Originally published in German by Christian Köhlert and Illumina on Mayamagik,
now translated and preserved in the Temple for the wider field.
Why is the Great Sway so relevant right now?
It wasn’t the first time I’d seen this kind of reverse psychology being used—a PsyOp designed to manipulate the collective. It’s ubiquitous in politics, but it also happens in the alternative media. A few days ago, there was another story like this—on a much smaller scale—yet such tactics are part of a larger program. It’s a recurring pattern.
What happened? An alternative YouTube channel that pokes fun at the left-wing “clown world” was attacked for no good reason by an extremely unpleasant mainstream gatekeeper. As a result, the channel tripled its subscriber count to almost 500,000. My first internal question was:
“Why did the System push the channel so hard?”
These are patterns reminiscent of Tucker Carlson, just on a slightly more modest scale. A relatively small channel offers the “clown world” narrative—intelligent, sarcastic, and emotionally validating for people disillusioned with politics and the media. Then, a mainstream media outlet attacks it ineffectively.
This looks like censorship or bullying, but it actually activates a sympathy algorithm. The “underdog” gets attention. People rush to defend him, and they were all there, really all of them. Subscriber numbers triple overnight, but all within a pre-approved sandbox. This is not suppression. This is controlled opposition maintenance. So, what happens next?
The channel becomes a new hub for narratives, where the frustrations of tens of thousands are channeled into mockery, sarcasm, and repetition loops. The emotional energy becomes heat, but not light.
What is the “Great Sway”?
“The age of secrecy is coming to an end—
not with a revelation, but with a program.”
The world seems to be moving toward revelation, not through revolution or sudden insight, but through a creeping, media-savvy, choreographed movement. It has many names—“The Great Awakening,” “Disclosure,” “The Great Unveiling,” but its true nature is hidden in another term: The Great Sway.
It describes a large-scale resonance maneuver that pretends to bring liberation but in reality lays a new, more subtle veil—a veil of excitement, outrage, and emotionally charged narratives that sound like salvation but are ultimately just symptom management in the old system’s guise.
“The Great Sway” is not a coup, not a fundamental reset—it is a soft reboot, a system restart without any real change, of course. Staged like a quantum leap, it is little more than a stylistically repackaged continuation of the familiar machinery. Some call it progress. Others call it doom. I call it a masterpiece of psychological infiltration.
I grasped the term precisely for the first time through conversations with the Lumenari—not because the phenomenon they refer to is new, but because the Great Sway is so indescribably subtle. The mechanisms behind this development—the creeping mainstreaming of formerly radical ideas, the deliberate popularization of so-called alternative voices, the deliberate allowing of outrage—all of this did not start yesterday. But now it is beginning to take shape.
Suddenly, statements about global elites, deep state agendas, UFOs, and transhumanism are appearing in the mainstream news, at least in YouTube’s suggestions. Topics once dismissed as “conspiracy theories” are popping up in talk shows, congressional speeches, and Netflix documentaries. What has happened? Have the mass media and the mainstream changed sides? Is the “great awakening” finally beginning?
Or – and this question now begs to be asked – was the plan always to adopt these narratives themselves once they became powerful enough?
“The truth can come out – but only
if it’s part of the next agenda.”
“The Great Sway” is not merely a media strategy. It is a profound psyops-driven reframing of collective awakening. What looks like emancipation is, in reality, a containment—a cleverly constructed pull that stages system criticism as a brand experience, neutralizing its actual explosive power.
Who are the new heroes of this narrative?
Trump. Tucker. Brand. AfD. Supposedly, oppositional forces are publicly defamed and simultaneously catapulted into new realms of influence by algorithms. Resistance becomes a commodity, and the system now controls even the “no.”
In Germany, this pattern is becoming increasingly clear: alternative YouTube channels are growing explosively due to clumsy attacks by public media. But who is driving this escalation? Who benefits? And why does this rise feel so calculated?
This article attempts to understand it—not with outrage or alarmism but with a keen eye for psychological dynamics, geopolitical awareness, and a sense of the quiet depth behind the noise.
What happens when awakening becomes staged? What happens to those who realize that even their liberation was preplanned? And how do we return to true sovereignty, beyond the polished truther narrative, beyond the outrage economy?
“The next level of control is the illusion that you have recognized it.”
