sacred Femininity as ready-made receivers of Divine information. Built for child-bearing, women have a duty of tending to the Divine Life Force. This means nurturing their babies, should they bear children, and the adult man who provides for their family. If a coupled man and woman do not bear children, their purpose under Natural Law is still about creativity, be it making music, visual art, or teaching and inspiring in uniquely expressive, health-promoting ways.

Each of us — male and female — embodies both masculine and feminine principles, but one is more prominent and is the driving influence in our individual lives. This maxim, and most of what I talk about, assumes "a perfect world," which, as I alluded to above, is not the case.

Social constructs as manipulated by the wayward wizards — combined with our unconscious acceptance — twist the principles of Natural Law, perverting and inverting the feminine principle to produce the real "toxic masculinity" I previously discussed. This is the dark inter-dimensional manipulation of Lucifer and Lilith, projecting illusions and tempting us to cast off our "rights." The list is endless:

Pharmaceuticals as "health-promoting"; manufactured chemicals as "food"; Hollywood glitz as "entertainment"; and pornography as "a mere outlet for sexual energy." Everything is inverted. Nothing is as it seems. We’ve been lied to about that candy-apple-red exotic car, and we didn’t even bother to check under the hood. We sold ourselves out for the glamours of the machine mind to make everything appear easier and more fun, convenient and titillating, seemingly safe but also super-sexy. When the bill comes due, and the glamour turns to goo, we’re left with our poor decisions. Despite all these warnings, most people refuse to confront their wrongness, instead seeking even more fakery to bypass the psycho-spiritual mess of their lives.

In going back to the topic of Tonic Masculinity (I told you I’d be taking the long road!), I find in my researched perspective that other less-tangible manipulations have been shaping our psychology and therefore facilitating our acceptance of the wayward wizards’ social constructs. Because I’m a musician, I’m going to use music to explain my thesis.

MUSIC THEORY AND BASIC PHYSICS OF SOUND

In music theory, the word "tonic" refers to "the root note of a scale." For example, in the C Major Scale, consisting of the notes C-D-E-F-G-A-B, "C" is the root note. Notice that this basic description is already very interesting! When we think of roots, we imagine trees and other plants — and our own ancestry. "Where did I come from?!" That is the operative question.

The "root note" is not simply a letter: The letter "C" is a written symbol for yet another written symbol which signifies a specific tone or octaves of that tone. These symbols all started as TONES. When formal language became written language, the symbols came into existence as representatives for our eyes in recalling the associated tones.

The word "tonic" comes from the root word "tone."

I just played all the "C" notes ("tones," which is actually a re-spelling of the word "notes") on my 88-key piano. You can hear that they are all the same note but at different octaves that are lower or higher in pitch.

These tones are audio frequencies, resonant sounds made (in this instance) by a musician (moi) pressing a piano key that causes a tiny wooden hammer to strike a string (or a group of strings) which is wound upon a dense metal soundboard inside a wooden box that reverberates and emanates the resultant sound into its environment.

Not only can we hear the sound, we can feel it reverberating in our bodies. Sound actually touches us, but because we can’t "see" the sound, the experience is intangible in a quite magical way. Really, it’s not magic; it is the physics of sound.

The same process happens, in slightly different ways, when a person speaks. This is why I feel that the words we choose and the way we intonate the delivery of that speech is important in determining the effect — "right" or "wrong" — of the sound that we create.

As a music teacher, I explain to my voice students that our bodies are our musical instruments. We instinctively know this. Babies do not have to be taught to coo, gurgle, screech, or even to cry loudly, without words, to signal that it’s time for a clean diaper, or it’s feeding time, or it’s play time. What does need to happen is for each of us to be properly re-trained to express ourselves in appropriate ways. If this voice training doesn’t occur — and it rarely does because of ancestral trauma — we need to admit that we must re-learn how to use our voices so as not to unintentionally create "wrongs" or harms with our selected words and tones.

The good news is that a large percentage of the men of my generation and older (those aged 50-ish and above) generally know quite well how to use their voices. They speak with power and strength, and sometimes with gentleness and mirth. And yet, there are very often treacherous riptides of impatience, over-assertion, and self-aggrandizement that can lead to psychological injury and eventually to emotional estrangement. Men’s voices do not need to sound like women’s voices, but men often require the training to use momentary awareness in using the proper "tone" when addressing women and children.

