Botox, Fillers and The Transhuman Agenda

If facial-freezing “empowers" women, we need to question our sources of power

by Lauren Geertsen
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Botox and facial fillers are becoming so popular that some people are forgetting what a natural woman's face actually looks like. This prompted a recent social media movement where women post videos of their “raw faces” — faces unaltered by elective facial paralysis, cosmetic surgery, and video filters.

28-year-old Courtney Ball (@courtball on TikTok) began the movement with a viral video. Exceeding 8 million views in a matter of weeks, it also garnered a snowball of scathing comments, criticizing her for looking “older” than her age. Other commenters expressed their fears and preoccupation about their own faces changing with age.

In response to my social media posts about the modern beauty standard, I frequently receive comments from women who believe elective facial freezing (Botox or fillers) is empowering choice because it makes them feel confident and assuages these fears.

Others feel victimized by a youthful beauty standard in their career, especially in the entertainment industry. They undergo facial-freezing to stay “relevant” and see it as a necessary career investment. I knew a woman who produced online videos and wrote off her Botox appointments as a business expense.

Is it true that elective facial freezing is empowering? Or, are women justifying their participation in a paradigm that represses true female power?

Let’s explore what true “female empowerment” means, and how to reclaim our power from a transhuman body standard.

BOTOX, FILLERS, AND TRANSHUMANISM

Here’s my definition of transhumanism: altering our bodies and biology in ways that override, subdue, or sever the body’s Divinely-programmed wisdom.

The transhuman agenda is part of what the elites have planned for their Great Reset, and it’s discussed on the World Economic Forum’s website. The website states that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (the elite’s desired slave-state of humanity)  “is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organizations create value, and even what it means to be human.”

The elites desire transhumanism because the less human a person is, the more they are divorced from their spiritual power and the easier they are to enslave and control. 

Tranhumanism is being introduced subtly and gradually, so that people willingly participate in their own enslavement, rather than rebel against it. One of the primary ways we’re being groomed towards transhumanism is the normalization of frozen faces, plastic breasts, silicone-injected lips.

Cosmetic surgeries are also used for distinctly racist purposes, to erase the signs of one’s heredity and ethnicity. The term “internalized racism” is acutely appropriate to describe the popularity of double-eyelid surgery in Asia to create a more Caucasian-looking eye, or nose jobs to create small, straight noses. Iran is even dubbed the “Nose Job Capital of the World,” because it’s a status symbol to create a straight Western-looking nose.

Further, lip fillers and butt implants mimic Afro-typical features – features that were once ridiculed in Western culture. In the early 1800s, caricatures depicted African Americans with overemphasized lips and compared their facial features to apes. The beauty standard now commodifies the ethnic features it once shamed. 

There is something spiritually sick about commercializing the variety of human features, devaluing some features, and then putting a price tag on others. 

Talk about transhumanism! We can’t yet obtain “designer genes” but we can, at least, disguise and distort our own genetic roots.

FACIAL FREEZING IMPAIRS EMOTIONAL CONNECTION

Another transhuman aspect of elective facial freezing? It hijacks our emotional intelligence and emotional connection with others.

Communication doesn't just happen with words, it happens with body language and micro-expressions. Small facial muscles, specifically around the eyes, create fleeting micro-expressions that convey one’s emotional state.

When we are in a parasympathetic (relaxed) state of our nervous system, the vagus nerve activates micro-expressions around the eyes. This signals to another person that you’re friendly, not an enemy.

Since Botox and fillers freeze these micro-expressions, is it possible these injections impede signals of safety and connectivity in communication? It’s not uncommon to feel a vague sense of discomfort when communicating with someone who has frozen their face. Personally, I feel somewhat ungrounded and unsettled when speaking with someone who has Botox. It feels like I can’t get a full read on that person’s emotional state.

Botox also reduces our ability to process and empathize with another person’s emotions. Humans naturally mirror the facial expressions of those with whom we’re communicating. Then, those facial expressions activate a feedback loop, sending emotional information to the brain for processing. 

Botox limits our ability to mirror another person’s facial expressions, which in turn, limits our ability to empathize with their emotional state (1, 2).

CASTING OFF OUR INVISIBLE CORSETS

Elective facial freezing and transhuman body modification may feel empowering to women. 

But feeling empowered is different than actually empowering oneself.

Real female empowerment lies in casting off our invisible corsets.

I coined the term “invisible corset” to describe the culturally-inherited beliefs that make women as uncomfortable and restricted in our bodies as whalebone corsets once did. Wearing the invisible corset, we see our bodies as machines to control, instead of wise beings to trust. 

While the invisible corset remains unnoticed, we attempt to solve the wrong problem: we change our bodies to fit a transhuman body standard, instead of liberating our minds. Believing our “best lives” can’t start until we look different, we turn our bodies into perpetual self-improvement projects and struggle with unrelenting body insecurities. 

Then, we try to buy back our confidence from the industry that stole it from us in the first place and call it empowerment. But that’s not empowerment… that’s a cycle of emotional blackmail.

True empowerment means liberating ourselves from a paradigm that uses “beauty standards” to subdue women’s intuitive, sexual, and financial power. It means reuniting, in loving partnership, with our wise bodies.

Women in partnership with their bodies hold a power that far surpasses the “empowerment” found by perpetuating a transhuman, age-phobic beauty standard.

They are the oracles, the healers, the prophets, the creators, the leaders. They are the women who have the power to end the generational cycle of female body hate and raise the next generation of girls who truly love their bodies.

LAUREN GEERTSEN is the author of numerous self-empowerment books including The Invisible Corset: Break Free From Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self. She writes the publication TRUTH ACTIVIST on Substack. She teaches THE VACCINE CLASS, an online program that debunks the vaccine industry. Her additional books and classes can be found here.