Episode 463

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1st Aug 2025

THE SAFETY OF THE TRIBE, IS ALSO WHAT DESTROYS YOU. PC. 463 EARNEST MANN’S-ADVANCED PERCEPTION EP.20 PT.1

Why Unplugging from the Crowd Might Save Your Sanity

Hey, it's Earnest Mann. Today I’m challenging the age-old belief that there’s safety in numbers, exposing how it often leads to chaos, delusion, and personal stagnation. This episode unpacks what I call deflectionism, a powerful mental and spiritual tool that shields higher-vibrational humans from the toxicity of mass groupthink.

The Truth About Tribal Thinking and Why It’s Holding You Back

I break down a real-world metaphor using Stone Age tribes to show how numbers only sometimes offer protection. In most of modern life, especially in our personal growth journeys, following the crowd is the fast lane to mediocrity. To survive — and thrive — you must unplug from the tribe consciousness.


From Grasshoppers to Locusts: The Dark Power of Numbers

Using the natural transformation of grasshoppers into locusts, I explain how humans, in mass, undergo a similar dangerous shift. As the human vibration drops in crowded environments, even decent people can become mentally and spiritually destructive.


Deflectionism: The Umbrella That Protects Your Mind

I introduce deflectionism as a kind of psychic umbrella. Like staying dry in a storm, this method allows you to be physically present in low-vibe social settings without letting that negativity soak into your being. Especially useful when you're forced into events you’d rather avoid.


If you're someone who feels drained around large groups or intuitively knows you’re built for more than this tribal noise, this episode will show you why — and what to do next.


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Transcript

0:00

Greetings. Here are ideas and

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information intended to help you

0:05

navigate the mind field of life's many

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problems that I have gained through a

0:10

self-realization process known as

0:13

advanced perception. Through advanced

0:16

perception, we learn that we are not

0:19

getting working answers to our problems

0:22

because we're asking the wrong

0:24

questions. So if you have an open mind

0:26

and understand that you have absolutely

0:29

nothing to lose, here it is. But this is

0:32

not free. It requires that you pay

0:36

attention.

0:38

Ever hear the saying, there's safety in

0:40

numbers? What if the exact opposite was

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true? Hello, this is Ernest. Welcome.

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The old saying that there's safety in

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numbers can be absolutely true depending

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on the context.

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Let's say for example you have two

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tribes of stone age people. One tribe

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numbers about 500. The other tribe

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3,000.

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Now, for whatever reason, it could be a

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lack of food, water, or some other

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resource, or just aggression, the tribe

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of 500 is moving into the territory of a

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tribe of 3,000. They know there is

1:26

another tribe already in that territory,

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but they don't know how many. And

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apparently, unfortunately for them, they

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don't seem to care.

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Well, it isn't long until the other

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tribe discovers the interloping tribe of

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500 and they decide to wipe them out,

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which is exactly what they do. So, yes,

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in a scenario like that, safety and

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numbers definitely applies, but it

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absolutely does not apply in most

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scenarios today,

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especially the personal.

2:06

The most important thing you can do to

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help assure remember there are still no

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100% guarantees your survival and

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potential happiness. You must unplug

2:20

from the tribe. Which means you must

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unplug from the tribe consciousness.

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Because until you unplug from the tribe

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consciousness, even if you're not

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physically with the tribe, you are still

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connected to the tribe. That is your

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limitation. The frontiers that you

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believe are completely open are still

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actually your prison. Because until you

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understand that, you cannot have a

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different path.

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And consequently, any path you start on

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will eventually lead back to the tribe,

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which of course is self-defeating.

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In order to successfully separate from

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the tribe requires a thought process

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element of advanced perception, which I

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call deflectionism.

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One of the best ways I can describe

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deflectionism is that it is a learned

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defensive psychological process which

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counters the effects of negative

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spiritual and psychological

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metamorphosis.

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And for illustrative purposes, the best

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way to describe that in turn is the

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metaphoric process of a grasshopper.

