THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.

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Okay, so the preview on their site talks about what you mention, following the monetary stream, but what the heck is up with the conspiracy theory about aliens, symbols, and free energy?

Yeah, the alien bit kinda made me scratch my head a bit as well. The rest of the documentary was really good though, imo.

I've only seen half of it and I think it's very good. A must see! But the alien part should have been at the end. A lot of people can't handle that stuff. Too hardcore hehehe

Yeah I agree. This is supposed to get people to open their minds, not shut down at the very beginning.

Hopefully they'll make another cut.

Thank you for sharing, Melodic Catastrophe. Watched the preview this definitely looks like something i would sit down and watch.

Is there a full video online or does it have to be bought? The Video you put up looks like it has been removed.

Ahh, the video I posted was the full documentary. I believe they want you to purchase it but it's very likely it's still floating around in the ether somewhere. I'll post a link if I ever find it unless someone else does first.

Thanks i also browse around i am sure it's findable

Whats wrong with aliens?

I love Aliens but the majority of closed minded Americans aren't ready to open their mind to it.
At least not the ones who really need to sit down and watch this documentary.

The only thing that gets me is that I don't really ever see it being possible to physically reach another planet. I believe in aliens, but not contact (Maybe contact from within though?). I just don't think there is any technology in the universe that could let us travel the vast distances between planets in a short enough time for a living being to make it there still alive.

I mean I'm still open to the idea that alien contact is possible, but I believe it's highly unlikely for the reason I just stated...

Though the bits about the crop circles, especially the one that matched the radio transmission years earlier, were rather compelling...

Other than all that, I found the video to be pretty good..

So do you guys not think free energy is possible or something?

And what do you guys think about the Taurus? Personally, it resonates with me...

Ok, the video has been updated with a new link so it should work now.

The High Life,

Anything is possible. Look at how far we've come in such a short period of time. Once we can get control of our government so that the power is restored to the people, I absolutely believe that space travel will be next on the agenda.

The more we mix science with spirituality the more we will know as a collective whole. If the DMT experience gives us anything, it's a deep rooted feeling that there IS more. What that more is exactly is up to debate but it's definitely something. When we blend that ancient knowledge with our current and future knowledge, a whole new world of possibility will unfold.

These are exciting times we're in because this is the beginning of the beginning in a lot of ways. Once we can get everyone on the same page, anything is possible.

Yeah dude I totally agree with most of that, but let's really think here: We gain control over our government and power is restored to the people. Free energy is likely discovered/revealed/etc. Heaven is made on Earth. Our home becomes a paradise. That all makes sense to me.. But do I think that all of that is gonna allow us to travel LIGHT YEARS through space to reach another planet? HELL NO! There's no way a living being could really survive that long of a trip, and why would they really want to? That doesn't sound enjoyable, and last time I checked that is the true purpose of life, enjoyment, not some evolutionary and technological rat race across the universe. I also find it just as hard to believe that we could actually cut a whole in the fabric of space and time, and then find it even harder to believe that we could somehow control where we end up when we go through that whole. I mean psychedelics have taught me a LOT, and yes there is a general theme that comes along with them, the notion that there IS more, but to me it never meant that there is more out there; it meant that there is more within, that there is an unseen but equally vibrant, if not more so, inner world from which this outer world springs forth, that we are not a mistake, life is not an accident, and that there is "life" after death. And while that revelation has made my mind feel liberated in the most exquisite ways, I still don't think any human being will be hurtling through a worm-whole anytime soon, especially not in some controlled manner where they survive fully intact upon arriving at some alien planet a couple hundred thousand light-years, if not more, away. Psychs have without a doubt helped me become a more open-minded, intelligent, accepting, cofindent, loving, wise, and whole person, etc, more quickly than I would have without them, and in ways I could have never imagined or truly appreciated without them, but they have not made me naive. I mean I'm not totally denying it. I'll believe it when I see it, but until then I'm not that worried about it because I think it's largely irrelevant. I just find it all highly unlikely given the circumstances of the universe, and despite the universe's infinite-ness.

Also, what would be the point of space travel really being on our agenda? The only thing I can think of are alternative resources and by the time we figure out how to get to those resources we won't need them because I'm sure that will be enough energy that we won't need to go looking for alternatives in space. There is also NO NEED to colonize out there. I think it's really obvious when you think about it that there is no reason that we need to leave Earth, as long as we take care of it, which is what would happen if the power was restored to the people. I mean this is clearly our home. We are made for it. It's made for us. It may seem small compared to the vastness of the universe, but the potential for creative expression within our little blue ball is more than enough to satisfy the yearning in your soul for a lifetime. It chooses its life, its time, its place for a reason, to experience, and I just really don't think it chooses somewhere just to go somewhere else and make it really difficult to enjoy life.

That brings me to my next point. I think the purpose of life is to enjoy it, plain and simple, and while I know that there are some suckers out there who might think that flying through space and trying to cut a whole in the fabric of it and time and then trying to go through that whole, land somewhere alien, deal with the culture shock of greeting aliens who may or may not be hostile, sounds fun, I think that a sane individual would stray away from dreaming about such fantastical ideas as space travel for their idea of enjoyment. But hey if someone wants to go ahead and try, be my guest.. I'm just saying, I think if someone wasn't raised on television, and video games, etc, that it wouldn't be there "dream" to be an astronaut. That's all cultural conditioning. Monkey see monkey do. A real individual who isn't shackled by the mental restraints that the average person is imprisoned with would simply enjoy their life, smoke weed, listen to music, go into nature, trip out, do an extreme sport, travel, meet people, eat good food, have good timezzz, etc, etc, and learn how to live in harmony with the world around them.

Oh and as I've hinted before, I think the only way we will ever receive contact from alien life, if there is any out there (because at the moment I think it's just as possible that aliens don't exist at all), is from within.