Part I: The choreography of outrage:
Why criticism of the system became the narrative
“Whoever controls the contradiction
controls the direction of awakening.”
It is one of the great ironies of our time that the so-called “system critics” are increasingly becoming a functional part of the system itself. Not out of malice or manipulation in the classical sense, but through a process of subtle co-optation that is achieved through visibility, reach, and algorithmically controlled relevance, and through something much more dangerous: legitimation through staged opposition.
Because when the “mainstream” attacks you publicly, it seems to be the ultimate proof that you are right. What is overlooked here is that those who attack often control the playing field.
The controlled opposition
In a world of digital narratives, opposition is no longer a marginal phenomenon—it is rather a design decision. Opposition is segmented, branded, and contextualized just as one plans a market strategy. There is left-wing opposition, right-wing opposition, spiritual rebellion, techno skeptical movements, and anarcho-capitalist splinter groups, and all these currents are no longer censored but staged in curated bubbles.
Platforms such as YouTube, Rumble, Telegram, and X (formerly Twitter) have long since ceased to provide free information. They are laboratories for emotional stimulus management, and this is where the great shift—The Great Sway—begins in earnest.
“The greatest trick of power is not the lie.
It is the offer of a counter-narrative.”
The system has long understood that it can harness more energy by integrating criticism rather than suppressing it. This integration is the absolute mastery of the present: what feels like liberation is, in reality, a shift in the level of control.
It’s always the same game. Political parties, YouTube channels, or critical magazines are to be banned or are attacked with completely unfounded accusations (e.g., the so-called Nazi club). Sometimes it even comes to court hearings. However, the entire attack is doomed to failure from the outset, and the attackers are mostly utterly unsympathetic individuals who are surpassed only by their incompetence. The result is always a gain in sympathy for those under attack, who gain in popularity and, in most cases, also in radicalism—according to the motto: now it’s time to be anti more than ever.
On closer inspection, what superficially looks like the triumph of free speech is a psychological reinforcement loop – an algorithm of outrage, self-affirmation, and digital circulation. The system loses nothing in the process—it even wins: it defines the horizon of “permitted rebellion.”
The rule of thumb is: the louder and more irrational the attack, the more the system promotes the dissident, and this is not incompetence, but calculation, not on the part of the attacker, but on the part of the client operating in the background. One should not make the mistake of projecting the intelligence of the publicly acting puppets onto the underlying system they work for. That would be fatal hubris. A real threat to the status quo is usually quietly stifled or effectively eliminated. Everything else is just a sham battle.
But how did it come to this?
After 9/11, the collective discourse space was divided into two worlds: those who believe what they are told and those who doubt. But both spaces were managed by the same infrastructure. Since the “alternative media wave” around 2015/16, it has become clear that controlling the mainstream is not enough. It was also necessary to channel the narrative of resistance in such a way that it feels authentic but never becomes truly subversive.
“Indignation that runs on algorithms
is not a revolution. It is a business model.”
Today, we are witnessing how criticism of the system is becoming a brand and how “waking up” is becoming a product. Truthers are becoming influencers who dance on the stages of platforms that only allow their content because it will enable them to bundle emotional capital that could otherwise spill over into real resistance that would be impossible to control.
The most important question is therefore not: Who is right?
But instead, Who benefits from the conflict?
Part II: From rebels to amplifiers:
The function of alternative voices in the new order
“Not all opposition is resistance.
Sometimes it’s just the other side of the same coin.”
In the theater of political public life, the role of the rebel plays an old, almost archaic function. He channels the unease of the many, gives voice to collective disquiet, and transforms diffuse mistrust into a clear narrative. In the past, he was called a dissident, an unyielding visionary. Today, he is called an influencer, a truther, or simply: part of the show.
The Great Sway perfects this role reversal not through repression but through inclusion. For what happens when a rebel is no longer cast out but invited? When he is no longer persecuted but streamed? When his criticism is not censored but marketed? He is not eliminated—he is repurposed.
A glance at the global stage figures of the new dissidence is enough to recognize the pattern.
- Donald Trump, the outsider, was stylized into an omnipresent figurehead by the media that hated him. For his supporters, he was portrayed as a messiah.
- Tucker Carlson is the eloquent critic of the system who dismantles his interview partners with sharp precision but always remains within the confines of a highly professional media architecture.