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Grasshoppers in and of themselves

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really don't do very much harm to

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humans. Matter of fact, even though they

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consume a fair bit of plant matter, they

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are far more beneficial to the

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ecosystem, which of course includes

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humans, than any negative impact.

4:03

But this equation changes radically when

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they metamorphically become locust.

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For those of you who don't know this,

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massive clouds of locust can absolutely

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destroy fields of various crops,

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stripping them bare in only a matter of

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hours, which of course in turn can

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trigger mass starvation of not only

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humans but many other animal species as

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well. Seriously bad news.

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So what triggers that metamorphic

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process? Short answer, numbers. And in

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the shortest terms possible, the exact

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same negative process happens with

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humans.

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This is one of the primary reasons why

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masses of people can seemingly lose

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their minds in an instant and turn

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violent. Not necessarily because they

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are collectively suffering from anything

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but because there is a trigger mechanism

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from population alone. And it doesn't

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take very much to activate that trigger

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mechanism.

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And once that happens, you usually see a

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domino effect of chaos, disorder, and

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quite often death.

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Now, I'm going to say something that may

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sound quite shocking, but hey, that's

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why you're here, because you have the

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courage to hear reality, not what's

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comfortable. So, just please hear me

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out.

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I totally understand this may seem

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completely counterintuitive to what the

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vast majority of us particularly in the

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industrialized west have been

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conditioned to believe that we have been

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endlessly taught the mantra that humans

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are social creatures.

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That is simply not true.

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Because if for any reason alone that

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broad statement fails to identify which

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humans is it relating to

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true humans or higher humans if you will

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tend to be much more solitary. So a

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social, you know, get together for them

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might be around, you know, 10 people

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total.

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That's because, simply put, they can't

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stand to be around low human vibration

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or essence.

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What basically happens is the greater

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the number of people together at one

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time for various reasons including drugs

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and alcohol, the lower the quality of

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the essence.

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Or to put it another way, all locust at

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core are grasshoppers, but not all

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grasshoppers are locusts.

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So now that I've explained all that,

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hopefully it will make what I'm, you

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know, about to say concerning

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deflectionism much easier to understand.

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Let's say that you intuitively

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understand that you're one of those

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higher vibrational humans I've been

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talking about. And as a consequence,

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big mega loud social events simply

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aren't your thing. you would actually

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prefer having a root canal than going to

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one of those events.

7:50

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7:52

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7:55

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8:01

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8:03

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8:09

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Now, you may have a friend or family

8:13

member that absolutely insists that you

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go with them to such an event and for

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whatever reason, you can't get out of

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it. But never fear, deflectionism is

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here. Imagine you're getting out of a

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car and it's pouring down rain and on

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top of that, the place you need to get

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to is not close.

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Not close at all. In fact, it's very far

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away from you. But no problem. You have

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a very large, very high quality

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umbrella. So, hardly a drop of the damn

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rain is going to get on you. So, you get

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out of the car, put up that umbrella,

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and begin your journey.

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That umbrella would be deflectionism.

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By learning the ability to use

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deflectionism, you will learn certain

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psychological processes that

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dramatically, if not entirely,

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negate the negative effects of the low

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vibrational waves coming from the huge

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low vibrational crowds you happen to be

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in. Especially nice when you don't

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really even want to be there.

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Just like so many other things in life,

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deflectionism is certainly something

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better to have and not need than

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something you need and don't have.

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Well, that's all I've got for today, but

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I will absolutely pick up from where I

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left off in part two as soon as time or

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demand allows.

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I really hope you found this helpful or

9:56

interesting. And if you want to know

9:59

more or have any questions at all, you

10:02

can reach out to me via my website link

10:05

in the description below. And if you

10:08

really want to give me a compliment,

10:10

telling a friend about the show would be

10:13

the best compliment you could ever give

10:15

me. Until next time, this is Ernest and

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I usually always am.

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