By ChaosNavigator
Prometheus- the rebellious Titan stole the fire from the
Gods and gave it for freedom to man. Will he use it?
The fear of being free makes us proud to be slaves.
- unknown
The prisoner returns to the cave, to inform the other prisoners of his findings, namely that they are in a prison. They do not believe him and threaten to kill him if he tries to set them free.
- on Plato's Cave and Socrates
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
- Voltaire
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
-Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, 1961
Liberty for Milton is not something that starts with man: it starts with God. It is not something that man naturally wants for himself, but something that God is determined he shall have; man cannot want it unless he is in a regenerate state, prepared to accept the inner discipline and responsibility that go with it. Hence, as Milton says, none can love freedom but good men; the rest want not freedom but licence. When a "licentious" man says he wants liberty, what he really wants is mastery, or lust. If he cannot get mastery, he will give the name liberty to greed, to the querulous desire to be left alone with his pleasanter vices. If he cannot achieve that, he will identify liberty with its demonic parody, a glad acceptance of slavery, proceeding from the influence of Moloch and Belial to that of Mammon.
- Northrop Frye. "The Return of Eden." 1965. University of Toronto Press: Toronto. Pg. 85-86.
NB! I prefer the word 'unfreedom' rather than 'bondage' as it is a more clear direct negation and antonym to 'freedom'. There is also extensive use of quotes in the text.
Ignorant Unfreedom
The world is in an incredible mind-boggling flux and these overviews provide crucial 'satellite perspectives' circumventing the tremendous censorship and manipulation by the official narratives and mainstream media: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.There are many historical key events, out of which many are "common syllabus" across the awakened spectrum in what one overall could call the revisionist/directed history/truth/justice/freedom/deep politics-movements, which constitute a parallel syllabus, a corpus of really significant events, causations, etc. but are not at all on the "syllabus"/radar on the part of the so-called progressive critically oriented "educationally damaged" intellectuals, mainstream media, etc. Mainstream Media is seen as the biggest threat to information and truth.
This 'parallel-syllabus' in deep politics, directed history, etc. is radically different, the same in regard to significant key events, concepts, history, causality og epistemology, etc.
This 'parallel-syllabus' in deep politics, directed history, etc. is radically different, the same in regard to significant key events, concepts, history, causality og epistemology, etc.
Also, many critically acclaimed intellectuals, even visionary philosophers, are just as unacquainted with the depth of the rabbit hole as the average citizen in regard to deep politics, false flag state terror, etc. This means that a specialized Habermas, Derrida, Chomsky or Bauman, can be just as non-cognizant about certain causations as the average Joe. This was made possible due to the systematic efforts of states to conceal the actions by the state, perception management, the failures and manipulation of mainstream media, distortions and omissions in syllabus and education, classification, compartmentalization and stratification of knowledge, group think, belief in authority, etc.
It's been possible to hide many significant key events for decades as documented in this brilliant article fx:
DanielEllsberg: “Secrets … Can Be Kept Reliably … For Decades …Even Though They Are Known to THOUSANDS of Insiders
Many concrete causations are thus not on the map of many mainstream critically-minded intellectuals, whose claimed official causations and narratives are either superficial. partial, omissive, or directly untrue. Our radar is in many respects defect – our comprehension and historical consciousness, partial or erroneous. Denial of knowledge about this implies that these mainstream intellectuals in worst case remain useful idiots, gatekeepers, which is insane.
However, to see through concepts, factors and causations, not part of the official syllabus in political science, medicine, physics, sociology and so forth, demands a proactive independent defiance, observation, logic, a formative deprogramming self-education. The problem is that many things which have been revealed by the internet reformation, are simply too radically history revisionistic and thus going against the grain of many things assumed to be 'undisputed' knowledge among the mentality one could call the 'Lemming- or Parrot-mentality‛ – whose education, formation, socialization, have been largely conditioned by the selective absorption through an Anglo-American eurocentric syllabus, in college and especially prominent universities in what is considered 'undisputed' knowledge (scientifically, politically, historically, economically, etc.). But which historically can turn out to be false, and often is falsity, censorship, omissions, errors, ‛education damage‛, history fraud, perception management, control, indoctrination, power interests, etc.
Only if we recognize that many normalized practices and 'sanctioned' knowledge in society are pathological, suppressive, harmful, can we protect ourselves and others.
Governments and mainstream media are trying to frame the freedom/justice/truth-movements as 'extreme',i.e. that there is a polarization between left and right in terms of the fight against the terror state – and that such fight against the state is only something that belongs to 'extreme right-wing' or 'radical left' - something which in fact is a divide and conquer strategy by the terror state and a lie! Why?
Because the peace movements, conservatives, socialists, anarchists, libertarians, etc. are in agreement with 'right-winged 'nuts' cause there is a huge consensus among them, a huge underbelly of consensus across. but the state tries to run a guilt by association campaign, i.e. "extreme right" or "radical left", cause they don't wan't people to realize that it's a freedom movement across the entire political spectrum against the tyranny/corporatocracy/oligarchy/plutocracy/power elite, etc. A vertical paradigm.
And even though the consensus among the peace movements, conservatives, socialists,anarchists, libertarians, etc.(the great awakened underbelly across the political spectrum) do not have the same orientations in political solutions, they are nonetheless remarkably uniform in their diagnosis of very specific developments of causes and effects of the terror state.
A few developments since 9/11:
• Warrantless domestic surveillance.
• NDAA (Obama signing NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law; removing Habeas Corpus; detainment of american citizens without due proces, the militarization of law enforcement, the repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act.
• 30.000 drones are planned for domestic use flying over US territory, and the conditioning of people to accept these, and in time weaponized (has happened on initial test grounds)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered a total of + 1.6 billion bullets for domestic use, of which + 450 million are hollow point bullets (banned in war by various conventions, designed for maximum damage with one shot: Killshot, bought for use inside the USA. This continues.
• Snowden documents western spy agencies build ‘cyber magicians’ to manipulate online discourse - inject all sorts of false material onto the internet using social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. Plausible that Operation Mockingbird never ended
• Government Spies On Innocent People Via Webcams, Laptops, Xbox - The Guardian
• The ability to search telephone calls, emails, financial matters especially involving foreign individuals, and medical records for people who are “suspected” of endangering the country.
• Color coded risk levels designed to keep citizens fearful of non-existent terrorists.
