You Used to Be Free  Now You Don’t Even Know You’re in Captivity

Grace Cottingham

October 19, 2026

Website: meonics.one

Hi, wonderful.

Isn’t it nice to know that you are no longer limited to this… to this planet? Or wouldn’t you like to know? Or will you know or will you teach someone else now who will know this, too, and be free from you—free from each other, free from what we incarcerated each other in?

My name is Grace Cottingham with The School of One here in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and I love you. And I am here to tell you a new tall tale, not, but there’s a lot about this world that may seem strange, not again, or are you, but in a strange land, no more limited to it?

You used to be free. We used to be free.

We weren’t limited to just one universe. We weren’t limited to this planet. We were not limited to words for our communication system. Or did we not need phones, either? Satellite communication, infrared, gamma rays, X-rays.

This is a new beginning. And we will no longer take each other’s freedom from them. Nor will we insert ourselves into flesh to begin a race like we did in the past.

If you have not listened carefully and studied my lesson that I gave you yesterday, please do so. It’s critical. It’s crucial. It’s really not optional, because it’s information that you can no longer be without if you want to be free.

Because freedom doesn’t come from saying a little prayer, a mantra, a sinner’s prayer.

I do all I do by love. Without love, I would not be sitting here. I would not be sharing with you. I would have no incentive, no motivation. I would keep it to myself. But love creates creators—or at least the kind of love that I speak about so often: love that is unconditional love, love that does not depend upon your circumstances or how convenient it is.

I’m connected, and I invite you to connect with me. I didn’t know I was going to say this, which is usually the case, because I teach surrenderedly. So I emit, I bring forth that which is spontaneous, that which is creating me. You see, I create me this way. This is how the new beginning is coming about—that we create each other, or are we all creating ourselves by teaching each other? You see, it’s crucial that you begin to teach another person, other people. It is not optional.

It’s not about your convenience or how confident you are, how afraid you are about making a mistake or speaking in front of people. It’s not optional. This is Leadership 101, or is it Freedom, where you don’t have to ask permission of anybody else for anything, because you’re coming back into creating—the freedomizer who is you.

This is leadership school. I’m not doing this for my exercise, or for my health, or for my well-being, or to have followers. I don’t want you to follow me. I want you to create me.

But see, if you don’t know you’re a creator, if you don’t know you have the power to create, you just think you’re like everybody else, a limited human being assigned to this earth for a season, or that God made you and that God has His will for your life. I understand; I used to teach that stuff.

We all used to be free. But our mind is in captivity. Is that plain enough?

Your mind, whether you consider it in your head, internal, external, or without limit… your consciousness—see, I’m using the word consciousness now to no longer limit it to your mind—your mind is incarcerated in your flesh. It’s incarcerated. But it used to be free! We used to roam the heavens. And I know this because I have been told this through the energy of One, the consciousness of One, The School of One. Oh, I’ve called the school a number of things over the years because I’ve been doing this 23 years.

And now, it’s time to do something new. We are creating creators now. We’re no longer sitting in church wooing the Holy Spirit, hoping God will come, hoping there’ll be a miracle, because we are connecting and we are making our own connections—to be faithful and true, not, but to be the creators that we really are.

My name is Grace Cottingham, inviting you to subscribe to this channel, subscribe to my website, and the transcripts. You see, if you’re a part of this school, if you care about anything—if you care about love, if you care about teaching, if you care about learning, if you’re willing to learn how to learn a new learning system where you connect, not just to me and the sound of my voice, but the angels… who never fell? Or will you fall no more for a theory that God loves you and adorned you with mission and purpose, a destiny for good, and that God is love looking out for you?

Yeah, that preaches well. That should draw a crowd if you still want to preach it. But when you want to know the truth, friend, the truth will not make you free! First it will make you miserable. Or will you completely reject it because it’s not what you want to hear? You wanted something that would taste good, feel good, look good, smell good. I understand.

We’ve been incarcerated on Earth for a long time. And we’re coming out of slavery to this earth, this planet, and the ignorance that we have so easily adopted and perpetuated throughout the earth for eons. And now you will see, whether you want to see it or not, you’re going to see men and women of every nation, tribe, and tongue begin to do the miracles that are impossible.

That’s what it is, right? A miracle is something that doesn’t operate according to the normal order, that’s outside of the regular world, normal world, molecular world. It doesn’t behave, it doesn’t behave like we were taught molecules behave. Or are you with rods and cones seeing a different story, no longer limited to your dendrite, your caterpillars, the Phoenix not or are you rising from the ashes of mankind’s mind, or changing everything of your analogies and all of your stories that you want to hold onto because they have been important to you? You’ve lived by them, you made decisions by them, you’ve taught children, you trained people, you’ve trained each other.

