We are living through a moment of incredible upheaval. AI, social media, and the flood of digital information are reshaping our world as profoundly as the printing press once did—destabilizing old hierarchies, breaking open long-held narratives, and creating new pathways for resistance and transformation. But alongside this rupture, authoritarian politics is surging, as those in power attempt to exploit the chaos, tighten control, and weaponize fear. We are seeing the rise of surveillance-driven psychiatry, predictive policing disguised as mental health care, and reactionary efforts to pathologize dissent. In this landscape, resisting the medicalization of suffering and reclaiming community-based care is not just about healing—it is an act of defiance.
And yet, as institutions scramble to maintain control, mental health remains trapped in outdated models—medicalized, individualized, and disconnected from the realities people are living. The old system is crumbling, but what comes next is up to us.
Welcome to Underground Transmissions
The Crisis & The Opening
People are searching. Anxiety, alienation, and dissociation are at an all-time high—but crisis is also a portal. When the old ways stop working, new possibilities emerge. More than ever, we need radical frameworks for understanding extreme states, alternative ways of supporting each other, and a mental health paradigm that actually meets this moment rather than dragging the weight of the past.
What Are We Moving Toward?
• From Disorder to Adaptation – What if mental distress isn’t pathology, but a response to an unlivable world? What if we built systems of care that honored the intelligence of extreme states instead of suppressing them?
• From Individual to Collective – The future of mental health isn’t one-on-one therapy sessions but networked communities of care—peer-led, self-organized, decentralized.
• From Diagnosis to Discovery – Instead of pathologizing, we can create spaces for people to explore their own narratives, mythologies, and experiences of consciousness.
A Networked Underground
Underground Transmissions is a node in a growing web—part of the next wave of grassroots mental health resistance. Like underground radio of the past, we aim to amplify voices, share tools, and connect those who are building real alternatives: peer collectives, healing networks, and experiments in care beyond the mainstream.
This is rebellion in the form of celebration—celebration in the form of rebellion. A sanctuary for the strange, the visionary, the ones who refuse to be contained. A frequency outside the algorithm, where survival isn’t just about endurance, but about joy, connection, and the power of new myths.
This is the secret party you’ve been waiting for. Tune to our frequencies.
The institutions are failing. The underground is rising.
This is just the beginning. Stay tuned.🌀
Audio: Words and Voice by Sascha. Mix by Baba Israel
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