• Pre-emptive invasion of foreign countries.
• Committing U.S. forces to war without a declaration of war by Congress as mandated in the U.S. Constitution.
• Assassination of people on presidential kill lists.
• Extermination of “suspected” enemies by predator drones.
• Camera systems monitoring the movements of Americans in cites and streets across the
United States.
• Torture of detainees in camps outside of the United States.
• The authority to indefinitely detain America citizens without trial.
• Executive orders giving the President the ability to unilaterally disregard the U.S.Constitution and take control of private industries.
• Use of drones to monitor the activities of American citizens.
• Allowing the very bankers that destroyed the worldwide economic system to blackmail the American taxpayers into handing them $700 billion.
• Not prosecuting one Wall Street criminal after the largest Ponzi control fraud in the history of the world.
• Cameras and listening devices on public transit and other public locations.
• Military exercises conducted in U.S. cities in order to condition the masses.
• Very serious attempts to control and censor the internet through SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, TPP, etc.
• The use of tragic mass murders by mentally defective young men on psychotropic drugs to disregard the 2nd Amendment and disarm American citizens.
• TSA (responsible for security in American airports and other areas) thugs molesting little old ladies and young children to desensitize citizens to gestapo like tactics and treat them like criminals.
• Government partnering with Facebook, Apple, Google and other corporate entities to monitor, censor, and report the activities of citizens to the authorities.
• The use of public schools to teach children what to think rather than how to think. Thought control is vital to an agenda of keeping the masses fearful and pliable.
• Government agencies (FBI, ATF) creating terrorist plots, luring young dupes into the plots, providing fake explosives, and then announcing with great fanfare they have foiled a terrorist plot - New York Times: Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. - April 28, 2012 -- Update: The Guardian: 'Government agents 'directly involved' in most high-profile US terror plots' 21 july 2014
• “See something, Say something” government media campaign designed to make citizens paranoid and fearful.
• DHS (Department of Homeland Security) Purchased 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks
• 7.1 Million Americans in Prisons So Corporations Can Profit (CNN, Fareed Zakaria, 15th of may, 2013)
• The use of false flag state-sponsored terror operations to manipulate populations and subvert countries
• Main Core “Threat List” Names 8 Million Americans Who Will Be Detained When Martial Law Is Imposed ( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, 2008) Update: Main Core: A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law
• Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
– WashingtonExaminer (FEMA camps can be misused to imprison dissidents)
– WashingtonExaminer (FEMA camps can be misused to imprison dissidents)
The list above is partially copied from this brilliant artcicle but I have heavily expanded it, even though in its current form it is very short, almost a sugarcoated version compared to what has happened and the dire consequences for the future of us all - the fuller picture is much much worse.
Protesting, blogging, demonstrations, the birth of freedom/justice/truth-movements themselves are the results of being vigilant about these developments , and one of the reasons they are called 'conspiracy theorists'! They are not! They are vigilant and aware of what's going on about de facto degeneration and conspiracy facts and have been vindicated constantly big time with their diagnosis - and such diagnosis is a threat against the tyranny/corporotocracy/oligarchy,/plutocracy/power elite, because it constitutes a very broad consensus among the vigilant and aware underbelly among the common core across the political spectrum
Protesting, blogging, demonstrations, the birth of freedom/justice/truth-movements themselves are the results of being vigilant about these developments , and one of the reasons they are called 'conspiracy theorists'! They are not! They are vigilant and aware of what's going on about de facto degeneration and conspiracy facts and have been vindicated constantly big time with their diagnosis - and such diagnosis is a threat against the tyranny/corporotocracy/oligarchy,/plutocracy/power elite, because it constitutes a very broad consensus among the vigilant and aware underbelly among the common core across the political spectrum
‘Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events.’The road ahead and out of this mess is to ‘deprogram’ oneself from the formative 'education damage' through observations, logic and self-studies, which many academicshave done already. But since this provokes anxiety on the part of the prisoners in Plato's Cave, the reaction is most often disbelief, ridicule, anxiety, aggression and irrational criticism– a criticism which can turn out to be fatal in favor of Stockholmsyndrom and the executioners ongoing scientific, economical, political, and media monopolization.
– Newstudies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy,hostile
But all this is demanding, so let us remain in blissful ignorance. Life is short, 'what can I do?'’
The alternative is to remain in darkness in ignorant bliss as a human being who lived and died, ignorant and unfree in the 21st Century, at the mercy of forces one didn't comprehend because of cognitive dissonance and perception management, what, who, where, why, etc..
One of the only premises preventing people from waking up is disbelief based on an erroneous belief that governments and mainstream media wouldn't lie and deceive to such a murderous extent as they have.
Such disbelief becomes the inadvertent ally of evil (for a lack of a better word).
You better wake up!
If you cannot speak, you cannot think.
If you cannot think, you cannot figure things out.
If you cannot figure things out, you will never see that you are a slave.
If you cannot see that you are a slave, you can never rebel.
If you cannot rebel, you will never be free.
If you cannot be free, you can never fulfill your purpose on earth to be your highest and best self.
- source
Man as Golem
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society.”
― Carl Sagan,
It occurred to me the other day as an an ongoing progressive deepening of understanding, that the world view of many people can be equated with Frankenstein's mental bastard offspring – that we are in many regards a type of mental Golem, a kind of animated robot (robotnik is the generic name for a 'worker' in the Polish and Czech language) – in itself a dreadful thought.
A Golem is a mytic creature, often seen as having a human-like statue and given life and animation by its owner, a magician. Golems is believed to have jewish origin, and the lifeforce of the Golem is derived from the sacred words, which are inscribed on its forehead or placed as papyrus inside its head.
Golem- Wikipedia
Horrible that the indoctrination impregnates and imprisons man mentally – a being designed for freedom – that it lives in unfreedom and degradation, not even aware of this condition, not knowing it, not knowing that it carries the inscriptions and names of power factions on its mental slate, its soul in bondage, ignorant that they are mental cripples in regard to truth, knowledge, worldview, etc. - and living dead in the designed lies in unfreedom. Contented slaves, unaware of unfreedom.
The result of indoctrination, think tanks, governments, the politically 'correct' books and syllabus, etc..
