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Remembering to Remember
Remembering to Remember
By
Cognitive Dissonance
Do you remember how it is supposed to be? Would you even know to remember that we can remember how it once was and can still be? For so many of us, all that is left behind is a vague unformed memory that once we knew something of great importance. Like an unfamiliar object in a darkened room, we know it is there only because its’ black is a shade off of the overall gloom, a mere shadow of a shadow. All of us carry a memory that springs from deep within and that whispers of something unfulfilled and incomplete. Dare we to believe that we are capable of Remembering what that memory is? Let me be perfectly clear in stating that I am Remembering and so can you if you wish.
Hogwash you say. This is the only way it can be because this is the only way it has ever been. And sure enough, all around us, everything we see confirms this blind belief. The ultimate in confirmation bias is when everything you are told matches everything you see, and everything you see confirms everything you believe. Yes, it all looks pretty normal to me. So why would I pursue the vision of a different world, of a sovereign we? And because of this many do not, blissfully ignorant of being slaves, happy to be bound and delivered to the dock. Except that way back in our mind and deep down in our soul, not only is something telling us things are not right, but that nearly everything is terribly wrong.
Blinded by our confirmation bias and unable to see how it can be, how then do we change direction when the memory is incomplete? What do we do when we have no clear course charted through the rough sea? I have found that if we wish to see something that is missing, rather than focus on what we cannot perceive, clearly an impossible task considering our present state of spiritual and emotional disrepair, we should instead recognize what is there, but should not.
Take a long look at our world and tell me what you see, what you perceive? Does it feel right or does it not? I suspect we already know the answer to that because you’re trying to see and thus to remember, otherwise you would not be searching for it here within my words.
So what is it that I’m Remembering, and that you will too if you listen carefully while looking deeply within? The specific answer is unique to each of us simply because our view within, which is often how we initially discover our inner knowing and the Remembering, is deeply influenced by our perception of reality. And while this perspective is molded by our individual life experience and conditioning and therefore has no real meaning except to us as individuals, there are common themes I can try to express.
But in order to do so I must see what is already here, but should not, for this is what triggers the Remembering. We must want to want to remember, to be completely open to the concept of Remembering, even if we don’t know what or how to remember. We must want to urgently grasp for the understanding that our inner sovereign has all the answers we will ever need, answers no external authority could ever hope to match, despite the conditioned belief that this is impossible. We must allow ourselves to be vulnerable to the knowing so that we may remember, for it is the rejection of our inner sovereign and its’ knowing that has us all hopelessly lost in the insanity.
What I see is a human population completely out of balance with itself and its environment, the only species on Earth to live in this condition for an extended period of time without ending in self extermination…….at least so far. I see the vast majority of us deathly ill, not just physically sick from a toxic environment and the processed food we eat, but emotionally and spiritually savaged as well. For this condition to exist for this length of time, it must be forced. And anyone who tries to tell me that what I am seeing is natural and normal exhibits neither of these conditions.
We cast about for meaning in our lives, for direction to guide our souls, to connect so deeply and completely that it changes everything. We know this is possible even though we are told it is not because this knowing springs from within and cannot be stopped, only repressed. The proof is the emptiness we all sense within and the knowing that it can be filled.
We are not instinctive or innate slaves, inclined to blindly follow mind control orders, but instead we are natural sovereign spirits who have lost our way simply because we fail to remember. We want to remember how to live fully and intimately with all that surrounds us rather than to exist as beasts of burden or (economic) cannon fodder for the latest act of Empire. And we are all terrified that no matter what we try to do, it just might be too little, too late. Thankfully it is not, because we are so very close to Remembering to remember.
But most of all I see a world where we are tragically lost; lost to ourselves and to each other. Devoid of compassion and empathy, moving from work cubes to boob tubes and back again, we are now unable to recognize the pain and dysfunction within our Self, let alone each other. It is now perceived as nothing worse than normal, simply how the world works as it grinds us down and spits us out, a self indictment worse than death of our failure to remember.
Because we are not Remembering who we are, and most importantly what we once were, we cannot imagine what we can be. By not first releasing, then expressing our inner sovereign, by not declaring ourselves free from our own self imposed bindings, we just exist within someone else’s world, a world populated by repressed and stunted slaves. Simply put we are unable to create a healthy future because we do not remember our ‘knowing’, we do not remember ourselves and what we were and are, we are not Remembering to remember.
Rather than creating, then living within, a vibrant community of interdependence that nature intends as the only way to live a sustainable and healthy life in communication with everything around us, we have become a zombie species, a parasitic entity that mindlessly consumes and ruthlessly exploits the physical world, all while feeding upon the life force of first the natural world, then each other and finally our Self.