Thoughts?

No one has any thoughts? I've seriously put a lot of thought into this alien business as you all can see, and I figured there would be at least one person out there who had also done some thinking. Even if you disagree, I'd like to hear someone's opinion.

I'm also really interested to see what more people thought about Thrive..

My thoughts are that you grossly ignore the number of star systems out there and don't have a grasp of just how large the probability of other life actually is.

Also you don't think we can rip a hole in the fabric of space time, but people a thousand years ago would scoff at the idea of you communicating real time with some one on the other side of the planet via the internet. or flying, or driving, or, etc..etc.. you get the point.

Try to imagine what technology would be like if the current exponential trend continued out say 500 - 5000 years. Staggering.

I'm of the opinion that there is a 100% chance that other life exists. Intelligent life.

There's also an equal chance that due to the amazing unfathomable circumstances that had to take place (Meteorites being shot into space by explosions of unknown caliber and origin, containing certain chemicals on them that combined with other meteorites that had hit the Earth - a planet that's the perfect distance from a blazing hot star that eventually grew basic life forms, then saw those destroyed by a massive disaster only to subsequently be reborn and allowed to evolve to be intelligent without any other massive natural disasters wiping it out) so that intelligent life could exist, that it exists no where else but here on Earth.

There are two categories here, intelligent and basic life. We already know life exists beyond our planet, and we've already studied alien life that isn't from this planet (i.e. meteors hitting earth that contain alien organisms), but the chance that the multi-million year long process of creating intelligent life forms has been enacted and allowed to evolve elsewhere in the universe, especially to a point beyond our own species is very, very small, if not utterly impossible.

We are the universe's mistake.

Aliens exist, just not the kind with "human intelligence" we'd like to encounter.

We already know life exists beyond our planet?!? Since when? I've seen pictures of the meteor that appear to have cells splitting but that isn't concrete proof. I'm curious to what you are referring to.

I find your ideas a bit strange. Let's assume basic life is common in the universe as you seem to imply. If basic life can exist in numerous places, what is stopping it from evolving into something intelligent? The universe is large to scales our minds can't even comprehend and is nearly 14 billion years old. If intelligent life could evolve here why not elsewhere?

It seems terribly arrogant to believe that we are the end all be all of intelligent life in the universe. (especially so if you concede "basic" life is common throughout the universe)

I never said I don't believe in aliens. I said I don't believe in contact, for the reasons I stated. I believe there could be life around every star that we see, but I also believe there couldn't be, though that seems far less likely. I just think that either way it's irrelevant, because I don't think contact is possible, except from within. Those are just my opinions, and I'm wondering what others think about them, preferably people who don't misunderstand them and actually read them completely and properly please.

And ok, but dude, I don't think people in the past would have totally scoffed at the idea of phones and internet, necessarily, as much as they would at transporting their body instantaneously from one point to the other in a whole in the fabric of space and time. Think about it. I think it's pretty easy to understand how a phone could work, or the internet, even if they didn't exist yet, but c'mon. Anything that could go fast enough or spin fast enough to cut a whole in the fabric of time (if that's even possible!) would burn up whatever was going that fast. And how could it control where it goes if it didn't burn up? I just feel like if "God", for lack of a better word, wanted all of his creations to co-exist or even be aware of each other, that it would have made it much easier for that to happen.

But personally, we can't even get along with people of the same species, or even the same race, so I just don't think "God" would be foolish enough to then let us mingle with beings from another planet just yet. Maybe if we reach a certain level of spiritual, technological, and moral, etc, sophistication after many epochs from now "God" will give us a loophole, and we'll join the rest of our brethren in the sky, but I HIGHLY doubt it.

The only thing I can imagine is a space ship with unlimited energy. Then a species could leave their home planet forever, and theoretically could make it to ours eventually. The problem is there would certainly be no light-speed travel so it would be an awfully boring ride and take many generations of breeding to get there.....

That all doesn't sound very FUN anyway, no matter how you spin it! And like I've said, I think the main purpose of life is to enjoy it, and have FUN. So this really doesn't make any sense to me...

Phones and internet... Yes. I can see how those tools do and will help us have more FUN, especially in the future. Light-speed space travel on the other hand...? I just don't see it.

Now about your final point: Yes I think in the next 500-5000 years technology will be absolutely incredible (but still really not THAT crazy, because technology is not the purpose of life, and can only make it so fun), and I think that hopefully there will be Heaven on Earth, more or less, but I still don't think we will have ventured very far from our planet. I do think though, that by then, contact with alien beings from within could be very common.

I'm tellin' you man. The purpose of life is FUN, JOY. It's not about technological advancements. Those are just extensions of fun, and will only go as far as is necessary to have fun. If it tries to go any further, it will experience failure. Like just because we got a rocket out into space doesn't mean we are any closer to reaching the next planet than if we hadn't left the planet at all because those rockets are so fucked if they don't come back soon that it's just stupid to even go up there. Doesn't sound very fun!

Hopefully in 500-5000 years we will have evolved enough that we will have gotten rid of our TVs! Lol.

Just my thoughts...

Anybody got some of their own to share? Because honestly I hadn't realized I'd thought this about all this, and now I'm very curious to hear what others think.

Yes, i think you´re right highlife. Lot´s of things could be done in theory, like blowing holes in spacetime, maybe. But if you look at the huge amounts of energy you´d need to do such a thing-look at the LHC-i don´t see how a machine made out of matter could even survive exposure to such energies. Maybe we could send or gather information over great distances...but real tangible things?

Tangible things are just information.. in the future we may very well be teleporting things via quantum entanglement.

The human race is extremely young in the scheme of things, who knows what we will become capable of if we don't kill ourselves off.