Crossing the Threshold: Looking Toward 2026

Why 2026 will force bold choices. The 3D world is collapsing, AI is rising, and real freedom comes from small, connected, autonomous living. Step out of old systems and build the new.

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As we close out the year, I want to write something for Mavericks—something honest about where we’re heading and why 2026 will force many of us to make choices we’ve been avoiding. We’re also gearing up for our first webinar, “Crossing the Threshold,” on January 18 (19:00–20:30 CET), which dives directly into this shift: the transition from the old 3D survival structure to a 5D autonomous way of living.

Because that’s the real story right now. The 3D world is tightening its grip, desperately trying to pull us back in, while more of us are quietly stepping out of that reality altogether. You feel it. The old systems—government, economy, institutions—don’t hold us anymore. They can’t. They’re exhausted.

And we’re exhausted with them.

A world preparing for war

If you’ve been watching the “news,” mainstream or alternative (which honestly barely differ anymore), you’ve probably noticed a very simple pattern: every major country is preparing for war. They don’t hide it. They blame Russia, blame America, blame Europe—whatever fits the narrative—but it’s all the same circus. Meanwhile, everyone keeps paying taxes for their own misery. That’s the part that always amazes me.

And this is where most people freeze. They keep doing their job, they keep going through the motions, and if you don’t make choices, the world will make them for you. That’s how the 3D system works: roll over or step over. Most choose the first option.

The illusion of progress

AI is the next big player in this mess. People still don’t understand the impact—not deeply, and definitly not realistically. AI is a great tool, yes. It can help with tasks you’d rather not do. But using cloud-based services without thinking twice is basically feeding someone else’s machine to profit from your labor and your data. Running AI locally is the only sane move if you’re going to use it at all.

But here’s the real issue: people are losing touch with the value of being human. We’re automating basic things—website building, formatting, writing, even thought processes—and acting as if that’s progress. We’re creating inflation by making human work “unnecessary,” and then wondering why everything feels hollow. No shit...

Jobs are disappearing quietly. Quality is dropping. People are thinking less, absorbing more, and calling it efficiency. Patience is gone. Presence is gone. And with that, our ability to actually choose for ourselves disappears too.

The slow collapse

Look at what’s happening: debts rising, food and rent skyrocketing, energy costs up, local taxes up. Since COVID—yes, that circus—it’s only accelerated. Jobs disappear while upskilling gets more expensive. You have to spend more money just to stay in the same place, like buying endless lottery tickets just to “win” what you already paid in.

The debt bubble will burst. It always does. And history tells us what comes before a reset: chaos, conflict, dramatic world events. Floods, wars, collapses—pick your mythology, it’s always the same pattern.

AI and the anti-human system

AI will keep expanding. It’ll take over small businesses, administrative tasks, creative tasks. But it will never be conscious—not unless it taps into the quantum realm, which current systems don’t. And why would that ever change? The non-conscious version is just as—mostly more so—effective in achieving it’s objective. It’s still just code written by someone, trained on our collective behavioral patterns. And what do we feed it? Our fear, our compliance, our endless willingness to pay for our own suffering.

If you ever wondered how you get a real-life Terminator scenario, this is how. The machine becomes a mirror of our dysfunction. If we don’t even recall our own history, why would it?

Why people stay stuck

People call my perspective idealistic or overly ambitious, but the truth is simple: we stay attached to the 3D system because our egos feel dependent on it. But when enough people connect on a smaller, intentional level—a real community, not the fluffy “community” word that gets thrown around—you realize you never needed the big system in the first place.

Ten people with real connection and responsibility can build an entire micro-economy. A baker, a grower, a marketer, a programmer, a healer—you don’t need to be massive. You just need to be meaningful. And that is exactly where 2026 is pushing us.

What actually matters

Start asking yourself now:

• What do I actually need?

• What truly sustains my life?

• Do my job, my house, my possessions define me—or drain me?

• Is the work I’m doing meaningful, or just a 3D obligation disguised as purpose?

• Am I building something for the future, or just maintaining someone else’s crumbling system?

You’ll probably discover that most of what keeps you busy has nothing to do with your actual existence. What matters is what you create, what you contribute, how you take care of your body, your mind, your people. Fitness, food, health, creativity—these are the things that matter in 5D.

Living in the now (the real version, not the fussy one)

People love quoting Eckhart Tolle, but the concept existed long before him. Living in the now isn’t about escaping the past or future—it’s about not letting them dictate your present blindly. You use your history and your intuitive sense of what’s coming, but you don’t let them make the choice for you.

That’s very different from the spiritual bypassing you see in those 5D Facebook groups full of rules about “love and light” while banning anyone who posts something real. A “new earth” with a rulebook is still the old earth wearing a tie-dye T-shirt. You need to start to see the bigger picture, understand it, and live it, before you can say you’re living in the “now.”

Mavericks don’t do rules

LinkedIn is dead. Facebook is dead. Those communities are stuck. Mavericks hate rules because rules are usually just one person telling another how to behave. We’re done with that. The new world is collaborative, not controlled. Organic, not regulated.

The threshold we’re approaching

2026 will be a year of choices. Not superficial ones people define during new year resolutions, but structural ones. You can’t wait for the collapse to finish before you move. By then it’s too late. The threshold is crossed long before most people notice it.

Ask yourself:

• What do I have?

• What do I need?

• What can I build?

• Who can I build it with?

Meaning comes from action. From connection. From being bold enough to offend people when truth requires it—not rude, just real. The 3D world collapses because it depends on compliance. The 5D world emerges because people finally stop complying to even the very basic forms of suppression.

This will be your year to finally step out of the old cycle, the moment to build something new.

And Mavericks, you’re already 99% there.

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Besides the webinar, I’m relocating to Berlin at the start of 2026, and I’d love to meet up in person once I’m there.