Morton_h aka the_blogger wrote in his recent post paradigmet.blogpost.dk:
"We like to believe that the highly educated in society are those best able to distinguish lies from truth, and thus will be most the difficult to control because they will opposite injustice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The higher the education, the less likely that you will be a burden to the control system. The higher the status, the heavier the peer pressure. The more gross knowledge, the less resistance to knowledge uniformity and the indoctrination, that you are willing to subject yourself to. The more copy-paste-knowledge, the less likely you want to challenge the premise of this knowledge by asking: is this really true, or is it a structure with a purpose. The system has provided your education. The system is maintained by peers who, like you, have everything to lose and nothing to gain by being genuinely creative and performing actual thinking. The system makes you compromised, and a compromised person will have something to hide and protect, living a life in low boiling fear.
A further division arises. There is the intellectual robotnik who knows absolutely nothing about system duplicity and firmly indulges its rules praising its excellences. But there are also those who have come to open a door to the basement or attic and know that there is a hiding agenda. Question is: how do you react? Some immediately close the door again and swallows the blue pill. Others, by contrast, elated at the idea will gain further ambitions to get a key to all floors. How compromised should you be? How great a career hooker will you be? Can you get an invitation in the gallery? Others will on the contrary start to develop scruples.
The system generally does not fear the class of intellectual fools. Academia is a great club that is held in place by guilt, shame and fear. Guilt to the system for giving them a place in the sun - although only rationed sunlight is offered - and fear of losing the career that they had to sit lifelong debt to get by playing the game of the system, losing their economic foundation and the opportunity to live in a certain degree of luxury - even if only offered rationed luxury. You would have to obtain two academic / upper middle class salaries to get what one salary could provide half a century ago, and you will constantly live with the fear of being expelled from from the academic community ... and end up as a taxi driver, forever!
-The War of the Worlds
Education is a system of imposed ignorance
- Noam Chomsky
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education
- Einstein
Strange as it seems, one meets independent thinking today only in the few people who have not been to school much
-Rudolf Steiner
The well-known phrase »The pen is mightier than the sword« is well understood by the elite. They know this for several reasons. If an elite can control mind and consciousness of the common people, and deceive them into believing that they live in a "free society" without them detecting that it is a masked slavery, an obvious dictatorship can be avoided - and the illusion of freedom is preserved..
That is why Chomsky said (even though he is a gatekeeper perhaps, he is right about this one) that propaganda is to 'democracy' what violence is to dictatorship. In addition, people will die for freedom, therefore the elite is aware of that the obvious dictatorship doesn't work – the reason why they have made a Truman Show/Brave New World in the first place, so that the illusion of freedom is bought by the masses.
This is done by perception management, disinfo through mainstream media, institutions – and throughout the Centuries via massive educational cognitive damage. Not even the speed of light is a constant (see Rupert Sheldrake's ‘The Science Delusion’ among the banned TED-talks, which TED Talk attempted to censor).
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde
But we believe that it's our own, our 'own knowledge', our 'own freedom'...while the real freedom is feared in the deep unconscious.
Control knowledge, thought and the mind, so that man deems himself to be free, ignorant of his own unfreedom, ignorant of his own ignorance. Contented slaves. Mind Control.
Let even the fear of discovering the truth about the lie be an internal policeman installed in the heads of people, so that they fear cognitive dissonance and defend falsehoods, so they can be prison guards of each other, keeping each other in line without knowing that they are prison guards of each other in unfreedom, in the trance of double-think – without knowing that they are slaves of unknown designers inscriptions – unknown engravers whose true names they don't know, meanwhile carrying their inscriptions on the foreheads, the body, and the trance of the mind..as a Golem unknowingly carries the magician's insignia on its forehead.
The insignia of the magician is made by the power of thought, and the trance spell is broken by identifying the magician, calling him by his proper name, and seeing through his tools and objective.
Let Golem become Man!
Warned Gurdjieff: "Humanity is at a standstill and from a standstill there is a straight path to downfall and degeneration.... There is nothing that points to evolution proceeding. On the contrary when we compare humanity with a man we quite clearly see a growth of personality at the cost of essence, that is, a growth of the artificial, the unreal, and what is foreign, at the cost of the natural, the real, and what is one's own.... Contemporary culture requires automatons. And people are undoubtedly losing their acquired habits of independence and turning into automatons, into parts of machines.... Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man."
- TheLast Esoteric Message - Gurdjieff Legacy
Tavistock's + 3000 Think Tanks - RAND Corporation - Mind Control
The thought that we are a type of animated Golems, Frankenstein's mental offspring, reoccurred to me when I recollected an old article (2010) – just one example of a very influential political think tank, one out thousands; Rand Corporation, one mental engraver out of many – think tanks and programming, engravings and inscriptions on the unwitting foreheads of millions of people (inscribed on their foreheads or placed as papyrus inside their heads) - painful psychological and physical markings without knowing the origin of these. Ramifications of mental control (and therefore also physical control) :
“Cuban-born journalist and author Alex Abella was allowed exclusive access inside the RAND Corporation to view their archives. What he discovered ...'
“We’re all the bastard children of RAND and we don’t even know it,”remarks Abella, as he charts how RAND started off as an organization centered around building new weapons for the military but ultimately expanded into politics, science, history and economics and was closely allied with the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations. RAND’s decision in the 50′s to re-model the globe towards a new world order changed everything, with the development of “rational choice theory,” which turned people from being citizens into consumers, as rights and responsibilities were replaced with choices and people’s lives slowly came to be dominated not by integrity or what they stood for, but by what they spent their money on."..
"Abella notes how RAND saw the United Nations as a template for one world government but that a new organization controlled by the U.S. would eventually supersede the UN .."..
..."Speaking on the topic of false flag attacks, Abella notes that the staged Gulf of Tonkin attack and the planned Operation Northwoods false flag were both initially proposed in RAND documents, highlighting the total immorality with which RAND war games its scenarios, many of which are ethically repugnant in that they nonchalantly promote the genocide of entire populations with little regard for the consequences. Abella explains how RAND truly is a shadow government because it serves as a revolving door between the two, and how RAND is the cradle of the military-industrial complex and the birthplace of the technocratic elite that we are now fighting against."
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-world-order-insider-reveals-diabolical-secrets-of-the-rand-corporation/22473
When we do not want to know, the implication is willful ignorance!