And you and I dear reader are very much a part of all this, a realization denial can no longer help us avoid because we are now Remembering to remember. We are awakening; a process that once started cannot be stopped, only derailed or dead ended. You and I are resisting our Remembering because it feels so foreign and contrary to what we are told is ‘real’ via the idiot box memes. In turn this feeds the inner conflict and thus the outer decay. The world is falling apart because we have been rendered incapable of creating a new world to replace the recently departed. This does not have to be. By embracing our Remembering we will naturally know how to grow and build.
The evidence of all this is the ongoing insanity whose decay rate has now gone exponential. I used to think war was the ultimate state of self destruction and I suppose that based upon certain definitions it still is. But war expresses as an outward projection of our inner insanity. This……this utter squandering of our inner sovereignty, of the very essence of being human; this is mass suicide on an unprecedented scale. Only we don’t ever really die, but instead just aimlessly drift, empty meat Popsicles emotionally dead and spiritually bereft. Modern science now keeps our bodies alive longer, allowing the inner decay even more time to fester and devour.
At one time or another we have all used the word ‘sovereignty’ as a positive, as something that should be achieved or regained. But have you ever really thought about the meaning of ‘sovereignty’ at its most basic level, where it all begins? We understand that the winners make the rules and write the textbooks, so it isn’t surprising that standard definitions all refer to an external authority and territory as imbued with sovereignty. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy quickly refers to the following phrase, “supreme authority within a territory”, something I have always seen as the territory within, before going on to link it to an external political authority.
External.Political.Authority.My.Ass.
This is the language of the false profit Conquers, the fakers of the very sovereignty they claim to possess. Our power has always, and will always, spring from within. Our power is ours to give away if we choose, as well as to repossess any time we wish. We are the source of the power that creates the universe and what we only now are beginning to remember is that without us, without our innate source of power freely and willingly handed over, the false gods are powerless and impotent.
When we hide from ourselves we freely invite them in, like air rushing in to fill a vacuum. Where we falter, where we are beaten, broken, and then sold at the dock, is when we are not Remembering to remember. Please allow me to repeat myself here. Where we falter, where we are beaten, broken, and then sold at the dock, is when we are not Remembering to remember. I did not say we could not remember or that it was useless to remember, only that we are not Remembering and that this is the source of our willingness to subjugate ourselves to external masters and false Gods, all of whom claim sovereignty over us.
Stop listening to their lies and false promises, their propaganda machine and their divide and conquer memes, including the one about how if only we would just “do” something everything would get better, as if we could actually do battle with our own ghosts. This is the enslaving self deception we all practice, for when we believe this we firmly plant ourselves within their world where they make the rules of their controlling game.
The game is rigged folks, not just the markets or the economy, but everything artificial we interact with on a daily basis. As long as we ignore this fundamental fact, this supreme truth, nothing substantial will ever change because we enable and support the rigging. Our individual sovereignty can only be applied to free ourselves when it is released from within, not applied externally by the keepers of the false realty myth. And we do this by searching within so that we can begin the Remembering to remember.
11/16/2011
Cognitive Dissonance
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I love you COG.
I also believe you need to prepare for even more hurt. I wish people were better, more like when we were young.
We are not though.
Collectively, we are reaping what we sow.
That fucking sucks.
Shit will hit the fan (obviously) and it should be obvious that the powers to be expect to profit from the crisis of their own making.
OWS are a bunch of controlled opposition 'zombies' created by the monsters who plot their next rape.
I grew up witness to horrible abuse of another human being. Fucking monsterous torture. I was not able/willing (2-9 years old) to do anything about it.
We are all subject to be either victims or witnesses of discusting abuse now. Abuse has become 'par for the course' , mainstream.
Evil is occuring NOW. But instead of organized opposition we get 'cheer 'em on'OWS?
WTF?
The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned to it. The theologians call it a sinner and tries to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychotherapist calls it neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.
One hopeful sign is the vandalism recently reported when a bigger than life-size statue of Ronnie Reagan was unveiled. It only took a patriot less than a week to attempt to pull it down and away, but the attempt resulted in pulling ol' Ronnie a bit down & to the left. I laughed my ass off!
Hate to burst your bubble, but that was probably not a political act. Like the Lincoln tomb theft of the giant copper sword, it's about cutting things up and selling for scrap metal. I am waiting for them to hack up the Statue of Liberty for the copper, it's just a matter of time.
the sooner a "patriot" liberates the copper from these monuments of fiction that hold people's minds in place with their fairy tales, the better - amrkns would be better off with the truth of the current situation than living in this disney-like stupor.
or not, heh.
