Turn On, Tune In, Melt Down

Avoiding a nuclear standoff in the mind.

Jun 25, 2025

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June is heating up and we’ve been monitoring geopolitical conflict while waiting for the good times to start rolling.

We’d prefer it to be a summer of showtime rather than a summer of showdowns.

Back in May, I referenced a campy 90s film called “Matinee.”

I did that because the film was about people finding a way to bond with loved ones through entertainment, despite the looming prospect of nuclear war.

This itself was an extension of a topic that I voiced all the way back on March 29, foretelling a new media landscape that would be hyper-focused on violence.

Well, here we are in the wake of nuclear facilities being struck in the Middle East.

But how do we square this with one of my biggest predictions for summer, which is that entertainment friends and family would be one of the primary ways we bring our attention back to our local environment?

Can we really expect most people to turn off the news? As terrifying as the events may be, for a lot of people the prospect of war is as entertaining as reality TV—which is why it gets spread around on social media with all sorts of doomer memes.

After all, in the previous newsletter, I referenced the 90s pop hit “All-Star” by Smash Mouth. The song goes:

“My world's on fire how about yours? That's the way I like it and I never get bored.”

Well, if your world’s on fire, that might be a reflection of your blazing creativity—a result of you putting your ideals to the test, rather than engaging in a crusade or war over your ideals.

This is a phenomenon that will grab people’s attention. It might be as revolutionary as the iPhone. What this Cancer New Moon brings in is a sense of self-empowerment that comes from the ability to manipulate timelines.

We straddle the line between what's familiar and what's bold, risky, fresh and new and futuristic.

This is a time when people will very much be leaning on family and friends in order to derive emotional support for the identity crisis they are passing through.

People will be less interested in the reality show “out there” because they are living one, as a result of feeling their hopes put under pressure!

The crisis is occurring because of perceptual upgrades. We don’t perceive change happening to our life in a small, slow, steady drip. The change is happening rapidly and in a very large fashion. Some people could feel like “everything is occurring, all at once.”

So, given the level of overwhelm that the average person is experiencing, there's a lot of weighing out going on in that little head of theirs.

“Do I want the feeling of familiarity—or the feeling of freedom? Can I somehow manage to balance both?”

Well, I believe the solution to this question will be found in entertainment and hospitality and local spots of enjoyment, even little taverns and markets and ice cream stands. We will have to create new memories based on templates of how we gained old memories.

And most of us formed our older core memories through good times with friends and family. A meal shared together. A movie or concert watched together. Summer strolls on the beach or boardwalk. Backyard barbecues and fireworks.

If you look closely, you’ll notice there’s a consistent thread to a lot of your best core memories: comfort, ease, food, bonding, savoring the passage of time.

I really don’t think we’ll see the 2010s Hustle Culture approach to our current spiritual crossroads. You can’t just disappear this summer and come back on Labor Day with a plan. The energy is calling for engagement. Even if you’re riding solo, I believe you’ll feel an impulse within you to roam through books and streets—to train yourself up into a new self-concept, through focus on the little things you can do every day.

So let's jump into this little backyard swimming pool and see how far, how wide, how deep we can let our mind be stretched.

The portal that connects past and future is right here.

Let’s go.

Portal Jumping

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I've been taking a lot of walks in the city recently, which can feel like a tense balance between limitation and openness, between past and future, between comfort and risk.

I call it portal jumping. It shows how each of these nodes is localized. It’s not like comfort and risk exists in one giant soup, blended together. That’s for the Old World, when we could expect a news story from the 90s like: “Are eggs bad for you? Or are they good for you? Experts sat down with Time Magazine and said if you eat just two eggs a day, no salt, you could get a healthy amount of protein and cholesterol.”

Blah blah blah. The old transmission and distribution model. You’re just the receptacle for a 24/7 365 broadcast that sees information as a controllable product.

But now, you’re the vector, going between localized nodes. You are the messenger. That’s very disruptive to old models of reality, which are very much based on how information is disseminated. If we can train people to think of themselves like little walking coffee mugs topped up with information, then they won’t take matters into their own hands.

I don’t mean to fully criticize the Old World. It was nice in many regards. You could expect the same level of service from a Starbucks in Iowa as you could in New York City. Always the same summer films playing on rerun on TV. Reality was quite stable. People were less erratic and unhinged. Seeing people acting up in aggressive ways in public wasn’t a common occurrence—or at least, not as common.

But now, people are vectors between nodes of localized energy. That gives them a lot of autonomy but they don’t know what to do with it. Smash things up? I can’t blame them. But I don’t really condone it.

The “mass spiritual awakening” is here, but it’s bound to be messy, uneven, fragmented.

And part of that is because non-linear consciousness will be part of our daily experience, at least here in America. Enter the phenomena I call portal jumping.

The idea I’m proposing is very strange isn't it? Well, that’s by design. It’s the best way I know how to describe the jagged quality of everyday life now.

In fact, I think one way this will show up in late June is some kind of cultural call to arms—perhaps a musician or actor fights a large label/studio for intellectual property, perhaps an athlete leaves a contract before it's due to expire.

We also may see new micro forms of entertainment as a form of rebellion—perhaps a TV show that runs a single season or even just a handful of episodes.

In any of these cases, the creators will be seeing themselves as vectors, restoring the power of entertainment to themselves and audiences, so that quality experiences and quality memories can be formed.

Any aggressive control on the side of bulky institutions will be met with distaste. Summer is when a lot of people seek out live music, and we may see venues developing some kind of “flex” arrangement where they operate largely as some kind of cultural hub first and as music venue secondarily or as a supplement.