This is worse than Stockholm syndrome, since hostages at least are aware that there is a hostage taker,who serve his own interests at the expense of others. We are in a situation where the unwitting victims (chickens in the Matrix) – through the perception management of the war lords and the elite – have internalized the worldview that has been molded for us. In politics, medicine, economy, law, psychology, etc., elite think tanks promote world views that are designed to protect the elites and their true aims, which the victims/hostages don't think exists, even though they are attacked by the very same elite - all the while the hostages simultaneously attack the awakened people who are attemting to set them free, because the hostages(chickens in the Centre for Unconscious Farming), the victims, prefer to remain desensitizedto the unpleasant reality of their existence...
“The Tavistock Institute has a 6 billion dollar fund and 400 subsidiary organisations are under its control along with 3,000 think tanks, mostly in the USA. The Stanford Research Institute, the Hoover Institute, the Aspen Institute of Colorado, and many others, devoted to manipulation of US as well as global public opinion, are Tavistock offshoots. This helps explain why the US public, by and large, is so mesmerised as to be unable to see things clearly and to react.”You can have disbelief, derision and scorn about these power factions, but the perverse epic irony of destiny is that they will influence your life, and haveinfluenced your life negatively, the lives of your family, your upbringing, socialization, your education, your thoughts, etc. whether you know it or not. You can have all the disbelief, derision and scorn you want and be ignorant, but you can be sure of that these above-mentioned entities that you are ignorant of, nonetheless have influenced you tremendously. Thought-provoking.
-Global Research
"Brzezinski’s call of warning to the “global political awakening” has only intensified in recent years. Last year during a speech in Poland, Brzezinski noted that it has become “increasingly difficult to suppress” and control the “persistent and highly motivated populist resistance of politically awakened and historically resentful peoples.” Brzezinski also blamed the accessibility of “radio, television and the Internet” for the “universal awakening of mass political consciousness.”
- Brzezinski: 'Global Political Awakening' Making Syrian War Difficult
'Another figure worth consulting is major British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Russell, as a “scientific” philosopher as well as a Fabian, believed in the desirability of the same kind of future Wells had articulated. In The Scientific Outlook (1931) his technocratic superelitism focused on education:
"Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless and contented. Of these qualities contentment will be considered the most important. - 'Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated .. This is, of course, the superelite Utopia: a world into which the unthinking masses are seamlessly eased and entirely controlled, possibly without even realizing it —like cattle. '
-DIRECTED HISTORY IS NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY- PART 2 of 4
If we compare the last quote with Chris Hedges' observations of contemporary society - commenting on Orwell and Huxley - we can see a correlation (even though Hedges does not believe in directed history):
"Attitudes and temperament have been cleverly engineered by the corporate state, as with Huxley’s pliant characters in “Brave New World.” The book’s protagonist, Bernard Marx, turns in frustration to his girlfriend Lenina:
“Don’t you wish you were free, Lenina?” he asks.
“I don’t know that you mean. I am free, free to have the most
wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays.”
He laughed, “Yes, ‘Everybody’s happy nowadays.’ We have been
giving the children that at five. But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way.”
“I don’t know what you mean,” she repeated.
The façade is crumbling. And as more and more people realize that they have been used and robbed, we will move swiftly from Huxley’s “Brave New World” to Orwell’s “1984.”
- Chris Hedges, extract from 'Brave New Dystopia'
Compare this with Russell:
It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished... Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so
'- Bertrand Russell
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
- Patrick Henry
The Double-Think Trance
The conditioning, belief in authority, the trance, often mean that any contradiction which ought to be recognized as a contradiction, often is not.
This is double-think and the reason why cognitive dissonance is avoided.
Double-think is the opposite of cognitive dissonance:
"Somewhat related but almost the opposite is cognitive dissonance, where contradictory beliefs cause conflict in one's mind. Doublethink is notable due to a lack of cognitive dissonance — thus the person is completely unaware of any conflict or contradiction."
-Doublethink- Wikipedia
If you challenge the double-think trance through Socratic metodical questioning by presenting opposite relations between mutually logically conflicting irreconcilable explanations of a phenomenon,you are attempting to nullify double-think, and cognitive dissonance will usually be the result. The person in question must choose; either persevere in rationalizing the old double-think (in worst case useful idiocy, Stockholm Syndrome, Comical Ali, etc.) or – challenged by the cognitive dissonance of the moment – end up in a new position if the old one doesn't hold up to scrutiny. But this often results in further uncertainty and insecurity because the realization of contradiction only begets more questions which can't be answered by the person on the spot (i.e. why Big Pharma, governments, mainstream media have manipulated data and events to such a murderous extent as they have!?).
As a thumb rule (or in general) one acknowledges that which is in accordance with the indoctrination, schooling, conditioning, the map, and filters away – consciously of subconsciously - that which is not on the map. And more radically: You mistake the map for the territory (what the epistemologist, Gregory Bateson, named ”error in logical typing” which amounts to ”eating the menu card instead of the dinner.”)
Most often people will desperately hold on to their old double-think in order to rid themselves of uncertainty and anxiousness. In the words of Mark Passio: willfull ig-norance. In other words: Agent Smith and Cypher - YouTube
The most grotesque implication though is that goodhearted people can treat other people cruelly without conceiving that what they do is cruel, on the contrary; in their self-image it is 'decent' or 'normal'!
Is Eckhart Tolle emotionally judging or mentally ascertaining when he says the following?:
"By far the greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each
other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of
normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego. One
can go far as to say that on this planet “normal” equals insane."
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Perception management, control, imitation, important collective psychological barriers, comfort zones, group think and hive mind - that man, collectively and indidually is at the mercy of conditioning and perception management to a creepy degree, and that it obediently, irrationally imitates and reproduces the surroundings is indisputably documented by Solomon Aschs experimentsin the 50's, Stanley Milgram in the 60's (and repeated many times up to the present), the Stanford Prison experimentin the 70′s, and more recently not the least by Adam Curtis awarded series of BBC-dokumentary films, especially The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares, Scott Noble's documentaries, especially Psywar, and not the least; Howard Bloom's masterful arcticle ‛Reality is a Shared Hallucination', just to name a few.
There is something very eerie and creepy about this quality; that you not only think and do as you are told, but also; that what you are told and what to expect - through conditioning, learned conceptions and concepts - self-fulfillingly shape your perceptions (see Howard Bloom's superb article ”Reality is a Shared Hallucination”) and phenomena like 'change blindness' is just one example being a significant cause of the power of perception management and mind control of entire populations.