Perhaps, instead of standing tall Lady Liberty can be replaced by a giant iron boot stomping just her head? (WB7 any image there?)
You must not be an American. The last time regular "Americans" used the word Sovereign was to denounce the King of England as the Sovereign of America. The word is worse than blasphemy and is only used by economists, politicians, and Europeans. You still be one cuhrazy bitch!
"as we walk in and out of our daily nocturnal thoughts, our subtle dreams stir up the streaming flow of random sights, and sounds, never seen nor heard until we immerse ourselves in sleepy time
the never ending before to begin again as to falling out a lovelorn inquisition questioning what is forever,... but lack of memory - the where or when nevermore requiem of who truly knows oneself dark shadows, scurrying about hiding in a camouflage of artificial light attracting a false dichotomy of futility - in an out of twilight diverting a selfish litany of cameo personas as a chameleon gone rouge
liken the laugh of a clown in the cold of night,... a remorseful warmth in the sanctuary of a days sun, glaring servitude to its celestial counterparts,... these necessary illusions comforting our sanity
we laugh, we love, we cry inside, while always smiling at twilight time wearing the cresting grin of our coveted moon somewhere hidden in our conscious as a semblance of change to come - but it never comes - therefore our evolution to except reality as what it is,... a bountiful resonance of stardust morphing us high up in the minds psyche far away - infinitely far away from the catch basin in our myopic mind
but memories are just that,... used up time embedded with laden'd melodies, inspirations that ferry themselves vainly in dreams, where time is undressed, rehearsing serendipitous thoughts of ubiquitous love within all our being
yes - love hears all unseen, and unheard with the greatest of clarity,... i miss remembering self love for all its narcissistic folly, just to feel and touch emotions lost forgotten pastures of infidelity that breaths life into my very soul
remembering thoughts sequestered so vaguely in the abyss of ones tormented sleepless imagination,... times that bring forth love of ones deeds, justifying the breakage of negative bondage, clears a pathway as the night surrenders itself, parsed by exuberant memories of a new day
our memories are just that,... blowing as a tempest in a maelstrom of past confusion - pollinated by chance,... a divine intervention til the breeze subsides into the sultry existence of being alive,... showered with adulterous tranquility
the memories within, flowing in the minds sacred zephyr space - the wondrous, and miraculously inexhaustible thoughts within to even conquering my deafness to reason - these memories of times past is but a illusion as our eternal clock sets our destiny predicated upon delusional symbiotic reality - the vale of tears that vanishes into thin air, once we capitulate to oneself own mortality"
"Free as a bird," we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all the three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded. Something analogous is true of human beings. If the bread is supplied regularly and copiously three times a day, many of them will be perfectly content to live by bread alone -- or at least by bread and circuses alone. "In the end," says the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky's parable, "in the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'make us your slaves, but feed us.' " And when Alyosha Karamazov asks his brother, the teller of the story, if the Grand Inquisitor is speaking ironically, Ivan answers, "Not a bit of it! He claims it as a merit for himself and his Church that they have vanquished freedom and done so to make men happy." Yes, to make men happy; "for nothing," the Inquisitor insists, "has ever been more insupportable for a man or a human society than freedom." Nothing, except the absence of freedom; for when things go badly, and the rations are reduced, the grounded dodos will clamor again for their wings -- only to renounce them, yet once more, when times grow better and the dodo-farmers become more lenient and generous. "
Brave New World Revisited
http://tiny.cc/l88aq
Good stuff!
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom... go home from us in peace.We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."
- Samuel Adams
I would venture "The Brothers Karamazov" is the greatest novel ever written,and the "Grand Inquistor" the most intense chapter in literature. Thank you for reminding me of that fact. Milestones
This sums up what I always make myself remember:
"For the ones that had a notion, a notion deep inside
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."
Bruce Springsteen Badlands
CD,
The word within appears 23 times in this article....and...
>>Our power has always, and will always, spring from within.
You're Advaitin.
Kalki
If you whistle while you're pissing, you have two minds, where one is quite sufficient. If you have two minds, you are at war with yourself. If you are at war with yourself, it is easy for an external force to defeat you. This is why Mong-tse wrote. "A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him."
Remember how it was before oil ..................Real work, Real life and Real love. There was no time for crazy.
"If you are not at all concerned with the world but only with your personal salvation, following certain beliefs and superstitions, following gurus, then I am afraid it will be impossible for you and the speaker to communicate with each other... We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing. We are concerned as human beings, human beings who are not labelled with any nationality. We are concerned at looking at this world and what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them. He would wander around open-mouthed in this heaven of gadgets and commodities, provided only that there were ever more and newer things to buy, and perhaps that his neighbors were just a little less privileged than he."