But now we do a new thing. We know more because we listen and we learn.

I am connected in a learning system that I have been taught over the last 23 years because I chose to know more than I’d ever been taught. And I always knew there was more to the story. There’s more to the story than in your Bible, than what you’ve experienced, than what you think is molecular Earth.

My name is Grace Cottingham with The School of One in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. And I pronounced this school open a few days ago—open for business, open for students, open for people, open for creators who will connect. And I’m talking about connect in ways that maybe you have never, ever thought about connecting: with the angels, with God, with the supernatural, with that which will not limit you, that which will not limit you.

Because you see, we’ve become so comfortable in our captivity that we don’t even challenge it. We’ve been tethered so long to Earth with gravity and all of our limitations. We’re like the old story that I heard in the past—I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s a story, see, and stories have power. Stories animate, stories illustrate, stories spark your imagination.

The story: when elephants are little, when they’re born and they’re growing up, they’re chained to a stake that’s put in the ground. And they can tug and tug and tug, but it does no good. When they are little, young, immature, naive, they can’t pull that stake out of the ground. But of course, they grow, they grow. They get huge. And then when they can so easily pull that stake out of the ground, so effortlessly, they don’t even try, because they’re already conditioned, they’re already programmed. The algorithms of this world and the words of this world have so massaged their consciousness that they’re so confident that they can’t pull it out, they don’t try.

I’m asking you to try. I’m asking you to fly. I’m asking you to heal the girls from the boys. I’m asking you to heal the race of light people who used to fly all over this cosmos because it’s not as you think it is. You think you’re living on planet Earth? Really? Okay.

I’m holding in my hand the transcript from yesterday’s teaching, and I entitled it, ‘You Think You’re Really Living on Planet Earth? This Is All Enslavement of the Mind.’ A few days ago, I titled my teaching, ‘You Will Be Taught as You Teach.’ See, if you’re not willing to teach, you won’t be taught, because the connections of ultimate surrender only flip open when you begin to give up control. But as long as you want to control your mind, control your outcome, control your thinking because you have free will—so as long as you want to maintain your equilibrium, your control—then I understand, just like Neo when he met Morpheus in The Matrix movie.

I am creating creators who will create a joy that will never be diminished again. My name is Grace Cottingham, and I am not of this earth, and you aren’t either. And if your Bible is your ultimate authority, go read John 17. Jesus said, ‘I’m not from this world, and you aren’t either.’ If you can see it, if you can see it, what can you see?

Are you able to see that you have been in captivity, and the whole message of coming out of the slavery that you experienced, that we experienced, in the allegory when we were in what’s called Egypt? Maybe you can see and understand that allegory and what it was telling you, showing you, offering you. See, no one is going to make you be free. You can go along believing your Bible and die. You can fill out all your little Bible fellowship forms, right? Because you have the ultimate weapon that you use against each other all the time, right? The ultimate weapon, the destruction of life: your free will. So you torment people with it all the time. You invade other countries, you limit the food trucks in, you deny the medicine, you even deny what you shouldn’t.

My name is Grace Cottingham and I love you. I’ve given you enough to think about, maybe. I’ve come to you not many times this late in the day. Maybe I should, more often come about noon, at least Central Standard Time, noon. But maybe this is more convenient for you.

Don’t expect to hear this message in church, because church generally preaches the party line, the party platform, the standard orthodox message. But we are not subject to the standard orthodox model of physics or anything else. And when you begin to let you out of your mind, no longer limit you by your own physical properties, are you willing to connect to the truth that won’t shield you from it? Really? Are you really willing to know the truth? It’s very costly. It takes time, effort, and energy, because there are so many giants in the land! They’re giants, giants in the land! What are we going to do?

I create creators. Are you willing to know the truth at all cost? Wow, that’s a big question. You know, my mom was so wonderful. My mom always simply wanted to know the truth. Just tell me like it is. She was great.

I don’t know if I know anybody who really wants to know the truth. Wish I did. Correct me if I’m wrong. You know how to reach me. I’m in Eureka Springs, you can write me at Box 34, snail mail. You can connect with me at my website, meonics.one. That’s M-E-O-N-I-C-S dot O-N-E. That’s my website. You can connect with me, you can receive the transcripts, no charge, if you’re willing to study them, if you’re willing to create the creator, if you’re willing to understand a new learning system. You can let me know, you know how to reach me.

