Herd Immunity, Sleepwalkers & Renegades, and Reality Unveiled
Kill the writer
Their eyes follow you
Open the closed-off circle
Kill the writer
Their eyes follow us
Open the closed-off circle1— Between the Buried and Me, The Future is Behind Us

The times are changing, and so is this space.
Herd Immunity began as a shout into the void—a signal flare for those quietly burning in a world of noise, conformity, and sleepwalking automatons. Two books later, the signal is stronger than ever. But it’s time to evolve.
In the coming weeks, this Substack will become an archive—the roots of something deeper. I’m migrating everything over to a dedicated platform:
realityunveiled.com
This will be the new home of future writings, blog posts, reflections, and musings. The Herd Immunity books will all live under one roof—no noise, no algorithms, no dependency on borrowed platforms. This was always my plan: a sovereign platform. I will also be moving the books over to Gumroad, with the goal of making the physical copies more readily available.

Here’s a taste of what’s coming:
- A new blog — pulling from Substack archives, built on sovereign soil
- A direct email list — for the Initiates and the awakened
- The third book — Herd Immunity: Book III: Sleepwalkers and Renegades
- An ongoing article series — meditations on disconnection, propaganda, addiction, and liberation
- The Phoenix Protocol — disconnect and detox from online hyperrealities (to be discussed more in Herd Immunity: Book III).
This isn’t growth for the sake of “content.” It’s an exit strategy from the simulation.
If you’ve been following, thank you. If you’re just arriving, welcome.
We’re just getting started.
The Future is Behind Us.2
— J “Lava” Leffel
May 2025
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Between the Buried and Me. 2021. “The Future is Behind Us.” Track 9 on Colors II, Sumerian. Spotify streaming audio, 320 kbps.
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