Erich Fromm - Ch. 5 “Man in Capitalistic Society” Sect. C.2.b “Alienation”
"I’m continually stunned by how many seemingly sane people believe you can have infinite economic growth on a finite planet. Perpetual economic growth and its cousin, limitless technological expansion, are beliefs so deeply held by so many in this culture that they often go entirely unquestioned. Even more disturbing is the fact that these beliefs are somehow seen as the ultimate definition of what it is to be human: perpetual economic growth and limitless technological expansion are what we do"
Derrick Jensen
Cog, a little 1984 for you. We all feel like Winston. A real life is a distant recollection... possibly a memory but more likely a fairy tail. Life ticks by with our ration of chocolate and we think it be fine, yet remember our razor be dull and our ration already utilized.
Captain Benny
Fucking hell!
The only REAL freedom you have is one of CONSCIOUSNESS. When you give up everything, when you possess NOTHING not even the DESIRE TO NOT DESIRE only then will you be free.
Fucking mystics of all creeds have pointed that out since the beginning of time.
The true problem is you assholes want to be like that trapped Monkey who refuses to drop the Apple even though it will free him from the hole in the tree. You clutch too tightly.
The ONLY PEOPLE TPTB FEAR ARE THOSE WITHOUT WANTS, THOSE WITHOUT DESIRE. They can not be bought off, tempted by greed or lust or power.
Free yourself and everything falls into place.
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it
Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
I feel we're already at the point where 2+2 = 5.
ForTheWorld
"I feel we're already at the point where 2+2 = 5."
I have also witnessed the decline of Educational standards.
The cubicals reminded me of a visit I made to a friend in USAID who worked in the Ronald Reagan building. I arrived on the floor to find a football field's area subdivided into segmented cubicals with each pathway between them assigned a sign post designated with a name for the path.
My friend was a manager and had a side room that had a floor to ceiling glass partition between him and the massess. He noted that his hardest job was in handling all of the egos because each person had a Phd in some obscure area in some backwater part of the world, but they considered themselves to be the smartest person on that subject. Yet they all worked in cubical world.
How can you remember to remember when reality is so distorted?
small suggestion - cast yourself as observer of "reality" and realise there is not one reality, but simultaneously many, depending on perspectives - observe the reality, even yourSelf as you are within it.
Thanks CD, After your article Understanding Insanity of our lives, I started writing again which meant that I was able to remember and become much more aware.
I feel that one of the best ways to get my head around a topic is to write about it. Its amazing that alot of the concepts I was exploring last year is now being taken up by more people because of the occupy movement.
I always used to believe that actions could have affects on our environment but I have now found through remembering what has happened in my life, is that thoughts can also have an affect on our environment.
The biggest problem I see is how the human population is completely out of balance with itself and its environment.
This won't change unless people realise that they are free. A signficant tool that TPTB have used in taking our freedom away is to try and put us in debt. Getting into debt also usually requires consuming resources that we don't need which is affecting our environment.
Anyway thanks again CD
CD:
Just returned to BC from a seven day adventure in Orlando with 4 of my kids. I think I detected at least some of the folks that I met living in the surreal existance this piece seeks escape from. At 46 I cannot ever remember not having a self directed inner drive lead me forward. Even my years of cubical dwelling were not as souless as yours apparently were. I believe not having watched commercial television or read newspapers since 1990 has protected my family from the mass hypnosis you seem to have escaped from. Your new writings are more helpfull than what you used to dazzle with at MISHland a few years back. Its magical when the smart guys focus their energy on making the world better rather than on wallowing in its easily dectectable uglyness.
Hi,
I think you may have me mistaken for someone else. I have never commented on Mish's site.
Sorry 'bout that. It is great to read and discuss issues that attempt to go to the core of matters. Presently I have a 17 year old son with the top grades and best work ethic in his class of 50. He has major scholarships lined up. Although he is interested in higher learning, it is at the universities where minds are broken and shaped to fit into the system. I'm encouraging him to work in the oil fields untill he is rich and to go to school at 25-30 as a made man. Most 18-22 year olds actually still believe what profs tell them as gospell and leave sinister ideas unchallenged. Muscles + money arm a man to be able to stand up to flawed ideas and help mould the system rather than be moulded by it. Remembering will save a lost soul but its best to avoid getting lost in the first place.
no one should be allowed near a college/university until they've spent a few years (at least) "out in the world" - preferably travelling, perhaps through volunteer networks (non-religious, non-dogmatic in structure). . . the majority of young people entering higher education are being steered there by other peoples, be it family, "career" advisors, etc. - they end up making the most expensive mistakes of their lives before they even learn who they are (it's intentional, of course).
love your "believe what profs tell them as gospell" - I know it wasn't intentional, but "go spell" - a spell cast as truths by the supposedly learned - when in the end it is always our own experiences we learn the most from.