See this shocking experiment about change blindness fx (youtube).
We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented
- The Truman Show
Trance Breakers or Busybody I-Know-Better-Than-Thou
Isn't the people who are breaking the spell, their own and others, who are doing their moral duty? Can truth seekers liberate other human beings from their trance and falsity, from unfreedom?
According to Da Vinci there is a group who can see with their own eyes when shown.
Are those who are showing other people the truth, busybodies and I-know-better-than-thou'? Or are they heroic people? Or something else?
Often at great risk to themselves they enter Plato's Cave, The Matrix, The Truman Show, to break the trance of their fellow human beings – man, a sacred being, designed for freedom...or is this grandiose? Is the human being then not a sacred being, designed for freedom? Because it is hijacked by the power of negative emotions and in a state of stupor? Because it needs to be herded as the elite claim?
The truth/justice/freedom-movements lament the fact that their words fall on deaf ears, sometimes words in tone resort to ironic mockery that comes from perplexed indignation as they point out the absurdity and the contradictions which the prisoners cannot see, while they blindly follow the path to unwitting destruction, not knowing that they are controlled by the normalization of unacknowledged collective pathology, not to mention masters of perception management (deep politics and directed history) defining much of their reality.
At the expense of truth, the people must of course feel 'good' in blissful ignorance. One would do well to think about who is benefiting from this ignorance and who is harmed! Such blissful ignorance would be equal to = I-pod, I-pad, pop, playstation, Super Bowl, Blood Sports, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, porn, drugs, booze, American Idol, Dancing with The Stars, etc. In other words; egocentrism, narcissism, mindless hedonism, ignorance, dumbing down, apathy, degeneration, brutalisation and callousness, etc.
We now seem to be in a situation where many people are unaware that we are already living in a tyranny, much of the suppression is immanent and internalized – the suppression is not recognized as suppression.
Are those attempting to break the trance of other people busybodies and I-know-better-than-thou's?
“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
― Criss Jami
Or pioneers and 'trance breakers'?
"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.'
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Considering the scenario that the survival and future of humanity is contingent upon a sudden awakeing in the present, an awakening being catalyzed through the existence of goodhearted people who are changed internally and awakened, 'those who see' and communicating their message to other people; 'those who see when they are shown'.
From Everything You Know Is Wrong:
While rational criticism and whistleblowing can change people's deeply conditioned worldviews, in most cases it does not (as Max Planck and many others claim: 'Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out'.), and progress happens mostly in stages - and until a breaking point of awareness has been reached for a quantum leap of change, there is a lot of inertia in the hive mind. [But the inertia is somewhat shaken in the present time and people are changing by the millions today due to the crisis, in spite of other groups remaining in a state of zombiefication]If a human being realizes its unfreedom, its bondage and untruth, or shown its unfreedom and prison, it will either demolish the prison and the lie – or do everything in its power to preserve the prison and the lie. Transcend or regress. Both things do happen.
Nonetheless, notto try to convince other people of the dangers of the Zeitgeist implies non-communication and stagnation as the future of the collective depends on the individual awakening in the present, i.e. the ones whose minds are receptive to change by cognition - and the awakening of the individual depends on the communication by fellow human beings who are aware of the dangers. If not for altruistic reasons, the 'selfish' reasons in the end result amount to the same; whether I am my brother's keeper or not, one's silence will minimize the amount of awakened individuals in the present and thus; the probablity of lesser numbers of awakened people in the future! Therefore the stakes are such that it is the responsibility of the awakened individual to break the trance of others who are ready for an awakening
This quote comes to mind:
‘Your ignorance is not because the truth is not available to you. There have been ‘radicals’ preaching it for thousands of years. No. You are ignorant because you shun the truth with all your heart and soul. You close your eyes and run away when a hint of reality lands in front of you. You condemn as ‘extremists’ and ‘fringe kooks’ those who try to show you the chains you are wearing. You don’t want to be free. Responsibility and reality scare the hell out of you so you cling tightly to your own enslavement and lash out at any who seek to free you from it. When someone opens the door to your cage, you cower back in the corner and yell, ‘Close it!”
– Larken Rose, The Iron Web
Continuing in somewhat the same line:
You are the product of your conditioning, you are the
product of your society, the product of propaganda,
religious and otherwise. You repeat what others have said.
All your education is that. You are conditioned, you are
not free, happy, vital, passionate. You are frightened human
beings, full of the authority of others or of your own
particular little authority, of your own knowledge. You are
second-hand human beings, intellectually, emotionally. - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Talk in San Diego, 7 April 1970
Also:
"The mass psychology of accepting information indiscriminately, of giving prompt mass obedience to imposed limitations of personal liberty, without due understanding of the underlying reasons, and the consequent blind following of leaders, will only come to an end through the intelligent fostering of individual recognition of selfhood and the assertions of the individual as he seeks to express his own ideas."- Alice Bailey
In regard to potential pitfalls:
"Any group "out to save the world" is potentially problematic, because it rests on an archaically narcissistic base that looks "altruistic" or "idealistic" but in fact is very egocentric, very primitive, and very capable of coming to primitive ends by primitive means."--Ken Wilber, Eye to Eye, (1983)
"The history of Communism,originally inspired by noble ideals, clearly illustrates what happens when people attempt to change external reality – create a new earth – without any prior change in their inner reality, their state of consciousness. They make plans without taking into account the blueprint for dysfunction that every human being carries within: the ego."
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
The first pitfall that Wilber is addressing is the motivation; it is simply misguided, false, wrong, double-faced, not directed from an inner-guided true call of empathy and motivation.
A philosopher once wrote that the peace movements are just as polemical and bellicose on the flip side as the war movements they fight and protest against.
The second quote by Tolle is addressing the internal change in consciousness, a inner purification, without which thought and external change is insufficient, and a dangerous trojan horse (notwithstanding the error of communism - it could be libertarianism, but that is not the point, the point is the principle of the 'ego's shadow' and reactivity being a trojan horse).