For example, my father — being a strong man of Norse descent who never knew his own father — would typically use a gruff, angry timbre when he wanted my sister and I to do something specific, like wash a skillet that we had started soaking to make washing it easier. Instead of making us want to immediately, obediently wash the pan, he humiliated us and we would cry silent tears while using heavy-duty scrubbing pads and scraping tools for long periods to achieve what hot water and a dash of liquid dish soap would do more gently in a slightly longer bit of time. Of course, now we all laugh when my sister and I say "It’s a soaker, Dad!," but it wasn’t funny back then. It was trauma-inducing. My father used a “tone” that was inappropriate (since no one in our very secure home was going to be devoured by ravenous jackals for our decision to allow a skillet to soak for an hour), and that unconscious choice probably came from abuse inflicted on him by someone in his childhood using the inappropriate "tone" in their voice.

Women of my generation are also often in need of vocal training. Their tones are frequently either too weak and disorganized, attracting narcissistic bullying types of men into their lives; or their tones are too strong and imbued with a bizarre intimidating quality that comes off as nagging, whining, and emotionally emasculating.

Equally as frustrating are the insecure tones of many women and girls in their 30s and younger. Far too frequently, they seem to be making a statement, but tweak the final word or phrase on a higher, accented pitch, indicating a question: "It’s a C?" I teach my music students (not only my voice students!) to answer questions with confidence: "That’s a C." Even if they are unsure, I recommend that they preface their answer with something like, "I’m not totally certain, but I think it’s a C." Either way, if they are correct in their answer, the reap the benefit of "knowing," and if they are wrong, they’ve given themselves a bit of leniency prior to learning the correct answer!

So, in referring to "tonic" masculinity (or femininity), it’s all about THE tone. It can’t just be ANY tone; it must be a tone that is "right" by Natural Law principles and standards. In other words, one must ask the question: "Does it cause harm, or does it not?" Parents may have been taught by their parents that using a harsh tone is always necessary to "teach the child a lesson," when all they are doing is harming the child while teaching the child that "force is how we do it here."

Look, little Johnny and Susie are not going to be devoured by wild jackals if they are in the bathroom painting on the walls with their poop! So they don’t need to be screamed at as if wild jackals are at the door. BUT (no pun intended, but of course, there it is now, haha), there is nothing wrong with interrupting their destruction with an exasperated vocal response:

"Oh MY! What a STINKY UNAPPROVED project . . . which YOU TWO are going to clean up IMMEDIATELY! Time for the CLEANING solution. Meanwhile, let’s think of creating REAL BEAUTY, my loves! We can go to the garden afterward and tend to the vegetables and flowers."

Screaming curse words, threats, and images of how you plan to FURTHER PUNISH THEM — on Volume 11 — is not going to get the results that you, as a parent, really desire. What you will produce (in most children) is a compliant little pussy with no balls, or a raging little bitch with no boundaries.

Of course, parents who start out with the proper tone usually don’t end up with children who think 1) that shit is either "fun" or “artsy,” or 2) that putting their poop anywhere but in some kind of toilet or deep in the ground in the woods is totally okay. The challenges presented by both parents and children here are, in my well-researched opinion, not borne of individual traits:

The problem — AGAIN — is accepting the machine-mind programming, and "tone" is a big part of it. We’re quite literally creating a lot of harmful frequencies in both our language and our actions, obviously because they both stem from our thinking — or lack thereof. Since so many of us have unconsciously accepted the machine mind, we automatically speak and act with all the harshness coming from that program. We become the unthinking, callous beings that the psychopathic tyrants believe we are.

WAYWARD WIZARDS WHACK US

It is my perspective that, somewhere along the line of human existence, the wayward wizards arrived here in a violent, traumatizing manner. Taking unfair advantage of our first-ever experience of such barbarity, they immediately began analyzing us as if we were specimens in a petrie dish. They tracked our emotional responses and studied our social customs and behaviors. They learned to act and speak like us, infiltrating our governments and schools, churches and businesses, and everyday social experiences. In short, they learned to use our trauma as a tool of enslavement. They sought out males who would do anything to no longer be tortured; these males (and eventually “females”) became part of the wayward wizards’ hierarchical "power tribes." This was occurring very slowly over millennia with plain old Satan/Moloch worship, but things really ramped up in the mid-1800s with the entrenchment of Freemasonry and then Luciferianism.