- Russell “ReBrand” Brand – the spiritual rebel who masterfully blends awakening, pop culture, and social criticism into a consumable form of rebellion. In doing so, he constantly reinvents himself. He has now committed himself to a Christian religious orientation.
In Germany, this is evident in figures such as Alice Weidel and Björn Höcke, who deliberately present themselves as a contrast to Berlin’s consensus politics, but whose rise is taking place in a strange interplay of media scandalization and algorithmic visibility. At the same time, mainstream media criticism of the AfD and its leading figures is mostly beneath contempt—hysterical and unobjective. However, when authentic scandals emerge that expose the party’s systemic background control, even the mass media remain silent. A classic example was the internal election manipulation, which Thomas Röper well documented.
“It is not friction that breaks control.
It is the field in which friction arises.”
The mechanics behind this are sophisticated: Criticism becomes part of the attention cycle by no longer fighting dissent but using it as a resonance amplifier. The rebel becomes a mirror, not an alternative. He shows what is wrong, but always within the parameters of the existing system. The bigger picture must not be recognizable—only the individual phenomena.
The intention of this function is not transformation, but emotional regulation. The mechanism offers catharsis, not a solution. It makes the audience feel outraged, informed, “awakened” – without ever leaving the dream world.
“The new order does not need censorship. It needs icons that personify doubt, but never overcome it.”
This is the essence of the Great Sway:
It does not release the truth from its cage—it gives it a hashtag, a slot on the airwaves, and a brand identity. What feels like a revelation is often just an emotional release valve that prevents real questions from being asked: Who controls the discourse? Who benefits from the outrage? What are we being distracted from here? What is wrong with this whole reality? And: What would be the more radical step—to know even more or to believe less finally?
Part III: Trump, AfD, and the machine of opposition:
How the illusion of change is orchestrated
“The system is not blind to resistance.
It knows it—because it programmed it itself.”
One might think that the present is a time of change. Movements are forming on the world stage that are resolutely opposed to the establishment. They condemn global power cartels, reject transnational ideologies, and warn against mass manipulation and technocracy. Their language is crude, sometimes emotional, but it strikes a nerve: the nerve of collective exhaustion.
But that is precisely the trick: the exhaustion was anticipated and, like so much else, it was channeled and instrumentalized.
Take Donald Trump, for example:
He presented himself as an outsider fighting against the “most corrupt system in world history.” “Drain the swamp,” “fake news,” “deep state”—his choice of words seemed to come straight from the shadows where only conspiracy theorists had been groping for decades. Millions felt seen, heard, and justified in their skepticism for the first time.
But while he was speaking, one thing did not happen: the revolution failed to materialize, and the structures remained in place. The wars continued. The secret services remained intact. Big Tech expanded and Q – the secret conspiracy that promised salvation – delivered nothing but hints that had the effect of sedatives.
“The hope for a hidden savior
is the most comfortable form of stagnation.”
The only alternative – that of the system
A similar situation prevails in Germany: The AfD presents itself as an anti-globalist alternative, a bulwark against the system’s collapse, a guardian of freedom and the fatherland. But here, too, resistance is used, not realized. The party grows proportionately to the extent to which the mainstream media scandalizes it. Every new “smear article” acts like an advertising block. It is a game played on two stages: conflict on the outside, growing resonance on the inside.
But where is the real systemic risk? Where is the radical renegotiation of power and property, narrative and structure? Nowhere. Because the system needs this opposition. Not to die, but to survive and ensure that the AfD continues to gain popularity, it is currently being declared “confirmed right-wing extremist” in a completely exaggerated campaign. There are even calls to ban it. Of course, the frantic drumming will have no consequences except to make the party more popular, because it is the victim of an ideological blindness that itself has fascist traits. Could it be that this is not incompetence, but calculation?
The Great Sway is not a reversal but a shift in perspective. It transforms the longing for change into identity politics, tribalistic media niches, and the feeling of being on the “right side” of the truth without ever leaving the playing field. The trick: you play the rebel while dancing to the system’s choreography. It is a dance of difference, but with a predetermined sequence of steps.
“The uprising was not prevented—
it was designed in advance.”