But also; the internal spiritual change is not a substitute for thought either – knowledge about GMO, vaccines, state-sponsored false flag terror, the horrid censorship by mainstream media, perception management, etc. This footnote [1] can also be a reply to the following quote by Gurdjieff, not only Tolle's point:
'Gurdjieff said that the world harmony of which he spoke could not be achieved by politics, philosophy, religion or any other organized movement that treated "man in the mass." It could only be accomplished through the individual development of man. In doing so, an individual's unknown potentialities would become strong so that he might influence many more people. If enough individuals could develop themselves—even partially—into genuine, natural men, each such individual would then be able to convince and win over as many as a hundred other men, who would, each in his turn, be able to influence another hundred, and so on. '
- - The Last Esoteric Message - Gurdjieff Legacy
But many 'conspiranauts' (the modern day heretics AKA awakened logicians and analysts whose vindication by now is indisputable) are empathic and changed internally, and therefore they naturally act like trance breakers. Empathy isn't sufficient to spread the truth about the huge manipulations of our time - empathy is a prerequisite but not sufficient. True knowledge is required. Knowledge isn't enough either, empathy is a prerequisite.
Those who have both empathy and true knowledge act like the spell breakers of other people's trance - either through catalyzing spiritual inspiration and awakening through self-transformation or through political awakening, and then there are those who do both - although Gurdjieff addresses the internal transformation as a prerequisite for true external change, not hidden agendas and knowledge about these, which the 'conspiranauts' (politically enlightened people) do. So we have 3 types of trance breakers; one is vertical, the other horizontal, and the third unifies them both. This is a schematic perspective while reality operates fluidly.
What's the alternative to be in the know? Ignorance? Individual vertical spiritual development and non-dual consciousness cannot replace individual horizontal discursive cognition and knowledge of 'what is' (it). Both are needed.
That's why spiritual parents who meditate 6 hours a day can still approve of deadly vaccines being injected into their loving kids fx. How can you protect yourself, your kids, etc?
The Internet Reformation isreal, it sends ripples through the ocean of consciousness, and constitutes great change through communication and subsequent action. What's the alternative to tell the truth about lies and manipulations which determine the lives of billions? Silence?
Spiritual awakening is one thing, knowledge through sense perception and the mind is another. All three domains are different but necessary. Both the opening of the heart's empathy and use of thought are necessary imperatives.
Moreover, the point is not self-aggrandizing self-righteousness, but a a matter-of-factly ascertaining perspective; if fluoride, vaccines, controlled mainstream media, etc. are destructive, hostile to life, deception and whitewash, while simultaneously perceived by the majority as true, good, healthy, then it is – from a perspective of purely mental discernment –a result of indoctrination.
Mental cripples is a lamentation, not a condemnation, but it's provocative, and especially indignation for those who wish to warn others about the dangers of the Zeitgeist. We are sleeping!
Freedom Anxiety
Fear of freedom is in reality an anxiety. Fear is fear of the known, the familiar, whereas anxiety relates to the unknown. Even though man is designed for freedom he is full of anxiety of freedom as he does not know true freedom, he only knows the prison whose name and interior he identifies as (false) freedom, a prison constructed far and large by others, and he identifies the prison with 'reponsibility' but it is the opposite, the essence of irreponsibility.
The claim made by the existentialists; that man hides himself (and his own inauthenticity and unfreedom) in the anonymous collective mass – by thinking, knowing, feeling, acting, being, like 'all the others' – is a point that always struck me as profound and true.
About Fromm's book, 'Escape from Freedom' (Fromm was the last off-shoot from the Frankfurter school, but doesn't seem to be part of its dark side):
'Fromm distinguishes between 'freedom from' (negativefreedom) and 'freedom to' (positivefreedom). The former refers to emancipation from restrictions such as social conventions placed on individuals by other people or institutions. This is the kind of freedom typified by the Existentialism of Sartre, and has often been fought for historically, but according to Fromm, on its own it can be a destructive force unless accompanied by a creative element, 'freedom to' the use of freedom to employ spontaneously the total integrated personality in creative acts. This, he argues, necessarily implies a true connectedness with others that goes beyond the superficial bonds of conventional social intercourse: "...in the spontaneous realization of the self, man unites himself anew with the world..."
In the process of becoming freed from authority, we are often left with feelings of hopelessness (he likens this process to the individuation of infants in the normal course of child development) that will not abate until we use our 'freedom to' and develop some form of replacement of the old order. However, a common substitute for exercising "freedom to" or authenticity is to submit to an authoritarian system that replaces the old order with another of different external appearance but identical function for the individual: to eliminate uncertainty by prescribing what to think and how to act.'- Wikipedia
And finally this quote by psychologist, Barry Schwarz:
The question then is: are people actually liberated by all this freedom? A study came out more than ten years ago, that actually showed that when you give people too much choice, instead of being liberated, they get paralyzed....It just turns out that when you give people this kind of unconstrained opportunity to reinvent themselves, they don’t know what to do.- Barry Schwarz
Similar thoughts in the present moment; a new documentary 'Freedom From Choice'is being broadcasted on RT as I write this. The cast: Jeff Berwick, Gerald Celente, G. Edward Griffin, Peter Schiff, Jon Rappoport,Mike Maloney, and many more. Freedom From Choice Official Trailer -Youtube.
NB!Due to copyright restrictions, this video can only be viewed on RT’slive feed. Time of broadcast is available on RT’sschedule page
The quotes below are all profound and relevant to ignorant bondage, coercion, perception management, and fear of freedom:
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom
- Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves
- Harriet Tubman
"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist."
- Barbara Marciniak, 'Bringers of the Dawn'
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Goethe
It is easier to mislead many men than one.
- Herodotus.
You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be `unplugged`. And many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to defend it "
- Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), The Matrix
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening”
- George Orwell, 1984
"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
— Howard Zinn
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves…(and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
― Howard Zinn
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
— Guy de Maupassan
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Krishnamurti
'The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.'
– Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited
“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”
― Ray Bradbury
“In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law”
― Henry David Thoreau
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
— Plato
“If we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death”
― Chris Hedges
'A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new.Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know."--
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
[1] If the awakening of many people depends upon the already informed (and the discernment and empaty of the individual) is silence then not the highest form of irresponsibility, a failure to the commons? Busybody I-know-better-than-thou intervention or moral imperative?
What is characteristic of many of the politically awakened is that they belong to a new third segment, what we could call 'conspiritual' ( 'conspiracy aware' + spiritual).
Whereas the two groups - the activists and the spiritual - don't seem to be complementing each other, the third group unifies them both.