Yes, Lucifer the Light-Bringer and his girlfriend Lilith added so much more fast, furious technology (and guys reading this who have viewed porn know exactly what I am talking about). The tones were altered on purpose, to inflict very dense, aggressive, and damaging energies to anything based in Nature and Divinity, including but not limited to human beings.

Speaking of frequencies, the wayward wizards and their cushy-job-keeping career clowns developed ever more precise electromagnetic frequency (EMF) technology to do  tracking and data collection, and added on a new programming component to their arsenal of harm. They began selling it to us as devices for "entertainment," such as radio, television, movies, computers, video games, GPS systems, and personal SMART phones and watches, as well as business-savvy data collection tools like SMART meters for the home, invasive internet spyware, and intrusive medical devices. Their studies and concomitant technology are intended to damage us in every way possible while they openly mock us as "stupid cattle."

Over many decades, the wayward wizards learned how to use exotic technology to invert our cherished values based in Natural Law to conform to their psychopathic idea of enslaving us all . . . for their benefit alone.

By the early 20th century, music was becoming more aggressive — and government indoctrination camps ("schools") implemented programs for learning to "appreciate" such music. At the same time, the wayward wizards undermined masculinity in a two-pronged plan: False competitions that would pit men against each other in ridiculous ways, like who drove the newest, fastest car; who had the highest level "job" and made the most money; and of course, who had the hottest "babe" girlfriend or trophy wife. The advent of modern conveniences of the machine mind would take men out of the natural world and into factories for manufacturing even more conveniences, and into offices, laboratories, and ivory towers for more doing more studies. This lifestyle (actually more of a deathstyle, if you ask me) infantilized men, making them smooth and shiny instead of rough and ready. They began to rely ever more on government and its sponsored programs and agencies for things that they themselves used to do, like 1) protecting their family, home, and possessions, and 2) educating their children on how to grow food, how to build and fix things, how to stay the fuck out of other peoples’ doings, and how to think using heart-based logic.

Simultaneously, women were being lulled into a feminine form of infantilization, using technologies that also took them away from Nature and the home and into the factories, offices, and academic realms. No longer did the modern woman fully raise her family: The children were sent by the age of six to government-run schools to learn useless bits of information, most of which were lies or incomplete stories. These were — and still are — programming centers created by the Tavistock Institute, for example, whose evildoers have taken the long approach to dumbing us down, decade by decade. These days, mothers give up their children as early as a few months old to state-controlled daycare centers, where one or two women care for a dozen or more babies under the age of four — because at four years old, they can be sent to pre-school state indoctrination camps! There, the children "learn" by using addictive black-screen-boxes. They are forced to study to tests, and both students and teachers are punished when the obvious failure rate of actual learning is discovered by the data-crunching career clowns.

Additionally, as we have slowly accepted the machine mind, we suffer, too, the machine frequencies on our bodies. The "health" "experts" told us that the 1918-19 Spanish Flu virus was responsible for killing an estimated 17 million to 100 million people worldwide. The real killer was EMFs coming off of the thousands upon thousands of radio towers that had been erected and activated prior to that period. People actually died from sudden, acute radiation poisoning, a disease which symptoms are similar to altitude sickness. (These studies and stories have been censored by the wayward wizards, lest they lose their cushy-job-keeping career clowns who keep the charade afloat.) About a decade later, EMFs were implemented in television broadcasting. TVs became affordable in the 1950s and 1960s, allowing for EMFs to enter the homes of even low-income families — all also by design. In the 2000s, when Wi-Fi towers began being erected en masse in all developed and many underdeveloped countries, the bee, butterfly, and other beneficial insect population was nearly decimated. These exotic, non-terrestrial EMFs are anti-life frequencies. As planned, the wayward wizards inverted and perverted the Natural Order — The Original Divine Love Tone — leading to ever-increasing toxicity in all living beings.

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I’ll end Part 1 of my interpretation of "tonic masculinity" here and post Part 2 as soon I as finish it. If you didn’t find anything in this initial section interesting, the next one will surely raise some eyebrows, and hopefully instigate some research of your own!

As always, I wish you all excellent health and well-being!💖