That’s not to say that touring musicians won’t be treated well, but more that venues may struggle to operate in the old manner where their identity as a “church of rock and roll” for example doesn’t exist. A big reason for that is because of micro-cultures, because consumers are vectors now. There’s just not a widescale monocultural rock “audience” where you can line up Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., etc. for months on end and have a steady stream of consumers.

We’ve seen this recently with Bonnaroo, a large and long-running music festival in the US, which issued full refunds to many customers after cancelling this year. These kinds of Big Tent events can just default to taking an insurance payout and cancelling, especially when there’s no real allegiance to upholding some kind of uniform standard of service anymore.

If we want premium quality these days, a lot of it is going to require us as individuals digging into it. This is the responsibility that comes with being a vector now. And it can feel like a heavy load to bear.

Some people just want their freaking Big Mac. They don’t want the responsibility. So they process this disruptive energy in violent ways, lashing out. They go back to relying on the news as a way to form their identity, and it’s just a relentless piledriver of doom. They start to lash out. Or become catatonic.

I’m sure almost all of you have seen some form of this drama lately.

But the FUN thing about being a vector is you can zip right into a little island of freedom. Sidestep some guy having a meltdown in the supermarket and burst into a little alley with summer flowers and views of fluffy clouds.

This is the seed of non-linear consciousness that will start to grow now.

Let’s keep going.

Zig Zag

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It was a Wednesday night. Nothing too unusual in that regard.

I was trying to find an ingredient at the store and I couldn't hear the customer service guy because a passing woman's cart was so loud. The guy got pulled away by a coworker and never came back. Some crisis. I left after a couple minutes. Well, so much for that errand.

Outside, a man on drugs tried to confront me, then I continued to walk in the humid evening. Several blocks later, I looked over to a small knoll and thought some guy was taking a picture of me. “Am I famous?” I asked. “I was trying not to get you in the frame,” he replied. “But it’s already gone!” He pointed behind me. You could see the faintest trace of a glorious red sunset in the wide open sky.

I rounded the corner and had a cozy little encounter with Cricket, a four-year old cat that looked just a few months old. The owner had her on a leash, claiming that Cricket was very adventurous, despite being a runt.

I finally reached my destination of another grocery store and loud booms were going off like bombs—until I looked up and realized it was a firework show from a local baseball game.

In much the same way, you could feel like violence is up close and personal in your life, only to find moments of freedom and comfort rush right in.

It could be metaphorical, where you are bouncing between nodes of limitation and release, familiarity and freedom. Suddenly, instead of feeling like you’re in a war, you’re entertained.

You’re zigzagging and walking sideways through a new landscape. You’re kinetic and fast and non-linear.

It requires a lot of self-trust and a lot of self-determination to get to a place where this feels natural. That’s why I encourage people to visit places like little local markets, some kind of base where they can form new memories. Say hi to the workers and customers. Remember what it was like as a kid to be taken to places like that. Observe the products. Savor your five senses.

That's how you keep from becoming disoriented. You have an anchor in the past, while acknowledging this is a brave new world—one where you have the power to shape your enjoyment, because it won’t be given to you from bigger entities like Big Government or Big Media in a way that feels like consistent quality.

You can be nostalgic without nostalgia-posting in hopes that we’ll “return” to some utopia where modern government and media had our best interests in mind (spoiler: it was always more complicated than that).

Let’s wrap up with some closing thoughts.

Melted to Perfection

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So how do you deal with a potential nuclear meltdown in your own life? Or the life of someone close to you? You know, the radioactive fallout can spread!

How do you make it seem as innocuous and silly and even as manageable as a melting ice cream cone in summer heat?

Part of it is bringing a lot of that global anxiety back down to a local lens.

Where do you feel you're running dry to the point that you might start a brushfire in your life, because you’re so hard up for inspiration?

Where’s the water that could cool that dry brush and prevent the spread of violent frustration? Is it as hard to access as you think?

Most likely that oasis is going to be some form of enjoyment. And the trick is to travel there, knowing you’re free to.

Nothing is stopping you from spending quality time with yourself or loved ones, enjoying entertainment. There’s no perfect time to do this. Instead of worrying about a nuclear meltdown, enjoy a melting ice cream outdoors.

An activity that immerses you and takes you outside of time for a moment.

And in that zone outside of time, you blend nostalgia with cutting edge futurism.

It's the immersion of the present.

I know, it sounds so simple and even…silly and childlike.

We've lost this skill because we don't really practice it anymore and perhaps there hasn't been as much as an urgent need for it/

But now there is an urgent need. The prospect of war has illuminated where a lot of us have felt emotional neglect. Perhaps we’ve struggled with perfectionism, so we’ve habitually saved quality moments “for another time.” Then we get distracted and start posting about the nuclear apocalypse again.

Find a place where you can sculpt that ice cream with enjoyment, not fearing that it will melt before you can eat it all.

There may be a little bit of a mess, but there's nothing lost.

It's an experience. That's the fun of it.

You're not eating it in a controlled environment. The enjoyment is you dancing with the moment. Melted to perfection.

So don't hide away. Get out there because that's precisely how you'll be able to attain the best conditions for comfort and abundance.

The paradox of this time is that there is true safety in risk.

Taking action is soul food. Adventure is the appetizer of life.

Watch me talk about my system here. Or read about it at Work With Me.

To book a session, send your burning questions to: zeitvillemedia@protonmail.com.

Not sure what you need help with? Contact me for a free discovery call.

Another good starting point is my ebook: “Energy Is A Story.”

Here are some recent testimonials from clients who’ve benefited from my coaching.

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