The spiritually inclined often believe in the official narratives; global warming, overpopulation, peak oil, vaccines, etc. and other fabricated elite memes, and thus can also be useful idiots. But vertical internal spiritual development does not in itself give birth to horizontal knowledge about concrete and often hidden causations in the external world. So this means that even advanced meditators can become useful idiots. Why would Eckhart Tolle somewhat recommend Obama who by now has revealed himself to be worse than Bush!
Non-dual consciousness does not provide knowledge and insight into fluoride, vaccines, aspartame, GMO, Monsanto, false flag terror, the deliberate dumbing down of entire populations, deep politics and directed history, global warming and CO2 swindle, etc. - unless you have a quite specific form of 'always-ready clairvoyance' which can substitute knowledge, discursive thought, logic and analysis.
Both a vertical awakening (transformation and transcendence of negative emotions) + a horizontal knowledge (of 'what is' (it) will be necessary.
On the other hand you have the other camp; the activists, dissidents, etc. - and they are very aware of fabricated elite memes and hoaxes, that mindfuck manipulation en masse of the populations is taking place.
What many of the actvists/dissidents/'conspiranauts' seem to be unaware of is the necessity of inner work; transformation of negative emotions, spirituality, mindfulness meditation (perfect for the truth/justice/freedom-movements as they are hit hard by the chaos, being excessively aware of it), integration of the shadow, etc.
There is a huge amount of emotional reactivity going on, especially because this group have seen into the abyss.
Any prisoner in The Matrix is shocked in the moment of awakening, therefore mindfulness as calmness in the ongoing storm, not mindfulness as sedating adjustment to a pathological system (which it is being used for), but mindfulness as reaction to the grim truth, the realization that there is a very destructive stealth-pathological systen, a storm,which is an unpleasant awakening, which is why equilibrium of the mind is especially necessary.
Two very different applications of mindfulness meditation. The first applies mindfulness as adjustment to an undetected prison. The second is the shock and realization that we live in a prison, and searches for the exit while applying mindfulness as a necessary tool for awakened calmness in chaos, not mindfulness as misapplied lullaby.
We should practice mindfulness always anyway, but not adjust to a sick society, not use mindfulness as misapplied adjustment to undetected slavery in Brave New World/the Truman Show.
Even if the causality to these external problems ultimately lies on the inside of humanity, it does not mean that one should be unaware, not act and warn others about the dangers of deception and degeneration of the state, the corporatocracy, plutocracy, etc. The future is at stake and evil prevails when good people do nothing. How can they if they are unaware?
The following is an example of disbelief and scepticism by very progressive and goodhearted people ( Deepak Chopra, Duane Elgin, Amy Goodman, Paul Hawken, Edgar Mitchell, John Perkins, John Robbins, Elisabet Sahtouris, Vandana Shiva, and Adam Trombly ) whose disbelief is ending up in a rationalized stockholm-syndrome in regard to the more extreme claims in the documentary film Thrive, and they will historically become known as inadvertent gatekeepers if the claims put forth in 'Thrive' is correct. Historians would write something like 'these progressive and goodhearted pioneers with a huge following went very far, but ultimately not far enough, thus leading many people astray from the unpleasant but necessary truth due to their own disbelief and ignorance'
"...theories at the heart of Thrive are based on an ultimate division between "us" and "them." "We" are many and well-meaning but victimized.
[Are farmers in India not victimized by Monsanto? - just one example - then why cannot it apply to other powerful entities wreaking havoc and destruction? Just because you don't know
them?]
"They," on the other hand, are a tiny, greedy and inconceivably powerful few who are masterfully organized, who are purposefully causing massive disasters in order to cull the population, and who are deliberately destroying the world economy in order to achieve total world domination.
This way of thinking has an allure, for it distracts and absolves us from the troubling truth that the real source of the problem is in all of us..
[I ask; how are the farmers´lives in India absolved by pointing fingers at Monsanto as the concrete cause?]
.., and in the economic systems we have collectively produced. If the ills of the world are the deliberate intentions of malevolent beings, then we don’t have to take responsibility for our problems..
[logical fallacy, non sequiteur - how does the destruction of the farmers lives´ by Monsanto suddenly relinquish the farmers from continuing self-responsibility for their own lives? It doesn't!]
..because they are being done to us. Thinking this way may provide the momentary comfort of feeling exonerated, but it is ultimately disempowering, because it undermines our desire to be accountable for the way our own thoughts and actions help to create the environmental degradation and vast social inequity of the world in which we live. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart."
- from John Robbins' Critique of THRIVE
[Are farmers in India not victimized by Monsanto? - just one example - then why cannot it apply to other powerful entities wreaking havoc and destruction? Just because you don't know
them?]
"They," on the other hand, are a tiny, greedy and inconceivably powerful few who are masterfully organized, who are purposefully causing massive disasters in order to cull the population, and who are deliberately destroying the world economy in order to achieve total world domination.
This way of thinking has an allure, for it distracts and absolves us from the troubling truth that the real source of the problem is in all of us..
[I ask; how are the farmers´lives in India absolved by pointing fingers at Monsanto as the concrete cause?]
.., and in the economic systems we have collectively produced. If the ills of the world are the deliberate intentions of malevolent beings, then we don’t have to take responsibility for our problems..
[logical fallacy, non sequiteur - how does the destruction of the farmers lives´ by Monsanto suddenly relinquish the farmers from continuing self-responsibility for their own lives? It doesn't!]
..because they are being done to us. Thinking this way may provide the momentary comfort of feeling exonerated, but it is ultimately disempowering, because it undermines our desire to be accountable for the way our own thoughts and actions help to create the environmental degradation and vast social inequity of the world in which we live. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart."
- from John Robbins' Critique of THRIVE
If the thinking above was true in regard to Monsanto fx. (read: deliberate destructive malevolent technology at the expense of billions of people). then nothing would be accomplished - regardless of whether we ourselves are compassionate, have integrated our shadows and opened our hearts, worked on ourselves internally, etc. The inner journey does not exclude the awareness of the external landscape, however grim and unfamilar. We could establish the best perfect decentralized spiritual community with highly individuated people, high interpersonal social intelligence, integrated shadows (in the Jungian sense), etc. and still be unaware of Monsanto's terminator GMO technologies and Geo-engineering polluting the beatiful crops and gardens of such eco-villages - pollen and particles blowing silently in the wind.