As long as you have prepared him to be curious enough that he reads and questions things. The brain needs exercise to function properly But I agree, I went to college after the draft got me. Never regreted that decision. I was not mature enough to take school seriously. Carrying a rifle for a couple of years changed my perspective. Milestones
Has anyone else seen the thrive movement.com movie? Watched it yesterday. A New Age twist to what we are all sensing. You can rent for five bucks. Plus they offer a plan and framework.
Thanks Cog. Thanks again.
Little Feat - Easy To Slip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuxlbjNmuAQ
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Rare clear view of Nepal Buddha Boy with interviews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQoxWQLSnCg
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Buddha Boy's Second Speech Begins, October 19, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOM7lN2P4A&NR=1
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Ram Bahadur Bomjan - The Meditating Buddha-Boy from Nepal - Part 1c.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GezBFouDvnY&NR=1
Who's "they"?
We are 'they' and 'they' are us.
So: Stop listening to our lies and false promises, our propaganda machine and our divide and conquer memes, including the one about how if only they would just “do” something everything would get better, as if they could actually do battle with their own ghosts. This is the enslaving self deception they all practice, for when they believe this they firmly plant themselves within our world where we make the rules of our controlling game. ???
Yes. You got it.
We enable this mess. We have the power to stop this very quickly. Rather than do so we hand that power over to others and then complain that we are powerless.
Interesting, to say the least. Thanks.
Fantastic work CD. Thank you for your time and your prose which have enriched my day greatly.
Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate that you take the time to read me.
Idealist claptrap. We all know what the problem is. USA Inc. gotta go, and DC/Wall St. must be purged with fire and sword. In the meantime, I look forward to my next McRib.: "no pig was injured or killed during the production of this pork product."
They exist because we allow them to exist. They being USA inc. or whoever. "Free your mind and the rest will follow!"
Great post - you're an excellent writer.
What a wonderful addition to your field manuals. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Please explain what you mean by 'field manuals'.
Parents often say children do not come with instructions. As we get older, we have to write our own. Your work gives great perspective to understanding ourselves, a sort of field manual on "how to" look within. Looking forward to the book.
I've never thought of my work as written instructions or directions, just personal deliberations I then share with others. But I am pleased you've found value in my work. Thank you for letting me know exactly how you enjoy it.
Best movie line ever:
Tod: You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.
Parenthood (1989)
Thank you.
2012, Mayans or not, will be pivotal in rediscovering, individually and/or collectively, our relationship with our inner nature.
Thanks for adding a lucid stone to this fascinating endeavour. I believe it all starts by moving towards independance from physical dependance on the old System (employment, taxes, supermarkets, television, retrograde acquaintances/family and all intraveinous lifelines such as power, water and police).
I am happy to say i've already ditched taxes, depending on an employer for subsistance and am in the process of going back to the country to take care of the remaining lifelines. The switch will take most regular folks a few years, 2, 3 or 4 but any sane individual should undertake this endeavour without fear of the outcome. He or she won't be alone.
Thanks ZH & all, don't let negativisim, pesimism or "objectivism" prevent you from freeing yourself. It has actually never been so easy to do so thanks to the intertubes & cheap proven technology.
Excellent piece CD...possibly your best ever.
"Our power has always, and will always, spring from within."
Thank you. I have been trying to simplify and focus a bit more lately. I appreciate your input.
I think you're hittin on all cylinders lately CD.
I can be very long winded myself, in an attempt to not be misunderstood. In doing this, its possible to lose the inattentive or unpracticed reader. I try to "remember" we live in a spoonfed video world these days...by design, inertia or whatever. It just is what it is.
Many of the youngsters are coming back toward the written word for more meat & substance to their lives in my view. Or they wouldn't be here with us. We old farts have a lot to offer on a host of levels, philosophy, finance, culture, history, politics, art, career fields and we should always be mindful and patient not to lose them.
Learning should never be a boring...lol.
See...there I go...rambling. Right about now my wife would be sticking her fingers in her ears...going lalalala ;-)
The Buddhist tradition teaches of the tripod of the illusory world-greed, hatred,, and delusion- and the antidotes-compassion, love and wisdom.
"Inner Paths to Outer Space" is an interesting book/guide to expnasion from within.