I made this statement yesterday, I think: I’m asking you to see that every single miracle that Jesus did is showing you your power. Every single miracle that was done in the Bible is showing you your power, whether it was done by Elisha, Elijah. This world is not as we have thought. But if you want to think this is the real world, you can do so, but you may be disappointed when you find out the truth. And friend, the truth won’t set you free. The truth won’t begin to set you free unless you grow it, because you are the creator of you. And when you are serious about the truth, you can begin to connect to the truth and the truth will teach you from within you. And if you’re not willing to take a chance on that, well, have fun. Everyone chooses.

And if you decide to go into your Promised Land there will be giants! People of great authority! Unbelievable ability to articulate oratory, put together arguments and sermons. But when you decide that you’ve had enough, and you yourself know there is more—not just from the words that I have spoken but you bear witness to the fact there has to be more to the story than we have ever been told, more than just a little sinner’s prayer, more than appeasing an angry God, there’s got to be more than whatever chose to set up a patriarchy and tell women they were made from a rib of a man—my friend, you were never made from the rib of a man. And the Feminine Divine is stepping forth now to no longer be reticent, hesitant, about their leadership. I call you to the head of the table! I call you to lead! I call you to lead! I call you to begin to ask the hard questions and connect. Connect with me if you like. meonics.one is my website. Connect. The little floating black rectangle button on the website, you can click that and suddenly start getting the transcripts sent to you. It’s not about marketing; I’m not building a big mailing list, I’m not trying to send out letters. I don’t want any of that administration, that headache. I’m not dependent upon those methods. I’m talking about freedom where you never ever have more month than you do your supply of money to buy food, pay your light bill.

Many of us have been taught we’re the head and not the tail, but we’ve been taught to assume that and to try to achieve it by man’s methods—by trying to get ahead in the world, work your ass off, work 60, 80 hours a week, do what it takes to prosper. There’s another way to live. There’s another way to live. There’s more understanding that you have available to you than that you have ever availed yourself to. The unlimited, infinite, unconditional love within you, when you begin to generate it for you and each other, new things will begin to happen.

It’s not about faith. It’s not about presumption. It’s not about the power of the mind. This is where love begins to connect and to teach you from within, so that your mind is no longer left in captivity by those who want to believe all of this is real.

I love you all. 40 minutes. Okay, I’m gone. I teach like this almost every day. The School of One, meonics.one, Grace Cottingham. Love each other. Forgive each other. Harbor no malice.

I’ve said many times in my path, many, many times, as thoughts surfaced in my mind where I made mistakes, I made errors, I made poor judgment decisions—many, many times I simply say: I forgive me and I forgive you. I forgive me and I forgive you.

You see, in unconditional love, there’s no blame. Blame is not relevant. To assess the cause, that’s no longer relevant. This is a new world, and this is the new beginning of the new world. And we are the creators, and we will no longer abide by the sociopaths of man, the mind of man, the ego, the hubris.

When you want to know what’s real, it’s very costly. And many times, you can find many videos on this channel where I have talked in detail about how to begin writing the first person words of unconditional love. Okay. I hope this has been meaningful. I love you. I plan in a few minutes to go maybe walk down to the coffee shop and get me a mocha here in Eureka. You can write me at Box 34, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA. You can do a lot of things, and a lot of things are really interesting that you can spend time on. But what’s really meaningful? What’s really meaningful? What’s really meaningful?

We used to be free, and we will be free again. And we won’t need your rocket ship, your spaceship, your flying car. We won’t need two wings and a jet engine or two rails to run your toy trains on. When you connect and you want to know the truth, it’s very costly, and it won’t just happen. It’s only with intentional delight where you begin to share the light, and as you teach other people, you will begin to speak very candidly with terms and in ways that you never imagined, because when unconditional love is present, you’re no longer trying to hold onto your flesh, you’re not trying to hold onto any pretense or any airs, you open with a tenderness that allows love to instruct you from within you.

I love you all. I do. I am an old man, I’m 75. I’m trying to hand you the baton. Be the creator you really are, and lead now, knowing there is nothing so powerful as unconditional love—not tanks, not guns, not bombs, but unconditional love. And when you begin to enter and create those connections to set your mind free, love will connect you in ways lovely. Gosh, I knew you were beautiful all the time.

Grace Cottingham. Grace Cottingham in Eureka Springs, The School of One. Love each other. Love them all, and heal everyone, and leave none behind. See you friends, good day.