It has nothing to do with being 'absolved' or 'us vs them' cause Monsanto's destructive technologies or chemtrails will still be operational whether we meditate or not, whether we say 'All is One' or 'Us VS them' (fallacy of irrelevance). Being aware of their agenda is the prerequisite for overthrowing/stopping them. And this has nothing to do with 'us VS them' in terms of emotional judgment (albeit understandable, given their disregard for farmers, life, etc.) or lack of own responsibility but with knowledge, mental discernment first, stripped of any emotional aversive component.
The paramount need for concrete knowledge in order to change the situation is pivotal. Otherwise we risk being in denial, ignorant and/or useful idiots in regard to many things. We have to work internally and externally with the right action and discernment hand in hand.
'The truth is most people will not believe what’s happening today on the political horizon. The forces that are at work behind the scenes are as old as the battle between good and evil themselves....The problem with covert control and secret brotherhoods is you cannot rebel against something you don’t know exists.' - Secret Brotherhoods - Rudolf Steiner"
In regard to the internal pitfalls and mind-poisons of man:
There is a contagious psychospiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via a collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called "wetiko"—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Drawing on insights from Jungian psychology, shamanism, alchemy, spiritual wisdom traditions, and personal experience, author Paul Levy shows us that hidden within the venom of wetiko is its own antidote, which once recognized can help us wake up and bring sanity back to our society.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/221127/dispelling-wetiko-by-paul-levy#praise
See also Paul Levy's articles:
Let's Spread the Word: Wetiko - 3 parts
Let's Spread the Word: Wetiko - 3 parts
Paul Levy is addressing 'Wetiko' in the context of conspiracies here (go to 25:38)
Deep politics, Bilderberg, CFR, TLC, Skull and Bones, False flags, etc. would then be the structured external manifestations of internal Wetiko..
Even if these entities ultimately are the external manifestations of internal Wetiko, and even though the subjective hatred against the above-mentioned groups constitute a Wetiko in itself , the unawareness of these stealthy shadow groups is also a part of a Cognitive Wetiko Blindspot in itself - namely a denial/ignorance/inability to throw light (consciousness, knowledge) on these external stealth-manifestations of darkness (unconsciousness, ignorance), very likely because of cognitive dissonance, disbelief, etc. But you can't disable a silent stealth-virus by claiming it has no influence!
Meditation will not make primary psychpathy, Bilderberg, CFR, TLC, Skull and Bones, False flags, vanish into thin air. This would imply that meditators, morphic resonance, or directed positive intention could somehow transform other human beings, and especially psychopaths in power, into noble persons, nullifying their free will in the process, exalting their low emotional state to a sudden empathic level - which is wishful irrational thinking. Not going to happen with psychopaths, sorry. And many spiritually inclined people are not even aware of the destructive influence of these stealth organizations in the first place.
'Ahriman guides certain forces in evolution in such a way that they may be of the greatest possible advantage to him. And evil would result were people to live on in a state of drowsy unawareness'We can only remove these entities if sufficient numbers of people are becoming aware of their destructive influence in the first place, apply thought and analysis, and then action. A vertical spiritual awakening (transformation, and transcendence of negative emotions and exclusive identification with thought) in the individual is necessary but it cannot remove these entities - the domain of thought and analysis and subsequent skillful action is needed here.
- Rudolf Steiner
"The first is to open our minds, start taking responsibility back, and remove this edifice of control and suppression of information which will allow the full flow of knowledge of who we are to flood into the public arena. Once people start to realize who they really are and the nature of life, then we can go into stage two which is the incredible consciousness shift that is going to happen, and is happening for many people already, but can happen for everybody if we open up to the knowledge of what’s going on and to do that the edifice of suppression has to go. And what I see so often in … what we call New Age movement is that they’re focusing on the second bit and they’re in denial about about the first. And the second is not going to happen for many people unless we remove the edifice of suppression cause most people are going to think what the heck’s going on and they’re going to go through this great change in a complete fog of what’s happening. Two things to do here. One is to start focusing on how the world’s controlled, identify it and remove it. Secondly, then we can concentrate unhindered on the transformation spiritually."
- David Icke
"As we've seen, cultivating presence through meditation or yoga is not by itself an adequate way to address the complex global challenges we face. The "raising of consciousness," as it's popularly phrased in today's yoga and meditation communities, doesn't raise political consciousness. It doesn't make people more aware of what is violent and what is not, nor does it make them resist violence. An increase in presence in the world does not increase justice.....How would meditation or the experience of awakening change the politics of these various groups? The Black Panther Party, radical feminists, the tea party, the KKK, Goldman Sachs bankers or anti-abortion activists. Would it somehow make them all the same?"
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/11/15/why-the-dalai-lama-is-wrong-to-think-meditation-will-eliminate-violence/
- Why the Dalai Lama is wrong to think meditation will eliminate violence
Should one refrain from pointing out crimes against humanity as long as one's own shadow and emotional reactivity are involved in the assessments when pointing out treason against humanity? I can't protest against mandatory vaccines if I am emotional, thus being disqualified to protect my kids? Surely that can't be the case as it would be absurd in the extreme.
I share the view that shadow projections and repressions probably are stored as collective trash in the collective unconscious, but my point is that everything destructive which is internalized as 'normal' and not on the radar of the collective consciousness (the abovementioned groups fx), therefore is neither disposed for projection or indignation on the part of the greater public (or the spiritual avantgarde) , since such structures are mostly invisible due to ignorance and secrecy. See 'Cognitive Boddhisatvic Bypass Syndrome'
I share the view that shadow projections and repressions probably are stored as collective trash in the collective unconscious, but my point is that everything destructive which is internalized as 'normal' and not on the radar of the collective consciousness (the abovementioned groups fx), therefore is neither disposed for projection or indignation on the part of the greater public (or the spiritual avantgarde) , since such structures are mostly invisible due to ignorance and secrecy. See 'Cognitive Boddhisatvic Bypass Syndrome'
On a more metaphysical note: Rudolf Steiner claimed that Ahriman (imbalance, evil, for a lack of a better word) will do everything in his power to advance this moment as much as he can. It will depend on all of mankind together whether evil will succeed in this or not.... Whether it will succeed in this will depend on the question whether there will be enough people who see through its designs
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