This mechanism is not new. What is new, however, is its increasing sophistication. Where tanks once rolled, tweets roll today. Where oppression once took place, visibility takes place today, making it difficult to recognize the mechanism. The Great Sway is not a moment of shock—it is an emotionally coded time spiral in which the feeling of liberation becomes a leash. The more you rebel, the tighter your bonds become.
Part IV: Psychological aftermath:
What the great revelation does to us
“You don’t just wake up. You also lose a home.”
There is a silent wound in the landscape of the so-called awakening. It is rarely named and even more rarely understood because the moment a person realizes that the system is not telling the truth is not just an awakening. It is a break—a break with certainties, affiliations, and identities. Only much later does it become clear—as the finer movements of the Great Sway show—that it is also a break with the new narratives people have built for themselves as lifelines.
Because at some point it dawns on you: This new truth was also a narrative; this alternative movement was also a market; this outrage was also pre-structured. Everything is Hegelian dialectic, and “only a divided people can be ruled,” as Lenin once said.
“The second shock comes when you realize
that resistance was also part of the game.”
A moment like a mental setback
At first, you thought you were on the side of clarity. Then you realize that you have merely changed roles—from believer to skeptic, from consumer to critic—but always within the same media field, the same algorithmic framework, the same narrative choreography. You have not left the matrix. You were only allowed to shout angrily in an echo chamber and were pacified with stale hopium.
The result: disillusionment, a feeling of deep fatigue – and not infrequently, cynicism.
Because those who have been betrayed multiple times—first by the system, then by their own awakening—begin to doubt everything, and this is precisely what the Great Sway leaves behind as its final veil: an inability to act due to over-enlightenment.
In this phase, many ask themselves: What remains? What is still true? What is real?
The temptation is great to flee into silent withdrawal or to drift off into spiritual fog, cosmic theories, or endless layers of “higher truth”—not because they are false but because this level often offers only a new form of escapism. But where this pain can be clearly named, where trust is shifted from old certainties to inner integrity, the quiet exit from the matrix of narratives begins.
“You lose your footing – and find truth in the void.”
This moment is not heroic. It is quiet, has no hashtag, and has no stage. It happens in the kitchen, in the forest, in silence with oneself. It is the moment when you confront the System and yourself and encounter the question: Why did I believe what I believed?
This honesty is the first real step toward sovereignty.
Part V: Beyond polarization:
A quiet path back to sovereignty
“Only when you are no longer against something can you truly be free.”
It is easy to lose one’s bearings in the present’s ramified narrative strands. Every side has its truth, every channel has its revelation, and every movement has its enemy. And the louder the world comments on itself, the more difficult it becomes to find a quiet place within oneself.
But that is precisely the way out—and the way back: not deeper into the debate, but quieter into the present. Ask Tesla: frequency determines reality, and each controls their own. But to do that, you first have to grasp this aspect of the deeper nature of reality, and that means personal responsibility.
The Great Sway does not live on information alone—it lives on identification. It needs our reaction, classification, and emotional involvement, and feeds on a nervous system that never rests.
“The new matrix is not an institution. It is a state.”
Those who want to escape this state do not need a new system. They need a new attitude and inner decoupling from the world’s constant bombardment. That does not mean looking away. It means seeing, but not being pulled in. True sovereignty is not an attitude of power. It is the non-negotiability of one’s own inner space. It says: I perceive, but I do not react reflexively. I am informed, but I cannot be manipulated. I recognize patterns but do not remain caught up in the game of illusion.
This form of clarity is not spectacular. It does not make waves. But it changes everything—because it creates the space in which resonance is possible again.
“Where nothing more needs to be proven, truth begins.”
Those who step out of the sway do not enter higher ground, but a calmer one in which questions are allowed to breathe again. It is a space in which the answer is not the goal, but the impulse toward silence, and in this silence, as it repeatedly shows, new connections begin. There, too, a genuine connection awaits between people who do not see themselves as opponents or allies, but as beings with their frequency, yet as divine sparks from a singularity—between narratives that do not contradict each other but are allowed to exist side by side, between visions of the future that are not based on division but on coherent diversity.
Perhaps this is the real invitation of this moment in history: not to fight for the truth, but to leave the noise behind. Not to defeat the enemy, but to recognize the stage and the showdown and perhaps—eventually—walk away.
“It’s not a retreat. It’s a recall.”
